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By the Rev. Chr. Wordsvjorth. 301 



there made their claim to their custom in the Forest of Grovely in these 

 words (Srabrlti ! (Srofarlji ! ! anU ^11 ^rabelj)!! ! 



(18th.) Item. The Lords, Freeholders, Tenants and Inhabitants of the 

 Manor of Barford St. Martin, or so many of them as would, in ancient times 

 used also to go, the same day, in the like Dance, to the said Cathedral Church, 

 and there made their claim to their Customs in the said Forest in like 

 manner in these words, <§rnfarl», <SrnbcIy, (Srafaclj) ! ! ! 



John Bower, Clerk.' John Parker. 



George Carpenter. Christopher Hibberd. 



William Carpenter. James Carpenter. 



Walter King(s)man. 

 Francis Walker. 

 Eobert Hayter. 

 These Customs, written in the two leaves next before, are part of the ancient 

 Customs which the Lords, Freeholders, Tenants and Inhabitants of Great 

 Wishford and Barford have, and ought to have in Grovely aforesaid, 

 [his] 

 (Signed) Christopher x Tanner (Signed) Edward King(s)man. 



[mark] 

 (Signed) John Deer, junr. (Signed) John Hampton. 



(Signed) John Milles. (Signed) Nicholas King. 



(Signed) John Slitherthorne.- (Signed) Stephen Catkut.^ 



(Signed) Kobert Wartham. (Signed) Ed. Mundi."* 



[The next section is illustrated by an old map (dated, as it 

 seems, " 1589 ") which is preserved in the Earl of Pembroke's 

 muniment room, and which Mr. G. K Kendle has kindly shown and 

 explained to me. It is founded on the Perambulation of the Forest 

 of Grovely made in the seventh year of King Edward I. (1279). 



well remember the men with tall-hats, Sunday coats, and white gloves, 

 dancing solemnly on the lawn at my father's parsonage, the Vicarage, 

 Stanford-in-the-Vale — which in earlier times had been in the diocese of 

 Saruni — when I was a boy, about 1855, at the annual club feast.) A 

 gentleman who lived in Wishford before 1870 remembers the young oak-tree 

 being carried in procession at Wishford, but at that period the object in view 

 was not the Cathedral Church at Salisbury, but an inn at Wishford, bearing 

 the sign of the Royal Oak, one appropriate enough for festivities held on 

 on the 29th of May. 



' Mr. J. Bower, or Bowre, was Rector of Wishford, 1573—1637. His 

 name occurs with those of some of his parishioners on a file of the Wilts 

 Quarter Sessions, as representing the case of a woman named Michael \_sic] 

 London (11th Dec, 1602), apparently holding a small farm, who is treated 

 very ill by an unnatural son, W. London. Hist. MSS. Report various, i., 

 71 (8vo, 1901.) 



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