567 In Words and Phrases Legally Defined, Vol. 2, p. 269, `forest ' means: "A certain territorie of woody grounds and fruitful pastures, privileged for wilde beasts and foules of forest, chase and warren, to rest and abide in, in the safe protection of the King, for his princely delight and pleasure, which territorie of ground, so privileged, is meered and bounded with unremovable marks, meeres, and boundaries, either known by matter of record, or else by prescription, and also replenished with wilde beasts of vererie or chase, and with great coverts of vert (i.e. green leaved trees, bushes, etc.) for the succour of the said wilde beasts, to have their abode in: for the preservation and continuance of which said place, together with the vert and venison, there are certain particular laws, privileges, and officers belonging to the same, meete for that purpose, that are only proper unto a forest, any not to any other place.