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Matthew de Hathersage, a Baron, who had married the heiress of 

 Musard, was presented for having a certain Buckstall in his 

 own woods, in Hathersage, too near the King's Forest. This was a 

 toil for taking deer, and Matthew said that he and his ancestors 

 ahvays had it and ought to have it, and that formerly they had it still 

 nearer to the forest. It is difficult to understand the meaning of 

 the verdict, for he was fined 20 marks, that his Buckstall should 

 remain so that it should not be nearer to the forest than where 

 it was ; from which it would seem that he was only acting within 

 his rights. 



A sad occurrence is recited in a Roll of 13 Edward I. The jury 

 presented that when the king jnade his chace at Compana, in the 

 forest, upon the Wednesday next after the Feast of the Assump- 

 tion of the Blessed Mary, in the 3rd year of his reign, William 

 fil Rankelli of Hocklow, came, and when the king's hounds 

 had got a stag at bay (ad baruvi) beyond the bounds of the 

 forest, William shot the stag and killed the king's hounds ; upon 

 the king's hunters coming up they cried him (exclamaverunt) and 

 he fled, and they took the venison to the king's larder. 



In a Roll of 13 Edward I., there is a charge against Thomas 

 de Furnival, Lord of Sheffield, to whom, in the 48th year of 

 Henry III. was entrusted the Castle of Peak, that he with 

 his familiars, Ivo de Heriz, Rad Barry, Rad de Ecclesall, a 

 certain Knight Stout of Stuteville, all of Nottingham, and others, 

 killed no less than 12 beasts. They were all severely punished. 



In the same year there is a great presentment against Robert, 

 Earl Ferrars, then Earl of Derby, who, with a great many Knights 

 and high personages, his familiars (Knights) came into the Forest 

 of Compana, on the day of St. Thomas the Martyr (48 H. III.) 

 and took 40 beasts, and drove away other 40, and at the 

 Feast of St. Peter ad Vincula (Aug. ist), took 50 beasts and drove 

 away 70, and at St. Mich, took 40 and drove away another 40. 



These grave charges probably formed another link in the chain 

 of events which culminated in the ruin of this great nobleman. 



A curious case occurred at a Swanmote held at Chapel-en-le- 

 Frith, in the Forest, on the Feast of St. Gregory, 8 Edward I., 



