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These Horns, as they are improperly called, being certainly the teeth of some very large sea fish, represented in the annexed plate, were given by King Henry I, to the Prior and Convent of Carlisle, when he enfeoffed them with the tythes of all assart lands within the forest of Englewood, to be held per quoddam cornu eburneum, as expressed in the following record. In like manner the keepership of Bernwood forest, together with the manor of Borstal, in the county of Buckingham, were granted in see by King Edward the Confessor; and the manor of Pusey, Berks, by King Canute the Dane, by the delivery of hunting horns, both which are preserved at Pusey and Borstal at this day.
page 22 note * Pl. V.
page 22 note [a] See Hickes's Thesaurus, Vol. I. pref. p. xxv. and Kennet's Paroch. Antiq. p. 51, 52. Ryley's Placita Parliamentaria, p. 49.
page 23 note [a] Ray's Itiner. p. 211.