A HISTORY OF PEAK FOREST. 9 1 



Robert Bagshawe, one of the King's tenants in the Peak, 

 complained to the Earl of Suffolk that Roger Clerk, servant of 

 Sir Richard Vernon, came with seven men armed with " Jacks " 

 and "Salets,"* and forcibly took him and imprisoned him for 

 three days in the castle of Peak without any cause. A similar 

 complaint was made by Robert Woderofe, one of the foresters of 

 fee against the same Roger Clerk for like seizure and imprison- 

 ment, whereas he and his fellow foresters of the Ward of Cham- 

 payn have had liberty since the time of Prince John, Duke of 

 Lancaster, either to occupy their claim with certain cattle of their 

 own, or to agist the cattle of other men. The master forester 

 will not suffer him to agist any. 



" Edward Bagshawe, one of the tenants of the Duchy of Lan- 

 caster, complains that AVhereas his brother was besieged in his 

 house at Tideswell in the Peak from sunrise to sunset by Nicholas 

 Bradshaw, Henry his brother, and divers others, he came to 

 " ridde his brother, and toke him awey with hym withoute any 

 harme doyng, for which he and those who came with hym are 

 set to a grievous fine by Roger Clerk." 



" Nicholas Hyde, of the Peak, complained to the Earl of Suffolk, 

 that whereas he lately bought of Joan, late the wife of Thomas 

 Bramhall, the marriage of Rose, the daughter of the said Thomas 

 and Joan, John of Bramhall and Hugh Willeson with others 



* "Jacks and Saleis." 'I'he Jnck was a kind of military tunic, " And first 

 they must have for the said Jacks at least twenty-five folds of cloth and a stag's 

 skin. These jacks should be made in four quarters. The sleeves should be 

 as strong as the body wilh the exception of the leather ; the armhole of the 

 sleeve must be large, and placed near the collar, that it may be broad under 

 the armpit and full under the arm, sufficiently ample and large on the sides 

 below. The collar should be like the rest of the jack, but not too high behind 

 to allow room for the saladc. This jack should be laced in front, and under 

 the opening must be a hanging piece, of the same strength as the jack itself 

 Thus the jack will be secure and easy, provided there be a pourpoint without 

 sleeves, or collar of two folds of cloth, that shall be only four fingers broad on 

 the shoulder ; to which pourpoint shall be attached the chausses. Never have 

 been seen half a dozen men killed by stabs or arrow wounds in such jacks, 

 particularly if they be troops accustomed to fighting." The Jack was the 

 usual coat of fence of the archer and the crossbowmen in the fifteenth century. 



Salet or Saladc. A basin-shaped helmet, with a projection at the back to 

 protect the neck. Some had movable vizors ; others, a horizontal slit for 

 sight. They were usually secured by a strap passing under the chin. The 

 Salade succeeded the bascinet in the fifteenth century. — Vide Planche's 

 " Cyclopedia of Costume." 



