132 DUFFIELD CASTLE. 



of the confiscated Ferrers' estates are given in full; the original 

 Kenilworth charter, with a fragment of the royal seal still appended, 

 is also preserved at the same place. The exact terms of the grant 

 of the king are — " Castra et omnes terras et tenementa cum perti- 

 nentiis que fuerunt Roberti de Ferrariis quondam Comitis Derbye, 

 qui Simoni de Monteforte quondam Comiti Leycestrie inimico et 

 feloni Regis et imprisiis suis adhesit tempore guerre que super in 

 Regno mota fuit per ipsum Simonem et dictos imprisios suos ad 

 exhereditationem Regis et destructionem Corone sue," etc. From 

 the same source, we find that there was an intermediary grant 

 between those of June and August, not entered on the Patent 

 Rolls ; it is dated July 12, Kenilworth, and conveys to Edmund 

 the Honor of Derby forfeited by Robert de Ferrers, and the Honor 

 of Leicester forfeited by Simon de Montfort.* 



In the second volume of the Great Cowcher there is the copy 

 of an interesting deed whereby Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, 

 grants to Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, 

 the castle and honor of Tutbury, the castle and honor of 

 Chartley, the castle and honor of Dufneld, the castle of Liverpool, 

 with all the land between the Ribble and the Mersey, the Wapen- 

 take of Wirksworth and Ashbourn, and all the lands which he 

 holds, or will descend to him after his mother's death, in the realm 

 of England, with all franchises and free customs, as devised by 

 King William the Bastard, and confirmed by his successors.t 

 The charter bears no date, but it seems most probable that it was 

 drawn up by Robert de Ferrers during the brief period that he 

 was on friendly terms with Gilbert de Clare, shortly before the 

 battle of Chesterfield, with some vague idea that, by thus putting 

 his great inheritance into a kind of trust, through the operation 

 of this sham conveyance, he might be able to evade an antici- 

 pated attainder, if the worst came to the worst But be this as 



* Great Cowcher, Vol. I., f. 3, No. 12. 



t Great Cowcher, vol. ii., f. 98, No. 41. The document is in Norman- 

 French, and speaks of "Le Chastel de Duffeld." The witnesses are — • 

 Williame de Mouchens de Edwardeston, Wauter de la Hyde, Henri de Boner, 

 Henri de Humfraumule, Phelipe de Colevile, David de Offinton, and Johan 

 de Sechevile. 



