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brothers, so that both of them remained as if serving for his part : 

 and this was permitted in those times on account of their valour, 

 and their good keeping of the forest. And each of them was 

 accustomed to have all the aforesaid for his bailiwick, and the 

 said Adam and Thomas claim the same. And the said Thomas 

 is now under age, and in the custody of Thomas de Gretton, who 

 has charge of him by the year. 



John le Wolfhonte and the aforesaid Thomas, son of 

 Thomas Foleiaumbe, hold one bovate of land, which formerly 

 was one serjeanty assigned for the taking of wolves in the forest, 

 and was divided in ancient times, so that each of them holds half 

 a bovate, viz., the aforesaid John holds his part by hereditary 

 descent ; and a certain Hugh de Merhawe, who formerly held the 

 other part, gave the same to a daughter of his named Katherine, 

 who afterwards sold her part to Thomas Foleiaumb. 



And it was asked, what rights pertain to that service ? They 

 said none, except the land ; but that each year, viz., in March and 

 September, they ought to go through the middle of the forest to 

 place pitch * (or pitchy matter) to take the wolves in the places 

 they frequented, because that at those times the wolves are not 

 able to smell the dug land so well as at other times of the year. 

 They also went in the forest in dry summers at the Feast of S. 

 Barnabas, when the wolves had whelps [catulos), to take and 

 destroy them, and at no other times, and then they had with them 

 a servant to carry their traps {i/igenia), and all were sworn, and 

 carried a hatchet and a lance with a cutlass or hunting knife 

 attached to their girdle, but neither bow nor arrows. And they 

 had with therh a mastiff, not lawed, and trained to this work. 

 They were at their own charges, and did nothing else in the 

 forest. 



William Forester of Trayock holds a bovate for the custody 

 of Trayock. Nothing has been alienated, and he has nothing for 

 the custody of his bailiwick except his land. 



* " Ad ponendam pegas ad lupos capiend'. " 



" Pega = Pix, picea materia ;" vide Da Cange. 



