72 A HISTORY OF PEAK FOREST. 



Concerning f3e (jSaifftnjicft of ^oppe'btife (1285). 



It is presented that the King's woods of Derewente and 

 AsHOP have been injured since the last pleas of the Forest by 

 certain Abbots of Welbec* who are dead, as well as by the 

 present Abbot, to the amount of 5o^ And he is fined ;^2o. 



The woods of Derwent and Ashope are. also deteriorated 

 by the villagers of Hope, Aston, Thornhull, Derwent and Ashop 

 to the value of 40 shill. 



Item. The aforesaid wood of Derwent is wasted by the sale 

 which Thomas de Normanvyl made in the same by the King's 

 warrant from which he raised 20 marks, f And besides this 

 100 oaks were destroyed, 20 of which were out of Derwent and 

 Ashop. 



Tlie King's wood of Eydal has been injured to the value 

 of 40 shillings by the bailiffs residing in the castle of Peak since 

 the time of the last Iter. The villagers of Castleton have done 

 2' worth of injury, and the inhabitants of Bradewell too, to the 

 amount of 20". Ten oaks have been taken. 



The wood of Trayok where there is no cover of oaks has 

 been damaged by the villagers of Castleton to the amount of 

 5^ And this belongs to Campana. 



QSaiffiStcft of fcongebene^afe. 



The King's wood of Kynder has been injured to the value of 

 16^ by the villagers, of Hayfield (fined 4'), with the hamlets 

 appertaining. Three hundred oaks have been converted into 

 pales. 



The wood of Hayfeldclyff has been damaged since the last 



* "About the close of the twelfth century, John Earl of Mortaigne in the 

 reign of his brother Richard bestowed a large tract of land in this part of 

 the parish of Hathersage on the Premonsratensian Abbey of Welbec. It is 

 described in the Charter as the Pasture of Crook Hill, i/id woods of Ashop up 

 to Lockerbrook, and from Lockerbrook up the valley of the Derwent, even to 

 Derwenc Head." — Cox's Churches of Dei by, ii., 241. 



t Anno 5 Edwd. I. " The King gave power to Thomas de Normanville 

 senior, to sell wood by lot in all the royal forests in his bailiwick, to realize 

 the sum of ;^iooo. (Abbr : Treasury Rolls, I. 27''). 



