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and half to the informer ; no hogs in the fence month ; all hogs and 

 swine to bear the owner's as well as the king's mark ; borderers' swine 

 to enter a quarter of a mile and no further ; and no keepers to keep 

 swine, and no foreigner's swine to enter. The master of the game, the 

 ranger, and the bailiffs to have their feewood as before ; no man to sell 

 any of the chase wood to any foreigner or to London ; no tenant or in- 

 habitant to cut any manner of wood for his own use save that assigned 

 him by the woodward ; no ' coates and hogsties ' to be allowed in the 

 chase, and such as there are to be pulled down ; horned beasts of two 

 years old and upwards to be marked by the woodward ; and foreigners' 

 beasts found in the chase to be pounded until fine fixed by the steward is 

 paid. The last order but one prohibits any wood-gatherer carrying into 

 the chase any ' bill hooke, hatchett, axe, or any other edge toole what- 

 soever,' under pain of i zd. The final order sets the unusually heavy 

 penalty of %s. 4^. on any such ' as gather greene boughes to sell to Lon- 

 don oute of any parte of the chace.' " 



There are also some brief references to the chase during Elizabeth's 

 long reign. In 1575 John Turnpenny and William Killingworth were 

 committed to ward for hunting in Her Majesty's chase of Enfield, but 

 were released on the finding of sureties. 18 In November, 1 600, a note 

 was taken of all the deer served by warrant or otherwise out of Enfield 

 Chase, in the west, east, and south bailiwicks ; from the recent audit held 

 at Allhallowtide, 1590-1600, the total number was forty-five bucks and 

 eighteen does. 17 



The timber of the chase is mentioned in a curious petition, pre- 

 sented about 1585 to the queen from John Taylor, asking licence to 

 export 400 tuns of beer annually for twelve years free of custom. The 

 petitioner pleaded that he had served her and her father beyond the seas 

 in the wars, and had received no recompense save thirty loads of wood 

 from Enfield Chase, value 30^." 



Norden, writing of Enfield Chase in 1596, says : ' a solitary desert, 

 yet stocked with not less than 3,000 deere.' 19 



During the reign of James I the notices of this royal chase are 

 more frequent. In April, 1603, a report was made to Secretary Cecil 

 as to an assembling of women at White Webbs, on Enfield Chase, to 

 maintain a right that the wood of the chase should not be carried out of 

 Enfield, but burnt in the king's house there, or else given to the poor. 80 

 In July, 1608, a warrant was issued to pay John West, keeper of the 

 West Baily walk in Enfield Chase, 30 per annum for provision of hay 

 for the deer ; " this large amount shows that there was every intention 

 to maintain a considerable stock of fallow deer. In 1 6 1 1 the king gave 

 assurance under his sign manual in reply to a remonstrance of the knights 

 and gentlemen of Hertfordshire, that he would not disgrace his chase by 



" Harl. MS. 368, fol. 104-6. " S.P. Dom. Eliz. cvi, 45. 



17 Ibid, cclxxv, 113. " Ibid. Addenda, xxix, 68. 



" Norden, Surv. tfMldd. 26. " S.P. Dom. Jas. I, i, 25. 



" Ibid, xxxv, \. West died in 1639, whereupon Charles I granted this keepership to Ralph 

 Potter, with a like annual sum for providing hay. 



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