306 Customs of Wishford and Barford in Gi'ovely Forest. 



to the great spoil of the young Coppices, did take them and cause them to be 

 impounded, to the great wrong and oppression of the poor borderers, and 

 made them to pay money for their beasts, before they could have them out 

 of the Pound, 



In consideration whereof, we humbly desire that reformation hereof may 

 be had, and that the Borderers may not henceforth be in like sort wronged 

 and oppressed any more by the Woodward, who hath offered this hard 

 measure more than any Woodward ' or Wood Officer - did ever heretofore. 



This, among other things, was presented by a Jury of the respective 

 Parishes at a Court held in the year of our Lord 1603. 



(vii.). p. 47. Indenture Tripartite, made 14th May, 11° Annse, A.D. 1712, 

 between (1) Sir Ri. Howe, of Wishford, Bart., (2) T. Shaw, minister, and 

 E. Parker and J. Eves, churchwardens of Wishford, and (3) Sir James Howe 

 of Berwick St. Leonard, Bart., Dr. J. Younger, Dean, and Ri. Eyre, canon of 

 Salisbury, Edmond Lambert of Boj'nton^ Esq., and W. Windham of Dinton, 

 Esq. respecting the ilO per annum paid from Mr. Baker's Estate of Stapleford 

 to Wishford Church, " upon Trust therewith to repair and find ornaments for 

 the said Church of Wishford and for such other uses as the Lord of the said 

 manor of Wishford for the time being, the minister. Churchwardens and 

 Parishioners of the said Parish of WMshford att their Vestry shall from time 

 to time direct." 



" Whereas The Lord of the Manor and parishioners of the Parish of 

 Wishford aforesaid Did, time immemorial, use and enjoy a laudable Custom 

 yearly in the month of May to cut down and carry away Boughs of Trees 

 growing in the Chase of Grovely in the said County of Wilts (being part of 

 the Estate of the Earls of Pembroke) therewith to adorne the said Church of 

 Wishford, And whereas the right hon''^" Philip late Earle of Pembroke,^ finding 

 that the said usage and Entry on the said Chase in the said Months of May 

 was a prejudice to his Deer in that Chace, it being about fawning time, Did 

 come to an agreement with the said Sir Richard Howe, Lord of the said 

 Manor of Wishford, and the Parishioners of the said parish, and did grant to 

 the said Parishioners an Annual Rent Charge in Fee Simple of Six pounds a 

 year issuing out of a Meadow called Burtenball Meadow in the Parish of 

 Wilton in the said County of Wilts, And whereas the said rent of £6 has been 

 much in Arrear, and [«jc] the Right Hon'''"' Thomas now Earle of Pembroke* 



' In J. Ivie's account of the Salisbury storehouses in 1659, there is reference 

 made to an earlier woodward to the third Earl of Pembroke. St. Nicholas 

 Hosp. Sarum Charters, pp. Ixxx., Ixxxi. The woodward's fees from this 

 hospital in 1661 are noted, ibid, p. 275. See also pp. 309-10, Nos. 7, 10, on 

 the Duke of Kent's steward and the woodward of the hospital in 1734. 



- Woodward : " Wooder or wood-officers " : ed. R. C. Hoare, Ditmoorth 

 Hundred, 190. 



^ Boynton, i.q., Boyton. 



* Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. Probably the seventh Earl, 1674—83. 



^ Thomas Herbert, eighth Earl of Pembroke 1683—1733, Lord High 

 Admiral, 1702, 1708, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1707. 



