A REVIEW OF "the ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND. 1 75 



and a half square miles. From the days of Henrj' I. it was 

 divided into three districts — Campana on the south and south- 

 west, Longdendale on the north and north-west, and Hopedale 

 on the east. 



The bounds of the Forest, as set forth in the forest pleas held 1286, 

 were as follows, given in an English dress: — 



The metes and bounds of the Forest of the Peak begin on the 

 south at the New Place of Govt, and thence by the river Govt as far 

 as the river Etherow ; and so by the river Etlierow to Langley Croft 

 at Longdenhead ; thence by a certain footpath to the head of Derwent ; 

 and from the head of Derwent to a place called Mythomstede (Mytham 

 Bridge) ; and from Mytham Bridge to the river Bradwell ; and from 

 the river Bradwell as far as a certain place called Hucklow to the great 

 dell (cavam cave?) of Hazelbache ; and from that dell as far as Little 

 Hucklow ; and from Hucklow to the brook of Tideswell, and so to the 

 river Wye ; and from the Wye ascending up to Buxton, and so on to 

 the New Place of Goyt. 



This great forest — one of the most important of the Royal 

 hunting-grounds, and visited for that purpose, we know, by 

 members of the Royal family, and occasionally by the 

 Sovereign himself — was, it must be remembered, used by no 

 means exclusively for hunting purposes, or for growing timber, 

 or for letting out to the various oflRcers of the forest or to 

 other tenants, but was in part farmed and used for the purposes 

 of horse-breeding by the King himself and by members of the 

 Royal family. 



We are told that at the Forest Eyre (a court for hearing 

 and determining pleas of the Forest) — 



Full lists of assarts and purprestures that had occurred since 1261 

 under the respective bailiffs were also presented at the 1286 pleas. 



As to horses, it was presented that the Queen Consort had a stud 

 of 115 mares with their foals in Campana (one of the divisions of the 

 Peak F-orest), to the great injury of the P'orest, but that many had horses 

 and mares in Campana under cover of their belonging to the Queen. 

 Peter de Shatton, torester-of-fee, had eleven horses and mares feeding 

 in Campana, whose pasturage was rated at 2S. Nineteen other foresters 

 had horses and mares in various proportion, all claiming to be part of 

 the Queen's stud. They were all ordered to remove their animals, and 

 had to pay pasturage value, and in addition, fines varying from is. to 4s., 

 save in the cases of Adam Gomfrey John Daniel and Cecilv Foljambe 

 who were pardoned. 



A good deal is also said in the details of farm stock for one 

 year about the sheep, and there are various references to the 

 milking of the ewes in the Peak Accounts; and we are by this 



