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(3) Forest Proceedings, Exchequer, Treasury of Receipt, 

 Henry III. to Charles II. To these documents there are three 

 volumes of MS. Calendars. 



(4) Miscellaneous Books of Exchequer, Treasury of Receipt, 

 vol. 75, Edw. I.; assarts and wastes in diverse forests, vol. 76; 

 pleas and presentments of Sherwood, Hen. III. to Edw. III.; 

 vol. 77, game in all forests north of the Trent, 30 Hen. VIII. 



(5) A Book of Orders concerning Royal Forests, 1637-1648. 

 State Papers, Domestic, Charles I., vol. 384. 



(6) Records of Duchy of Lancaster. A great variety of 

 forest presentments, attachments, perambulations, pleas, etc., 

 Hen. III. to James I., pertain to Lancashire, Yorkshire, 

 Staffordshire, Derbyshire, etc. A printed list of all the Duchy 

 Records was issued in 1901; those relating to forests are on 

 pp. 39-47. Among the maps and plans (pp. 76-80) are many 

 relating to the Forest of the High Peak. 



(7) Lists of Minister Accounts, with thorough indexes, were 

 issued in 1899 ; much royal forest information occurs in many 

 of these accounts. 



(8) Occasionally Court Rolls of Manors, etc., yield informa- 

 tion ; these also have printed lists and indexes, issued in 1896. 



(9) Both Close and Patent Rolls for the thirteenth and four- 

 teenth centuries abound in royal forest incidents; they have been 

 well calendered (printed) for the greater part of this period. 



As to these records, I have a large number of references and 

 brief extracts far more than are used in the following pages 

 for the different counties, and I would gladly on application 

 save trouble, if I could, to any genuine worker as to a particular 

 forest or forests. 



With regard to printed books that bear on the subject, 

 references to the more important will be found in each of the 

 chapters ; but there are three of such real value on this little 

 studied subject that they demand special mention. 



In 1887, Mr. W. R. Fisher published a 4to volume on 

 The Forest of Essex: its History, Laws, Administration, and 

 Ancient Customs, and the Wild Deer which lived in it. The 



