Royal Forests of England

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. If references had been given to every document Cited, almost every page would have bristled with footnotes, involving a considerable curtailment of the rest of the letterpress. Not a single statement, however, is made - where no author is Cited - save on the authority of original and contemporary records. It may be helpful to some to state the Chief classes of documents whence forest lore is to be obtained in the vast national depository in Chancery Lane.