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An Indictmentin the Swsni*mote is nottravcrfable.Co.4,Inst.i9o.The form of anindictment inthe Swanimote.Note,the wordsof a presentmentin the Swani-mote ate> Pre-sentat.est per fo-restarios & duo-decemjuratores,& convict’perviridarios.

And the wordsof a presentmentin the Court ofAttachmentsare,Presentatumest per forestari’,tant’. A stria fo-rests,de Lanc.f.n.Vid.the Rat.called Ordina-tio Forrstæ, an.j4.E.i.in whatmanner offen-ders (hall be in-dicted in theSwanimote.

An Indict-ment before theL. chief Just. ofthe Forest istraversab-le.Co. 4 .Inst. ipr»,r-r-

A Treatise of Cap. 23.

ths Zlurx, which arecworn so? that purpose to inquirethe truth ok those matters r and ikthe Lurx do stud thatthoke Presentments that the Foresters hade presentedbe true, then the offender against whom thex are pre-sented, doth stand conbitted thereof in Law, an&fijalinot per assisas Forestæ traderse aux such indictment: so?the entries os the Records there are thus:

Pl'Lientatum est pee Forestarios & duodecem jurat’ward a: praedict’, & conviftum per viridarios, quod A. B.tali die & Anno intravit forestam de P. cum arcubus &iagittis, & ibid.versttvk unam Damam ad mortem, & car-nes cepit, & inde fecit voluntatem fuam. Et testatum estper vicecom. quod prædictus A. B. non est inventus, necaliquid habet in Balliva sua per quod attachiari potest,nec priusse reddidit 3 nec scitur quo devenitur, ideo exiga-tur de comitatu in com. quoufque, &c. utlagetur si noncomparuerit,& si comparuerit,tunc vicecomes eumcapiat,& salvo, &c. ad fatissaciendum. domino regi de transgressi-one prædicta unde per Forestarios viridarios & alios mini-stros convictusest: bx which fo?tn of p?esentment xoumap perceide,that the offences in Awanimotes are pre-sented there bx the Foresters, and the twelve swornmeu,and the offenders thereof are condicted bx the der-derersrso that an indictment against an offender in theForest, 5o? anx offence there being taken and soundagainst him in the Awammote, the same is a conbictwnin Law against him that is stich an offender: st, thathe ihal! not bx the Laws of theFoM traderse anx suchindictment.

Mit it is to be noted, that all indictments 0 ? p?esent-ments,vihrch chall be made bx the Foresters and the Ju-rx,o? twelve f<vo?n men,against anx offender so? anx of-fence done in the Forest, in vert o? venison, before theLo?d Justice in Gx?e of the Forest,at his Aeat v?ens of the Forest,ace traderfable per afllfas forests, a* it

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