DUFFIELD FOREST IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 2O3 



and were till of late yeres replenished with game of fallow deare 

 and had divers other officers and ministers of chase as ffost^rs 

 in ffee Bowbearer and suche like. Some of which offices divers 

 gentlemen and others of those partes of that Countrey did clayme 

 to them and their heires in ffee And to have by their grauntes 

 thereof houseboote hedgeboote and fierboote* within the said 

 chase But because the said game is utterlie destroyed and 

 gone we did not call for the sight of any suche their graunts or 

 further presse of the same. 



-• — ^"d as unto the vnderwoods groweing upon the said 

 wastes and woodsoyle therof mentioned in the saide Commission 

 we do finde by our view perambulation confession of the 

 Tenantes and conferens with them and with the saide officers of 

 the saide wardes That within the said Holland Warde there is 

 a great deal of playne grounde and a great quantity of wooddy 

 and bushy ground The estimate of the acres whereof we can- 

 not sett downe because it consisteth chiefiie and is but thinn sett 

 thorow out the saide waste with scrubby hollyns, white thorne, 

 old okes but litle timber some hassill and other vnderwood here 

 and there in Tufts And a good quantitie of alders groweing in 

 sundry plattes. 



3.— Item that there is in Duffild Ward likewise a great deale 

 of playne ground and a great deal also of wood soyle some part 

 wherof is knowen by the name of Chevyn The quantitie of 

 which wood ground by acres we cannot likewise sett downe 

 because it is but thinn sett with wood and yet semeth to have 

 ben better preserved then the former woods consisting chiefiie of 

 the vnderwood of hollyns mapill hassell white thorn and other 

 underwood And there are also many great okes wherof divers of 

 them are tymber. 



4.— Item that there is in Eellparr warde likewise a great deale 

 of playne ground and a great deale also of woodsoyle the 

 quantitie of which woodground by acres we cannot likewise sett 

 downe because it is but thim sett of wood consisting chiefiie of 

 birkes h ollyns and some other underwood but in divers bankes 

 i.e., Wood for buikling, hedging, and fuel. ^ 



