. ia | ‘Wl is : i gerd? ¢ ' . a ee i 4) i. wee Jf #o - AND” ‘wre HisToRY — Soolery. LONDON : BEMROSE & SONS, 23, OLD BAILEY; AND DERBY. Ww BS “to URN AE OF THE DERBYSHIRE ARCHEOLOGICAL 4 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. JANUARY, 1884. ‘Dondon: BEMROSE & SONS, 23, OLD BAILEY; AND DERBY. ill CONTENTS. List OF OFFICERS = : . = = = . E - - . RULES - - : = - = 3 = = rm . g = List oF MEMBERS . e ‘ » eo : : z 2 ” SECRETARY’S REPORT ‘ ‘ . ‘ ‘ ' ' ' ' ' BALANCE SHEET - - A % 2 > E a z = THE EarLigest EXISTING REGISTER-BOOK OF S. HELEN’Ss CHURCH, DarRLeY DALE, DERBYSHIRE. COMMUNICATED BY JOHN SLEIGH, J P. : - = = CHARLES Batcuy, M.D. (1708-1767,) By S. O. Appy, M.A. - - - = = - : = On a MEDIEVAL PATEN AT SHIRLEY, DERBYSHIRE. By W. H. St. Joun Hope, B.A., F.S.A. - - : - THE “‘GREEN DALE CABINET” AT WELBECK, AND THE ‘‘ GREEN DALE OAK” FROM WHICH IT WAS MADE. By LLEWELLYNN JeEwiITT, F.S.A., &c., &c. - - aS) A List OF THE VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE. COMMUNICATED BY S. O. Abby. M.A. - - - - ON THE AUGUSTINIAN PRIORY OF THE HOLY TRINITY AT REPTON, DERBYSHIRE, . BY Wo i sp joan Horr, BoA,, FS A. - : sie ania Some Notes on Arsor Low. By Rev. J. CHARLES Cox” - - = ae 2 3 A Srx Days’ RAMBLE OVER DERBYSHIRE HILLS AND DALES, IN THE YEAR 1858. By RICHARD KEENE - - = = = » = 3 _ AN ELIZABETHAN CLERGY LIST OF THE DIOCESE OF LICHFIELD. By Rev J. CHARLES Cox” - - - : - : : ° _ INDEX OF NAMES OF PERSONS - - - - - - : = INDEX OF NAMES OF PLACES - . - : $ : = = It 3t 33 49 75 97 109 157 181 191 LIST OF PLATES. TO FACE PAGE PEDIGREE OF THOMAS DETHICK - 7 . - - - . =" oe MEDIEVAL PATEN AT SHIRLEY (AUTOTYPE) - - - - - 3! VIEW OF WELBECK ABBEY - - - - - = = : - 33 ANCIENT Cross aT Eyam (PLATINOTYPE) - - - - . 109 _ LIST OF WOODCUTS. PAGE THE GREEN DALE OAK, IN THE PARK AT WELBECK - - - 36 FAC-SIMILE OF PLAN, AS ETCHED BY GEORGE VERTUE, IN 1727. - 38 THE GREEN DALE OAK, NEAR WELBECK, 1727 - - 39, 40, 41, 43 GREEN DALE CABINET - - - = - = 2 = = Ad “*THE PEACOCK,” ROWSLEY - - - = E - - III Lip oF ANCIENT STONE COFFIN, BASLOW CHURCHYARD - - - 113 CUCKLETT CHURCH - - - - - - = : = - 118 Eyam CHURCH: - - - - - - : : : - [21 THE RILEY GRAVES - - - - - - = : 123 MompPesson’s WELL - - - - - “ : = E sea Eyam DALE - - - - - ~ E E : : 2 - 125 BRADSHAW’S HOUSE - - - - - - 2 - 2 - 126 CATHERINE Mompesson’s TOMB - - - : = : E - 129 ScENE IN PapDLEY Woop - - - - - 2 : : - 132 HicGar Tor - - - - - - = : E - - 137 Ruins OF CHAPEL AT NORTH LEES - - - - - - - 142 PEVERIL CASTLE - - - - - = ‘ < : - 145 GREAT PEAK CAVERN, CASTLETON - - - - - - - 147 MonsaL DALE - = - : - - : - - - - 152 —_— Vv Ete? OF OF FICE RS: resident : Pie DUKE (OF DuKE OF Norro_k, E.M. DUKE OF PORTLAND. Lorp VERNON. LorD SCARSDALE. Lorp BELPER LorD WATERPARK. Ricgut Rev. Lorp BisHop oF LICHFIELD. Hon. E. K. W. Coke. Hon. W. M. Jexvis. Hon. FREDERICK StrRuTT, Ricut Rev. BisHorp ABRAHAM. Ricut Rey. BisHor STALEY. Sirk FRANcIs Burpetr, Bart. DEVONSHIRE, K.G. Dice=jresidvents : / Sir J. G. ALLEyNe, Barr. Sir H. S. Wiimor, BartT., V.C., C.B., M.P. Sir M. A. Bass, BArt., M.P. Very Rev. DEAN oF LICHFIELD. VEN. ARCHDEACON BALSTON. T. W. Evans, Eso., M.P. LLEWELLYNN Jewitt, Esq., F.S.A. J. G. Crompton, Esa. C. R. CoLviLe, Esq. N. C. Curzon, Esa. G. F. MEYNELL, Esa. H. H. Bemrosg, Esa. Council : JOHN BalILey. GEORGE BAILry. WILLIAM BEMROSE. Joun Boroucn. Rev. J. CHARLES Cox. Tuomas Evans, F.G.S. C. G. SAvILe FoLjamse, M.P., F.S.A. Rev. M. K. S. Friru. Tuomas Hearn. WILLIAM JOLLEY, REv. F. Jourpain. RICHARD KEENE, Won. Treasurer: C. E. Newron. € E J. GALLop. Ab Major A. E. Lawson Lowe, F.S.A. REv. J. M. MELLo. F. J. Rosinson. Rev. RIcHARD UssHer. W. H. St. Joun Hops, F.S.A. F. CAMPION. . JAMEs CADE. . COOLING. - W. CHARLTON. E. GREENHOUGH. F . BERESFORD WRIGHT, ‘ Won. Deeretary: ARTHUR Cox. Auditors: JAMES LINGARD. MAJOR POUNTAIN, Vii RULES: I.—NAME. The Society shall be called the “ DERBYSHIRE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND NatTuRAL History Society.” II.— OBJEcT. The Society is instituted to examine, preserve, and illustrate. _ the Archzology and Natural History of the County of Derby. IIJ.—OPeErRaATION. . The means which the Society shall employ for effecting its objects are :-— 1.—Meetings for the purpose of Reading Papers, the Exhibition of Antiquities, etc., and the discussion of subjects connected therewith. 2.—General Meetings each year at given places rendered Interesting by their Antiquities, or by their Natural development. - 3-—The publication of original papers and ancient documents, etc. IV.—OFFICERs. The Officers of the Society shail consist of a President and Vice- _ Presidents, whose election shall be for life; and an Honorary Treasurer and Honorary Secretary, who shall be elected annually. V.—COouNcIL. The general management of the affairs and property of the Society shall be vested in a Council, consisting of the President, vill RULES. Vice-Presidents, Honorary Treasurer, Honorary Secretary, and twenty-four Members, elected from the general body of the subscribers ; eight of such twenty-four Members to retire annually in rotation, but to be eligible for re-election. All vacancies occurring during the year to be provisionally filled up by the Council. VI.—ApmIssion OF MEMBERS. The election of Members, who must be proposed and seconded in writing by two Members of the Society, shall take place at any meeting of the Council, or at any General Meetings of the Society. VII.—SvuBSCRIPTION. Each Member on election after March 31st, 1878, shall pay an Entrance Fee of Five Shillings, and an Annual Subscription of Ten Shillings and Sixpence. All subscriptions to become due, in advance, on the 1st of January each year, and to be paid to the Treasurer. A composition of Five Guineas to constitute Life Membership. The composition of Life Members and_ the Admission Fee of Ordinary Members to be funded, and the interest arising from them to be applied to the general objects of the Society. Ladies to be eligible as Members on the same terms. No one shall be entitled to his privileges as a Member of the Society whose subscription is six months in arrear. VIII.—Honorary MEMBERS. The Council shall have the power of electing distinguished Antiquaries as Honorary Members. Honorary Members shall not be resident in the County, and shall not exceed twelve in number. Their privileges shall be the same as those of Ordinary Members. IX.—MEETINGS OF COUNCIL. The Council shall meet not less than six times in each year, at such place or places as may be determined upon. Special meetings may also be held at the request of the President, or five Members of the Society. Five Members of Council to form a quorum. RULES. ix X.—Sus-CommIrTEEs. The Council shall have the power of appointing from time to time such sectional or Sub-Committees as may seem desirable for the carrying out of speciil objects. Such sectional or Sub- Committees to report their proceedings to the Council for confirmation. XI.—GENERAL MEETINGS. The Annual Meeting of the Society shall be held in January : each year, when the Accounts, properly audited, and a Report shall be presented, the Officers elected, and vacancies in the Council filled for the ensuing year. The Council may at any time call a General Meeting, specifying the object for which that Meeting is to'be held. A clear seven days’ notice of all General Meetings to be sent to each Member. XII.—ALTERATION OF RULEs. No alteration in the Rules of the Society shall be made except by a majority of two-thirds of the Members present at an Annual or other General Meeting of the Society. Full notice of any intended alteration to be sent to each Member at least seven days before the date of such Meeting. : LIST OF MEMBERS. ——+>0<-—___ The Members whose names are preceded by an asterisk (*) are Life Members. Bloxham, M. H., F. S. A., Rugby. b Hart, W. H., F.S.A., Public Record Office, Fetter | Lane, London. Fitch, R., F.S.A., Norwich. ( Honorary Members. Greenwell, The Rev. Canon, F.S.A., Durham. | Irvine, J. T., Mount Pleasant, Lichfield. | North, Thos., F.S.A., Llanfairfechan, North Wales. } Abbott, S., Lincoln. Abney, Captain W. de W., F.B.S., Kensington, London. *Abraham, The Right Rev. Bishop, Lichfield. Adams, W. Davenport, Mercury Office, Derby. Addy, S. O., George Street, Sheffield. Adlington, W. S., Kirk Hallam. Alexander, Rev. ©. L., Stanton-by-Bridge, Derby. Alleyne, Sir John G. N., Bart., Chevin House, Belper. Allport, James, Littleover, Derby. Allsopp, A. Perey, Trent Valley House, Lichfield. Alsop, Anthony, Wirksworth. Andrews, William, Literary Club, Hull. Arkwright, Rev. W. Harry, Rowsley Vicarage, Bakewell. Arkwright, James C., Cromford. Arkwright, F. C., Willersley Castle, Cromford. Armstrong, Rev. E. P., S. Michael’s Vicarage, Derby. Auden, Rev. W., The Vicarage, Church Broughton. Bagshawe, F. Westby, The Oaks, Sheffield. Bailey, John, The Temple, Derby. Bailey, J. Eglinton, F.S.A., Egerton Villa, Stratford, Machester. Bailey, George, 32, Crompton Street, Derby. Baker, Henry, 46, Friar Gate, Derby. Balgvy, Major, Trowel’s Lane, Derby. LIST OF MEMBERS, Balston, The Ven. Archdeacon, D.D., The Vicarage, Bakewell. Barber, J. T., Oakfield, Aston-on-Clun, Salop. Barker, W. Ross, Lyndon House, Matlock Bath. Barnes, Captain, Beaconsfield, Bucks. Bass, M.'T., Rangemore, Burton-on-Trent. Bass, Sir M. Arthur, Bart., M.P., Rangemore, Burton-on-Trent Bate, James O., 9, Wilson Street, Derby. Bateman, F. O. F'., Breadsall Mount, Derby. Bateman, Thomas K., Alvaston, Derby. Beamish, Major, R.E., S. Bernard’s Crescent, Edinburgh. Beard, Neville, The Mount, Ashburne. Belper, The Right Hon, Lord, Kingston Hall. Bemrose, H. H., Uttoxeter New Road, Derby. Bemrose, William, Elmhurst, Lonsdale Hill, Derby. Bennett, George, Iron Gate, Derby. Bickersteth, The Very Rev. E., D.D., The Deanery, Lichfield. Blackwall, J. B. E., Biggin, Wirksworth. Blandford, Rev. H. E., Ockbrook. Boden, Walter, Gower Street, Derby. _ Bogonschevsky, The Baron Nicholas Cassimir de, Pskov, Russia. Borough, John, Friar Gate, Derby. Booth, Frederick W., Hartington Hall, near Ashburne. Bowring, Charles, Duffield Road, Derby. Bradbury, Edward, 16, Arboretum Street, Derby. Bradbury, Rey. T., S. Chad’s, Derby. Bridgman, O. Granville, Bilton Hall, Rugby. Brigden, George, Iron Gate, Derby. Brindley, Benjamin, South Parade, Derby. Bromwich, Rey. C. T., 8. Werburgh’s, Derby. Brushfield, T. N., M.D., The Cliff, Budleigh Salterton, Devon. Buchanan, Alexander, Wilson Street, Derby. Buckstone, Rev. R. G., Sutton-on-the-Hill. Burch, Robert, 58, Green Lane,‘Derby. Burdett, Sir F., Bart., Foremark, Derby. Bushby, C. S. B., Duffield Road, Derby. Butler, W., Smith’s Bank, Derby. Cade, Charles James, Spondon. Cade, Francis J., Spondon. Cammell, G. H., Brookfield Manor, Hathersage. Campion, Frederick, Ockbrook, Derby. Campion, Frank, Duftield Road, Derby. Cantrill, W., Charnwood Street, Derby. Carter, F., Irongate, Derby. Chancellor, Rey. J., S. John’s, Derby. x1 xil LIST OF MEMBERS. Charlton, Thomas W., Chilwell Hall, Notts. Christie, R. C., Darley House, Matlock. Christian, Rev. F. W., The Vicarage, South Wingfield. Clarke, G. D'Arcy, Highfield House, Derby. Clarke, C. H., International College, Isleworth, Middlesex. Clayton, Mrs., Queen Street, Derby. Clay, T. Spender, Ford Manor, Lingfield, Surrey. Clulow, Edward, Jun., Victoria Street, Derby- Cokayne, Andreas E., Overdale Grange, Great Lever, Bolton-le-Moors. *Cokayne, G. E., F.S.A., College of Arms, London. *Coke, Colonel, Debdale Hall, Mansfield. Coke, The Hon. Edward Keppel Wentworth, Longford Hall. *Coke, Major J- Talbot, Hardwick House, Richmond Hill, Surrey. Colvile, Charles R., Lullington, Burton-on-Trent. Cooke, Charles, Spondon. Cooling, Edwin, Jun., Iron Gate, Derby. Copestake, T. G., Kirk Langley. Cottingham, Rev. Henry, The Vicarage, Heath. Coulson, J. B., Friar Gate, Derby. Coulson, G. M., Friar Gate, Derby. Coulthurst, Thomas, Derby. Cox, Rev. Richardson, The Vicarage, Tickenhall. Cox, Rev. J. Charles, Enville Rectory, Stourbridge. Cox, William, Brailsford. Cox, Arthur, Mill Hill, Derby. Cox, F. W., Priory Flatte, Breadsall, Derby. Cox, Miss, The Hall, Spondon. Crompton, J. G., The Lilies, Derby. Croston, James, F.S.A., Upton Hall, Prestbury, Cheshire. Curgenven, W. G., M.D., Friar Gate, Derby. Currey, B. S., Little Baton Hill, Derby. Currey, Percy H., Little Eaton, Derby. *Curzon, Nathaniel C., Lockington Hall, Derby. Davis, Hy., All Saints’ Works, Derby. Davis, Frederick, Palace Chambers, 5. Stephen's, Westminster. Deacon, Rev. J. C. H. Devonshire, His Grace the Duke of, K.G., Chatsworth. Disbrowe, Miss, Walton Hall, Burton-on-Trent. Dolman, A. H., Wardwick, Derby. Eckett, S. B., 20, Arboretum Street, Derby. Edmunds, Wilfred, Derbyshire