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100 A Forrest moues not. = 'I suppose Trains means,
"It is in vain to tell him of venison and pheasant, the right
to the bucks in a whole forest will not move him. "'--C.

=2. 8. 100 that forty pound. = See 3. 3. 148.

=2. 8. 102 your bond Of Sixe; and Statute of eight
hundred! = I. e. , of six, and eight hundred pounds.
'Statutes
merchant, statutes staple, and recognizances in the nature of
a statute staple were acknowledgements of debt made in writing
before officers appointed for that purpose, and enrolled of
record. They bound the lands of the debtor; and execution
was awarded upon them upon default in payment without the
ordinary process of an action. These securities were originally
introduced for the encouragement of trade, by providing a sure
and speedy remedy for the recovery of debts between merchants,
and afterwards became common assurances, but have now become
obsolete. '--S. M. Leake, _Law of Contracts_, p. 95.

Two of Pecunia's attendants in _The Staple of News_ are
_Statute_ and _Band_ (i. e. Bond, see _U. _ 34).
The two words are often mentioned together. In Dekker's
_Bankrouts Banquet_ (_Non-dram. Wks. _ 3. 371)
statutes are served up to the bankrupts.