Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Now will we staie the proceedings of the king of France at this time, and make no further relation thereof for a while, till we haue touched other things that happened in England at the same season. And first ye shall vnderstand, that Hugh Bardolfe, Ro|ger Arundell, and Geffrey Hachet, to whom as iu|stices, the counties of Lincolne, Notingham, Yorke, Derbie, Northumberland, Westmerland, Cumber|land, and Lancaster were appointed for circuits, held not onelie plées of assises, and of the crowne, but al|so tooke inquisitions of escheats,Inquisitions taken. and forfaitures of all maner of transgressions, and of donations of be|nefices, of marriages of widowes and maids, and other such like things as apperteined to the king, whereby any aduantages grew to his vse, the which for tediousnesse we passe ouer. These things were streightlie looked vnto, not without the disquieting of manie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herewith came an other trouble in the necke of this former, to diuerse persons within the realme, through inquiries taken by the iustices of the for|rests: for Hugh Neuill, Hugh Waley, and Heruisi|us Neuill, appointed iustices itinerants in that case, were commanded by the king to call before them archbishops, bishops, earles, barons, knights, and fréeholders, with the reeue, and foure of the substan|tiall men of euerie towne or village,Ordinances of forrests. to heare and take knowledge of the kings commandement, tou|ching the ordinances of forrests, the which were ve|rie straight in sundrie points, so that whereas before those that offended in killing of the kings deere were punished by the purse, now they should lose their eies and genitals, as the lawe was in the daies of king Henrie his grandfather: and those that offended in cutting downe woods or bushes, or in digging and deluing vp of turues and clods, or by any other ma|ner of waie made waste and destruction in woods or grasse, or spoile of venison, within the precinct of the forrests, contrarie to order, they should be put to their [...]ines.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 He gaue commandement also, that it should be lawfull to the forresters to take and put vnder arrest,Préests to be arrested offen|ding in for|rests. as well préests and those of the cleargie, as temporall men, being found offenders in forrest grounds and chases. Manie other ordinances were decréed tou|ching the preseruation of forrests, and the kings pre|rogatiue, EEBO page image 154 aduantages and profits rising and grow|ing by the same, as well for sauing of his woods and wasts, as in pannage and agistements, greatlie to the restraint of them that might vsurpe or incroch vpon the grounds within the compasse of his for|rests.