By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.8.A. 
291 
( Edw. Couch 
“ That all the Common of Westbury is within the bounds 
of the Forest, Robt. Hopkyns and Edw. Couch say, that 
there being heretofore a controversie bet®. S'. Thos. Thynne 
and the Tenants of the Lord Ley at Westbury and Lye con- 
cerning putting cattle into the common Sir Thos. Thynne 
did then say that if they were sterne he w’. fetch a drift on 
all their commons once a year as Ranger of the Forest : and 
that there hath bin marking of sadles at Lyppyeate beyond 
Rob. Hopkins 
The 
Peramb”. 
taken in Edw. 
Ill. time—in 
the disposition 
taken in the 
Court of Ward, 
Edw. Staples 
and ors agst 
W™ Carter als 
Smyth 20 June 
36 Eliz, testi- 
Westbury. 
| fied byClement 
Trether W™. 
Prior John 
Kipping W™. 
L Rawlins 
“‘ That sixty years since one John Couch did keepe deere = ap al 
in Chapmanslade Wood for Sir John Thynne and the deer Salisbury 
did graze as far as Brooke. Cth habe 
** That one Thos. Venny did keepe deere in Dafford’s wood W=, White 
for Sir John Thynne about sixty years ago and that all the EiaVinieonk 
deere did go through all the grounds and commons bet*. 4 G. et 
Chapmanslade wood and Dafford’s wood as far as Brookes E. Che 
Wood-gate and unto Brooke. 
( H. Salisbury 
~ “ That there was a Lodge heretofore in Dafford’s Wood W. White 
for a Keeper and that the aforesaid Thomas Venny did dwell G. Tanta 
therein and kept deer in the said wood. if Onuch 
“That about sixty years ago one Edw. Couch did keep ( H. White 
deer for Sir John Thynne in Chapmanslade Woods and that { G. Lambe 
the same lay all open unto the Forest. E. Couch 
‘* That there is one Whitemarsh now inclosed within Long- 7] 
leat Parke and that there is another Whitemarsh adjoyning 
thereunto within the Mannor of Horningsham, wh. lieth G. Lambe 
without Longleat parke and that both the s4. Whitemarshes Ww Salisbu 
are forest up to Fairbowd Oake and that the L’ Mountjoy E Deane z 
was Ranger and dwelt in Brooke House and that Corseley Ww Paka 
is forest and that the deere of the Forest did ordinarily lie 
in the Whitemarshes and other grounds now enclosed within 
Longleat Parke before the s‘. Parke was enclosed. 
