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former more especially found in parks. The foresters reported 

 that Thomas, son of Adam de Berewyk, clerk, wounded at 

 night a certain buck within the township of Lancaster, and 

 followed it up with bow and arrows, but the deer escaped and 

 recovered. Immediately after the deed, Thomas entered into 

 the service of certain magnates outside the county of Lan- 

 caster. The foresters were ordered to try and find and attach 

 him. 



On Thursday, after the feast of St. Katherine, 1293, a certain 

 buck was found strangled in the forest of Claughton. An 

 inquest was held, and the jury found that a certain white dog 

 whose they knew not followed the said buck from Quern - 

 more to Langlandebroke ; that one Thomas de Harrey, coming 

 that way, struck the buck on the back and broke its back ; that 

 Thomas immediately after fled, and they were not able to find 

 him. The flesh and horns of the buck were given, in accord- 

 ance with the Forest Charter, to the lepers of Lancaster. 



At a court held at Easter, 1299, before the verderer, Ingel- 

 ram de Gynet, Roger de Croft, and many others of the 

 Ingelram family, were presented for hunting with greyhounds 

 in Wyersdale ; and Ralph de Bray for killing a doe with 

 arrows and carrying it off. The offenders were committed, to 

 use modern parlance, to the next forest pleas, but admitted to 

 bail. At Trinity, in the same year, the attachment court was 

 attended by three foresters and twenty-four sub-foresters ; four 

 of the sub-foresters held their office by right of service, and are 

 entered as defeodo. 



At the court of attachment held on Thursday after the 

 festival of St. Barnabas, Harry, the parker of Quernmore, 

 swore that the Sunday after the feast of St. Cecilia he was stand- 

 ing in the park and saw through the park pales Richard de 

 Thirnum and Richard Cokker kill a doe and carry it off. He 

 followed them, and shot arrows at them, so that they fled, leaving 

 the venison, which was carried to Lancaster Castle. At a 

 later court in the same year it was presented that the foresters 

 found two men armed with bows and arrows in the forest 

 of Quernmore, and two shepherds with their staffs with them, 

 and that all four were taken prisoners to Lancaster. 



In the next few years there were various presentments for 

 taking harts and hinds. In 1306 several offenders came by 



