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for trespassing in the Royal forest of Haywood, and for owing an arrear of 

 thirteen hawks, which he ought to have furnished to the king from the Forest 

 of Trevil. A.D. 119J. — John de Kilpeck, who succeeded the above-named 

 Henry, is related to have obtained a grant from King John, to the effect that 

 " neither himself nor any of his Heyrs (heirs) should be outed from the Bailywic 

 of the Forest of Haywood." 



A.D. 1207. — A Hugh de Kilpeck is mentioned as having succeeded to the 

 office of Custodian of the Royal Forests of Herefordshire, viz., Haywood, Trevil, 

 Deerfold (or Darvokl), &c. And this Hugh do Kilpeck dying early and without 

 a family, his widow Egidia is related to have married "William Fitz-Warine 

 (Warren), by whom she had two daughters, the eldest of whom married Hubert 

 AYYilraund, and he, through his wife, succeeded to the Kilpeck estates. Up 

 to this time, in consequence of the grant made by King John, the custodianship 

 of Haywood Forest, &c, seems to have gone with the Kilpeck estate. But now, 

 getting into a different line, the right seems to have been disputed ; but this 

 was got over by Robert "Walrauud " paying a fine of 300 marks in gold to the 

 King," and in return for which he was allowed to succeed also to the " Bailywic 

 of Haywood and Coetmore (Coedmore)." 



A.D. 126S (32 of Henry III.) we find a " Robt. Walraund marrying Maud, 

 the daughter of Ralph Russell, lid he finding himself likely to die without heyrs, 

 gave to Alan Plugenct, his sister's son, the reversion of his castle of Kilpec, 

 with the lands and woods of his park at Trevil and Coytmore, and the 

 Forostership of Haywood, with the Manor of Warnham " (Warham). — (Blount's 

 M.SS.) 



"Alan Plugenct was a baron much esteemed by the king, and at his 

 death 23rd Edward 1st (1295) he becpieathed to his son Alan his estates 

 at Kilpec, &c, as well as a grant from the king, allowing a market to be held 

 weekly, on Fridays, at the township of Kilpec, as well as a fair to be held there 

 yearly on the day of the Holy Assumtion." A sort of fair was held at Kilpeck 

 until a comparatively few years ago, but I can find no traces of its market 

 or market-place. Allensmore (or Alan's More or Marsh) derived its name from 

 this Alan Plugenct, he " having by his skill brought that portion of the original 

 Forest of Haywood into a fit state of cultivation," and therefore made it of 

 more value to the king. This must have taken place between A.D. 1295 and 

 1300. 



The Rev. C. J. Robinson (Castles of Herefordshire) in an extract from the 

 ITarkoian MSS., relates another circumstance in which the Forest of Haywood is 

 mentioned, about A.D. 1230: "After the repairs of Hereford Castle by Henry 

 III. an affidavit, in which John-de-AVerrer and Roger-de "Werrer, surveyors of 

 the king's works and engines of war, there made oath that certain amounts of 

 oak timber and the necessary quantities of stone for the same had been dug and 

 obtained from the said king's Forest of Haywood." About the year 1325, 

 mention is made of an Edward de Bohun, a large holder of lands in the Welsh 

 Marshes, as having " obtained a license from Edward III. to grant to his 



