74 A HISTORY OF PEAK FOREST. 



the abbot that now is, and that he must answer for the injury 

 done there in his time. That the same abbot held there a 

 certain carpentered house one hundred feet in length and fifteen 

 feet in width which his predecessors had raised (with timber) out 

 of the same wood. 



The abbot was present in court, and declared that he ought not 

 to be amerced nor blamed for this ; that the pasturage of the 

 wood in leaves and herbage was his ; and moreover that this wood 

 was out of the limits of the " Regard." 



This reference of the abbot to the boundary between his lands 

 and the King's Forest appears to have suggested an official 

 enquiry, the result of which is thus recorded : — * 



" It is concluded by the Foresters, Verderers, Regarders, and 

 other jurymen that these are the boundaries between the demesne 

 of our Lord the King and the Abbot of Basingwerk in Gloshop, 

 which begin at Goyt and descend to the water of Etherou, and so 

 ascend by the water of Goyt to the water of Denebrok as far as 

 the Longleye ; and so ascending in Dupeclough : and again 

 ascending to the Ederou : again ascending by the water of Ederou 

 to the channel (" ad ductum ") of Counibes : ascending the 

 channel of Coumbes to the bridge of Coumbes : and from thence 

 ascending to Coumbesnesel : and so ascending to Clonegge : and 

 from thence as far as the way of Chasseworth : and so ascending 

 by the same way as far as Raumford (? Stamforth, ? Staniforth) : 

 and so ascending to Thuresbachehevid : and so from thence to 

 Wodecolhevid : and so ascending to Wynterfaleford : so descending 

 as far as Shereindeclow (another copy has " Shiterindecloht ") : 

 so ascending to Blakeclow. So that from Morclowe (another 

 reading has " Morcloht ") as far as Lenedycroft is wholly the 

 King's wood, and contains in length ten leucas,t and in breadth % 



* "Duchy of Lancaster Records," Misc. Class 25, Bag F., Ro. 51. 



f I Leuca = 12 quarentines. ^ 



I Quarentum = 40 perches. I ..j^^ (, qj^^^,, 



' P;"='^ "-^ U 20 feet. I 



I Virga ... \ ) 



So that ten leucas equal 18 miles 320 yards. 

 X Anxious to identify this ancient boundary nomenclature with modern 



