The History of Glanville's Wootton, in the County of Dorset

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Excerpt from The History of Glanville's Wootton, in the County of Dorset: Including Its Zoology and Botany Wootton Glanville - or, as it is generally called, Glanville's Wootton - lies in the beautiful vale, and within the limits of the ancient forest of Blackmore, or the White Hart, so called for the following reason: - King Henry the Third, having disported himself in the Forest of Blackmore, spared a certain beautiful and goodly white hart, which afterwards one Sir Thomas de la Lynde, a gentleman of ancient descent and note, with his companions, hunted and killed at King's Stag Bridge, in the parish of Lydlinch. On hearing of it, the king was so enraged that he not only punished them with imprisonment and a fine, but taxed their lands, the owners of which until the last few years paid a yearly sum of money into the Exchequer, called White Hart Silver. The forest for some time lost its ancient name of Blackmore for that of the White Hart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.