COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF LITTLE CHESTER. I03 



" Wee present William Raynor Thomas Bakewill for the like, & 

 amerce either of them iiii'' 



" Wee present John Walker for not sending &= daugh * to lead 

 Comon worke to the highwayes & amerce him xii** 



"Wee present Francis Gorse for eating other men's grasse with 

 his cattle in the come feilds of Quarne, & amerce him xii** 



" We present James Chatborne, Luke Vallance, Thomas Pearson, 

 Willm Taborer, sen., & Willm. Taborer, jun., for the like offence, 

 & amerce every of them severally. xii^ " 



Below the entry are the signatures of three of the jury, and the 

 several marks of the other nine. These amercements are not 

 usually recorded with the transactions of the copyhold courts, 

 probably because separate suit rolls were kept. Preceding them 

 is a list of suitors for whom essoin (or excuse) was made ; and 

 being with the king in arms at York, Sir John Harpur might well 

 have had himself excused. A few years later, under the Parlia- 

 ment's Ordinance, he compounded for his estates with the more 

 substantial fine of ^4,000. 



" 3 May 1645 John Willymot surrendered a cott : and a rood 

 of land to Edward Willymot in ' milne close ' between a holy 

 and oiler : fine vi"* " 



John Willymot was tenant of the lord's mill in 1638, and it is 

 probable that the mill and kiln, erected (as subsequent entries 

 show) upon this rood of land, were additions to, or occupied with, 

 the old mill. The buildings have for some time been used as 

 bleachworks. Hollies and alders still flourish on the spot. 



John Hieron, who held the Rectory of Breadsall on the presenta- 

 tion of Sir John Gell, and was ejected for nonconformity in 1662, 

 lived for some time at Little Eaton. His daughter Anna Taylor, 

 his son Joseph, and his grandson John, were copyholders in the 

 Manor. The name Hieron or Hyron appears upon the Rolls late in 

 the seventeenth century, and a plantation held by John the younger, 



* ( ? His daughter.) The sole management of horses, etc., was more fre- 

 quently entrusted to women during the past than at present. A woman in 

 Shirland Lane has for years fetched coals from Morton Colliery for the 

 cottagers in the vicinity. This may be the case of a daughter doing her best 

 for an invalid father. — (Ed.) 



