3 i4 THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



for the abbess of Romsey to make planks for the dormitory, 

 and two oaks for the prioress of Amesbury to mend the quire 

 stalls. As to wood for fuel, the Bishop of Salisbury obtained 

 a grant of forty loads in 1224; Walter Fitz-Peter obtained 

 three dead trees (tria bona sicca robora folia non ferentid) for 

 his hearth, in 1230; and the nuns of Amesbury five loads of 

 firewood in 1233, in addition to their customary privilege of 

 estover. 



During the like period the orders for timber from this 

 forest for the works at the palace and park of Clarendon were 

 numerous, and in 1223, after the great gale, the large sum 

 of 40 from the sale of the rootfallen trees of this forest 

 was appropriated to the works at Winchester Castle. 



Among the grants of deer from this forest, may be mentioned 

 a grant in 1223 of hunting ten bucks to the Earl of Salisbury, 

 and a gift of four does to the Bishop of Salisbury in the 

 following year. In 1228 one Savory de Malo Leone had a 

 royal grant from Clarendon of five live does; and in 1229 

 William Earl of Pembroke obtained'' twenty Clarendon does 

 towards stocking his park at Hampstead. The supply of 

 fallow deer was evidently considerable in this forest, but there 

 is no record of red deer. 



At an inquisition of the hundred of Alderbury, in 1255, the 

 jurors returned that the forest of Clarendon was well warded, 

 but that the park of Milchet was then waste through the king's 

 frequent gifts and sales, and through supplying the works at 

 Clarendon and Salisbury. The jurors of 1275 returned that 

 the king held this forest in his own hands. John de 

 Grymstede held the manor of Plaitford by serjeanty of 

 warding the park of Milchet ; Jordan de Laverstoke held 

 land at Laverstoke, and Edmund de Milford at Milford 

 by finding respectively a forester for Clarendon ; and Henry 

 de Heyraz by finding a keeper for the king's running hounds 

 (canes heyricii]. 



The royal gifts and orders as to wood from Clarendon forest 

 were almost as profuse in Edward I.'s time as in that of his 

 predecessor, particularly at the beginning of his reign. In 

 1275, the king granted four oaks to the priory of Mottisfont, 

 and six oaks to one William de Fennes, as well as ordering 

 twenty oaks out of Milchet wood for joists (gistas) and eight 



