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Brigstock and Stanion within the forest protested. The court 

 gave judgment in favour of the tenants, and instructed David 

 Malpas, lieutenant of the forest, to take with him a sufficiency 

 of the king's servants to cast down, if necessary, the ditches 

 and hedges, and to see that the tenants had sufficient and 

 easy ways of approach to the common ; but he was in the first 

 instance to call upon John Zouch and " such other gentelmen" 

 as might be concerned in the encroachment, to themselves 

 remove the fences, and in no case was he to suffer the actually 

 aggrieved tenants to take part in the work of demolition. 



Viscount Welles, as master forester, was entitled to twelve 

 bucks and twenty-four does annually throughout all the bailies, 

 and these are all duly entered for each of the five years. 

 There seem to have been at this period far more deer in the 

 baily of Cliff than in the other two bailies. John Nightingale, 

 yeoman, lately deceased, who had been keeper of Cliff park 

 for a long period, had killed therein 340 deer during the reigns 

 of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III. The murrain 

 during the same period had been terribly severe, for 1,400 head 

 of game had died of disease. In Moorhay and Westhay (in 

 Cliff baily), during the first five years of Henry VII. 's reign, 

 the foresters killed twenty deer with dogs and bows and 

 arrows. Two were allowed to be killed yearly by the foresters 

 in each of these subdivisions for the training of their young 

 dogs. In the same two districts of the forest, Viscount Welles 

 and Sir Grey Wolston, the lieutenant of Cliff, killed in the 

 first year thirty-one does and fourteen bucks ; in the second 

 year, twenty-five does and twelve bucks ; in the third, twenty- 

 nine and thirteen ; in the fourth, twenty-three and sixteen ; and 

 in the fifth, fifteen and ten. The deaths from murrain during 

 these five years amounted to 282. During the same period 

 David Philip, Esquire, who was constable of Fotheringhay 

 castle, and who had succeeded Nightingale as keeper of 

 Cliff park, killed five bucks and eight does. The Earl of 

 Wiltshire killed a buck and a doe ; and 100 died of murrain. 

 Those killed by David Philip and Lord Welles in Moorhay 

 and Westhay were for distribution among the county gentle- 

 men to secure their goodwill inter generosos patrie pro meliore 

 securitate et utilitate domini foreste. 



Sulehay and Shortwood formed another division of the baily 



