EPPING FOREST. 



The licenses to shoot small game in the Forest 

 usually included an authorisation " to take all 

 guns, dogs, and other engines and instruments, 

 wherever the sportsman should find them, from 

 all mean and disorderly persons who are not per- 

 mitted by law to have and use such things " (Dec. 

 i8, 1713). 



On Jan. 7, 17 17, one of the under-keepers 

 "presents 3 brase of deer rascally found dead." 



On June 17, in the same year, the court 

 "ordered that ye toyles brought to this court by 

 Samuel Heybourne be burnt or cutt in pieces 

 dureing the sitting thereof" 



On July 25, 17 19, the court ordered "that 

 ye Beadle of the Forest give notice to ye poor 

 people adjoining to ye Forest to keep their geese 

 near to their houses and not let them ramble upon 

 ye Forest otherwise shoot them." 



On Nov. 22, 1733, i^ ^^s ordered "that the 

 severall keepers of the Forest DO hinder the poor 

 people from gathering up the Dung and laying it 

 in heaps in ord^'- to carry it away upon their owne 

 lands." 



On Oct. 14, 1749, it was ordered "that the 

 keepers do take up and impound all Asses going 

 upon the Forest." 



On Aug. 28, 1750, it was ordered "that the 

 gun taken by Joseph Mason from Thos- Gill be 

 given to Mr. Gore a farmer at Waltham to guard 

 him in his journeys to and from London." 



The large room in Queen Elizabeth's Lodge 

 was designed and used for the holding of the 

 lesser courts, which made such orders as the above. 

 Licenses or " Deputations," as they were called, 

 to shoot, red- deer and fallow excepted, were 



