Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Earl of Arundel. Plaintiffs:...

Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Earl of Arundel.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Defendants: Sir Thomas [Howard] Earl of Arundel, Philip [Herbert] Earl of Pembroke, Sir William [Cavendish] Earl of Devonshire, Sir William [Cavendish] Earl of Newcastle, Lord Cromwell, Sir John Cooke, Sir William Sawell, Sir Francis Foljambe, John Manners and others.

Documents: depositions concerning the boundaries of the manors held by the Manners family, Derbyshire.

Taken 21 September, 16 Charles I.

Deponents for plaintiffs: Thomas Waterhouse of Taddington, miner, aged 67, whose memory goes back 50 years and more [to 1590]; William Abbot of Monyash, miner, aged 70, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1590] [describes boundaries of Taddington, Prestwich, Monyash, Chelmorton, Flagg and Over Hadden from Ashford, Bakewell and other places]; Hugh Bowne of Monyash, miner, aged 58, whose memory goes back 40 years [to 1600]; Thomas Dakin of Priestcliffe, husbandman, aged 64, whose memory goes back 46 years [to 1594], deposed that he knows the boundaries well as he had been a shepherd around Taddington, Priestcliffe and Flagg; Francis Ripon of Pillesley, yeoman, aged 67, deposed that the inhabitants of Pillersley used to do suit and service at the High Peak court at Chapel-en-le-Frith and Buxton; Edward Allen, gentleman, deposed that for 10 years he has been steward of High Peak barmotes at Flagg, Winster, Taddington, Priestcliffe, Over Hadden and the wastes of Great and Little Hucklow; Francis Smedley; John Norman of Stanton, yeoman, aged 60 years and more, whose memory goes back 40 years [to 1600], deposed that the lot and cope was never paid to the Duchy of Lancaster. [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]. The miners compounded with the freeholders there with the freeholders for the right to dig. [Describes the boundaries of Stanton from memory]; William Watson of Birchover, yeoman, aged 65, whose memory goes back 30 years [to 1610], deposed that his grandfather and father have told him that the inhabitants of Winster, Birchover and Stanton have done suit and service at the Duchy of Lancaster court of High Peak; Mark Stone of Winster, husbandman, aged 70, deposed that there were no commons there [describes commons at Winster moor].

Deponents for defendants: Edward Allen of Tideswell, gentleman, aged 62, whose memory goes back 40 years and more, deposed that he had been steward for courts at Netherhaddon for Sir John and Sir George who were lords of the manors of Nether Haddon and Bakewell. [Describes markets and fairs at Bakewell and the boundaries of the manor]. He has seen a record in the Tower of London of Edward I and took a copy thereof in which it appears that Hazelbadge was an ancient manor and the lord holds the lot and cope; Thomas Alsopp of Bakewell, yeoman, aged 80, deposed that the Manners hold exclusive fishing rights in the Wye. The Manners have always received the lot and cope of Bakewell, Harthill, Nether Haddon and Hazelbadge. Thomas Waley, who was barmaster for the Manners, received the lot and cope and the lords dishes from Stanton and held barmotes for Bakewell, Nether Haddon and Hazelbadge [dish measure of lead ore based on a standard brass dish, usually oblong in shape]; William Ruddiard of Elton, yeoman, aged 86, whose memory goes back 70 years [to 1570]; Thomas Garret of Corber, yeoman, aged 80, deposed that the Manners family held the preemption of ore in all their manors; Thomas Wooley of Nether Haddon, yeoman, aged 80; Richard Sleigh of Rowsley, yeoman, aged 85, whose memory goes back 64 years [to 1576]; Anthony Barlow of Bakewell, husbandman, aged 64, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1590]; Richard Hankersley of Hanley, yeoman, aged 75; Roger Frogatt of Calver, yeoman, aged 67, [recites bounds of the manors of Baslow and Bubnell]; John Froggatt of Beeley, yeoman, aged 79, [recites bounds of the manors of Baslow and Bubnell having been on the preambulation]; Thomas Froggatt of Calver, yeoman, aged 66; Edward Sheward of Beeley, husbandman, aged 60, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1590], [recites bounds of Little Rowsley, Barlow and Bubnell; John Bradwell of Crich, yeoman, aged 55, [recites bounds of the manor of Darley held by the Manners]; Thomas Goodwin of Monyash, yeoman, aged 89, whose memory goes back 74 years [to 1566], [recites bounds of Bakewell as they have been detailed on the preambulation for 74 years]; Raphe Beresford of Ashford, husbandman, aged 80, [recites bounds of Bakewell]; Francis Rippon of Pillesly, aged 67; Thomas Frith of Hollinghurst in Little Rowsley, yeoman, aged 100, whose memory goes back 60 years [to 1580], deposed that he was the servant to Sir William Kniveton and collected the rents from Little Rowsley until Kniveton sold the manor to Sir George Manners; Francis Smedley of Eccleshall, carpenter, aged 60, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1590], [recites bounds of Hazelbadge]; Hugh Bradwell of Bradwell, yeoman, aged 80; John Middleton of Bradwell, yeoman, aged 76, whose memory goes back 60 years [to 1580]; John Stevenson of Rowsley, gentleman, aged 59, [recites bounds of Baslow, all 11 boundary marking stones are engraved with M.B]; Edward Allen of Nether Haddon, yeoman, aged 46; George Riddiard of Middleton, yeoman, aged 44; William Bradley of Huntley Bank, yeoman, aged 77; Edmund Adames of Bakewell, yeoman, aged 80; John Bradwell of Crich, yeoman, aged 55, whose memory goes back 40 years [to 1600], [recites bounds of Darley]; Godfrey Columbell of Doncaster, Yorkshire, gentleman, aged 72, whose memory goes back 60 years [to 1580]; William Watson of Birchover, aged 65; John Holme of Wensley, yeoman, aged 67, [recites bounds of Darley]; Mark Stone of Winster, husbandman, aged 70; Peter Adams of Winster, miner, aged 87, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1590], [recites bounds of Winster]; Thomas Milward of Youlgreave, laborer, aged 63.