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verderers, were in attendance, as well as their successors, 

 Henry Slyfeld and John Westbrook. 



The regarders numbered eighteen ; two of them were 

 described as gentlemen. There were seven woodwards, each 

 of whom returned omnia bene. The reeves and four-men of 

 the townships of Ash, Byfleet, Chertsey, Egham, Frimley, 

 Horsell, Pirbright, Thorpe, Windesham, Woking, and Worp- 

 lesdon were in attendance, as well as thirteen free tenants. 



Among the offences dealt with at this eyre were the cutting 

 down without licence of forty oaks within the forest at Pir- 

 bright ; killing a great buck at Crowford bridge ; the killing 

 of a hind calf with greyhounds by Thomas Forde of Pirbright, 

 who was one of the foresters of the forest of Windsor ; the 

 felling and removing of 400 oaks and 300 beeches by Thomas 

 Abbot of Chertsey, without licence ; killing a stag with grey- 

 hounds at Wanburgh ; and various instances of shooting at 

 deer, or slaying them with bows and arrows, and setting nets 

 for their capture. Ralph Baggley was fined IOOT. for being 

 a common destroyer of pheasants and partridges and a taker 

 of birds. Another transgressor had slain six pheasants with 

 a hawk. 



The reeve and four-men of Chobham presented John Wode 

 for following the craft of a tanner within the forest, and he 

 was fined i2d. They also presented another man for having 

 a warren, and he was mulcted in the like sum. 



The following particulars were supplied to the justices re- 

 specting the deer of Guildford park during Henry VII. 's 

 reign : 



" The sum of the Dere slayn by our Sovereyn lorde the kynge 

 in the parke of Gylforde att the feste of Seynt Mychaell the fyrste 

 yere of hys Reygne. 



Imprimis slayn of Dere of Auntyller xvj. 



Item the same season Ix doys. 



Item iij fones. 



Item ij prykettes. 



Item the same yere my lord Madurface iij doys and a prykett. 



Item Syr John Arundell a Doo. 



Item Master Bowchere ij Doys. 



Item Syr Thomas Mylborne a Do we. 



Item my lady of Lyncolne a Doo. 



