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the fines and ransoms that might accrue from the holding 

 of the eyre. After the destruction of Duffield Castle, the 

 castle of Tutbury became the centre of the forest jurisdiction 

 of Duffield Frith and the prison for venison trespassers. 



Such history as can be given of this forest is very meagre 

 for the earlier period ; but at a later date, when the earlier 



HUNTING COSTUME. THIRTEENTH CENTURY. (See pp. 64-5. ) 



forest legislation was in many respects falling into desuetude, 

 the records of the attachment or swainmote courts almost 

 invariably termed woodmotes in this forest as well as par- 

 ticulars as to its customs are unusually full and interesting. 

 They offer considerable contrast in many respects to the 

 records of the Peak Forest. In the Peak the deer, save for 

 a few fallow "chance" deer or strays, and some roe deer in 

 its earlier days, was exclusively red ; in Duffield Frith, on 

 the other hand, the deer were exclusively fallow. In the 



