By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, P.8.A. 289 
would seem that the bounds of the forest were altered from time to 
time as suited the caprice of the Crown or its representative. A 
jury being summoned of various forest officers to decide whether 
the woods of the Abbess of Romsey in Ashton and Edington were 
without the view and bounds of Selwood, report that they were 
without down to the time of Alan Neville, Royal Justiciary of the 
Forest, who, of his own accord had made them part of it. After 
his time certain knights and others came forward and subscribed a 
hundred pounds of silver to have a Perambulation made: when the 
aforesaid woods were excluded from the forest down to the time of 
Robert Passelewe, who had again made them forest. (Wiltshire 
Fines.) By two later Inquisitions these woods were pronounced to 
be out of the bounds. 
The following depositions as to the extent of Selwood Forest appear 
to have been taken about A.D. 1620—380, when King Charles F. was 
preparing the final disafforestation. 
‘6A DECLARATION OF THE BouNDES OF THE Forest or FromE-SELWoop 
orn WILTSHIRE WALKE a member of the said Forest, togeather with such 
proofs as will manifest the same. 
“Imprimis. That y® same begins at the higher end of 
Whitemarsh bordering upon a Coppice called Bales Husloct} 
and from thence to Fayrebowd Oak, and so downe to White- 
marsh untill you come to Wiltshire Oak and so to Hunters | Edw. Salisbury 
path. and from thence to a bound-stone y* standeth betweene | Thos. Carre 
Dafford’s Wood that is parish to Norton, and Wine-hill, + George Lambe 
parish to Warminster, and so along Redford Water untill you | Edw. Darnall 
come to the bounds of the parish of Corsley, and so along as | W™. Andrewes 
the bounds of Corsley goeth untill you come to Shire-stone 
which is y® bounde betweene the parishes of Corseley and 
Barkeley and boundeth likewise Somerset and Wilts. J 
‘From thence to a little Oake betweene the bounde of > 
Westbury and Mr. Newborough’s woode in Barkeley in the 
Co. Somerset, and so alonge by the Three Turrets, then to 
a mere-stone between Westbury and Berkeley: from thence | Rob. Tucker 
to another bound-stone in Westbury Common, then to an old als Cowch 
starved bound oake and thence to Tennes corner, and so as 
the bounds of Westbury goeth to Rudge Lane and to the 
stone by the bridge there. 