Times, Chesterfield. Egerton, Admiral the Hon. F., M.P., Devonshire House, London. Elton, Charles, 10, Cranley Place, Onslow Square, London, S.W. LIST OF MEMBERS. xii Evans, Henry, West Bank, Derby. *E vans, John, Highfields, Derby. Evans, Robert, Eldon Chambers, Nottingham. Evans, Thomas, I’.G.S., Pen-y-Bryn, Derby. *Evans, T. W., M.P., Allestree, Derby. Evans, Walter, Darley Abbey. *Eyre, Lewis, 78, Redcliffe Gardens, Kensington, London, S.W. *Fane, William Dashwood, Melbourne Hall. Festing, Rev. G. A., Clifton, Ashburne. Fisher, Rev. F. C., The Rectory, Walton-on-Trent. Fisher, Edward, Abbotsbury, Newton Abbott, Devon. *VitzHerbert, J. K., Twynham, Bournemouth. *FitzHerbert, Rev. Regd. H. C., Somersal Herbert, Derby. *Foljambe, Cecil G. Savile; M.P., F.S.A., Cockglode, Ollerton, Newark. Forman, Rev. T. R., Derby. Forman, Hy., Chellaston, Derby. | Fox, Rev. W., The Rectory, Stanton-by-Dale. 2 *Freer, Rev. T. H., Sudbury, Derby. Frith, Rev. M. K. S., The Vicarage, Allestree. Furneaux, Rey. W. M., Repton Hall, Burton-on-Trent. Gallop, Joseph, Normanton Road, Derby. Garbutt, Horace, 31, Friar Gate, Derby. George, Henry T., Friar Gate, Derby. Gillett, F. C., Borrowash, Derby. *Gisborne, Miss, Allestree Hall, Derby. Gisborne, T. M., Charnwood Street, Derby. Goldie, Rev. A. R., The Grange, Thulston, Derby. Goodall, Thomas Sorby, 5, S. Peter's Street, Derby. Goode, Mrs., Friar Gate, Derby. Greaves, Fred. W., Derby and Derbyshire Bank, Derby. Greenhough, Edward, Parkfield, Willersley Road, Matlock. Greenwell, Geo. C., F.G.S., Elm Tree Lodge, Duffield, Derby. Gresley, Rev. L. S., Ashover. Groves, Rev. C. W., Grammar School, Risley. Hall, W. S., 39, Hartington Street, Derby. Hall, J. Payne, Uttoxeter. Hall, Robt., Wirksworth. Hall, Rev. Tansley, Boyieston, Derby. Hamilton, Rev. C. J., The Vicarage, Doveridge. ‘Hamlet, T., 40, Green Lane, Derby. ‘Harrison, William, M.D., Dean Hill House, Matlock. Harwood, James, Corn Market, Derby. iy 4 X1V LIST OF MEMBERS. Haslam, A. Seale, Duffield Road, Derby. Haslam, W. Coates, Ripley, Derby. - Hatherton, The Dowager Lady, 46, Clifton Gardens, Maida Hill, London, W. Heath, Thomas, Free Library, Derby. Hefford, T. N., 46, Queen Street, Derby. Herbert, Rev. George, University School, Nottingham. Hey, Rev. Canon, The Vicarage, Belper. Hill, F. C., St. James’s Chambers, Derby. Hillyard, Rev. E. A., Christ Church Vicarage, Belper. Hipkins, Rev. F. C., Priory, Hepton. Hodges, W. H., Osmaston Road, Derby. Holland, W. R., Ashburne. Hollis, H. W., F.R.A.S., Butterley. : Holly, Wm., Ockbrook. Holmes, Major, Makeney Lodge, Belper. Holmes, H. M., London Road, Derby. Holmes, H. M., Jun., London Road, Derby. Holmes, Charles, Argyle Terrace, Rose Hill, Derby. Holmes, Miss E., London Road, Derby. Holoran, G. B., Osmaston Road, Derby. Hope, Rev. William, S. Peter's, Derby. Hope, W. H. St. John, F.S.A., S. Peter’s, Derby. Hope, Miss Rose B., 13, Ashburne Road, Derby- Horsley, Thomas, King’s Newton. *Hovenden, R. Heathcote, Park Hill Road, Croydon. Howard, The Right Hon. Lord, of Glossop, Glossop Hall. Howard, W. F., Cavendish Street, Chesterfield. Howe, W. E., Fernie Bank, Matlock Bath. Huish, John, Smalley, Derby. Huish, Darwin, Wardwick, Derby. Hunt, J. A., The Poplars, Ockbrook. Hunter, John, Jun., Field Head House, Belper. *Hurt, Albert ibys Alderwasley, Derbyshire. Hurt, Miss, 46, Clifton Gardens, Maida Hill, London, W. Jackson, Jobn P., Stubbin Edge, Chesterfield. Jennings, L. F., Manor House, Kingston, Lewes. +Jervis, The Hon. W. M., Quarndon, Derby. Jessop, William, Butterley Hall. Jeudwine, W- W., Hasland, Chesterfield. Jewitt, Llewellynn, F.S.A., The Hollies, Duffield. Jobson, J., The Cottage, Spondon, Derby. Jobson, Edgar W., Hartington Street, Derby. Jobson, Godfrey, Derwent Foundry, Derby. Johnson, L, §., Charnwood House, Osmaston Road, Derby. LIST OF MEMBERS. Johnson, Rev. William, Repton. Johnston, Captain Duncan A., R.E., Ordnance Survey, Derby. Johnston, Andrew, Borrowash, Derby. Jolley, William, Eldon Chambers, Nottingham. Jones, Joseph, Full Street, Derby. Jones, Rev. T. J., Atlow, Ashburne. Jones, T., Jun., 256, Glossop Road, Sheffield. Joseph, Ferguson, Friar Gate, Derby. Jourdain, Rev. Francis, The Vicarage, Ashburne. Keene, Richard, Irongate, Derby. Kingdon, Clement B., Eduaston Lodge. Kirkland, Capt. Walter, 3, West Terrace, Eastbourne. Kitchingman, Rev. J., The Rectory, Bonsall. Knipe, W. Melville, Melbourne. Lamb, John, Corn Market, Derby. Langdon, W., 5, Grove Terrace, Derby. Leacroft, Rev, C. H., The Vicarage, Brackenfield, Alfreton. Leader, J. D., F.S.A., Sheffield. Leech, Mrs. Samuel, London Road, Derby. Lewis, Rev. Lewis, Ockbrook, Derby. . Lichfield, The Dean and Chapter of—Chas. Gresley, The Close, Lichfield. Lichfield, The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of, The Palace, Lichfield. Lingard, J., Irongate, Derby. Lindsay, J. Murray, M.D., Mickleover, Derby. Lister, Charles, The Abbey, Darley Dale. Litherland, Henry, China Factory, Derby. Livesay, W., M.D., Sudbury, Derby. Lomas, J., Marble Works, King Street, Derby. Longdon, Frederick, Osmaston Road, Derby. Lott, Edward, Corn Market, Derby. - Lowe, Major A. E. Lawson, F.S.A., Shirenewton Hall, Chepstow. Lowe, William Drury, Locko Park, Derby. Lowe, George, M.D., Horninglow Street, Burton-on-Trent. Lucas, Captain, Darley House, Derby. XV Mackie, John, Cliffe House, Crigglestone, near Wakefield, and Watford Villa, New Mills, Stockport. Madan, Rev. Nigel, West Hallam. Mallalieu, W., Swallows’ Rest, Ockbrook. _ Marsden, George, Wirksworth. Massey, Rey. J. C., South Normanton, Alfreton. “Mason, Rev. G. E., The Rectory, Whitwell. McInnes, E., 100, Osmaston Road, Derby. xvi LIST OF MEMBERS. Meakin, E. J., Spondon, Derby. Mello, Rev. J. M., The Rectory, Brampton g. Thomas, Chesterfield. Mellor, Rev. T. Vernon, Idridgehay Vicarage, Derby. Meynell, Godfrey F., Meynell Langley, Derby. Milligan, Colonel, Cauldwell Hall, Burton-on-Trent. Mills, Henry, 2, S. Peter’s Street, Derby. Milnes, Rev. Herbert, The Vicarage, Winster. Molineux, Rev. C. H., 8. James’s Parsonage, Derby. Morley, Henry, London Road, Derby. _*Mundy, Meynell, 38, Green Park, Bath. Mundy, Edward Miller, Shipley Hall. Mundy, F. Noel, Markeaton Hall. Naylor, T. R., Leopold Street, Derby. Neal, Thos., Highfield Road, Derby. Needham, E. M., The Cedars, Belper. Newmane, Madame Cavania, George Street, Derby. Newdigate, Colonel F. W., West Hallam, Derby. Newton, C. E., The Manor House, Mickleover. Norfolk, His Grace the Duke of, H.M., Arundel Castle. Oakes, T. H., Riddings House. Oakes, C. H., Holly Hurst, Riddings. Oldham, Rev. J., Clay Cross, Chesterfield. Oliver, John, Wardwick, Derby. Olivier, Rev. Alfred, Normanton, Derby. *Paget, Joseph, Stuffynwood, Mansfield. Parkinson, Rev. J. R.S., Shelbourne, Nova Scotia. Portland, His Grace the Duke of, Welbeck, Notts. Pountain, Major, Barrow-on-Trent. Prince, Paul, Madeley Street, Rose Hill, Derby. Ratcliffe, Robert, Newton Park, Burton-on-Trent. Redfern, James, Etwall. i Rickard, John, Inglefield, Leigham Court Road, Streatham, SOW Riley, T. L., Stanley House, Kedleston Road, Derby. Rhodes, Thomas, Mersey Bank, Hadfield, near Manchester. Robinson, F. J., Friar Gate, Derby. *Rutland, His Grace the Duke of, K.G., Belvoir Castle. Sale, Richard, Barrow Hill, Derby. Sale, W. H., The Uplands, Burton Road, Derby. Sankey, W. H., Midland Road, Derby. LIST OF MEMBERS. XVI Scarsdale, The Right Hon. Lord, Kedleston. *Schwind, Charles, Broomfield, Derby. Seely, Charles, Jun., Sherwood Lodge, Nottingham. Shaw, Rev. G. A., 8. Michael's, Derby. Shaw, John, Normanton House, Derby. Sheldon, 'T. G., Congleton, Cheshire. Shuttleworth, John Spencer Ashton, Hathersage Hall, Sheffield. Simpson, Mrs., Quarndon, Derby. Skrine, Rev. H. H. Sleigh, John, Eversley, Matlock. Smith, Ff. N., The Outwoods, Duffield, Derby. Smith, Rev. D., Sandiacre, Notts. _ Smith, Storer, Lea/Hurst, Cromford, Sorby, Clement, Darley Dale. Sowter, Miss, Ash Cottage, Kedleston Road, Derby, Spilsbury, Rev. B..W., Findern, Derby. Staley, The Right Rev. Bishop, Croxall Vicarage, Lichfield. Stapylton, Rev. M., The Rectory, Barlborough, Chesterfield. Statham, Geo. B., Matlock Bridge. Stewart, Rev. R., The Rectory, Pleasley. Stephenson, M., Molescroft Cottage, Beverley. Storer, Charles John, Market Place, Derby, Stowell, Rey.j{Hugh, Breadsall Rectory. Strick, Richard, Portland, Alfreton. *Strutt, The Hon. Frederick, Milford House, Derby. Strutt, Herbert G., Makeney, Belper. Sutherland, George, Arboretum Square, Derby. Sutton, Edward, Shardlow Hall. Swann, Rev. Kirke, Forest Hill, Warsop. Swanwick, F., Whittington, Chesterfield. Symons, Hy., Ashburne Road, Derby. 7 Taylor, H. Brooke, Bakewell. Taylor, Wm. Grimwood, 83, Friar Gate, Derby. Taylor, A. G., Taylor, Mrs. A. G., Tetley, W. H., Charnwood Street, Derby. Tivkler, S., Derwent Street, Derby. Thornewill, Robert, The Abbey, Burton-on-Trent. Towle, R. N., Borrowash, Derby. _ Trowsdale, Thos B., Sevenoaks, Kent. Trubshaw, Chas., 3, Grove Terrace, Derby. Trueman, H., The Lea, Esher, Surrey. _ Turbutt, W. Gladwyn, Ogston Hall. _ Turner, George, Barrow-on-Trent. St. Mary’s Gate, Derby. xvill LIST OF MEMBERS. Ussher, Rev. Richard, Grove House, Ventnor, L.W. * Vernon, Right Hon. The Lord, Sudbury. Wadham, Rev. J., Weston-on-Trent. Waite, R., Duffield, Derby. Walker, John, Old Uttoxeter Road, Derby. Walker, Benjamin, Spondon, Derby. *Walthall, H. W., Alton Manor. Wardell, Stewart, Doe Hill House, Alfreton. Wass, E. M., Bath Hotel, Matlock. Waterpark, The Right Hon. Lord, Doveridge. Webb, William, M.D., Wirksworth. Whiston, W. Harvey, The Gardens, Osmaston Road, Derby. *Whitehead, S. Taylor, Burton Closes, Bakewell. Williams, J., Midland Railway, Derby. Wilmot, Miss, 28, Westbourne Place, Eaton Square, London. *Wilmot, Sir Henry, Bart., V.C., C.B., M-P., Chaddesden Hall. Wilmot, Rev. F. E. W., Chaddesden. Wilmot-Horton, Rev. Sir G., Bart., Catton Hall, Derbyshire. Wilmot, Mrs. Edmund, Bdge Hill, Derby. Wilmot, Mrs. Woollett, Friar Gate, Derby. Wilson, Arthur, Melbourne. Woodforde, W. B., 7, Arboretum Square, Derby. Woodyatt, Rev. G., Vicarage, Repton. Woods, Sir Albert, Garter King-of-Arms, College of Arms, London. Worsnop, James, Charnwood Street, Derby. Wright, F. Beresford, Wootton Court, Warwick. Wright, F. W., Full Street, Derby. Wright, FitzHerbert, The Hayes, Alfreton. ——_—_——- N.B.—Members are requested to notify any error or omission in the above list to the Hon. Sec. x1x Sern! OF THE HON, SECRETARY, 1883. mYHE Fifth Anniversary of this Society was held in the | School of Art (kindly lent by the Committee for the occasion) on the zoth of February, 1853. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lichfield presided. The Report of the Society’s proceedings for the past year, which in- cluded a satisfactory balance-sheet, and showed an increase in the number of members, was read. ' The officers for the year commencing were elected. The meet- ing confirmed the provisional election of Mr. Beresford Wright to a seat on the Council, and re-elected those members of Council who retired in rotation under Rule V.—viz., Messrs. J. C. Cox, T. Evans, Foljambe, Frith, Heath, Jolley, Jourdain, and Keene. The Hon. Sec., the Hon. Sec. of Finance, the Hon. Treasurer, and the Auditors were also re-elected. Specimens of Church Plate from the Churches of Derbyshire were exhibited at the meeting, including the Plate in use at the Churches of All Saints, S. Michael’s, S. Werburgh’s, Derby, Allestree, Findern, Ashford, Bradley (a Kniveton set), Matlock, Shirley (a medieval paten), and many others. The Rev. J. Charles Cox read the following paper upon “Eucharistic Plate,’’ illustrating his remarks from the examples exhibited :— XX REPORT, PUGEpA RLS i EC Pil AT EB. By THE Rev. J. CHARLES Cox, [A Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Derbyshire Archzeological Society, held in Derby on February 20th, 1883, when there was an Exhibition of Church Plate.] Or the various instruments or vessels that have at different periods in the history of the Christian Church, been considered necessary for the celebration of the Holy Communion, the chalice is the only one which is of the essence of the sacrament, and without which it cannot be celebrated. For the bread may be brought in on a cloth, or in some linen receptacle, and it may not only be, but at one time it was distinctly ordered to be consecrated on the corporal, that is on the fair linen cloth spread in the centre of the altar. The chalice, or ‘“Cup of blessing,”’ being the only vessel mentioned in the Holy Scriptures in the accoant of the original institution, and being used therein by Christ Himself, was always treated and handled with peculiar re- verence in the ancient offices. In the Oblation, both before and after conse- cration, the chalice was the special medium, the ‘‘ paten being treated as an accessory and convenient appendage thereto, rather than as a principal utensil in making the same.”