2l6 DUFFIELD FOREST IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 



gates fences and suche like the certaynty wherof we knowe not 

 neither can certainlie present but we thinke the same have ben 

 and still ought to be so necessurilie used. 



And touchirige the waste done or nomber of trees felled by 

 the space of theis tenn yeres now last past and some other poyntes 

 in the said articles and commission we can no further present or 

 certifie then afore we and others upon former commissions and 

 inquirys have certified. 



E. Stanhope. 



William Monday. 



It will be noticed that every family of importance in Derby- 

 shire was more or less closely connected with the administration 

 of the affairs of Dufifield Frith. Any account of the officers and 

 their duties must be held over for another occasion. 



