40 COMMONS AND WASTE LANDS. 



Q. If it were not requisite at Lady Day or Mayday to 

 give an Account to y^ Heardsman what Cattel & Sheep be 

 put on, & whose they are, and take care they are marked 

 regulerly. 



A R P 



Freeholders part of Common is 973 . i . 9 



One ley is £,(^ . 6= . 1% 



W'out Common w'*" have no part about ^^9. 



Value of y'' whole Chappel Parish according to y" Asses- 



ment of i'^ per ^ is ;^2i6o. 



Qu. How many Acres to keep a Beast? 



Cbapel*en*le*jFi1tb Bnclosures. 



From a MS. in the possession of W. H. G. Bagshawe Esq' of 

 Ford Hall. 



Dated 25 June 171 1. 



Between Adam Bagshawe Radulph Nichonson 

 George Kirke of Bowden Middlecale Gent 

 James Cheetham of Mellor «& Richard Bagshawe of 



Hope Gent. 

 Adam Bagshaw jun' of Wormhill Gent 

 Rowland Swann William Feme Joseph Fearne 

 Johan Dakin Nich. Hill de Fearfield Gent 

 Edmond Warrington, & Henry Longden of Fearnlee 

 Arnold Kyrke of Bowden. 

 The Petitioners set forth that Charles I in the tenth 

 year of his reign was seized in fee of the Manor of the 

 High Peak & of the ancient forest or Chase & that 

 they wishing to be freed from the severity of the Forest 

 Laws &: the incomodiousness of Deers lying & feeding 

 in their Corn & Grass & other inconveniences did peti- 

 tion his late Majesty Charles the First to improve the 

 sayd waste, &: who accordingly appointed a Commission 

 to say what part to the King & what part to the 

 people. 



