58 THE WEEKIN FOEEST 



the house of Hugh le Scot, who took asylum in a 

 church, and, refusing to quit, "there lived a month," 

 but afterwards '' escaped in woman's clothes." 



Certain sales of forest land made by Henry II. 

 near the Wrekin, and entered on the Forest Holl of 

 1180, together with the assessments and perambula- 

 tions of later periods, afford some idea of the extent 

 of this forest, which, from the Severn and the limits 

 of Shrewsbury, swept round by Tibberton and Chet- 

 wynd to the east, and included Lilleshall, St. George's, 

 Dawley, Shifnal, Kemberton, and Madeley on the 

 south. From the " Survey of Shropshire Forests " 

 in 1235, it appears that the following woods were 

 subject to its jurisdiction : Leegomery, Wrockwar- 

 dine "Wood, Eyton-on-the- Weald Moors, Lilleshall, 

 Sheriffhales, the Lizard, Stirchley, and Great Daw- 

 ley. A later perambulation fixed the boimds of the 

 royal preserve, or Haye of Wellington, in which 

 two burnings of lime for the use of the crown are 

 recorded, as well as the fact that three hundred oak- 

 trees were consumed in the operation. 



Hugh Forester, and Robert the Forester, are 

 spoken of as tenants of the crown in connection with 

 this Haye ; and it is an interesting coincidence that 

 the land originally granted by one of the Norman 



