Thread: Taking the Hunt out of Hunting.

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The Forest Laws
The cutting down of trees was forbidden. People in the forest were not allowed to own dogs or a bow and arrow. People were also not allowed to hunt deer and were punished by having their first two fingers cut off so that they could no longer use a bow and arrow. Repeat offenders were blinded. The forest laws were not popular because activities that were allowed on common land in Anglo-Saxon England were made illegal. However, some people still broke the forest laws because they felt they were unfair and they saw them as more of a social crime. Therefore, local communities often didn’t report people who hunted or collected firewood from the forest.