N----, a prelate and a marshal of France, on commoners caught breaking the game laws or carrying guns.

All four publicly escape punishment." In Artois, a parish makes declaration that "on the lands of the Chattellany the game devours all the avetis (pine saplings) and that the growers of them will be obliged to abandon their business." Not far off; at Rumancourt, at Bellone, "the hares, rabbits and partridges entirely devour them, Count d'Oisy never hunting nor having hunts." In twenty villages in the neighborhood around Oisy where he hunts it is on horseback and across the crops.

"His game-keepers, always armed, have killed several persons under the pretense of watching over their master's rights.

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