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teresting items appear in this year's accounts, and are often 

 subsequently repeated. One is called Broksylver, or brook- 

 silver, which was a payment made by lead miners who washed 

 their ore in the torrent (torrens] of Tideswell within the fee ; 

 the sum for this year was 2os. The other is Wodsylver, or 

 woodsilver, which was a payment for billets of wood (perhaps 

 used for smelting) at 4^. a 100 ; this year they numbered 500, 

 and the payment was is. 8d. 



The expenses and salaries of this year amounted to 319 5^. 

 io^d., which left a balance of 66 i2s. ii%d. A heavy item in 

 the expenses was the building of a new mill at Maynestonfield, 

 12 4-r. id. There were also repairs of the mills at Hayfield 

 and Castleton, whilst a pair of millstones for 'Beard cost los. 

 A small item of some interest is 2.d. for a key to the door of 

 the toll-booth at Chapel. 



The accounts for 1435-6 include rents for lands called 

 "Wynlandes" (spelt " Wynnelandes " and "Wenlandes" 

 in other accounts). From this and subsequent statements it 

 appears that the payments or rents for these Wynlands came 

 from places such as Monyash, Chelmorton, Overhaddon, 

 Bakewell, Ashover, etc., which were on the verge of the forest, 

 and sometimes in other hundreds (Wirksworth and Scarsdale) 

 outside the limits of the High Peak. The word naturally 

 suggests, to forest students, the Venlands of Dartmoor, which 

 were the parts adjacent to the moor proper. The Venland 

 parishes paid a composition to the Duchy of Cornwall to 

 cover the straying of their cattle and stock over the bounds 

 into Dartmoor forests. In like manner these Wynland or 

 Venland districts round the Peak Forest appear to have at 

 this time paid some due or assigned some rents for a like 

 reason to the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1439-40 Sir Richard 

 Vernon (who had been appointed bailiff of the High Peak and 

 master forester in 1422) enters on the back of his accounts 

 proper his receipts as bailiff of the lands called Wynnelandes, 

 which amounted that year to 88 is. 



At a later date, this word appears as " Wydelands " and 

 " Widlands," and once as " Widelands," which may be taken 

 to signify the lands wide of the forest centre. 



In 1440-1, three hundred shingles were provided at a cost 

 of i6s. 6d. and shingle nails at i8d. for re-roofing the Camera 



