CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



List of Officers v 



Rules vii 



List of Members x 



Acting Hon. Secretary's Report xviii 



Balance Sheet xxii 



The Court Rolls of Baslow, Derbyshire, commencing Anno 

 13 Ed. IL (1319-20). (Con/ 1 lined fro fit Vol. XXII., p. 90). 



By Rev. C. Kerry i 



Notes on a Pre-historic Burial-Place at Megdai.e, near 

 Matlock Bridge. 



By John Ward, F.S.A. 40 



Royal Aids for the County of Derby, temf. Eliz. 



By W. a. Carrington 4S 



The Ornithology of Derbyshire. A Retrospf.ct. 



By the Rev. Francis C. U. Jourdain, M.A., 



Member of (he British Ornithologists' Union - - - 58 



Records of the County of Derby. 



By W. a. Carrington 63 



The Lost Manor of Mestesforde. 



By Benjamin Bryan 77 



Proceedings taken in Winstrr Church regarding the Con- 

 sanguinity OF the Parties to the Marriage of two of 

 the Staffords of Eyam. Deed daied 1308. 



Contributed by Charles E. B. Bowles - - - 83 



Depositions in Action for Trespass brought by Henry 

 FuRNiss against Robert Eyre. 



By Charles E. B. Bowles 87 



Melandra Castle. 



By John Garstang 90 



Report of the Excavations in 1889-1900. 



By Robert Hamnett, Hon. Secretary to the Melandra 



Excavation Fund 99 



A Note on the Most Recent Discoveries in Repton Church 

 Crypt. 



By the Rev. F. C. Hipkins, M.A., F.S.A. - - - 105 



The Early Defensive Earthwork on Comb Moss. 



By I. Chalkiey Gould 108 



