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j CHAP. IX. '

1. Of Assarts os the Forest.

2. What Jball he said to he Assarts', or Land Assarted.

z. What forfeiture or punishment doth grotto to him that* doth commit an assart of the forest in his oton Vooodf

or lands.

4 What forfeiture or punishment doth grow to him thaidoth make assarts within the Kings demesne woodsor lands.

5. Whereof the fame receivetb the name of assarts.i. Of Assarts of the korek.

E Men as a brake, bx the Laws of thekozek, is ac-conrxted one ok the greatek offences o? trelpaffesthatM.be done to the Mert ok the KM, be-cause the lame is a felling Oaten, o? dekroxing of thethickets and coderts ok the ko?est, that is to fax, thefcert o? green-Hue,be it great wood o? underwood,butheL,tho?nes, o? anx codert that beareth green leakr r poiiftetofsean Assart of the ko?ett is the greatest offenceo? trekpaffe ok all other; and there is none like untoit, that can be done unto the Mere ok the Fo?eS. Fo;ederx Mart ok the fc?ek doth contain in it a wakea (fe is focal- an & bestnmion oktheMertand codert ok the ko?est, and\eid ad & fe- ni0 ? e - Ko? whereas a wake of the ko?ekis but the kel-ro, b-caufc ok ling o? cutting down ok the coderts, which max growwod grounds, again and become coderts in time, an Assart is the&c. they are plucking up ok those woods bx the roots that are thicketsl°^>.Msrrcr;» c ? ct,Bers ° f the fo?eff, to make the same a "plain v? a-rrench 5°ni6es cable land b to that whereas woods v? thickets o? anxto gæb up,co. ott>et lanO is affarted, that land cannot grow agam to^.Inli.zoS.zoy. bbLOMe