THE CASTLE OF THE PEAK, AND THE PIPE ROLLS. 1 23 



The king appears to have been here again in the following year 

 (1158), for the sheriff enters on the Pipe Roll a charge oi ;^^6 5s. 

 " In corredium Regis apud Pech." 



In 1 1 64 the Castle of the Peak was a third time visited by the 

 king, his expenses being returned to the sheriff as ^8 8s. 2d. 



No specific notice of the castle occurs until 19 Henry If. 

 (1173). In that year the rising of the barons necessitated strong 

 measures being taken by the king, and the royal castles gener- 

 ally were ordered to be provisioned and garrisoned. Such a 

 chain of fortresses as the Castles of the Peak, Bolsover, and 

 Nottingham were of course duly strengthened and garrisoned, 

 and the cost entered on the Pipe Roll, but the charges are not 

 always separately given for each castle. The items are as 

 follows : — 



In the provisioning of the Castle of the Peak : for 20 seams* of 

 corn, 50s. 6d. ; for 20 bacons, 39s. 



Twenty knights received for 20 days ^20, or the unusually 

 high rate of pay of is. a day per man. 



On the works of the castles of the Peak and Bolsover were 

 spent sums of 40s., ^46 10s., and ;^4i 10s. 3d., or ;^9o in all, 

 and the payments of the knights and servants at Nottingham, 

 Bolsover, and the Peak amounted to ;^i35. The Pipe Roll 

 for the following year, 20 Henry II. (1174), contains further 

 entries of a similar kind. ;£to was paid to 20 knights and 60 

 servants at Nottingham, Bolsover, and the Peak, and a further 

 sum of ;^24 was laid out on the works at the Peak and 

 Bolsover. 



The original entries for these two years are as follows : — 



19 Henry II. In warnisione Castelli de Pech pro xx. summis frumenii 

 \s. et \]d. Et pro xx. Baconibus xxxixj. per breve Ricardi de Luci. 



Et XX. militibus xx. tide liberatione xx. dierum per breve Ricardi de Luci. 

 de quibus xvij. libras sunt de firma comitatus. 



In liberatione militum et servientium de Bolesoura et de Pech xx. ti per 

 breve Regis quod continet numerum et terminum eorundem militum et ser- 

 vientium. 



* A seam is eight bushels. 



