66 THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



At Newland, Gloucestershire, is the defaced fifteenth-century 

 coarse stone effigy of Jenkin Wyrall, forester-of-fee in Dean 

 forest, who died in 1457. 



The two illustrations given of this tomb show the forester 

 wearing a peculiar loose cap, folded in plaits and knotted 

 at the top. He wears a loose frock or jupon, with full sleeves 

 and a short skirt, trunk-hose, and low boots. The horn on 

 the right side is small, whilst on the left side is slung, by 

 double straps, a short hanger or hunting sword. His feet 

 appropriately rest on a brache or hound. 



Sir Henry Dryden was mistaken in considering this "the 



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WYRALL EFFIGY 



only effigy of a forester in hunting costume in England." 

 In the church of Skegby, near Mansfield, is the fourteenth-cen- 

 tury stone effigy of one who must have been a forester-of-fee or 

 some forest minister of Sherwood forest. The photographic 

 plate (No. xix.) gives a vivid picture of his dress. He wears a 

 close-fitting cap, probably of leather ; the tight-fitting sleeves 

 of his inner jerkin show at the wrists through the short hanging 

 sleeves of the outer garment, and over it he wears a tippet that 

 had doubtless a cowl at the back. A hunter's horn hangs at 

 the right side, suspended from a strap over the left shoulder. 

 The feet rest on a hound. 



The quaint figures on page 89 are drawn from scenes in 

 pargeting work on the George Inn, Forster's (or Forester's) 



