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oaks for shingles (cindulas] for the works at Clarendon. In 

 1276, the bailiff of Clarendon forest had orders to supply the 

 sheriff of Wilts with four oaks fit for timber, to enable him to 

 rebuild the king's mill under the castle of Old Sarum, which 

 had been thrown down by the force of the river ; thirty oaks 

 were granted to the abbess of Wilton towards the building of 

 her church, and ten cartloads of brushwood to the Domini- 

 cans of Wilton. In the same year orders were given for 

 supplying forty oaks for shingles for roofing the new works at 

 Clarendon, and also sixty beams of timber to make rafters 

 (chevrones\ for Queen Eleanor, to be used in the buildings 

 at Lyndhurst. In 1277, the queen had a further grant of 

 twenty oaks out of Milchet park to make laths (latas] for the 

 use of her manor house of Lyndhurst, of the king's gift. It is 

 curious to find timber being imported into the centre of the 

 New Forest ; it seems to imply that there was at that date very 

 little wood suitable for timber in the great Hampshire forest. 



The grants of timber were not so numerous in the reign of 

 Edward II. Among them may be mentioned orders to the 

 keeper of Clarendon forest, in 1320-1, to deliver to the 

 sheriff for the repair of the king's water-mills below the castle 

 of Old Sarum thirty oaks and twenty beeches. The beeches 

 were to be felled in Buckholt wood, and as there are other 

 references to the beeches of Buckholt in the reigns of 

 Richard II., Edward IV., and Henry VII., it seems likely that 

 Buckholt was almost if not entirely a wood of beeches. 



The adjacent small forest of Groveley was attached to that of 

 Clarendon early in the fourteenth century. A return of the 

 sales of the underwood for the last four years is entered on the 

 Great Roll at Michaelmas, 1333. It was evidently the habit to 

 clear out the undergrowth of a certain number of acres, re- 

 presenting different sized coppices each year. The following 

 is a table of the sales and average. The total for the four years 

 is 116 15-$-. \o\d. : 



CLARENDON PARK. GROVELEY FOREST. 



