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Staffordshire papers: Needwood Forest

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Memoranda book kept by Richard Walton, deputy axbearer to.. Sir Thomas Leigh, his Mats Axbearer or Woodward' for Needwood Forest. Ff. 1-3v: record of `trees poles and stubbs marked and felled ... for his Mats buildinges at Tutbury Castle, and for his new Red Deer Parke in Needwood, and allso for repaire of his Mats Race Parkes att Tutbury', 1635-37. Ff. 5-8: copies of warrants etc. authorising the felling, 1635/6-1637. F.16 : accounts, 1635-37. F.18 : Number of trees marked and felled, presented at the Woodmote Court, 29 August 1636. F.19 : The same, 13 July 1637. Loose sheet : `Trespasses in Needwood' presented at the Woodmote Court, 29 August 1636.