202 THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



Millmore, or Milshayward de Colebrookward," parcel of 

 Duffield Frith, and other lands recovered by his prosecutions, 

 charged with a rent of ^45 3-r. per annum ; but at the same 

 time 550 acres of Millhay was assigned to Edward Potterell 

 and others as trustees for the commoners and tenants of Alder- 

 wasley and Ashleyhay at a rent of 2^. per annum. Probably 

 the Crown, in accordance with the usual disafforesting arrange- 

 ments of this reign, took one-third of the common, the other 

 two-thirds being reserved for the commoners. 



The statements appended to a Parliamentary Survey of this 

 forest give a clear insight into the action of the Crown as to 

 the commoners during this reign. 



A survey of the " Royaltye of the late disforrested Forest or 

 Chase called Duffield Frith . . . late parcell of the possessions 

 of Charles Stuart late king of England " was made in July, 

 1650, by order of Parliament. The chief rent due from several 

 adjacent townships for liberty of commonage amounted to 

 56^. Afd. ; the royalty, including waifs, strays, felons' goods, 

 hawking, and hunting, 40^. ; of cottages on encroachments, 

 ,24 13.?. zd. ; and "the mines delfes or pitts of coale now 

 in use or hereafter to be digged . . . with liberty of ruckeing 

 and stackeing of such coales . . . and of erecting of cottages 

 for the habitacion of collyers with free passage for horses, 

 carts, and carriages passing to and from the said coale delfes," 

 ^"30. The commissioners let the benefits of the royalties and 

 of the coal for a year to John Mundy, of Allestree, and Thomas 

 Newton, of Duffield. 



The report cites the grant of 4th September, 1634, when a 

 third part of Belper ward, 561 acres, assigned to the king by 

 the Council of the duchy in the previous year, was transferred 

 to Sir Edward Sydenham at a yearly rent of 2is. 8d. At the 

 same time it was proposed to assign to the king a third part 

 of Chevin ward, to be chosen by lot, the remaining two-thirds 

 to be granted to the commoners at 2s. per acre for all they 

 enclosed, being discharged of their old rent of $6s. 4^. ; but 

 only thirty-one commoners agreed to this proposal, upwards 

 of four hundred being opposed to it. Nevertheless, a decree 

 was passed for a division in the duchy chamber, and the 

 king's commissioners took what part they liked best without 

 any casting of lots, taking in all the places "where the Coale 



