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20th year, commonly known to have been as followeih (that is to say) : The 

 said meares, metes, bounds, and limits of the said Forest began on the same 20th 

 year, at the Bridtje of Stratford, called the Bow, under which runs the River Lee> 

 and so going into the hundred of Becontree, by the King's highway unto Great 

 Ilford^ [and from Great Ilford direct by the same King's highway leading 

 towards Rumford, unto a certain four ways, called the 'four Wonts,' where there 

 was lately placed, and as yet remains, a certain rib of a whale called the whale- 

 bone, at which said four ways one way thereof leads on the south side towards 

 Dagenham, and the other way thereof on the north part towards Collier Row, 

 and so going straight from the four ways aforesaid, in and by the aforesaid 

 King's highway, leading towards Rumford aforesaid unto a certain lane called 

 Beanies Land-lane, at the head of which lane is now placed and erected a certain 

 stone or mear stone, sculptured and named Havering Stone, and so going in the 

 lane aforesaid, between certain lands called Beanes Land on the left unto certain 

 other lands called Twenty Acres, parcel of the demesne lands of the Manor of 

 Markes, and so returning in the lane aforesaid, between the aforesaid land called 

 Beanes Land on the south part, and the aforesaid other lands called Twenty 

 Acres on the north part, unto and in the aforesaid way leading from the four wayes 

 aforesaid towards Collier Row aforesaid, and so going in the aforesaid way leading 

 from the aforesaid four ways towards Collier Row aforesaid, by and near the site of 

 mansion house of the said Manor of Markes, to a certain elm tree marked with a 

 cross growing on the right of the same way, where there is now a certain gate lead- 

 ing from the aforesaid way into a certain warren called Marks Warren, at which gate 

 there is now put and erected a certain other stone or mear stone sculptured and 

 named Marks Stone, and from thence going to the warren aforesaid, directly 

 towards the east by the bounds dividing the said parish of Dagenham from the 

 liberty of Havering-att-Bawer, unto a certain corner in the same warren where 

 there is now put and erected a certain other stone or meer stone, sculptured and 

 named Warren Stone, and from thence by the aforesaid bounds dividing the 

 same parish of Dagenham from the libert}^ of Havering aforesaid unto Collier 

 Row aforesaid, at a certain place there near the messuage called Captions, where 

 is now put and erected a certain other stone or mear stone sculptured and named 

 Collier Row Stone, and from thence downwards by the said metes and bounds 

 dividing the parish of Dagenham aforesaid from the liberty of Havering-att- 

 Bower aforesaid unto the west corner of the park of the said Lord the King 

 called Havering Parke, at which west corner commonly called Havering Park 

 Corner, a certain other stone or mear stone is now put and erected, sculptured 

 and named Park Corner Stone, and from the aforesaid stone or mear stone called 

 Park Corner Stone, the meares, metes, bounds, and limits of the Forest aforesaid 

 further extend themselves, and in the same 20th year of the said late King James 

 of England, &c., did extend themselves and were known to extend themselves by 

 the pales and sides of the park aforesaid called Havering Park unto a certain 

 brooke called and commonly known by the name of Bourne Brooke, and from 

 thence going by the banks of the same brooke unto the house of a certain Robert 

 Makin, in the parish of Naverstock, near which house another stone or mear 

 stone is now put and erected, sculptured and named Naverstock Stone, and from 

 thence turning to the right (leaving behind the aforesaid house), by the hedge 

 and sides of a certain common, called Naverstock Common, direct to the gate, 



I The words within square brackets [ ] from this point to the words " from thence to the 

 river of Roden " on page 14, define the area of the beautiful Hainaull Forest, grubbed up in the 

 dark ages of the '50's. 



