144 JOTTINGS ABOUT OLD DERBY. 
I believe lived there, was the first Mayor of Derby under 
Charter of Charles I., 1636. He died there and was buried 
atrrase Peters: 
CasTLE FreELpDs HALL, surrounded by stately cedar trees, 
stood on or near the site of the factory of Mr. Alderman Roe. 
The stables belonging to it now form the Siddals Lane 
School Rooms, belonging to S. Peter’s parish. I remember 
it well, and what is now covered with houses, etc., intersected 
with streets, was then an open space, clear of buildings, from 
Traffic Street to Canal Street, and from London Road to 
Siddals Lane, called Castle Fields Park. 
It is not often that we can trace the origin of the names 
of places, but as ‘‘ Hope Street’ forms now one of the streets 
I am alluding to, I give you the tradition why it is so called, 
as it was told me by my father. 
When my grandfather was vicar of S. Werburgh’s he held 
two acres of land in Castle Fields Park, where the street is 
now made, as vicar of that parish. The owner, who then 
possessed and lived at Castle Fields Hall, considered these 
two acres (being nearly in the middle of the park) a nuisance, 
and removed the land marks by which they were distinguished ; 
whereupon my grandfather brought an action against him at 
the County Assizes, which was decided in my grandfather's 
favour, the judge remarking that the owner of the estate had 
offended not only against man but against the laws of God, 
insomuch as he had removed his neighbour’s land-mark. 
However, it ended in an apology to my grandfather, and in 
lieu of the land in the park he was offered a fenced field con- 
taining a barn on the Ashburne Road, which my grand- 
father accepted, and it is now the property of the vicars of 
S. Werburgh. The judge told my grandfather that in con- 
sequence of the treatment he had received he could take 
his two acres close up to the drawing-room windows if he 
chose to do so. 
On Cockpit Hill stood an old mansion, built by a Mr. 
Beardsley in 1712, and afterwards the dwelling about this 
