Law of King Canute A. D. 1016-1035. Secular Dooms, Cap. 81.
“Cap. 81. And I will that every man be entitled to his hunting in wood and in field, on his own possession. And let every one forego my hunting: take notice where I will have it untrespassed on, under penalty of the full 'wite.'”
William Stubbs, ed., Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Edward the First (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1900), 74. Part 2—Extracts Illustrative of the Early Polity of the English, Canute, Secular Dooms, Cap. 81. Promulgated circa 1016-1035.