* In many old inventories it is obvious that the term ‘‘ chalice” includes the paten, which was sometimes not specifically mentioned, owing probably to its being often also used as the cover to the chalice ; nay, further than that, it is ‘*vestment ” is some- considered by good authorities that in the same way as times used to include the vestment proper or chasuble, amice, albe, girdle, maniple, and stole—so the term ‘‘ chalice ” sometimes implies not only the cup, but also the paten, crewets for wine and water, and pyx or box for the bread before consecration, which, taken together, formed a complete set of Eucharistic Plate. The material of the chalice was, from the earliest times, of the costliest metal, if possible, gold or silver. Early Councils only permitted poorer mate- rial, such as wood, horn, or glass, if the church was very poor. But glass chalices were, soon after their first use, specially forbidden, owing to their liability tobe broken. After the depredations of the Danes, and again after the raid on Church Plate for the ransom of Richard Coeur de Lion, wooden * Chambers’ ‘‘ Divine Worship in England,” p. 240. i he w ,"'—" i. +. REPORT. XXxI chalices were permitted in England, but only for atime. In 1222 the Arch- bishop of Canterbury forbade the use of pewter or tin. Many of the medieval chalices were most richly jewelled and most beautifully engraved. A good general idea of the richness of our old Church Plate can be formed from the 14th century Sacrist’s Roll of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, printed in our Transactions of last year. The high altar had chalice, paten, and crewets of pure gold, and so richly jewelled as to be worth about 41,500. These were the gift of Bishop Langton. All the Derbyshire chalices of 1552 were either silver or silver gilt. In the early Church there were usually two chalices, one larger, with two ears or handles projecting from the upper part for the convenience of the deacon in administering to the people ; the other smaller, for the use of the priest and his ministers, and for small Communions. ‘Ihere is an excellent example of the large ancient chalice, said to be of the 9th century, at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, which holds about three pints. Next, as to the shape. These early two-handled chalices were commonly vase-shaped cups formed after a classic model—but in the 12th century, when the great revival of art took place, and articles were fashioned more carefully to fit their various uses, the chalice became a hemispherical cup with no rim of any kind, with or without handles, and mounted on a stem with a knop in the middle, and alarge round foot. After the withdrawal of the cup from the laity, the handles ceased to be of use, and were discarded, and the chalice became smaller. During the 12th century more importance began to be given to the cleansing of the vessels at the end of the service, and there gradually grew up the custom of drinking the ablutions. In the rubrics in the Manual of Salisbury, York, and Hereford Uses, after enunciating the modes of ablu- tion, the priest is ordered to lay down the chalice upon the paten. Now this direction, unimportant as it may seem, had theeffect of modifying entirely the shape of the chalice. The round-footed chalice was found apt to roll about when laid on its side; the foot was therefore made hexagonal, which allowed it to rest on two points set some distance apart. The hexagon was preferred to the octagon or other practicable figure, as giving points further apart. The hemispherical bowl was at the same time made more conical in shape, to facilitate the complete draining-out of the chalice when laid on its side.* ‘This shape continued in use until the middle of the 16th century. It is to be noted that our chalices from the 11th to the 16th centuries always consisted of three main parts—THE RIMLESS BOWL; the STEM, with a knop in the middle to hold the vessel by; and the Foot, which was a spreading one (always at least equal in diameter to the bowl) to render the chalice less ee = * First noticed by Mr. Micklethwaite, and communicated to me by Mr. W. H. St. John Hope. XX1l REPORT. liable to be upset. The foot was almost invariably of this shape in England, but not abroad :— The material of the paten usually corresponded to that of the chalice, though sometimes, as the less worthy, it was of inferior metal ; for we read of more than one chalice of gold that had its accompanying paten of silver. There were two kinds of paten—one very large, called the ‘‘ offertorium,” which answered to our alms-dish or basin; and the other much smaller, and belonging to the chalice. But at Easter and other large Communions, the offertorium was sometimes used in place of the smaller paten. Our English medieval patens are distinguished by a sunk sexfoil, the cusps of which are filled with a rayed ornament. The centre is occupied by the Ver- nicle, a favourite device—a hand in benediction—Our Lord in Majesty—the Agnus Dei—or by the sacred monogram. Raised monograms were not usual, though instances are found of jewelled patens in old inventories. The Shirley paten of this county, recently discovered through the issue of the Church Plate inquiry sheets of this Society, and hitherto unknown to any of the experts in old English plate, is a very good example of 15th century work. The date is 1493—4, according to Mr. W. H. St. John Hope, who first identified it as of medieval work. It is five inches in diameter, and weighs two ounces. In the centre is the Vernicle, or representation of the Holy Face as it is said to have appeared on the handkerchief of S$. Veronica, which shows great delicacy in the workmanship. In general character this paten much resembles the famous one at Nettlecombe, Somerset, the date of which is 1439. The paten of S. Peter’s, Derby, though modern, is a good copy of the early 16th century style, of which the one at Trinity College, Oxford, is a well- known instance. English Church Plate of medieval date is, as might be expected, of very REPORT. XXIIL rare occurrence, though such inquiries as ours, if generally adopted, will pro- bably bring to light a few more specimens. William the Conqueror, in 1070, not only robbed monastic and collegiate establishments of their plate and jewels, but even condescended to appropriate the chalices of parish churches. In 1194 another general raid was made upon the vessels for the purpose of ransoming Richard I. The changes introduced at the Reformation not only caused a good deal of Church Plate connected with a more elaborate ritual to disappear, but were also eventually very destructive to Eucharistic Plate proper. The first thing to notice in the Reformation period is the continually recurring reports of robbery and embezzlement which followed the suppression of the monasteries and the appropriation of ‘‘ Cathedral stuff,” including all the shrincs, jewels, rich vestments (burnt for the sake of gold wire) and such plate as was deemed superfluous by the worthy king, Henry VIII. It is, however, a mistake to suppose that the king also robbed the parish churches. That was left for his hopeful son. At Staveley, we are told, in 1552, ‘‘our chalis was stolen xij monethes past.” Dovezridge report ‘‘ our chalys and other orna- ments were solde by Thomas Blythe, sumtyme chauntry priste, for which cause he was putt from the same promocon and dyed very poore.”” Marston says, ‘‘A chales was latelie stolen.” The chantry of S. Michael, Chester- “field: “A chalys the vycar there had in custody and roune awaye with it ij yeres paste.” Many articles of value, however, disappeared by the aid of the very persons who ought to have taken care of them, viz., the churchwardens. At Egginton, ‘‘ij bells themselves were sold in the ijnd yere of the kyng’s reign to the repairinge of the Monks Bridge,” the excuse being that it ‘‘is so farre in decay that the township is not able to amend the same.” The in- habitants of Ambaston also sold a bell which was in the chapel, and at Ash- burne, after calmly submitting to the loss of ‘“j holde albe stolen forth of acofer in the Church, the locke beying pyked, ” we hear of ‘‘ ij holde frunts of no valewe beying lant to disguyse persons at the bryngynge in of a Maii gamme.” These and other losses became such a scandal, that Commissioners were more than once sent through each county to take inventories of what was spared. From these we are able to gather what our loss has been, but, unfor- tunately, the lists themselves have not always come down to our day. Those of the North Riding of York, Lincoln, and Sussex are missing entirely. Derby- shire has been more lucky, for, though only one inventory in the visitation of 1547—that of Hope Church—has survived, from the Commission of 1552 we possess lists of goods then remaining in between 80 and 90 Churches, prin- cipally in the Deaneries of Ashburne, Duffield, Hartshorne, Lullington, Ock- brook, Radbourne, Stanton, and Wirksworth. They have all been printed by Mr. Walcott in 7%e Religuary, and revised by myself for the Churches of Derbyshire. XXIV REPORT. These various inventories, though ostensibly taken with the object of stopping the appropriation of church goods to secular purposes, themselves bear witness to the contrary by the numerous cases reported of the application of proceeds to parochial purposes. The Commission, however, of the last year of Edward VI. was made for the direct and sole purpose of robbery pure and simple on the part of the Crown—the commissioners being directed to seize everything of value, but to leave ‘‘ one, two, or more chalices or cuppes according to the multitude of people.” In our county one chalice was deemed sufficient for each parish, and in a few instances a paten also is specially named ; though it seems almost certain, as I have before remarked, that the mention .of chalice implied an accompanying paten. It might be expected that some of these chalices would have escaped destruction, but, alas! the number of medieval chalices so far known to remain in all England does not reach a dozen. The reason is that Edward VI.’s injunctions ordered the destruction of all monuments of superstition, and Protestant zeal, too often the disguise for personal gain. would certainly include amongst them many of the vessels used at the Mass, especially when marked with sacred symbols. Hence we find in many cases entries in the churchwarden’s accounts relating how the chalices have been made into ‘‘communion cups.” The changes of Queen Mary’s reign, nevertheless, followed so closely upon the heels of this ” ‘reformation,’ that many of the old chalices were again brought into use, and the new communion cups were frequently reconverted into chalices. Elizabeth’s reign, however, dealt a most severe blow at our old plate, for the injunctions were again enforced, and several of the bishops’ visitation articles have such questions as this from Archbishop Parker, in 1569 :—- “Whether they do minister in any prophane cuppes, bowles, dishes, or chalices, heretofore used at Masse, or els in a decent communion cuppe provided and kept for that purpose only.” The few Edwardian cups that have been preserved are all of similar design. They are plain standing cups with bell-shaped bowls, and a conical stem without knops, and with simple moulded bands. It is doubtful if we have an instance in Derbyshire. Of Elizabethan cups there are very many examples. Mr. Octavius Morgan thus describes the general type as compared with the old English shape :— ‘* The chalice still consisted of the same parts, bowl, stem, and foot, though I have known two instances in small parishes where the chalices consist of the cup only, without stem or foot. The stem, although altered in form and character, still swells out in the middle into a small knob, or the rudiments of one, and is occasionally ornamented with small bands of a lozenge-shaped ornament, or some other such simple pattern, and the foot is invariably round instead of indented or angular. The form of the cup, how- ever, 1s altogether changed, and instead of being a shallow, wide bowl, it is — REPORT. XXV elongated into the form of an inverted truncated cone, slightly bell-shaped. The form of the paten is also much changed, the sunk part of the platter is often considerably deepened, the brim narrowed, and thereon is fixed a rim or edge, by which it is made, when inverted, to fit on the cup as a cover, whilst a foot is added to it, which serves also as a handle to the cover, as though it were intended to place the wine in the chalice and cover it with the paten cover until the administration of the sacrament, when the cover would be removed and used as a paten for holding the bread. On the bottom of the foot of the paten was a silver plate, which almost always bears the date when it was made, and the name of the parish to which it belongs. The ornament on all these chalices and paten covers, as they may be called, is invariably the same ; it consists simply of an engraved band round the body of the cup and on the top of the cover, formed by two narrow fillets which interlace or cross each other, with a particular curvature, in every instance the same, the space between them being occupied by a scroll of foliage, and this ornament is marked bya total abstinence of letters, monograms, emblems, or figures of any kind. It is curious how this exact uniformity of shape and ornament was so universally adopted, unless there had been some regulation or standard pattern to go by, but I have not been able to find any such to guide the makers.” So far as my own knowledge of the Church Plate of this county is con- cerned, and I suppose I have seen more of it than any other individual, with the exception, most probably, of the Ven. Archdeacon of Derbyshire—coupled with the information as yet received from the society’s returns—Derbyshire possesses eleven Elizabethan cups, but a few others may yet be brought to light.