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THE FOREST.
THE institution of the Forest, established by the Norman
kings and maintained by the Plantagenets, has strong
claims on the attention of the historian. Not
only, as an institution very characteristic of
the times, does it throw valuable light on
certain features of mediæval society, law, and adminis-
tration; but the fact of its existence led to important
results in the constitutional crises of the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries. One may regard the Forest as a
melancholy and decisive witness to the brutality of the
Norman Conquest, as an illustration of the despotic
authority of the Norman and Angevin kings, as a cause
of the hostility of the barons and higher clergy towards
the crown, or as a ground for the hatred felt by the
people towards the king's officers. But from every
point of view the Forest is equally worthy of study.

Interest of
the subject

Stubbs did no more than touch upon the subject, and,
as far as we know, the history of the Forest in mediæval
England has never been treated in its entirety on the
general lines which we wish to follow. Our intention is
to set forth the most important of the results that have
been achieved. We have used such printed records --
whether published in full or calendared -- as we have
been able to consult, and several valuable works of
modern scholarship, among which special mention
should be made of Dr. F. Liebermann's critical essay
on the Constitutiones de Foresta ascribed to Cnut, and

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Publication Information: Book Title: Studies and Notes Supplementary to Stubbs' Constitutional History. Contributors: Ch. Petit-Dutaillis - author, Georges Lefebvre - author, Willam Stubbs - author. Publisher: Manchester University Press. Place of Publication: Manchester, England. Publication Year: 1969. Page Number: 147.
    
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