1/ #OTD 1316. Sheriff of Wilts to pay Nicholas Lovel & William de Eton, king’s yeomen, whom the king is sending with 2 buckhound handlers, 3 greyhound handlers...18 greyhounds, & 24 buckhounds to take fat venison in Clarendon, Chute, Ludgershall & Bredon Forests...
2/ To pay their wages while in his bailiwick, i.e. daily 12d to Nicholas, 9d to William, 1 1/2d a for each of buckhound handler & 2d for each greyhound & dog. He is also to deliver them salt & barrels ‘for the venison & carriage for the same to Windsor'...
3/ The constable of Windsor should receive the venison from the huntsmen & ‘cause it to be well salted, & kept in barrels till further orders’. The keepers of the said forests are to ‘aid & counsel Nicholas & William in taking the said venison’

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