| Content Description | Writers explain that they have been appointed as 'Commissioners for enquiring into the state and condition of the Woods Forests and Land Revenues of the Crown'; they have received a letter from a surveyor Mr Renshaw, written by Mr William Gould of Welbeck referring to the Duke's claim to certain rights in the woods of Birkland and Bilhay [Bilhagh] in Sherwood Forest, and in the manors of Mansfield and Edwinstowe; requests further information from the Duke's agent in respect of claims to Birkland, Bilhay, Noman's Wood alias Forsworn Wood, and Lindhurst Wood, which they believed was all Crown property.
See Pl E12/13/1/4/40 for copy and Pl E12/13/1 series passim for related material. |