D HGB/1/115 1666-1815
These documents are held at Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle Headquarters
Contents:
Papers relating to the rights of the Hudlestons as lords of the manor, and to the grievances of their tenants who complained of the Hudlestons' obstruction of their access to lands and peatbanks, and by their encroachments on the Common and swamping the Common with their (and Mr Blencow's) stock, including:
- Copy judgment in Crosbrigge v. Atkinson, that the tenants of Troubeck Gills have common rights on Mell Fell, 1666
- Complaints of the tenants to Lady Arundell and Surrey concerning:
Access to Matterdale Moss via Highgate (road over Hutton Moor), on which Mr Hudleston charges toll; overstocking the commons; driving the tenants' cattle off them, beating them (and the tenants), hounding them "with great Mastiff doggs"; starving and disabling them; encroaching on Flusco, building a cottage and enclosing 4 acres there; obstructing the local roads, undated [1666/7]
- Signatures/marks of 59 tenants of Stainton and Newbiggin, [1666/7]
- Order to her officers by Elizabeth, Countess Arundell and Surrey, to let William Hudleston graze her commons in the Barony, 1667
- Andrew Hudleston v. his tenants: his evidence, with sources, of his rights and their duties as to weir-repairs; heriots, gressom, fines, dues, services; wage-rates (stated); peat-digging; subdivided tenements; sales without his licence; riots; illicit ploughing and enclosing in the townfield; timber; duty of tenants to plant, 1668
- Bond of the 43 tenants in £1000 to observe the forthcoming arbitration award ordered by the Assizes in his dispute with them, 1668
- Copy of 32 Watermillock tenants' disownment of legal proceedings begun by other tenants against Andrew Hudleston as to common rights on "Hutton Moor or Wester Mellfell", 1684
- Hutton Soil enclosure papers:
Notice by George Wilkinson, agent to the Duke of Norfolk, of claims in right of property of the Duke at Penruddock, Hutton Soil, Hutton Soil Mill, Motherby, Gill, Matterdale, Matterdale Mill, Berrier, Greystoke, and Greystoke's three peat-mosses including Greena Moss, 1813
- Letter from Isa: Todhunter to H. Howard, Greystoke Castle gives details of how the manor's boon-services system worked in the past and now, 1818
