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workshops connected with the working of the wood, the 

 fine shall be double. 



' 6. We will that all the persons specified shall be dis- 

 missed the service on repetition of the offence — namely, 

 that the officers be deprived of their charges, the merchants 

 of their purchases, and the usagers of their rights and 

 customary privileges, and that all be banished for ever 

 from the forests, without their being able to hope for any 

 letters of pardon, restoration, commutation, and repeal of 

 banishment, which we forbid to our trusty and well beloved 

 Chancellor of Seals, and to all Judges to grant, notwith- 

 standing contrary commandments or orders, declaring all 

 such as may have been obtained preceding these presents, 

 to be null, and of no effect or value. 



' 7. Merchants, masters of forges, usagers, borderers and 

 others occupying houses, farms, and other heritages within 

 the enclosure, and within two leagues of our forests, shall 

 remain civilly responsible for their agents, waggoners, 

 herds, and domestic^. 



' 8. And inasmuch as the fines based on girths have been 

 regulated according to the value and condition of the woods 

 in the year 1518, since which time they have risen very 

 much in price, we order that, conformably to the Ordinance 

 made by Henry III. in the year 1588, and to the decrees 

 and regulations of the month of September 1601, June 

 1602, and October 1623, the restitutions, damages, and 

 compensation for loss shall be adjudged on all depredations 

 at the least at the amount of the fine. 



' 9. Besides the fine, restitution, damages, and compen- 

 sation for loss, there shall always be confiscation of the 

 horses, asses, and harness, which may be found loaded 

 with stolen wood, and of saws, hatchets, bill-hooks, and 

 other implements, of which the specified culprits and their 

 accomplices may be found possessed. 



' 10. The beasts found in act of tresspass, or out of the 

 places of the roads and specified ways, shall likewise be 

 confiscated; and where the beasts cannot be seized, the 

 owners shall be condemned to a fine, which shall be twenty 



