A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



confirmed by the king in I369. 111 John de Mowbray was succeeded by Thomas his son, who in 

 1398 was created duke of Norfolk. While he was lord of St. Leonard's Forest, William Roger 

 was appointed keeper of the park of Knepp for life, at the same salary as his predecessor. 112 

 But his tenure of the post was short, for in the first year of the reign of the new king we find 

 John Pilton appointed to the keepership of the same park. 113 The next ' Gustos ' we hear of, John 

 Penycoke by name, was paid at the higher fee of 3^. a day. 114 About this period the chief ranger of 

 St. Leonard's Forest was a certain Thomas Anknapp possibly a transcriber's error for 'att Knapp.' 

 There is still extant one of his accounts for the year 1441. From this it appears that, as with other 

 forests, St. Leonard's was divided into wards, baillies (ballia), or walks, as they were called in Tudor 

 times, there being four in the south and six in the north part of the forest ; the names of the latter 

 were Throstelhyle (Throstlehill), Thornyngbroke, Boghe (Beaubush) with Shulleghe (Shelley), Forters- 

 lond, Whiteberewe, and Hyde. The pannage and the agistment of the forest were let out to farm ; 

 the sums received, such, that is, as are legible, varied from 5*. to 13;. 4^., and 3*. i^d. was received 

 from the rent of the garden of the lodge within the new park, and 2od. from a field called Pirifeld, 

 parcel of a tenement called Derlond (? Deerland) within the forest, and ' no more because for three- 

 quarters of a year it had been on the lord's hands for want of a tenant.' Another entry affords the 

 very interesting information that a fair was held within this forest-land, for the ranger accounts for 

 money received from 'tolls and dues of St. Leonard's Fair held on the feast day 'of the saint. 

 Profits from the forest court there were none, for no court had been held within the period covered 

 by this account, neither had there been any wood sales ; and the sum total of receipts was 

 ,6 12s. 8d. From this were to be deducted such expenses as the ranger's salary of 6oj. 8^., and 

 10*. for a furlong of new paling at ' Bronnyngestum.' The very modest sum of 66s. was due to 

 the lord as the year's profit from his forest of St. Leonard. 115 



With the advent of a new king, the first of the Tudors, some forty years later, the forest, 

 together with .the rape, came under a new lord, being granted to Thomas Lord La Warr, who in 

 1494 sold the lordship to Thomas earl of Surrey. 116 



In the next reign we meet with one of the rare mentions of St. Leonard's Chapel in the forest, 

 the Valor of 1535 containing the following entry : ' Chapel of St. Leonard within the Forest of 

 St. Leonard ; Alan Coke clerk now incumbent, worth in rents ^6, oblations 191., profits of wood 

 sales and other casual revenues 2 14.5. $d. Total <) 13;. 4^.' m This chapel was abolished at 

 the time of the Reformation. 118 



On the attainder of Thomas third duke of Norfolk, St. Leonard's Forest was granted in 1547 

 to Thomas Seymour, Lord High Admiral, who, after sixteen months' possession of these lands, fell 

 under a bill of attainder. The ' Inventory ' of his possessions, taken at Chesworth, 20 January, 

 2 Edward VI, contains interesting particulars of the forest of St. Leonard, and its constituent parts. 

 We may judge how important was the economic aspect as compared with the sporting uses of the 

 parks of those times, by the number of fatting oxen, sheep, and pigs, which figure in the details of this 

 inventory. Thus in Knepp Park there were 100 fatting oxen, fifty-three fatting sheep, and one cow, 

 together with thirteen ' young ambelyng geldyns ' ; towards the keep of all these there was a store of 

 fifty-nine loads of hay in the park. In ' Segewyke Parke ' were ten porkers worth 2od. apiece, and 

 100 deer. Chesworth Park contained nine fatting oxen and ' one bare and syk ox' ; a horse, six 

 other oxen, sold, but remaining as unpaid for ; still other fatting oxen to the number of twenty-eight ; 

 the deer in the park amounting to 100. Another inclosure called the 'Litill Parke in the Forest,' 

 contained ' by estimacion fourscore dere.' By the same ' Inventory ' we learn that at Knepp Park 

 William Skoterall was ' Keper there, havyng at my lordd's pleasure w h therbage of xiiii bests, 

 1 1 horsys and ten hr^s. -aeufge" rreTnara-j'i^.-Wkeper there, havyng the goyng off vi bests or naggs 

 v.J .! . ' ' 06 . _.'.^.V William Barwyke was keeper of Sedgewick, 'havyng for his fee iiii''- xi j - iii^ per 

 ann. and the rate of viii oxyn, xii keane, vi marys & geldyngs and xvi swyne.' The keeper of 

 Chesworth Park was a certain Henry Foyce at a fee of vi''- xx j -. The same Henry was also under- 

 steward at xl'- , and ' recevor there, havyng for hys Fee, by yere xl'- w h therbage of xiii bests, 

 ii horsys, and also ii horsys founde in my lord's stable.' At Beaubush and Shelley parks John Berde 

 was keeper, receiving ' vi'''' xx j - p an. ix catall and xx hors bests.' The keeper of ' Litill Parke in 

 the Forest ' was John Myles, receiving 6cs. a year ' and the goyng of serteyn catall.' The over- 

 sight of the ponds and fisheries was the office of ' John Roose, water-bayliffe there,' receiving 26s. jd. ; 

 while we seem to find an echo of the olden time ' Riding Forester ' in the official styled ' Bayliff- 

 errant,' Thomas Bradbrige by name. 11 ' 



111 Pat. 43 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 16. " Ibid. 22 Ric. II. 



" Ibid. I Hen. IV, pt. 2, m. 17. " Ibid. 23 Hen. VI. 



'" Exch. Accts. K.R. bdle. 145, No. 9. " Formulare Anglic, p. 212. 



11? Valor Ecd. (Rec. Com.), i, 320. "" Chant. Cert. No. 50. 



"' S.P. Dom. Edw. VI, vol. 4, No. 3 ; printed in Sust. Arch. Coll. xiii. 



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