FOr that great numbers of Deere both Red and Fallow, haue beene destroyed by the last great Frost and Snow, and those that remaine and haue escaped the hardnesse of weather, haue beene so weakened and surfeited by the extremitie of colde, so as they will hardly hold out this next Winter; And therfore all good meanes is to be vsed to preserue and susteine them; whereof one principall is, that pawnage be not consumed and taken from them, nor that there be any surcharge or other wronging of the grounds, which may scant them of their feede: We doe therefore straightly charge and command, that all the Lawes and Ordinances of the Forrest, concerning the restraint of Swine, and the ringing of them according to the Customes of the Forrest, bee striefly obserued and put in execution, in all Our Forrests, Chases and Parkes whatsoeuer; Willing and commanding Our Iustices in Eyre on both sides Trent, Lieutenants, Rangers, Fosters, Verderours and Keepers, that they take care to see this Our Royall Commandement duely executed, and all other Our Subiects likewise to take notice of the same, That they doe not offend therein; vpon paine vnto Our sayd Officers of losse of Office, and to euery Offendour, of Imprisonment, and other punishment according to Our Lawes in that behalfe.

Giuen at Theobalds, the sixteenth day of September, in the thirteenth yeereof Our Raigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the nine and fourtieth.

God saue the King.