* One of these, the Findern example, is one of the earliest known instances of her reign, and a singularly goud specimen. The Hall marks give the year 1564-5. The ornamental band is a handsomer one than any noticed by Mr. Cripps, or amongst the large number of Elizabethan cups in the diocese of Carlisle. The date, too, is exceptionally early, but few being known earlier than 1571. The Wilne example is 1566-7, that of Taddington 1568-9, Norton 1568-9 (a large fine sample), Derwent 1584-5, Fairfield 1593-4, and Kedleston 1601. There are four unmarked samples of this reign, one at Osmaston-by-Derby, which is early in the reign, one at Dalbury, one at Shirley, and one at Whittington, which is late Elizabethan, or possibly early Jacobean. Dovezridge, 1619, is very similar to Elizabethan. The further changes of the next century and their various diversities are best illustrated by the examples before you—the chief difference being in the increasing plainness and lack of ornament. The patens also cease to be used as covers, though they will often fit on the top of the cups. * Several other examples of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean chalices have since turned up, @.é., at Mickleover, Weston, Marston Montgomery, and Willington.—W. H.Sr. J. H. XXV1 REPORT. I should mention that instances do occur where the old English traditional shape of hemispherical bowl, stem with knop, and hexagonal indented foot has continued. A very fine one is found at Ashby-de-la-Zouch (1676), S. Peter’s College, Cambridge—the gift of Bishop Cosin (1626), and two at Rochester Cathedral (1653-4). The points of the hexagonal foot usually terminate in cherubs’ heads. The several chalices of the Kniveton gift in this county, noticed below, cannot be surpassed as examples of this kind of work. They are exceptionally large and beautifully finished. The cherubs’ heads and other details are singularly well preserved in the Bradley chalice now before you ; its date is 1640-41. Derbyshire has a good many examples of chalices of the first half of the 17th century. The plain but interesting one from Ashford is undated, but I take it to be Jacobean. Such are Sandiacre and Tissington 1624-5, Stanton- by-Dale 1629-30, Risley 1632-3, and Normanton-by-Derby, with paten cover, 1645. The period of the Commonwealth, when Puritan malevolence culmi- nated against the Church, was not so fatal to the sacred vessels of the altar as is usually supposed. With the exception of those places wherein the violence of civil war specially centred, such as the diocesan city of Lichfield, there is no proof that the chalices and patens of our ordinary parish churches, as a rule, suffered spoliation. ‘‘The Directory for the Publique Worship of God,” which in 1634 took the place of the Book of Common Prayer, provides that what the schismatics termed the Lord’s Supper was ‘‘to be frequently cele- brated,” and for this purpose the ancient vessels would be required. Plate was not infrequently given during the Commonwealth ; Richard Goodwin gave “one large silver chalice” to the church of Taddington, Derbyshire, in 1651 ; and the Alvaston chalice is dated 1653-4. But by far the most interesting piece of Church Plate of the Commonwealth in Derbyshire is the chalice and paten of Normanton-by-Derby, with heraldic quarterings, most beautifully engraved, for it is of the year 1645, of which date hardly any plate at all has been found, the very year after the forcible suppression of the Prayer Book. Morley, too, has an unmarked paten of about the same date, and there is an excellent chalice at Spondon of the year 1646-7. Of chalices of the second half of the century may be mentioned Morley 1663-4, Tideswell 1683-4, Spondon 1685-6, Christ Church, Derby, with interesting engravings of the crucifixion and resurrection, 1698-9, and Sudbury 1678-9, which, with its accompanying large paten, has below the unusual monogram of the Sacred Heart and three nails. The ancient chapel of S. John Baptist, Belper, has a small two-handled chalice of 1685-6. Of eighteenth century samples, Derbyshire possesses a large variety, which it would be tedious now to enumerate. The chalices of the Derby churches of S. Werburgh and S. Michael are good samples of the middle of the century ; and the silver-gilt tankard flagons of S$. Werburgh’s of 1717 may be compared | ‘ REPORT. XXVll with the similar vessels of the eighteenth century. There is a good Queen Anne paten at Osmaston-by-Derby, 1702-3. The most massive and costly village Church Plate in the county is the set of two chalices, two patens, alms plate, and flagon, of silver-gilt, at Ravenstone, the gift of Rebecca Wilkins in 1715. The handsome chalice and cover of Newton Solney, 1757-8, and the Tickenhall paten of 1715-16, with its unique leather case, should also be noticed. Disastrous as so many of the political and religious movements of our nation have been, both to the fabrics of our churches and to the ornaments that they sheltered, the history of Church Plate after all confirms the con- clusion that I have previously formed, namely, that the period when the Church was at its lowest ebb in intelligence and energy, was also the time that was most fatal to all that was comely, ancient, or valuable, for it was the period of family jobbery and private embezzlement—the century that was ruled over by our three first Georges. So far as Derbyshire is concernec, I have carefully inspected the church- wardens’ accounts and other records of various parishes, and, without exception, where I have found such records extant, it appears that some at least of the communion plate chronicled in the seventeenth century, some of it Elizabethan, some no doubt medieval, has now disappeared, either through criminal care- lessness or direct theft. At All Saints’, Derby, the old silver chalice and paten, mentioned in 1632, and again in 1662, is missing, without any record of its fate. In 1681, Mr. Mathews, master of the Free School, presented a silver paten weighing over 12 ounces. This also is missing. A silver tankard given to Kedleston Church in 1715 is missing. The silver plate at Brampton Church was stolen 30 or 40 yéars ago. Lady Frances Kniveton, second wife of Sir Gilbert Kniveton, of Bradley, gave a valuable set of Communion plate, consisting of silver-gilt chalice, paten, and flagon to the seven Churches of Bradley, Kniveton, Mugginton, Ash- burne, Brailsford, Osmaston, and Kirk Langley. Lady Frances was one of the co-heirs of Sir Robert Dudley, Duke of the Empire. A patent allowing to her the title of Duchess Dudley was granted by Charles I. and confirmed by Charles II. after the Restoration. She used much of her great wealth in various munificent benefactions. Each of the above gifts of plate cost £50, a great sum, considering the then value of money. But of these seven gifts, two have been stolen, namely, the sets at Ashburne and Brailsford. Occasionally the bad taste of post-Reformation churchwardens led them to exchange their old medieval plate for new. Two instances of this occur in - the Youlgreave accounts :— “1625. For changing ye old communion cupp and cover for ye new chalice (in all) £1 19s. 9d.” XXVIIL REPORT. “©7732. In exchange between an old silver cup and salver for a silver plate, 2s, 2d.’ In the Hayfield churchwardens’ book is the following :— “©1784. Exchanging the silver cup, 12 shillings.” The melting down of comparatively modern plate of a bad and awkward design into more seemly shapes is much more excusable than the sale or ex- change of really old plate. As an instance of this may be mentioned the Church Plate of S. Peter’s, Derby, which in 1857 was remodelled into its pre- sent good shape from a chalice of 1666, and from a paten and flagon of 1686. But even a change of this sort should not be effected without very grave reason. The issue of such a volume on Church Plate as that projected by our Society will go far to prevent any further recourse to the crucible by clergy or church- wardens under the mistaken zeal of preferring ‘‘new lamps” to old. Let it not be thought that I exaggerate the danger even now accruing to the few really old specimens that our county retains. It was only in January, 1881, that Mr. Wilfred Cripps, the great authority on English plate, wrote thus to the Guardian :— “‘ There was hardly a parish in which some relic of Elizabethan times did not exist only a few years ago ; but year by year many are consigned to the melting pot, or rather to the private cabinet of some wealthy silversmith, who is very glad to give a country clergyman the small amount its weight in silver coin comes to for a curiosity which, though it loses half its interest by being re- moved from the Church to which it has belonged ever since it assumed its present form in the early years of the reign of Elizabeth, is nevertheless still well worth preserving. I have heard of one being parted with lately, and the few shillings it produced spent in hymn books ; of another exchanged for a chalice of electro-plate ; of a third being sold because the incumbent thought it old- fashioned. Each of these had been the property of the parish for more than 300 years, and more than this, was probably made of the very silver of a still more ancient chalice, and re-cast into its present shape at the Reformation, in deference to Puritanical intolerance.” Let me briefly revert to one or two other matters of interest with regard to our post-Reformation plate. Chalices are occasionally found in sacred use that were originally intended for secular purposes, and afterwards presented to the Church. Let me give four Derlyshire instances. The beautifully en- graved cup of Derwent Chapel, 1584—5, from the style of the ornaments, was undoubtedly of secular origin, The engraving is thus described by the present Vicar :— “* Four staves, resting repectively on a seal; a starfish and other fish, sur- rounded by seaweed ; a turtle ; a starfish and other fish, surrounded by sea- weed. The four staves are ornamented at middle and top with REPORT. XXIX mitres, and are connected at the top by festoons of drapery. On the middle of each festoon hangs a harp, and over each harp stands an eagle. A band of raised ornamentation runs round the stem, and also round the splay foot. The cover has spiral top, with raised ornamentation. A rough Latin cross has been pricked inside cover.” This latter mark was probably made at the time of its dedication to a sacred use. The Kedleston chalice, 1601-2, is a most beautiful silver-gilt secular cup, given to the church in 1715 by Lady Sarah Curzon. It is engraved all over with trefoils, and bears also the arms of Penn impaling Leake. The inscription on what is now the chalice at Edale Chapel tells its own tale :— ““This Oration Prize, the legacy of Dr. Hooper, adjudged to Daniel Creswell, of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1795, was by him given to this chapel of Edale, 1810.” Spondon, too, possesses a large two-handled plated cup, given about 1700, and now used as a flagon, which was undoubtedly originally designed for secular use. Both the arms and the inscriptions on post-Reformation Church Plate, that were often engraved thereon in the two last centuries, though distasteful in the extreme to the reverent mind, have their value and interest for the heraldic student and the genealogist. Amongst instances of this character in Derby- shire, it may be mentioned that the arms and name of Pegge are on the Shirley flagon ; inscriptions of the Harpur and Crewe families on the Tickenhall patens ; Curzon arms on the Kedleston patens ; Horton inscription on the Croxall flagon ; Willoughby arms and inscription on all the plate at Risley ; and Lord Exeter’s arms on the noble plate at All Saints’, Derby. On the Normanton chalice and paten the Harpur arms are beautifully quartered ; the Sacheverel arms are on the Morley paten; the Benskin arms on the plate at Alvaston ; and the Gilbert arms on the Spondon paten. In the churchwardens’ accounts of Youlgreave is an entry which gives an excellent excuse for the engraving of the name of the donor and parish ;— ‘©1731, May 14.