Dean Forest Act 1667

V. Recital that the Forest Laws are beneficial.

The said inclosed Lands, and all other the said Waste Lands, re-afforested.; Election of Officers to be made and continued.

And forasmuch as by former experience it hath been found that nothing did more conduce to the raising increase and preservation of Timber and Wood within the said Wastes then the execution of the Forrest Laws whilst the said Wastes were afforrested and kept under the reguard of the Forrest Be it therefore further enacted and declared by the authority aforesaid That aswell the said Eleven thousand Acres so to be inclosed as all other the Waste Lands aforesaid shall be and are hereby reafforrested and shall from henceforth be governed by Forrest Law and put under the reguard of the Forrest to the same effect and in the same manner to all intents and purposes as the same were in the Tenth yeare of the Reigne of the late King Charles of blessed memory And that all Articles or Agreements and all Grants and Charters made since the Tenth yeare of the Reigne of the late King Charles for or concerning the disafforresting the Three and twenty thousand Acres aforesaid or any part thereof and all the matters clauses and things therein contained relating to such disafforrestation shall be henceforth void so that the said Wastes and p[re]misses shall be for ever henceforth deemed and adjudged to be Forrest and to that end that new Elections shall be made for the and from time to time continued of all Verderors Reguarders and other Officers of and for the governing of the said Forrest according to the Forrest Law in that behalfe