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ing year he paid the considerable sum of 900 marks, as well as 

 five palfreys, to have livery of the property of the said Ada, 

 and to enjoy the keepership of the forests of the county in as 

 ample a way as Hugh de Morvill had held it. Reginald died in 

 1214, and Ada, his widow, gave a fine of 500 marks for livery 

 of her inheritance including the forestership. The widow 

 married Thomas de Multon, who paid 100 fine and one 

 palfrey to the Crown, soon after the accession of Henry III., 

 to hold the office of forestkeeper in right of his wife. Thomas 

 de Multon, who was frequently sheriff of Cumberland, died 

 in 1240, and is named as forest keeper in various documents, 

 such as that generally issued after the great storm of 1222. 

 In 1229 Thomas de Multon received orders to supply Roger 

 de Quincy with two stags out of the Cumberland Forest as a 

 gift from the king. Two years later Multon was instructed to 

 prohibit the foresters from entertaining or affording hospitality 

 to those passing through the county forest. 



Several manors within the forest were granted, in 1242, to 

 the kings of Scotland in satisfaction of their claims on the 

 northern counties of England, but they were resumed at a later 

 period by Edward I. 



At an eyre, held in the reign of Henry III., Robert, Bishop 

 of Carlisle, was fined the heavy sum of 6g 6s. for depreda- 

 tion of the herbage of Cumberland Forest ; but this sum was 

 forgiven to his executors in the next reign. 



With the beginning of Edward I.'s reign, the term Forest of 

 Cumberland gave way, for the most part, to the title of Ingle- 

 wood Forest; but the latter title had a more restricted significa- 

 tion, as the older county forest included several manors be- 

 tween the river Eden and the parish of Alston. 



In 1274 Edward I. ordered an inquest to be held whether or 

 no Alexander, King of Scotland, and his men of Penrith and 

 Salkeld ought to have, and have been accustomed to have, 

 common of pasture in any part of the park of Plumpton, 

 which was enclosed in the time of Henry III., and, if so, 

 within what bounds ; and also to make like inquiry as to the 

 King of Scotland and his men having any claim to housebote 

 and heybote in any part of Inglewood Forest. Plumpton Park 

 was disafforested in the time of Henry VIII. 



Richard le Escat, one of the Inglewood foresters, killed 



