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High Peak

The Forest of High Peak, was often called De Campana, or the Champion Forest, formerly comprised the whole of the parishes of Glossop, Castleton, and Chapel-en-le-Frith, and part of Hathersage, Hope, Tideswell, and Bakewell.

The Forest of the Peak was governed by the same laws as the other Royal Forests, and so came under the jurisdiction of the Justices of the Forest North of the Trent.

The following were the King's officers of the High Peak forest:

  1. The High Steward - was the King's deputy in the Forest, and its highest officer. There was no High Steward for the Peak alone, but one for the Peak, Duffield Frith, and Needwood Forest.
  2. The Master Forester.
  3. The Receiver - The principal Civil Officer of the Forest, who was to receive all the rents and fines due to the King, and to keep proper accounts of the same. He attended the several courts, to enforce the payment of all taxes and rents. The office was enjoyed for several generations by members of the Eyre family
  4. Constable of the Castle. After the merger of the Manor into the Duchy of Lancaster, the Constable was an inferior officer, gaoler of the Forest, whose duty was to bring offenders and defaulters into the Castle and keep them there until the sessions, or their discharge in other ways
  5. The Surveyor of the Forest.
  6. The Lieutenant of the Forest . tachment aud Aisessment
  7. The Bowbearer - the Chief Huntsman of the Forest. It was his duty to attend the King when hunting, to find the game, arrange the sport and notify keepers of the hunts.
  8. The Ranger - He collected all the rents and taxes, seized all waifs and strays, checked Forest boundaries.
  9. Foresters of Fee - were tenants in capite of the King as Lord of the Manor, who held land to themselves and their heirs by the service of guarding the King's Forest of the High Peak. They were the original landed gentry of the Forest, from which many of our greatest county families are descended. Their office was hereditary, and passed with their lands which they held. Their duty was to walk the King's forest and see that the deer and wood were not destroyed.
  10. The Beremaster.
  11. The Bailiff- of the Franchises
  12. The Bailiff of the Winland.
  13. The County Bailiff.
  14. The Bailiffs Collectors
  15. Woodmasters
  16. Keepers aud Verderers.

In an Account of Forresters Fees 17 Henry VIII, Thomas Revell was deputy Armiger of Forest of High Peak.

As all the Foresters in Fee held their lands by virtue of their office, so many of them derived both their names and their arms from the same source.

Revelinge, (Riveling) (Ryveling) Forest was mentioned in a Charter dated 1332:


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A: Hope, B: Ughill, C: Stanedge Edge, D: Whiteley Wood, E: Stannington

Charter, viz. Sir Robert de Ecclesall, Sir Edmund Foliot, Thomas de Sheffield, Thomas of Mounteney, Robert and Ralph de Wadsley, Thomas de Fourness, William de Darnall, and Robert le Breton ; the latter of whom was seneschal of Hallamshire. By another charter, without dale, Lord Furnival extended his favours to his tenants in the adjacent country, granting "to William de Stannington, and to all the men of Stannington, Morewood, Hallant, and Fulwood, herbaye and foliage throughout the whole of his forest of Riveling, as it lies in length and breadth between Malin-bridge, Bellhag, and Whiteley Wood, on the one part, and a place called Stanedge, and the common-way which leads from Sheffield towards Darwent, on the other." For this valuable privilege they were to pay him and his heirs four pounds yearly. The witnesses to this deed were, Elias de Midhope, Henry de Spina, Robert de Bernes, Adam de Bosco, William Feorest, and others. To the inhabitants of Ughill, Nether Bradfield, Thornset, and Hawksworth, he granted common pasturage on the moors between Ughill Brook, Gwentree-sicke, and the road leading from Hope towards Sheffield, subject to a reserved rent of four marks. To the inhabitants of Wightwislle he granted similar privileges on their own moors ; and the rights long claimed and enjoyed in Loxley Cchase, by the inhabitants in its vicinity, are to be traced to grants made by the same munificent Thomas Lord Furnival, who, by an agreement with the Monks of Worksop, in 1328, commuted the tithes of his manor of Sheffield, for a money-rent. He died in 1332

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High Peak Landowners 1570

Scarsdale Hundred

John Revell of Hogstone
Edward Revell Esq

Source: The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist

 

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