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rings, sugar,
pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, wheat, barley, oats, bread, and ale. The
prices required for bread and ale were based on the market price
for the wheat, barley, and oats from which they were made.
The punishment for repeated violations of required measures,
weights, or prices of bread and ale by a baker or brewer; selling
of spoiled or unwholesome wine, meat, fish by brewers, butchers,
or cooks; or a steward or bailiff receiving a bribe was reduced to
placement in a pillory with a shaven head so that these men would
still be fit for military service and not overcrowd the gaols.
Forest penalties were changed so that "No man shall lose either
life or member [limb] for killing of our deer. But if any man be
taken and convicted for taking our venison, he shall make a
grievous fine, if he has anything. And if he has nothing to lose,
he shall be imprisoned for a year and a day. And after that, if he
can find sufficient sureties, he shall be delivered, and, if not,
he shall abjure the realm of England."
The Forest Charter provided that: Every freeman may allow his pigs
to eat in his own wood in the King's forest. He may also drive his
pigs through the King's forest and tarry one night within the
forest without losing any of his pigs. But people having
greyhounds must keep them out of the forest so they don't maim the
deer.
The Forest Charter also allowed magnates traveling through the
King's forest on the King's command to come to him, to kill one or
two deer as long as it was in view of the forester if he was
present, or while having a horn blown, so it did not seem to be
theft.
After a period of civil war, the following statutes were enacted:
"All persons, as well of high as of low estate, shall receive
justice in the King's Court; and none shall take any such revenge
or distress by his own authority, without award of our court,
although he is damaged or injured, whereby he would have amends of
his neighbor either higher or lower." The penalty is a fine
according to the trespass.
A fraudulent conveyance to a minor or lease for a term of years
made to defraud a Lord of a wardship shall be void. A Lord who
maliciously and wrongfully alleges this to a court shall pay
damages and costs.
If a Lord will not render unto an heir his land when he comes of
age or takes possession away from an heir of age or removes
anything from the land, he shall pay damages. (The king retained
the right to take possessio
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