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Updated: May 18, 2025
This has nothing to do with good manners or ill manners; but, in the words of the old law-book before cited, "is when a theefe hath stollen and is followed with hue and crie and taken, having that found about him which he stole; that is called ye maynour. And so we commonly use to saye, when wee finde one doing of an unlawful act, that we tooke him with the maynour or manner."
But both Fletcher and Shakespeare, in their use of this phrase, unusual as it now seems to us, have only exemplified the custom referred to by our contemporary legal authority, "And so we commonly use to saye, when wee finde one doing of an unlawfull act, that we tooke him with the maynour"; though this must doubtless be understood to refer to persons of a certain degree of education and knowledge of the world.
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