Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Low, otherwise Carpenter...

Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Low, otherwise Carpenter v Low.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General [at the relation of John Carpenter].

Defendants: Nicholas Lowe, Edward Swanne and others.

Documents: depositions concerning quarrying rights of limestone on the commons and wastes in the High Peak, Derbyshire.

Taken 17 April, 16 James I.

Deponents for plaintiffs: [Deponents examined by comission for both parties] George Bayley of Chapel-en-le-Frith, husbandman, aged 56, whose memory goes back 'always' [to 1562], deposed that he 'hath known the [quarries] all the tyme of this

Deponents remembrance' [has known the [quarries] all the time of this deponent's remembrance]. The limestone dug at the works on the wastes and commons is burned into lime and not sold to tenants of the manor. The freeholders and farmers within the manor have burned the limestone into lime and converted the same to any necessary use 'for their best benefit, but never sould any forth of the said manor or libertie nor paid any thing therefore' [for their best benefit, but never sold any forth of the said manor or liberty nor paid any thing therefore]; Ellis Baber of Edale, husbandman, aged 60, whsoe memory goes back 50 years, deposed that the quarries and delphs in question are near to the Peak Forest.