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itself 1,500 acres of land. The K. may claim 500 acres of this 

 waste, and every acre is worth 2^ admission and 6'* yearly rent. 



The K. has a waste in Longdendale called " Maynestonefield,"'* 

 of which he may claim 100 acres. Every acre is worth 12'' 

 admission and 4'' yearly rent. The K. has also 100 acres of 

 waste in divers places in Longdendale, of which 53 acres were 

 rented at the last Pleas of Forest by licence and will of the Bailiffs 

 of the High Peak, but without warrant. Of the remaining 67 

 acres, each is worth 12'' admission and 4'' yearly rent. 



In Campana, the K. has 24 acres of waste, which were let out 

 after the last pleas of Forest were held in Derbys, by licence of 

 the bailiffs, but without warrant. 



l5ou6ee execieb in i^e Soreef. 



{Duchy of Lane. Misc. Rec. Class 25. Bag F., Ro. 52. 



Among the great number of persons presented for building 

 houses in the precincts of the Forest without licence are the 

 following : — 



" Reginald de Bouden erected a house at Boudon ' de novo.' 

 Fined, and the house ordered to be thrown down. 



"Jordan de Baggeshawe, do.; William de Bamphord, do.; 

 Henry son of Thom. le Jordan of Haltane, do. ; Ran. de Brad- 

 shawe, do. ; Walter de Bradeshawe, do. ; Robert de Kynder, 

 fined 12''.; Ralph le Jagger, do.; William de Smalleg, do.; 

 Richard de Berdeshal, do. ; Thomas de WhitehuU, do. ; Will, de 

 Hethelauwe at Hope, do. ; Ric. de Wulvelawe, do. 



"The Abbot of Merivale.f who died, erected a house at 

 Ffayrfeld, and one house at Mainstanfeld. And he had there 



* William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, granted for ever by charter all the 

 land of great Mainstanesfield, with woods and common of pasture for .t certain 

 no. of beasts mentioned in the s'* charter, with estovers in the forest, by view 

 of the foresters, to the Abbot and Convent of Merivale. {Rot. Pari. II. 4ga.) 



t One of the greater Cistercian monasteries — Warwicks. This, and the 

 Abbey of Darley, near Derby, were founded by Robert, son of Earl Ferrers, 

 who was buried at Merivale in 1 162. Here also was interred William de 

 Ferrers, Earl of Derby, who died at Evington, a village near Leicester, on 

 the 1 2th Apiil, 1254, from the effects of a fall from his litter when passing 

 over the bridge of St. Neots, Huntingdonshire. 



