256 THE FORESTS OF ENGLAND. 



trucidavit, el si quis cervum vel aprum caperet, oculis priva- 

 batur [Matt. West. p. 9.] Moreover, notwithstanding 

 King Henry III., by the great charter of forests, chap. 

 3, had granted that all woods which were made 

 forest by King Richard his uncle, or by King John his 

 father, until his coronation, should be forthwith dis- 

 afforested unless it were the king's demean wood ; yet the 

 same charter took no great effect, but the officers of the 

 forest not only continually grieved the subjects by claiming 

 liberty of forest in their lands, but also King Edward I., 

 in anno 7 of his reign, caused several perambulations to be 

 made through all England, by which he made forests, of 

 much, or more, of his subjects' lands, than his'own domains 

 amounted unto; but the subjects, finding themselves 

 greatly oppressed thereby, did make earnest suit to the 

 king for redress ; who first by divers acts confirmed the 

 great charter, and afterwards, in anno 28, caused a new 

 perambulation to be made by commissioners through all 

 England, by which the greatest part of the subjects' lands 

 taken in before were then clearly left out and freed ; and 

 afterwards, in consideration of a fifteenth granted unto 

 him by the subjects, the same king, in anno 29, con- 

 firmed the said perambulation by Act of Parliament ; 

 which last perambulation, and none else, do stand good at 

 this present, as it was ruled in a case before the judges 

 in the King's Bench in Hillary term, anno 33, Eliz. ft., 

 upon the traverse of an indictment between the servants 

 of Edward, Earle of Hertford and the Queen's Majesty, in 

 behalf of Henry, Earle of Pembroke, concerning the 

 bounds of the Forest of Groveley, in the county of Wilts ; 

 as concerning such grounds as being taken in by the first 

 perambulation were afterwards left out by the last, the 

 same being at this day called Purle, not of pur luy, id est, 

 for himself, not of pur la ley, id est, for the law as (men 

 commonly think), nor of pur le pur rail, id est, for the poor 

 commoners (as the readers do suppose), but of the word 

 pur aller or per oiler, which is the French word to walk or 

 perambulate, in respect they were first perambulated and 



