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A Treatise of the laws of the forest : wherein is declared not onely those laws as they are now in force, but also in the original and beginning of forests
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^atDo feeep the coberts, Mich arecallEbeSKs ok be-nerx. Aud the beaks, or Chafe,-the? Ho make theirabode, alltvedax time, in the kelds, and upon thehils, v? high mountains , where thex msx tee round-bout them a far off, -who doth Kir o? come trier them:snd in the night season, when ederx dodx is at rest,and au is quiet, then tbex do repair unto the co?n°6eldsand dallies below. Where the lawnes, meadows, andpleasant tkdings are so? their fcob and reliete, and.therefore Hex are called Carnpettres.thet is to sax,beasts ......

. of the Mid, v; becks that do haunt the fields, more thenthewcods.

.At doth appear bx the Prophet Vrrid, in the 5o.

Psalm, that as there are some wild beasts, that do keepthewcods and coberts r fo there are some wild beaks-that do keep the fields, the mountains, and the hits,.

Which are the beasts ot Chase r fo? the Prophet David .jp&i, $». retC9 \tsith, I will take no bollock out ok ihy.hoosc;, nor be- to.goat* out of thy fold*, foe all the beast* of the forest are .

inine, and so are the cattel upon a thousand hil,. And b^.s».vnt.irrAgain he faith, I know all tbc fowlrupon the mountains,and the wild beat* of the field* rare mine, and so therethe Forest, and the wild beasts of the stew; And Lodge-i» faith, that those wild beasts that do haunt the fieldsand the hills,which are the beasts aforesaid, the?, faith 4*!

He, are the beasts ofChase.

Z. Of their several proper name*, seasons, degree*,and ages.

A Od now here it is neceffsrx to speak something okthe proper names of the forefaid beasts of Forest,Gbsfe, and Marten, ro the end that men ma? knowHow to cs!! them, according as Hex are called and ter-?

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