EARLY FORESTS 9 



were confined to particular sites, as far as possible on the 

 fringes of the forest. 



The following of trades that were obviously detrimental to 

 the deer, through odour or otherwise, such as the tanning of 

 hides, were rigorously prohibited within forest bounds. 



"Purlieu," strictly speaking, was all that ground near any 

 forest which had originally been forest by perambulation of 

 Henry II., Richard I., or John, but had been severed by the 

 Forest Charter of Henry III. Round some forests the purlieus 

 were of considerable extent. As a rule, the purlieu man had 

 certain forest agistment and other rights, but of considerable 

 less value than the actual forest tenant ; in return for this he 

 was subject to a modified form of forest law, the chief of which 

 was the non-disturbance of deer that he might find among his 

 crops. The tenants on the outskirts of Galtres forest, Yorks, 

 and of Duffield Frith, Derbyshire, were termed "bounderers"; 

 they had certain privileges as well as obligations. 



The purlieu custom varied much in different districts and 

 passed under various local terms. Such were the Wynlands, 

 or Wydelands, of the Peak, and the Venville of Dartmoor. 

 Cran borne Chase, which was nearly identical with a forest, 

 had its well-defined Inbounds and Outbounds. The old name 

 of Out-woods is not infrequently to be found in the vicinity of 

 an old forest, as at Duffield, Clarendon, and Kinver ; its use 

 denotes that the place so called was formerly within the forest 

 purlieus. The forest of Clarendon had its Inlodges and Out- 

 lodges. 



