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Morfe, for both of which he is represented as answer- 

 ing at the Assizes in February, 1262, for the eight 

 years then past. A Robert Forester is also described 

 as one chosen with the sheriff, the chief forester, and 

 yerderers of Shropshire in 1242, to try the question 

 touching the expedifation of dogs on the estates of 

 the Lilleshall Abbey, and his seal still remains 

 attached to the juror's return now in possession of 

 the Sutherland family at Trentham. 



A Roger de Wellington, whom Mr. Eyton calls 

 Roger le Forester the second, is also described as one 

 of six royal foresters-of-the-fee, who, on June 6th, 

 1300, met to assist at the great perambulation of 

 Shropshire forests. He was admitted a burgess 

 of Shrewsbury in 1319. John Forester, his son and 

 heir, it is supposed, was baptised at Wellington, and 

 attained his majority in 1335 ;* and a John Forester 

 — a lineal descendant of his — obtained the singular 

 grant, now at Willey, from Henry YIIL, priyileging 

 him to wear his hat in the royal presence. After 

 the usual formalities the grant proceeds : — ''Know 

 all men, our oflB.cers, ministers, &c. Forasmuch as 

 we be credibly informed that our trusty and well- 



* In 1390, Sir Humphrey de Eyton, an ancestor of T. C. Eyton, 

 Esq., of Eyton, was ranger of this forest. 



