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prisoned, but was subsequently released at the king's pleasure 

 for a fine of 200 marks. 



Edward I. made his chace (facit chaceam suam) in the forest 

 in 1275. At that time Thomas Fitz-Nicholas and Richard 

 Fitz-Godfrey of Monyash went into the forest with the king's 

 hounds and carried off some of the venison to their own 

 houses. Whereupon William le Wynn, Lord of Monyash, 

 whose tenants they were, summoned them to his manorial 

 court, where Thomas was fined 4^. and Richard 6s. 8d. For 

 this illegal adjudication in case of venison trespass William le 

 Wynn was presented by the foresters, and the justices fined 

 him 20-r., and required him to find pledges of future observance 

 of the assize of the forest. 



At a swainmote held at Chapel-en-le-Frith in March, 1280, 

 William Foljambe appeared before Thomas le Ragged, the 

 bailiff, and presented that Henry de Medue took a doe with a 

 certain black greyhound called " Collyng" at Camhead, under- 

 taking to verify the charge in a penalty of 100 marks ; Henry 

 denied the charge, and retorted that William Foljambe and 

 his brother-in-law, Gregory, with the aid of his servants and 

 shepherds at Martinside, Weston, and Wormhill, had de- 

 stroyed a hundred head of game, and undertook to prove it 

 under a like penalty. The jury at the forest pleas found 

 Henry guilty, and he was fined 5. William and his com- 

 pany were found not guilty of taking a hundred, but guilty 

 of taking twenty ; he was fined 20 marks. Collyng was evi- 

 dently a well-known greyhound ; the name occurs in another 

 presentment of a different date against Thomas Medue. 



In the Peak Forest, as elsewhere, foresters-of-fee, as well 

 as their servants or under-foresters, were now and again con- 

 victed of venison trespass. Thus Robert de Milner, at the 

 time when he was a forester of Longdendale, took over twenty 

 head of game and carried them to his father's house ; not 

 . appearing at the eyre, he was outlawed. John Pycard, a 

 forester under Milner, was also convicted of killing six deer. 

 Ten other foresters-of-fee were fined during this eyre. 



A succession of bailiffs, in addition to Thomas de Furnival, 

 were convicted of venison or cognate offences, or the improper 

 release of offenders. 



The offences, both of vert and venison trespass and of 



