1474-85 Land in High Peak in Derbyshire was farmed to Robert Eyre for lead smelting. [1]
c 1485 Robert Eyre was sheriff of Derbyshire. [2]
1485-1493 Robert Eyre, Gery, had Commissions of the Peace in Derbyshire. [3]
1496 "Grant from Robert Eyre of Padley, sen., esq., and Robert Eyre of the same, jun., esq., to Nicholas Staiey of Hope, and Agnes his wife of a forestry [or tract of forest land] and lands in Hope which they held of Christofer Staiey his father, with remainder to brothers and sisters. Witn. Thomas Balge of Aston, Nicholas Eyre of Hope, Christopher Midiltone of Shattone. Dat. Padeley, 20 Aug., II Hen. VIL [1496]. (Woll. ii. 79.) [4]
1496 Commission to Robert Eyre, knight, Derbyshire. [5]
1497-1504 Land in High Peak in Derbyshire was farmed to Robert Eyre for lead smelting. [6]
[1] I. S. W. Blanchard, "Derbyshire Lead Production, 1195-1505," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 91 (1971), 119-140, at 132.
[2] Joseph Hunter, ed. and John W Clay, Familiae Minorum Gentium, Vol. 2, Publications of the Harleian Society, Vol. 38 (London: 1895), 551, Eyre pedigree, MS 228,229, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[3] Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry VII, Vol. 1, 1485-1494, (London, HMSO, 1914), 484, [HathiTrust].
[4] Isaac Herbert Jeayes for Sir Henry Howe Bemrose, Descriptive catalogue of Derbyshire charters in public and private libraries and muniment rooms (London: Bemrose & Sons, 1906), 178, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[5] Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry VII, Vol. 2, 1494-1509, (London, HMSO, 1916), 90, [HathiTrust].
[6] I. S. W. Blanchard, "Derbyshire Lead Production, 1195-1505," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 91 (1971), 119-140, at 132.