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Master Simpn de Walton, Sir Gilbert de Preston, and Sir John de Cobham, 

 Justices then there itinerant, between Roger de Quincy,' Earl of Winton, 

 and Roger de Somery : To wit ; That the aforesaid Roger de Somery hath 

 granted for him and his heirs, that the aforesaid Earl and his heirs may 

 have and hold his Park of Bradgate so enclosed as it was enclosed in the 

 octaves of St. Hilary, in the 31st year of the aforesaid King Henry, with 

 the Deer-leaps (Saltatoriis), then in it made; and for this 'Agreement, and 

 Grant, the same Earl hath granted for him and his heirs, that the same 

 Roger de Somery and his heirs may enter at any hour on the Forest of 

 him the Earl, to chase or hunt in it (ad bersandum), with nine bows and 

 six hounds, according . to the form of a cyrbgraph before made, between 

 the aforesaid Roger Earl of Winton, and Hugh de Albiniaco Earl of 

 Arundel, in the Court of the Lord the King at Leicester. And if any 

 wild beast, wounded by any of the aforesaid bows, shall enter the aforesaid 

 Park by any deer-leap or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the aforesaid 

 Roger de Somery and his heirs to send one or two of his, men, who shall 

 follow the aforesaid wild beast, with the dogs pursuing, within the aforesaid 

 Park, without bows or arrows, and may take it on that day whereon it was 

 wounded, without hurt of other wild beasts in the aforesaid Park abiding ; 

 so that if they be footmen, they shall enter by ^ome deer-leap or hedge ; 

 and, if they be horsemen, they shall enter by the gate, if it shall be open ; 

 and otherwise shall not enter before they wind their horn for the keeper, if 

 he will come. And further the same Earl hath granted for him and his 

 heirs, that they for the future shall every year cause to be taken a brace of 

 bucks, in the buck season, and a brace of does in the doe season, and them 



■ 'The priors of Ulvescroft had a special grant tion can only be conjectured, its object was 

 from Roger de Quincy to hunt at their pleasure apparently to serve the doixble purpose of a well- 

 in Chamwood zisque ad solium, unto the saulte defined boundary, and mutual deerfence, between 

 of the parks of Bradgate, Groby, and Lough- the Earls of Leicester and Chester. Its bank 

 borough. The Earl's Dyke, in this forest, still was doubtless surrounded by a paling.' — Potter's 

 remaining, was a work of considerable magni- Chamwood Forest, p. 177. 

 tude, and though the precise period of its forma- 



