A Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest: Wherein is declared not onely those Lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of Forests..., also a Treatise of the Pourallee, declaring what Pourallee is...., Collected, as well out of the Common Lawes and Statutes of this Land, as also out of sundrie learned anncient Authors, and out of the Assises of Pickering and Lancaster..., Whereunto are added the Statutes of the Forest..., London: Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1615, lacking first & last blank leaves, black letter text, light worm trail to lower blank margins of initial few leaves, some early manuscript annotations and underscoring, scattered light spotting, early 20th century bookplate of Hon. John Wayland Leslie of Kininvie, Banffshire (1909-1991, Son of 19th Earl of Rothes) to upper pastedown, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and some corners repaired, 4to STC 17292; Goldsmiths 434; Kress 345. The second and much enlarged edition of the earliest treatise on English Forest laws, by a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, who was also game-keeper of Waltham Forest, and Justice of the New Forest. (1)
A Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest: Wherein is declared not onely those Lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of Forests..., also a Treatise of the Pourallee, declaring what Pourallee is...., Collected, as well out of the Common Lawes and Statutes of this Land, as also out of sundrie learned anncient Authors, and out of the Assises of Pickering and Lancaster..., Whereunto are added the Statutes of the Forest..., London: Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1615, lacking first & last blank leaves, black letter text, light worm trail to lower blank margins of initial few leaves, some early manuscript annotations and underscoring, scattered light spotting, early 20th century bookplate of Hon. John Wayland Leslie of Kininvie, Banffshire (1909-1991, Son of 19th Earl of Rothes) to upper pastedown, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and some corners repaired, 4to STC 17292; Goldsmiths 434; Kress 345. The second and much enlarged edition of the earliest treatise on English Forest laws, by a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, who was also game-keeper of Waltham Forest, and Justice of the New Forest. (1)
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