WHereas information hath been given to the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, hat divers leud and disordered persons since the sitting of this Parliament, have in great assemblies, and in a riotous manner, unlawful­ly chased, killed, and destroyed many of his Majesties Deere within his For­rests of Windsor, and Waltham, according to the knowne bounds, as now they are limited and set out by vertue of the late Act of Parliament. And that they together with divers other the like persons doe threaten and give out, that they intend to commit the like outrages in other His Maiesties Forrest, Chases, and Parkes, presuming with their num­bers, multitudes and menaces, to terrifie and disable His Maiesties Officers of his Forrests, Chases, and Parkes, from doing their respective duties by apprehending their bodies, or o­therwise bringing them to condigne punishment for such their misdoings, according to the Lawes of the Forrests; which offences committed with force and violence (as scandalous to the publique justice of the Kingdome if not punished, and dangerous for the future) un­lesse they be timely prevented, are at no time, (much lesse sitting the Parliament) to be suf­fered. The Lords and Commons therefore taking the premises into their consideration, and finding that by the Forrest lawes, and other the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme, there is already full prov [...]sion made for the preventing, removing, and punishing of all attempts and offences of this kind. And in case the Officers of the Forrests by reason of the great num­bers of offendours, by arresting of their persons, or otherwise, be not able to suppresse them, for the present, That by the Statutes made 13 Hen. 4 cap. 7: and 2. H. 5. cap. 8. and other the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme, the Sheriffe and under-Sheriffe, and any two Iustices of the Peace in the County where such, or any riots are committed, ought to doe it, and have sufficient power and authority so to doe, as likewise for the punishment of offendors: And that in this case nothing is wanting but onely the care and diligence of the Officers in putting of those Lawes in execution which is hereby required aswell for the punishment of what is past since the sitting of this Parliament, as for prevention of the like in the time to come. And they doe further declare, that in case any just complaints of this nature shall hereafter be made unto them, that they will use all just meanes, that the penalties of those Lawes may be fully put in execution against the respective Officers that shall be found neg­ligent therein, as the best meanes they can think of for the prevention of such offences, and the severall officers of His Maiesties Forrests, Chases, and Parkes are hereby required to publish this Order in the severall Parishes where these Forrests, Chases, and Parks do lie.