200 Duchy of Lancaster. Survey of its Manors, a.d. 1591. 



"Standinge alsoe in a good aire, the ferine wherof is verie fer- 

 tile, as well for pasture as tilladge, but the copieholders soil is more 

 barren: lying north from Malmsburie vj miles distante." 



Freeholders. Richard Sherborne. Manor, William Pike. Bents 

 £27 5s. 9d. Acres, 682. 



13. — Bradon Forest. 



" The Dutchie woodes adioyninge unto the Forest of Braidon, and 

 the Temple closes to the same appertayninge. (fol. 83.) 



" The bondarie and circuit of the said woodes and closes begyn- 

 neth on the north east pte therof, at the north west end of the said 

 Tempell closes, from thence leading westwarde to Stony hurste 1 

 waie, and soe contynuinge westwarde to Turntrowe oke, therehence 

 to Gospell Oke, thence to the southeast pte of Lodge Lawne, con- 

 tynuinge the hedge of the same Lawne to Armyn Crosse, from 

 thence to Charlame Oke, therehence downe the grene slade to 

 littell Charlman, and soe leadinge alonge by the south pte of the 

 saide woode to a tree called Dumm Cowe to a mere there, follow- 

 inge the same mere to Mapell Zell, from thence to Abbottes Bridge, 

 w'h boundeth upon Gestynn lye, and therehence to Purton Marshe, 

 and soe to the south west end of Tempell close. 

 " waste ground, u Within which marshe and on the south pte of the 

 said close there appertayneth to the saide woode a large pece of 

 verie goode waste grounde, cont. by estimacon 120 acres, as by the 

 dick or particon there yet appeareth. 

 « Another pceii "There is alsoe one other pcell of Ragge of woode 1 there 



of wood. jr =>o 



apptayninge to her Ma tie , lying on the north west pte of the ffor- 

 mer woode, boundinge upon the woode of M r John Hungerford, 

 called the Punchars woode on the south pte, and the lodge there on 

 the west, the Queens woode on the north, and Neevells wood on the 

 northeast, shoting downe to Chelworthe marshe, being of a great 

 lengthe. 



1 Probably now called "Standing; House." In the Avchreologia vol. xxvii. p. 

 304 — 314, there is a map and account of the Limits of Braden Forest by J. 

 Y. Akerman, Esq., with copies of several ancient perambulations, and a frag- 

 ment of a map, temp. Eliz. 



2 "Duchy Rag." 



