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Selwood Forest. 



Appendix. 



Documentary evidence as to the extent of Selwood Forest when at 

 its largest, as shewn in the map. 1 



The Wiltshire Bailiwick of Selwood Forest had been leased by 

 King Edward I. to one William Le Wolf, at the'rent of ten marks 

 per annum; the profits of the office being derived from tolls paid 

 on horses and carts passing through certain parts of it, and from 

 payments for the feeding of goats, pigs, &c. On William le Wolf's 

 death the office of bailiff or forester was granted to Reginald de 

 Kingston (whose family lived at Corsley, near Warminster), at ten 

 pounds per annum. Having held it for a short time without re- 

 ceiving any benefit from it, Reginald de Kingston petitioned to 

 have the rent reduced, on the ground that the extent of the forest 

 had been so much reduced as not only to yield no profit, but to put 

 the bailiff to expense and loss. The matter was referred to the 

 Barons of the Exchequer. An Inquisition by a jury of landowners 

 and tenants was then held at Longbridge Deverel, Saturday after 

 Michaelmas, 16 Edw. II. (A.D. 1322), whereby it was found that 

 all the places named in the list following had once been within the 

 forest, but were then no longer within the limits. (The names are 

 here given in the original spelling of the document.) 



Cnowell Episcopi [East Knoyle] 

 Cnowell Abbissse [The Abbess 



of Wilton's— part of West 



Knoyle] 

 Upton Cnowell 



Cnowell Odierne [ West Knoyle] 



Chadenwich 



Seles [Zeals] 



Stourton 



May den Bradley 



Hull [Hill Deverel] 



Kingston [Deverel] 



Norrigg 



Upton Skydemore 



Peortworth 

 Bratton 



Muleburne [Milbom] 

 Stoke parva 

 Edyndone 

 Steepel Ashton 

 Chapel Ashton [Rood] 

 Gildene's Ashton 

 Kyvele [Keevil] 

 Brichtrichston [Brixton Deve- 

 rel] 



Monketon Deverill 

 Heightesbury 

 Sutton Magna 



Collected from the Marquis of Bath's papers at Longleat. 



