11 NATURAL HISTORY 
teals, fnipes. Sec. that they breed there. In the whiter this covert 
is alfo frequented by foxes, and fometimes by pheafants ; and the 
bogs produce many curious plants. [For which confuk letter XLIL 
to Mr. Barrington.'] 
By 3. perambuhitlon of IFolmer forefl and fke HoUj made in 1635, 
and in the eleventh year of Charles the Firft (which now lies before 
me), it appears that the limits of the former are much circum- 
fcribcd. For, to lay nothing of the farther fide, with which I am 
not fo well acquainted, the bounds on this fide, in old times, came 
into Binfivood; and extended to the ditch of If'ard le ham-park, in 
which ftands the curious mount called King John's Hill, and Lodge 
Hill; and to the verge of Hartley Manduit, called Mau.duit-hatch ; 
comprehending alfo Short-heath, Oakhanger, and Oakzvoods; a large 
■diftrid, now private property, though once belonging to the royal 
<lomain. 
It is remarkable that the term pm-lieu is never once mentioned in 
this long roll of parchment. It contains, befides the perambulation, 
a rough eftimate of the value of the timbers, whicli were conlider- 
able, growing at that time in the diftrict of ^he Holt ; and enu- 
merates the officers, fuperior and inferior, of thofe joint forefls, 
for the time l)eing, and their oftenfible fees and perquifites. In 
thofe days, as at prefent, there were hardly any trees in Wolmer 
foreft. 
Within the prefent limits of the foreft are three confiderable 
lakes, Hogmer, Cranmer, and Wolmer ; all of which are flocked with 
carp, tench, eels, and perch ; but the filh do not thrive well, 
becaufe the water is hungry, and the bottoms are a naked fand. 
A circumftance refpeding thefe ponds, though by no means 
peculiar to them, I cannot pafs over in filence ; and that is, that 
inftind by which in fummer all the kine, whether oxen, cov/s, 
calves 
