DUFFIELD FOREST IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 2 1 3 



The Queues Majestie's 

 Tenantes of Duffield 

 ffrieth in the busines 

 of themselves and 

 the rest. 



Roger Brockshawe 



John Roper 



WilHam Bradshaw 



Henry Wetton 



George Alestrye 



William Johnson 



Roberte Mellors 

 And after I had imparted your honors good intent towards 

 them and also read unto them the saide Certificate declaring that 

 1 was assured, and that they could not well denye but that your 

 honor might so graunt it according to the Certificate without 

 wrong doeing to them any way And therefore wished them not 

 to refuse the great favour was offred them And that if they 

 would not deale with it themselves That they should then 

 shewe what they could that was inconvenient in that Certificate 

 which I then read vnto them. 



Vpon long debating the matter and shewing suche reasons as 

 they had before preferred in writting to your honour which in 

 truth nothing impeached that certificate when they were con- 

 ferred together yet they semed not willing to deale for it them- 

 selves And the chiefest inconvenience of our former certificate 

 which they could alledge was That if the felling should be in 

 tenn hagges so that every yere all should be felled in any one 

 place of eche ward. The browse thereof could not pleasure all 

 the Comoners dwelling iij or iiij miles compas To which was 

 aunswered that some provision in theire favour might be made 

 to remedy that point and yet not in dewtie for that their having 

 the browse was but of curtesy since the deare were decayed in 

 the ffrieth. 



But they concluded that they were not willing to deale to 

 redeame the lease or his good will that should have it for that the 

 Comoners being many, divers would not contribute and many 

 would be unruly in felling and taking if it were devided emongest 

 a multitude And therefore in the end required that they might 

 have a furder day to conferr to offer some reasonable considera- 

 tion to have the same remayne as it hathe done, and to know 



