268 THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



gave fourteen dead trees for fuel to the Friars Minor of 

 Oxford. 



Forest pleas were held in 1229, when Bucks was associated 

 for that purpose with Hunts. In November, 1255, four forest 

 justices held pleas at Buckingham for the parts of the forests 

 of Bernwood and Whittlewood which were in that county. 

 In the following January the same justices were at Oxford, 

 hearing the pleas for that part of Bernwood which lay in 

 Oxfordshire, together with the forests of Wychwood and 

 Shotover. 



In August, 1266, as set forth by Mr. Turner in Forest 

 Pleas, an inquisition was held at Hartley, in Bernwood forest, 

 concerning the bailiwick of John the son of Nigel, which he 

 held in that forest by hereditary right, as the king wished to 

 be certified as to his rights, customs, and services. The jury 

 certified that he held by hereditary right the bailiwick of this 

 forest from the Stonyford as far as a certain water, called the 

 "Burne," running between Steeple Claydon and Padbury ; 

 and that he had the rights of cheminage, of after pannage, of 

 all nuts, of dead wood, and of the loppings and roots of all 

 trees given or sold or taken for his own use by the king. Two 

 other rights are sufficiently interesting to be set forth in detail. 



" He has and he ought of hereditary right to have throughout the 

 aforesaid bailiwick trees felled by the wind, which is called cablish 

 (chableiz), and that in the form underwritten, to wit, that if the wind 

 fells ten trees in one night and one day, the lord king will have them 

 all ; but if the wind fells less than ten trees in one night and one day, 

 the aforesaid John the son of Nigel will have them all." 



" Also this same John has of right by reason of the same bailiwick 

 all attachments and issues of attachments made of small thorns, to 

 wit, of such a thorn as cannot be perforated by an augur (tarrerd) 

 which is called ' Restnauegar.' ' 



The last clause of the verdict of this inquest was to the 

 effect that John had to guard the bailiwick of all the forest 

 in return for these privileges, and also to make an annual pay- 

 ment to the king of 40^. 



HUNTINGDONSHIRE 



In the early Norman days the greater part of Huntingdon- 

 shire was under forest law, but this was restricted, even in 



