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A Treatise of the laws of the forest : wherein is declared not onely those laws as they are now in force, but also in the original and beginning of forests
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Cap. 23. the Forest Laws,-

not suspected, bx whom the truth of the matter max befullx inquired ot, and the truth to inquired of, rhe p?e°kntments Wall be tolemnlx affirmed and sealed withtheir Deals, bx the common agreement and assent ofall the Ginisters aforesaid. 2nd if the indictment bemade in snx other manner, the tame lhall be utterlx 0ssicery1boiu. Do that now it doth appear bx this latter Dta- 'tute, that the Foresters, Werderers, Negarders, 2 °

Listers, and all other Ginisters of the Forest , andalw the Freeholders, and all other honeff and lawfulmen ok the Fo?est,must ok necessitx appear st the Courtsok Dwanimote, according to the later Dtstute, fogotherwise the indictments that are there made againsttrespassers ok the Forest are void : fog all the Officersof the Forest must affirm the same indictment, and thepart? indicted must be indicted before all the Officers ofthe Forest: wherefore all the Officers ok the Forestmust oknecessttr bx this statute come to the twanimoreCourt r and if it do chance snx of the raid Officers 0? See befo -- ?Ginisters to die, 0? bx stcdneffe or an? other means to J

^ be hindered, so that he cannot be st the Dwanimote,then the Ziustice of the Forest 0? his Lieutenant shallimmediate!? put another in his place r and this is ac-cording to Ordinatio Forestæ, 34. E. I. cap. 2. that theindictment max be made bx all, in form aforesaid. Andthere also must be at the Court of Dwanimote the Fr«hoi&tf,Freeholders of the forest, 9 other good and lawful men,w? td make inquests and juries there: ko? the present-ments there (b? tve Words of the Dtatute aforesaid) _must be made per facramenturn ram Mllitum quam alio- ' ' '

rum proborum & legalium hominum de partibus vicini- ,oiibusubt,&c. wherefore there must he freeholders andother honest men,os neceffitx (which also max be probedbx the words of the Dtstute 7 -Richard 2. cap. 3. beforefoL 13.) notwithstanding the words of the laid Dtatute

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