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would seem that the bounds of the forest were altered from time to 

 time as suited the caprice of the Crown or its representative. A 

 jury being summoned of various forest officers to decide whether 

 the woods of the Abbess of Ilomsey in Ashton and Edington were 

 without the view and bounds of Selwood, report that they were 

 without down to the time of Alan Neville, Royal Justiciary of the 

 Forest, who, of his own accord had made them part of it. After 

 his time certain knights and others came forward and subscribed a 

 hundred pounds of silver to have a Perambulation made : when the 

 aforesaid woods were excluded from the forest down to the time of 

 Robert Passelewe, who had again made them forest. (Wiltshire 

 Fines.) By two later Inquisitions these woods were pronounced to 

 be out of the bounds. 



The following depositions as to the extent of Selwood Forest appear 

 to have been taken about A.B. 1620 — 30, when King Charles I. was 

 preparing the final dis afforestation. 



"A Declaration of the Boundes of the Forest of Frome-Selwoob 

 oe Wiltshire Walke a member of the said Forest, togeather with such 

 proofs as will manifest the same. 



"Imprimis. That y e same begins at the higher end of ^ 

 Whitemarsh bordering upon a Coppice called Bales Oopice, 

 and from thence to Fayrebowd Oak, and so downe to White- 

 marsh untill you oome to Wiltshire Oak and so to Hunters 

 path, and from thence to a bound-stone y* standeth betweene 

 Dafford's Wood that is parish to Norton, and Wine-hill, 

 parish to Warminster, and so along Redford Water untill you 

 come to the bounds of the parish of Corsley, and so along as 

 the bounds of Corsley goeth untill you come to Shire-stone 

 which is y e bounde betweene the parishes of Corseley and 

 Barkeley and boundeth likewise Somerset and Wilts. 



"From thence to a little Oake betweene the bounde of ^ 

 Westbury and Mr. Newborough's woode in Barkeley in the 

 Co. Somerset, and so alonge by the Three Turrets, then to 

 a mere-stone between Westbury and Berkeley : from thence Rob. Tucker 

 to another bound-stone in Westbury Common, then to an old ' als Cowch 

 starved bound oake and thence to Tennes corner, and so as 

 the bounds of Westbury goeth to Rudge Lane and to the 

 stone by the bridge there. 



Edw. Salisbury 

 Thos Carre 

 Y George Lambe 

 Edw. Darnall 

 W m . Andrewes 



