THE AREA OF EPPING FOREST FOR FAUNISTIC PURPOSES. 15
and so passing over the Frythie, at a place called the Shire Lake to the marsh
called Hookes Marsh, including within the Forest aforesaid all those marshes
called Hookes Marsh and Normarsh, and so going by the river of Lee, likewise
including all that great marsh called Waltham Great Marsh, and so passing over
the ditch there to the bridge called Smalley Bridge, extending to the side of the
same bridge downwards by the ditch or brook flowing to the right of the King's
highway, leading to Waltham Abbey unto Coldhall, and immediately beyond
Coldhall, turning by the ditch or brook which divides the counties of Essex and
Hertford to the river there, including within the Forest aforesaid all that meadow
or marsh called Canwardes, and from thence to a certain place called Cobbing
Mouth, and from thence by the river aforesaid of Lee to a meadow called
Spencer's Meade, and so going along by the river aforesaid to Syward Stoneford,
and from thence going over the marsh called Ware Marsh to a ditch called
Marditch, and so going along by Marditch unto the river of Lee aforesaid, and
from thence by the river aforesaid unto Broadmeade, in the parish of Waltham-
stow, and from thence by the river aforesaid to the bridge called Lockbridge,
now broken up, where now for passage is used as a ferry, and from thence by the
same river of Lee to the first-named bridge of Stratford Bow, commonly known
by the name of Bow Bridge.
"And the jurors aforesaid, further say upon their oath aforesaid, that the Forest
of the said Lord the King of Waltham, otherwise called the Forest of the Lord
the King of Essex, in the aforesaid county of Essex, did extend itself in the said
20th year of the reign of the late King James of England, &c, as above by the
aforesaid meares, metes, bounds, and limits, it is divided and expressed, and not
beyond, and that the aforesaid meares, metes, bounds, and limits of the Forest
aforesaid, above mentioned, and expressed in the said 20th year of the late King
James of England, &c., were, and were commonly known and reputed, the true
and certain terminations, metes, bounds, and limits within which the Forest
aforesaid was terminated, bounded, and limited, and other more ample or larger
meares, metes, bounds, and limits of the Forest aforesaid, in the said 20th year of
the late King James of England, &c. The Forest aforesaid had not as to the
jurors aforesaid, in anywise could appear.
"And the jurors aforesaid, further say upon their oath, that in the hundred of
Becontree aforesaid, in the aforesaid 20th year of the late King James of England,
&c, there remained wholly within the Forest aforesaid, the towns of Wanstead,
Leighton, Walthamstow, and Woodford, and that the towns of Stratford, West-
ham, Eastham, Ilford Parva, Ilford Magna, Barking and Dagenham, in the
hundred of Becontree aforesaid, at that time partly remained out of the Forest
aforesaid (that is to say), all the lands, woods, and hereditaments of the same
towns as lie to the right of the King's highway aforesaid, leading from the bridge
of Stratford-le-Bow aforesaid, towards Rumford aforesaid, and partly at that time
remained within the Forest aforesaid (viz.), all and singular the lands, woods,
and hereditaments of the towns aforesaid, to the left of the King's highway
aforesaid, as above by the metes and bounds they are divided, and that in the
aforesaid 20th year of the said Lord King James of England, &c, the liberties of
Havering-att-Bower, in the county aforesaid, and the park there, commonly
called Havering Park, together with all other lands, tenements, woods, and
hereditaments, in Hornchurch, Rumford, and Haveringe, in the said county of
Essex, and in other parishes, and members appendant to the said liberty of
Havering remained wholly out of the Forest aforesaid; and that in the same