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officer of this foreft is ‘ic lord warden : oad under him are 
two difliné appoimtments of officers; the one to preferve 
the venifon of the foreft, and the other to preferve its wide : 
the former term, in the language of forett-law, compre- 
hending every i co) oe and the latter ignifying 
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office of fuperintending the game is now naa to 15 
keepers; who prefide over -the fame number of walks, into 
which the foreft is divided. The woods are under the fu- 
perintendence of the woodward, under whom are 12 re- 
Befides thefe officers, who are appointed by the 
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dee Pe called de. pu rveyor, and appointed by the 
commiffioner, of the dock-yard at Portfmouth, whofe 
bulinefs it is to affizn ae a the ufe of the a 
e of Sherwo renowned in ftory as the 
fcene of ae exploits aferibed. to Robin Hood, is a royal 
demefne, aes fince the reign of Edward I. it has been al- 
ranger, four verderers, es regarders, four agiftors, and 
twelve keepers in the main foreft, under the chief forefter, 
who holds it in fee, with pup to ae and kill at  plea- 
fare, pies 100 deer the whole walk. T r 
alfo, as members of the ae feveral vena on every 
ails within the foreft, and one for every principal 
wood, 
Dean foreft is now thinned by ele) of felling, and 
narrowed by increafe of cultivation, ae a few folitary 
deer fill Sa re tor run v wild in its rece 
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and the ee and feeeleeans veftablithed by him tor that pur- 
pofe are, in moft refpeéts, {till obferved. 
In En wg there are 69 forefts, 13 chaces, aad upwards 
of 750 par 
The isk: ifland was replenifhed with all for ts of game 
in the times. of Fae ritons ; apie lived in a wild and p 
ral manner, without inclofing or improving their. pea 
and derived much of a eir fubtitence from the chace, which 
they all enjoyed i But when hufbandry took 
place. un wn r the Saxon govern and. lands ‘began to be 
into the w 
foretts ;. ir iene never been ‘ipod of in aie. firft dif- 
tribution of a were therefore held to belong to the 
crown. Thefe were filled with great plenty of game, which 
our royal Goalies eleced for their-own diverfion, on pain 
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of a pecuniary forfeiture tor {uch as: interfered with their 
fovereign. But every freeholder had the full liberty. of fport-. 
ing upon his .own territories, provide e abftaine 
om the king’s forefts; as is fully expreffed in the pula 
of Canute (c. 77.) and of - rard cae Counfeffor (c. 
and this, —— was the cient la the Scandinavian 
© univerfal (ail, were We firlt who 
clofed foreits, and fettled the jurifdiG@ion thereof. 
courfe of a few reigrvs from the Co 
fixty-eight forelts were inclofed; 
made to fecure them, and the fevereft penalties inflicted on 
all trefpaffers upon them. 
William the Conqueror decreed the eyes of any perfor 
to be pulled out, who took either a buck or boar; Wil- 
liam Rufus made the ttealing of a doe a hanging matter 3 
the taking of a hare was fined 20s. and a coney at Ios. 
Eadmer adds, that fifty ceilors of fortune, being appre- 
hended by that lait prince for kuling his bucks: were 
forced to purge themfclves by the fire of ordeal, &c. 
I. made no diltinétion between him who killed a 
; and a ned théfe who 
. ftroyed the game, though not in the foreft, either by 
a of their goods, or lofs: oe though Henry Il. 
it or a temporary imprifon 
ard I. revived the old ven i gelding and pull- 
ing an ee eyes of thofe convicted of hunting in the foreft ; 
but he afterwards relaxed a little, and was contented to 
make fuch convicts abjure the realm, or be committed, or 
Fo OREST- -Law, Heed 
See Asst 
See rere of the eae 
eee IFT 
e Foo 
OREST, Loot of the. 
Forest, Keeper of th é. ce Re eee 
Forest, ee pl of the. See PERAMBULATION. 
Forest, Purlien o See Purtrev. 
Forist, Repofition of the aia ees: 
= EST, allo uled ad 3ee | 
Seba Nie , 2 part of the a cient ene art ViSe 
Rheinfield, Waldfhut, Seckingen, Laafibenrg, But now, 
fince the bounds of the Black foreft are contracted, thefe 
as are out of the limits thereof. 
st, Black.’ See Brack For 
rest-Law. The foreft- rh are fo peculisi laws, dif- 
ferent from the common law of England. 
Before the making of Charta fe Foretta, in the time ‘of 
king ni and his ie Henry Il. .» confirmed in parliament 
I. offences committed therein were punithe; 
at the pia of de king in the fevereft manner. By th 
charzer many foreits were difaffo hee and itripped of Gee 
oppre reffive privileges, and regulati were ae for the 
government of thofe that feained oer cul, killing 
the king’s deer was made no. longer a capital offence, but 
only pita by fine, imprifonment, or eg of the 
realm; yet even in the charter, there were fome grievous 
articles, which the clemency of later — la fince by 
ftatute ee tit to alter a affijas f 
A is day, in tre nae relating to ‘the foreft, vo- 
— pve pro fad; fo that if aman be taken hunt- 
a deer, he .may.be pela as if he had taken a dees. 
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