94 THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



for a few brief extracts from the less known and uncalendered 

 rolls. 



An Exchequer Roll of 1335-6, when Richard de Nevill was 

 keeper, shows that the laund of Plumpton, of which Roger de 

 Wastedale was the agister, charged 6d. a head for horses, ^d. 

 for draught oxen, 3^. for cattle, and 2d. for stirks. Sheep 

 were only allowed on two or three of the launds, and were 

 charged at ^d. a score. The agistments of the year produced 

 26 i$s. q.d. The letting of the lodges of the forest brought in 

 29-$-. 8d. The ward of Penrith commuted the fence month fines 

 by a payment of i6.r. 8d. from six townships, and the ward of 

 Gaystall by a payment of 23^. 8d. from fourteen townships. 

 The pannage money was but small, indicating a decided 

 paucity of woods ; only g^d. from Penrith ward, and 6.r. $^d. 

 from Gaystall ward. Among the attachments of Gaystall 

 were 6d. for a horse, 2d. for two stirks, and 1 2d. for pigs. 



There is another very full agistment and attachment roll 

 of 1375-6, wherein there are various fines, from id. to i2d., for 

 vert offences. 



The accounts of Richard, Earl of Salisbury, for this forest, 

 in the reign of Henry VI., are of a good deal of interest. The 

 returns of the frequent attachment courts are confined to vert 

 offences ; the fine for a cartload of wood was usually 2^., and for 

 a wagon /\d. The fence month fine money in Gaystall ward 

 was 2O.r., contributed by twelve townships, far the heaviest 

 share being 6s. 8^. from the city of Carlisle. The like fine for 

 Penrith ward amounted to 13^. 8d., of which Penrith it- 

 self paid 6s. 8d. The dead wood of Gaystall ward pro- 

 duced iu., and that of Penrith 2os. The small amount of 

 actual wood within this wide sweep of forest is again shown by 

 the lowness of the pannage fees, which only amounted to 

 6.r. o\d. in the two wards. References in forest accounts to 

 churches or chapels (save in the matter of tithes) are quite 

 exceptional ; but in these rolls certain rents of lands at 

 Grueythwaite (Greenthwaite) are assigned to a chapel there, 

 which had recently been rebuilt. 



A survey of Inglewood Forest, taken on 8th August, 1539, 

 mentions Sir Henry Wharton as master of game, and William 

 Hoton, Esquire, as bow-bearer. The officers in the sub-forests 

 of Ashdale and Wastedalehead were Sir Thomas Wharton, 



