CHAPTER II 



Woods, Forests, 



& Forestry in Ancient & 



Modern Times 



cont d 



THE Charta de Foresta, passed in the ninth year 

 of Henry III.'s reign, in supersession of the 

 statute issued eight years before by the Regent, 

 William Marschall, Earl of Pembroke, which 

 gave confirmation of the great charters of liberty 

 wrung from King John, forms, like these, one 

 of the most famous charters in English history. 



In addition to the leading provisions, which 

 have already been sketched, it regulated the hold- 

 ing of the Swainmote ; it prescribed, with due 

 limitations, the duties and powers of certain 

 officers of the forest, and it defined how action 

 should lie with regard to the offences of Pur- 



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