The Extent of the English Forest in the Thirteenth Century

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The first difficulty which confronts the student of the English forest is to be found in the ambiguity of the terms which are used to describe it. In its proper sense the word “forest” denotes either the whole area in which the king's game is protected by a special law, or a separate administrative district within it. But there are other and looser uses to which the term is put in the records. In the first place, it is frequently applied to mere woods in a forest area. Thus the wood of Islip, near Oxford, known by the distinctive name of “Cauda Aliz” or “La Quealiz,” appears at one time as a part of the forest of Brill, at another as a separate forest coupled with it. Brill, in its turn, was merely a part of the forest of Bernwood, which was itself a member of the “Forest between the bridges of Oxford and Stamford”.

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