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A.D. 1300.> 



^'^?SDW ARD, by the Grace of God, King of England, Lord of 

 t V^^ D Ireland, and Duke of Aquftaine. To all to wliom the pre- 

 sent Letters shall come Greeting. Know ye that whereas the 

 Commons of our Kingdom have granted to us the fifteenth of all 

 their moveable goods, &c. A perambulation made in the county 

 of Wilts of the Forests of the Lord the King, in the same county, 

 before John de Berewyke, Walter de Gloucester, Walter de Pave- 

 ley, and John de Crokesle thereto assigned, in the presence of John 

 de Romsye, Lieutenant of the Justice of the Forest, the Foresters 

 and Verderers, begun on Friday next before the Feast of St. Bar- 

 nabas the Apostle, at Salisbury, in the 28th year of the reign of 

 King Edward the son of King Henry. The Lord the King hath 

 sent to the aforesaid John and his companions his writ in these 

 words : — 



Edward, by the Grace of God, King of England, Lord of 

 Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine. To his beloved and faithful John 

 de Berewj'k, Walter de Gloucester, Walter de Paveley, and John 

 de Crokesle, greeting. Because We will that the Charter of the 

 Forests of the Lord Henry, formerly King of England, our father, 

 in all and singular its articles be firmly and inviolably obserA'ed. 

 We have assigned you to convoke in your presence, the Justice of 

 our forest on this side of Trent, or him whom he shall put in his 

 place, and all the Foresters in fee and the Verderers of our forests 

 in the Counties of Southampton and Wilts, and to make a right 

 perambulation by the view of you and them in the same forests, 



' This translation from the P'orest Roll, 28 Edward I., amongst the Tower Re- 

 cords, is kindly suiiplitd by H. W. Hewlett, Esq., of Gray's Inn. The connexion 

 between the Grant of the Fifteenth to the King (referred to at the beginning) 

 and the Forests, does not exactly appear. Probably persons living within the 

 Forests were not liable to this Tax, and it may have been necessary to show by 

 the Perambulation how far the privilege extended. 



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