Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster] v Cavendish. Plaintiffs:...

Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster] v Cavendish.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster [at the relation of Adam Eyre].

Defendants: William Cavendish, John Dam and William Dam.

Documents: depositions concerning Eyam and Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire.

Taken 14 January, 15 James I.

Deponents for defendants: Raphe Lingard of Golcliffe in the parish of Hope, [lead] miner, aged 80, whose memory goes back 60 years [to 1558], deposed that he does not know Cavendish but knows Eyre and the Dams. He knows Foolow to be a part of Eyam manor. This was the property of the Earl of Shrewsbury who appointed barmotes and barmasters for the manors and retained the lot and cope. [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] 'he hath heard yt reported' [he has heard it reported] that Adam Eyre made a claim to a grove and a half by a grant from George Hasland and Thomas Longden who pawned the grove and a half to Eyre. After they put it in pawn they still laboured there. They deserted it and it fell in. Eyre did not at first assert his claim and it passed back to the lord through lack of workmanship 'accordinge to the Custome of the myne' [according to the custom of the mine]; George Sidall of Golcliffe in the parish of Hope, miner, aged 50, whose memory goes back 20 years [to 1598].