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the chiefship of Lord Aveland. Who ever heard of this family 

 earlier than the reign of Henry VIII., when they were generally 

 in trade — mercers, butchers, braziers, and bell-founders — in Ches- 

 terfield ? The Pipe Rolls show that one Godfrey Hethcote (the 

 very christian name borne by many of the present family) was 

 not exactly flourishing but existing in the 12th year of Henry II. 

 So, too, the well known family of Bass is found here at the same, 

 and even at an earlier period ; the Foljambes, who are well known 

 after the reign of Edward I., are frequently mentioned at this early 

 period ; so, too, are the Curzons, the Musards, the Chaworths, 

 Britons, Byrons, Deincourts, Peverels, Ferrers, Marples (then 

 called de Mapleton), Bardolfs, Stanleys, and indeed all the ancient 

 names. We do not find the names of Gernon, Cavendish, and 

 Vernon, and other names, some of which date from about the 

 time of King John, but in his reign we find them replacing 

 some of the oldest families in the county. The name of Francis, 

 the patronymic of the present house of Vernon, occurs occasion- 

 ally. 



But it is not alone in tracing the origin of families that these 

 rolls are valuable ; they supply many most interesting particulars 

 of history relating to events that are at present unknown, or only 

 known partially. Take for instance the expenses attending the 

 building and furnishing of the castles of the counties of Notting- 

 ham and Derby, for in these accounts they are grouped together. 

 It would almost seem, from the immense sums then spent upon it, 

 that the castle of Nottingham was rebuilt about the 17th Henry 

 II. We find no particular entry relating to it before that year, 

 but then we find the following large sums spent: — £40 13s. 3d., 

 ^38 14s., ^274 12s. od., and some dozen other items making up 

 another ^100, altogether nearly ^500 in a single year, an 

 immense sum in those days. The following year ^229 3s. iod. 

 was spent for the same end in one sum. 



In 19 Henry II. we get an interesting item showing the wages 

 of the period of the persons employed ; 41 carpenters and one 

 foreman cost 62s. 6d. for six days, making machines of war for 

 the army at Leicester upon the occasion of the insurrection of 



