294 Selwood Forest. 
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‘¢That Fareley woods* are within the Forest, vide capt. temp E. 
‘ That the first Sir John Thynne did conceal the oaks rete ~— 
ashes in a great piece of ground on the North West of 
Longleat Howse to be felled and grubbed up, and the mootes 
[stumps] were so many that he (not knowing what to do 
with them) caused them -to be burned there, and since the 
grubbing thereof it is converted to a meadow now called tin 
Henry Salisbury 
Grubbings but before called the King’s Woods. 
“That the farmer Carr did serve his cattle in Whitemarsh 
divers times and claymed it as his common. 
‘‘ That the Bayliff of Steple Ashton hath usually heretofor 
made his Drift from Road Heath to Southwick and so to 
Coneyhayes receiving for every beast tooke in by Jeastment 
vi‘. .viij*., and a penny for every severall marke of the rest. 
“That Walter Longe Esq. did about four or five years 
since fell in Brookes woods three or four hundred oaks aa } Richard Norris.” 
sold them away. 
E. Daniell 
Thos. King 
Tho. Carr 
Wm. Styleman 
Miscellaneous Notes. 
In 1286 (15 Edw. I.) Reginald Kingston, Custos of Selwood, 
complained that in Easter Week, Nicholas de Montford of Tellisford 
and Richard le Vag, both outlaws, entered the forest at La Frith 
_ near Tellisfurd, and took with nets a stag in the water of Tellisford. 
In 1866 (40 Edw. III.) John Wyion, Jun.,and Richard le Vernon 
Jun., came to La Langlete Herne, outside of the forest, on Monday 
before the Feast of St. Matthew the Apostle, and there took a doe 
with bow and arrows and harehounds. 
In 1427 (6 Hen. VI.) Lord Stourton’s park was considered to be 
no longer part of the forest. 
Among items of an account in 1563 is :— 
“ Paid for the Forest custom for the passage of four waynes 
whereof three were laden with timber, 12d.” 
In 1618 a license was granted by James I. to John Sykes to fell 
trees on his land at Marston Bigott, within the Royal forest of 
Selwood. Countersigned by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, 
Lord Chamberlain and Chief Ranger. 
There were three “ Walks” in the Somersetshire part, viz., 
Stavordale, Brewham, and Frome Selwood. The last was claimed 
by Sir Thomas Thynne as his inheritance. 
John de Selwood, Abbot of Glastonbury from A.D. 1457 to A.D., 
1493, was a native of East Woodlands (Dugdale’s “ Monasticon ”). 
* i,e., the woods in Westbury parish that formerly belonged to the Priory of Monkton Farley, 
