56 THE DIARY OF BENJAMIN GRANGER, OF BOLSOVER. 



" Measures first we will that the Lord of the feild shall make an 

 able dishe from this daye forthe between the mchant buyer & the 

 seller against ev'ye good time as xpmas and whissontide two able 

 dishes upon payne of eivry time wantinge if it bee called for to 

 forfeit for evry time iiis iiijd to the Kinge. 



" And they Mynors shall have for their lot and cope sufficient 

 tymber for their works without any penny giuding of the next 

 founder within the King's Lopp Alsoe the shall have water to 

 washe theire myne without any lett for the said lott and coape 

 And if the Lord will buy their myne for as much as any other 

 man will give them he shall have their myne before all other 

 men and if he will not they shall sell their said myne wheare 

 the will to theire most profit witht impeachment or disturbance of 

 the Lord or any of his ministers In wittnes &c. 



" These beene the lawes and customes of the myne used in the 

 High Peak and in all other places through England and Wales 

 for the wch to be had the wise mynors sued to the Lord King that 

 he would confirme them by his charter under his great seal in 

 waye of charity and for his profit and forasmuch as the aforesaid 

 myn' beene at all times in p'ill of their death and that they have 

 nothing in certain but that wch God of his grace will send them." 



Then follows the well-known Inquisition of the 16th year of the 

 reign of Edward I. (1288), taken from the Bundle of the 

 Exchequer, made at Ashbourn upon Saturday next after the feast 

 of the Holy Trinity before Rignold of the Leye and William of 

 Meignell by the oath of Thomas Foljambe and others. 



Then follows an Inquest taken 3rd May, 3 and 4 Philip and 

 Mary, of the same great Barmote Court, before 25 jurymen, con- 

 taining certain supplementary laws relating to mines and mining, 

 which may have been published already. It is very voluminous, 

 and contains some very curious laws, one, enacted against lead 

 stealers, of rare barbarity. On the third conviction for this offence 

 he was to be taken and stricken through his right hand in the palm 

 with a knife up to the " halfe " into the stone, and theare he should 

 stand till he be dead or cut himself loose, and then he should fore- 

 swear the franchise of the mine. 



