192 Leland’s Journey through Wiitshire. 
of 8. Edward his brother.1_ One De la Sale, alias Hawle,a auncient 
gentilman syns the tyme of Edwarde the I. dwellith at the...... 
end of Bradeford. 
From Bradeford to Bathe. 
[He continued his ride through Gloucestershire ; to Thornbury, 
Berkeley, and back to Somersetshire ; and crossed by Mells to | 
SELWOOD FOREST. [vit. 106. ] 
The foreste of Sewood? is in one parte a 3 miles from Welles. 
In this forest is a chapelle, and theryn be buried the bones of S. 
Algar® of late tymes superstitiously sought of the folische commune 
people. 
The foreste of Selwood, as it is now, is a 30 miles in compace, 
andstreatchith one way almoste onto Werminstre, and another way 
onto the quarters of Shaftesbyri by estimation a 10 miles. 
1 Edward the Martyr was murdered in A.D. 978, being 16 years of age, at Corfe 
Castle, by order of his stepmother Elfrida. The Benedictine Nunnery of 
Shaftesbury had been founded, according to most of our historians, by Alfred, 
and was at first dedicated to St. Mary. It lost that name on the translation 
thither of the body of St. Edward the Martyr. His brother and successor 
AMthelred “the Unready,” by charter dated a.D. 1001, gave to the Church of St. 
Edward the Monastery and Vill of Bradford, to be always subject to it, that the 
nuns might have a safe refuge against the insults of the Danes, and, on the 
restoring of peace, return to their ancient place, but still some of them to remain 
at Bradford, if it should be thought fit by the prioress. King John confirmed to 
the abbess of Shaftesbury the whole hundred of the manor of Bradford for ever 
A.D. 1205. They had also the Rectory impropriate. [See Monast. and Hutchins. ] 
2 “ Selwood Forest.” Partly in Somerset, partly in Wilts. By a survey of the 
bounds of this large forest, taken in Edw. I., it appears that its ¢-we northern 
boundary was considered to be a line drawn (speaking in general terms) from 
Penselwood beyond Stourton, to South Brewham : thence by the river Frome to 
Rodden near Frome; and that a large tract to the north of that line, then also 
forest and including part of Wanstrow, Cloford, Trudoxhill, Marston-Bigot, 
Cayford, &c., had been converted into forest by King Henry II., and ought to be 
disafforested. A copy of this survey is printed in Collinson’s Somerset, vol. 11., 
p. 56; but, owing to the change of names, it is diflicult to follow the limits 
described. 
3 “St, Algar’s,” in co. Somerset: on the road from Frome to Maiden-Bradley 
about 3 miles from the latter ; and now part of West Woodlands. 
