314 Customs of Wishford and Barford in Grovely Forest. 



V. (See p. 297, Item 8 of A.D. 1603) conchtdes as follows : — 

 " • • . . common highway through Highwood at all times for carts to 

 go, and herbage and pawnage there for all beasts and cattle as aforesaid. 



" And yet now of late near 20 years past, one Mr. Eoger Earth being 

 ranger there, hath to the great hurt and damage of Wishford and Earford 

 aforesaid impaled with a large pale a certain wood called Highwood parcells 

 of the said Grovely whereby the Lords of the said Manors their freeholders 

 and tenants are barred of their common there. Whereas the said Mr. Earth 

 at and before the impaling of the said wood persuaded that he desired only 

 to impale the said wood only to keep in the deer to lye there, and so no way 

 to offend the corn, and to no other purpose whereas notwithstanding the 

 corn never received the like hurt by the deer as since it hath and specially 

 this last year through the wilful negligence of Mr. Thomas Bonham now 

 Ranger there' and his keepers wherefore we have herein humbly to crave my 

 lords a double favour that there may be a reformation for otherwise thro' the 

 wilful spoils of the cornfeilds the poor borderers will be mightily impoverished. 



" vj. (■=I(em 10 of 1603.) ^''Jtem it hath ever lime out of mind been an old 

 custom for the poor people of Wishford and Barford to gather or fetch the 

 dead snaping sticks that lye in the wood, and not otherwise; but if otherwise 

 they abuse the woods there, they are left to the Ranger's courtesey and his 

 keepers. 



" viij. (=: 12). Item the Lords Royal of Wishford and Barford ought to 

 have office in the wood which is called free forster," whose office is to walk 

 the wood to the trench three times in the week and to set up a bough at the 

 lodge door every time to keep koppice hedges after they are made that the 

 deer should not get in and to keep the deer out of the Corn. His fees are to 

 have the right shoulder of every deer that is killed within his walk and the 

 skin if he kill the deer himself and all the old coppice hedges when they are 

 taken down, except 20 luggs that is due to the ranger, and every year 4 loads 

 of wood out of Highwood & all the moote dotes & windfalls within the coppices 

 and after the coppices are a year old to have the feeding of two calves or a 

 colt^ there." 



After item 9 ( = 15), relating to the keeper's right to wood hens 

 at Shrove-tide, the copy of customs of 1597 (in the terrier of 1728) 

 draws to a conclusion thus : — 



" The names of the jurors that made the presentment 

 " Barford. 

 " John Parker, Nicholas Kingman, John Glyde, Edw. Ewe, John Aynole, 

 Nich"*. King, Robert Hayter, John Deere sen', Walter Kingman, John Perry. 



" Ditchampton. 

 Philip Clare, Leonard Calcoate." 



' T. Bonham the elder, was High Sheriff in 1395 and 1410. The second 

 d. in 1469, and another (perhaps the Ranger in question) was High Sheriff 

 iu 1531. 



- Free forster : a mistake for " fee forster." 



^^nrfacolt: (1603). 



