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wood, Lindley, and Welby. In the second keeping, of High 

 Forest, Robert de Everingham was to have two riding foresters 

 with their servants, two foot foresters, two verderers, and two 

 agisters. In this keeping were the two parks of Birkland, 

 with Billahaugh and Clipston, to which pertained two other 

 verderers and two agisters. In the third keeping of Rume- 

 wood there was to be one foot forester, two verderers, and two 

 agisters ; and also two woodwards,, one for Carburton and 

 another for Dudley. 



It was also declared that Robert de Everingham ought to 

 provide a servant, bearing his bow, to gather cheminage 

 through the forest. 



At the same inquisition it was further stated that the abbey 

 of Rufford was entitled, by charter of Henry II., to a liberal 

 measure of vert throughout the forest, for they could have 

 whatever timber they required for the building or repairing 

 not only of their establishment at Rufford, but also for all their 

 granges, whether they were situated within or without the 

 forest ; they also held the right of haybote, or whatever they 

 required for their fences. The monks might have a forester or 

 woodward of their own, but he was to do fealty before the 

 king's justices, and to report at the attachment courts what 

 trees had been taken by the abbey's orders. 



Among the grants of timber from this forest made to 

 religious houses in the earlier part of the reign of Edward I. 

 may be mentioned ten oaks, with their loppings (esccetis], for 

 the Carmelite friars of Lincoln (1276) ; thirty oaks to the prior 

 of Blyth, to repair his house, accidentally burned (1278); 

 four oaks to the Austin friars of Tickhill, for the work of their 

 church, and six to the Franciscan friars of Nottingham for 

 a like purpose (1279); four oaks fit for timber to the Austin 

 friars of Lincoln (1280) ; twelve oaks to the priory of Shelford 

 (1281); twelve oaks to the same priory, four oaks to the 

 Franciscan friars of Nottingham, and six oaks for timber to 

 the Franciscan friars of Lincoln, together with twelve oaks for 

 roofing shingles. Oaks were also on several occasions in this 

 reign supplied from Bestwood park for the repairs of Notting- 

 ham Castle, and of the royal mills below the castle. 



The royal warrants at this period for Sherwood venison and 

 deer are fairly frequent. The king kept Easter, 1276, at 



