292 THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



Surrey, Berks, and Bucks met ; thence to the eastern corner 

 of Windsor Park, to the mill of Harpsford, to Thornhill, . . . 

 and thence to Bridford, where the three counties of Surrey, 

 Berks, and Hants met. This ratification concluded with the 

 assertion that the whole county of Surrey was without the 

 forest, and was so in the time of Henry, the king's great- 

 grandfather. 



At the same time a mandate was issued to the sheriff to 

 have the king's letters patent read in full county court, the 

 proclamation publicly proclaimed, and to cause it to be 

 observed ; but saving to the king forty days from that date 

 to chase the deer into his forest in places which, according 

 to the perambulation, are without the forest. Another mandate 

 of the like date was issued to the constable of Windsor Castle 

 to use all diligence in chasing all such deer in Surrey into the 

 king's forest within the forty days. 



The sheriff of Surrey was instructed on i5th October, 1329, 

 to make summons for an eyre of forest pleas for that county 

 at Guildford, on Monday after St. Andrew's Day. 



On 4th August, 1333, the Surrey disafforesting of six years 

 earlier date, apparently based on hasty and insufficient in- 

 formation, was annulled. Order was then issued to obtain 

 full imformation as to the bounds of the Surrey forests in the 

 time of the late king, and to cause them henceforth to be 

 guarded by the like boundaries, and this notwithstanding 

 the grant of 1527; for the king had understood that divers 

 woods and open spaces in Surrey ought to be afforested, as 

 was fully proved by divers inquisitions and memoranda in 

 the treasury, and that the said woods and places under colour 

 of the late grant had been disafforested to the king's manifest 

 harm. 



The forest justices (Sir John Ratcliffe and Sir Reginald 

 Gray) sat at Guildford on 8th August, 1488. The keepers 

 of the parks who were present were Sir Reginald Gray for 

 the parks of Guildford and Henley ; Richard Pigot, for 

 Poltenhall ; and William Mitchell, for Bagshot. 



Sir Thomas Bourchier was the keeper, with Sir William 

 Norris, lieutenant, and William Orchard his deputy. One of 

 the foresters was lately dead, but two foresters and one deputy 

 were present. Henry Stokton and William Bantrum, the late 



