292 Selwood Forest. 
( Thos. Carr, that 
his father told 
“ That the Copices within the s*. parke now called by the him so, and bid 
name of Blacke Copice, and the Grubbings were heretofore , him remember 
called the King’s woods and were indeed the King’s woods, it, for he mt 
but there were new names put upon them by Sir John Thynne live to see it 
of purpose that the old names m'‘. be forgotten. called in ques- 
tion. 
| Edw. Daniell 
“That the groundes of the Farm of Rodmister were within 
the forest and did reach down within a furlong of Longleat 
House, and that it hath bin reported that there were but 
xvi acres belonging to the house that heretofore was called 
Longleate House; and that all the grounds of Rodmister 
farm were inclosed in the parke, and part of Horningsham 
grounds and also of Warminster Common, and the copices | Edw. Daniell 
commonly called King’s wood togeather with Whitemarsh { Geo. Lambe 
which is part of Corseley Common. And that at Rodmister 
Farm there was a great Dairy of Kine kept before the Park 
was made, and that Rodmister farm howse was standing in 
the s*. parke untill S'. Thomas Thynne caused the same to 
be taken down and carried away unto Deverell Longbridge 
where he built a house with the timber and stones thereof. J 
( -W. White 
G. Lambe 
“ That heretofore Corsley Woods were uninclosed and deere | Jo. Watts; that 
kept there and in y* winter time they did give them mast Corsley Woods 
were full of 
and they were so tame therewith that they w* scarce goe out 
of the way. oakes before 
the inclosure, 
and thick of 
underwood. 
“That the Servants of Sir John Thynne did in the fence- ) 
moneth marke sadles and waynes at Brooker’s yeate, Pippin, 
in Lye within the parish of Westbury, Kingsbridge and ad cad 
Lippyeate and at all the gates of Brooke, and that the heirs Thos. Marchant 
of Sir John Thynne have farmed out the marking of Sadles = Kipping 
Waynes and cartes unto Edw. Couch untill within these five Rt. Norris 
or six years. J 
‘‘ That Sadles have been marked by the servants of the said 
Sin John Thynne and Sir Thomas Thynne upon Wyne-hill in 
Warminster Heath and Dafford’s woods, untill within this The same 
five or six years. 
‘‘That Sir John Thynne did inclose his parke at Longleat aL 
out of the Forest, aud did impale Corsley Park rananny | - Lambe 
within memory. J W. Pearce 
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