THO. DAVIES.

Memordm this was afterwards printed for Wm
Cook at the Pelican in Little Britain
hoc Titulo

The Laws & Customes of the Miners
in ye Forest of Dean

The Rules & Orders of St Brevaills
Court

endorsed

Written 7 Jany 1673.

NOTES.

{1} Aided by the skilful labours of Stuart A. Moore, Esq.

{11a} Hoare's Itinerary of Abp. Baldwin, vol. i. p. 102.

{11b} Rudder's Appendix. pp.25, 26.

{12a} Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum.

{12b} Ibid.

{13a} Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum.

{13b} Ibid.

{14a} Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum.

{14b} Ibid.

{14c} Exchequer Department, Forest Rolls, No. 418.

{17} Inquisition of 15 Edw. III., Exchequer Records, No. 75.

{19} Exchequer Records, No. 29, Chapter House.

{20a} Inquisition of 15 Edw. III., Exchequer Records, No. 75.

{20b} Exchequer Records, Chap. V. f. 18, No. 18, Col. I.

{22} "Dominus Rex habet mineriam in Balliva de Magna Dene. Et capit do
quolibet operaris qui poterit lucrari per septimanam tres summas minea 1.
denarium per septimanam. Et quando minea primo invenietur Dominus Rex
habebit unum hominem operantem cum aliis operantibus in mineria, et
conducet illum pro duobus denariis per diem, et habebit partem lucri
quantum eveniat uni operaris. Item, Dominus Rex habebit unde per
septimanam sex summas mineae quae vocantur 'Lawe ore.' Et dabit propter
hoc operariis VI. denariis per septimanam."

{23} Chapter House Records.

{25a} Inquisition of 15 Edward III., Exchequer Records.

{25b} Fosbrooke's Gloucester, p. 44.

{25c} Book of Mine Law.

{28} Lansdowne MSS., No. 166, f. 365.

{31a} State Papers.

{31b} Ibid.

{31c} Ibid.

{31d} Ibid.

{32} State Papers.

{42a} State Paper Office, Domestic Series, No. 835, fos. 675-710.

{42b} Ibid., Domestic Series, Int., No. 816.

{42c} State Papers, Domestic Series.

{43} Brit. Mus., Harl. MS. 6839, fol. 332.

{46} State Papers, Domestic Series.

{47a} On similar principles, the eighth Order of the Free Miners' Court
enacted that "no iron ore intended for Ireland should be shipped on the
Severn or Wye for a less sum than 6s. 6d. for every dozen bushels."

{47b} Commissioners' Report of 1788.

{54} To these works Mr Thoresby alludes, in his diary, 7 Sept., 1694,
recording that near Egremont he passed "