Translation by B. FOSSETT LOCK, Barrister-at-Law. 



PART II. 



[ff. 9 b 15 inclusive contain copies of the Great Charter and the Charter 

 of the Forest as re-issued in 9 Hen III., and geLerally in the form afterwards 

 confirmed by the Coufirmatio Charterum in 25 Ed. I. These have been 

 frequently printed and translated elsewhere.] 



JRHIS is the perambulation made in the County of 

 Dorset before Henry de Nevile and Brian de 

 1'Isle and Master Henry of Cerne and 

 William de Morevile and John de Lan- 

 celeveie, Justices, by the following sworn 

 Knights namely Henry Tuneire Walter de 

 la Grave Robert de Port Henry de Stokes 

 William Cusin William the son of Henry 

 Alexander of Laverkestoke Luke Russel John 

 Pulein Walter of Melbury Walter of Wike Robert of Blokesworthe 

 Roger de St. Edward Robert of Wearmewelle. 



In the first place they say that Alan de Neville afforested all the 

 hilly parts in Dorset after the first coronation of King Henry the 

 grandfather of our Lord King Henry and that these ought not be 

 forests. And in these hilly parts the Lord King has in his 



