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in 1587; he died in 1590), was permitted to purchase part of the 

 Longdendale district of the Peak Forest, which was formally 

 disafforested for the purpose. At this date a large quaint map 

 of the whole forest was prepared, showing great parallelograms 

 painted vermilion where there were pasturage rights, and out- 

 line pictures of the towns. This big map was at some unknown 

 date cut up into sections ; a part of it is missing, but the three 

 main portions are preserved at the Public Record Office. On 

 the Ashop and Edale section of the forest, five contiguous 

 great patches of vermilion are shown, and by them is written, 

 11 The Queenes Majestys farmes are divided into five vacaries." 

 Near Glossop it is stated on the map that the greater part of 

 the forest there was then held by the Earl of Shrewsbury. 

 A rectangular patch, more to the west of the Longdendale 

 division, is described: "The herbage of Chynly otherwise 

 called Maidstonfeld, God. Bradshawe and others farmes." 



Gilbert, seventh Earl of Shrewsbury, was appointed chief- 

 justice in eyre of the forests north of the Trent by James I. in 

 1603, an office that gave him oversight of the game. The earl, 

 writing to his uncle, Sir John Manners, from Sheffield Lodge, 

 on 4th July, 1609, says: "I have sent you a note to Mr. Tunsted 

 for a stag in the Peak Forest, but I doubt if there are any fat 

 enough so early in the year." In June, 1610, the Council sent 

 a letter to the earl, as justice in eyre beyond Trent, to prohibit 

 the inhabitants and borderers of the forests of the Peak from 

 destroying moor fowl and heath poults. 



Among memoranda of business to be submitted to the 

 Council in June, 1626, occurs a petition from Francis Tunsted, 

 who held a pension of 50 per annum as bow-bearer in the 

 High Peak and keeper of the moor game; but the pension had 

 not been paid for the last year, and he sought the king's order 

 for its payment and continuance. 



On 2Oth February, 1639, a warrant was issued to the chan- 

 cellor of the duchy to appoint fit persons to treat and compound 

 with the freeholders, tenants, and commoner of wastes and com- 

 mons belonging to the hundred and forest of High Peak, for 

 granting the king's right and interest of soil. Just a year later 

 a further warrant was issued to the chancellor to compound for 

 disafforesting all lands of the king's within the honor and 

 forest of the Peak. 



