148 THE RED DEER OF EXMOOR. 



the injury of the forest in the county of Devon." The 

 court made no order, no doubt from want of 

 jurisdiction. 



It may be noted that in 1267 Longwood, in the 

 parish of North MoUon, was officially declared to be 

 outside the bounds of the forest. 



In the next year we have the forest officers bringing 

 up the case against Roger Ackeland and appending 

 it to a specific claim to jurisdiction on which the 

 court made no order. 



A case which rests on a claim three times asserted, 

 and on each occasion disallowed, cannot be said to be 

 proved in the face of three perambulations, two in 

 1279 and one in 1298, which all specifically state 

 the boundary on the Devon side to be coterminous 

 with the boundaries of the counties, and one 

 perambulation in 1651 which sets out the bounds in 

 detail, and they prove on examination to be identical 

 with the county boundary, saving that between the 

 dates mentioned Oare had been severed from the 

 forest of Exmoor. 



The forest is roughly divided into the north and 

 south forests, but where the boundary comes is not 

 apparent ; it is doubtful if there ever was such a 

 boundary, but if there were, it was probably either at 

 the river Exe or the Bade. The term north forest 

 has come to be applied to a small stretch of trappy 

 ground lying between Buscombe and the Brendon 

 road ; this seems to have arisen solely from the fact 

 that it was on this unoccupied bit of the map that the 



