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| | Lordship of Hallamshire: History of Rotherham |
 | | The Manor of Sheffield and Lordship of Hallamshire is notable from having descended in unbroken line, without sale or forfeiture, not indeed from father to son, but in direct hereditary descent, including frequent descents in the female line, from the Norman Conquest to the present day. |
 | | And if it should happen that my said tenants, or any of them, are to be fined for any trespass in my said court, I will and grant for myself and my heirs that they be fined by their peers, and that according to the measure of the offence. |
 | | Furthermore, I will and grant for myself and my heirs that the said tenants and their heirs, as well buyers as sellers, shall everywhere throughout all Hallamshire be quit from all exaction and demand of toll, as they were wont to be in the time of my ancestors, for ever. |
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