Authority Cited: Manwood
Author name and dates: John Manwood (d.1610)
BKG Bio-tweet: Barrister; Gamekeeper; Justice; Laws of Forest, based on 1025, 1217 sources, referenced by Cowell, Bacon, and Blackstone
Author name and dates: John Manwood (d.1610)
BKG Bio-tweet: Barrister; Gamekeeper; Justice; Laws of Forest, based on 1025, 1217 sources, referenced by Cowell, Bacon, and Blackstone
- Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one cite of Manwood in the 1755 Dict. vol. 2 with attributed quotation (pricket); a Bacon and a Cowell cite quote Manwood; five quotes attributed to Shakespeare appear to be Manwood as reported by Warburton in a note to Love's Labour's Lost. No additional Manwood cites were identified in the 1773 Dict.]
- A treatise of the laws 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, how the same first began, what a pouralee-man may do, how he may hunt and use his own pourallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his chase : together with the limits and bounds, as well of the forest, as the pourallee. 1665, London : Printed for the Company of Stationers; backcarry (in Cowell quote); fawn (attributed to Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost); head (first head, attributed to Shakes.); park (in Bacon quote); pricket (attributed to Manwood, Laws of the Forest); sore (attributed to Shakespeare); sorel (attributed to Shakespeare) [BKG Note: fawn was not located in Love's Labour's Lost - pricket, sorel and sore are in LLL, in Holofernes' poem from Act IV, Scene II, in the second image below. The first image below, from the Laws of the Forest (p.48, 1665 edition, but the edition consulted is unknown), is the likely source of Warburton's note on Holofernes' poem in his edition of Shakespeare, which references Laws of the Forest. The Warburton note appears to be the source of these Dict. quotes which, in the longest form under sore, reads: "The buck is called the first year a fawn; the second, a pricket; the third, a sorel; and the fourth year, a sore. Shak." Warburton adds "The fifth year a buck of the first head," quoted under head in the Dict. To further confuse things, there is a correct citation to head (first head, attributed to Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost) from the text of the same scene.]
