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Manwood – A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest (1598)

Manwood, John. A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes, and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art : as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke (London : Printed by [Adam Islip? for] Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, 1598)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 308. ESTC S111993.

Unlocated. Last leaf of index lacking.

M–O, Unlocated

Manuscripts: “Speculum Christianae” and “Common Place Book”

Lot 307 in the Sotheby’s sale was comprised of “a parcel” of manuscripts. Only two are named:

1. “Speculum Christianae” which is “on vellum” and “imperfect at the end.”

2. A “Common Place Book, Containing Religious Extracts, &c.; with old Sermons.”

Both manuscripts were sold to bookseller Joseph Lilly for two shillings.

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 307.

Unlocated.

J–L, Located

Lodge – Rosalynd : Euphues Golden Legacie (1609)

Lodge, Thomas. Rosalynd : Euphues golden legacie, found after his death in his cell at Silexedra : bequeathed to Philautus sonnes, nursed vp with their fathers in England (London : J. Windet for Iohn Smethvvick, and are to bee sold at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard, in Fleete-streete vnder the Dyall, 1609)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 305. ESTC S103920.

The Folger Shakespeare Library STC 16669. Located by Paul Morgan.