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i. That the Laws osthe Forest differ from the com-mon law of the Realm ; and of the dignity andauthority of the Lord Chief Justiceof the Forest.

B <$sO?e the nmhttta Of Charta de Foresta there wssno certain so? offences committed in so-rests; kb? at the beginning it was at the plea-sure and arbitrement of the Wing to punish offendersin fo?ests, until that Ling Canutus and others did madecertain Canons and constitutions so? maintenance ofWert and Wenifon, which Constitutions afterwards,hx continuance ok time, were taken so? a Law, and suchLaws were not certain neither, before the making ofCharta de Foresta: But the Laws of the 5Fo?Cst werealwaxs differing from the laws of this Malm , as itdoth appear in a Book remaining in the Ercheyuer,,Lib™ R u b t o called Liber Rubrus, where it is written as followeth ;Scaccarij. Sane forestarum Lex, ratio, pœna quoque vel absolutiodelinquentium, five pecuniaria fuerit,five corporalis,feor-(urnaD aliisregni judieiis fecernuntur: Et solius Regis ar-bitrio feu cujuflibet familiaris ad haec fpecialiter deputatisuhjicitur, legibus quidem propriis substitit,quæ non JureCOmmunt fed voluntarxa principum Inftitutione subnixæessedebent: adeo ut quod per legem ejus factum fueritnon juftum absolute, fed justum secundum legem forestsdicatur, quia in foreftis penetralia regum sont, & eorummaxime deliciæ, ad has quidem venandi causa, curisquandoque depositis, accedunt, ut modica quiete recreen-tur illic, Seriis fimul 8c multis Curias tumultibus omissi?,in naturalis libertatis gratiam,paulifper refpiranr^unde fir,ut delinquentesinea, soliRegiæ, sobjiceant animadver-fioni • Which in Engltth is thlS ; Lrulx (withtbefaid

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