(12) Every freeman for the future may freely make in his own woods or in any land he has in the forest, mills, places for live stock, ponds, limepits, ditches, or ploughland outside the covert on the arable land, provided it be not to the hurt of any neighbour. (13) Every person may have in his woods eyries for hawks, sparrows, falcons, and eagles, and heronries; he may likewise have any honey he finds in his woods. (14) Henceforth, no forester who is not a forester of fee[9] paying us a ferm for his office, shall take any cheminage[10] in his bailiwick; but a forester of fee paying us a ferm for his office may take cheminage as follows:--for every cart, twopence per half year; for a horse bearing a burden, one halfpenny per half year; and only from those such as merchants, who come from outside his bailiwick into his bailiwick by his licence to buy brushwood, timber, bark, or coal, and to take and sell these articles in another place; and from no other load shall any cheminage be taken; nor shall cheminage be taken except in accustomed and due places. Those who carry on their backs brushwood, bark, or coal, to sell, although by this they make a living, shall pay no cheminage. Cheminage shall not be taken by our foresters save in our demesne woods. (15) All outlaws for forest offences, from the time of King Henry our grandfather up to the time of our first coronation, may come freely into our peace, and find pledges that for the future they transgress not our forest laws. (16) No castellan or any other shall hold forest pleas, whether of venison or of vert, but every forester of fee may attach forest pleas both of venison and of vert, and present them to the verderers of the district, and when they have been enrolled and enclosed under the seals of the verderers, they shall be presented to the chief forester when he comes into these parts to hold the pleas of the forest, and before him they shall be determined.... Given at Saint Paul's, London, on the sixth day of November, in the second year of our reign. [1] Right of pasture. [2] Encroachments. [3] Clearings made by cutting down trees. [4] "The chapters of the reguard" concerned all encroachments on the royal rights. [5] Admit cattle for a defined time into the woods. [6] Officials who made preliminary inquiry into forest offences. [7] "Venison" covered the taking of game; "vert" destruction of woods, etc. [8] Payment made for the liberty of pasturing swine. [9] A forester who held his office on condition of feudal homage. [10] Toll for liberty of passage through a forest. CONCERNING A WRESTLING-MATCH AND DISTURBANCES IN THE CITY OF LONDON (1223). +Source.+--_Annals of Dunstable_, pp. 78-79. (_Annales Monastici_, vol. iii.--Rolls Series.)