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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D2375/A/S/1/1/1
Former Reference	D2375/M/1/1
Title	Alstonefield manor court book, including copies of court rolls and accounts
Date	1372-1515
Description	Comprising: - (i) Court rolls, 1396-1422 (ii) List of court dates, 1422-1461 (iii) Court rolls, 1422-1461 (v) Reeves' accounts for 1424-1425, 1431, 1445-1446, 1372-1375, 1413-1415, 1462-1465 (iv) List of court dates, 1461-1481 (v) Court rolls, 1461-1481 (vi) List of court dates, 1488-1490, 1495-1496 (vii) Court rolls, 1488-1490, 1495-1496 (viii) Court roll, 1515, including survey, with attached short schedule of properties (ix) Rental of Lord Audley's lands for Alstonefield, Warslow, Elkstone and Longnor, 1515 (x) Memoranda on division of the lordship being divided into 6 parts, one from a coucher book at Tutbury belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster, the other from Lord Audley's rental The information in the book has been copied in a neat hand, possibly of the early 16th century. With regard to the court rolls, they have not been transcribed exactly as they would have appeared in the original, with some re-arrangement of date information in particular. The book is bound in a parchment cover made up from a religious text with coloured initial letters and individual words highlighted in red ink. Loose inside is a sheet of notes by Bartholomow Kirkbye on the lordship of Alstonefield.
Extent	1 volume
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Harpur Crewe family of Calke Abbey
Language	Latin

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