2 3 o THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



in the register of Bishop Swinfield shows that when the bishop 

 was at Ross, on a visitation tour, in 1206, his huntsmen killed 

 a young stag in his chase of Penyard, but a dispute arose 

 between the bishop's servants and the king's foresters of 

 Dean, whether the place where the stag was caught was not 

 within the forest. An inquest was held at Howl Hill, when 

 the jury declared that it was lawfully caught within the epis- 

 copal chase. 



