156 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

APPENDIX. No. VIII.

THE following account of the extent, jurisdiction; and officers of the Forest were communicated to me by Hay- man Rooke, Esq. well known to the literary world.

The Forest of Sherwood is the only one that remains under the superintendance of the Chief Justice in Eyre North of Trent, or which now belongs to the Crown in that part of England.:

In a survey of 1609, it 1s described as divided into three walks, called North Part, South and Middle Part.

Noith Part contains the towns of Carberton, Glead- thorpe, Warsop, with Nettleworth, Mansfield, Wood- house, Clipstone, Rufford, and Edwinstow; the Hays of Birkland and Bilhagh, towns of Budby, Thoresby, Peverelthorp or Palethorp, and Ollerton.

Middle Part, town of Mansfield, Plesly Hull, Skegby, Sutton, Hucknall, Fulwood, part of Kirkby, Blidworth, Papplewick, Newsted, part of Linby and part of An- nesley.

South Part, town of Nottingham, part of Wilford, with Radford, Sneinton, Colwick, Gedling, Stoke, Carleton, Burton, and Bulcote; Gunthorp, Caythorp, and Lowdham; Lambley, Arnold, Basford, Bulwell, Beskwood Park, Woodborough, Calverton, and Sauntes- ford Manor.

FOREST OFFICERS,

Lord Warden, Duke of Newcastle, by letters patent from the Crown during pleasure.

Bowbearer and Ranger, Lord Byron, by the Lord Warden during pleasure.