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and proved by the verderers and by twenty-four good men of 

 the town of Guildford and its vicinity, as well as by many 

 sworn townships, that Walter Walerund, William his brother, 

 and three others who were all dead, as well as Thomas de 

 Bois, a survivor, were all habitual evildoers to the venison 

 of the king and to his conies in Guildford park ; that some- 

 times they were harboured at the house of Alan de Slyfield, 

 and sometimes at the house of John atte Hook, who were privy 

 to their offences ; and that all these persons, on Whitsunday, 

 1267, took in the park, without warrant, a buck, a doe, and 

 thirteen conies, and that Robert de Ford was their harbourer 

 and privy to it. Ralph, Alan, and John appeared, and were 

 convicted and imprisoned. The sheriff was ordered to produce 

 Thomas and Robert at the court on i8th July. When Thomas 

 de Bois appeared he was imprisoned, but before the pleas were 

 ended he was released on payment of a mark. Ralph, Alan, 

 and John were also released on payment of half a mark. The 

 next presentment was against five persons who entered the 

 same park on 22nd July, 1263, with bow and arrows and grey- 

 hounds, to do evil to the king's venison. Three of the offenders 

 were dead, and the other two were ordered to attend the court 

 day by day. It was afterwards proved that two more persons 

 of this poaching party had entered the park seven years pre- 

 viously; one of these was then living at Farnborough, and the 

 justice sent an order to the sheriff 1 of Hampshire to arrest him 

 and keep him safely in prison until the eyre was held at 

 Winchester. 



The information as to the agisting of the park, presented at 

 this eyre, is of interest. In 1257 the park was agisted with 

 ten horses and a hundred cattle for eight weeks, from Hock- 

 day to the Nativity of St. John Baptist, at a charge of id. a 

 head. After 24th June there remained on the park herbage 

 twenty plough-beasts at \d. a week. In the same year the 

 .park was agisted for 156 pigs, and there was given in the 

 name of pannage for the king every third pig, or 52 pigs in 

 all, each worth 2s. Particulars, approximately the same, save 

 that there was no pannage, follow on the roll for the next 

 two years. In 1260 there was no agistment of herbage in con- 

 sequence of the war, but the park was agisted with 240 pigs for 

 mast, ^d. being paid for each pig. In 1261 and in 1262 the 

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