304 Customs of Wishford and Barford in Grovely Forest. 



1584,) we find tents in Tartary, a sword-fish and whales in the 

 tropics, a naval battle near Madagascar, four sheep grazing at 

 large on the Emerald Isle, cows grazing or being milked in 

 Holland, Neptune and a nereid catching tunnies in the Mediter- 

 ranean, stags in Hungary, horses near the Carpathians. The maps 

 of Eussia and Tartary and China are full of curious details (pp. 

 91 — 3). S.E. of Japan are a brace of mermaids doing their hair 

 regardless of the onslaught made upon a ship by whales. In the 

 Levant, Jonah is thrown overboard. Elephants in N.W. Africa, a 

 sea-horse south of Malta, camels in Arabia and Media, mounted 

 archers in the Crimea, the Great Cham, Prester John, &c., &c., 

 give character to the maps. Is it possible that in the manorial 

 maps, the pictorial sketches serve not only to embellish the 

 drawing, but to indicate the character of each copse or field ? 



(vi. ) This amongst other things was presented by the jury of Wishford 

 [15 Mar. and Barford, and delivered into the Court kept in Grovely, the 

 1603-4.] 15th March, 1603.' 



IMPRIMIS. We say that Grovely doth consist only of fourteen Coppices 

 lying together, the one adjoining to the other (that is to say) 

 Ashgrove Copses [Ashgore] 

 Haddou Copses 

 Bemerell's Copses [Bemerhill] 

 Ipsbury Copses 

 Steleford Copses [Stokfold]^ 

 Iladnett's Copse [RadnelP or Four 



Sisters] and 

 Poltensstone Copses [Powting- 

 stones]> 

 and 



Eowden Coppice 



Sangall Copse [Sandegate] * 



Thornell Copse [Thornhill] 



Chilfinch '" Copse 



Appledore Copse 



Hempshill Copse, and 



Shortingrove Coppice 



And we do further present that divers of those Coppices are greatly decayed 



by means that the Woodward of late time at the Sale of any Coppices have 



sold all the Woods in the said Coppices without reserving any to repair the 



lying on the north side of 

 - Grime's Dike in the Parish 

 of Great Wishford. 



lying on the south side of 

 Grimes Dike within the 

 Parish of Barford St. Martin, 

 in the County of Wilts. 



' See Hoare's Modern Wilts, iii., 189—90. 



- Stotefold : H. ^ Radneth : H. 



^ Sangate : H. ' Chilfench : H. 



