[912]. See Carta de Foresta, c. 6.
[913]. After 1217, if not before, it was one of their duties to fix the number of foresters required, so that the inhabitants need not groan under a heavier burden than necessary.
[914]. In one document they were styled agistatores precii (Select Pleas, p. 1.), which suggests that fixing the rate was their chief duty. “Agist” was a general term; it was apparently correct to speak of "agisting a wood”,[wood”,] of “agisting cattle,” and of “agisting the money due.”
[915]. Carta de Foresta, c. 8.
[916]. Select Pleas of the Forest, xxx.
[917]. Select Pleas of the Forest, p. 42.
[918]. Dialogus, I. xi. E.
[919]. It is expressly stated in the Carta de Foresta (1217) that only the verderers and foresters need be present at the June moot, and the same officers, with the agistors, at the two others. The public were specially exempted.
[920]. Select Pleas of the Forest, cix. et seq.
[921]. Ibid., cxvii.