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5) Joseph Pratley (who four years previously had succeeded his father as Keeper of Potter's Hill Walk) deposed that "No sheep are admitted into his Walk, except in the places where there are Sheep Walks by ancient Custom, the Limits of which are marked by Crosses cut in the Ground, and when the sheep stray beyond these Limits he impounds them. One of those Marks is in a Place called the March, near Grug-Hill, and another at the Top of Hatching Hill, which are the Bounds of a Sheep Walk for Leafield Hamlet, in the Parish of Shipton; and there is another Sheep Walk for Langley Hamlet in the same Parish, situate between Pollard's Coppice and Shakenhoff, marked also with Crosses, which are now almost grown up and are in Danger of being altogether lost. He has heard from his father and others, that Oxen ought not to be admitted into the Forest, and that they were not allowed to be turned in till within these 5 years past when Mr. Nutt and others sent their's and the Practice is now becoming general, and is very hurtful to the young Timber."

The Disafforesting (1792 report)

The present Officers of the Forest, and the salaries paid by the Duke of Marlborough to the Woodward, and the Keepers, are as follows :-

Joseph Prattley - Potter's Hill Walk[Keeper 1 of 5]

[Salaries :] £11