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kylled iij bukkys, a preket and a doo wyth owte ony lycens or autoryte 

 of ony keper. 



" Presentyd by a offycer that one Robart Dyer otherwise called 

 Robart Foster the xv th day of October the viij th yere of Kyng Henry 

 the vij th come into the Newe Forest that is to say to Fette Thurnes 

 within the bayly of Battramsley and there fellyd and caryed away 

 the nowmbyr of xij lode of grene thurnes. The said prisoner appered 

 and deposed the contrary . . . and put in plege for his fyne." 



The last of these extracts refers to a hard case when Charles I. 

 was attempting to revive forest law. 



In November, 1639, Henry Earl of Holland, chief justice 

 in eyre, reduced on petition the fine of .30 for a venison 

 offence in the New Forest in the case of one Harmon Rogers 

 to 5, and ordered his release from prison on giving sureties 

 to be of good behaviour towards the forest. The petition set 

 forth that Harmon was 



"a miserable poore man in lamentable distresse, hath a poore wife 

 and vij small children, had great losse by fire, one of his children is 

 a creeple, hath a blind man to his father that wholly lyeth upon him, 

 hath been twice imprisoned for this one fault, and in his present 

 durance is ready to starve for want of food and so are his children 

 at home, at this present 30 li in debt, and hath no meanes in the world 

 to releive himself his blind father wife and vij childrene but his pain- 

 full labour and never did or will, as God shall help him, commit any 

 fault or offense against his Majesties game but onely one. " 



ALICE HOLT AND WOOLMER 



In addition to the New Forest, Hampshire had two other 

 large forest areas Alice Holt and Woolmer, and the forest 

 of Bere. 



Alice Holt, a comparatively modern and unfortunate cor- 

 ruption of Axisholt, and Woolmer, though apparently always 

 separated by a small strip of non-forest land, were practically 

 one, and formed a considerable stretch of country, chiefly wood- 

 land, on the borders of Surrey and Sussex. They were almost 

 invariably under the same general control, though having 

 their separate minor forest ministers. Thus, in 1217, Axis- 

 holt and Wulvemar formed one bailiwick in the charge of 

 Robert de Venoit, and again, in the beginning of Edward I.'s 



