i6o THE RED DEER OF EXMOOR. 



half a mark, Almsworthy half a mark, and 

 Doverhay half a mark. 



It is noticeable that Ashway, now a single farm, is 

 treated as a separate township, and that Withypool 

 is left out, probably because William de Plecy, the 

 forester, was lord of the manor and would have had 

 to find most of the fine. 



He could not always escape in the same way, for 

 the same record shows that one William Herlewyne 

 and three companions caught a stag in Hawkridge 

 Wood in 1 249, and took him away to Braunton, 

 Not being found he was outlawed. " An inquisition 

 was made on the stag by four townships, Hawkridge 

 4^., Dulverton 53-., Winsford half a mark, and 

 Withypool 45., which could find out nothing else 

 thereof. And because they did not come in full, etc., 

 therefore they are in mercy," which means were 

 fined accordingly. 



In 1270 we find the Tracys again at work, and 

 apparently Thomas Tracy, who died before he could 

 be caught, and " his men whose names are unknown, 

 roused a stag within the liberties of the County of 

 Devon/" probably in Bremridge or Hache Wood or 

 Syndercombe, and ran him over Molland Common — 

 just as hounds do from those coverts to-day — " and 

 killed him within the covert of Hawkridge without 

 warrant and carried away that venison to the house 

 of Henry Tracy at Tavistock ; who knowingly 

 harboured them with the same venison. The same 

 Henry has not come nor was he attached ; therefore 



