Note 397 — MAGNA CARTA.

Vivarium in strictness means a place for keeping live-stock, but probably included the animals also. By Coke, in the Statutes at large, and elsewhere, it is translated “warren”; but that word has its Latin form in warrena. Stubbs’ Glossary to Select Charters (p. 551) renders it as “a fish pond,” but stagnum has that meaning. The Statute Westminster II. (c. 47) speaks of stagnum molendinæ (a mill-pond). The Statute of Merton (c. 11) refers to poachers taken in parcis et vivariis; while Westminster I. (c. 1) forbids ne courge en autri parks, ne pesche en autri vivers, which suggests a change of connotation. Cf. ibid., c. 20.