322 THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



other fees and forest rights worth 49 13^. 4^. a year. And 

 the whole of this was in addition to the venison and rootfallen, 

 windfallen, and dead timber and general lop and crop that per- 

 tained to the general office of chief keeper or warden of a royal 

 forest. Trees, coppice wood, and game still technically belonged 

 to the king, but the Crown value was much reduced by this ex- 

 ceptionally generous patent. 



An elaborate survey of Clarendon park was taken by the 

 Commonwealth in 1650, which is cited in full by Hoare. The 

 impaled ground of this park then included 4,293 acres, and 

 was said to be worth 1,806 js. id. per annum. It was 

 divided into five parts of about equal value, the bounds of each 

 of which are duly set forth. The names of the five divisions 

 were the Ranger's, Theobald's, Fussell's, Palmer's, and 

 Hunt's. In addition to these divisions, which were in the 

 parishes of Alderbury, St. Martin's, Salisbury, and Laver- 

 stock, there was also a survey taken at the same time of the 

 Outlodge district, on the east side of Clarendon park, in the 

 parish of Pitton; it is described by the commissioners as being 

 within "the disafforested forest of Pannsett, alias Panshett," 

 and no part of Clarendon Park. 



The deer of the park, distributed about the five divisions, 

 numbered 500 "or thereabouts," and were valued at 20^. 

 apiece. The timber trees, in addition to saplings, numbered 

 14,919 ; they appear to have been all oaks. Many had been 

 recently cut down and marked for the navy. The undergrowth 

 was chiefly maple and thorn. 



After the Restoration, in 1665, Charles II. granted Claren- 

 don park to George Monk, Duke of Albemarle. 



MELKSHAM AND PEWSHAM 



The forest district nearest to the centre of the county 

 was that of Melksham, which was about equally distant 

 from Chippenham, Devizes, Calne, Trowbridge, and Coss- 

 ham. During the later part of its history it was frequently 

 termed the forest of Melksham and Pewsham, Pewsham being 

 an extra-parochial district south of Chippenham, which is now 

 included in the new parish of Derry Hill. But the more usual 

 title in the reign of Henry III. was the forest of Melksham 

 and Chippenham, Chippenham occasionally coming first. 



