Note 911 — MAGNA CARTA. (continued 5)

For the earliest notice of verderers see Select Pleas of the Forest, xix., n. Their appointment in the county court may indicate that they acted in some measure as a check on the professional foresters in the interests of the people generally, as well as a check on the warden in the interests of the king. Within the forest the warden, with the verderers and foresters, offered an exact parallel to the sheriff with the coroners and bailiffs (or serjeants) in other parts of a county.