298 THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



the forest pleas, and justice-seats were held both at Bagshotand 

 Windsor. Every old formality was strictly observed ; at the 

 opening each forester had to present his horn on bended knee 

 to the chief justice in eyre, and each woodward his hatchet ; and 

 these insignia of office were not returned until a fine of half a 

 mark had been rendered. The revival of forest pleas in Surrey 

 was bitterly resented. No part of Surrey had been treated as 



THE HART (TURBERVILE) 



forest until Henry II. 's time, when almost the whole county 

 was by degrees afforested. Richard I. found himself obliged 

 to throw open again all eastward of the Wey, save the royal 

 park and manor of Guildford, leaving the rest of the county 

 to be attached to Windsor, under the title of the bailiwick of 

 Surrey. But from that time onwards there had been more or 

 less resistance to any Surrey afforesting outside the parks, 

 and various sovereigns, particularly Elizabeth, had made im- 

 portant concessions. From 1632 to 1642 many of the gentle- 



