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Nottingham, so that the close of the towne of Welhawe is 

 is out of the forest, from thence by the side way that goeth 

 betwixt Welhawe and Nottingham unto Blackstone Haugh, 

 and from thence unto that place where Doverbeck river 

 goeth over the side way, and so following the Doverbeck to 

 where it enters the Trent. Again, starting westward from 

 Conyngswath by the river Maiden, the boundary follows 

 the river to Warsop, and from thence by the same stream 

 to Plesley Haye, and from thence to Otterbridge, and from 

 thence turning by the great highway which leads to 

 Nottingham unto Milford Bridge, from thence unto 

 Maidenhead, and from thence betwixt the field of Hard- 

 wick and Kirkby to a corner called Nuncar, and from 

 thence by the assart of Iwan Britan unto the Earl's Steigh, 

 and from thence unto Stolgate, and from thence by the 

 great highway under the old castle of Annesley, and from 

 the same castle unto the towne of Linby, passing through 

 the midst of the towne to the mill of the same place, 

 situated on the river Leen, and so following that stream 

 to Lenton, and so to the Trent, where the Leen entered 

 by its old course, and so along the river Trent to the fall 

 of Doverbeck, saving Walhaw Hagh, and other the king's 

 demesne woods in the countie of Nottingham.' " 

 Thoresly MS. 



" Another survey of Sherwood Forest was made in 1300, 

 when the above-named bounds were, under certain stipula- 

 tions, confirmed. In the ' Forest Book ' in which this is 

 recorded the following note, which I quote from Mr Stacy e, 

 is appended : 



" ' And yt is to understand that the foresaid walks, by 

 the afore-named walkers, that there are put out of the 

 forest, the wood of Roomwood, the towne of Carburton, 

 with the field of the same ; Owthesland, the towneshippes 

 of Clumber, Scofton, Reniton, half of the towneshippe of 

 Budby, w th the north fields of the same ; the towneshippe 

 of Thoressbie, and all the towne of Skegbie, w th the fields 

 of the same, except a little pcell of the field of the same 



