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hath claimed to put in Ten Kine and one Bull, and Hogs, as Wishford Magna 

 and Barford St. Martin may. [^The three concluding paragraphs of the fore 

 going sectio7i are not found in J?.] 



(2nd.) Item. The Lords of Wishford Magna and Barford St. Martin 

 and all their Freeholders and Tenants in every the said Manors have ever 

 had and by Eight and Ancient Custom ought to have free Common of 

 Pannedge ' in all Grovely for all their Hogs and Pigs at all Times of the Year 

 save only Sow Hogs above one year old in the Fence Month only. [Item 2 

 is not found in MS. jB.] 



(3rd. ) Iton. None may put any cattle whatsoever into the said Forest 

 save only those persons aforesaid who by Antient Custom and Eight may 

 justify the same, and the Antient custom is, that the Borderers^ aforesaid 

 that have Common there, or as many of them as will, may at their pleasure 

 (giving notice thereof to the Eanger, or leaving notice at his Lodge) drive 

 all the said Forest, and if they find any Cattle there other than such as by 

 Antient Custom are justifiable to be kept there as aforesaid, they may do 

 therein according to the custom of the Forest for the preservation of Good 

 Pasture for the Deer, and for such Cattle as of Eight and Antient Custom 

 are justifiable to pasture there. [Item 3 is not found in MS. £.} 



(4th.) Item. The Lords and Freeholders of Wishford and Barford^ and 

 all their Tenants and all Inhabitants in the same Manors of "Wishford Magna 

 and Barford Saint Martin have in Antient Custom and ever time out of mind 

 have used, to fetch, and of right may fetch and bring away Boughs ■* at their 

 Pleasure from the Woods of Grovely^ from May-day in the morning until 



^ Panvagium : pasturage from mast and acorns. 



- According to Canon W. H. Eich Jones the bordarii of Domesday were 

 cottar-tenants of bord-lands or table-lands, paying rent in kind to supply the 

 lord's house or table. Wilts Domesday, p. Ixi. cf. N. J. Hone, The Manor, 47. 

 Dr. Straton, however, assures me that the term Borderers is used in this 

 document as equivalent to " Bounderers," a name applied to the tenants of 

 lands in the purlieus. 



^ " For themselves and all their tenants " : B. (tcithout mention of " In- 

 habitants.") 



* " Bowes " (Scare, iii.,p. 187,) omitting " at their pleasure." 

 * Aubrey (who made his notes between 1656 and 1691) states that in his 

 day the only beeches found in Wilts were " at Grovely." He surmised, or 

 had " a conceit, that long time ago Salisbury plaines might have woods of 

 these." ([Bp.] Tanner, however, cir. 1695, told him of three very large 

 beeches in a wood at Market Lavington). "About the middle of Grovely 

 Forest" (says Aubrey) " was a fair wood of oakes, which was called Sturton's 

 Hatt. It appeared a good deale higher than the rest of the forest (which 

 was most coppice wood), and was seen over all Salisbury plaines. In the 

 middle of this hatt of trees (it resembled a hatt) there was a tall beech, 

 which overtopt all the rest. The hatt was cutt down by Philip II. Earle of 

 Pembroke, 1654 ; and Thomas, Earle of Pembroke, disafforested it, an°. 

 1684." Nat. Hist, of Wilts, ed. 1847, p. 54. 



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