throughout their Manors and lordship. The Cistercians Monks of Rufford Abbey held a weekly market and fair and had the right to cut and sell trees from the Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, England. In 1359 they received over £400 from sales of timber. King Henry II granted the monks licence to take ‘whatever was needful for their own use from the forest, to keep a forester, as in the time of his grandfather Henry I. The Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1534 provide gross income of the Abbey of £254 6s. 8d. and the clear annual value as £176 11s. 6d. The temporalities were spread over a large area, including the parishes of Babworth, Blidworth, Boughton, Bothamsall, Bilsthorpe, Edwinstowe, Egmanton, Eakring, Farnsfield, Kirton, and Coddington, East Retford, Holme, Kelham, Kneesall, i.e. Kersall and Ompton, Kirklington, Kirton, Littleborough, Maplebeck, Nottingham, Ollerton, Rufford, Southwell, Staythorpe, Tuxford, Walesby, Warsop, Welham, Wellow, Willoughby, and Winkburn, in Nottinghamshire. Abney, Brampton, Brackenfield, Chesterfield, Palterton, and Shirebrook, in Derbyshire; Alkborough and Barton upon Humber, in Lincolnshire; and Rotherham and Penistone, in Yorkshire. These villages were known as the Liberty of Rufford. References Nottinghamshire Archives Baron Savile of Rufford: Deeds and Estate Papers [DD/SR/1/1 - DD/SR/12/102] Assistant Head: Archives, Heritage and Records Management : Mr Mark Dorrington http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/archives Rufford Charters (Record series / Thoroton Society) by Christopher J. Holdsworth Mar 1974 Rufford Charters by Christopher J. Holdsworth Dec 1981 Charters for Rufford Abbey from the 12th century onwards (DD/SR/102 and 208). The majority of these have been edited by Professor C J Holdsworth and published in the four volumes of Rufford Charters (Thoroton Society Record Series, vols. 29, 30, 32 and 34, 1972 – 1981). DD/SR/12/1-102 Charters: Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, etc. 1284-1668 DD/SR/20 Sherwood Forest Book: Rufford Abbey copy c.1216-c.1447 DD/SR/26/1-269 Charters, Leases, etc.: Yorkshire 1238-1743 DD/SR/27/1-10 Charters, Accounts and Estate Papers: Yorkshire, etc. 1246-1854 DD/SR/28/1-10 Charters, Bonds and Estate Papers: Yorkshire etc. 1301-1852 DD/SR/30/1-114 Charters, Accounts and Estate Papers: Yorkshire, etc. 1328-1851 DD/SR/36/1-157 Charters and Title Deeds (Bundle labelled 'Thornhill'). 1216-1705 DD/SR/102/1-221 Charters: Rufford, etc. 1146-1982 DD/SR/102X/1-16 Charters: Rufford, etc. 1146-1305 DD/SR/208/1-96 Charters: Rufford 1154-1516 DD/SR/209/1-330 Charters: Yorkshire, etc. 1255-1591 DD/SR/234/1-4 Charters: Rufford c1194-1363 Related Collections also in Nottinghamshire Archives:DD.BO (Baker of Ollerton) History of Nottinghamshire