Short title: Attorney General of the duchy of Lancaster v Bowes. Plaintiffs: Attorney...

Short title: Attorney General of the duchy of Lancaster v Bowes.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General of the duchy of Lancaster [at the relation of Thomas Eyre].

Defendants: Lady Isabell Bowes.

Documents: depositions concerning the right of Lady Isabell Bowes to collect lot and cope at Little Hucklow, Derbyshire.

Taken 13 April, 12 James I.

Deponents for plaintiffs: Martin Hallom of Bradwell, yeoman, aged around 50, whose memory of Little Hucklow goes back 40 years [to 1575], deposed that lords of Wormhill and Hope have held courts leet and court baron but in all these places [Monyash, Chelmorton, Wormhill and Hope] but that lot and cope was paid to the king [Lot a mineral duty paid by the miner to the lord of the liberty to search for and mine ore. Cope duty paid by the buyer of the ore to the lord of the liberty]; John Mycocke of Tideswell, aged 74, whose memory of Little Hucklow goes back 40 years [to 1575] and whose memory of Tideswell manor goes back 60 years [to 1555], deposed that the defendant and her predecessors as Lords of Walton have at various times bought lead ore in Little Hucklow at 9s per load and sometimes 12s per load [load a measure of lead ore made up of nine dishes] or more or less as agreed with the miners; George Bagshaw of Flagg, yeoman, aged around 56, whose memory of Little Hucklow goes back 30 years; Henry Furniss of Little Hucklow, aged around 50, whose memory of Little Hucklow goes back always, [to 1565], he 'was borne and brought upp therein and hath knowen the same dureing the tyme of his remembrance' [was born and brought up therein and hath known the same during the time of his remembrance], deposed that neither Lady Bowen nor any of the Lords of Walton have held any lands or grounds in Little Hucklow save for one house of which Edmund Poynton, John Poynton, Edmund Wooroffe and Thomas Eyre are freeholders left to build upon the waste or common within Hucklow. That the lot and cope was so little it had 'little esteem'; Ottiwell Andrew; Ottiwell Bagshaw; Matthew Furniss of Hazelbadge, yeoman, aged around 54, whose memory of Little Hucklow goes back 40 years [to 1575]; John Outfield of Litton, miner, aged around 65, depsoed that he with John Hill was the fist to mine in Hucklow 42 years ago [1573]; John Smyth of Little Hucklow , yeoman, aged 74, deposed that he never knew lead ore bought in Little Hucklow for less than 9s a 'wad'.

Deponents for defendants: Robert Bagshawe of Great Hucklow, husbandman, aged 59, whose memory of Little Hucklow goes back 30 years [to 1585]; wife of Godfrey Foljamb, deposed that 18 years ago for a period of 4 years her husband Godfrey Foljamb succesfully exercised his claim to the mining rights taking 1/13th dish as lot, the Lord's meer, and buying lead for 9s per load. [Dish measure of lead ore based on a standard brass dish, usually oblong in shape]. Three barmote courts were held in Foljamb's manor house in Tideswell but the system of barmasters collapsed 18 years ago [1597]. The right of lot and cope was exercised 43 years ago [1573] and that Lady Isabell Bowes has the right to collect it; Anthony Wagstaffe of Spittle, gentleman, aged around 51; Richard Feales of Elton, husbandman, aged around 82, whose memory of Little Hucklow goes back 70 years [to 1545]; Ottiwell Andrew of Wormhill, husbandman, aged around 72; Ottiwell Bagshawe of Tideswell, yeoman, aged around 57; Thomas Boweman of Litton, husbandman, aged around 56; Ellis Furnies of Great Hucklow, yeoman, aged 74, whose memory of the manors goes back 60 years [to 1555], deposed that in all his remembrance the manors of Great Hucklow, Middleton, Ashford, Blackwell, Litton, Tideswell and Hastlebadge all had manorial liberties where the lord had right to lot and cope.