1.64 A Treatise of Cap. 9.

the third Mnce. And therefore d? this it doth appearthat the Law doth much lesse wdour the-one of thew,then it doth the other.

5. Whereof it is called Assarts.

A M thus hading slreadx declared, what an Mazeofthe fo?est is; and what punilhment the Lawdoth appoint ke? the ksme ostence, as well in the Lingsown demeM woods or lands, as in the woods 0? landsof mix other man : K is therefore now derx necestarx to> speak something, here in this place, okthe word Asssrr,

and whereof the fame tsketh the name ok AMre; Andko? that,xou shall understand that this wv?d Assart is anantieut Gnglilh word brought out of Normandy intothis Land (bp the Lonquerer, as it soemeth) and is de-rided ok the French derb Assorcir, to make plain, oz tofurnish, 0? to trim up aux thing: as When anx land o?ground is full okbulhes, woods, 0? thickets,being bar-ren as it were in not bearing 0! co?n no? grssse, bx rea-son that the same is ko overgrown with coberts, thento destrox the fame coderts, and to make the place ara-ble land, 10 bear co?n 0? plentx ofgrasse, is called anAsssrr of the fo?est,of the French dcrd Assortir, to makeplain, 0? to furniih: fo? whereas the tdme was beforea thicket ofhulhes 0? woods, it is made a plain smoothpasture 0? arable land; and it is alto furnilhed r lo?whereas before the tame was barren, when the tameis w assarted 0? conderred into tillage, then it is fur-nilhed with co?n 0? with grssse. And of this Frenchderb Assortir, to make plains? smooth, is deridedthis barbarous Latins word Affsrto, to pluck up bxrveroves: which word I neder read of in anx good Mrieer,ZU^LUS in r.U- dm onlx in Ludseos, in his second book de Pbilologia,bro Fbsiologiæ, where he doth expound this word Assart in this ld?t,

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