160 THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



of the forest. The term used for this in the Peak, Needwood, 

 and other forests is Equitium, for which it does not seem 

 possible to find any single-word English equivalent, unless it 

 is stud. The abbot of Welbeck had one stud of twenty horses 

 and twenty mares in the forest at Cruchell, where King John 

 had given the canons charter rights. The abbot of Merivale 

 had kept a stud of sixteen mares with their foals for six years, 

 to the damage to the king of 2os. The abbot of Basingwerk 

 had a stud of twenty mares for two years, damage 2os. William 

 de Roch had seven mares and foals for one year, 20^. Thomas 

 Foljambe, senior, had seven mares, damage 13^.4^; Thomas 

 had died and the heirs had to respond. 



Bailiff Bernake's accounts of the year 1255-6, already cited 

 in reference to wolves, are also interesting on account of the 

 gifts that he made to the Campana Lodge or Chamber of the 

 Forest. To the chapel he gave a sufficient vestment, an albe, 

 an amyce, a sufficient rochet, a super-altar, an altar cloth made 

 out of an old chasuble, a silver chalice gilded inside, and an 

 old missal and a gradual. To the hall he gave five tables, six 

 old small shields, and a chessboard ; also two tuns of wine, 

 one full and the other having a depth of twelve inches. He 

 also presented various utensils to the kitchen. 



On 1 2th July, 1285, the sheriff of Derbyshire was ordered to 

 cause a regard to be taken of the Peak Forest before Michael- 

 mas, preparatory to the holding of the forest pleas ; and on ist 

 August he was further instructed to issue summons of an eyre 

 for forest pleas, to be held at Derby to all concerned, save 

 Brother William de Henley, prior to the Hospitallers and 

 Edmund the king's brother, who were excused attendance. 



Thirty-four years had passed by since the last eyre was held. 

 The pleas of the forest were held at Derby on 3Oth September, 

 1285, before Roger Lestrange, Peter de Leach, and John Fitz- 

 Nigel, justices of the forest. The full rolls of this eyre are also 

 extant at the Public Record Office. 



From the rolls then produced we are able to continue the list 

 of bailiffs from the time of the last eyre. William de Horsen- 

 den, 1251 ; Ralph Bugg, 1252 ; Ivo de Elynton, 1253 ; Richard 

 de Vernon, 1254; Gervase de Bernake, 1255; Thomas de 

 Orreby, 1256 ; Richard le Ragged, 1257 ; William de Findern, 

 1258; Thomas de Furnival, 1264; Roger Lestrange, 1274; 



