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four days, namely, from the Purification to Michaelmas, 

 brought in .63 6s. 8d. It was, doubtless, the presence of coal 

 near the surface round Belper (which was not exhausted till 

 near the end of the eighteenth century) that brought the trade 

 in wrought iron to this part of the forest. 



The first item of expenditure entered is 3^. 2d. for Duffield 

 rectorial tithes on the herbage of Morley park, and of a close 

 there. A particularly interesting customary payment, denoting 

 the risk incurred in traversing the roads of Duffield Forest, is 

 8s. for warding the road of the Cross (via de la rode) on Derby 

 market days, a duty that devolved on the forest officials. The 

 sum of 39-$-. \\\d. was spent in making 482 pales for the new 

 fencing of Morley park and Belper laund, and 26s. *j\d. in 

 repairing and re-erecting 384 broken or prostrate pales in the 

 same fences. The man who worked for sixty-three days in 

 mending the broken and defective pales, received $s. 3^., or a 

 wage of id. a day. The sum of $s. 6d. was paid for strewing 

 the deer-browse or loppings in the winter through the ward 

 and in the little park. Thatching the roof of the great larder 

 for the salted venison, adjoining Belper manor house, cost 2s., 

 while 26s. was paid for the salt required that year in the larder. 

 Fourpence was the small sum paid for measuring the pasturage 

 within and without the park. The sum of ,90 'js. 8%d. of the 

 receipts was handed over to Nicholas de Shipley through ten 

 tallies. At the end of the year the receiver still owed to the 

 earl 8 os. 6d. 



Of Duffield ward Ralph le Corviser was the receiver ; his 

 receipts, including arrears, were 20 i8s. yd. The first entry 

 among the receipts is i2S. gd. for 102 hens sold for the lord's 

 table, and i2d. for six hens sold elsewhere. The winter and 

 summer agistment throughout the ward, including the parks 

 of Shottle and Postern and the herbage of "Muxelclif" and 

 Longley, produced no monetary return, for it was all pastured 

 or mown for the lord. The pannage of swine from two persons 

 outside the ward brought in 2S. ; the fishing of the Ecclesburn, 

 \2d. ; the fishery of the Derwent, $d. ; the sale of wood, bark, 

 and deer-browse, 315. 8d. ; the licensing of fowlers, 2S. ; and 

 the woodmote fees and fines, 34^. 2d. The receiver of this 

 ward also accounted for 41 6s. 2^., paid in pannage pence for 

 swine throughout the whole forest, deducting the tithes of the 



