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park was not agisted, neither for herbage nor pannage. 

 In 1263 there were 100 pigs for mast at 4^. a pig. In 1264 

 there was no agistment for pigs through lack of mast, but it 

 was agisted for a month with 56 plough-beasts. Fifty oaks 

 were felled this year for the king's house-building works at 

 Guildford. 



The bounds of the Surrey part of Windsor forest at this 

 eyre were given as : through Ham as far as Guildford bridge 

 along the bank of the Wey ; from Guildford bridge along the 

 11 Copledecroche " (Hog's Back) as far as the "Malloesot" 

 bridge; by the Woodbrook as far as " Brodesford " bridge 

 (Blackwater bridge) ; and so far by the king's highway to 

 Herpesford ; and so by the little river from Herpesford as far 

 as Chertsey ; and so by the Thames to Ham. 



The Close Rolls of 1275 show that the keeper of this forest 

 received a considerable salary. Geoffrey de Picheford, con- 

 stable of the castle, was ordered in that year to pay izd. daily 

 to Robert de Say, whom the king had appointed chief forester 

 and minister of the forest during good behaviour, in place of 

 John Inglehard, deceased, for his expenses about that custody. 

 In that year the foresters and verderers were busy in selecting 

 oaks and beeches throughout the forest to be used for the 

 impaling of Windsor park and the king's other works. A 

 little later in the reign oaks were felled to be used in the 

 making of a great barge for the king's ferry at Datchet. In 

 1276 the constable of the Tower of London obtained thirty 

 Windsor oaks to burn lime with for the works of the Tower. 



The impaling of the new park of Windsor seems to have 

 been completed in 1278. In November of that year the keeper 

 of Chute forest, Wilts, was informed by the king that he was 

 sending one of his yeomen to take in that forest live deer to 

 stock his park at Windsor, and that he was to permit as many 

 to be taken as could be without damage to Chute forest. In 

 the previous year the Close Rolls also supply the information 

 that there were then wild (silvestres) bulls and cows in Windsor 

 park ; the constable was ordered to effect their capture and 

 sale, and to use the money towards the expenses of the king's 

 children then staying at the castle. 



The keeper of Windsor forest received orders from 

 Edward I. on 2Oth May, 1286, when the king was just about 



