The Epiftle Dedicatory.

dayly so contemptuously commit suchhainous spoils and trespasses therein,that the greatest part of them are spoiledand decayed: And also that very little,or nothing, as yet is extant concerningthe Laws of the Forest. I thought itvery necessary to Collect this small Trea-tise, Declaring, therein the ways andmeans how to preserve and maintain Fo-rests, together with the due punishmentof such as sliall be found Offenders there-in, to the intent that thereby men maythe better know those Lawes, whereinthey so often offend,and the danger there-of •, which being known, they may thebetter avoid. And to the end, that thisTreatise may the rather fatisfie them, andmy self also, it hath had the App.oba-tion of the Learned, which have careful-ly perused the same : which Treatise,( my good Lord-J) I do here present un-to your Honour, most humbly beseech-ing your good Lordship to accept of thesame, as tlie Fruits and Labour of a well

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