BOUNDARIES OF WOLMER FOREST. 25 



the other Brimstone Lodge : these the keepers 

 renew annually on the feast of St. Barnabas, taking 

 the old materials for a perquisite. The farm called 

 Blackmoor, in this parish, is obliged to find the 

 posts and brushwood for the former; while the 

 farms at Greatham, in rotation, furnish for the 

 latter ; and are all enjoined to cut and deliver the 

 materials at the spot. This custom I mention, 

 because I look upon it to be of very remote 

 antiquity. 



VIII. 



ON the verge of the forest, as it is now cir- 

 cumscribed, are three considerable lakes : two in 

 Oakhanger, of which I have nothing particular to 

 say ; and one called Bin's or Bean's Pond, which 

 is worthy the attention of a naturalist or a sports- 

 man ; for, being crowded at the upper end with 

 willows, and w r ith the car ex cespitosa l , it affords 

 such a safe and pleasant shelter to wild ducks, 

 teals, snipes, &c., that they breed there. In the 

 winter this covert is also frequented by foxes, and 

 sometimes by pheasants ; and the bogs produce 

 many curious plants 2 . 



By a perambulation of Wolmer Forest and the 

 Holt, made in 1635, and in the eleventh year of 

 Charles the First, (which now lies before me,) it 

 appears that the limits of the former are much 



1 I mean that sort which, rising into tall hassocks, is 

 called by the foresters turrets ; a corruption, I suppose, of 

 turrets. 



NOTE. In the beginning of the summer 1787> the royal 

 forests of Wolmer and Holt were measured by persons sent 

 down by Government. 



2 For which consult Letter XLII.Part II. 



