40 ROYAL CHASE OF SHIELOT. 



ownership was exceedingly limited. One of the 

 complaints against Clifford's foresters was, that they 

 would not suffer the priors' men to keep at Ditton 

 Priors and Stoke St. Milburgh any dogs not expe- 

 ditedy or mutilated in their feet, nor pasture for 

 their goats. 



Imbert, one of these priors, was chosen as one of 

 the Commissioners for concluding a truce with Dayid 

 ap Llewellyn in July, 1244. He was subsequently 

 heavily fined for trespasses for assarting, or grubbing 

 up the roots of trees, in forest lands at Willey, 

 Broseley, Coalbrookdale, Madeley, and other places, 

 the charge for trespass amounting to the large sum 

 of £126 13s. 4d 



A survey of the Haye of Shirlot, made by four 

 knights of the county, pursuant to a royal writ in 

 October 21, 1235, sets forth " its custody good as 

 regards oak trees and underwood, except that great 

 deliveries have been made by order of the king to 

 the Abbeys of Salop and Bildewas, to the Priory of 

 Wenlock, and to the Castle of Brug, for the repairs 

 of buildings, &c." 



Some curious tenures existed within the jurisdic- 

 tion of this forest, one of which it may be worth 

 while deviating from our present purpose to notice. 



