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Relating to Matlock & Matlock Bath |
| Documents from the Middle Ages to
the Reign of Charles I |
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Matlock : Duchy of Lancaster Court Rolls
A sample of what is available.
From documents held originally at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London.
Now held in The National Archive at Kew, London. |
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 Duchy
of Lancaster - Rentals & Surveys |
TNA reference:
DL 43/1/32
Jas. I. 12 manuscripts |
Matlocke [signatures].
[W mark] Adam Wolley Senr
Tho : Flynt
Thomas Fullwoodd
William Walker
Thomas Columbell
[mark] Edmund Walker
Adam Wolley Junr
Willia Ludlam
[mark] John Bowne |
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The names of all the Coyhoulders wthin
the said Mannor and what lands they hould, and what rent
they pay for the same, and what fee farme Rents and what
Ceife [chief] Rents for ffreehould lands are paid to the
Reeve to his ma-- use |
Conteyning
by estimate
sixteene
acres or
thereabouts |
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William Ludlam of Matlocke houldeth
to him & his heires for ever by Copy of Court Rolle
accordinge to the Custome of the Mannor of Matlocke one
Messuage & a garden & one Cotage & a garden
wth the appurtnances in Matlocke aforesaid, & cten
[certain] Closes Crofts lands tenemts and hereditaments
to the same Messuage belonginge or aprtayninge, Upon
any of wch lands there be no woods nor quarries, neither
be any of the same harriotable[?], nor any other service
boones workes or duties dewe or donne for the same, other
than Recevinge service and sute of Court to the wapentake
of wirksworthe, as by anctient custome hath beene used,
for all wch pr misses hee yearly payeth to the Reeve
to his Maties[?] use |
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Conteyning
by estimate
four acres or
thereabouts |
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Thomas Ludlam houldeth there
to him & his
heires by Copy of Court Roule according to the Custom
of the Same Mannor one messuage & garden with severall
buildings thereto belonginge or appertayning with certain
parcels of copiehould lands meadow & pasture with
the Commons & pasturages to the same messuage or
tenement severally or respectively belonging or therewth
used as by the several copies newe showed unto us doth
appeare, saving that one Robert
Steere hath a mortgage
of twoe parcels of the same Ludlames land wth Clause
of Redemption as by covenants betweene them will appeare
upon any of the wch Lands there be neither woods quarries
nor mynes neither be the same Heriotable nor any other
services boones workes or dewties dewe or donne for the
same other then Reeving service & sut
[suit] of Court within the Wapentake of Wirksworth as
by Anctient Custom hath bene used for all wch prmisses
he pays yerly to Reve to his Mats use |
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TNA reference: DL 43/1/32
2 Jas I |
Matlocke
The Jurie doth present that there services are fealtie
suite of Court, and that they do Reeve in turne for ever[y]
messuage, that the custome for there estates is to have
them in fee simple to them and their heires for ever
and that hee wch hath any land there in fee simple may
by surrender convey it to the use of any other in fee
simple, fee tayle for lyfe, lyves or for terme of yeares,
they have comon of pasture and turbary in all the wasts & comon
grounds wthin the said Manor, they pay no heriotts nor
do no workes nor boones nor other duties for there lands,
and that the copieholders within the said Manor generally
ha[ve] no woods nor trees growing upon there copieholds
but in hedgrowes, and these very few and but of some
copieholders, and verie little else, and do say that
every copyhoulder wthin the said Mannor, by the Custome
of the said mannor have used to take the same treese & wood
as there owne, & to there owne use, & stoune
allso at there pleasure wch they take to be a full answeare
to these poynts. The Jurie do allso say that wthin the
said Mannor there be mynes of lead ore by reasone whereof
there land is so subverted and digged up that it is great
losse to the owners thereof and the kinge reapeth by
these mines great benefitt in this sorte (videlt) that
any of his Maties subjects may freely break the soyle
of any freehoulder or copyhoulder within the said Manor
without anie recompence to be given to the oner of the
soyle to digge for lead ore giveing to his Matie or his
farmer the thirteenth measure called a dishe of the same
ore, wch is called lott and 6d. for every load of lead
ore (wch load is 9 dishes) wch is sould there, to be
paid to his Matie or his farmer by the Buyer thereof,
wch is called cope, and this lott & cope doeth rayse
a great Revenowe to his Matie or his farmer, and other
mynes wthin the Manor the Jurie knowe not unles it be
states wthin the said Mannor wch the freehoulders & Copyhoulders
wthin the said Mannor tyme out of mynde have used to
gett & convert to & for there own uses at there
pleasure onely for the repration of all there houses
and that wthin the said Mannor there is a Barren waste
wherein the Tenants & Inhabitants there have comon
of pasture for all there cattell, and divers other Townes
doe enter Comons with them as namely Bonsall, Darley,
Farley, Ashover, Tannesley & divers other townes
for the wch Bonsall payeth to the Reeve yearly 3 shillings & 4d.,
and do further say that besides the barrennes of the
same the clymate is so could in winter as it is rather
an ease then a comoditie, & by reason of the myners
they are troubled with a desease amongst their cattell
called the Bell [belland] and wherewth there cattell
beinge once infected are uncurable and that the principall
profit thereof is the lead mynes, but they know not the
quantity of the waste, & that the inclosing thereof
would be more charge then good could be had of it. There
are Rockes & Toures of stoune bu[t] no quarries nor
estovers, but turbarie nor other mynes nor quarries nor
any incroachment but what his Matie hath demised to one
Mr. John Carpenter who is Bailife of the Sake (Soke)
of Worksworth. And that to there knowledges there is
no copieholder wthin the said Manor claymeth any freehould & affirmeth
that he knoweth not the one from the other, and that
no Copiehoulder wthin the said Mannor to their knowledges
hath conveyed or sould any pte of his copyhould land
heeretofore to any other p[er]son or persons, so as the
kings rent issuing out of the whole is nowe only payd
by him that would [sould?] any such pte. Neither can
the land so sould remayne wthout paymt. of anie pte of
the rente or Service, Neither can the land be heereafter
concealed not known to be copie hould, for that no man
is so simple to buy copyhould land but by surrender in
Court wch will easily avoid all these poynts of p[er]ill,
And that rather for that poynt these kind of prejudice
is used to be avoided, and doe further say that to their
knowledge there is no psons wthin the said Mannor wch
houldeth any land that belongeth to his M[atie] for wch
hee payeth no Rent to his Matie nor whereof he hath not
sufficient graunt.
