2 14 DUFFIELD FOREST IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURV. 



their customes of fines heriottes and suche like duties from them 

 to her Majestie and for them to enjoy of her Majestie to be con- 

 firmed and enjoyed as they should be dewlie proved by inquisition 

 and othe To whiche end they toke respite till the xx"^ of July 

 At whiche time the said Roger Brockshawe George Alestry 

 William Johnson together with Antony Bradshawe James Spend- 

 love and Thomas Eton came in the behalfe of themselves and 

 the rest of her Majestie's Tenantes there Who as unto the lease 

 that was motioned concerning the woods say They do no further 

 aunswere then before they have done And that they themselves 

 could not convenientlie deale with it fur the respects aforesaide 

 but deferred the same to be done or vsed as should seme good 

 to your honour hoping ycju would have consideration of their 

 greves in their former petitions exhibited And for the rest 

 being the confirmation or putting in certaine of their customes 

 neither did they make any offer to be accompted of neither did 

 I urge them further in that point being no part of the substance 

 of my comission So that I perceive your honour's lenytye and 

 favourable hearing them doth rather annymate them to hope they 

 may enjuye still the spoile and waste of her Majesties woods 

 yelding litle for it whereof her highness may make some better 

 Commoditie lawfully and orderlie without wrong or just prejudice 

 to them it being used in suche sorte as is particulerly sett down 

 and directed in the saide certificate made by myself Mr. Agard 

 and Mr. Arden upon the former commission the whiche I have 

 herewith likewise returned to your honour together with this my 

 aunswer of the service you commaunded me in that behalfe 

 which I deferred to aunswer in the vacation in hope they would 

 have ben better advised and have come to me with some further 

 resolution by Michelmas Bui I hard no further of them And 

 so I humblie cease to trouble your honour this x''> of October 

 1588. 



Your honours humbly to commaund 



E. Stanhope supervisor. 



