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every person convicted of any breach of the Forest Laws. No 

 less than 517 separate charges are entered on this roll, but as 

 some of the culprits appear to have offended in more ways than 

 one, their names occur more than once. We shall, however, be 

 nearly right if we estimate the number of different persons at 

 about 400. The document forms a valuable register of inhabitants 

 of the Peak in 1285. If desired, it shall be printed in the next 

 volume. 



(ttli0ceffaneou0. 



Great Longsdon. "To the thrice noble chevaliers of the 

 Council of our Lord the King. Godfrey Rouland a poor and 

 simple esquire of the county of Derby maketh his supplication 

 and complaint concerning Sir Thomas AVendesley and John Dean 

 vicar of Hope ; viz. ; that the said Thomas and John, together 

 with John Shaw, Richard Hunt, Reynold Wombwell, John of 

 Sutton, and Thomas Swynescowe, his son, with other more of 

 their false party and kindred, armed as if for war, on the Monday 

 next before the Feast of the Translation of S. John of Beverley 

 (May 7) A.D. 1399, came feloniously to the house of the said 

 suppliant at Great Longsdon, and by force and arms broke into 

 and despoiled the said house, and all the goods and chattels 

 found there to the value of 200 marks, seized and took away — 

 and him the said suppliant they seized, and conveyed from the 

 said house to the Castle of the High Peak, and imprisoned there 

 for six days, without either meat or drink, and afterwards cut off 

 his right hand, contrary to the peace, and to the perpetual injury 

 and loss of the suppliant. May it therefore please your thrice 

 noble discretions to consider this horrible trespass, and evil 

 example and to grant a hasty remedy to your poor suppliant 

 for God, and as a work of charity." {Rot. Pari. iii. 518, 

 A.D. 1402.) 



The calendar of the MSB. of the Duke of Rutland recently 

 issued by the Historical MSS. Commission commences with an 

 account of some papers belonging to Sir Richard Vernon about 

 A.D. 1440, relating lo matters in the Peak. 



