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the Hundred Rolls, in 1254, is said by the king's 

 justices itinerant to hold half a virgate of the king to 

 keep the Hay of Wellington. Boger le Forester of 

 Wellington, who succeeded Robert, appears to have 

 died 1277-8, and to have left two sons, Robert and 

 Roger. Robert had property in Wellington and the 

 Bailiwick of the forest of the Wrekin, and is supposed 

 to have succeeded his father, whom he did not long 

 survive, having died the year following, 1278-9. Roger 

 his brother succeeded to his possession, and held also 

 the Hay of WelHngton, of which he died seized in 

 1284-5. Robert, the Forester of Wellington, Mr. Blake- 

 way says, occurs in the Hundred Roll of Bradford in 

 1287, and is shown to have held the Hay of Welling- 

 ton till 1292-3, when Roger, son of Roger, proving him- 

 self of age, paid the king one merk as a relief for his lands 

 in Wellington, held by sergeantry, to keep Wellington 

 Hay, in the forest of the Wrekin, &c. This is the 

 Roger de Wellington before-mentioned, as one of King 

 Edward's foresters by fee, recorded in his Great Charter 

 of the forests of Salopssier, in the perambulation of 1300. 

 He died 1331. 



John le Forester, as John, son and heir of Roger le 

 Forester de Welynton, succeeded to the property, and 

 proved himself of age in the reign of Edward III., 1335. 

 With John de Eyton he attested a grant in Wellington, 

 and died 24th of Edward III., 1350. 



William le Forester succeeded his father, John, in 

 1377, and died 19th of Richard II., 1395. 



