CHAPTER IV.

THE WREKIN FOREST AND THE FORESTERS. The Wrekin Forest and the Foresters—Hermit of Mount St. 54 Gilbert—Poachers upon the King’s Preserves—Extent of the Forest—Haye of Wellington—Robert Forester—Perquisites—Hunting Matches—Singular Grant to John Forester—Sir Walter Scott’s Anthony Forster a Member of the Shropshire Forester Family—Anthony Forster Lord of the Manor of Little Wenlock, and related to the Foresters of Sutton and Bridgnorth—Anthony Foster altogether a different Character to what Sir Walter Scott represents him