Cap. 6 . the Forest Laws.

And SS Budæus faith, la silvls impeditissimfe funt conci-lia baia ferarum, obi gaadpnt reqoiescerc feræ. TheMd beatts oktbe fo?esr hade their secret counsel housesin the greatest thick broods, where thex do most chieKxdelight to rake their rest. And as the wild teafrs dodelight ro hade their abode in the coderts and greatbroods, ?ro the same is again a most special lhelterso? them, in ti e winter from the cold, and in the sum-mer from the heat. And if a wild beast of the fo?esrbehunted o? chased, he p?esentlx taketh the coderts as arefuge and fafegard fo?hrm, tokieunto, and so? thiscause the fo?efr laws hade always had a special regard so?to P?eserde the Wert of the fo?eft.

The second cause is, so? that the broods and codertsof the fo?ett, o? at the leastwise those that are accomp-wd especially Wert, do bear fruit, which is food so? theDeer in winter, when there is little graffe o? othermeat so? them to feed upon, and then thex do feed uponAeo?nes, Vawes snd Aloes, ano inch like. And whenthere is not sufficient food so? the Deer, neither ofgraffe, no? of such fruits, then the fo?efters that hadethe charge of the wild beasts, must p?odide W?owfe-wood to be cut down so? them to feed upon r D>o thatthe woods and coderts of the fo?est are not only p?e*serbeU to be coderts, to hide and fucco? the Deer inrbutalso, to be food so? them in the'great frosts and fnowes,and in the hard weather when the ground is covered,when they cannot get anx other food otherwise.

The third cause of the p?eferbaiion of the Alert of theffl?cst, is Propter decorcm, that is so? the comlineffe andbeauty of the fame in a fo?esr, so? the very fight and be-holding of the goodly green and pleasant woods info?esr, is no leffe pleasant and delightful in the eyeof a V?in-'e, then the view of the wild veofrs of fo-rest and Chafe, and therek-?e the grace of a fc?est is,

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