Catalogue description KING CHARLES I. to ATTORNEY GENERAL HEATH.

--Warrant to prepare a grant to Robert, Earl of Lindsey, of the forests of Shottover and Stowewood, &c, for the term of forty-one years (sic) with reserve of six thousand of the best oaks for the service of the Navy. For the better preservation of the said forests in time to come, " as also to give ease to the bordering inhabitants, who have complained of the offence done them upon their corn-lands by the greatest number of deer there," the said Earl has undertaken to enclose at his own charge 250 acres of ground to be maintained as a Park for his (the King's) pleasure ; and to pay 100l. a year ; the said park to be enclosed in such part of the said forest as the Lieutenant of the forest, Surveyor of woods and other officers shall think fit, leaving his Majesty "liberty also for such further proportion of deer " as he shall think fit to be kept in the outwoods of the forest, and also " such common within the forest and woods, as by the forest laws shall be approved due unto the commoners, to whom the same of right doth appertain and to no other; the same to be taken at such times and seasons and with such cattle as the laws of the forest may warrant and not otherwise."

* The letters patent were dated Sept. 2, 1629