Note 619 — MAGNA CARTA. (continued 3)

See Moore, Ibid., 8–16. Two links in the chain of evidence are worthy of emphasis:—(a) Writs of 13th November and 1st December, 1234, order repair of bridges for the transit of the king “along with his birds” (cum avibus suis). (b) A writ of 28th October, 1283, gives aves capere as the equivalent of riviare. This writ contains a licence to the Earl of Hereford “during the present winter season to riviate and to take river-fowl of this nature (riviare et aves ripariarum hujusmodi capere) throughout the rivers Lowe and Frome which are in defence (in defenso).”