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E. — Pedigree of the Forester Family, Page 69. 



In his " Sheriffs of Shropshire," Mr. Blakeway in speak- 

 ing of the Forester family, says : " They were originally 

 Foresters, an office much coveted by our ancestors, which 

 latter seems probable, from the fact, that on the Pipe 

 Bolls of 1214, Hugh Forester accounts for a hundred 

 merks that he may hold the bailiwick of the forest of 

 Salopscire, as his father held it before him." King John, 

 however, remits thirty merks of the payment in conse- 

 quence of Hugh having taken to wife the niece of John 

 I'Estrange, at His Majesty's request. It does not seem 

 clear, however, that Hugh, the son of Robert, can be 

 traced to have been in the direct line of the AVilley family, 

 he having been ancestor to Roger, son of John, the first 

 of the king's six foresters. The other, Robert de Wel- 

 lington, the late Mr. George Morris, in hie " Genealogies of 

 the Principal Landed Proprietors," now in the possession 

 of T. C. Eyton, Esq., to whose kindness we are in- 

 debted for this extract, says was the earliest person 

 that can certainly be called ancestor of the present 

 family of Forester. His sergeantry is described as the 

 custody of the King's Hay of Eyton, of which, and 

 several adjoining manors^ Peter de Eyton, lineal ancestor 

 of the present Thomas Campbell Eyton, of Eyton, and 

 grandson of Robert de Eyton, who gave the whole of 

 the Buttery estate to Shrewsbury Abbey, was the lord. 



Thomas, a son of Robert Forester of Wellington, in 



