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agistment in our demesne wood ; about the feast of St 

 Martin, in the winter, when our gist-takers shall receive 

 our pawnage : (2) and to these two swanimotes shall 

 come together our foresters, vienders, gist-takers, and none 

 others, by distress : (3) and the third swanimote shall be 

 kept in the beginning of fifteen days before the feast of 

 St John Baptist, when that our gist takers do meet to hunt 

 our deer ; and at this swanimote shall meet our foresters, 

 vienders, and none other by distress : (4) moreover every 

 forty days throughout the year, our foresters and vienders 

 shall meet to see the attachments of the forest, as well for 

 greenhue as for hunting, by the presentment of the same 

 foresters, and before them attached : (5) and the said swani- 

 mote shall not be kept but within the counties where they 

 have used to be kept. 



"IX. Every free man may agist his own free wood 

 within our forest at his pleasure, and shall take his pawnage. 

 (2) Also we do grant, that every free man may drive his 

 swine freely without impediment through our demesne 

 woods, for to agist them in their own woods, or else where 

 they will. (3) And if the swine of any free man lie one 

 night within our forest there shall be no occasion taken 

 thereof whereby he may lose any of his own. 



"X. No man from hencefor shall lose either life or a 

 member for killing our deer : (2) but if any man be taken 

 and convicted for taking our venison, he shall make a 

 grievous fine, if he have any thing whereof; (3) and if he 

 have nothing to lose, he shall be imprisoned a year and a 

 day; (4) and after the year and a day expired, if he can 

 find sufficient sureties he shall be delivered ; and if not 

 he shall abjure the realm of England. 



"XL Whatsoever archbishop, bishop, earl, or baron, 

 coming to us at our commandment, passing by our forests, 

 it shall be lawful for him to take and kill one or two of our 

 deer, by view of our forester, if he be present, or else he 

 shall cause one to blow a horn for him, that he seem not 

 to steal our deer, and likewise they shall do in returning 

 from us, as it is aforesaid. 



