i] A7t Elizabethan Sui^oey and Domesday Book. 3 



South-west of" St Peter's ran Bunwell Beck as far as Moor 

 common. Further east, the Tas for a short distancie forms the 

 boundary, which, crossing a meadow, follows an ancient road knowii 

 locally as 'the British Road.' In 1565, as now, it was called 

 Hollane, i.e. Ditch Lane. This road is sunk so deep below the level 

 of the fields that it has been abandoned in part for a parallel road 

 running next it, but on higher ground. 



The Survey mentions the Processional Way and Stubbing Lane 

 as eastern limits of St Peter's. The former name is a common one, 

 signifying, of course, the way along which the procession moved 

 when the parish was perambulated; the latter name indicates a 

 clearing. 



At least as early as the thirteenth century the name Forncett 

 was applied to the entire area included within these boundaries, and 

 the term ' Forncett vill ' will be used in this book to denote that 

 area. 



As early as 1066 several settlements, or tuns, were situated either 

 wholly or in part within these limits. Thus, in Domesday Book, we 

 read of Fornesseta, of Kekelingtuna, of Tu^natuna, and of Middle- 

 tuna. The returns made by sheriffs in 13 16 as to what townships 

 were in each hundred name Fornesete, Galegrym, Thwantone, Sugate, 

 and Kitelyngton^ In later manorial records Moorgate and Lovington 



Ricardus de Purle tunc ballivus Roberti de Tateshal inde fugavit ballivum praedictum dicens 

 quod non debuit tenere hundredum infra libertatem domini sui.' 



3. (i. 473.) ^\^Inquisicio facta. ..ill hundredo de...Dep%vade.'\ De omnibus piirpresturis 

 quibiisciitnque factis super Regem vel regalem dignitatem, etc. Item dominus Robertus de 

 Tateshale facit annuatim quandani cerchiam in pastura de Bonewelle et Carleton quae 

 tenetur de Rege in capite et accipit emendas de bestiis extraneorum. Item Rogerus Hardi 

 appropriavit sibi ii. acras de dicta pastura et habet xxx. annos elapsos.' 



4. (i. 467.) '• Inqnisicio facta... in... Depwade. Quaeetiam maneria solent esse in manibus 

 Regum praedecessorum Regis et qui ea tenent et quo xvaranto et a quo tempore et per quern 

 et quomodo fuerunt alienata. Item homines de Cariltun [Carleton] et Bunewelle tenent unam 

 pasturam communem in villis supradictis quam tenent de domino Rege in capite per serviciura 

 x\s. per annum reddend' ballivo hundredi.' 



From these passages it seems evident that the common pasture held by the men of Bunwell 

 and Carleton directly from the King (extracts 3 and 4) was identical with the pasture known 

 as West wood (extracts i and 2) and was part of the same waste as the strip in Forncett which 

 adjoined Bunwell and was also known as Westwood. 



As the map shows, one-third of the Forncett section of Westwood became lord's demesne, 

 and two-thirds common pasture. In 1272-1275, some of the wood was still standing, while 

 some had already been converted into arable demesne. Cf. Appendix VIII., xxxi., xl., and Rot. 

 Hund. I. 529. 'Item comes Norfolciae habet warennam in dominicis suis in Fomeset, West- 

 wod, et in assarto juxta Westwod injuste.' i. 472. ' Item comes Marescallus appropriavit sibi 

 warennam in quodam bosco qui vocatur Westwde et in quodam asserto (sic) juxta dictum boscum 

 et in bosco qui vocatur Gilderis in Fornesete et Tacolffistun (sic) set quo warento nesciunt.' 



^ Nomina Villarum : Palgrave's Parliamentary Writs, II. pt 3, p. 312, or Feudal Aids, 

 III. 476 (Public Record Office Publications). 



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