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Birkley. The wages of the parkers of Hanbury and Rolleston 

 were each 15^. 2d., whilst that of the parker of Castlehay was 

 3OJ. ^d. 



The receipts of Barton ward, Ralph Laying receiver, were 

 13 \2s. yd., and the expenses 13 5-r. 2d. John Don was the 

 receiver of Marchington ; receipts .27 2s. 7%d., expenses 

 28 2s. >]\d. Robert de Tuppeleye was receiver of Uttoxeter ; 

 receipts 50 15.?. o^d., expenses 22 I2S. 6\d. The receipts of 

 Yoxall ward, Richard Coking receiver, were 34 ijs. 8^d., 

 whilst the expenses were 29 igs. jd. 



In the accounts of 1321-2, the expenses include ^d. a day 

 to a carpenter engaged for three days in mending the gates 

 of the Castlehay Park, \\d. a day for three days for fourteen 

 men engaged in ditching, and 3^. for an iron for branding the 

 cattle. 



Woodmote courts were held for each ward. A forest roll 

 of 1336-7 (in bad condition) gives 2S. 6d. as the receipts of the 

 woodmote of Tutbury ward, held on February nth, in vert 

 fines, chiefly for taking whitethorn. The taking of a cartload 

 of greenwood out of Hanbury Park incurred a fine of 6d. The 

 fines for vert trespasses in Castlehay amounted to qs. 4^., in- 

 cluding i$d. for taking a horseload of old wood. The fines 

 about this date at the court of Marchington ward amounted 

 to 2s. iod., and included the straying of foals in the wood. 



The woodmote courts of the five wards, held about Martin- 

 mas, 1370, brought in a larger amount of fines: Tutbury, 

 gs. id. ; Marchington, 9^-. qd. ; Yoxall, 3^. iod. ; Barton, 3^.; 

 and Uttoxeter, 2s. iod. The penalties were chiefly for remov- 

 ing horse, cart, or wagon loads of wood. 



A full woodmote roll of 1-2 Richard II. gives 7 6s. jd. as 

 the total of the fines of all the courts of that year. A sledge- 

 load of wood, called drag, or draw, is of frequent occurrence in 

 this roll. The vert fines varied from 2d. to 8d. a case. At a 

 Marchington ward woodmote, there were four cases of removing 

 cartloads of old wood, four of green wood, and two of a mixture 

 of old and green ; the horseloads were thirteen in number, and 

 the sledgeloads sixteen. 



The pannage fees of the whole forest, termed " tak," realised 

 in 1400 5 gs. $^d. The total forest receipts of that year 

 amounted to 43 is. \\d. 



