Cap. 20. the Forest Laws.

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daps of atng Henry the Grandfather of this lliiiig Henry .. .

thr third, ItoulO be disafforested: and thereupon, as- ^ . the . ■ter Caster , Hugh deNovile , snd Bryon deLyslce were Sos thesent forth as Commissioners to take those Inqmfitionsr p«,mhui,t!onrbx force whereof, manp great woods and lands were °ssorek» m- 6 -notonlp disafforested, but also assarted and imp?oded >'n the time °kto arable land bx the owners thereof. And so, not on= H -I? men that then were dwellers and inhabiters inthose places, hut also dogges, which so? falegard ofthe game were accustomed before to lose their claws,dad good cause to reioxce so? these difasso?estations andconfirmed liberties so granted. Do that now after this R»y«*'WotfCharter thus made and confirmed, some of these newafforestations were perambulated; and after such in--qutlitions taken, and the certaintx known bx mattrrof record, what woods and lands, were so newlx affo?e-ked bx an? of those three fo?efaid Lings knce the timeof the 6 rk Coronation of Ling Henry the second, the?

Were disafforested bx Ling Henry the third. HSut pet ne-vertheless, the greatest part of those new afforestationswere still remaining to be disafforested during the lifeof the said Ling Hairy the third; and then after his de-cease, Edward the first, furnamed Longsliank, beingeldest fon of the forefaid Ling Henry the third, succeed-ing his Father, as next heir unto the Imperial Crownot this Realm, began his raign the two and twentiethdap ofNovembe-r, in the pear of our Lord I27Z.. whichLing being oftentimes required and urged» atwel bpthe Oobilitx, as also bp the commonaltx of this Realm,to confirm unto them those so Mid liberties, which bisFather before had granted, was contented to confirmtheir Charters, even as thex did require the fame : andnow, When that the? had an things granted, performedand confirmed, as thex could Wist, o? desire, concerningthe said two Charters,thex delibered the fame so sealed,

Xz signed.