Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John / With an Historical Introduction

by William Sharp McKechnie

[942]. Ibid., article 15.

[943]. See Carta de foresta, c. 2.

[944]. At one time it had evidently been the practice to exact an ox in reparation of such transgression, thus leaving the peasant without the means of tilling his land. The Forest Charter (c. 6) limited the fine to 3s.

[945]. See Select Forest Pleas, p. 4.

[946]. Select Pleas, 50.

[947]. Select Pleas, 126.

[948]. See infra, under c. [47].

[949]. The “assisa et consuetudines forestae,” issued by Edward I. in 1278, although merely declaratory, may have done something towards curtailing the limits of discretionary authority. See Statutes of Realm, I. 243, and Bémont, Chartes, lxv.

[950]. See S. R. Gardiner, Hist. Engl., VII. 363, and VIII. 282.

[951]. 16 Charles I. c. 16.