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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06855	A brefe collection of the lawes of the forest collected and gathered together, aswell out of the statutes & common lawes of this realme, as also out of sundrie auncient presidents and records, concerning matters of the forest : with an abridgement of all the principall cases, iudgements, & entres, contained in the assises of the forestes of Pickering and Lancaster / by Iohn Manwood ...; Treatise of the lawes of the forest	Manwood, John, d. 1610.	1592 (1592)	STC 17290; ESTC S4380	231,313	286

to do profitable labours by the discrecions of the driuers aforesaid or of the more number of them Vnprofitable beastes to be killed than the same driuer or driuers shall cause the same vnprofitable beastes and euery of them to be killed the bodies of them to be buried in the ground or otherwise bestowed as no noyance therby shal com or grow to the people there néere inhabiting or thither resorting And it is c. that the Iustices of peace in euery shire ridyng and other place in their quarter sessions to be kept and holden by vertue of the kings commission of the peace to them directed and al stewardes of letes lawdaies in the same letes lawdaies shall haue authority by this acte to enquire of all defaultes contempts omissions and offences contrary to the effects aboue written and euery of them And all presentments thereof to be found in any of the said letes and lawdayes shall be certified by the stewarde or deputie steward or courtholder of the same lete or lawdaye in the next generall sessions of the peace to bee holden in the Countie where such presentment shal bee found or had or vnto the Custos Rotulorum of the same Shire within fourty dayes next after that presentment made which Iustices of peace in their quarter Sessions of the peare shall haue power and authoritie by this acte to heare and determine euery such presentment before themselues found or in any of the saide letes or lawdaies to be presented and certified as is aforesaide as well by examination as otherwise and if any such steward deputie steward or courtholder aforesaid inbesyl or conceal any such presentment or do not certifie the same as is afore written euery of them so offending shall forfait and lose for euery such offence xl.s. the one half of euery such forfeiture and of euery other of the forfeytures afore written to be to the king and the other halfe to the person or persons that will sue for the same before the said iustices of peace in their said quarter sessions by byl or information which Iustices shall haue full power and authoritie by vertue of this act to heare and determine euery such offence aswel by examinacion as otherwise as is before mencioned And be it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaide that no person or persons after the feast of saint Michael the archangell next comming shall haue or put to pasture any horse gelding or mare infected with scabbe or maunge in to or vpon any of the said forestschases moores marishes hethes commons wast groundes or common fieldes vpon paine to forfait for euery horse gelding or mare so infect pasturing in any of the said groundes ten shillings which offence shal be inquirable and presentable before the stewarde in euery lete as other common annoysance be And the forfeiture therefore to be to the Lord of the same lete where the saide offences shall be presented Prouided alway that this act or any thing therein contained shall not extend nor be preiudicall to any person or persons hauing any stoned horse or horses vnder the heightes altitudes aboue mentioned for or cōcerning the hauing or putting any of the saide horses to féeding in or vpon any cōmon or other waste grounds where any mares or fillies be not vsed nor suffered to be fed pastured or kept An. 32. H. 8. cap. 13. Assia de Woodstock ANd note that by the Lawes and statutes of the forest called the statutes of Woodstocke no forester shall walke or make any attachment for matters of the forest except he be a forester sworne for the wordes are these Nec aliquis aliqem attachiat nisi sit forestarius Iuratus that is to say neyther shall any forester attache another man but he that is a forester swarne And also it appeareth by some statutes that no man ought to remaine and abide within the forest being of the age of xii yeres and vpwards but he ought also to be sworne to be trewe vnto the Quéenes Maiesties game of the forest for the wordes are these Omnes etatis duodecem annorum manens in foresta pacem venationis sue Iurent Et clerici laicum feodum tenentes pacem eius Iurent which is that euery man of the age of xii yeares shall sweare the peace of hunting of the beastes of the forest and also Clergimen hauing Lay fée shall likewise sweare the peace of the Quéenes Maiesties wilde beastes of the forest And now for as much as it appeareth by those Lawes that the Inhabitantes and dwellers within the forestes ought to be sworne to bee of good behauior towardes her Maiesties game much more then ought those that are officers of the forest as verderors Foresters Woodwardes and Raungers which haue charge of her Maiesties game especially to be sworne for otherwise by collour of their office they might spoyle her Maiesties game and destroy the same wherefore to the end that those othes may the better be administred vnto such officers by those that haue authoritie thereunto and likewise obserued and kept by them that are compellable by the Lawes of the forest to take the same I haue collected their seuerall othes out of the auncient presidence of forest Lawes and set them downe as hereafter followeth The othes of the seuerall officers of the Forest The othe of a Woodward YOw shall trewly Execute the office of a Woodward of B. Woodes within the forest of W. so long as you shal be woodwarde their you shall not conceale any offence either in Vert or Venison that shal be cōmitted or don within your charge but you shall trewly present the same without any fauoure affection or rewarde And if you do see or know any malefactours or do finde any Déere killed or hurt you shall fourthwith do the Verderors to vnderstand thereof And you shall present the same at the next Court of the forest be it Swanimote or Court of attachments so helpe you God The othe of a Raunger of the Forest YOw shall trewly Execute the office of a Raunger in the purliewes of B. vpon the Borders of the kings forest of W. You shall rechase and with your hound driue backe againe the wilde beastes of the forest as often as they shall raunge out of the same forest into your Purliewes You shall trewly present al vnlawfull hunting and hunters of wild beastes of venerie aswell within the purliewes as within the forest And those and all other offences you shall present at the kinges next Court of Attachementes or Swanimote which shal first happen so helpe you God The othe of a Forester or vnderkeeper in the Forest YOw shall trewly Execute the office of a forester or kéeper of the kinges wilde beastes in the walke called P. within this forest of W. Yon shal be of good behauior your selfe towardes his Maiesties wild beasts the vert of the same forest Yow shal not conceale the offence of any other person either in