. Henry Salisbury 



E. Daniel] 

 Thos. King 

 Tho. Carr 



294 Selwood Forest. 



{Perambulation, 

 capt. temp E. 



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ashes in a great piece of ground on the North West of 

 Longleat Howse to be felled and grubbed up, and the mootes 

 [stumps] were so many that he (not knowing what to do 

 with them) caused them to be burned there, and since the 

 grubbing thereof it is converted to a meadow now called The 

 Grubbings but before called the King's Woods. 



" That the farmer Carr did serve his cattle in Whitemarsh 

 divers times and claymed it as his common. 



" That the Bay lift' of Steple Ashton hath usually heretofor^ 

 made his Drift from Road Heath to Southwick and so to I w 

 Coneyhayes receiving for every beast tooke in by Jeastment j tyleman 

 viV viij d ., and a penny for every severall marke of the rest. J 

 "That Walter Longe Esq. did about four or five years "1 

 since fell in Brookes woods three or four hundred oaks and r Eichard Norris." 

 sold them away. J 

 Miscellaneous Notes. 

 In 1286 (15 Edw. I.) Reginald Kingston, Gustos of Selwood, 

 complained that in Easter Week, Nicholas de Montford of Tellisford 

 and Richard le Vag, both outlaws, entered the forest at La Frith 

 near Tellisford, and took with nets a stag in the water of Tellisford. 



In 1366 (40 Edw. III.) John Wyion, Jun.,and Richard le Vernon 

 Jun., came to La Langlete Heme, outside of the forest, on Monday 

 before the Feast of St. Matthew the Apostle, and there took a doe 

 with bow and arrows and harehounds. 



In 1427 (6 Hen. VI.) Lord Stourton's park was considered to be 

 no longer part of the forest. 



Among items of an account in 1563 is : — 



" Paid for the Forest custom for the passage of four waynes 

 whereof three were laden with timber, 12d." 

 In 1618 a license was granted by James I. to John Sykes to fell 

 trees on his land at Marston Bigott, within the Royal forest of 

 Selwood. Countersigned by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, 

 Lord Chamberlain and Chief Ranger. 



There were three " Walks " in the Somersetshire part, viz., 

 Stavordale, Brewham, and Erome Selwood. The last was claimed 

 by Sir Thomas Thynne as his inheritance. 



John de Selwood, Abbot of Glastonbury from A.D. 1457 to A.D., 

 1493, was a native of East Woodlands (Dug dale's Monasticon **) . 



* ♦",«., the woods in Westbuvy parish that formerly belonged to the Priory of Monkton Farley. 



