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Rh ſummons, unleſs they be in ſuit themſelves, or bail for others who are attached for the foreſt.

will not make ſheriffs, juſtices, nor bailiffs, but of ſuch as know the law of the land, and will keep it.

that have founded abbies, whereof they have charters from the Kings of England, or antient tenure, ſhall have the cuſtody thereof whilſt they are vacant, as they ought to have.

the foreſts that have bean afforeſted in our time, ſhall inſtantly be diſafforefted, in like manner be it of rivers, that in our time and by us have been put in defence.

evil cuſtoms of foreſts and warrens, and of foreſters and warrenners of ſheriffs and their miniſters, of rivers and of guarding them, ſhall forthwith be inquired of in every county, by twelve knights ſworn of the ſame county, who muſt be choſen by the good men of the ſame county. And within forty days after they have made ſuch inquiſition, the ſaid evil cuſtoms ſhall be utterly aboliſhed by thoſe ſame knights, ſo as never