Our forests and woodlands . t rhyme :— You shall true Liege-man be,Unto the Kings Majestie : Unto the Beasts of the Forest you shall no hurt do,Nor to anything that doth belong thereto :The Offences of others you shall not conceal,But, to the utmost of your Power, you shall them revealUnto the Officers of the Forest,Or to them who may see them redrest :All these things you shall see help you God at his Holy Doom. That about the end of the fourteenth centurya good knowledge of woodcraft and forestry wasgeneral throughout the rural population in Eng-land is an inference that can be fairl
Our forests and woodlands . t rhyme :— You shall true Liege-man be,Unto the Kings Majestie : Unto the Beasts of the Forest you shall no hurt do,Nor to anything that doth belong thereto :The Offences of others you shall not conceal,But, to the utmost of your Power, you shall them revealUnto the Officers of the Forest,Or to them who may see them redrest :All these things you shall see help you God at his Holy Doom. That about the end of the fourteenth centurya good knowledge of woodcraft and forestry wasgeneral throughout the rural population in Eng-land is an inference that can be fairly drawn fromChaucers description, in the prologue to the* Canterbury Tales, of the close-cropped, brown- 34 OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS visaged Yeoman in attendance on the youngSquire; for of this typical personage we are toldthat— Of woode-craft wel cowde he al the usage. An horn he bar, the bawdrick was of grene ;A forster was he sothly, as I gesse. CHAPTER II Woods, Forests, & Forestry in Ancient & Modern Times. The Charta de Foresta, passed in 1225 in super-session of the Assize of Woodstock and of thestatute issued eight years before by the Regent,William Marschall, Earl of Pembroke, whichgave confirmation of the great charters of libertywrung from King John, forms, like these, oneof the most famous charters in English history. In addition to the leading provisions, whichhave already been sketched, it regulated the hold-ing of the Swainmote ; it prescribed, with duelimitations, the duties and powers of certainofficers of the forest, and it defined how action should lie with regard to the offences of Pur- 35 36 OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS presture^ Waste^ and Assart. Purprestre^ from theold French Pourpris, a taking for oneself, andenclosing/ was trespass or wrongful encroach-ment by enclosure or usage. Anything in theshape of building, enclosure, or exercising anyliberty or privilege without special warrant todo so was, as Manwood, the great historian ofold English forest
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