(16) No castellan or any other shall hold forest pleas, whether of venison or of vert, but every forester of fee may attach forest pleas both of venison and of vert, and present them to the verderers of the district, and when they have been enrolled and enclosed under the seals of the verderers, they shall be presented to the chief forester when he comes into these parts to hold the pleas of the forest, and before him they shall be determined....
Given at Saint Paul's, London, on the sixth day of November, in the second year of our reign.
[1] Right of pasture.
[2] Encroachments.
[3] Clearings made by cutting down trees.
[4] "The chapters of the reguard" concerned all encroachments on the royal rights.
[5] Admit cattle for a defined time into the woods.
[6] Officials who made preliminary inquiry into forest offences.
[7] "Venison" covered the taking of game; "vert" destruction of woods, etc.
[8] Payment made for the liberty of pasturing swine.