A HISTORY OF PEAK FOREST. 95 



The following curious particulars relating to the officers of the 

 High Peak were copied some years ago by the Editor, from an 

 old MS. written by Mr. Anthony Bradshaw, steward under the 

 Earl of Shrewsbury, circa 1600. The original from which this 

 transcript was made is now missing ; but much of it has been 

 printed, with some verbal variations, by Sir Oswald Mosley 

 in his "History of Tutbury" [inde Appendix No. II., p. 336). 

 Sir Oswald seems to have obtained his copy from one of the 

 Harleian MSS., but both transcripts were derived from one 

 of the Cowcher Books of 2 Henry V., now in the Public 

 Record Office : — 



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 Sfrgf3. a»b of Qteeberooob.** 



"They are named & made by the Kinge, and authorized by the King's 

 lettB patents und"^ the Duchie seale. The fee is for Nedewood, viij fflks ; and 

 for Duffeld Ffrith viij fflks : & for the High Peake x fflks. They may 

 make there depute's wch be called Leveten^unts but they have no fee of the 

 Kinge, but the woodni's reward. There office is to ouiee the K's game & 

 woods & sVe warrants to them directed, and to order the game when huntinge 

 is made, and to correct offences done in the forests chaces & pks. They shall 

 see that there be no saltries, nor broken stallen set upon the bord*', and serve 

 to the Steward yf there be cause, & appoint woodmotes : and in Duffeld 

 Ffrith there is a bowe-berer, & he is surveor of the woods : and the woodm^r 

 shall sweare the keps at woodmots, & p§ent conceylements of the keps, and 

 offences done in the K's forests chaces & pks : & shall take hunters & men 

 suspecte for huntinge, that be bloyde handyd, back-berynge, or be at the dethe 

 place, or w'*' suche other lyke suspectious causes, findinge them in suche forme. 

 "Also the woodm' surveyor & keep in the latter ende of Marche shall take the 

 vewe of the dere in e9y office yerely, & shall see that the moren (murrain) 

 Dere be brunned, and indent the niiber betwene the kep & him : & shall see 

 that the King's woods & the springs be saved, where wood shale have bene 

 made : & that the lodgs, pale & border be repayred & yf the keps deputs be 

 destroy! of the game, he may p''sent them, & cause the keps to chaunge them. 



"Also, the woodm'' w' the surveyor & the Stewards deputie shall ousee the 

 geystment of the K's pks, and ley {let out for pasturage) them for the K's most 

 advantage yf they go by applement 1^ be not set to ferme, & see that they be 

 not oQleyde : & they w"' the redenes of iiij of the K's tenants shall p§ee the 

 dere fallen wood, & the pendings of the K's tenants to have them vpon that 

 pryse (valuation) affore any outma. 