—There was given two salvers for bread and two stoops for the wine, all made of pure silver, and weighing by averdupois five pounds and half an ounce altogether, by Mrs. Mary Hill, of Woodhouse, during her life- time, to the parish of Youlgreave, with her name engraved thereon only to prevent its being imbeziled away—in testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand.—DANL. HARDINGE, Curt. of Youlgreave.” The consideration of the question of the post-Reformation use of pewter, without which this paper would be incomplete, leads me back to certain Eucharistic vessels upon which no comment has hitherto been offered— namely, crewets, and their later development into flagons. XXX REPORT. Two crewets, one for wine, and the other for water, were an invariable part of the Eucharistic Plate, and are specified by all the ancient Ritualists, The ancient crewets were very seldom of glass or crystal, but generally of enamelled copper, or of some more valuable metal. In the 15th and 16th centuries the, ordinary parish churches of England were usually content with pewter crewets ; almost all the Derbyshire crewets of 1552 inventories were of this material. They were usually distinguised by some convenient mark, such as A (agza) for water, and V (vézum) for wine. A pair of golden crewets at Ely were distinguished by a large ruby for the wine, and a beautiful pearl for the water. The size of these crewets was but small when the cup was refused to the laity, but after the Reformation it became necessary that they should become con- siderably increased in bulk, and hence the use of what we usually now term flagons. The earliest flagons are of Elizabeth’s time. They have a pear- shaped body, domed lid with thumb piece, and a curved handle, and are mounted on a spreading circular foot. The Osmaston silver flagon, recently given by Mr. Ussher, is a good modern copy of an Elizabethan flagon, made to match the chalice, and the Osmaston flagon of electro-plate an instance of what to avoid. After the beginning of the 17th century the ‘‘ round bellied ” flagons disappear, and the common tall tankard shape comes into use, of which many examples abound (All Saints’, S. Michael’s, S. Werburgh’s, Rayenstone, etc.) These flagons, throughout England, both before and after the Restoration, were usually, and invariably at the larger churches, in pairs (as All Saints’, S. Werburgh’s, and many other Derbyshire churches), showing that they were intended to be the successors of the ancient crewets or phials, and were used for wine and water. I have several times noticed, both in pairs of pewter flagons, as well as in those of more precious‘metals, a difference in the covers or handles, though of the same date, and I have no doubt that this difference was intentional, and intended to assist the celebrant or his minister in readily distinguishing between the flagons for the wine and for the water. There is a most charming variation in both handles and shape in the two elegant silver flagons of classical design of Sudbury Church, bearing the Birmingham hall marks of 1775-6. : In several of the old engravings of post-Reformation altars, where the two flagons are usually represented, this difference may be noted. It is very prominent in the frontispiece of ‘‘The whole duty of receiving worthily the Blessed Sacrament,” which was in a fifth edition in 1717. No one, outside the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, who has at.all studied the subject, can have any doubt that the admixture of water with the wine in the chalice was the usual and sanctioned custom of our Reformed Church. We have the most unqualified evidence in the case of Archbishops Laud and Sancroft, and of Bishops Andrewes, Cosin, and Field, etc., ete. The indirect evidence of the pairs of flagons, and their difference in shape (not * hitherto, I believe, noticed), is not without value. REPORT. XXX1 It might be objected to this view of the use of the second flagon that the size militated against it, as so little water is required for admixture in the chalice. To this I answer that the post-Reformation use of our leading bishops distinctly authorised the ceremonial ablution of the priest’s hands before the consecration at Holy Communion, and that the large water flagon would also be used for this purpose. This, too, explains the use of certain small basins, certainly not alms basins, not unfrequently met with in Church Plate of 17th century, and usually of pewter. Such is the basin of the 1629 pewter set at Osmaston-by-Derby. The great increase in the size of the crewets or flagons, necessitated at the Reformation by the restoration of the cup to the laity—coupled with the fact that that was not the era for promoting the giving of our best to God—gave a great impetus to the general use of cheap pewter for flagons, and hence the use of that metal, in poor and despoiled churches, descended even to the chalice and paten. By the XX. Canon of 1603-4, the Churchwardens of every parish, against the time of every Communion, ‘‘shall provide . . . . a sufficient quantity . . . . of good wholesome wine, for the number of communi- cants that shall from time to time receive there, which wine we require to be brought to the Communion table in a clean and sweet standing pot or stoup of pewter, if not of purer metal.” The following are some of the numerous instances of the post-Reformation ‘use of pewter in Derbyshire churches. At Quarndon, from the Terrier of 1751, we find that a flagon, chalice, paten, salver, and plate, all of pewter, were in use. At Kirk Langley a pewter paten was used up to 1825. Ina Mackworth inventory of 1639, a pewter flagon is mentioned. The Wirksworth churchwarden accounts have the following entries :— “*¥662—Paid for a puter flagon for the communion table, 7s. 4d.” **1677—Disbursed by Mr. Archdeacon 6s. 9d. for a puter flagon.” The accounts of All Saints’, Derby, contain the following :— ““Memorandum. That in ye month of April, An. 1679, Mr. George Smith, of this Parish of All Saints’, Pewterer, did give for ye use of ye Parishioners of this Parish of All Saints’, two large pewter Flaggons, and one Pewter Plate : To be used only at the Communion,” In “ An account of the materials belonging to the Communion Table at Taddington,” for the year 1695, mention is made, in addition to silver, of “one large Flaggon of pewter (which still remains), one pewter Bason, one large Leather Bottle.” This last entry, namely, of a leather bottle or jack, is, we should think, unique in the record of vessels pertaining to the Holy ~ Communion. Even now pewter vessels may often be found in the vestries of churches of our county, though very rarely in use, except occasionally as alms plates. XXX REPORT. At Tickenhall there is a small alms dish of pewter, now in use, nine inches in diameter. At Osmaston-by-Derby there is a chalice, a flagon, and an alms basin, all of pewter, of the year 1629, but not now used. At Monyash, a pewter paten and alms basin are still used ; and at Hartshorn there is a pewter flagon of the year 1638 still in use. There is a disused pewter paten at Sawley, and there are various pewter plates at S. John the Baptist Chapel, at Belper. There is also a pewter alms dish in use at Wilne. Surely we ought to be careful—and irrespective of the reverence due to sacred things, pewter has its own history, its own marks, its own occasional beauty of shape or of engraved design—that such vessels as these, though of nferior metal, are not carelessly discarded or suffered to be put to base uses where they will soon pass into oblivion. JI am glad to say that I have been instrumental in one case in this county in recovering a large pewter church flagon frém the village ‘‘public,” and it is now used in supplying water for the font. Careful inquiry in our country parishes would, I believe, result in the recovery of many of these flagons or other pewter vessels that once were put to so sacred a use. I would suggest to the clergy that where they have several discarded pewter vessels pertaining to the church, that are not rendered interesting from any inscription, engraving, or peculiarity of design, that a good way of using up the material for a sacred purpose would be to have the metal re-cast by a careful pewterer into a font ewer, for the purpose of supply- ing water at Holy Baptism. But I only suggest this where there seems any real fear of such vessel being secularised or misappropriated. Their careful preservation, however uninteresting they may seem to be, should surely com- mend itself most to us, whether as archzeologists or Churchmen. The Bishop of Carlisle, in his Christmas Pastoral for 1880, did not think it beneath his notice to formally address his clergy on this subject. His Lordship said :— “Tt is very desirable that pewter vessels ‘which have been used fer the purposes of the Holy Communion should be carefully preserved, even when their place has been taken by silver utensils; there is a temptation to neglect them as of no value; but there is much of historical interest attaching to these pewter vessels, and they deserve a place in the treasury of the parish to which they belong.” This society is not a religious one, and is therefore in no direct sense in- terested in the promotion of greater reverence in the keeping and use of that which is essential to the due celebration of the mysteries of the Christian faith ; but as our chief object, according to our rules, is ‘‘to preserve the archzeology of the county," it may not be out of place for me to speak very briefly on the subject of the episcopal consecration of Church Plate, and the great desirability of its continuance. I do not, then, now say a word on the religious advantage of compliance with a usage that can be proved to have commended REPORT. XXXII itself to the faithful of the Church of England for upwards of 1140 years, but simply argue, from the dry archeological stand-point, that any ceremonial which adds greater sanctity, and therefore greater chance of preservation, to these valuable specimens of handicraft in precious metals, ought to be encour- aged by antiquaries. When, therefore, it can so readily be proved, as I have just shown with regard to Derbyshire, how shameless has been the robbery of Church Plate in comparatively recent days, I cannot help hoping that such associations as ours will bring all the influence they may possess to bear upon our bishops to induce them to revert to so primitive and conservative a practice, and not to permit the use of any save consecrated plate at the altar, the plate being in some significant way stamped, if not more fully inscribed, after the completion of the ceremony. The Canons of Elfric, Archbishop of Canterbury, 995, order that :—‘‘ No person shall celebrate Mass in any other vessel save in the chalice that is blessed thereto.” The forms for the benediction of sacramental utensils are a principal part of all the ancient Pontificals. The Pontifical of Archbishop Egbert, cz7ca a. D. 740, gives this form for the hallowing of the chalice :— “*Let us pray, most beloved brethren, that our: God would hallow this chalice to be consecrated to the use of the ministry by the inspiration of celestial grace, and to human benediction apply the plentitude of divine favour, through Jesus Christ our Lord. **Vouchsafe, O Lord God, to bless + this chalice for the use of Thy ministry, formed by pious devotion, and to bedew it with that sanctification with which Thou didst bedew the sacred chalice of Melchisedec Thy servant, and may that, which by the art and nature of metal cannot be accomplished, through Thy benediction become worthy of Thy altars, precious and sanctified, through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Here let the bishop anoint the chalice and say :— ‘* Almighty God, indivisible