ANENT A FOREST LODGE IN I444. I45 



names of scientific chemists who are at work at different manu- 

 factories, with tlie view of ascertaining the extent to which 

 trained chemists are employed in British industries. 



It will be seen from the foregoing sketch that the meeting 

 of the Delegates at Glasgow led to certain definite results, which 

 it is hoped may tend to improve the work of some of our local 

 scientific societies. 



ANENT A FOREST LODGE IN 1444. 



By W. C. WALLER, M.A., F.S.A. 



On several occasions short articles on the Forest Lodges 

 have appeared in the Essex Naturalist, and when, a short time 

 ago, an ancient docuiuent referring to one of them chanced to 

 pass through my hands, it occurred to me that it might most 

 conveniently make a public appearance in the pages of the same 

 serial.' 



It so happened that Mr. St. Clair Baddeley, a prominent 

 member of the Bath and Cheltenham Archaeological Society, in 

 examining some ancient MSS. belonging to a Gloucestershire 

 neighbour, Mr. Hyett, came upon a small, stout volume, in a 

 15th century hand, which seemed, on a cursory examination, 

 likely to prove serviceable for Essex history : and with that in view 

 lie courteously and most kindly opened communications with an 

 official of the county society. When the book ultimately came to 

 me for examination I found that, so far as Essex was concerned, 

 its contents, as a whole, failed to bear out the rich promise of its 

 earlier pages. The first of these — it had no title page — proved 

 10 be the beginning of a copy of the Perambulation of the Forest 

 of Essex made in 1301, of which a translation is given in Mr. 

 W. R. Fisher's Forest of Essex. One or two other documents of 

 like nature, relating to parts of the same Forest, followed, and 

 then the volume gradually revealed itself as a handbook of legal 

 practice, precedents, and formulae, some manorial and some 

 forestal. Of these latter a few were interesting, as furnishing 

 details of procedure, and that of which I am about to give an 

 English version, relates to Essex. Whether or no the original 

 document provided the initial stage ia the erection of wliat is to- 



I Essex Naturalist, vi., znd ; vii , 82; ix., 16O ; xi. 153. 



