ANCIENT AND MODERN FORESTRY 51 
the word ‘forest’ may have been a casual error 
in place of a purposeful innovation. 
Thenceforth, for many years nothing in the 
way of forest legislation was enacted by Parlia- 
ment. Henry VII. made it a felony to hunt deer 
at night in the forests with painted visors, and 
Henry VIII. made it also felonious to enter a 
forest with intent to steal deer; but this last 
rule was soon repealed by Edward VI. Neither 
Mary nor Elizabeth gave any particular attention 
to their forests. The last royal forest created in 
England was Hampton Court, afforested by Act 
of Parliament in the thirty-first year of Henry 
VIII.’s reign. The two statutes enacted by Henry 
in the year following that concerned themselves 
with the ‘ Drift of Forests,’ or driving of horses 
and other beasts of the field to ascertain that the 
forests were not burdened to a surcharge by 
those holding rights of common, and with en- 
abling the Justices in Eyre to appoint a deputy 
to make their circuit or Jér. Such circuits were 
regularly made down to 1635, when they ceased. 
Chases, or Purlieus, or without Licence, in the Forest, Chase, or 
Purlieu of any other Person, or make any Sale of the same 
Wood : It shall be lawful to the same Subject, &c. 
