i88 THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



"js. 6d. was paid for preparing i 5 3OO shingles (cendulce) and 200 

 boards for roofing the different parts of the manor house ; the 

 timber itself would, of course, be provided out of the forest. 

 Painted glass for the windows of the manor chapel only cost 

 i6s., but i8d. was also paid for buying iron and making it into 

 bars for the support of these windows. The renewing of the 

 park pales of Ravensdale and repairing and setting up the 

 old ones cost ijs. 3^d., whilst 4^. 4^. was spent over the park 

 gates towards Corkley and at " Schakesdon." The making 

 good of eighty-five new pales, and the repairing of upwards 

 of 600 old pales of Mansell park, cost 3 los. nd. A new 

 hedge for part of the same park toward Pintclifford cost 

 13^., and 2s. was spent in mending the deer-leap towards 

 Hough. 



Under the head of Venatio de Duffeld Frith, full particulars 

 are given of all the venison taken in the forest, and its disposal. 

 The grand total for the year was : one hart, ninety-six bucks, 

 and twenty-five does. 



The stock of the forest is next set forth under the heading 

 Instaur' de Duffeld. The account is rendered by Robert Frely 

 and Nicholas Fitz-Giles, the stockmen (instauratores} of Duf- 

 field. The sale of thirty-two of the lord's oxen realised 

 ,23 3>r. 4^., an exceptionally good price. A bull and sixteen 

 cows in calf sold for g 13$. The skins and flesh of four 

 cows, the skins of six cows, the skins and flesh of four steers, 

 and the skins of twenty-seven calves sold for 44^. gd. The 

 milk of eighty-eight cows brought in g 2s. 6d. There were 

 but few sheep on the outskirts of the forest ; the ewes were 

 milked, but the sheep account was annexed to that of Hart- 

 ington. The rest of the receipts came from mowing and 

 carrying the hay of two tenants. 



The payments included 30-$-. 2d. in wages for those who 

 looked after the cattle and calves in Postern park ; 36^. ^d. for 

 mowing, and i8s. 2d. for haymaking and carrying the hay of 

 eighty-seven acres in the same park ; and 2is. 6d. for carrying 

 105 loads of hay from Longley Meadows, Postern park, Mor- 

 ley park, and Bullsmoor to the cowhouses of Postern and 

 Belper. The sum of 3^. 8d. was paid for stubbing up two 

 acres of waste, and hedging it in for the sustenance of calves 

 and colts, and 3^. 2d. for two quarters of oats for sowing the 



