24 Extracts from the Records of the 



wi^in the Kinges Forest of Gillingham and therefore it is desired he may he 

 bounde ov' to the next Sessions .... for that Sir Car" Rawleigh beinge 

 nowe out of the county is to p'secute the same against him on behalfe of the 

 King's Matis. 



" Henry Willoughby." 



This mean mode of capture was frequently practised : the next pair 

 go about their business iu a manner better worthy the occasion : — 



" 21 October 2 Jac ii. The Examination of Francis Robinson of Froxfell. 



" Who sayth that uppon y"= twentith day of October last bee came with one 

 Edward Pottinger of Froxfell to the park of the Eight Honorable the Earle 

 Pembrocke called Eamsbery Parke betwixt x and xi of the clocke in the night 

 he having a bill and the said Edward Pottinger had a crossebow he being willed 

 by Pottinger to stay at a bushe and in the meantime y"^ said Pottinger went w"^ 

 his bow bent and an arrow but what he did after he knew not and for any other 

 that was in their company he confesseth none. 



"Moreover he sayth y*' an other time the last sommer he was w^^^ the said 

 Edward Pottinger the time certaine he knoweth not in the said parke, where 

 Pottinger killed a rascole * [lean] deare he carying it to Pottingers fathers 

 howse and sayth that there was no other body w**' them then but they two." 



Michaelmas, 1605 : — 



" The confession of Anthony Mersam .... he came to the lodge of 

 Will" Hall by Totneham Parke with his crosbow to the intent to kill a couple t 

 or 2 of conies w'*^ him at w"^ time the s'' Hawle tould him that .... he 

 wolde bringe him where he and this examinate or one of them mighte shote at a 

 bucke." 



These two worthies come 



" Unto Nook Wood in Chesinbery to the intente to shote at and kill the said 

 buck yf so they could .... The said William Hawk did shote at the saied 

 buck and did strike him in suche sorte that he presentli/ sunck." 



In the following, the city justices take their part in dealing with 

 an expedition against Clarendon Park, having its base of operations 

 in the Green Croft. — 



Trinity, 1606 :— 



* Canon Jackson has a note on tbis word, vol. xt., p. 156. 

 ♦ This was the conventional phrase ; the feeble cony was always the excuse alleged for such 

 excursions, however magnificent may have ultimately been the bag. 



