FORESTRY 



Also they 



doe claim Custome for their hoggs paying therefore for their grown hogges ii d and a pigg i d , but by 

 their ancent Customalls pduced as affores d they are to have the swine of their own breeding to goe in 

 ye said Parke all the yeare except in Fence month, when any of their hogges may be impounded and 

 the tenn" amerced at the Woodmote Courte, paying for their Custome yearely for ev'y hogg of a 

 yeare old ii d , of J a yeare i d ob, & for und r halfe a yeare i d except sucking piggs and all ye said tenn ts 

 are to be sworne at the Aveshould Court aforesaid to Aves truly for their said cattle mares & swine. 



Also they 



doe claime Custome in the summer for what Cattle they can brede and winter upon their customary 

 lands in the s d great Parke, paying therefore at ye Aves Court for a bullocke halfe a penny & for a 

 horse a penny, and if they have any cattle going in the said Parke betwixt Michs and Martinmas to 

 pay two pence lipp >18 besides their Custome money afforesaid . . . Memdum that we find the number 

 of Catle assessed for by all that claime Custome in the said Parke to bee Communibus Annis about 

 one thousand, and the horses assessed for about one thousand and fifty. Memorandum That the said 

 Keepers have been allowed to keep as ajustment six hundred Catle and two hundred horses besides 

 their owne, and alsoe ye Warrowner and keep' of the old lodge & Chamberlain's howse a hundred 

 and forty Catle and sixty horses, besides their owne, and besides what ye Ranger juisted without 

 limitacon. 



The profits to the lord of 



the Aves rents or pannage rents payable by the Free ten"" ... & by Forraine tenn" who claime custome 

 in ye greate Parke of Lancaster for their mares, catle and swine for their liberty of running in ye 

 said Parke payable only at Mic hs are communibus annis viii 1 ' x s . 



Driving ye ) Ye benefitt arising to ye lord by driveing ye said Parke and Commons thereunto 



Parke j belonging at ye will of ye lord . . . wee value ... at x". 



. , . ) The Royall Fishings Fishing ponds and other Fishings are worth communibus 



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Little is said about the deer, usual and proper denizens of a forest. The surveyors merely say, ' their 

 hathe been some thousands of deere keept upon the said Parke both Redd and Fallow, and alsoe 

 a considerable quantity disposed of for the use of the comonwealth.' This interesting report 

 concludes with ' an Abstract ' 



Of the present rents future improvements and all other pfitts of the said mann'. and Parke 



The severall rents, pquesits, and Royalties are p ann Ixxxvi 1 ' i*. 



The Parke and lands at the improved value is p ann MMCCCCXV"- vi s - vn 4 



Some totall of improved value is MMDVII >L vu 51 vm d - ob. 



Totall of acres in ye said parke are 14000'"- o r - 2J f - 



Reprises are p ann liii"- vi* iiii 11 



The reserved rents of the lord of Dorsetts lease bee in force are p ann xxix lu viii 5 ' iiii 4 



Deere valued in grosse at cxx"' 



Woods and und'woods valued in grosse at DCXX"' 



Part of Whitehouse destroyed valued at xxx"' 



Fish in Whitehouse pond wee value at !" 



Another survey was appointed to be made about five or six years later, but the reasons are not 

 apparent. Among the State Papers of the year 1656 there is a petition to the Protector himself on 

 the subject. 217 ' You appointed us to survey ' (say the petitioners) ' the lands in question, and we 

 are in readiness, but know not ' what allowances are to be paid or when, what clerks, messengers 

 &c. allotted, or when to enter on the survey. ' We therefore beg to know your pleasure.' 



In reply to this petition of the month of August comes an order in November for ^250 to be 

 paid out by the barons of the Exchequer to John Marsh, who is to distribute 5010 each surveyor," 8 

 and in the result the survey was 'perfected' in i658. s19 There is but little difference in the two 

 surveys, but we find the value of Old Lodge and grounds reduced from 6 to 40;., and its extent 

 from 12 acres to 9, for ' Henry Ford lately deceased did in his lifetime intrude into the said house 

 and premisses and utterly destroyed the fences of the said enclosure, as also the fruite trees and 

 conyes and alsoe suffered the said house to goe much to decay.' 



At Warren Lodge also the ^35 of the former survey had fallen to ^21 4*., for the 86 acres 

 ' formerly impaled and imployed to and used as a cony warren ' were now open to all comers, for 

 'the paleing is all gone and taken away.' Similar destruction seems to have supervened upon the 

 wood, for instead of a valuation of 620, as in i65O,^4i4is the price set upon the timber in 1658. 

 The ' old banck of the said Forest' is spoken of, 6 ft. from the pale being the outmost bound. 



The survey of 1658 includes long lists of free- and copy-holdings ; of twenty-four 'highways 

 allowed and sett forth w th in the forrest or chace aforesaid,' and in addition no less than eighteen 



!16 This is the agistment of cattle ' tempore leptyme ' of the various foresters' accounts ; e.g. Mins. 

 Accts. bdle. 441, No. 7082. >lr S.P. Dom. Interregnum, Vol. 129, No. 142. 



118 Ibid. Vol. 130, No. 122 (41) " 9 Parl. Surv. Suss. No. 27. 



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