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together with the reeve and four men from each of the 

 townships of Ayston, Belton, Braunston, Brooke, Caldon, 

 Lyddington, Ridlington, Stokeley, Uppingham, and Ward- 

 ley. It therefore follows that the actual number of local 

 officials of this comparatively small forest in attendance on the 

 justices exceeded 250. 



The claimants of liberties were the Bishop of Lincoln, the 

 abbot of Kenilworth, Sir Edward Hastings, Everard Digby, 

 Maurice Berkeley, John Cheselden, and Robert Mawes. The 

 Bishop of Lincoln, through William his attorney, stated his 

 considerable claims of hunting and agistment within the forest, 

 more particularly with regard to the park of Lyddington and 

 its deer-leaps. 



Among the presentments it was stated that Thomas Parker, 

 parker of Redlington, and Robert Rokeby, the sub-parker, had 

 felled three lime trees (Le lynerey trees] worth 6s. 8d. each. 

 They had also killed, since the last eyre, eight deer when 

 training their dogs (pro canibus suis ad arcum castigancT). 



The master forester or keeper had distributed eight bucks 

 and ten does among the gentlemen of the district ; eight 

 bucks and twenty-four raskells had died of murrain. 



