PART I. 



PAROCHIAL HISTORY AND ARCHEOLOGY 

 OF GLANVILLE'S WOOTTON. 



Introduction. 



WOOTTON GLANVILLB or, as it is generally called, 

 Glanville's Wootton lies in the beautiful vale, and 

 within the limits of the ancient forest of Blackinore, 

 or the White Hart; so called for the following 

 reason : 



King Henry the Third, having disported himself in 

 the Forest of Blackinore, spared a certain beautiful 

 and goodly white hart, which afterwards one Sir 

 Thomas de la Lynde, a gentleman of ancient descent 

 and note, with his companions, hunted and killed at 

 King's Stag Bridge, in the parish of Lydlinch. On 

 hearing of it, the king was so enraged that he not 

 only punished them with imprisonment and a fine, 

 but taxed their lands, the owners of which until the 

 last few years paid a yearly sum of money into the 

 Exchequer, called White Hart Silver. The forest for 

 some time lost its ancient name of Blackmore for that 

 of the White Hart. The White Hart silver for this 



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