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Thomas Foljambe, 1277; Thomas de Normanville, 1277; 

 Thomas de Furnival, 1279 ; Thomas le Ragged, 1280 ; Thomas 

 Foljambe, 1281 ; and Robert Bozon, 1283. 



The Campana foresters-of-fee of that date were John Daniel, 

 Thomas le Archer, Thomas son of Thomas Foljambe, a minor 

 in the custody of Thomas de Gretton ; Nicholas Foljambe, who 

 had been a minor in the custody of Henry de Medue, but was 

 then of full age ; and Adam Gomfrey. Of these foresters, 

 Adam Gomfrey and Thomas Foljambe held jointly the same 

 bovate, which had formerly been divided between two brothers. 

 Also Thomas Foljambe and John le Wolfhunte held another 

 bovate in the same way, John holding his half by hereditary 

 descent, whilst Thomas Foljambe, senior, had acquired his 

 half by marriage with Katherine, daughter of Hugh de 

 Mirhaud. This subdivision of serjeanties became burden- 

 some to the district, as each forester-of-fee endeavoured to have 

 a servant maintained at the expense of the tenants, but the 

 jurors confirmed a decision of the hundred court of 1275 to 

 the effect that there could be only four such servants or officers, 

 according to ancient custom, for the Campana bailiwick. The 

 names of the foresters-of-fee for the two other wards are also 

 set forth. 



Although a considerable proportion of the offenders were 

 dead before the eyre was held, the rolls of venison and vert 

 trespassers show no fewer than 517 separate charges extending 

 over the thirty-four years since the last pleas. 



The gravest charge at this eyre, as at the last, was against 

 an Earl of Derby. Robert Earl Ferrers was presented for 

 having, in 1264, with a great company of knights and other 

 persons of position, hunted in the Campana forest on 7th July 

 and taken forty head of deer, and drove another forty out of 

 the forest ; and on ist August took fifty and drove away about 

 seventy ; and again on 29th September took forty and drove 

 away a like number. This hunting was planned on a whole- 

 sale scale, for thirty-eight are named in the presentment, and 

 there were many others, as well as the earl himself, who were 

 dead before the eyre was held, and others not summoned as 

 they were mere servants of the earl. Eight out of the thirty- 

 eight were knights, and one, Master Nicholas de Marnham, 

 rector of Doddington, Lincoln, was in holy orders. Of those 

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