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Sflrtttons from t1)t StciDavtrs' Accounts pvt^ 

 srrbcti at l^atftron ^aU for tf)e gears 1549 

 mti 1564. 



By W. a. Carrington. 



|HERE are still preserved in the Muniment Room at 

 Haddon Hall a series of Stewards' Accounts com- 

 mencing in 1564, and continuing, with omissions, to 

 about the end of the seventeenth century. Unfor- 

 tunately, a blank of forty-six years occurs in the most interesting 

 period, namely, between the first account and the next succeeding 

 one. Whether the missing accounts were lost or destroyed at 

 Haddon, or were sent to Belvoir, is a matter of conjecture, but it 

 is evident from my recent investigations in the Muniment Room 

 at the latter place that a large portion of the collection of docu- 

 ments originally at Haddon were removed to Belvoir, including a 

 most valuable series of Derbyshire Charters, Court Rolls, etc., 

 a portion of which was returned to Haddon in 1823, as appears 

 from a list of that date found there enumerating the documents 

 returned. The most interesting of these is a collection of early 

 Derbyshire Charters in an excellent state of preservation, including 

 424 relating to Bakewell alone, and 339 relating to thirty-seven 

 other Derbyshire townships and places. Besides these, there are 

 deposited in the Muniment Room at Belvoir several thousand 

 additional Derbyshire Charters, of which about 300 relate to 

 Bakewell, all prior to the seventeenth century. 



The following extracts are taken from tbe two earliest volumes 

 of Stewards' Accounts, found respectively at Belvoir and Haddon : 



