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A treatise of the lavvs of the forest, : wherein is declared not only those laws, as they are now in force, but also the original and beginning of forests; and what a forest is in its own proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park or a warren, with all such things as are incident or belonging thereunto, with the several proper terms of art. Also a treatise of the pourallee, declaring what pourallee is, ... together with the limits and bounds as well of the forest, as the pourallee. Collected, as well out of the common laws and statutes of this land; as also out of sundry learned ancient authors, and out of the assises of Pickering and Lancaster by John Manwood. Whereunto are added the statutes of the forest; a treatise of the several offices of verderors, ... and certain principal cases, judgments, and entries of the assises of Pickering and Lancaster. Never heretofore printed for the publique