Trinity, pour upon our hands the help of this benetdiction, that through our benediction this vessel may be sanctified, and by the Spirit of Thy Grace be made a new sepulchre of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.” This form, with one or two trifling verbal alterations, is to be found in all the known varieties of English Pontificals of different dates down to the Sarum Pontificals of the fifteenth century. It is a complete mistake to imagine that the consecration of sacramental vessels ceased with the Reformation. When one of the charges against Archbishop Laud was that in his chapel he ‘‘ consecrated plate,” that prelate replied that “in all ages of the Church, especially in Constantine’s time, there have been consecrations of sacred vessels as well as of churches themselves ;” and explained that he made use of the form drawn up by the saintly Bishop Andrewes. This form, first used by Bishop Andrewes when consecrating the 2 XXXIV REPORT. new plate of the cathedral church of Worcester, is to be found in his Minor Works, pp. 159—163. This form, in addition to the separate presentation and consecration of chalice, paten, and flagon, provides also for the consecra- tion of the altar candlesticks, and likewise for the censer for incense. Archbishop Sancroft consecrated the altar plate at Coleshill Church, War- wickshire, in 1685. The chalice belonging to the Communion Plate of the Parish Church of Stretham bears the following inscription :— ‘© Ecclesiz Parochiali de Stretham infra Insulam Eliensem Consecratum, A.D. 1686.” Francis Turner was at that time Bishop of Ely ; he afterwards became a Non-juror. When the form of consecration used by Archbishop Sancroft at Coleshill was published in 1703, Mr. Tisdale, the editor, prefaced it with a statement that it was after the fashion of like forms that ‘‘ had been generally used since the Reformation.” Archbishop Sancroft is also said to have con- secrated some Elizabethan plate for his private chapel at Fressingham after his deprivation, thus establishing a precedent for consecrating that which has been already some time in use. This plate is now in use at the Parish Church of Starston, Norfolk, and is inscribed ‘‘ Deo Servatori Sacrum.” Dr. Patrick, Bishop of Ely, when consecrating the chapel of St. Katherine’s Hall, Cambridge, in the year 1704, made use of the following prayer in con- secrating the Communion plate :— “‘Most Blessed Lord, accept, we beseech Thee, of the oblation we make unto Thee of these vessels, which we humbly dedicate to Thy Divine service at Thy Holy Table; and as we now wholly give them up to Thy use, in the ministration of Thy Holy Communion of Christ’s Body and Blood, so we pray Thee to receive them for Thine own ; preserve them from being any way pro- faned ; and being here set apart and consecrated by our office and ministry to Thy service, let them always continue to be so employed, through jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour. Amen.” The preservative influence of so solemn a prayer as this cannot, I think, be gainsayed. One of the most interesting specimens of English medieval plate is a silver-gilt cup, now preserved at Pembroke College, Cambridge, the gift, in 1497, of Langton, Bishop of Winchester. It is commonly styled the Anathema Cup, from the legend that it bears—‘‘ Qui alinaverit anathema sit.” May it not well be the case that this threatened curse is the cause of its present existence? And would not the sense of sacrilege be in a like manner deepened if a specific and inscribed act of consecration was used and marked on all our sacramental vessels? It is true that many of the clergy are in the habit of having, not only Church Plate, but altar linen, font ewers, or anything of a like nature that may be given to the Church, presented at the altar there to receive a special priestly benediction betokening the future separation of the articles so presented from any secular use ; but this is quite a different matter 4"; REPORT. XXXV to the solemn act of episcopal consecration of sacramental vessels which it is to be hoped may soon be again the rule, and not the exception. That well-known theologian, Dr. Forbes, the late Bishop of Brechin, was in the habit of thus consecrating, after the ancient forms, Church Plate and other matters pertain- ing to the altar; a portable altar slab that received consecration at his hands is now in use in this county. With this sentence I proposed to close this paper, but three days ago I received information that enables me to give a still more recent instance of episcopal consecration, or solemn dedication of Church Plate—an instance of peculiar interest to us of this Society, as our Right Reverend Vice-President, who has honoured us by occupying the chair to-day, dedicated a few months ago some altar vessels at Gailey Church, near Penkridge, according to the form of consecrating plate drawn up by Bishop Andrewes, with a few slight alterations. * Finally—not so much for the information of those parsons and wardens who have proved their interest in the matter by coming here to-day, but as a warn- ing to those officials who are responsible for the custody of Church Plate, but apparently think it a matter of but slight moment—I wish to state that, to the best of my belief, the sale, the exchange, or even the re-casting of Church Plate without a faculty is illegal. At the conclusion of Mr. Cox’s paper, the Bishop said—‘“ This was the first time since he came into the diocese that he had been able to attend a meeting not directly connected with Church matters; he was very glad to attend this meeting, because he thought the objects of the Society were as interesting and as profitable for their thoughts and leisure as they could possibly be. The study of nature was most elevating as being the reverent contemplation of the handiwork of the Great Creator. The study of archzeology was very instructive, combining the study of history and art; it acts as a very wholesome corrective to nineteenth century self-esteem. Comparing the exquisite architectural remains to be found in this country with modern attempts, we must confess that the palm is to be awarded to past generations. He yentured to believe that the present very strong utilitarian spirit was too much inclined to do away with the devotional spirit * ** The Order of Consecrating Plate for the Altar,” in Andrewes’ Mixor Works, Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology. In addition to the consecration of paten, chalice, and flagons, it provides forms for the consecrating of the altar candlesticks, and also for the censer for burning incense. XXXVI REPORT. of past ages when time and talents were ungrudgingly bestowed over their work. The exhibition of plate brought together by the Society was a very happy idea ; he felt strongly the importance of preserving these sacred vessels with the greatest care. The amount of real loss in past years from culpable carelessness could scarcely be over-estimated. For himself, he made it a rule never to consecrate a new church without having a complete inventory of everything belonging to it.” During the past year there have been ten. meetings of the Council, at which a fair proportion of the elected members of Council have attended with great regularity, and their deliberations have been aided by the same Vice-Presidents, who have always displayed so keen an interest in the work of the Society. The first expedition of the Society for the past year was held on Saturday, June the 2nd, to Steetley Chapel and Welbeck Abbey. The party, in number about one hundred and thirty, left Derby, at 9g a.m., in a special train provided for their use by the Midland Railway Company, and travelled, via Ambergate and Pye-Bridge, to Whitwell Station, where breaks from Mansfield were in readi- ness to drive to Steetley Chapel. Here the party was received by the Vicar of Whitwell, the Rev. G. E. Mason, who pointed out all the interesting features of this unique specimen of Norman architecture, and read the following paper on the “ History of Steetley ” :— The neighbouring village of Thorpe Salvin is said by some lovers of romance to be the celebrated Castle of Front de Boeuf. If that be so, I maintain that Steetley Chapel is the ruined shrine where the Black Knight enjoyed the hos- pitality of ‘*the holy clerk of Cotmanhurst.” Certainly when ‘‘the gentle and joyous passage of arms of Ashby-de-la-Zouch ” took place, this chapel had been standing nigh a hundred years. For it was probably built by Gley de Breton, when Stephen was on the royal throne of Westminster, and seated Roger de Clinton, 33rd successor of S. Chad, on the episcopal throne of Coventry. It was the hand of a Clinton that first blest this altar and these walls, and now, when seven centuries have rolled away, it is under the noble patronage of a Clinton that this altar and these walls have been restored. Steetley Chapel, then, is older than Welbeck Abbey. Gley de Breton built it, perhaps for his own convenience as a private chapel to stand near his house ; and no doubt Parson Hugh or Parson Walter used sometimes to walk down REPORT. XXXVil here from Whitwell early in the morning to say mass for the benefit of Gley, with his four sons and their sister, Matilda, and the Gurths and Wambas of his day. These four young men, if they married, left no children, and Matilda, becoming heiress, brought the property by marriage to the Vavasours, who held it till the year 1360. Thenceforward, and all through the Reforma- tion period, it was held by the Frechevilles. From them it passed to the Wentworths, to the Howards, and tothe Pelham Clintons. Although for some 200 years this building remained as a ‘‘ capella” in Whitwell parish, yet in the 14th century, while Roger Northburgh and Robert Stretton were Bishops of Lichfield, nine separate institutions are known to have been made, and the priest is called ‘‘ Rector of Steetley Church.” This brief inde- pendence of 40 years lapsed as mysteriously as it arose, and Steetley Chapel serves now once more the purpose for which Gley de Breton built it. The chapel is 56 feet long. It is divided into three parts—a nave, a chancel, and an apse (a parallelogram, a square, and a semicircle). The nave is 15 feet 9 inches broad, and the chancel measures 13 feet 9 inches across. Mr. J. C. Cox (whose name needs no comment) has pronounced Steetley Chapel to be “the most perfect and elaborate specimen of Norman architecture to be found anywhere in Europe.” The chief features of interest are the porch, the chancel, and the apse. Observe the porch. It is composed of a triple arch resting on three pillars. | The inmost member of the arch is plain, the second and third are ornamented with the beak head and with the zig-zag design. On the pillars the sculptor has lavished his art. The inmost one is simply moulded ; the next is very rich with deeply-cut interlacing foliage, and on the capital are two fish ; the third is ornamented with picturesque medallions, and on the capital is a syren or mermaid. It is not extravagantly fanciful to suppose that these three pillars represent the works of Creation, three steps in the progress of life. The inmost is inanimate ; the second displays the wealth of vegetable growth; the third the activity of animal life—the sea monster ; the wild beast, the lamb of the flock, the man ; and the flying eagle—that is, things ‘‘in heaven above, in the earth beneath, and in the water under the earth.” This idea is visible on both sides of the porch. There is no doubt a further meaning in the medallions. Thus, on the left side, is plainly seen the Good Shepherd delivering the lamb out of the paw of a bear, on the right the figure of the pelican in her piety. Two new pillars have been added by Mr. Pearson on the old basement discovered. The carved stones lying on the grass may have originally belonged to the porch. They were found blocking up the lower of the two west windows. Outside the porch, right across the entrance, was found yonder priest’s tombstone, and beneath the stone a skull. On the stone is carved an altar with three legs, and on the altar a chalice and paten, and hand extended in blessing. At the head and foot is a sort of cross inacircle. There are two other stones—one plain, the other with a cross XXXVIil REPORT. rudely scratched on it. Perhaps that unearthed skull beneath the carved stone was part of the skeleton of Lawrence le Leche, who was instituted to Steetley the year before the great plagne of 1349, during which 77 priests in Derbyshire died, and 22 resigned. It is not difficult to imagine him, like Mr. Mompesson, at Eyam, in 1666, refusing to quit his post, comforting the sick and dying, or