136 THE RED DEER OF EX MOOR. 



may have been connived at by his father-in-law, or 

 afterwards by his brother-in-law. 



It will be noticed that in all these surveys the 

 parish of Oare is included within the bounds of the 

 forest, and we do not know exactly when, or in what 

 circumstances, it became disafforested. There are 

 no more records of perambulations until 1651, when 

 Parliament inquired into tlie property of the late 

 king. 



Jeremie Baines, Samuel Cottman, and John 

 Harrock were deputed to make a return as to the 

 Royal Demesne. The survey speaks of the forest 

 of Exmoor as situated in the counties of Somerset 

 and Devon, but although it recites the exact marks 

 on the Devon side with great particularity, it is 

 impossible to see that the boundary in any way 

 differs from that of the county. Some of the names 

 mentioned are difficult to identify, but so much of 

 the line is clearly traceable that it is difficult to 

 believe there was really any divergence. The 

 boundary runs from Sadler's Stone along the line of 

 the wall below The Chains to Brendon Two Gates, 

 and down Hoccombe, beside the " Batchery 

 Enclosure," doubtless the square bit of hill cut off 

 from Brendon Common, then over Bado;worthv and 

 up Mighty Combe, not to be identified, and thence 

 "forwards to the Three Combe in feete " (Three 

 Combes Foot, a well-known point), and so on towards 

 " Blaykbarrowe Topp. Where begins Sparlockes 

 (? Porlock) Common, and so along over Blaykborrowe 



