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and was therefore great-grandmother of the unfor- 

 tunate Lady Jane Grey. 



Sir William Bonville ceased to be forester in 1454, 

 and was succeeded by Richard Stafford, who was 

 presumably some relation to the Lord Stafford who 

 subsequently married Cecily Bonville as her second 

 husband. 



Richard Stafford and Richard Luttrell held office 

 until 1459, and it is hard to believe that under their 

 regivie, and with their intimate connection with two 

 such sporting estates as Dunster and Porlock, 

 hunting was not regularly carried on. 



In 1 461, on the accession of Edward IV., the 

 forestership in fee vested in the Crown and became 

 extinct, as the whole land of the forest was a Royal 

 possession, and from this time the office seems to 

 have been the subject of temporary grants to Royal 

 favourites, who, with the exception perhaps of 

 Sir Giles Daubeny, looked rather to the profits 

 of agisting cattle than the pleasures of stag- 

 hunting. 



Of James Boteler and Philip de St. Maur in con- 

 nection with Exmoor we know little, nor is there any 

 record of John St. Albin, but the latter was certainly 

 admirably placed at Ashway for hunting the 

 country, though whether he did so or not is not 

 recorded. 



In 1477 Sir Giles Daubeny, afterwards Lord 

 Daubeny, a well-known Somersetshire man owning 

 land at South Petherton, was appointed forester for 



