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Cap. 23. the Forest Laws.

4. That upon default of apparance, the defaultersmay be compelled to appear by Distresse :and how those Pistresses ought tobe taken.

letter OfCharta deForesta, cap. 8 .is further (as What is mcSBi1 tfi aforesaid) & null! alii per districtionem. Kow b Y this ’it is to be seen what js meant bp this wo?d (per distri-ctionem :) and so? that, it to to be understood,that ff a-np of the Officers of the JFo;est,o? others, tobtcfc ought togibe anx attendance at the raid Courts or D>wanimote,toil! not come to the same, but do make default there:then that default there lhail be inrolled in the Nousof the said Court of Dtvanimote; and upon that in-rollment, bp the Werderers and the Dteward of theAwanimote, 0? his Clerk 0? deputx there? bp the Mathof the other Officers of the tame Court, those which domake default shall be amerced, and that amercementthere Ml! be assessed also and estreated pMntlp to thechief WKarden of the Forest, 0? to his Deputp, 0? to theHBedle of the Forest (which is an Officer to go through-out all the Forest, like unto the sheriffs special Bai-liff) to be lebied bp distreffe. But in this cafe theWerderers max chuse, if thep will, whether that thexWill so estreat the said amercements upon the defaul-ters prefentlp bp distreffe, as is aforesaid, or else to cer-tiste those defaults in their Nolls before the Justices ofthe Forest, and then the Justices of the Forest Willcause w'its to be made out to the chief Warden of theForest, o? to the sheriff of the Ahire where st,ch de-faulters do dwell, to lebp those said amercements bxdistreffe ■> 0? else the Werderers if tdep fofl! map certifiethose defaults into the Court of Exchequer before theBarons of the said Court of Exchequer, and thenEst 3 thereupon