A TREATISE OF THE LAWES OF THE FO- rest: Wherein is declared not onely _those Lawes, as they are now in force, but also the ori-_ ginall and beginning of Forests: And what a Forest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth dif- fer from a Chase, a Parke, or a Warren, with all such things as are incident or belonging there into, with their seuerall proper tearmes of Art. ALSO A TREATISE OF THE Pourallee, declaring what Pourallee is, how the same first began, what a Pourallee man may do, how he may hunt and vse his owne Pourallee, how farre he may pursue and fol- low after his chase, together with the limits and bounds, as well of the Forest, as the Pourallee. Collected, as well out of the Common Lawes and _Statutes of this land, As also out of sundrie learned auncient Au_- thors, and out of the Assises of Pickering and Lancaster, by IOHN MANVVOOD. _Whereunto are added the Statutes of the Forest, a Trea_- tise of the seuerall offices of Verderors, Regardors, and Fore- sters, & the Courts of Attachments, Swanimote, & Iustice seat of the Forest, and certaine principall Cases, Iudgements, and Entries of the Assises of Pickering and Lan- caster: neuer heretofore printed for the publique LONDON, Printed for the Societie of Stationers, _Anno Dom._ 1615. _Cum Priuilegio._ Facsimile of Title page of Manwood’s celebrated volume. (Original, the property of Mr. Joly de Lotbinière).] In Scotland the same usages and laws existed, only very much less rigorously enforced, until, in 1681, the extension of ‘forests’ was discontinued by parliamentary act. It will be understood that the term forest did only distantly refer to woodland and that no economic policy had anything to do with the laws. Only incidentally was forest growth protected and preserved for the sake of the chase--the same medieval policy which still largely animates the forest policy of the State of New York. The woods outside the ‘forests’, which had mainly served for the raising of hogs, and for domestic needs, experienced at various times unusual reduction by fire. General Monk, among others, laid waste large areas on the Scottish borderland in Cromwell’s time.