Sentence:  His successors, Earls of Glocester, held the manor of the Abps. of Canterbury, on condition that they should be stewards at the Abps. installments, and grant them the <WSD>woodship</WSD> of their children; but this tenure, after long dispute, was compounded. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Control over and responsibility for a wooded area.