[A] It may be of interest to mention, that in 1867 while ridging potatoes
in a field at Boosley Grange, known as Boosley Folly Meadow, a number of
silver medieval coins were found, which had presumably been lost or
hidden in the difficult times through which The Moorlands passed, during
the fierce struggle between Edward II and his cousin Thomas the great
earl of Lancaster; who in his headlong flight from Tutbury Castle up the
valley of the Dove lost a military chest containing over 100,000 similar
coins, English, Scotch and Flemish, in the river, which was found in
1831, embedded deep in the mud at the ford below the castle.
[B] The reverend Joseph Hunter, in a Memoir on the ancient family of
Wilson of Broomhead Hall, Bradfield, published in _The Yorkshire
Archaeological and Topographical Journal_ volume v. calls attention to
what he describes as a surreptitious Bradfield deed, dated in the feast
of saint Martin in winter (11th November) 22 Richard II and anno domini
1399; whereas the feast of saint Martin 1399 was not in the reign of
Richard II but in the first year of Henry IV; he further points out that
even if the news of the accession of Henry had not reached the wilds of
Bradfield by the 11th November, the feast of saint Martin 1399 would have
fallen in the 23rd year of Richard II and not the 22nd, as stated in the
deed.