2o6 DUFFIELD FOREST IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 



of the said three wardes into tenn partes or hagges not encopsing 

 the same And after the same so proportioned To begynn with 

 one hagge tliat shall lye at one end or side thereof Topping the 

 bowes of the said hollyns within the said hagge vsiially to be 

 topped at the height they have ben usuallie Topped betwixt 

 the first day of December and the first day of Marche onlie yerlie 

 And letting every of the said toppes lye after it be topped one 

 monethe at the least for the cattaill of her Majesties tenantes to 

 browse uppon the leaffe and barke of the saide toppes Per- 

 mitting also any of her Majesties tenantes commoners within the 

 said ward to topp any of the hollyns within the saide hagge of 

 the said warde that yere by her said Tenantes appointed to be 

 topped at any time betwixt the said ffirst day of December and 

 the said first day of Marche yerlie The said Tenantes com- 

 moners letting the said Toppwood lye for the browse of their 

 cattaill onlie And the wood thereof to remayne to him to 

 whome her Majestie shall demise the said Toppwood which 

 order of Topping of the saide hollyns we have thought in favour 

 of her Majesties tenantes and copyholders there convenient to 

 advertise and certifie that it is requisite for the Tenante that 

 shalbe of the saide woodd to obserue in his said graunt, because 

 we do finde the browse thereof to be a great relieff for the Quenes 

 Majesties tenantes and Inhabitants of the said frieth for cattaill 

 And in like maner to deale withall maner other vnderwood 

 standing within the saide hagge that yere appointed to be topped 

 Saving that there is to be allowed and felled onlie by her 

 Majesties tenantes and copyholders out of the Toppes of the 

 said vnderwood that yere to be topped except hollyns Suche 

 reasonable hedgeboot for their ancient hedges boundinge upon 

 the same as they have vsuallie had by the view of the wood- 

 wardes of the saide woodes Or as shalbe by a furder inquiry or 

 Survey found that they have customablie had and convenient to 

 be enioyed All which other underwoods to be topped above 

 the height or reache of ordinary beastes for destroying the spring 

 of the hedd there And so the next yere to procede with the 

 next hagge to the same adjoyning And in like order to go 



