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Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals.

OF

DERBYSHIRE ANNALS,

AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE

RECORDS OF THE QUARTER SESSIONS

OF THE COUNTY OF DERBY,

FROM

QUEEN ELIZABETH TO QUEEN VICTORIA.

BY THE

REV. J. CHARLES COX, LL.D., F.S.A.,

FOR WHICH END I TAKE it meete, THAT HOWSOEVER THOSE RECORDES have heretoforɛ BEENE
SUFFERED TO LIE IN THE HANDES OF THE CLARKE OF THE PEACE, AND BY THE DEATH OR REMOVE OF
HIM, HAVE BEEN TO SEEKE; YET NOW THE INCONVENIENCE BEING FOUNDE, AND THE RECORDS THEM-
SELVES BEING GROWNE TO GREATER BULKE, THE SAME SHOULD BE LODGED IN SOME SPECIALL AND
PROPER ROOME UNDER SAFE CUSTODIE, BUT NOT WITHOUT AN INVENTORIE (OR REGISTER) INDENTED,
WHEREOF THE ONE PART TO REMAINE WITH THE CUSTOS ROTULORUM, AND THE OTHER WITH THE
KEEPER OF THEM."-Lambard's "Eirenarcha, or the Office of Justice of the Peace." Ed. 1602.

London:

BEMROSE AND SONS, 23, OLD BAILEY; AND DERBY.

MDCCCXC.

D43C685 V.l

TO THE MOST NOBLE

William Cavendish,

SEVENTH DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G., P.C., LL.D., F.R.S.,

TWENTIETH LORD-LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF DERBY, AND

CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,

THIS ACCOUNT OF THE DOCUMENTS

FOR WHOSE SAFE KEEPING HIS GRACE, AS HOLDER OF THE ANCIENT

OFFICE OF CUSTOS ROTULORUM, IS RESPONSIBLE,

IS, BY PERMISSION, WITH ALL RESPECT AND ESTEEM,

MOST HUMBLY DEDICATED.