2 THE CHURCH AND VILLAGE OF MONVASH. 



Monyash, in appropriating to themselves what belonged to the 

 king in his mine of Foweshide, and in impeding the king's men 

 of Taddington and Priestcliff, and also the men of Eleanor, the 

 king's consort, of Ashford and Sheldon, in digging turf and 

 getting heath in the marsh of Monyash according to custom. i 

 There was further litigation on this latter subject in 1290, when 

 another commission was issued to deal with the complaint of 

 the king's tenants, of ancient demesne, of Taddington, Priest- 

 cliff, and Ashford, as to their right, from time immemorial, to 

 common pasture, turbary, and heath on the moors and wastes, 

 inter alia, of Monyash. Certain persons had by night cut into 

 small pieces their turf stacks, and carried off the heath they 

 had cut. 2 



The disputes as to common of pasture and turbary over the 

 Monyash common land continued down to a late date. It is 

 easy to understand that the privileges enjoyed, according to 

 old custom, by the men of the adjoining townships, over the 

 Monyash moors must have been peculiarly galling to the actual 

 tenants of Monyash, who appear to have had no compensating 

 rights in other directions. In 1586, and again in 1590, dis- 

 putes of this nature between the tenants of Over-Haddon and the 

 men of Monyash reached the higher courts.^ It was not until 

 1 7 71 that these almost continuous wrangles, leading from time 

 to time to free fights, came to an end. Their cessation was 

 then brought about by " An Act for dividing and enclosing the 

 common and wastegrounds within the manor of Mony Ash, in 

 the parish of Bakewell."* 



In the earlier part of Edward III.'s reign the mineral rights 

 of both Monyash and Chelmorton were held by William de 

 Lynford ; he was seized of them at the time of his death in the 

 year 1338.^ His son, of the same name, who inherited these 



i Pat. Rot. 6 Edw. I., m. 411. 

 ' /fiid,i8 Edw. I., m. 3d. 



3 Cal. to Pleadings, Duchy of Lane, iii., 193, 263. 

 * No. 26 of Derbyshire Enclosure Awards ; see Dr. Cox's Three 

 Centuries of Derbyshire Annals, ii., 308. 

 5 Inq. post mort. 11 Edw. III., pt. ii., No. 70. 