(Signed by the same nine men whose signatures or marks
appear at the beginning of the first document quoted above;
the last signature is that of Willia
Ludlam.) |
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of Lancaster - Court Rolls |
| TNA reference: DL 30/53/660 |
Matlocke.
Small Court of the Lord the King. Held at Wirkesworth
for the said Manor, 3 Feb. 11 Jas. I. (1613/14).
To this Court came Thomas Ludlam in his own person, and
surrendered into the hands of the Lord the King one messuage,
one barn and one garden with the appurts situated and being
in Matlocke aforesaid, on the East Part of a certain land
called Dobblane, and now in tenure or occupation of the
said Thomas or his assigns, and two crofts of land containing
by estimation 3 acres more or less in the said town, near
the north part of the said lane & now in tenure of
said Thomas or his assigns; To the use of the said Thomas
and Frances his wife for term of their lives and the life
of the survivor of them, and after the decease of the said
Thomas and Frances, then to the use of Thomas
Ludlam, the
son of the said Thomas and Frances, and the lawful heirs
of his body, and for default of such issue to the use of
Edmund Ludlam, younger son of•said Thomas
Ludlam the father
and his heirs and assigns for ever, according to the customs
of the said Manor.
Proclamation at Court held 17 Mar. same year and third
proclamation at Court held 4th Aug. same year.
Whereupon seisin was delivered to the said Thomas to hold
in the aforesaid manner, and gave the lord the King for
fine - made fealty and was admitted. |
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| Duchy of Lancaster - Other Court Rolls that refer to the Ludlam family |
TNA Reference:
30/53/660
Matlock Court Baron.
Held at Wirksworth 30 Se pt. 11 Jas.
I. |
Wm. Ludlam, Thos. Ludlam, Jurors |
TNA Reference: 30/53/662
Matlock Court Baron. 10 Oct. 13 Jas. I. |
Thos. Ludlam, Juror. |
TNA Reference: 30/53/662
View of Frank Pledge with Court Baron.
Held 4 April 14 Jas. I. |
Wm. Ludlam, Juror. |
TNA Reference: 30/54/665
(M. 5 dorso) Matlock Court Baron.
15 April 22 Jas. - I. |
Thomas Ludlam, Juror. |
TNA Reference: 30/54/668
View of Frank Pledge & Court Baron.
Held at Wirksworth.
27 April 2 Chas. I. |
Names of the Jurors of the Soccage, William Ludlam. |
TNA Reference: 30/54/660
Court Baron.
10 Oct. 19 Jas. I. |
Thos. Ludlam, Juror. |
TNA Reference:30/54/660
View of Frank Pledge & Court Baron.
2 May 1622. |
Names of Jurors of the Soccage, William Ludlam. |
TNA Reference: 30/53/656
Court
held at Wirksworth
27 April 7 Jas. I. |
Wm. Ludlam, Thos. Ludlam, Jurors. |
TNA Reference: 30/53/657
Matlock Frank Pledge
4 Oct. 8 Jas. I. |
Thos. Ludlam. |
TNA Reference: 30/53/657
Court Baron.
4 Oct. 8 Jas. I. |
Wm. Ludlam, Juror. |
TNA Reference: 30/53/655
Court Frank Pledge
6 Oct. 6 Jas. I. |
Thos. Ludlam, Wm. Ludlam, Jurors |
TNA Reference: 30/53/660
Court held 3 Feb. 11 Jas. I. |
Surrender by Thomas Ludlam, reported fully above. |
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| Lay
Subsidies that refer to the Ludlam family |
TNA Reference:
E 179/93/358
Matlock Wirksworth Hundred |
William Ludlam in goods |
7 Oct 1628
£3 - 8/- |
TNA Reference: E 179/93/354
Matlocke Wirksworth Hundred |
William Ludlam in goods |
29 March 1626
£3 - 8/- |
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Abbreviations |
DL - Duchy of Lancaster. This was set up in the thirteenth century
and its lands, properties and investments belong to the United
Kingdom's monarch, currently King Charles III. |
These transcripts have been extracted from the paper: "William
Ludlam of Southampton: Some New Information," by Dr. Walter D.
Ludlum, Sr., St. Albans, N.Y. (no date). This small leaflet was most
generously sent to the web mistress some years ago by Mr. Bill Ludlam
of Bayport, NY. Bill's grandfather was Walter Ludlam.
Re-typed by Ann Andrews.
The first part of the transcript of DL 43/1/32 has been checked and corrected by Ann Andrews.
Intended for personal use only.
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