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 "by the iron mines, where we saw them working, and got some ore." {61} There are other important Iron works at Tintern, Redbrook, &c., but it does not appear that Dean Forest iron is used at them. {71a} It is difficult to explain the bold introduction of so important an insertion, unless we attribute it to the over-wisdom of some modern printer, who regarded Edward III. as the only excellent and redoubted prince of the Edwardian category. {71b} These comprehensive limits mark an early age; but in mining matters they were hardly more than nominal--the mineral district comprising only a third of the land thus circumscribed. {71c} The proximity of the Severn, and particularly the Wye, to the mine works of the age is here shown. {71d} Printed "pichard," meaning, possibly, the Wye coracle.