restoring them to health by that medical skill which had earned for him the title of ‘‘le leche.” Then, after seven years’ service he died, and, in the humility of his self-devotion, chose, like St. Swithin, at Winchester, to be buried before the porch, so that the people whom he had so faithfully served during his life might tread upon his bones as they passed within to pray. Dying, he left no name, no epitaph on his tomb, only a hand, eternally to bless. It was a happy omen to find, when we began to restore, a holy hand that blessed us from the grave. To these ancient graves are now added new ones ; a few little children, and two old men who made their first and last Communion here before they died. The chancel arch forms a kind of frame, through which the second arch and the lovely apse are seen. It gives an effect of solemn depth and rich beauty. The arch is triple. The inmost design is the zig-zag, the next the battlement, and the third is ‘‘an escalloped border over reticulated cones.” The two pillars on the north side are richly carved, one with a double-bodied lion, the other with a St. George and the Dragon. The winged dragon, his long sweeping tail curled round the next capital and terminating in foliage, tramples on a prostrate lady. The warrior, in a complete suit of armour, strides to the rescue. His left hand thrusts a kite-shaped shield against the monster’s mouth, and his right hand, grasping a long broadsword, is stretched out behind him to deal a death-blow. The chancel is paved with stone, as it was anciently. The aumbrey in the north wall contains a specimen of the stone tiles with which the chapel was once roofed. An old copper key, a piece of wrought iron, and a silver penny of the reign of Richard II. are the only other things found here. In Lysons’ Afagna Britannia (vol. v., pp. ccxxii-iii.) are shown two doors opposite each other in the chancel, evidently cut for the convenience of the pigs or sheep that once lived inside. The decorated window in the south side is the only feature later than the Norman period. The apse has a stone vaulted roof, supported by four ribs resting on engaged pillars. In the centre, where the ribs meet, immediately over the altar, is a medallion containing the ‘‘ Lamb as it had been slain.” The capitals of the pillars are elaborately carved. On the left is represented the tree of know- ledge, loaded with fruit. Round it curls the serpent, and on either side stand Adam and Eve ; an emblem of temptation and defeat, On the right are seen two doves ; a symbol of peace after resisted temptation. The two together suggest and teach the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove. Some remains of the colour can still be seen on the capital of the south pillar —— +e * w REPORT. XXXI1X of the arch. It would be a thousand pities to touch the carving with modern paint. It is painted with the inimitable art and colour of the great master, Time. But the chapel needs colour and enrichment. And if the spaces between the ribs were tastefully decorated, the stone carving would appear to greater advantage. One word to suggest a scheme. Behind the altar isa reredos, representing the Crucifixion ; in the central window, the Ascension ; in the central space of the roof, Christ in Majesty, surrounded by the four living Creatures, the Angels, and the Saints after whom the chapel is named. Between the arch and the ribs of the roof is a semi-circle, which surrounds and frames the vaulted roof. This is the ‘‘rainbow round about the throne in sight like unto an emerald,” and it is composed of created things. In the summit the ranks of the angels, then the sun, moon, and stars, the clouds, lightnings, and storms, then the birds, then the beasts, the trees, the flowers, the water, and the fish. It only remains for me to call your attention to the grotesque heads that surround the Chapel immediately beneath the roofs, and also to the very beautiful string course of carved foliage that girdles the apse immediately below the three exquisite little narrow windows. The Chapel has not been re-consecrated. It was reconciled by the prerent Lord Bishop of Lichfield on the 2nd of November, 1880. As we moved in procession round the outside, we intoned the same psalm which was used by Bishop Hackett when he reconciled Lichfield Cathedral after its desecration by the Puritans. If the spirits of the departed are able to understand what their descendants do on earth, then I think that Gley de Breton, and Matilda de Vavasour, and William de Mykall, and Anker Frecheville, and John de Bristowe, and Has- cuil Musard, must rejoice to see the little shrine they loved saved from dese- cration and decay, filled with youug men and maidens, old men and children, praising the name of the Lord, and professing the same creed, in the faith of which they lived and died. The party drove on to Welbeck Abbey, and, by special per- mission of the Duke of Portland, lunched in the riding school, after which they were conducted, in sections, over the gardens, stables; and cow-sheds, the glass gallop, the underground rooms and corridors, the rosery, kitchens, and Gothic hall. Tea having been taken-in the riding school, the return journey was made through the park, past the “ Greendale Oak,” and through the Duke of Portland’s private drives, past ‘‘ Robin Hood’s Larder Oak,” and the water meadows, to Mansfield, whence the special train conveyed the party back to Derby. The second expedition of the Society was held on the 4th of xl REPORT. August, to Youlgreave and Arbor Low. The party left Derby at 10.23 a.m. in special saloon carriages attached to the train for Rowsley. Brakes were waiting at the station, and the party was driven to Youlgreave Church. The Vicar of Youlgreave was unavoidably prevented from receiving the party, and his place was supplied by the Rev. J. Charles Cox, who pointed out the various features of interest in the church, calling special attention to the unique font, beautiful monuments, and general careful restoration of the fabric. ; Luncheon was taken at the George Hotel, after which the party drove to the stone circle of Arbor Low. Here the Rey. J. Charles Cox read a paper upon ‘“‘ Stone Circles,” generally, with special reference to that of Arbor Low; this paper appears in another part of the volume. The return journey was made, via Middleton, to Rowsley Station, in time for the 5.11 p.m. train to Derby. Early in the past year your Council was informed of the probable demolition of the 17th century brick-house in S. Peter’s Churchyard, and at once communicated with the Mayor and Corporation, asking if nothing could be done to preserve so interesting a specimen of domestic architecture. The answer (if such it can be called) was a newspaper slip announcing the date of the sale by auction of the site upon which the old house was standing ! This circumstance is mentioned to you in order to show how little sympathy is to be looked for from utilitarian bodies, and to impress upon each individual member of our Society the impor- tance of keeping a look out upon, and doing all they can to preserve from destruction, the interesting relics of the past, which are so rapidly disappearing from amongst us. Your Council is thankful to be able to add that the site in S. Peter’s Churchyard was purchased by a member of our Society, and as a happy result the old house, minus only a chimney stack, is still an ornament to the town. Your Council has also been instrumental in causing the erection, in the grounds of the Free Library, of portions of the old v —_— a REPORT. xli S. Alkmund’s Cross, which were lying uncared for on the premises of the Museum. It is with keen regret that we mention the fact that the old Guest House at Dale Abbey has been pulled down during the past year, and we cannot help feeling that there were members of the Society residing in the neighbourhood who might have notified to the Council-the intended demolition before it was actually accom- plished. It is impossible for the Vigilance Committee to do its work thoroughly without help from members in their own neigh- bourhoods. The Society will be glad to learn that the Vicarand Churchwardens of All Saints have consented to the erection of the wooden effigy in front of the Chambers’ monument in the north aisle of All Saints’ Church. On the strength of this permission, your Council decided to authorise certain proposed restorations of the effigy ; these are now all but completed, and it is expected that the effigy will be erected on the proposed site before Easter. The effigy will, with your permission, be previously exhibited in London before the Society of Antiquaries. In April last it was notified to your Council that it was intended to build a new school at Repton upon the ground occupying the site of the old Priory Church. The Council at once communicated with every member of the Governing Body of Repton, giving them a lithographed plan (drawn by Mr. St. John Hope, F.S.A.) of the probable position of different parts of the Priory, and expressing a hope that the new buildings might be erected so as not to conceal the traces of the old church. By permission of the Head Master of Repton, Mr. St. John Hope made some experimental excavations on the site, and laid bare portions of the nave and choir piers, leaving no room for doubt that further excavations would produce valuable results. The Governing Body having appointed Mr. Bloomfield as their architect for the new buildings, this gentleman consented to meet, at Repton, a sub-committee selected by your Council. The Council also voted £20 from the funds of the Society towards xiii REPORT. further excavation. The details of what has resulted are put before you in the paper about to be read to you. Your Council has sent an invitation, in the name of the Society, to the Royal Archzeological Institute, to make Derby the headquarters of their annual meeting in 1885 ; this invitation has been accepted, and it is hoped that a very successful gathering may be held. So many complaints have been made as to the very imperfect indexing of the Society’s Journal, that it has been decided to issue a new and correct index for the five volumes already published, and to maintain an index of equal completeness for the future. The proposed volume upon the Church Plate of Derbyshire is being prepared. ‘The delay is entirely owing to the returns asked for not being sent in by the clergy or wardens. About one-half of the returns are now to hand, and it is hoped to obtain the remainder before the end of the current year. It is still open to any member of the Society to help in the collection of these returns ; any offer of such help will be gratefully accepted The Library of the Society increases in bulk and value. We have lately received a very handsome addition in the shape of a volume by one of our members, Mr. John Sleigh, ‘‘ The History of the Parish of Leek.” We now exchange publications with the following Societies :— The Royal Archeological Institute. The British Archeological Association. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. The Sussex Archzeological Society. The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archzeological Society. The Norfolk and Norwich Archeeological Society. The Somersetshire Archzeological and Natural History Society. The’Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archeo- logical Society. The Cambridge Antiquarian Society. The Kent Archzological Society. The Surrey Archeological Society. REPORT. xliii The William Salt Archeological Society. The Essex Field Club. We have this year to regret the death of two of our Vice-Presi- dents, Lord Vernon, and Lord Howard of Glossop ; no fewer than twenty ordinary members have been removed by death or other causes. We still, however, continue to increase in number. The accompanying balance-sheet is satisfactory, and the Council can congratulate members upon the result of the Society’s sixth year of proceedings. ARTHUR COX, Mill Hill, Derby, Hon. Sec. January 22nd, 1884. 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Esq., of Newhall- | Thomas in-Staplehill, Co. | Rolleston, Derb. Of Norl thony Cour 2. hy, d. Sir An-=Sir John Port, of Etwall Fitzherbert, of | Hall, Co. Derb., Knt., ry, Justice Justice Court King’s Bench ; vir 2. Queen’s bench. | Sir Nicholas Longford, of=Elizabeth, d. Ralph Longford ; living a” Di | Okeover,of Okeover, 1575, 0.5. p. 1610. Go. Stati 3 uxt. | ae | — a Humphry Dethick, Esq.,= Elizabeth Longford, of Newhall ; ob.9 Dec., | 2nd d. and co-h., 42° Elize. | living 42° Elizee. Other issue. : ea De | ir George Vernon,=Mawde Longford,=Sir Francis Has- Ma f Haddon, |“ King 2nd d. and co-h. tings, of Cadbury, ard oe if ye Peake,” ob. 31 | (2ndux.Sir George | Co. Somerset. innupta. Aug., 1565. V Vernon. ) ; =a r | | Katharine Dethick, d. =Alexan | y i i i sir Filli ick, resi her Francis Dethick, Katherine, d. Sir Thomas William Dethick,resigned Anot 1 of Newhall, Esq. ; | Gresley, of Drakelow, Co. living of Hartshorne, Co. son, ob. and ev. h., ae ae at | Cc 0.5, Ps Staff. ; supstes, a widow, Derb., 16243 ob. 31 vivo her father’s death. | : : 42° Blizz. May, 1626. patre. V | , Sarah Redishe, 2nd d. and co-h., livi (Burke says, “ Sarah, d. and co-h. A. co-h. Sir Robt. Langley, of Agecroft, ‘z Grace Redishe, e, d.