Cap. 2 « the Forest-Laws* 6 $

manner, imitating theLatimsts,hse hade framed thisEnglilhwo?d, a fo?est,being compounded os these twowOAs, For, and Rest: And because afo?est is a take a*biding and p?idiledged place lor the Lings wild beastsso? rest, which wo?ds (For and Rest J being put togetherand made one wo?d, Is Forrest, o? aKo?ett, tsbmg hisname ok the nature ok the place, which is p?ibiledged bxthe Ling ko? his wild beasts, to hade their take abiding inko?est. LuclTu5 in his Treatise ok Vunting in French, 2a ofufctt> 10 sap une Forest, ko?a ko?ett, little oifFetine from J rcst “ inour Englich wo?d, fo?est, o? from the Latin Wo?dForests,

5. The Antiquity ofForests.

X Ve Antiguitx ok ko?ests muk nwds be her? grea^,ko? the? are to antient, that there is no certa^beginning ok them that can be strewed, howdeit tt>e re;max he msnx testimonies to p?ode that ko?ests hShgbeen ot long time, xea manx hund?ed peers, but pet ^what place ok the wo?ld, or in what time thep didbegin, no man can certainlx tell. Me read in ^

50, Psalm of David, verse io. whereas David fpeahj n „ ps , ,

in t&e person Of<2>oO> faitl), I will take no bullock ou “ \ 0 ' t '

of thy house, nor he-goats out of the folds, for a1j t f, 8beasts of the forests are mine, and so are the cattels up _on a thousand hills : Werebx we map-gsther, thatwere ko?ests ok Wild beasts in the V?ophet Davids tjme.

And likewise in the IZI. Psalm, verse the 6. the Wo?ds Lk,Im I; I.vcrl.are these r Lo, we heard of it at Ephrata , and -found-®,it in the fields of the forests: Wx this we max likewisegather, that there were to?ests in the time of Ming n , ,

David. Poly dor Virgil in his bwk de Inventoribns re. ydor Y ir-rum, faith, that fo?ests, parks, and warrens were 6rst r»um.nistde bp FuIyms Herpmuswhich was beko?e the co°