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hounds, and spaniels could only be kept under 

 warrant from the king or his Chief Justice in 

 Eyre. 



Agistors (Agis tores), from agito, to * drive ' 

 or ' feed/ were the four officers appointed by 

 royal letters-patent, who took beasts to pasture 

 within the forest where there was any pannage. 

 They also noted trespass done by cattle and 

 made presentments about the same, looked after 

 demesne woods and other lands enclosed, and 

 received the cattle and payments of those living 

 in the forest who had right of common on the 

 unenclosed parts. They had to keep an account 

 of all Agistments, whether of feeding cattle, &c., 

 with herbage or with mast, and had to deliver 

 the same to the Justice in Eyre at each Justice 

 Seat. 



The Woodward (Woodwardus) was a subordi- 

 nate officer appointed at a much later date, and 

 charged solely with looking after the woods or 

 vert. The office of a Woodward and the bark 

 of trees felled in the forest were claimed and 

 adjudged as belonging to a manor. The Wood- 

 ward had to appear at every Court of Attach- 

 ment, and there present all offences committed 



