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report states that they did so on June i, and "the same daie at 

 Eppinge, did by the othes of . . . ., twelve substanciall and honest 

 men, neare inhabytinge to the said mannor of Loughton, make 

 inquirie of the same, who, uppon viewe as well made by them of the 

 woodes as by seekinge further to understand of the same . . . have 

 made presentment." 



The presentment, or verdict, consists of detailed answers to five 

 articles of enquiry ; and as they are brief and to the point, we give 

 them as they stand : — 



(i.) (i£U silti that there is a wood uppon the waste soyle of the 

 said mannor called Muncke Wood, containing as it is measured 

 fifty-three acres, sixty-five poles, at twenty-one foote to the pole ; 

 whereof there is waste ground in the same that beareth no wood by 

 estimacion fifteen acres ; which said wood hath been sold to Mr. 

 Wroth, who felled the same. The nature and kind of the woodd so 

 felled was most oke, beach, hornebeame, and birch. The oaken 

 wood was lopte and some shredde, and the other usual wood was 

 most lopte, saving there was felled by the ground of the said usuall 

 wood to the nombre of 500 younge trees. And as we are certifyed 

 by our evidence, it hath byn felled in lyke order before at former 

 sales. The said wood at the time of the fellinge thereof was fifteen 

 years' growthe. 



(ii.) Wit 0ag that there was late felled within the said wood eight 

 timbre trees for making of a pownde at Loughton Hall ; which is 

 informed to be done by warrant from Mr. Chancellor of the Duchy. 

 Of crabtrees and hawthornes, to the number of 618 trees, and two 

 hollies being vert. And as we are informed moste parte of them 

 were dead in the toppe and felled by carters and beaten down on 

 the fall of the wood. 



(iii.) cHe sau that Robert ^^'rothe, Esq., paid for the same wood 

 to the Queen ^20. The charges of felling, &:c., stood him in ^^35 ; 

 and he afterwards sold the said bargaine of wood to Phillip Grenely 

 for ^120, giving him one year and a quarter's daie for paiment of 

 jCgo. And Phillip Grenely saith uppon oath that he got not ^,{^20 by 

 the said bargaine. 



(iv.) oSit say that the verte felled in Muncke Wood aforesaid 

 was felled by the foresaid Phillip Grenely between the Feast of S. 

 Bartholomew and the Feast of S. Michael last past, after Mr. Wrothe 

 had sold the bargain ofwoode to him ; but whether the doing thereof 

 is to be accounted waste or not, we knowe not. 



(v.) (Lite san that the said Munckewoodd hath byn three times 

 sold within the mynde of man : that is, one tynie by the Abbot of 

 Stratford, and twice in the Queene's Majestie's tyme that now is. 



In witness of this our Verdict we have hereunto sett our handes 

 and scales the xii. June, 24 anno R. 



