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Rumeli, daughter of William, son of Dunekan, in her viduity, 

 for the safety of her soul, and the souls of all her ancestors and 

 successors, and of her husbands of good memory, Gilbert 

 Pippard and Robert de Curtenai, grants to the abbot and 

 monks of Furness in frank almoigne, all Borchedale (Borrow- 

 dale), with hart and hind, boar and sow, goshawk and spar- 

 row-hawk, and venison and all beasts of game to be found 

 there. 1 



We learn from another charter that the same grey monks 

 obtained hunting rights on the Furness fells (Montana de 

 Furnesio) : 



' Prsedicti vero Gilbertus et Helwysa uxor sua concesserunt, et 

 quietum clamaverunt prsedictis abbati et monachis de Furnesio 

 cervum et cervam et accipitrem, et omnem omnino libertatem, 

 quam ipsi Gilbertus et Helwisa habuerunt in ilia parte Monta- 

 norum, quae ad ipsos Monachos pertinet, amodo absolute et 

 quiete.' 2 At a later period, namely, in 1338, the Abbot of 

 Furness was licensed to impark his woods of Ramshead (Ramp- 

 side), Sowerley, Hagg, and Millwood in Low Furness, and of 

 Claife and some other parts of the fells. Shap Abbey obtained 

 forest rights in Swindale and a tithe of venison, by the gene- 

 rosity of Robert de Veteripont, who declares, ' Dedi etiam dictis 

 canonicis omnes decimas mihi pertinentes omnium molendinorum 

 meorum, de tota Westmeria, et omnes decimas novationis bes- 

 tiarum, quae captae erunt, de csetero in omnibus forestis meis in 

 Westmeria per me, vel per homines meos, de domo, vel de 

 maneriis meis, sive per arcus, sive per canes.' Another of the 

 Shap charters defines one of their territorial boundaries as 

 travelling down to the bottom of a hill, — ' usque ad magnum 

 lapidem ubi homines solebant facere Lestablie.' Nicolson and 

 Burn comment on this : ' Stable-stand was where the men stood 

 with bows or clogs ready to shoot or course ; and tenants were 

 in some places bound, at the summons of the lord, to assemble 

 ad stableiam faciendum, which was called the buckstall.' 3 



Reference to hounds recalls the fact that the enclosures 



1 Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, vol. i. p. 97. 



2 Dugdale, Monasticon, vol. v. p. 249. 



?> History of Westmorland and Cumberland, vol. i. p. 470. 



