(2): The monopoly of hunting.

The Crown also made the law more stringent. The Crown’s insistence on a strict monopoly may not seem an important grievance, but it was one likely to exasperate the sport–loving nobles. John, in 1207, admitted that his barons still retained some share in the hunting of royal beasts. These rights were formally recognized and defined in 1217. Chapter 11 of the Carta de foresta allowed each magnate when passing through a forest to take one or two beasts at sight of the foresters, or, if these officials could not be found, then after blowing a horn to show that nothing underhand was being done.