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Wykes was forester for North Dartmoor ; 1,307 cattle, ninety- 

 one horses, forty-two peat-cutters, and twenty-four folds. Aver 

 Wonstan was forester for East Dartmoor; 1,693 cattle, 133 

 horses, twenty-one peat-cutters, and twelve folds. William 

 Ysabel was forester for South Dartmoor; 1,600 cattle, forty- 

 nine horses, sixteen peat-cutters, and twelve folds. William 

 Kelly was forester for West Dartmoor; 1,780 cattle, ninety- 

 seven horses, sixteen peat-cutters, and twelve folds. 



A bundle of court rolls of the beginning of Henry V.'s reign, 

 1399-1405, contain many interesting forest details. At a 

 court for East Dartmoor held a Lydford on St. Luke's Day, 

 there were various fines for unwarranted agistment, and one 

 charge of hunting with greyhounds at Myrepitte on Christmas 

 Day. Though not so styled, there were evidently the regular 

 swainmote courts held in forests every forty days, for courts 

 were also held, for the year 1399-1400, in February, on the 

 Feast of St. David, at Easter, Sts. Philip and James, Whitsun- 

 tide, St. John Baptist, St. Mark, and the Assumption nine 

 in all. 



There were also eight courts held for West Dartmoor, on 

 days quite apart from those for the east ward, including St. 

 Clement's, Christmas, St. Valentine's, and St. Gregory's Days. 

 There is a full list for 1399-1400 of those who turned their 

 cattle (averia) out in East Dartmoor. The contrast is con- 

 siderable between the rich John Abraham (was he of Jewish 

 descent?) who turned out 300 head, and Walter atte Heade 

 who had only a single beast. The total of the cattle is 1,970, 

 and the agistment money came to >ig 6s. ^d. 



The ministers' accounts for 1403-4 show a still large number 

 of agisted cattle on East Dartmoor, namely, 3,159, in addition 

 to twenty-nine horses; the peat-cutters numbered thirty. Richard 

 Wyte was the bailiff-forester. The wages for two foresters stand 

 as in earlier accounts, and there is also los. paid for a warden of 

 the cattle collected at the pound of Dunbryge, and for a clerk 

 writing out the list and aiding in impounding them. In 

 Rowe's Perambulation there are several references to 

 Dunbridge, or Dunnabridge, pound, usually called the duchy 

 pound, of a much later date. The sum of 3^. 4^. was paid 

 this year for parchment on which to write the East Dartmoor 

 agistment lists. The bailiff-forester for West Dartmoor for 



