98 A HISTORY OF PEAK FOREST. 



that is cutt after, is coinon to the K's tenants. And the keps of the Shireholt 

 Pke, Barton Pke, Highe Lynds Pke, Stackley Pke, Belp pke, & Mauncefeld 

 Pke, shall have but iiij beasts gresse, & one horse gresse for them & their 

 deputies : & all the other keps of close grounds shall haue a horse gresse, & 

 vj kyne gresse : and their deputies ij kyne gresse, & a horse gresse at the least : 

 & in some close grounds the keps & their deputies shall haue xij kyne gresse & 

 ii horse gresse. Also the kep of Tutbury Ward shall kepe watch att Bettincote 

 pole headde ffrom the Assencon even vnto the sunne settinge on the Assencon 

 Day : from evensonge tyme on our Lady even (the Assumpcon) unto the sunne 

 settinge on the Assumpcon day (Aug. 15). And in likewise from evensong tyme 

 on Martlemas even, vnto the sunne settinge on Martlemas day : And he shall 

 have for his labor vj^ yerely of the baylifie or reve of Tutbury, & xii<^ payd to 

 him yerely by the Receyvor w-^^ is alowed yerely att the auditt. And the Kep 

 of Tutbury ward, and the Kep of Yoxall ward shale kepe watche on 

 Bartholomew even from none to sonne setting on Bartholomew day at a tree 

 called Snell's oke in Sieward Stye wey, and the abbatt of Burton shall give 

 them xij'i, or find too men to watch there. And the K's customary tenants of 

 Rolston, Barton, & Margyngton, shale fynd them brede & ale, or pay to them 

 xij'^ towards theyr costs. Also in old tyme there was in eOy ward of Nede- 

 wood one (who) did walke, and he was called Knave of the ward, & e8y ward 

 in old tyme had one of them : and there office was to goe eSy night to the 

 border of the chace, & there to blowe homes, & to kepe the dere out of men's 

 come & gresse, & to see that there were no galtroppes, staks, nor cords sett 

 on the border for dere : they hadde no ffee of the Kinge, nor no mafi of pfitts, 

 but e9y tenant did yeve them a certen come ; & now the Keps' deputie doth 

 gather the same come, & do not that Svice." 



Sir Oswald Moseley in his Appendix to his " History of Tutbury," 

 gives the following officers of the High Peak (p. 343) from the old 

 MS. in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum : — 



" The High Steward ; the Master Forester ; the Receiver ; the Constable 

 of the Castle of the Peak ; the Surveyor of the Forest ; the Lieutenant of the 

 Forest ; the bow-bearer of the Forest ; the Ranger ; the Foresters of Fee ; 

 the Barmasters ; the Bailiff of the Franchises ; the Bailiff of the Windlands ; 

 the Bailiff Collector of the attachments and amercements ; the County Bailiff 

 of the High Peak." 



