OF THE FOREST LAWS. Q55 



officio ;) not only such forester (or other officer) hut all those 

 who shall hunt or hawk with him there, by colour of such license, 

 or warrant, would be all trespassers, and liable to the punish- 

 ments of the forest laws. 



Neither can any forester (or other such officer) hawk or take 

 any fowls of warren, as pheasants and partridges, within his walk, 

 in theforest,because his office is to preserve and not destroy them ; 

 and therefore he cannot give or grant any warrant, or license, 

 to another to hawk, or take any fowls of warren within his walk 

 or liberty ; for if he do, although he hold his office by patent 

 from the king, or some other person as hath power to grant the 

 same, yet is such act such a disuse or abuse of his authority, 

 that it is a cause of forfeiture of his office. 



In licenses to hunt or hawk within a forest, chase, park, or 

 warren, there is this difference to be considered, whether such 

 license be of profit or for pleasure only. For a license of profit 

 is, where a man hath a lawful warrant to kill and carry away 

 with him the game that is taken by him, either by hunting or 

 hawking in any of those places above mentioned; but a license 

 of pleasure is only where a man hath a warrant to hunt or hawk 

 in a forest, chase, &c. but doth not thereby acquire any property 

 in the game he takes, and so hath not any authority to carry 

 away the same with him ; neither can he that hath only a license 

 of pleasure, hunt or hawk with any more persons in his company 

 than himself: but he that hath a license of profit may hunt or 

 hawk with his friends and servants in his company, and carry 

 away with him the game he hath taken to his own use. 



