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and withal to what persons the same deer so kyllyd by 

 chaunce and recovered is distrybuted. 



" //. That noo keper hunt or suffer any person to 

 hunt within his walke for any fee deer but suche as 

 before this tyme hath used to hunt for their disport and 

 plesure for the kyllyng of their fee deer. 



"//. Every keper yf he lyst to call his neyburs or 

 borderers to assyst hym to hunt, and serve his warrant 

 or commandment to th'entent they may take sport, and 

 therby to increase frendschyppe and amytie. 



" It. The freeholders to hunt and take disport for the 

 kyllynge of the fee deer by the only syght of the lieu 

 tenant, and in his absens, of the Rydyng forester or 

 Ranger. 



" //. That noo keper, his servants or deputies use or 

 kepe in ther howses or walke any crossbow except yt be 

 the lieu tenant. 



" //. That noo keper suffer noo crossbow to be kept 

 or used in his walke as nere as he can, except the per- 

 son that so hath or use yt may so justyfy the keping 

 therof by the kynges lawes, and yf he find or sees any 

 suche crossebow, lett yt be dylyvred to the Gierke of the 

 Swanymote to th' entent that dew punyschement may 

 be . . . accordynge to the kyngs lawes and therupon 

 informacion to be gyvyn in th' exchequer. 



"/A Yf any keper suspect any person in his walke to 

 kepe any crosebow in hys howse, then lett hym take 

 with hym a verderer, or constable of the parische where 

 the party so suspect dwellyth, and serche the howse. Yf 

 any be founde, lett yt be dylivered as ys aforsayd. 



" It. That every noble man may hunt and take his 

 disport and plesure in the same forest [accordynge] at 

 ther peryll accordyng as the kyngs lawes wyll suffer 

 them, and the keper to gyve them the lokyng over, and 

 to make them suche sport as it apperteynyth to a noble 

 man, and the sayd keper to certyfye the same at the next 

 Swanymote. 



"/A That the warrants commandements and other 

 fee deer be taken equally when yt may be moste con- 

 venyently sparyd by the outsyght and discrecion of the 

 sayd lieu tenant Rydynge forester and Ranger, or one 

 of them, in absens of the resydew. 



' ' It. Noo keper or forester, lieu tenant Rydyng for- 

 ester. Ranger or ther seruants hunt or any wyse by 

 nyght, onles yt be for the rccoverie of sum hurt or 

 chased deer. 



" //. That noo person taken by the kepers or any 



