William Fleetwood, The Charters, Liberties, Laws and Customs of all Forests, Parks, Chases and Free Warrens within the Realm of England (1581)
Date
21 March 1581
Author
William
Fleetwood
Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
An Exposicion of Auncyent Wordes Expressed in Sundrye auncyent Charters (88v) / De exposicione antiquorum vocabulorum (137r)
Book title
A treatise upon the charters, liberties, lawes and customes of all forests, parkes, chases and free warrens within the realme of Englande devided into two bookes ... Be it knownen to all men that I Willyam Fletwoode Recorder of London did about xiii yeares past write this booke, not to put it in printe ... also I did at my laste readinge expounde all the said old termes in thend of this booke not mindinge to put them in print for bycause of the errors in the same. 21 Marcii anno 1581
Transcription source
Harvard Law School MS. 15
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- forestry
- Latin
- law
Summary
"The vocabulary in Fletewode's tract proceeds from Alderman to Fewda, but no further" (97)
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin
explanations: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin
explanations: English
Extent
137r-139v
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
Catalog
Baker, John Hamilton, ed. English Legal Manuscripts in the United States of America: A Descriptive List. Part II: Early Modern and Modern Periods (1558-1902). London: Selden Society, 1990.
II: 97.
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