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tlie woods of private persons, with fire-arms, under pain of 

 a fine of a hundred livres, and corporal punishment, if 

 this be deemed befitting. 



'5. Nevertheless, our subjects of the rank required by 

 the edicts and ordinances, passing along the highways of 

 the forests and woods may carry pistols and other arms 

 not prohibited, for defence and preservation of their 

 persons. 



' 6. Likewise may the Guards of the open country, and 

 the Sergeants of the Guard of our woods, when on duty, 

 wearing the uniform and casques of our livery, but not 

 otherwise, carry pistols, both by night and day, for the 

 defence of their persons. 



' 7. Neither loot nor mounted Guards of the open 

 country in our Capitaineries can carry any arquiebuss 

 with a gun-lock, or musket, in our forests or open country, 

 if they be not in the suite of their Captain or of Lieutenants, 

 under pain of fifty livres fine, and discharge from their 

 office. 



' 8. We forbid all persons to take, in our forests, warrens, 

 bushes or reserve grounds, any nests of birds of what 

 species soever it may be, and in all other places, the eggs 

 of quails, partridges, and pheasants, under pain of a 

 hundred livres fine for the first time, of double that for 

 the second, and of flogging and banishment to six leagues 

 from the forest for five years for the third. 



' 9. The Sergeants of the Guard, when they find nests, 

 shall be charged with the preservation of them as a special 

 duty, and shall remain responsible for them. 



c 10. We will that those who may have been convicted 

 of having opened and ruined coney-burrows, or other 

 burrows which are in our warrens, or in those of our sub- 

 jects, shall be punished as robbers. 



'11. The Officers of our chases shall be bound within 

 six months after the publication of these presents to cause 

 to be whipt and driven away all greyhounds which they 

 shall find in our forests, under pain of a fine of five 

 hundred livres, and of suspension from their office for a 



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