Note 899 — MAGNA CARTA. (continued 5)
Reading edition
A convenient short account of the forests, with their special laws, special officials, and special courts, will be found in W. S. Houldsworth’s History of English Law, pp. 340-352. For fuller information see Dialogus de Scaccario, I. xii.; John Manwood, Book of the Forests (1598); Coke, Fourth Institute, 289–317; G. J. Turner, Preface to Select Pleas of the Forest (1901); and an article in the Edinburgh Review for April, 1902.