Sir Simon Degge (1612–1703) was High Sheriff of Derbyshire and served North Wales as a Justice.

[citation needed] He was arrested as a Royalist during the Long Parliament and released in 1643–44 on condition that he remained at Stafford.

He was fined 100 marks for failing to "come to the bench" but he was still a bencher and by 1675 he was appointed by the King as High Sheriff of Derbyshire[2] after settling in Derby.

This man was reported to have given his sons the names of Shem, Ham, and Japhet, and to have built an ark which he kept on the River Derwent.

The book dealt with ecclesiastical law and custom concerning the parish, its vicar, his bishop and the causes and remedies for dispute.

There were many chapters of the details of tithing as well as now obscure problems such as, the income from a glebe, Jus patronatus and Simony.