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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...and Exmoor, had been converted into royal forest; and the severe laws for the protection of wild animals were, of course, in operation over the whole county. Accordingly, in the fifth year of King John, the men of Devonshire consented to pay a fine of five thousand marks, on condition that the whole of their county should be disforested, with the exception of the ancient demesnes of Dartmoor and Exmoor. Whether the provisions of this grant were actually carried out until after the first forest charter of Henry III., may reasonably be doubted; but it is quite certain that the fine was paid during the life of John.3 All those woods which had been recently afforested were to become free as before; and it was declared lawful for all men, without the bounds of Dartmoor and Exmoor, to cut down and root up trees, to exercise all kinds of hunting, to keep dogs, to possess bows and arrows, and to make deer leaps. The boundaries of Dartmoor have, from time to time, been determined by numerous perambulations. In whatever manner they were at first appointed, they have varied but little from the time of the first perambulation on record, --that of 1240, the twenty-fourth year of Henry III. Commencing from Cawson, a huge rounded hill in the northern quarter, the bounds proceed ' linealiter, ' by Hound Tor, and the ' great turbary of Alberesheved, ' to King's Oven; where, according to the tradition of the forest, the commissioners rested during the first night of their perambulation; and where the rude stone foundations of a circular building, probably of great antiquity, are still existing.3 From King's Oven the lines run to Dartmeet, whence, passing over Holne i Multis etiam Normanuis, diabolus in borribili specie, se frequenter in silvis ostendens, plura cum


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217517645
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217517641
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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