Historical Inquiries Concerning Forests And Forest Laws With Topographical Remarks Upon The Ancient And Modern State Of The New Forest

Author : Exum Percival Lewis
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230165769
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Historical Inquiries, Concerning Forests and Forest Laws; with Topographical Remarks, Upon the Ancient and Modern State of the New Forest, in the Coun written by Exum Percival Lewis and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 edition. Excerpt: ...commonable and what not, is also ascertained by this act. f Coke's Inst. p. 319. The names of the " Four men and the Reeve of every town" are specially noticed in the proceedings of tbe Swainmote held in 1662.--Vide secund Appendix. 9th and 10th of William III. Appendix I. " Any horses, or other cattle, as shall be found trespassing " in the New Forest, from and after the 11th of November, " and until the 23d of April following," (. e. the time of Winter Heyning, New Style, ) " shall be impounded, and if not " owned, and the damage and expense of driving and im" pounding paid within five days after such horses or cattle " shall have been impounded, the same shall be deemed for" feited." I am not aware of any law now in existence which justifies such a forfeiture, and in such manner; nor, do I conceive, that any impounding of cattle in this Forest, unaccompanied by those formalities which are specially directed by the statutes of Henry VIII. and William III. is either legal or constitutional. It is true, the act of Henry VIII. alters the then existing laws of the Forest, and authorizes the making of drifts " at any other " season, or time, whensoever, and as often as the Forest Offi" cers shall think it meet and convenient;" thereby removing the old restriction, which directed them to be made at only two periods in the year; but the same statute directs, that such drifts shall only be made in the presence of" all the King's offi" cers of attendance in the Forest, and of four men and the " Reeve of every town."+ This latter regulation, therefore, may fairly be contended to be a confirmation of the proceedings which accompanied drifts in former...