BEAMPTON-AMONG-THE-ROSES. were so faded, through time and mildew, as to bear but faint traces in places of the old letters. He had made enough out, however, to find that they were charters of old forest rights and fisheries, containing the names of boundaries and long-since extinct land- marks, which had no doubt often been stoutly contested for in past times in the courts held under the old Barons of Brampton, who little dreamed that their possessions would one day be converted into peaceable sheep-walks. They showed that one held a portion of the estate by sowing the Baron's lands in spring and reaping them in autumn, doing what was called service of "Ground and Garner," and that he had a road to pass over with his plough, harrow, and cart to do the work agreed upon for his feudal lord; also to the forest for his hogs to feed on the mast, and to the common-land, where there was herbage for his oxen and pasturage for the few sheep he was allowed to keep. So the warrener brought in his tribute of rabbits from the sandy warren where they burrowed, and the fisherman his tribute of fish from the river, where his thatched hut stood on the bank; and that there were also roads to the ancient Baronial Hall or moated Manor House, for those who held their estates by a higher tenure. Men-at-arms came from remote thorpes and granges over a bridle-way, overgrown in places with grass, so little was it made use of, followed by the bowman, with his arrows at his back, and the spearmen, in their buff jerkins, to serve under the banner of the ancient Barons of Brampton, who had himself to obey the summons of the king, of whom he held his estate, the same as his retainers held under him. So roads were made from every point of the compass to the great centre where they were sum. moned to assemble, and as there were but few fences a