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A Dist of the Vills and fFreeholvers of 
Derbyshire, 1633. 
COMMUNICATED BY S. O. Appy, M.A. 
JHE following list has been transcribed from a MS. in 
the possession of Mr. G. A. Cubley, of Sheffield, who 
has kindly allowed it to be printed. The MS., 
which is of small quarto size, is written on paper 
bound in a parchment wrapper. It is evidently a draft, and is 
written in a good clerical hand, with erasures and additions by 
a more dashing but much more illegible writer. The additions 
are distinguished by being printed in italics. 
It will be noticed that the list does not include the town of 
Derby. I conjecture that it was made for some legal purpose, 
and that this town fell under a different assessment. Only 
one freeholder, ‘ Arthur Mower,” is given under the head of 
Chesterfield. 
The abbreviated words alloc, bre, prator, etc., written in the 
margin, present some difficulty. The former may be alocationts 
breve, meaning a writ or certificate of excuse, and I conjecture, 
with considerable diffidence, that the latter may be frocurator. 
If we take this document as a jury list, as probably it is, the 
words written in the margin become intelligible. Moreover, the 
absence of the names of peers, etc., is accounted for. I have 
expanded mil’ tery’ whenever it occurs into militaris terra, that 
is land held by knight-service. 
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