1344-02-14, Westminster

To Ralph de Nevill, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent or to him who supplies his place in Shirwode forest. Order to permit John de Wyne to hold a certain pasture of Fulwode in Penkeston and Normanton, cos. Nottingham and Derby, which are near the town of Kirkeby co. Nottingham, and the bounds and places contained in the charter of Henry III and not to intermeddle further therewith, as Henry III confirmed by charter the perambulation of the forest in co. Nottingham made by his order and granted that the perambulation was contained in the following bounds, beginning at the ford of Conyngeswath, ascending towards the east by the water called Modeine to the town called Warsop and ascending thence by the same water to the park of Pleseleye and then by the same water to Heytrebrigge, turning off by the high road of Nottingham to the bridge of Mulneford and then ascending to Mammesheved, and then between the fields of Herdewyk and Kirkeby and the moor of Kyrkeby to the angle called Nonneker, and lately at John's suit showing that he had the said pasture which is a league and more from the field of Kirkeby, which is the bound of Shirwode forest and without the bounds of the forest, yet the keeper and other ministers of that forest, pretending that the pasture is in the forest, have compelled him to pay a custom called wardefet for his cattle in that pasture, and he besought the king to provide a remedy, and the king appointed Roger Hillary and Roger de Baukwell to take an inquisition on the matter, and by the inquisition taken in the presence of Thomas de Longevylers, supplying the keeper's place in the forest of Shirewode and of ministers of that forest, it is found that the pasture is not within the contained in the said perambulation and it is without Shirwode By C.