2 04 DUFFIELD FOREST IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 



and places therof the most sture of underwood is birkes And 

 there are also divers okes where(jf some of them are tymber 

 trees. 



5. — And furder we do fynde by the clayme demaund and con- 

 fession of the saide Tenantes and officers That the woodes within 

 the saide wardes have ben thus vsed by Her Majesty's Tenantes 

 and Copyholders bordering upon the same have vsed to have 

 every thirde yere reasonable hedgeboote to hedge those partes 

 of their comon come fieldes that do abutt upon the saide woodes 

 or waste groundes And further that they have used in winter 

 yerly to cropp browse or topp of the hoUyns and of some other 

 of the saide vnderwoods groweing within the said wardes by a 

 good quantity yerly for browse and relieff of the Queue's game 

 when there were deare there and the Tenantes for their Cattaill 

 and shepe for which cropping and relieff for their cattaill and 

 shape they are yerly amerced, having regard to the quantity, that 

 is yerly so cropped Which wood notwithstanding so cropped 

 browsed and topped The collectors have used towards the latter 

 end of winter to view and deviding the same into parcells to sett 

 unto the Queues Majesties use to her Tenantes aforesaid as he 

 and they could agree for fierwood accompting fox the same at 

 her Majesties Auditt at Tudbery And that all borderers and 

 straungers not being Tenantes taking away any of the saide 

 woodes or Tenantes taking away any without the sale of the 

 saide Collectors are for the same amerced in her Majesties 

 Courtes of Duffield called Woodmotes. 



And furder we do finde as aforesaide That all the Alders within 

 the saide Wardes have ben felled and s(jld by the ground to her 

 Majesties use of late yeares And that all her Majesties Tenantes 

 of Duffild Eellparr, Makely, Hasselwood, Windell and Turne- 

 ditche, Howbroke and Southwood Holland Ideridghey Byggin 

 Ireton wood Bellparr Hiege, and other houses within the precinct 

 of the saide Duffild frith do clayme and use comon of pasture for 

 their shepe and all other cattaill within and thorow out the 

 common soyle of all the said wardes namely those chiefly in 

 eche of them which do abutt and boundes vpon the same 



