FORESTRY 



After the Restoration the chase was re-established, much planting 

 done, and deer reintroduced. Among the Court Rolls at the Public 

 Record Office 32 is a large bundle of rolls and papers relative to the manor 

 of Enfield, extending from 1653 to 1716. 



As soon as the Restoration was accomplished, the crown received 

 numerous applications for the office of keeper of the different walks of 

 the chase. Captain Thomas Pott was appointed keeper of Westbury 

 walk in August, i66o, 3S and in October Captain William Barker obtained 

 the like office in the South Baily Walk. 34 Samuel Norris, keeper of 

 the East Walk, petitioned for continuance for life in his place, to which 

 he had been ordained twenty-four years ago, having served the crown 

 for thirty years, but had been turned out by the usurper, and was then 

 disturbed by Mr. Hall, who pretended a patent from His Majesty. 

 Norris eventually gained his request, and Hall's appointment was 

 revoked." 



Charles Lord Gerard was appointed ranger and chief keeper of 

 the chase and park of Enfield in 1660, inasmuch as the Earl of 

 Salisbury, the late holder of those offices, forfeited the same by the 

 destruction of the wood and deer, and by suffering the buildings to go 

 to decay. 88 



Not long after the Restoration, the tenants and inhabitants of the 

 manor of Enfield petitioned for leave to bring in a bill to Parliament to 

 inclose their common fields, raising a tax of zos. an acre for a fund to 

 set the poor to work ; they alleged that 200 or 300 poor families 

 removed thither and built cottages on the chase during the troubles, 

 and were gaining a livelihood by destroying and selling the wood. 37 



An effort was made in January, 1662, to restock the chase with 

 deer. A warrant was issued to the ' Masters of the Buck Hounds and 

 of the Toils ' to take such deer from the parks of the Earl of Essex, 

 Mrs. Sadler, Mr. Butler, and Sir Henry Blunt as they shall direct, and 

 convey them to Enfield Chase or elsewhere as ordered by Lord Gerard. 38 



At the court leet of 1 1 June, 1 679, there were several present- 

 ments for vert offences on the chase. William Sherwood of South 

 Mimms was fined 2os. for cutting and carrying away bushes and furze 

 out of Enfield Chase at several times ; two other offenders were fined 

 6s. 8</. each for cutting and carrying away underwood ; two others, 

 3-r. Afd. each ; and William Ducke 5*. for carrying off young trees. 



The records of a court baron of 1689 are exceptionally interesting 

 as supplying a customary of the chases. The jury presented that the 

 tenants and inhabitants of Enfield, among other things, claimed to find 

 an able person to drive the chase for taking up strays thereupon after 

 warning given by the woodward and bailiff of the manor ; also the 

 right to take bushes in the chase to fence their grounds within the 

 parish, by appointment with the woodward, at the price of 8</. a load ; 



" Hodson and Ford, Hist, of Enfield, 36-7 ; S.P. Dom. Commonwealth, cciii, 362, 368. 

 a S.P. Dom. Chas. II, xi, 105. " Ibid, xix, 81. 



** Ibid, ziii, 15. See also xliv, 38 ; zlviii, 8z ; and xcviii, 46. 

 M Ibid, xxxv, 57 ; xlvi, 6. " Ibid, xxii, 153. K Ibid, xlix, 3*. 



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