Short title: Inhabitants of Tunstead, Wormhill and Fairfield v Dakyn. Plaintiffs:...

Short title: Inhabitants of Tunstead, Wormhill and Fairfield v Dakyn.

Plaintiffs: Inhabitants of Tunstead, Wormhill and Fairfield.

Defendants: William Dakin, Robert Swanne and others.

Documents: depositions concerning Green Fairfield, Derbyshire.

Taken 8 and 9 June, 27 Eliz.

Deponents for plaintiffs: [Commissioner's note: 'a greate nomber more' came to give evidence, all of whom said that they had use of the moor time out of mind. There was a large number of people assembled on the moor to give evidence from 'within Rydinge of the whole cyrcuyte and compasse of the said more' [within riding of the whole circuit and compass of the said moor]. A perambulation was carried out. It was decided that the moor was the possession of Fairfield, Turnstead and Wormhill because the tenants of those places 'did better understand from their servants' the details of the commons. The bounds and stints were then laid down]. Anthony Blackwall, gentleman, aged 74, whose memory goes back 60 years, [to 1525], deposed that he knows Greenfairfield and it was a 'great moore'. It extends from Cowhow dyke to Dovehole dale 'wch I take to be sowth and north' [which I take to be south and north]. 20 years ago [in 1565] there was a suit regarding Greenfairfield by Raphe Bower, which he lost. The inhabitants have for a long time and many years paid £10 per annum to the Duchy of Lancaster for the field. They were charged a rate of 6d per beast. He has had beasts on the common to the value of £5; John Wigley of Heyfield, yeoman, aged 78, whose memory goes back 60 years [to 1525]; John Barghe of Kings Sterndale, husbandman, aged 83; Robert Teterington of Hartington Green, yeoman, aged 64; Roger Maycock of Kingston, husbandman, aged 61; Richard Held of Elton, husbandman, aged 60; John Stanley of Chapel-en-le-Frith, labourer, aged 70; Hugh Goodwin of Hartington, husbandman, aged 66; Lawrence Kirk of Chapel-en-le-Frirth, yeoman, aged 60; Edward Haiward of Tideswell, draper, aged 50.

UBP

27 Eliz.