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licences as fowlers, and 7^. 8d. for five oaks for the garderobe 

 for the camera juxta coquinam. Among the outgoings of 

 Colebrook ward for that year were 27^. 5^. as tithe to the 

 rector of Duffield of the agistment of Shottle park, and izd. 

 for mending the hedge and the deer-leap between the forest and 

 Crich Chase. 



On loth November, 1330, Henry, Earl of Lancaster lessened 

 the area of Duffield Frith by bestowing Champagne park by 

 charter on his beloved valet Robert Foucher and Cicely his 

 wife and their heirs ; it had been disafforested and placed in 

 private hands as early as the reign of Edward I. 



The records of various courts during the reigns of Edward III. 

 and Richard II. yield evidence of the nature of vert and 

 venison attachments ; among the former were many cases of 

 damage to hornbeam trees. 



At a woodmote for Duffield Forest held in 1376-7, the 

 foresters presented Ralph Gregory for having killed a doe in 

 Postern park on Monday after the Feast of All Saints, and also 

 a doe in the park of Shottle in the month of September ; he 

 was committed to Tutbury. 



Many interesting items could also be gleaned from the full 

 duchy accounts that are extant for 1377-8 and later years of 

 that century, but space forbids making even the briefest ex- 

 tracts. 



The registers of John, Duke of Lancaster, covering the close 

 of the reign of Edward III. and the beginning of that of 

 Richard II., contain various references to Duffield Frith, 

 which have to be omitted for a like reason. 



There was a serious charge of venison trespass at a wood- 

 mote held at " Le Cowhouse," Postern, on 2ist July, 1395. 

 This woodmote resulted in a jury inquisition. John de Brad- 

 shaw, chief forester, and Henry de Bradburne, and ten others 

 swore that Thomas de Statham and John Helot took a fat 

 buck (damnum de grace} in Colebrook ward with greyhounds 

 on 1 5th September; that the same two, with others unknown, 

 killed three bucks and a sore in Milnhay in the same ward on 

 2ist September ; and further, that the same Thomas and John 

 killed diverse bucks in the water in Colebrook ward. There 

 was another venison presentment against Thomas Jackson and 

 five others for having hunted with greyhounds in Hulland 



