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deputies. Also he hayth in his Fee all forfayte Skynes bothe in 

 Wynter and Somer by accustome. Also he haythe in Fee of Saynt 

 Marye Abbaye in Yorke xijaf, in Tachement monye iiij^ one yere & 

 njs v]d one other yere, at Newborogh xijd, at Bylande xij*/. Item he 

 haythe oute of the Extreacte for his receyvourshippe 405. 



" Suma viij /z v'njs xd" 



Cromwell also held the office of master of the game in this 

 forest, and was declared entitled to rights of herbage, pannage, 

 browsing, " cokkyes or the netting of woodcocks, windfallen 

 wood, fishing and fowling, and the Laund House lodge with its 

 herbage, of the estimated annual value of 10', also i2d for 

 gayte lawe in the hole forest of every 20 horse 6d, of every 20 

 cattle, & 4tf? every score of sheep, & zd of every pakkehorse, 

 2(1 for the hole year of every wayne, in fence moneth 4^ other 

 time zd ; also 34^ 8d St Thomas day, and the last day of fence 

 moneth in certain proportions from the townships. Suma 

 20. i. o" 



The jury returned that " gate-lawe " had been leased for 

 26s. 8d. and had been highly misused by the farmer. They 

 considered that gate money might be taken of all the " bound- 

 erers " that carried their own wood 2d., and 4^. if carrying 

 other men's wood, together with \d. for every horse ; also ^d. 

 for every horse carrying merchandise or other stuff to or from 

 the city of York. 



During the civil war of the seventeenth century, which raged 

 so fiercely round York, the forest of Galtres naturally suffered 

 severely. It was disafforested in the time of Charles II. 



Lack of space prohibits any reference to the Yorkshire forests 

 of Hatfield Chase, Knaresborough, and Wensleydale. 



