66 OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS 
or trespass: or yit dissembles for particular 
affection; that he knawes anie sic crime or 
trespass. Nevertheles, the King hes gude richt, 
and titill to aske ten punds; for breaking of 
his command, and inhibition foresaid.’ 
The Jacobean laws as to hunting, hawking, 
and so forth were all likewise drawn up in the 
true spirit of genuine sportsmanship. ‘Na man 
suld ride or gang in their neighbours cornes in 
halking, or hunting, fra pasche untill the samin 
be shorne. Na man suld ride nor gang upon 
quheat na time of the yeare. Na Pertrik suld 
be taken untill Michelmas. Na persons ranges 
uther mens woods, parkis within dikes, or brumes, 
without license of the awner of the ground, under 
the paine of refounding the skaith to the partie, 
and ten punds to the King, for the first fault: 
twentie punds for the second fault: and confis- 
cation of moveable gudes for the third fault.’ 
All offences against the game laws were ‘crimes 
punished be pecuniall paines.’ A fine of ten 
pounds was inflicted on any one who ‘should 
slay Daes, Raes, nor Dear in time of storme, or 
snaw, or slay any of their Kiddes, untill they be 
ane yeare auld.’ Forty shillings was the pain for 
