1 68 THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



in campana or Chamber in the Forest. In the following year 

 the large sum of 7 os. nd. was spent on repairing with 

 specially cut piles the great pond (stagnum) of the Campana. 

 This pond still remains. 



In 1448-9 Sir Richard Vernon was still bailiff and master 

 forester. The receipts (including balance) for that year 

 amounted to .445 2s. $\d. 



Walter Blount was bailiff in 1456-7. The lead ore, together 

 with the market tolls at Tideswell paid by the Sir Sampson 

 Meverell, and the farm of the fishery of the Wye, realised 

 .14 is. In 1460-1 Walter Blount was still bailiff, but he 

 was at that date knighted. 



Sir William Hastings, Sir John Savage, junr., and Thurston 

 Allen were the next successive bailiffs. 



A singular appointment was made by Henry VII. in March, 

 1503, to the joint offices of bailiff, receiver, collector, and bar- 

 master of the High Peak. The person appointed was Thomas 

 Savage, Archbishop of York ; of course, he only exercised 

 these not very lucrative offices by deputy ; indeed, the patent 

 gives him authority to discharge his duties by deputy in the 

 same way as had been done by his predecessor, Thurston 

 Allen. At the same time Sir Richard Savage was appointed 

 constable of Peak, master forester of Peak Forest, and steward 

 of both castle and forest at a salary of 18 i8s. ^d. a year to be 

 paid him by his kinsman, the archbishop, as receiver. In 

 the following year Thomas Babington was appointed sub- 

 steward. 



Three years later the different offices were again reassorted 

 and to some extent amalgamated, for Sir Henry Vernon, in 

 November, 1507, was appointed steward, bailiff, and master 

 forester. In the following January, James Worsley was ap- 

 pointed " Boweberer infra forestam de Peke " during pleasure. 



Among the Belvoir MSS. is the roll of a swainmote held at 

 Chapel-en-le-Frith, in October, 1497. The foresters made 

 various presentments of venison trespass. In six cases the 

 offenders were charged with killing a "cornilu." 1 



1 This word, though the assistance of some of our ablest philologists has been 

 asked and courteously given, remains uncertain in its meaning. The probabilities 

 on the whole favour the idea that it was a local name for some kind of horned 

 deer. Possibly it may have been the roebuck. Compare leucoryx, the name for a 

 white antelope. 



