Excerpt from Lancashire and Cheshire, Past and Present, Vol. 1: A History and a Description of the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Forming the North-Western Division of England, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (1867) The king to the sheriff of Lancashire, greeting: Seeing that we have granted, by our charter, to our beloved and faithful William de Ferrers, earl of Derby, that he and his heirs may have their servants (or others), to preserve our peace between the Ribble and the Mersey, as Ranulf, earl of Chester, formerly had (to whom we gave the lands), of which earl he is one of the heirs, we order you to maintain the earl in the said liberty, and to compel the men of that county to supply to the said servants such victuals and other things as they were accustomed to supply in the time of the said earl of Chester. So conduct yourself in this matter, that the complaints of slackness may not be repeated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.