William Fleetwood, The Charters, Liberties, Laws and Customs of all Forests, Parks, Chases and Free Warrens within the Realm of England (1581)

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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

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

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. view record