Cap. 24, the Forest Laws.

stices of the Forest Dp this general summons mentionedin this branch of the same Dtatute. At is to te unoe, -stoofc, that before the making of this Dtatute of LliLr-tLdeforesta,the Law of the Forest was,that all men with-in the Count?, as well those that Did dwell out of theForest, as also all those that did dwell within the Fo-rest, were bound to appear before the Justices of the Fo-rest, bp this general summons, when thex did ho!) theirCBpP d? sessions of the Forest in that countp: and allCarls, Varans, Rnights, freeholders,and ottzers,werebound to appear before the Justice of the forest, hx thisgeneral summons, ar their general Deffion, before themaking of this Atatute, as it doth appear in/rMla fo-restL,fact : 1 tempore, H. 2. c.'ip. (in hæc verba) Gomites,baron, milit. & liberi tenentes, 8 c omnes homines de com.veniant ad summon.nostri forest 3 , sicut fe voluerint defen-di, ne incidant in manum regis, ad placitand. placita deforestis fuis, vel ad alia negotia faciend. in com. And alsothe same is affirmed and probed bp the words of theDtsture, viz.de cætero, which is, that from henceforthno man that doth dwell without the forest lhall be com-pelled to come before the Justices of the forest dp thisgeneral summons of the forest r hx which words (fromhenceforth) is plainip noted and chewed unto us,that be-fore the making of this Ktatute all persons that diddwell without the forest,within the fame Countp, werethen bound to appear before the Fi, vices of the forest, bxthe general summons, which was a derp great derationsnd trouble to all persons which did dwell without thebounds of the fo?est, to gibe their attendance there du-ring all the time of the sessions.

And it doth seem that one principal cause of the ma- The rea - on ofKing of this Law was, that forasmuch as Ring H. 2. the making 0 fgrandfather to King E. 1, had afforested the lands and this Law.woods ofDtbers persons which were not the Rings own

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