glens of oak, that lend so great an allurement to seek sylvan nature here in her solitary retreat.
Fig. 4. Ancient Chest; time of Henry V.
Whenever the monarch visited this place, during his sojourn his horses had right of herbage in the pasture land of the Welland, and the constable of the castle shared in the same privilege. The latter also possessed the right of cutting down in the wood of Cottingham any timber he chose, to repair the buildings, or brushwood to burn, or fagots to mend the fences.
Fig. 5. Ancient Chest; time of John.
John de Cauz, abbot of Peterborough, however, gradually deprived the crown of these rights, so that at the inquisition held the 4th of Edward I. (1276), they became lost[1].
It appears too, from the same authority, that a chaplain
- ↑ Rot. Hund. p. 15.
