102 THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



night with greyhounds into the park of Quernmore, but being 

 perceived by the foresters they fled, leaving behind them five 

 greyhounds. These hounds were caught by the foresters, who 

 took them to Lancaster castle. 



Pleas of the forest were held at Lancaster on Monday, after 

 the feast of St. Peter, 1334, before William le Blount and 

 Henry de Hamburg, justices of the forest, assigns of Henry, 

 Earl of Lancaster. 



The names of the verderers are first entered on the rolls ; 

 the two for " Derbyshire" (i.e. West Derby) were Henry de 

 Atherton de Ayntre and John de Gredleye, but their term of 

 office had apparently expired, for they were removed, and 

 Richard de Alvandeley and Richard de Eltonheved were 

 sworn to that office in their stead. 



Two new verderers were also sworn for the forest or hundred 

 of Amounderness, whilst in the hundred of Lonsdale one of 

 the two old verderers was removed and replaced by a new 

 appointment. 



The names of fifteen foresters of Amounderness and Lonsdale 

 are entered on the roll, but only three appeared, for the re- 

 mainder had died since the last eyre of the justices, and there 

 was no one to answer for them. The three who came said that 

 they appeared for themselves and the other foresters, and that 

 they had no rolls nor indictments to present, for the verderers 

 and their heirs kept such rolls in their own possession, as they 

 were prepared to prove on the oath of their officials. 



The prior of St. Mary's, Lancaster, claimed two cartloads 

 of dead wood for fuel out of the Lancashire forests, save in 

 Wyersdale, on any day he liked in the year, and free ingress 

 and egress in the forest for a cart and two horses, or with two 

 carts and four horses to seek for wood, according to charter of 

 Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, 1260. The prior also claimed tithe 

 of hunting and pannage. 



The burgesses of Lancaster also made their claim for fuel 

 and building wood under a charter by Edmund ; and the 

 burgesses of Preston made like claims with regard to Fulwood 

 forest. The various claims of the abbot of Furness were 

 enforced by the production of charters of John, Henry III., 

 and Earl Edmund, which were duly enrolled. 



The tenants of the town of Broughton in Amounderness 



