EARLY HISTORY. 159. 



of one acre at Long Acre (Landacre) in the demesne 

 of the Lord King, and it was sown once with rye and 

 twice with beans. 



" From the same for nine acres sown with beans 

 and three acres with rye, 7^. 6^. 



" From the aforesaid HameHne for one acre of 

 meadow occupied in three regards 35'. (occupied for 

 nine years)." 



To be " in mercy " is to be fined. 



The foresters were practically gamekeepers, and 

 they presented at the forest courts offences against 

 the venison of the Lord King. 



In the record of the same forest court quoted 

 from above we find : 



" It is presented by the foresters, and by Adam 

 de Joans, half a mark, and Robert de la Sterte, 45-. 

 verderers (the amounts of money being the amounts 

 of their securities), that on Thursday next after 

 Epiphany, year thirty-seven (1253), Oliver de Tracy, 

 Walter his son, Henry Peet, and Hugh le Waleys 

 entered the forest with greyhounds with the intent of 

 wrongful hunting, but took nothing. And they 

 have not come now, and were not attached because 

 they belonged to Devonshire and immediately 

 fled." 



These Tracys were continually giving trouble by 

 poaching. They occupied the old manor-house at 

 Bremridge, close to Castle Hill. They were out- 

 lawed and the four townships nearest where the crime 

 was committed were fined. Ashway 46-., Exford 



