218 THE FORESTS OF ENGLAND. 



" XII. Every free man from henceforth, without danger, 

 shall make in his own wood, or his land, or in his water, 

 which he hath within our forest, mills, springs, pools, 

 marlpits, ditches, or earable ground, without enclosing that 

 earable ground, so that it be not to the annoyance of any 

 of his neighbours. 



" XIII. Every free man shall have within his own wood 

 ayries of hawks, sparrow hawks, falcons, eagles, and herons, 

 and shall also have the honey that is found within his 

 woods. 



" XIV. No forester from henceforth, which is not forester 

 in fee, paying to us ferm for his bailiwick, shall take any 

 chiminage, or toll within his bailiwick ; (2) but a forester 

 in fee, paying us ferm for his bailiwick, shall take chimin- 

 age ; that is to say, for carriage by cart the half year iid., 

 and for another half year iid. : for a horse that beareth 

 loads, every half year a halfpenny, and by another half 

 year a halfpenny ; but of those only who come as mer- 

 chants through his bailiwick by licence to buy bushes, tim- 

 ber, bark, coals,* and to sell them again at their pleasure ; 

 but for none other carriage by cart chiminage shall be 

 taken ; (3) nor chiminage shall not be taken but in such 

 places only where it hath been use to be. (4) Those 

 which bear upon their backs brushment, bark, or coal to 

 sell, though it be their living, shall pay no chiminage to 

 our foresters, except they take it within our demesne 

 woods. 



" XV. All that be outlawed for the forest only, since the 

 time of King Henry our grandfather, until our first corona- 

 tion, shall come to our peace without let, and shall find 

 two sureties, that from henceforth they shall not trespass 

 unto us within our forests. 



" XVI. No constable, castellan, or bailiff, shall hold plea 

 of forest, neither for greenhue nor hunting ; (2) but every 

 forester in fee shall make attachments for pleas of forest, 

 as well for greenhue as for hunting, and shall present 



* By coals in these laws charcoal is to be understood. 



