Folios: 2-2v. Derby; Ferrers. Grant. First party: Robert de Ferrers, son and heir...

Folios: 2-2v. Derby; Ferrers. Grant.

First party: Robert de Ferrers, son and heir of William de Ferrers, formerly earl of Derby.

Second party: Henry, son of William Sterre, and John his brother, of Tuttesbur' [Tutbury].

Place or subject: Robert's mills of Fecwod with the site of the mill, which Robert had below his castle of Tutbury, with the watercourse and with suit of Tutbury and Rolveston [Rolleston on Dove] to be entirely done at them. The grant is made for their homage and service. To hold to Henry and John and their heirs or assigns freely, quietly, by inheritance, entirely and in peace with all liberties, easements, pastures and commons pertaining to those mills, paying 20 marks of silver and 15s of sterling, a moiety at the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary and another moiety at MIchaelmas. And they are to pay to the prior and convent of Tutbury and their successors 38s 4d yearly in the name of a tithe, just as the charter which the prior and convent have of William de Ferrers, late earl of Derby, Robert's grandfather, more fully witnesses, for all service, custom, secular exaction and demand and suits of court pertaining to Robert and his heirs. Henry and John are to have and receive all works of Rolleston on Dove and Fopton, namely as in carriage to take, drag and transport timber, pales and branches in his forest of Nedwod [Needwood] to those mills and their ponds, sluices and hays, whenever they need to be repaired or newly or entirely constructed, with free entry and exit at any time in that forest, just as Ralph the baker of Tutbury held and was accustomed to receive all the said things better and more fully, wihtout any impediment from Robert, together with liberty to dig and take turves and land to mend the ponds of those mills. Nor at any time can Robert and his heirs erect or newly construct any watermill, windmill or horse-mill, without the suit of those mills being released, removed or harmed. In addition, Robert wishes that these mills be removed elsewhere in his fee, if they are impeded from their course by flooding or by any other case about multure or they allow a defect of water, and that a trench is to be freely made in Robert's lands at Henry and John's will or that of their heirs or assigns, whenever it will be necessary. And Robert wishes that those same men are amerced with millstones at those mills, at Derby or in his quarry in the forest of Duffeud [Duffield], that they are to have them at the price at which his ancestors acquired them, and not for a greater one, and that the deal concerning the millstones is to be made by his goods and those of his heirs, just as was accustomed to be done at the time of his ancestors.

County: [Staffordshire].

Additional people: Witnesses: William de Montegomer' [Montgomery]; William de la Launde; Henry de Brailesford; Peter de Touk; Henry de Bec, knights; William de Ferrers, Robert's brother; Henry Owen; Stephen de Irton; Andrew de Jarpenvil' [Jarponville]; Thomas de Montegomery; Henry, his cook; William de Chandos; Ralph Barr'; Samp' de Tuttesbur', clerks.

Undated.