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and a fifth in 1744 the two last-mentioned differing only 

 in the date of the title-page. In successive chapters are 

 discussed the definition of a forest ; how a forest may be 

 made ; and who may make and who may hold a forest. In 

 subsequent chapters Manwood discusses what are beasts of 

 game, what is venison, and what is vert ; the bounds of 

 forests ; the woods or coverts in these ', waste, assart, 

 pier-reste, agistment, pannage, and fence moneths, &c., 

 Manwood published, beside the volume cited, a work 

 entitled Project for Improving the Revenue by Enclosing 

 Wastes. It must have been published about the year 

 1600. I have made several endeavours to get hold of a 

 copy for perusal, but I have not succeeded. 



Sir Henry Spelman, Kt. of Congham, in Norfolk, whose 

 List of English Forests has been mentioned, was born in 

 1562, and studied law; and being in 1593 admitted a 

 member of the Society of Antiquaries, his interest in 

 archaeology was quickened, and numerous treatises on 

 subjects connected therewith were written by him and 

 published, some during his lifetime, and others after his 

 death. He died in 1641 at the house of his son-in-law 

 Sir Ralph Whitfield, in Barbican. From this place his 

 corpse was carried with great solemnity, by order of King 

 Charles, to Westminster Abbey, where it was buried in 

 the south aisle near the door of St Nicolas' Chapel, at the 

 foot of the pillar opposite to the monument of Mr Camden, 

 the most indefatigable antiquary and historian of his time, 

 of whom he had been an old friend. A list of forests given 

 by him has been cited above (ante p. 134.) 



In Hearn's " Collection of Curious Discourses " I have 

 found some interesting papers bearing on the subject 

 of forests. The history of this work, which is valued by 

 antiquarians, is this : " On the revival of literature during 

 the reign of Elizabeth, a set of gentlemen of great abilities, 

 many of them students in the Inns of Court, applied 

 themselves to the study of the antiquities and history of 



