DUFFIELD FRITH 189 



same. The dairy at Postern had i6s. 8s. expended on its 

 various buildings, and 4-$-. gd. was spent on mending the road 

 by the Ecclesburn, to permit of the carriage of timber for the 

 work. The sum of i6s. 8{d. was spent on hedges and ditches 

 round " Maxenclif " and " Mareclos " in the same park, and 4^. 

 in repairing the fence of Bullsmoor. A shilling was expended 

 on drugs for sickly cattle. 



The full return of the stock of Duffield Frith for that year was 

 thirty-eight oxen, 157 cows, five bulls, thirty-three heifers, fifty- 

 one steers, and seventy-three cows. Of these there were sold, 

 consumed, or died in the course of the year, thirty oxen, fifty- 

 one cows, two bulls, four steers, and thirty-four calves. 



Roger Beler's accounts for 1322-3, are of some interest, as 

 also are those for 1326-7. The latter mention 32^. paid as the 

 tithe of the mills of Duffield and Belper to the rector of Duf- 

 field, which is henceforth an annual entry whenever the accounts 

 are extant. Under Richard de Slope, who was then parker of 

 Ravensdale, considerable repairs were done to the chief lodge 

 of the forest or earl's manor house within that park, including 

 22s. q.d. paid to a workman for 134 days' labour at 2d. a day on 

 the roofs, doors, and windows. The total expenditure on the 

 great house and park was 5 $s. 9!^., and embraced payment 

 for 1,500 shingles, and 100 spikes, 100 " bordnayles," and 

 painting and plastering with white clay (plasticando cum 

 argillo). 



Among the expenses of the reeve of Belper (Simon Payn) 

 for 1327-8, are some exceptional entries that throw light upon 

 the then condition of that forest town and township. The 

 expenses included 9 worth of lead for the water conduit in 

 the park ; 39^. ^\d. for making a wall round the pond there, 

 etc. ; 22s. lod. for roof shingles and for stone for the walls of 

 a garderobe for the lodge ; 14.?. id. for repairing the knights' 

 lodge (camere milituni), and providing it with three garderobes ; 

 17^. for paling and hedging the lord's garden ; 4^. for carriage 

 of venison from the Belper larder to Tutbury ; 4^. for the 

 carriage of salt to the larder ; and 3^. 8d. for repairing the 

 glass windows of the chapel. There was also a charge in 

 another part of the accounts for a man and a cart carrying six 

 does to the lord at Kenilworth. The receiver from Belper 

 ward had $s. from Henry Alisson and his companions for 



