By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 



291 



" That all the Common of Westbury is within the bounds 

 of the Forest, Rob 1 . Hopkyns and Edw. Couch say, that 

 there being heretofore a controversie bet n . S r . Thos. Thynne 

 and the Tenants of the Lord Ley at Westbury and Lye con- 

 cerning putting cattle into the common Sir Thos. Thynne 

 did then say that if they were sterne he w d . fetch a drift on 

 all their commons once a year as Ranger of the Forest : and 

 that there hath bin marking of sadles at Lyppyeate beyond 

 Westbury. 



f Edw. Couch 

 Rob. Hopkins 

 The Peramb n . 

 taken in Edw. 

 III. time — in 

 the disposition 

 taken in the 

 Court of Ward, 

 Edw. Staples 

 and ors agst 

 W m Carter als 

 Smyth 20 June 

 36 Eliz , testi- 

 fied by Clement 

 Trether W ra . 

 Prior John 

 Kipping W m . 

 Rawlins 



11 That sixty years since one John Couch did keepe deere | Vincent 

 in Chapmanslade Wood for Sir John Thynne and the deer •{ g a ]i SDur 

 did graze as far as Brooke. I Lambe 



als 



" That one Thos. Venny did keepe deere in Dafford's wood r^- m "White 

 for Sir John Thynne about sixty years ago and that all the ] jj Vincent 

 deere did go through all the grounds and commons bet n . «{ ^ ' j jam | )e 



Chapmanslade wood and Dafford's 

 Wood-gate and unto Brooke. 



wood as far as Brookes 1^ 



E. Couch 



f H. Salisbury 



" That there was a Lodge heretofore in Dafford's Wood » -^y White 

 for a Keeper and that the aforesaid Thomas Venny did dwell "j q. j iam bQ 

 therein and kept deer in the said wood. L E. Couch 



"That about sixty years ago one Edw. Couch did keep ("H. White 

 deer for Sir John Thynne in Chapmanslade Woods and that ■{ G. Lambe 

 the same lay all open unto the Forest. L E. Couch 



1 1 That there is one Whitemarsh now inclosed within Long- ' 

 leat Parke and that there is another Whitemarsh adjoyning 

 thereunto within the Mannor of Horningsham, wh. lieth 

 without Longleat parke and that both the s d . Whitemarshes 

 are forest up to Fairbowd Oake and that the L d Mount] oy 

 was Ranger and dwelt in Brooke House and that Corseley 

 is forest and that the deere of the Forest did ordinarily lie 

 in the Whitemarshes and other grounds now enclosed within 

 Longleat Parke before the s d . Parke was enclosed. 



G. Lambe 

 W. Salisbury 

 E. Daniell 

 W. Pearce 



