The following is a transcript of the revised regulations made in 1659, which begin the extant "Eskdale 24 Book", the proper title of which is:
"A Copy respectg. the Commons &c. belong'g to the Lshp. of Eskdaile Miterdaile & Wasdailehead"
"Know all men by these Presents,
That we whose names are under written the four and twenty sworn Jurors for the Manor of Eskdaile and Wasdailhead being appointed to consider the End and Order of a former Jury of four & twenty Men of the said Manor, and to alter so much thereof as appears to us to be for the general Disprofit of the Tenants of the said Manor: And to make new Ordinances and By Laws for the beter Ordering and Profit making of all the Common belonging to the said Manor: In pursuance of the trust reposed in us and with the Consent and great Desire of the major Part or greater Number of the Tennants aforesaid we judge it expedient and so do order and ordain
First that, no Tenant nor Occupier of any Lands or Tenemts. within the said Manor Shall at any Time hereafter take any Cattle or Horses out of any other Manor or Place whatsoever, to put to Grass into any of the Commons belonging to the said Manor of Eskdaile upon paying 6s 8d to the Lord's use for every Beast so taken, and the said Cattle or Horses to be impounded by the sworn Pinders until the Owners pay for them, or else take them by Replevy.
Secondly, That no Tenant or Occupier within the said Manor shall put any Cattle or Horses upon the Common Moore in the Summer time but only those Goods he can keep all the whole Winter upon his proper Tenement within the said Manor, upon paying 6s 8d for every default.
Thirdly, That no Tenant or Occupier within the said Manor who shall find his Sheep within any the Common or Cowpasture formerly assigned to any Tenant, shall leave them there, but shall drive them into his own Common or Cowpasture on payg. 6s 8d every Default: And that no Tenant within the said Manor shall by himself or Servant drive his Sheep into any Tenants Sheep Heafe or Cowpasture and leave them there upon the payg. of 6s 8d every Default.
Fourthly, we Order and Ordain that it shall be Lawful for all or any of the Tenants or Occupiers below Bleabeck to have their Goods on the Common Moore untill the first Day of November Yearly: But if any Tenant that continueth his Goods on the Common Moore untill the first Day of November, do find his Cattle or Horses in any Tenant's Sheep Heafe or Cowpasture and leave them there shall forfeit 6s 8d for every Default: And if any Tenant's Cattle or Horses that is continued on the Common Moore as aforesaid, shall go of the Common Moore into any Tenant's Sheep Heafe or Cowpasture, the Owner of the said Cattle or Horses shall (upon Notice from him into whose Sheep Heafe or Cowpasture they fall into) take them away from of the Moore upon payg. 6s 8d every Default to the Lord's use.
Fifthly, That the Tenants of Wasdailehead shall take their Beasts, Cattle and Horses from the Moore fourteen days after Michaelmas, upon paying of 6s 8d every Default to the Lord's use."
Jury Names:
William Sharpe Thomas Pearson
Nicholas Hartley
John Vicars
William Moore
John Wilkinson
John Tyson
Thomas Tyson Robert Fletcher
Robert Hunter
Thomas Wilson John Braythwaite
Robert Vicars Nicholas Tyson
John Wasdale John Stainton
John Vicars of Taythes
John Hartley
William Nicholson
Nicholas Stephenson snr
Nicholas Stephenson
John Dickinson
Nicholas Dickinson
Richard Tyson
