20 History of the English Landed Interest. 



work, for fear of scaring off the ore, to the time when Edward 

 Manlove embodied the old customs in verse, we have scarcely 

 any evidence of popular rights. 



We quote the following customs relating to the minery of 

 the Peak district, from Mr. Hazlitt's work on the Tenures of 

 Land and Customs of Manors. 



'' The bare master, and the lord, and the steward shall hold 

 courts on the minery when he list, two great courts in the 

 year. And if any miner either be attainted for steaHng of ore, 

 first he shall be amerced v. s. iiij. c?., of the which iiij. d. the bare 

 master shall have. And if he be again attainted, he shall be 

 amerced xviij. d.^ of the which viij. d. the bare master shall 

 have. And if he be attainted the third time for stealing of mine, 

 he shall be taken and smitten through the palm of the hand 

 with a knife up to haft into the stoure, and there shall 

 stand till he be dead, or else cut himself loose, and then he 

 shall forswear the franchise of the mine. And if any man be 

 taken by occasion of any article belonging to the mine, he 

 shall abide in the bare master's keeping ; and if he will be 

 mainprised, in pain of a hundred shillings to be brought again 

 before the steward at the next court of the mine. And if he 

 that is so mainprised be attainted of felony in the court, the 

 steward shall do by him as the law will upon the same place ; 

 and, if he will, put him on the miners. And each trespass of 

 oaths and of bloodshed he shall be amerced to v. s. iiij. rf., the 

 which iiij. d. the bare master shall have. If any other trespass 

 be done upon the minery, it shall be fared to ij. d.^ and that 

 shall be paid to the bare master the first of a fermont, or else 

 the ij. d. aye be doubled, and so from day to day, till it come 

 to V. s. iiij. d. ; and then the bare master shall have iiij. c?., and 

 the lord v. *. " ^ 



In 1601, The Articles and Customs of the King^s Field in the 

 High Peak in Derbyshire was the title of the first printed 

 treatise on the subject, and in 1645 Manlove 's verses appeared.* 



1 W. C. Hazlitt, Tenures of Land and Cristoms of Manors, p. 241 

 (quoted ex M.S. penea Francis Ferraud Foljambe, Arm.). 

 * Manlove's Poem, 1645. 



