. Old sports and sportsmen : or, The Willey country. CHAPTER III. ROYAL CHASE OF SHIRLOT. Afforestation of Shirlot—Extent—Places Disafforested—Hayes—Foresters—Hunting Lodges—Sporting Priors—Old Tenures—Encroacliments upon Woods by Iron-making Operations—Animals tliat have Disappeared—Eeaction due to a Love ofSport—^^Hiat the Country would have lost— The MerrieGreenwood—Remarkable old Forest Trees, &c. Where with puffed cheek the belted hunter blowsHis wreathed bugle horn. Mr. Eyton tliiiiks the afForestation of Sliirlot wasprobably suggested by its proximity to tbe Moryilleand Chetton manors,
. Old sports and sportsmen : or, The Willey country. CHAPTER III. ROYAL CHASE OF SHIRLOT. Afforestation of Shirlot—Extent—Places Disafforested—Hayes—Foresters—Hunting Lodges—Sporting Priors—Old Tenures—Encroacliments upon Woods by Iron-making Operations—Animals tliat have Disappeared—Eeaction due to a Love ofSport—^^Hiat the Country would have lost— The MerrieGreenwood—Remarkable old Forest Trees, &c. Where with puffed cheek the belted hunter blowsHis wreathed bugle horn. Mr. Eyton tliiiiks the afForestation of Sliirlot wasprobably suggested by its proximity to tbe Moryilleand Chetton manors, where Saxon kings and Mer-cian earls had their respective demesnes, and thatHenry I. and his successors, in visiting the Castle ofBridgnorth, or as guests of the Prior of Wenlock, had 32 EOYAL CHASE OF SHIRLOT. obvious reasons for perpetuating there tlie exclusiverights of a Royal chace. Although Shirlot Forestwas separated from that of Morfe by the Severn, itsjurisdiction extended across the river to Apley, andembrace
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