216 THE FORESTS OF ENGLAND. 



have made forest of his own wood, then it shall remain 

 forest ; (4) saving the common of herbage, and of other 

 things in the same forest, to them which before were 

 accustomed to have the same. 



" II. Men who dwell out of the forest, from henceforth 

 shall not come before the justicers of our forest by com- 

 mon summons, unless they be impleaded there, or be sure- 

 ties for some others that were attached to the forest. 



" III. Al] woods, which have been made forest by King 

 Richard, our uncle, or by King John, our father, till our 

 first coronation, shall forthwith be disforested, unless it be 

 our demesne wood. 



"IV. All archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, 

 knights, and others, our freeholders, which have their woods 

 in forests, shall have their woods as they had them at the 

 first coronation of King Henry, our grandfather, so that 

 they shall be quit for ever of all purprestures, wastes, and 

 asserts, made in those woods after that time, until the 

 beginning of the second year of our coronation ; and those 

 that from henceforth do make purprestures without our 

 licence, or waste, or assert, in the same, shall answer unto 

 us for the same v/astes, purprestures, and asserts. 



" V. Our rangers shall go through the forest to make 

 range, as it hath been accustomed at the time of the first 

 coronation of King Henry, our grandfather, and not other- 

 wise. 



" 71. The law of dogs in forests. 



" VII. No forester or bedel from henceforth shall make 

 scotal, or gather garb, or oats, or any corn, lamb, or pig, 

 nor shall take any gathering but by the sight, and upon 

 the view of the twelve rangers, when they shall make 

 their range (2.) So many foresters shall be assigned to 

 the keeping of the forests, as reasonably shall seem suffi- 

 cient to the keeping of the same. 



"VIII. No Swanimote shall from henceforth be kept 

 within this our realm, but thrice in the year, videlicet, the 

 beginning of fifteen days before Michaelmas, when that our 

 gist-takers, or walkers of our wood, come together to take 



