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hounds, and spaniels could only be kept under 
warrant from the king or his Chief Justice in 
Fyre. 
Agistors (Agistores), 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 
