316 THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



The yearly sale of this undergrowth must have been a boon 

 to the neighbourhood, for where particular records of sales 

 exist, as they do among the Exchequer accounts for most of the 

 reign of Edward III., it is found that the wood was purchased 

 as a rule in quite small lots. Thus, in 1346, when the wood of 

 the coppice by Canonpath, close to the small priory of Ivy- 

 church, which stood within the forest, was sold for 17 yj. id., 

 there were forty-three purchases, the largest sum being 

 26s. 8d. 



An indenture made at the market of Salisbury in 1360, 

 between Robert Russel, lieutenant of Roger Earl March, 

 keeper of the forest and park of Clarendon, and the two ver- 

 derers of the same, with regard to the sale of oak and beech at 

 Buckholt, mention is made of the foresters who had to be 

 maintained. They were eight in number, namely, two each 

 for the forests of Buckholt and Groveley, one for the park of 

 Milchet, and three for the park of Clarendon ; their pay was 

 to be at the rate of 2d. a day. There were also two labourers 

 at \\d. a day, whose chief duty it was to keep the pales or 

 park fence in order. In one document of this date these men 

 are termed "palyers," and at a later date " palers." It is 

 stipulated that all these men were to be paid by the verderers 

 at the rate of 365 days to the year ; that is to say, their wages 

 were due for Sundays and holy days as well as on working 

 days. Several accounts of the reigns of Edward III. and 

 Richard II. show a large expenditure on hay for the sustenance 

 of the deer during the winter. This was quite an exceptional 

 forest expense, and only resorted to for the game in forests or 

 parks frequented by royalty. For the most part their winter 

 food consisted of the deer-browse or clippings from the forest 

 trees. 



The dean and chapter of Salisbury had the tithe of the 

 venison of this forest granted to them by charter of Henry II., 

 confirmed by several subsequent kings. There is an entry 

 among the chapter records of the arrival of fifteen deer for 

 the cathedral clergy in one year of Richard II.'s reign, when 

 the capture of deer had amounted to 150. 



The records of several large forests, where they must have 

 abounded, are destitute of any reference to conies or rabbits. 

 But in the case of Clarendon they were repeatedly mentioned 



