shall be lawful to any of the King's Subjects,Any Person having Five Marks of Freeheld may seise the Swans forfeited. having Lands or Tenements to the said Value, to seise the said Swans as forfeit; whereof the King shall have one Half, and he that shall seise the other Half.'
CAP. VII.
An Act for inclosing of Woods in Forests, Chases, and Purlieus.
[1]"ITEM our said Lord the King, considering that divers Subjects having Woods growing in their own Ground within the Forest of Rokingham, and other Forests and Chafes within his Realm of England, or Purlews of the same, which have cut their said Wood, because the same Subjects might not before time cut nor inclose their said Ground, to save the young Spring of their Wood so cut, any longer Time than for Three Years, (2) the same young Spring hath been in Times past, and daily is destroyed with Beasts and Cattle of the same Forest, Chases, and Purlews, to the great Hindrance, as well of his said Subjects, [2] as of his Deer, Vert, and Venison in their Cosert, and otherwise likely to be the Destruction of the same Forests, Chases, and Purlews ;" Woods felled in Forest or Purlew may be inclosed and kept seven years.[3]'(3) by the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem- poral, and the Commons, in the said Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, doth ordain, establish, and enact. That if any of his Subjects, having Woods of his own growing in his own Ground, within any Forest, Chase, or Purlew of the same, within this Realm of England, from the First Day of this Parliament, shall cut, or cause to be cut the same Wood, or Part thereof, by Licence of the King, or of his Heirs, in his Forests, Chases, or Purlews, or without Licence in the Forest, Chase, or Purlew of any other Person, or make any Sale of the same Wood ; it shall be lawful to the same Subjects, Owners of the same Ground whereupon the Wood so cut did grow, and to other such Persons to whom such Wood shall happen to be sold, immediately after the Wood so cut, to cope and inclose the same Ground with sufficient Hedges, able to keep out all Manner of Beasts and Cattle forth of the same Ground, for the preserving of their young Spring; (4) and the same Hedges so made, the said Subjects may keep them continually by the Space of Seven Years next after the same inclosing, and repair and sustain the fame as often as shall need within the same Seven Years, without suing of any other Licence of him, or of his Heirs, or other Persons, or any of their Officers of the same Forest, Chases, and Purlews."
CAP. VIII.
An Act for the Town of Berwick.
P.R.
The freemen of berwick shall have to ferm the Fishing there.
