342 THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



forest pleas, for a forest that was not strictly royal, was 

 granted to Richard Earl of Cornwall, to whom the castle, 

 manor, borough of Lydford and the forest of Dartmoor had 

 been granted. 



Geoffrey of Langley, justice of the forest, was at that 

 date ordered by the king, as a concession to the Earl of 

 Cornwall, when he had finished the eyre then being held in 

 the county of Nottingham, to proceed to Dartmoor for a like 

 purpose. 



Mr. Brooking Rowe prints a rendering of the ministers' 

 accounts of Edmund Earl of Cornwall relative to Dartmoor 

 for the years 1296-7. The items are arranged under the heads 

 of the borough and manor Lydford, including the fee-farm 

 rent, and profits arising from water-mill, fairs, toll-tin, and 

 stray cattle ; and the forest, including profits from water-mill, 

 from township fines for pasturing cattle, from peat-diggers, 

 from the agistment of 2,442 cattle at \\d. a head, from 487 

 horses at 2d. each horse, and from pannage, etc. There were 

 various court fines chiefly for straying cattle, but two for tres- 

 pass during the fence month show that some care was taken of 

 the red deer. Under the head of allowances, 6os. is entered as 

 paid to the parson of Lydford, and 42$. for the stipends and 

 drink money (poutura) of the foresters, with 22^. for their ex- 

 penses in the fence month, and stipends and drink money 

 for twelve herdsmen from 3rd May to i5th August, j6s. 6d. 

 There was a clear balance on the whole account for the Earl of 

 Cornwall of ^44 2s. 



That the deer were well warded, in addition to the cattle, is 

 shown by the supplies of salted venison that were sent to 

 Edward I. and Edward II. from this forest. 



From the reign of Edward III. to that of James I. there are 

 various ministers' accounts and court rolls among the duchy 

 muniments at the Public Record Office. The forest was 

 divided into four quarters or wards, known from the points of 

 the compass as East, West, North, and South, and the 

 accounts of each were kept separately. The accounts of Robert 

 de Cleford, the keeper and receiver of the moneys for turves, 

 agistments, etc., for the years 1354-5, show the following par- 

 ticulars for the first three wards, that for the South being 

 mutilated : 



