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befel, that one of the knights, that hight Walter Tyrrel, 

 would have shot at an hart, but his arrow glanced upon a 

 branch, and through insaveture smote the king .to the 

 heart, and so he fell down dead." 



The paper goes on to say : " Mr Camden makes men- 

 tion of a forest in Essex, granted by charter of Saint 

 Edward : 



' ICH EDWARD, KING, 

 Haue geven of my Forest the Keeping, 

 Of the hundred of Chetmer and Dancing, 

 To Randolph Pepking, and to his kinting, 

 With harte and hinde, do and bucke,' &c. 



And Mr Hoker, in his chronicle, fol. 207, hath certain 

 laws of the forest made by Canute." 



The charter granted by King Edward, cited by Brough- 

 ton, is the same as that cited by Agarde in the paper 

 previously quoted. 



In the same collection is a paper by James Lee, which 

 I have had occasion to quote oftener than once in regard 

 to old forest laws. I have failed to identify him, unless 

 he be Sir James ( Ley, afterwards Lord Ley of Ley, and 

 formally created by Charles I. Earl of Marlborough, by 

 whom a great many papers 'were contributed to the 

 Society. He was successively Chief-Justice of the King's 

 Bench in Ireland, Chief-Justice of the King's Bench in 

 England, and Lord-President of the Council. He died on 

 the 14th of March 1628, and was buried in the parish 

 church of Westbury, in Wiltshire, under a magnificent 

 tomb ; and was a man of great research. 



In this paper it is stated, " The word forest is derived 

 from foris stare, which doth signify to stand or be abroad ; 

 and forestarius is he that hath the charge of all things that 

 are abroad, and neither domestical nor demean ; wherefor 

 foresta in old times did extend unto woods, wastes, and 

 waters, and did contain not only vert and venison, but 

 also minerals, and maritimal revenues. For proof whereof 

 the words of Johannes Tilius (lib. i.) are thus : Guber- 



