I»2 SOME EARLY CHAPEL-KN-LE-FRTTH CHARTERS. 



Thomas le Ragged was Bailiff of the High Peak 8 Edw. I.,* 

 and Thomas, his son, was a Forester in fee of Langdendale,t 

 in which ward of the forest the greater part of the parish 

 of Chapel-en-le-Frith Ues. He and John de Smaleleys, a 

 Rcgardator, were present at an inquest ad quod damnum at Fair- 

 field on the Monday next before the Feast of S. Luke, ii Edw. 

 n.| Richard de Herdifield built a house in the King's demesne 

 temp. Henry ni.,§ and also had enclosed half an acre in 

 Coombes temp. Edw. I.,|| and Richard Foljambe was a Regarder- 

 Forester in ii Edw. H.lf. William de Bagshawe is also 

 mentioned several times in the Forest Pleas temp. Edw. I. It 

 has been suggested that John de Bonks was of Bankhead, whence 

 sprang the Bradburys, who were subsequently connected by 

 marriage with several Chapel-en-le-Frith families.** 



No. 3. Is a ffeofment of Thomas del Kirke, senior, and 

 Margaret his wife of one messuage and the adjacent heredita- 

 ments called le Netherlegh, and a meadow called le pedder 

 medow lying " in le Whytehalgh within the vill of Bawdon," which 

 the said Thomas had of the gift and ffeofment of Alice and 

 Elena sistersi of the said Margaret to Thurstan son of the said 

 Thomas and the heirs of his body with Remainder to Roger 

 brother of the said Thurstan. T. William de Honford Nichs 

 Broune Waltere del Kirke Thomas lonesson Radulphs Broune 

 " et multis aliis." Dated at " le Whitehalgh " on Wednesday 

 next after the Annunciation B.V.M. 10 Hen. VI. (1432). 



No. 4. Is a Chirograph of Fine dated at Westminster on the 

 morrow of S. Martin 11 Hen. VI. (1433) wherein Ralph Kirke 

 is Plaintiff and Hugh Bredburie and Elena his wife are 

 Defendants of one messuage and nine acres of land in Whitehalgh. 

 " Pdem Radus dedit pdtis hugoni et Elene decem niarcas 

 argenti." 



* Yeatman, Feud. Hist., sec. vi., p. 267. 

 t Ibid., p. 320. 



t Churches of Derbyshire, vol. ii., p. 587. 

 § Feud. Hist., sec. vi., p. 252. 

 II Ibid., p. 295. 

 ^ Ibid., p. 322. 

 ■»-» Reliquary, vol. viii., p. 240. 



