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become cvberts; and therefore the same, being morethen a woke of the wrell, i$ called an Assart, as here-after mo?e at large lhall be chewed.

r. Wbsr ld»U be said to be Assam, or Landassarted.

B mt to declare, xarticularlx, what an Assart of theforest is, and what Wall be said to be an Assart ofthe fo?ett bx the Forest Laws, I must refer mx fe f tothe Ned book of the GMeguer, where the words arethese, good assarts vero occasione* noœinantur, quando . Inlib.Rubroscilicet foreftæ nemora vel dumeta,pascuis & latibulis sera- Scaccarii.rum oportuna, socciduntrr, quibusibccifis, &radicibuse-vulsis, terra subvertitur & excolitur. Meriix, when thatthe pleasant woods of the Forest, or thick duchx placesmeet so? the secret fseding of the wrld beasts, be cutdawn, and plucked up bx the roots, and the lame vide Masterground made a plain, and turned into arable land, Hesker,folio,thisbx the Jlatos of the iFojest is p?cperlp said soassart of the forest, o? land assarted. And likewise itdoth appear bx the writ of Ad quod dampnum in theRegister, where a man doth Me for a license to fell andcut down his Woods that are within the forest, and toassart the lame. That an Assart is, where a man dothfell and dettrox his woodland condert the foil whereinthe woods did grow into tillage : Fo? the words of theWrit are these, Mandarrms vobis, quod per Swamentum, , .&c.Inquiratis,fl fit ad dimpnom, feu nccumentum forcftæ ^,loirostra* prædictæ, aut alkujus alteriut, si concedarntis A. J ' 'quod ipfæ arbore* in Bofco fbo de M qui eft infra metasforesæ noftræ p’ædictæ, succidere, & eas, qao voluerir,catiare, accommodusn fuum inde facere, & folum illadpofimodum asssrtare, &: in cukuratn redigere, ac pirvofossato Sc bassi hay^, secundum affisaaa forestæ includere,

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