WARREN  , properly an old See also:

• TERM

term of the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• FOREST

forest See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, derived from the O . Fr. See also:

• WARENNE, EARLS

warenne, varenne, garenne (med . See also:

• LAT

Lat. warenna, warir, to guard, cf . " See also:

• WARD
• WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
• WARD, ARTEMUS
• WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
• WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
• WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
• WARD, JAMES (1843– )
• WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
• WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
• WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
• WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
• WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)

ward "), and applied to one of the three lesser franchises, together with " See also:

• CHASE
• CHASE, SALMON PORTLAND (1808-1873)
• CHASE, SAMUEL (1741–1811)
• CHASE, WILLIAM MERRITT (1849– )

chase " and " See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

park," included under the highest See also:

• FRANCHISE (from 0. Fr. franchise, freedom, franc, free)

franchise, the " forest," and ranking last in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of importance . The " beasts of warren " were the See also:

• HARE
• HARE, SIR JOHN (1844– )

hare, the coney (i.e. See also:

• RABBIT

rabbit), the See also:

• PHEASANT

pheasant and the See also:

• PARTRIDGE (Du. Patrijs, Fr. perdrix, from Lat. perdix, apparently onomatopoeic from the call of the bird)
• PARTRIDGE, JOHN BERNARD (1861– )
• PARTRIDGE, WILLIAM ORDWAY (1861– )

partridge . The word thus became used of a piece of ground preserved for these beasts of warren . It is now applied loosely to any piece of ground, whether preserved or not, where rabbits breed (see FOREST See also:

• LAWS

LAWS) .