THE AREA OF EPPING FOREST FOR FAUNISTIC PURPOSES. 1 5 



and so passins^ over the Frythie, at a place called the Shire Lake to the marsh 

 called Hookes Marsh, including within the Forest aforesaid all those marshes 

 called Hookes Marsh and Normarsh, and so going by the river of Lee, likewise 

 including all that great marsh called Waltham Great Marsh, and so passing over 

 the ditch there to the bridge called Smalley BriJge, extending to the side of the 

 same bridge downwards by the ditch or brook flowing to the right of the King's 

 highwa}', leading to Waltham Abbey unto Coldhall, and immediatel}- beyond 

 Coldhall, turning by the ditch or brook which divides the counties of Essex and 

 Hertford to the river there, including within the Forest aforesaid all that meadow 

 or marsh called Canwardes, and from thence to a certain place called Cobbing 

 Mouth, and from tiience by the river aforesaid of Lee to a meadow called 

 Spencer's Meade, and so going along by the river aforesaid to Syward Stoneford, 

 and from thence going over the marsh called Ware Marsh to a ditch called 

 Marditch, and so going along by Marditch unto the river of Lee aforesaid, and 

 from thence by the river aforesaid unto Broadmeade, in the parish of Waltham- 

 stow, and from thence by the river aforesaid to the bridge called Lockbridge, 

 now broken up, where now for passage is used as a ferry, and from thence by the 

 same river of Lee to the first-named bridge of Stratford Bow, commoni}' known 

 by the name of Bow Bridge. 



"And the jurors aforesaid, further sa)' upon their oath aforesaid, that the Forest 

 of the said Lord the King of Waltham, otherwise called the Forest of the Lord 

 the King of Essex, in the aforesaid county of Essex, did extend itself in the said 

 20th year of the reign of the late King James of England, &c., as above b}^ the 

 aforesaid meares, metes, bounds, and limits, it is divided and expressed, and not 

 beyond, and that the aforesaid meares, metes, bounds, and limits of the Forest 

 aforesaid, above mentioned, and expressed in the said 20th year of the late King 

 James of England, &;., were, and were commonly known and reputed, the true 

 and certain terminations, metes, bounds, and limits within which the Forest 

 aforesaid was terminated, bounded, and limited, and other more ample or larger 

 meares, metes, bounds, and limits of the Forest aforesaid, in the said 20th j-ear of 

 the late King James of England, &c. The Forest aforesaid had not as to the 

 jurors aforesaid, in anywise could appear. 



" And the jurors aforesaid, further say upon their oath, that in the hundred of 

 Becoatree aforesaid, in the aforesaid 20th year of the late King James of England, 

 &.C., there remained wholly within the Forest aforesaid, the towns of Wanstead, 

 Leighton, Walthamstow, and Woodford, and that the towns of Stratford, ^^'est- 

 ham, Eastham, Ilford Parva, Ilford Magna, Barking and Dagenham, in the 

 hundred of Becontree aforesaid, at that time partly remained out of the Forest 

 aforesaid (that is to saj-), all the lands, woods, and hereditaments of the same 

 towns as lie to the right of the King's highway aforesaid, leading from the bridge 

 of Stratford-le-Bow aforesaid, towards Rumford aforesaid, and partly at that time 

 remained within the Forest aforesaid (viz.), all and singular the lands, woods, 

 and hereditaments of the towns aforesaid, to the left of the King's highway 

 aforesaid, as above by the metes and bounds they are divided, and that in the 

 aforesaid 20th j-ear of the said Lord King James of England, &c., the liberties of 

 Havering-att-Bower, in the county aforesaid, and the park there, commonly 

 called Havering Park, together with all other lands, tenements, woods, and 

 hereditaments, in Hornchurch, Rumford, and Haveringe, in the said county of 

 Ess^x, and in other parishes, and members appendant to the said libert}- of 

 Havering remained wholh' out of the Forest aforesaid ; and that in the same 



