THE HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARY & NATURALIST. 



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to exercise, do, or perform. Thus, if the ancient Acts of 

 Parliament are not repealed the present Verderers have 

 many powers now undreamed of. 



The Verderers may at any Swainmote Court, at which 

 not less than five are present, make, alter, or repeal 

 by-laws, viz : (i.) For prevention of the spread of 

 contagious or infectious diseases in the forest ; (2.) 

 the condition as to time, breed and otherwise, under 

 which stallions, bulls and other entire animals may 

 roam in the forest ; (3.) The removal of animals not 

 belonging to Commoners. Appeals from the decision 

 of a Swainmote Court may now be made to the next 

 Court of General or Quarter Sessions by any person 

 aggrieved by a decision ot the Verderers. All fines 

 and other money recovered or received by the Ver- 

 derers must be carried to a general fund, and applied 

 in paying salaries of officials and in defraying the 

 other expenses under the Act of 1877. Verderers 

 have all powers and jurisdiction in the forest as if they 

 were justices of the peace. The Court of Swainmote 

 has now the same power and jurisdiction in the forest 

 as a Court of Special or Petty Sessions in any Petty 

 Sessional Division, and the seal of the Verderers is a 

 proper and sufficient seal. These elective Verderers 

 must have a qualification of ownership 

 of 75 acres of land, with forest rights, 

 and are disqualified on receiving any profit 

 or place of profit under the Verderers. 

 The electors are (i) those only whose names are on 

 the lists of Parliamentary voters of any parish of 

 which a part is within the perambulations of the 

 Forest ; (2) those who are on the register of persons 

 entitled to rights of common. The Verderers hold 

 office for six years, but retire from office two of them 

 every second year, and then are re-eligible for 

 election unless disqualified. Casual vacancies are 

 filled up by the Verderers, but such new Verderer 

 takes the place, as to time of office, of the one whose 

 place is so filled. 



This Act of 1877 is the charter which at present 

 safeguards the rights of Commoners. It was the result 

 of the work of an Association formed shortly before 

 1867 to prevent the open land of the Forest being set 

 out in plantations, by which the feed would have been 

 lost for the horses and cattle of the Commoners and 

 the forest ^vould probably have been sold bit by bit. 

 Colonel Esdaile was foremost amongst those whose 

 labours were terminated by the passing of the New 

 Forest Act of the above year. This limited, as has 

 been stated, the amount of land that could be planted, 

 and prevented any more of the forest being lost by 

 sale. 



January 12, 1890. W. J. C. MOENS. 



the trade between Southampton and France and the 

 Channel Islands is a matter of paramount im- 

 portance : 



We have much pleasure in announcing the intention of 

 . the Commercial Company to afford the public great and 

 increased accommodation lor merchandise and passengers 

 to a large portion of the West of England, the Channel 

 Islands, as well as the French ports. We know it to be 

 the determination of this spirited company that 

 a daily communication shall be made between 

 Southampton and the Channel Islands as 

 well as between that port and Havre, as soon as the 

 season advances a little and the wants of the public 

 require it. We observe that a communication is already 

 announced twice a week, namely, Wednesday and Satur- 

 day, from Southampton to Guernsey and Jersey, which 

 must prove of vast importance to those islands, as likewise 

 a communication weekly to and from Havre de Grace, 

 which will be increased, as, we have before noticed, to a 

 daily one very early in the spring. The advantage to the 

 proprietors of the South Western Company by these 

 arrangements will be incalculable; the convenience to the 

 public as well as to the merchant must be equally 

 so, and we sincerely hope that the Commercial Company 

 will likewise reap the full benefit of the services they have 

 rendered to the community generally by so judicious a 

 disposal of some of their finest steamships. The inhabi- 

 tants of Southampton ought likewise to remember that 

 they are indebted to the same Company for bringing their 

 town first to public notice by selecting its port for the 

 Peninsular station during the whole period that they held 

 it and thus pointing out its great advantages, which were, 

 before the time they adopted it, so little known or con- 

 sidered. 



EARLY DAYS OF THE CHANNEL TRAFFIC. 



The following appeared in the Morning Advertiser 

 in th first week of January, 1841, and will be read 

 with interest by the large number of persons to whom 



"THE OLD BOOKE OF CARES-BROOKE 



PRIORIE." 

 [H.I, ante January 4.] 



The individual inquired for by your correspondent 

 from Carisbrooke was Robert Glover, whose surname 

 was not Somerset, but he was Somerset Herald. The 

 book from which he gave his information to Camden was 

 most probably a chartulary of Carisbrooke Priory ; 

 and I have in my possession a transcript chartulary 

 of that house which the writer surmises to have been 

 made from the "old booke " which the learned 

 Somerset Herald showed to Camden. This he states 

 on the fly leaf. 



There is a chartulary of Carisbrooke among the 

 Harleian MSS. at the British Museum. Whether my 

 transcript is a copy from that I do not know ; for 

 though some years ago I consulted the Museum MS., 

 yet I was not at that time aware of my own pos- 

 session. This I found subsequently when catalogu- 

 ing a mass of family papers, among which it had been 

 hidden. I shall satisfy myself on the first possible 

 day. 



The sentence of Camden, quoted by Mr. Groves, 

 appears to be derived partly at least from a genealogy 

 of Isabella de Fortibus, which stands on the first page 

 of the transcript. At the end of the volume is the 

 form of receipt from the Prior, as Procurator of the 



