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the first offence, of double this for the second, and of 

 triple for the third, together with perpetual banisment 

 from the bounds of the Maitrise. 



* 17. The liberty of shooting flying at three leagues 

 distance from our preserves is only granted to seigneurs, 

 gentlemen, nobles, and seigneurs of parishes. 



' 18. We forbid to all gentlemen and others having the 

 right of chase to hunt on foot or horseback with dogs on 

 sown lands after the grain is in blade, and in vineyards 

 after the first day of May, until after harvest, under pain 

 of deprivation of their right of the chase, five hundred 

 livres of fine, and of all expenses, damages, and compensa- 

 tion for loss, to be paid to the proprietors or usufructiers. 



* 19. No one can in future establish a warren if he have 

 not the right to do so from these presents and specifica- 

 tions, from possession, or from some other sufficient title, 

 under pain of a fine of five hundred livres, and besides 

 having the warren destroyed and demolished at his 

 expense. 



' 20. We forbid to all persons, of whatsoever rank or 

 condition they may be, to hunt with the arquebus or with 

 dogs in the Capitaineries of our royal residences of St. 

 Germain en Laye, Fontainbleau, Chambort, Yincennes, 

 Livry, Compeigne, Bois de Boulogne, and Varenne du 

 Louvre, and also to seigneurs, high justiciaries, and all 

 others, though claiming rights founded on titles or per- 

 missions, general or particular, declarations, edicts, and 

 decrees, which we revoke in this respect, reserving to us 

 to grant new permissions, or to renew the old ones, in 

 favour of whom it may seem to us good. 



*21. Our subjects who have parks, gardens, orchards, 

 and other enclosed heritages within the bounds of the 

 Capitaineries of our royal mansions, cannot make in their 

 Walls any holes, standing doors, or other passage which 

 may give admittance to game, under pain of ten livres of 

 fine ; and if any have now been made, we enjoin the 

 closure of these immediately, under the same penalty. 



' 22. We do not at all intend to comprise in the above 



