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The Forest of Dartmoor and its Borders: An historical sketch.

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R.J.King

London: John Russell Smith (1856) xii, 138pp.

Index prepared by Michael Steer

The Forest of Dartmoor is an ancient royal forest covering part of Dartmoor. A royal forest was an area reserved by the king for hunting. William the Conqueror introduced the concept of forest law in England in the 11th century. Until 1204 the whole of Devon was a royal forest, until King John agreed (subject to the payment by the county's commonality of a "fine" of 5,000 marks) to disafforest all of Devon. Devon except for Dartmoor and Exmoor was freed from forest law. This disafforestation was confirmed by King Henry III in 1217, and in 1239 he granted the Forest of Dartmoor (and the Manor of Lydford) to his brother, Richard, Earl of Cornwall. From that date it technically became a chase, not a forest, though the name did not change. This rare and much sought-after book was produced digitally from a copy held in the Bodleian Library collection that can be downloaded from https://books.google.co.uk/books, with a search by either author or title. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.


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Aldhelm, Bishop 35-6
Alfred, King 41, 103
Anjou, Matilda of 135
Arragon, Katherine of x
Arthur, King (legendary) 22, 31, 45, 63
Ashmole, Elias 77
Athelstane 39-42, 76, 95, 99, 101, 103
Baskerville family 54
Bath, Earl of 68
Bathendon, Robert de 130
Baxter 80
Bayeux, Odo de 123
Bede 11, 36
Bellenden 53
Birinus (Beorn) 35
Black Prince, Edward x
Blois, Peter of 58-9
Borlase, Llwyd ap 14, 34, 40
Borrow, Mr 64
Boswell 13, 81
Bremen, Archbishop of 38
Bretagne, Earl Eudo of 110
Breton, Guillaume de 93
Brian, son of Earl Eudo 110-1
Brichtric 127
Brooke, Mr 39
Brutus of Troy (legendary) 32
Burgh, Joan de 135
Burgh, Hubert de 135
Caesar, Julius 8, 26, 73
Camden 14, 62
Carrington 68, 78
Carausius 30
Carew 26, 70
Carew, Gawen 69
Carew, Peter 69
Centwine 32
Cerdic 29-30
Champernowne family 124
Charlemagne 120
Charles I x
Childe 65
Chlorus, Constantius 28
Claudian 25
Coplestone family 128
Constantine 30
Cook, Captain James 25
Cornwall, Earl of 56, 69, 75, 126
Cotton, Mr 133
Courtenay family 124
Courtenay, Mary de 135
Courtenay, Robert de 135
Courtenay, Earl Thomas 116
Coutances, Geoffery, Bishop of 111, 123
Crocker family 128
Crosbie, Mr 80
Cruwys family 128
Cullen, Dr 80
Cynewulf 33
Cynric 29
Davidson, Mr 26
Davies family 71
Deane, Mr 19
Dermot, King 109
Devizes, Richard of 97
Dinham family 124
Diodorus 6
Dousterswivel, Mr 76
Drake, Sir Francis 74
Drayton, Michael 2, 26, 32
Dugdale 121
Edmund 109
Ednoth 109
Edric the Wild 111
Edward the Confessor 42, 94, 98, 107, 125, 128
Edward I 44, 65, 69
Edward VI vi
Egbert, King 36-7, 39
Eger, Sir (literary figure) 63
Elizabeth vi, 49, 68
Erbin, Geraint ab 30
Erlegh, John de 121
Erman, M 54, 72
Essex, Earl of x
Ethelmar (Athelmarus) 96-7
Eumenius 28
Fairfax xi
Ferguson, Dr Adam 80
Ferrers family 124
Fitzsimon, Rogo 61
Flambard, Ralph 61
