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the Abbot of Stratford, and twice in the Queene's Majestie's
tyme that now is.
" In witness of this our Verdict we have hereunto sett our
handes and seales the xii. June, 24 anno R.
" Two points are to be specially noted in the
foregoing report. First, the area (fifty-three acres,
sixty-five poles) of the wood; and, secondly, the
fact that it was sold, presumably before the
dissolution of the monastery, by the Abbot of
Stratford. A search through one or two Ministers'
Accounts for proof that Monk Wood was included
among the possessions of the ' late dissolved
monastery of Stratford Langthorne,' proved vain;
nor does it seem to be numbered, with the manor
of Loughton, among those of Waltham Holy Cross.
But woods were apparently entered on the rolls
only when the proceeds of their sale came into the
accounts. Of a great felling which took place in
or about a.d. 1488, we have evidence in a Forest
Roll (4 Hen. VII.), according to which a certain
Christopher Stubbes, of Loughton, was presented
for having cut down 100 loads of timber and wood
in Monk Wood, called ' le King's wast soile,' and
for the bark of the same received viij. s. The
explanation of this would seem to be that the
Abbot had sold the wood to Stubbes, without first
obtaining a licence to fell.
" The evidence, however, seems sufficient to
warrant the identification of the Abbot's Wood in
Luketon Snarringe with that now known as Monk
Wood, in Loughton."
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