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been used afterwards (as the wooden communion table seems to indicate) we 

 must have found something about it. 



6. The "graveyard" may just as well — for all I can see — be an old garden. 



If this is a chapel there can scarcely be a doubt that it is the one 

 alluded to in the Harleian MS. 6726, where it is mentioned (anno 1655) as " The 

 Chapel of Dervold, a privileged place, now in the possession of one Richards, 

 mentioned in Fox's Martyrology as a place frequented by Lollards, ond so 

 Derevold Forest." 



Gough's Camden (1806), speaking of "Wigmore Castle, says: "On the 

 summit of the hill behind the CAstle were two parks, one stocked with deer till 

 the ci^'il wars, now both inclosed and ploughed up ; also a forest called Deerfald, 

 corruptly Darval. In the village of Darval are ruins of a chapel, which some 

 called Lollards chapel, because they were wont to meet at this vill." (p. 79.) 



PART IV.— THE FOREST INCLOSURE. 



" The race of man is as the race of leaves : 

 Of leaves one generation by the wind 

 Is scattered on the earth : another soon 

 In Spring's luxuriant verdure bursts to light, 

 So with our race ; these flourish, those decay." 



Homer. Lib. VI. Lord Derby's translation. 



The Forest of Deerfold with the surrounding district attached to tho 

 Castle and Honour of "\Tigniore passed, as has been mentioned before, into 

 possession of the Crown. Edward VI. was the first Lord of Wigmore who was 

 also King of England. One of the few recorded facts of the short reign of his 

 ill-fated son Edward V., is his making the Duke of Buckingham, then the ally 

 but soon afterwards the victim of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, " Constabularius, 

 Senescallus et Receptor" of the Castle, Lordship, and Manor of AVigmore in 

 the Marches of Wales, as well as of the other possessions of the Crown and 

 of the House of York in the same part of the kingdom. (Grants of King 

 Edward v., p. 8.) 



The Castle of Wigmore and its dependencies remained in the bands of the 

 Sovereign during the reigns of Henry VII., Henry VIIL, Edward VI., Mary, 

 and Elizabeth. 



In the time of the last named princess we find Sir Henry Sidney, when 

 residing at Ludlow Castle, as Lord President of the Marches, applying for 

 permission to cut wood in the Forest of Deerfold for the use of the gan-ison. 

 He alleges as his reason for doing so, that the supply of wood in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Ludlow was so much reduced th^t they were compelled to bum 

 that noxious mineral pit coal. 



The Harleian MS. 354 contains the following entry : — " A Suruaey of the 

 Forrestes and Chaoes of Bringewood, Mocktree, and Daruole w* the Mannor of 

 Buriton, taken the xxjth daye of Januarie in the first yeare of ye raigne of King 



