(Reference: E.F. Lincoln's The Medieval Legacy, London, Macgibbon & Kee; c1961.) The "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" stated: "William set aside a vast deer preserve and imposed laws concerning it, so that whoever slew a hart or hind was to be blinded. He forbade the killing of boars, even as the killing of harts, for he loved the tall deer as if he had been their father...The rich complained and the poor lamented, but he was so stern that he cared not though all might hate him." (at 135). William established as forest or game preserve large tracts that embraced villages and wastelands...