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man, one Thomas de la Linde, with his companions, hunte< 

 this hart and killed it at a bridge, thence called Kingstag 

 bridge, in the parish of Pulham. The king, in his wrath, not 

 only punished the offenders by imprisonment and fine, but 

 severely taxed all their lands, "the owners of which yearly, 

 ever since to this day, pay a sum of money, by way of fine 01 

 amercement, into the Exchequer, called White Hart Silver, ii 

 memory of which this county needeth no better remembrance 

 than this annual payment." Leland says: "This forest 

 streatchid from Ivelle unto the quarters of Shaftesbyri, and 

 touchid with Gillingham Forest that is nere Shaftesbyri." The 

 ancient bounds and a few other particulars are set forth in the 

 third edition of Hutchins' Dorset (iv. 516-19). 



POORSTOCK 



In the parish of Poorstock (between Beminster and Brid- 

 port) and the adjacent country was the old royal forest of Poor- 

 stock. John de la Lynde held the bailiwick of this forest in 

 the time of Henry III. It was of comparatively small extent ; 

 the perambulation of 1300 shows that it had one forester-of-fee, 

 Walter de la Lynde, and one verderer, Robert de Byngham. 

 This perambulation is set forth in Hutchins' Dorset (ii. 317). 



