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to cross the seas, to admit Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, his 

 kinsman, to chase in that forest at pleasure, and to permit 

 him to take deer, and to aid and counsel him in so doing. A 

 record was to be kept of the number of the deer thus taken. 



The forest perambulations of 1299-1300 yield the following 

 as to the Surrey side of this forest : 



"The perambulation of the forest of Windsor, in the county of 

 Surrey, made on the Saturday next before the feast of St. Gregory 

 the Pope, in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of king Edward, at 

 Lambeth before Roger Brabancon, John of Berwick, Ralph of 

 Hingham, William Inge, and John of Croxley, in the presence of 

 Phillip de Sai, clerk of the justice of the forest, the foresters and 

 verderers of the forest aforesaid, by the oath of William Aumbesas, 

 John of Burstow, Robert of Bekwell, knights, Robert le Dol, Robert 

 of Walton, William of Northwood, John Prodhomme, Robert att 

 Send, Nicholas of Weston, Richard of Horton, Edmund of Utworth, 

 and John of Farnham, who say upon their oath that the whole county 

 of Surrey was forest in the time of king Henry, the great-grand- 

 father of the king who now is, and the same king Henry died seised 

 of it ; and so it remained forest until the fourth day of December in 

 the first year of the reign of king Richard, who then disafforested a 

 certain part of the same county by certain metes, which are contained 

 in the charter of the same king Richard made concerning them, to 

 wit, between Kent and the water which is called the Wey, and from 

 the hill of Guild Down as far as the county of Surrey extends 

 towards the south ; and the rest of the county aforesaid, to wit, 

 beginning at the water of the Wey, as far as the county of Surrey 

 extends, to the north of the hill of Guild Down, remained and is 

 forest. And after that charter was made nothing was afforested or 

 occupied by king Richard or by king John or by anybody else. 



" They say also that they do not know that any part of the county 

 aforesaid was afforested by the aforesaid Henry, the great-grand- 

 father of the king who now is." 



There was a good deal of fickleness shown by Edward III. 

 and his advisers with regard to the Surrey part of the forest 

 at the beginning of his reign, as shown by the entries on the 

 Patent and Close Rolls. On 27th December, 1327, the recent 

 perambulation of the Surrey forest was confirmed. The per- 

 ambulation began at " Waymuthe," and thence along the 

 Thames to " Ladenlakeshacehe," where the three counties of 



