THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 3 r 



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 Roger Dervyle made an attack upon Rog. VVhetecroft, John 

 Hobbeson and Will Selar and raised the " hue " there 

 contrary to the peace. 



Twelve persons were fined for trespassing on the moor 

 collecting " Corke." 



>^ Rob. Lyome died since last court : yearly rent, ix' vij''. 

 Heriot a brass pot — house out of repair, ij". 



The jury said that lately the Earl of Shrewsbury by Robert 

 Eyre his seneschal had held two great courts by usurpation, 

 one after the feast of Easter, & another after the feast 

 of S. Michael : and in the said court they look the 

 dues & perquisites of Henry Vernon, Esq., against his 

 title & hereditary right ; because neither the said Earl 

 nor his seneschal ought to have nor hold any court 

 save that of Court Baron of the tenants belonging to 

 said Earl, and no other court was used of old times 

 because it was found by Verdict before the justices 

 itinerant in the Co. of Derby in the time of Edward 

 III. that all the amercements pertaining to the View 

 of Frank Pledge belonged to the ancestors of the said 

 Henry Vernon, Esq., with all the profits issuing from 

 the same, from the time to which memory did not extend. 

 And similarly they said that as regarding the driving 

 of the whole Moor in Baslow demesne twice a year, 

 viz., after the Invention of Holy Cross, and after the 

 Feast of Michaelmas, the ancestors of the said Henry 

 Vernon were accustomed to take and drive the moor 

 aforesaid, and all the sheep then found thereon, pertained 

 to the said Henry, and his ancestors from ancient times, 

 & to no other person. 



And afterwards they said that Richard Eyre made a 

 driving of the moor this year contrary to the right, title, 

 & heirship of the said Henry Vernon. In mercy, xl^ 

 "iht MnriH," 



