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• 28. We make it to be forbidden to merchants, artisans, 

 burgesses, and inhabitants of the towns, burghs, parishes, 

 villages, and hamlets, peasants and commoners, of whatever 

 condition and rank they may be, not possessing fiefs, 

 seigneuries, and high jurisdiction, to hunt in any place, or 

 sort, or manner, any game whatsoever of fur or feather, 

 under pain of a fine of a hundred livres for the first offence, 

 of double that for the second, and for the third to be put 

 three hours on a market day in the iron collar of their 

 place of abode, and banished for three years from the 

 Province of the Mattrise, without the judges having power 

 on any account whatever to moderate the penalty, under 

 pain of suspension. 



' 29. The Captains of the Chase, their Lieutenants, and 

 our Attorneys in Gapitaineries, shall be received and 

 appointed at the Court of the Marble Table, and the 

 Registrars, Ushers, and Guards, both foot and mounted, 

 before the Captains, or their Lieutenants, after informa- 

 tion in regard to their life, habits. Catholic Apostolic 

 Roman religion, fidelity and devotion to our service ; and 

 for each reception there shall be paid to the Registrar for 

 the engrossing and enregistericg of these prerequisites, 

 six livres and no more : there are excepted, however, the 

 officers of the Gapitaineries of our royal mansions named 

 above. 



' 30. We order that in three months from the day of the 

 publication of these presents, all Captains, Lieutenants, 

 and other Officers of the Chase, who claim jurisdiction 

 beyond and excepting those of our royal mansions specified 

 above, sliall present before the Grand-Master of each 

 department their titles of institution or establishment, and 

 their grants and deeds of reception, on his advice approved 

 by us in our Council, on the report of the Comptroller- 

 General of our Finances, as to the maintenance or abolition 

 of their appointment, as to him may appear desirable, and 

 failing to present these at the time stated, they are for- 

 bidden to exercise their functions under pain of their 

 being considered false, 



