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They charg'd him further w"' Sixe hundred more, 



Which they alledg'd he had receav'd before 



His brother's death, who mortgag'd for y e same, 



A farm he held call'd Haselbach* by name. 



Concerninge w ch sith thus it comes i' th' way 



I thinke it not amisse somethinge to say : 



This Farme of Haselbach, whereof I speake, 



Is seituate nere Castleton ith' Peake : 



And worth (as by y e Rentall did appeare) 



But litle lesse than Seav'n score pounde a yeare : 



Part of the Vernons lands long had it beene, 



As in their auncient Deedes is to be seene. 



Sir George who of y e Vernons was y e last 



That held those goodlie lands, from whom thev past 



By two Coheires out of the Vernon's name 



(For w ch great Talbottt was y e more to blame) 



S r George I say of whom yet manie speake 



(For great houskeepinge termed King oth' Peak) 



Was much directed in his yonger yeares, 



In all his causes and his greate affaires, 



By 's uncle S r John Vernon's good advyse, 



Who was a learned man, discreete and wyse : 



Wherfore S r George to shew y' he was kynd, 



And to his uncle bare a thankfull mynd, 



Of Haselbach he granted then a Lease, 



To him and his assignes \v ch should not cease, 



Until y e terme of fourscore yeares were spent, 



Reservinge thereupon a pennie rent. 



S r John until his death posses't y e same : 



* See Introduction. 



t Is not this an error for " Talboys "? Sir Gilbert Talboys was the father 

 of the first wife of the " King of the Peak." But the line is puzzling. The 

 skeleton pedigree, giving the descent of Sir George Vernon, and showing that 

 he was nephew to Sir John Vernon, of Sudbury, is one of the first times that 

 Sir George's parentage has been rightly given. There is a strange confusion 

 in the usual statements of the Vernon descent ; almost every punted source of 

 information makes Sir George to be the sou, instead of the grandson, of Sir 

 Henry Vernon. This part of our pedigree is compiled from Rutland evidences 

 that were kept at Haddon as late as 1833. 



