[Footnote 1:  Vol. ii. p. 2]

On the first page of the register dated 1704, the vicar, “M.  James Musgrave,” gives a list of “things belonging to the churich—­a surplus, a Hud, a challis, a patton, tow-flaggons [these are of pewter and are kept in the church], a putter Dubler, a Tabill clorth, on napkin.  A dubler for christening.”

During this period the Duchy records show that Pickering Forest was still being robbed of its oaks, some of them being used to repair the defences of Scarborough Castle during the Civil War.

“Wee are informed that there were xxx^tie Trees or }
  thereaboutes cut downe in Newton dale within the }
  said fforest and carried to Scarbrough Castle by } 20 0 0”
  Order from Sir Hugh Cholmley then Gouernor of }
  the same, to the value of }

Some of the other entries at the same time are given below.[1]

“Wee are informed that divers olde trees are cut downe }
  within the fforest of Pickeringe in a place called }lib. 
  Deepdale and Helley Greene by Robert Pate by the } 6 0 0
  Appointment of Mathew ffranke Esquire to the }
  value of }

Likewise wee are informed that John Hassell gent }
  hath cut downe diuers trees in Dalbye within the } 19 0 0
  said fforest to the value of }

Wee are likewise informed that Beatrice Hassell widdow }
  hath cut downe diuers trees in Dalbye Hagges } 12 0 0
  within the said fforest, to the value of }

Wee are likewise informed That seuerall Tennantes of }
  Goatland haue cut downe two hundred Trees and }
  more within the fforest in the North part of } 30 0 0
  Newtondale and Gillwood to the value of }

And that Robert ffranke gent did take Composicions
  and summes of money of seuerall of the said
  Tennants of Goatland for the same wood.

And allso we are informed that there hath bene cut }
  downe Two hundred Trees in Haughe Hagge }
  within the said fforest, And that the said Trees were } l. s. d.
  cut downe and Carried away by the poore people of } 40 0 0
  Pickeringe in the yeares 1647 and 1648 to the }
  value of }

[Footnote 1:  From a thin foolscap book containing, inter alia, the findings of the Juries of the Courts Leet, etc., in the possession of the Rev. Arthur Hill of Thornton-le-dale.]

From the same book we discover that

“George Grayson holdes by Copie of Court Roll one Cottage in Pickeringe and one Garth thereunto belonging, dated the 11th of Aprill 1659 And was admitted Tennant thereof by John Syms then Steward and paid ffine 0 0 4”

This is of considerable interest in view of the fact that the Grayson family are still tenants of the Duchy.