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CHAPTER XXVIII. Of Roads and Royal Highways in Forests, 

 and Footpaths by Rivers. 



1 Art. 1. In all the forests with thoroughfares where 

 there has been, or ought to be, great royal highways 

 serving for coaches, carriages, waggons, and carts, from town 

 to town, the great roads shall be at least seventy-two feet 

 broad, and where they happen to be more they shall be 

 maintained so in their entirety. 



' 2. If it have been judged necessary to make new roads 

 to facilitate commerce and public safety in any of our 

 forests, the Grand-Masters shall make their minutes of the 

 projected line, and of the number, kind, and value of the 

 woods which it will be found necessary for this purpose to 

 fell, which they shall send with their advice to our Council 

 by the hands of the Comptroller-General of our Forests, to 

 be by us attended to. 



1 3. We order that within six months from the day of 

 publication of these presents all woods, thorns, and bushes 

 which shall be found within the space of sixty feet on the 

 great roads serving for the passage of coaches and public 

 carriages, both in our forests and in those of ecclesiastics, 

 communities, seigneurs, and private persons, shall be 

 felled and grubbed up, that the way may be free and 

 more sure : all this at our expense in the forests of our 

 domain, and at the expense of the ecclesiastics, com- 

 munities, and private persons in the woods belonging to 

 them. 



' 4. We will that after the lapse of six months those who 

 are found to have allowed these to remain shall be mulcted 

 in an arbitrary fine, and constrained, by seizure of their 

 goods, to make payment both of the expense of the works 

 which shall be necessary for the clearing of them, which 

 shall be adjudged at the Court of the Maitrise, and of the 

 expense and outlay which may be made after the six 

 months, which shall be determined by the Grand-Masters. 



' 5. The trees and woods which it shall be found expedi- 



