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of chase on their own bordering lands, reserving, moreover, 

 a more severe penalty if the violence be great. 



* So. When it happens that priests, monks, and friars, 

 who fall into this crime, have not wherewith to meet this 

 fine, they shall be prohibited for the first offence to reside 

 within four leagues of the forests, woods, open country, 

 and shrubberies, and, in case of repetition, within ten 

 leagues, and be prevented by seizure of their temporalities, 

 and by every other reasonable means, conformably to the 

 Declaration of Francis I., of the month of March, in the 

 year 1515. 



'36. The judgments rendered by the Captains of the 

 Chases of our royal mansions, which may include any 

 corporal punishments, shall be signed on the minute by 

 the Lieutenant of the Long Robe, and by the others who 

 may have been called in for counsel, which minute shall 

 remain in the Registry of the Capitatnerie, and mention 

 shall be made of their names and rank in the copies of 

 this of which delivery may be made, under pain of nulli- 

 fication. 



* 37. Sentences which do not exceed sixty livres in all 

 for restitution and reparation, without other penalty or 

 fine, shall be executed provisionally, and without prejudice 

 to appeal. 



*38. If there be an appeal from a sentence given on 

 matters relating to the chase, and the sentence be not 

 simply one of pecuniary fine, but one by which the appel- 

 lant has been imprisoned, he shall not be enlarged pending 

 the appeal, excepting on depositing the amount of the 

 fine. 



' 39. The Sergeants of the Guard of our forests, and 

 Guards of the open country of our preserves, cannot do 

 any work excepting what relates to our waters and 

 forests, and chases, under pain of charge of doing wrong ; 

 we hereby revoking to this effect all letters of liberty to 

 do so which we may have accorded to them. 



'40. The collection of the fines which may have been 

 inflicted in Capitaineries of the Chases of our royal 



