WHereas We are informed, that there are sundry that vnder pretence of their Offices do challenge to haue Fee Deere both in Summer and Winter out of Our Forrests, Chaces and Parkes, and vpon that pretext not grounded in Law, they send their Warrants, as if Deere were due to them; For that We are satisfied by Our learned Counsell and otherwise, that there is no such right belonging to any Subiect, but onely to our who Iusti­ces of Oyer and Terminer of Our Forrests, the one on this side Trent, and the other beyond: Therfore We do straightly charge and command, aswell that no person doe presume to send any Warrant vnto any Our Forrests, Chaces and Parkes, vp­on pretence of any such right, as all Lieutenants, Wardens or other Officers of Our For­rests, Chaces and Parkes, that they serue no Warrants of any, but onely of Our said Iustices of Our Forrests, Chaces and Parkes, and of such as haue right by being Lieutenants or ether principall Officers of the Forrests, which of right haue it by the allowance of the Iustices of Our Forrests, according to the Law of the Forrest. And if any shall either send or serue con­trary to this Our Declaration of Our pleasure, We shall, as We haue cause, make them feele Our displeasure.

Giuen at Our Pallace of Westminster the eighteenth day of Ianuary, in the fourteenth yeere of Our Raigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.

God saue the King.