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natores et custodes Flandriae ante Baldwinum, qui a brackio 

 ferreo dictus est, erant officiates arbitrio Regum Gallorum 

 mutalbilis, &c., turn autem dicebantur forestarii, id est Saltuarii, 

 non quod ipsorum munus. agrum tantum spectaret, qui turn 

 confertus erat sylva carbonaria, sed etiam ad maris custodiam 

 pertinebat ; nam vocabulum illud forest, prisco sermone inferioris 

 Germaneae aeque aequas ac sylvas spectabat. And to this effect 

 the same author doth cite precedents of charters granted 

 by the kings of France. So that it appeareth by this and 

 divers other authorities that the Governor of Flanders, 

 under the name and title of the Forester of Flanders, had 

 the charge both by land and sea, and of the general 

 revenues of the same country. Neither is the estate of 

 forests in England unlike unto that in Flanders, insomuch 

 as the charge and articles which are to be enquired of in 

 the court, called The seat of the justices itinerants of the 

 forest, do not only tend to the preservation of the game, 

 but also extend to see a just survey, and to call a full 

 account of diverse kinds of profits issuing and happening ; 

 as the forms of assarts, purprestures, and improvements ; 

 the wood and timber called Greenhawgh, herbage for 

 cattle, paynaige for swine, mines of metals and coals, 

 quarries of stones, and wrecks upon the sea coasts." 



In accordance with what is thus stated, the famous 

 French Forest Ordinance of 1669 is entituled Ordinnance 

 de Louis XI V. Roi de France et de Navarre sur le fait des 

 Eaux et Forests. The collection of old and new forest 

 ordinances / edicts, orders, and decrees, published in 1769, 

 has the title Dictionnaire Raisonne des Eaux et Forets ; and 

 the designation of the compiler, M. Chailland, is Ancien 

 Procureur du Roi en la Mattrise des Eaux et Forets de 

 Rennes ; while the title of the French Journal of Forestry 

 now published is the Revue des Eaux et Forets. 



In accordance also with what is stated, we have met 

 with as important references to the mines and mining 

 operations in the Forest of Dean, as to the trees and the 

 game. And another statement throws light upon the Forest 

 Court of Justice, or Court of Justice for the trial and 

 decision of questions raised in regard to forest misde- 



