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THE "ESKDALE 24 BOOK"

SUNDRY REGULATIONS AND JUDGEMENTS


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The following is a summary of a section in the original 1587 award containing miscellaneous regulations and judgements relating to particular controversies. All material not in quotation marks is summarised.


OVERLEAPE TO LONGRIGGE
... "for overleaping to Longrigge in Time of sucking for the Space of one Week for the Tenants of Dawsonplace & Peelplace that they shall go through Boshow and over at Lambford to Longrigge aforesaid.
And for Harmethowes and Christliff we find that they shall go the same till they come to Bowshowford, and over there to the said Longrigge for the said Time."

CONTROVERSY
"And for the controversy which was between the Tenants of Christliff and the Tenants of Peelplace, we find for the Groundmark between them that the Tarnehead as the Beck goes to the Thorne at uppermer Tarne Bandhow."

CONTROVERSY ABOVE BLEABECK
"And for the Controversy and Debate amongst the Tenants above Bleabeck; the Tenants of Teathes upon the one Party; and the Tenants of Whaes upon the other Party- We judge & award that the Tenants of the Whaes Henry Vicars and Robert Vicars, they their Heirs and Assignees shall have either of them threescore sheep lying and feeding up at Dovecragg to the Fold at Threaptongue foot, and there to be at Liberty, and there to feed and lye quietly above the Eskcow [sic] foot with the Goods of the three Tenants of Tathes , Horn to Horn peacably, and all those Hundreth Sheep to have a special bye Mark or Smitt whereby they may be known from other of their Sheep, but those Hundreth lying and feeding above the said Eskhowfoot, and those to lye quietly there without any turning or houndng"- fine 6s 8d to Lord for each default- "for all other Goods of both the Parties going and feeding upon the said Eskhowfoot, to go at Liberty, and together without any Kind of Stop-tasking & barring of any Manner of Person or Persons of either Party aforesaid, or by any Means Procurment or Taskment, And when the Goods of all these Tenants above Bleabeck which doth lye above the said Eskhowfoot shall come down in Winter, that they may lye peaceable to their Intack's head in their Downfall, and that never one of all these Tenants above Bleabeck shall hound or beat any of their Neighbour's Goods lying within any Part of the Premises above named"- fine 6/8 to Lord per default- "And that every one of these Tenants shall drive their Goods in their own Order and of right it ought to be and has been accustomed."

AGAINST TAKING OF CATTLE OR HORSES IN SUMMER
..."all these Tenants of Bleabeck shall put up all their Goods at Beltne [sic] Time , we mean their Geld Goods to above Eskhowfoot; And we Judge that no Tenant or Tenants shall take any Cattle to Grassding within the said Lordship"- fine 6/8 per beast taken- "but such like as they Winter, at the Discretion of two Honest Men within the Lordship thought indifferent for the same.
And we find that all the Common of Pasture within the Precincts of the Lordship is free for the Lord's Game: And for all the Goods of the Tenants of Eskdaile, Miterdaile and Wasdailehead, According to the Order & Manner as we have above set it down"...

CONTROVERSY OF SPOUTHOUSE
"And for the Controversy between the three of Spouthouse for their small Goods of the overmer Heath: We find that Thos. Fisher's Drift shall go forth at Hardstone yeat and then all their Goods of the uppermer Heath to go all together in the Bank and Bankedge: And for the Ground Mark between Thomas Fisher of the one party, and Robert Jackson and Henry Nicholson of the other Party, between the small Goods of the uppermer Heath, and the small Goods of the lower Heath, that we have set and appointed the Wall-corner or Nook to be the Groundmark at the Nether end beneath the standing Stones which is a Mark there and up upon the Height of the How on the Northside of the Bleatarne where the Peates are graven to the said Tarne and up Lines streight to the black How at the said Bleatarne head: And for Thos. Fisher's Goods of the Spouthouse that they shall feed and go to the little Scarr at Bleatarnefoot, at the Northside Corner, and line streight to the two black Stones downward and on so to the Nook or Corner of the Wall that there was pulled down: And thus these Things specified to be the Ground Mark for Thos. Fisher's Goods to come to both: For his great Goods of Spouthouse and Hollinghead, and either Party to turn others Goods into their own Right again reasonably"- fine 6/8- "and when they find their Goods on the Northside of the Bleatarne, that they shall take them and go their Way accustomed, both at coming Home and going to the Hardrigge."

BECKFOOT WOOD
"And for the Challenge that Thomas Fisher made for Wood in the Lindslack we Judge that he shall get six Loads of Cropping wood or underwood yearly before Christmas in the share that belongeth to the Spouthouse as we have set it out, and that no Manner of Person or Persons shall come to Lop or Crop any Kind of Wood within the Share that belongeth to the Beckfoot, as we have above set it out for the Beckfoot"- fine 6/8 per default.


Other sections:
Present editor's introduction
The 1659 revised regulations
Introduction to the 1587 regulations
The 1587 regulations for sheep pasture
The 1587 regulations for cattle pasture