190 DUFFIELD FOREST IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 



Sir William Sayntluwe Kniyht is keeper there. 



Fee Trees (a) To Thomas Ireton, deputy bow-bearer, one tree. 



(b) To Richard Holland, deputy ranger, one tree. 



(c) To the deputy-keeper, one tree. 



It seems possible, however, that there is some miscalculation 

 in the number of the timber trees, for another briefer Survey, 

 though it omits a considerable section of the Frith as given 

 in the 1560 survey, produces such much smaller totals. 

 Otherwise there must have been a most extraordinary waste 

 of timber in the course of a quarter of a century. This latter 

 survey, which follows, is of interest inasmuch as it gives the 

 money value of all the wor)d, and also from the difference of 

 nomenclature. Only 2,764 large oaks and 3,032 small oaks 

 are mentioned. The total value of the whole wood of the 

 Frith was somewhat under ^^2,000, according to this return : — * 



Com. Derbie. The foreste or chace of Duffield frithe ys 

 divided into three wardes viz Imprimis Duffield Warde alias 

 Chevine which lyethe in parishe of Duffield in the countie of 

 Derbie aforesaid it conteynethe in compasse 4 myles there 

 groweth within thys ward of tymber trees — 1040 everie tree 

 worthe one with another — 10* — which amounteth to the some of 

 —520". 



There groweth also within ihys ward of pollingers or younge 

 timber poles — 440 everie pollinger worthe one with another — 5^ — 

 which amounteth to the some of iio". 



There groweth also within thys ward of stubbed trees — 97 

 everie stubb worthe one with another — 2^ — which amountethe to 

 the some of— 9" I4^ 



There is grow^inge also within this ward underwoodes of hasell 

 hawthorne birche older and hollies to the quantitie of 60 acres 

 which have not bine used to be incopized nor any sale to be 

 made therof everie acre worth to be sould 20^ which amounteth 

 to the some of 60''. 



* D. L. Misc. Books, 114, pp. 63-3. 



