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 ======Charter of the Forest - 1225======
 Reissue, with minor amends, of **carta de foresta**, 6 November 1217.\\
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 CAP. 12.\\
 How a Freeman may use his Land in the Forest.\\
-Every freeman from henceforth, without danger shall make in his own wood, or on his land, or on his water, which he has within our forest, mills, springs, pools, marlpits, dykes, or earable ground, without enclosing that earable ground, so that it be not to the annoyance of any of his neighbours.\\
+Every freeman from henceforth, without danger shall make in his own wood, or on his land, or on his water, which he has within our forest, mills, springs, pools, marlpits, dykes, or earable ground, without enclosing that earable((arable, tillable)) ground, so that it be not to the annoyance of any of his neighbours.\\
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 CAP. 13.\\
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 CAP. 14.\\
 Who may take Chimmage or Toll in a Forest, for what Cause, and how much.\\
-No forester from henceforth, which is not forester in fee, paying to us farm for his bailiwick, shall take any chimmage or toll within bailiwick; but a forester in fee, paying us farm for his bailiwick, shall take chimmage; that is to say, for carriage by cart the half-year 2 pence, and for another half-year 2 pence, for an horse that beareth loads, every half-year, an half-penny, and by another half-year half a penny; and but of those only that come as merchants through his bailiwick by licence to buy bushes, timber, bark, coal and to sell it again at their pleasure; but for none other carriage by cart chimmage shall be taken; nor chimmage shall not be taken, but in such places only where it used to be. Those which bear upon their backs brushment, bark, or coal to sell, though it be their living, shall pay no chimmage to our foresters, except they take it within our demesne woods.\\
+No forester from henceforth, which is not forester in fee, paying to us farm for his bailiwick, shall take any chimmage or toll within bailiwick; but a forester in fee, paying us farm for his bailiwick((the district or jurisdiction of a bailie or bailiff.)), shall take chimmage; that is to say, for carriage by cart the half-year 2 pence, and for another half-year 2 pence, for an horse that beareth loads, every half-year, an half-penny, and by another half-year half a penny; and but of those only that come as merchants through his bailiwick by licence to buy bushes, timber, bark, coal and to sell it again at their pleasure; but for none other carriage by cart chimmage shall be taken; nor chimmage shall not be taken, but in such places only where it used to be. Those which bear upon their backs brushment, bark, or coal to sell, though it be their living, shall pay no chimmage to our foresters, except they take it within our demesne woods.\\
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 Witness Edward our son at Westminster the 12th day of October in the 25th year of our reign.\\
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+On 6 November 2017, on the 800th anniversary of the 1217 Charter of the Forest, the new [[https://treecharter.uk/|Charter for Trees, Woods and People]] was launched at Lincoln Castle – home to one of the two remaining 1217 Charters of the Forest. It now rests in the Lincolnshire Archives.
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+PDF: [[https://treecharter.uk/pdf/Charter-for-Trees%2CWoods-and-People.pdf|Charter for Trees, Woods and People]]\\
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+Designed, written out and painted by Patricia Lovett MBE, 2017\\
+© 2017 Charter for Trees, Woods and People  -  © The Woodland Trust\\
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