Foresters
group · 1 work · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
foresters · bedellus · forestarii · forestarius · forestarius de feudo · petty officials · the professional foresters
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The foresters, petty forest officials whose exactions upon local inhabitants form a recurring grievance in the passage.
Under his general supervision each forest, or group of forests, was governed by a separate warden, aided by a number of petty officials known as foresters, whose duties were analogous to those of a modern gamekeeper, but with magisterial powers in addition.
while nothing could be taken except at sight of the forester, whose consent would not be procured for nothing.
These unpaid foresters were expressively said to “live upon the country.