Flanders, Baldwin Earl of 127
Ford, Mr 12
Fortescue family 124
Fuller 17, 42, 50, 53
Ganelon (Ganne) 120
Gerenius 34
Germanus 28
Gerontius 30
Gilbert, Mr Davies 71
Gildas 30
Gislebert, Earl 106
Githa 101, 105, 128
Gloucester, Countess of 122
Godwin 109
Gregory VII, Pope 107
Grenville, Sir Bevil 68
Hall, Bishop Joseph 80
Hambly, Peter vii
Hamilton-Smith, Colonel, KG, KH etc v
Hardy 61, 70
Harold, King 95, 101, 105, 107, 109-10, 126, 128
Heeren 72
Hengist 39
Henrietta, Queen x
Henry I (Beauclerc) 57, 121, 129, 137-8
Henry II 58-9
Henry III 59, 61-2, 70, 119
Hereford, William of 107
Hereward 112
Hill, Richard 85
Höel, King 40, 60
Honorius, Pope 35
Hopton xi
Hovedon, Roger de 61, 93, 97, 105, 121
Howel, John vii
Huntingdon, Henry of 32, 97
Irving, Washington 14
James I 47, 67-8, 74
John, King (of Gaunt) 56, 61-2, 69, 119, 121
Johnson, Dr 13, 81
Kemble 19, 33, 55, 65, 99
King, John Richard xii
Kirkness, William 62
Kodran 18
Kormak 73
Lamb, Charles 84
Lambarde 42
Lappenberg 27
Lega, Philip de 61
Leland 34, 37
Llydau, Emir 28
Lukis, Mr 21
Lupus 28
Lyde, Mr George 82-3, 85
Lyson 85
Malcolm 13
Malmsbury, William of 36-7, 41, 91, 100, 104, 107-8, 112
Manwood 56-7
Mark, King of Cornwall (legendary) 22, 63
Martin 9-10
Mary, Queen 69
Matilda, Queen 91, 113, 127, 129
Mayrick, Sir Samuel 25
Mead, Mr 82
Mohun family 124
Montfort, Simon de 122-3
Moreton, Robert de 125-6
Nonant family 124
Norton 77
Ordericus (Vitalis) 97-100, 102-3, 110, 112
Osbern 107
Osborn, Bishop 94
Palgrave, Sir Francis 30, 40-4
Paris, Matthew 95
Percival, Sir (legendary) 64
Petrie, Mr 11
Pliny 14-5, 72-3
Polwhele 14, 66
Pomerai, Henry de 119, 121-3
Pomerai, Ralph de 118, 120
Pomeroy family 119-20, 124
Pomeroy, Sir Thomas 119
Prince 80, 83
Raleigh, Sir Walter 68, 75
Redvers family 116-7, 128, 135
Redvers, Baldwin de (also de Molines, also de Ripariis)) 91, 105-6, 108, 111, 113, 116-8, 129-35
Redvers, Joan de 135
Redvers, Mary de 135
Redvers, Richard de 129
Rees, Mr 29, 31
Reviers 115
Richard I (Coeur de lion) 97, 121, 135
Risdon 3, 5, 65, 85
Rishanger, William de 122
Rollo 137-8
Rowe, Mr 7-8, 19, 45
Ruskin 55
Salisbury, John of 59
Scott, Sir Walter 50, 53
Selgrave, Agnes de 122
Seymour, Lord 119
Skallagrimson, Egil 76
Skallagrimson, Grim 76
Skallagrimson, Thordisa 76
Southey viii, 78, 88
Spelman, Sir Henry 58
St Amphibolus 35
St Brice 96
St Cado 13
Stephen, King (of Blois) 91, 121, 129, 131-4, 138
St German 29
St Keyne 13
St Piran 34
St Samson 34
St Theliau (Teilo) 34-5
Stevenson 30
Strabo 9, 27, 74
Suetonius 26, 28
Sweyn, King 96-7
Tavistock, Sithric Abbot of 111
Thorkelin 18
Thorpe, Mr 44
Totneis, Alured de 133
Totneis, Judhael de 118, 133
Tristrem, Sir (legendary) 63
Tyler 75
Ussher, Archbishop 34-5
Valentine, Basil 77
Vallemont 75
Vaughan 77
Vespasian 28, 73, 103
Villemarqué, Count de la 20
Vortigern 39
Wace, Master 113
Waller 78
Walpole, Horace 135
Westcote 22-4, 74-5
Westminster, Matthew of 33, 35
Whitacker 29, 34
William I, Conqueror 57, 100-8, 110-2, 114, 124-5, 127, 129-30,
William II, Rufus 60-1
Winchester, Bishop of 134
Worcester, Florence of 39
Worcester, William of 116
Wordsworth 84
Wotton 60
Wright 99