Forests & Deer Parks of the County of Somerset
Forests & Deer Parks of the County of Somerset

Author: William Henry Parr Greswell

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-18

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781357168162

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Forests & Deer Parks of the County of Somerset
Forests & Deer Parks of the County of Somerset

Author: William Henry Parr Greswell

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-14

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780371174128

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Forests and Deer Parks of the County of Somerset
Forests and Deer Parks of the County of Somerset

Author: William Henry Parr Greswell

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9781230355665

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Warren of Somerton, and for the third part of the Advowson of the Church at Hawkridge and the Free Chapel of Newton-Plecy in the County of Somerset. Richard granted the said tenements and bailiwicks and advow-sons to Roger and Sibilla to hold to them and the heirs of Roger of the Lord the King. For this Roger and Sibilla gave Richard 100 marks of silver. This concord was made by precept of the king." In the above document the mention of " the third part of the advowsons of Hawkridge and the Newton-Plecy Chapelry " is certainly instructive and points to the acknowledged fact of the threefold distribution of the original de Plecy property amongst the three sisters, viz: Sabina de Plecy, who married Nicholas Pecche; Avelina, who married Thomas Durant; and Emma, who married John Heyroun, or Heron (see above). 1. Proceedings Sotn. Arch. Soc., vol. xli, p. 25. Who this Roger de Beauchamp and his wife Sibilla were is not very clear. It seems most probable that Roger was of the Somerset family which gave its second name to Hatch Beauchamp. A sketch of the Barony of Beauchamp has been given by Mr. John Batten in the Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological Society (vol. xxxvi), but no one of the name of Roger Beauchamp appears there. In Collins' " Peerage" a Roger de Beauchamp is mentioned as " Constable of the Castle of Devizes" in 1373. Also, in Kennet's "History of England" (p. 221), a passage runs thus: "In 1347 King Edward took his army into Normandy and had with him the Earls of Hereford, Arundel and the Lords Mortimer (afterwards made Earl of March)... John, Lewis and Roger Beauchamp and divers others: " and it may have been this soldier. Roger Beauchamp may have been son of John Beauchamp, who, in 1322, was custodian of the king's...

The Royal Forests of Medieval England
The Royal Forests of Medieval England

Author: Charles R. Young

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2015-10-28

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1512809187

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The distinction between the forest and the trees is fundamental to this study, for the royal forest of medieval England was a complex institution with legal, political, economic, and social significance. To protect the "beasts of the forest" and their habitat, initially for the king's hunting and later for economic exploitation, an elaborate organization of officials and courts administered a system of "forest law" that was unique to medieval England. The subject can first be studied in detail in the records and chronicles of the Angevin kings, which reflect the restless activity of Henry II and his growing corps of officials that led to the expansion of the area designated as royal forest. At its height in the thirteenth century, an estimated one-fourth of the land area of England and its riches came under the special jurisdiction of forest law. Barons whose holdings lay within the royal forest were restricted in their use of the land, and the activity of all who lived or traveled in the forest was circumscribed. Until the institution of new taxes overshadowed the economic importance of the forest and the king divested himself of large areas of forest in 1327, the extent of the royal forest, with its special jurisdiction, was often a source of conflict between king and barons and was a major political issue in the Magna Carta crisis of 1215. This is the first general history of the royal forest system from its beginning with the Norman Conquest to its decline in the later Middle Ages. The author pays special attention to the development of forest law alongside common law, and the interrelationship between the two types of law, courts, and justices. The preservation of extensive unpublished records of the forest courts in the Public Record Office makes possible this intensive study of the legal and administrative aspects of the royal forest; chronicles and the records of the Exchequer, among other sources, shed light on the political and economic importance of the royal forests in medieval England. The author's ultimate objective is to show the influence of the royal forest upon the daily lives of contemporaries—both the barons who held land and the peasants who tilled land within the royal forests.

Deer and People
Deer and People

Author: Naomi Sykes

Publisher: Windgather Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1909686549

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Deer have been central to human cultures throughout time and space: whether as staples to hunter-gatherers, icons of Empire, or the focus of sport. Their social and economic importance has seen some species transported across continents, transforming landscape as they went with the establishment of menageries and park. The fortunes of other species have been less auspicious, some becoming extirpated, or being in threat of extinction, due to pressures of over-hunting and/or human-instigated environmental change. In spite of their diverse, deep-rooted and long standing relations with human societies, no multi-disciplinary volume of research on cervids has until now been produced. This volume draws together research on deer from wide-ranging disciplines and in so doing substantially advances our broader understanding of human-deer relationships in the past and the present. Themes include species dispersal, exploitation patterns, symbolic significance, material culture and art, effects on the landscape and management. The temporal span of research ranges from the Pleistocene to the modern day and covers Europe, North America and Asia. Papers derived from international conferences held at the University of Lincoln and in Paris.