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that year was Alfred Wonstan ; he returned 1,430 cattle, 

 thirty-two horses, and twenty-one peat-cutters, but no fold 

 money (faldagium) ; for this ward there were also two paid 

 foresters with an assistant herdsman for the Dunbridge pound. 

 South Dartmoor (John Grendon) had 2,012 cattle, thirty-six 

 horses, and seventeen peat-cutters ; whilst North Dartmoor 

 (John Wyke) had 1,401 cattle, eighty-nine horses, and thirty- 

 three peat-cutters. These two wards also each paid for two 

 foresters and an assistant for the Dunbridge pound. This 

 great pound, between Two Bridges and Dartmeet, is a large 

 enclosure measuring 350 feet from east to west, and 330 feet 

 from north to south. Rowe describes the wall as nearly 

 6 feet high where perfect. 



The ministers' accounts for 1451-2 yield the following 

 agistment returns : 



East West South North 



Cattle . . 1,208 ... 1,248 ... 1,696 ... 1,045 

 Horses . . 42 ... 21 ... 40 ... 26 



This shows a considerable falling off from the returns of half a 

 century earlier date. 



The agistment entries more than a century later, in the 

 court rolls for the forest of 1571-2, give the numbers of the 

 cattle on North Dartmoor as 1,224; they belonged to fifty-four 

 owners: Thomas Whyte owned 208, Thomas Ware 150, and 

 Stephen Knight forty-eight, whilst some only owned one beast. 

 Under Nomina delinquent* infra foresf are the names of 

 Stephen Knight and thirty others who were each fined 3^. for 

 agistment offences. There were only thirteen horses. Agistment 

 of sheep (bidentes) now appear on the rolls ; of these there 

 were twenty-one owners, and their flocks on the moor varied 

 from 300 to 10 ; the total number of the sheep was 830, and 

 their agistment fees amounted to 25^. nd. The cattle on South 

 Dartmoor numbered 1,043, and the horses nine ; whilst twelve 

 persons turned out 346 sheep for los. *j\d. On West 

 Dartmoor the cattle numbered 1,619, and the horses twenty, 

 but there were no sheep. On East Dartmoor there were 2,079 

 cattle, twenty horses, and 100 sheep. Five persons each turned 

 out a score, and paid the aggregate sum of y. \\d., so the 

 charge for sheep was *]\d. the score. In each ward there 



