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 sfjtrc pvcs^vbcU in tf)t HccorO d^tKce, llonHou. 



By Rev. Chas. Kerry. 



HE earliest of these records will be found in a roll 

 of the assizes held in difterent counties (No. 1179', 

 ranging from Anno. 36 to 39, Henry IH. 



The rolls proper to Derbyshire extend from Roll 

 144 to 173 inclusive. The first of these (No. 144) consists of 

 nineteen separate skins, each about three feet in length by eight 

 inches in width, all sewn together at the head, like the leaves 

 of an oblong book. 



It commences thus : — " Pleas of juries and assize at Derby 

 before Gilbert de Preston and his companions, Justices Itinerant, 

 within the fifteen days following Easter in the 5^^ year of King 

 Henry, the son of King John." (a.d. 1269.) 



The entries are very numerous, written in a fine and much- 

 abbreviated hand on both sides of every skin. 



Translation. 



LITTLE CLIFTON. 



Assize to ascertain whether Ralph de Montjoy* and Nic. 

 de Cubley unjustly and without judgment dissiesed Nich. le 

 Clerk, of Mackworth, of his free tenement in Little Clifton, 

 viz., of two tofts of land, etc. 



* This S' Ralph Munioye was a witness to a charter in which Edmund 

 Crouchback confirmed to Rich'', son of Henry Curzon, of Breadsall, some land 

 and a watercourse to Hadley Mill. Given at Tutbury a.d. 1286. 