=Sir Robert Darcy, of Dartford, and co-h, ; living 15° | Co. Kent, Knt. ; dead 15° Jac. 1 | Jacma. 1636. | | ’ ; Charles Darcy, Margaret Darcy, =Sir Samuel Sleigh, M.P. Co. Derb. D 2 by d. and | 3rd dau- ghter. u| 2nd dau- ghter. er Redishe, of Redishe, - Pal., Lanc., Esq. ir Edward Coke (Chief Justice of= Bridgett, d. and co-h. John aed of Longford, Co, Derb. | Paston, of Paston, Cuter | be 20° Jac. 1.=Clement Coke, 6th and youngest son ; ob. 1629, sep. in Temple Church. ‘0. Lac.”) | el Sir Edward Coke,=Katharine, d. Robert. iDfabersnval Darcy, = Elizabeth, d. > eC. 25 s,andh., 15° | Philip, Earl 15° Jac. I. ob. 1647, cet. 34, fie Ashe and Etwall Hall, Co. Derb. ; n. of Longford,s and | and c-h. Sir Bridgett. Jac. I. oT G@herter ux. 2. | 1603, ob. 1679. h,; created 30Dec., | Wm. Dyer, of Agnes. ‘ field. | 1641, a Bart., ob. | Great Hough- 7 = 1669. (melon 5 (Cie, | - I. 2. | 1672. Hunts., Knt.; Samuel Sleigh, = Barbara, d. Archi-=John Morewood, Edward Sleigh, Margaret Sleigh,=Janjes Chetham, of Other ob; 6) Dec. of Graye’s Inne, | bald Palmer, of | of Alfreton, of Graye’s Inne, e. d. and ult. co-h.; | Tuiton Tower, Co. issue ; 1688. Esq. ; 0. s. p. | Wanlip, Co, | Sheriff Co.Derb. bar.-at-law; n. n. 1645, ob. 1709. | Lane., Sheriff of o.s.p. - 1675, cet. 37. Leicester, Esq. 1677. 1640, 0.S.p. Detbyshire 1693 ; n. (641, ob. 1697. 1714. ] | | | a | | Samuel Chetham,=Mary, 6th d.and George Humphry Chet- James Chet-=Frances, enry Gervase Abigail, Judith, of Castleton, e. s. { co-h. James Holt, \ Chetham, ham, of Turton ham, D.D.,|d...... hetham, Chet- n. 1674, n.1686, andh,, SheriffCo, | of Castleton, co. of Darcy and Castleton; WVicarEtwall, | W in - erjeant- ham, n._ ob. virgo ob. Lanc. 1738; n.|Lanc., Esq.; ob. Lever;n. n. 1680, sep. in Canon and | stanley; t-law; 1684, 1714. virgo 1675-6, 0. s. p. et 1749. 1678, ob. Chetham Cha- Chancellor md. 1683, 0. s. p. .Marga- 1710. intest’ 1744-5. coelebs, pel, Manchester Lichfield; n. | Eccles. ep. Prest- 1718. ret, ob. 1709. Cathedral, 17 1681, 0. s. p. wich, inf, 1678. July, 1749. 1740. V 1712 a Elizabeth Darcy, = William Barnes, Katharine Darcy, =Sir Erasmus Ane Darcy, d. and=Thomas Millward, of Stanton _....... Darcy, = Sir William e. d, and co-h, Ones , Esq. living 1712, ux. 2. | Philipps, of co-h. (deaf and dumb.) Wood, Co, Derb., Esq. d. and co-h., | Rokesby, of a Picton living 1712. | Skiers, Co. William B di Sets Co: ee Ebor, Bart. a darnes, = Elizabeth; sole d. William Pemb. ; ob. Elizabeth Millward, = Sir Hugh Clopton. Offohene ; sq. | Greaves, of Derby, Gent. 1696. s. d. andh, | ne a e M | Philip Barnes, of ...... (a =e a | | Esq. ; 0. s. p. 25 Dec., Sir Robert Coke, 2nd Bart.,=Sarah, d. and co-h. ...... Katharine =Cornelius Clarke, Sir Edward Coke, of Long- Theophila,=...... Bullock, Anne, 1767. M.P. Co. Derb., 1° Jac. 2; | Barker, of Albiighlee, Coke, ult. | of Norton, Co, ford, 3rd Bart ; ob. celebs, ult. co-h. [(obrecs Esq. 0... 0. s. p. Jan. 7, 1687. Co. Salop, Esq. co-h, Derb., Esq. ; 0.s.p. 1696, Buxton, 25 Aug., 1727. DERBYSHIRE The Earliest Existing Regtster-Book of S. Helews Chureh, Darley Dale, Derbyshire. COMMUNICATED BY JOHN SLEIGH, J.P. | “a\EXT to Youlgreave, the Darley registers are the most W interesting I have as yet tackled in North Derbyshire ; and such excerpts as are here presented may stimulate further research. Possibly, the account of the great snow might, by the aid of chemicals, be made decipherable. Most, if not every one, of the names of the earlier landowners and gentry have long since, “like the idle vapour of a dream,” faded out of the neighbourhood—the Baches, Beresfords, Birds, Colum- bells, Darleys, Fernes,* Foljambes, Greaves, Greensmiths, Knive- tons, Marburys, Millwards, Mowers, Seniors and Steares. Bassano tells us that Robt. Millward, of Snitterton (n. 1597 ; q: ob. 1622 ?), ‘* fought a single combat in Spain with a Spaniard. * Henry Ferne, of Snitterton (ob, 1703), was receiver-general of customs t’ W. 3. & Anne. VOL. 6. 3 2 DARLEY DALE REGISTERS. He and his adversary were first to fight with quarter-staff, in which he was wounded. They then betook them to sword and dagger. The Spaniard hereby soon lost the use of his left arm and afterwards his life.” There is a curious proviso in the will of Peter Columbell, dated 20. Oct : 1616*—that if his brothers or sisters shall find his hope- ful son Roger “ takeinge of tobaccoe,” he is forthwith to forfeit his howseholde-goodes at Darley. The families, some of them still in our midst, of most frequent occurrence in the earlier entries are—Allen, Allsoppe, Barker, Bradwell, Britland, Bullock, Clay, Derbyshire, Ferne, Flint, Gregory, Knowles, Nedham, Pidcocke, Ragge, Shore, Silkstone, Soresby, Sterndale, Stephenson, Taylor, Tissington, Vygors, or Vickers, Wall, Waterhouse vel Walters, Wildgoose (abbreviated, as we shall presently see, into the euphonious Goose), Wilmot, and Woodiwisse. REcTORS OF DARLEY— Robert Dawe, parson of Darley, 1615. Robert Evans, parson of North Medietie, ob. 1639 James Holland, rector of S. Medietie, ob. 1644. Charles Broxholme, rector of South Medietie, ob. 1648. John Potts, rector of North Medietie, (resigned ?) 1663. Edward Payne, minister of South-mediety, ob. 1665. Thomas Moseley, rector of North-mediety, ob. 1685. John Edwards, rector of Darley, ob. 1689. Henry Aldrich, rector, ob. 1720. John Garmston, M.A., formerly fellow of Magd: Coll: Camb: rector of Darley and Prebendary of Wolverhampton, ob. 1744. Thomas Savage, M.A., rector of Darleigh, and formerly fellow of New Coll, Oxon, ob. 1764. Sir William Ullithorne Wray, 11th bart: rector, 1764-1808. Benjamin Lawrence, M.A. rector 1808-1838. * 1616 was the year of Shakspeare’s death; as also of the erection of the exceptionally large number of ¢we/ve sedilia in Darley Church. DARLEY DALE REGISTERS. 3 Richard Lee, M A. rector 1838-1847. Daniel Vawdrey, M.A. rector 1847-1881—and formerly fellow of Brasenose-coll : Oxon. Frederic Atkinson, M.A. Trin-coll., Camb: rector 1881, formerly Rural Dean of Ockbrook. “A copie of the Register-booke of the parish of Darley of all the Christnings, Weddings and Burialls which can be had these yeares ensuinge. And first of Christnings. Written [in a very _ clerkly hand] by mee, John Cantrel (curate and), schoolemaster at Darley, a* D‘ 1630.” The first entry is “a° D' 1541. Richard Williamot and Luce Williamot were maried this yeare.” a* D' 1551. The Swete was this yeare. The great snowe......... begun in Christmas 15... ..... untill the Spring... 1676, A great ffrost which Began at Martinmas, was continued till Jan’ 3. 1677. Derwent was accordingly (?) ffrozen, and att y° dissolving of the ffrost was a great fflood, and incredible quantity of Ice were brought out of the water-bankes into tollerable (?) inclosed’ grounds, and up to the Church-yard steps. Thos. Moseley, Rect’. 1705. a very dry summer. 1706. ffrom y° begining of Sep: to 8. Feb. 1707, was a very wet winter. BAPTISMS. 1569, Francis Collumbell was baptised this yeare. 1570, James Badyley ” 1576, Apl. 27. Richard, son John Battegent. 1580, 13. Johns. Henarie Westwood. ae puly’ 3. William Kniveton, gen: had a sonne bp: 1581, Jany. 25. John, y° sonne of John Potte, gen: 1582, Feb. 21. John, s. M‘ John Malderon, vel Maleram. 1587, Feb. 12. Richard, s. William Sherborrie. » Mch: 30. Elizabeth, d. Ottewell Williamot. 4 1588, Apl. 25. 1593, June 13. 1598, Nov: 20. 1599, Feb. 24. 1610, Feb: 11. 1612, Mch: 8. 1613, July 21. 1615, Mch: 1. 1616, Dee? 15. 1617, May 24. Se Deez: 1618, Aprel 25. TOMO WED ecn ene 1627, Jany. 9. 1629, Feb. 15. =, 4 eee Soi memncr. 1631, June 12. 1634, Feb. g. 1636, Jany. I. 1637, April 2. 1638, Jany 14. 1639, Aug. II. 1640, Apl. 17. 1642, May 25. 1646, June 12. 1647, July 18. Be PN SAee Plc 1648, Oct 3. ” ” 9. 1649, Jany. 17. 1649. Jany. 30. 1651, Augt. 26. DARLEY DALE REGISTERS. John Hollilie had a sonne bp: named Arthur. Robert, s. M’ Sleeman. Roger, s. Roger Hursthouse. M’ Parker had a sonne bp: Hector Typpinge. Dorithy, d. Godfrey Lingard. Ellyce, s. Ellice Whewhall. Elizabeth, d. Robert Dawe, parson of Darley. John, s. M* John Shoare. Mary, d. George Spendlove. Jane, d. M" Robert Evans, parson of Darliye. Jane, d. Ottewell Beeleigh. Rosemand, d. M‘ Roger Collombell, esquier. Mr’ John, y* sonne of Roger Columbell, esquier. William, s. Henry Silkstone. Elizabeth, d Edward Sorsbie. Catharine, d. ffrancis Allsoppe. Elizabeth, d. George Profit. ffrances, d. John Millwarde, esquier. Anne, d. Anthony Renshawe. Abraham, s. John Sheldon. Anne, d. Henry Corbet, of Harowden, Northants. ffrances, d. Anthonie Tissington. Marie, d. George Winterbothome. Isaac, s. Richard Burgesse. John, s. James Chadwicke, of Todhole. Walburge, d. John Pott, rector of y® North Medeity. Collumbell, s. M’ Francis Grantham, of Darley- hall. John, s. M* Edward Payne, rector of South- Medeity. John, s. Katharin Aston, a Staffordshire woman Hellen, d. Ellis Longley, of Rowsley. Henery, s. John Milward, esq: George, s. M* George Cartwright, of Stancliffe. See aikis 1651, 1654, 1659, 1660, 1662, 1665, 1668, 1673, Jany. 30. 1674, 1678, 1687, ” 1698, 1707, 1714, 1720, 1541, 1549, 1558, 1569, 1578, 1579 1592, 1598, ” 1599, 1614, 1615, ” Nov: 12. Sep. 12): Decry. Feb: 26. May 29. Aug : 4. Dies 1S}, July 26. Jany. 20. Jany. 27. Oct. 22. Feb. 7: May 18. July 6. Jany. 14. DARLEY DALE REGISTERS. 5 Dorothy, d. John Ashborne, of Rowsley. Francis, s. Sir William Boothby, bart : Edward, s. Anne Shackerlie. Anne, d. M* John Stevenson, of Rousley. William, s. William Sappox. John, s. Robert Sidwell. William, s. Abraham Woodiwisse. Anne, d. M' Thomas Mosselie, rector North- Medeity. : John, s. Edward Walklate. John, s. Joseph Mutthill. Margery, d. Wensly Bestall, of Wensly. Edward, s. M' Edward Bedford. Henslow-Fotherley-Fortunatus. s. Henry William- son, esq: Silence, d. Geo : Willimot, i’th’ Lane. John, s. Edmund Leicester. Joseph, s. George Longley. MARRIAGES. Henrie Stafforth & Joane Newton were married this yeare. John Senior & Agnes Proudlove. Richard Wildgoose & Luxa Winfield. Nov. 5. Sep. 8. Nov. 12. Feb. 4. Augt. 6. May 2. June 6. Sep. 28. Nov: 6. Nov. 22. Jany. 9 Apl. 21. Richard Pendleton & Cicilie Ballidon. Thomas Barker & Marie Heathcoate. William Bagshawe & Lure Ratcliffe. M* John Walderome & M™ Rosamond Collum- bell. Robert Milnes & Joane Lowe. M’ Henrie Chaworth & M*® Dorothie Collumbell, Thomas Tidderington & ffrances Potte. Christopher Goodenough & Grace Applebie. Thomas Rushton & Tabitha Senior. Ralfe Alexander & Bennet Bradlie. M* George Collombell & M® Wallbrydge Pott. Thomas Parke & Mary Stamforde. Aug 31. Feb. 18. Dec. Fz. June 25. Jany. 27. June 18. Apl. 7. Aug. 19. Maye Ir. at. PL Nov. 15. July 3. Oct. 30. Decax. Sep. 28. Jany. 28. Nov. 25. Feb. 2. Aug. 31. Feb. 6. Feb. 14. Apl. 4. Nov. 5. Jany. 27. DARLEY DALE REGISTERS. Jhonne Buxtonne, of Brassongtonne, & Bridget Senior. John Sellars & Cicile ffoole. Bryante Berisford, parson of (q. Bothomsall ?) in Lincolnshire, & M® ffrances Collomble. Christopher Cotton & Anne Wilde. Giles Cowley & Joan Richardes. John Ashbourne & Dorothey Stevenson. Hemor Champney & Anne Allen. Mr" George Greysone & M* Alice Milnes. John Baddesley & Eliz Beardsley. George Buxton & Katharine Oldfield. Luke Whittington & M** Marg* Milnes. gen : Anthonie Tissington & Marie Gamble. John Somerseell & Dorothie Gibson Henrie Silkeston & ffrances ffu!lwood. George Columbell & Anne Gladwin. ffrancis Dawes & Judith Boothbie. Richard Benbow and Dorothie Supper. Richard Wildgoose & Bersheba Watson. Ottiwell Beely, of Sniterton, & Susanns Holme. Henry Burgh & Mary Newton, widow. John Wolley, of Matlock, & Katherin Raynes, of Wendsley. John Bowyer, of Knipersley, co. Staff: esq: & M*™ Mary Milward. John Beresford, gen : & Jana Bennet. John Millward, gentleman, the sonne of John Millward, of Snitterton, esq: in y°® parish of Darley & county of Darby, & M® ffrances Sneyde, y® daughter of Raph Sneyde, esq: deceased, in y* parish of Woodstanton, in y® co. of Stafford, were published three severall Lords-dayes at the close of y* morning Exercise, and y°® marriage was solemnized ; &c. Feb, 3. Sep. 16. Oct. 4. Feb. 20. June 23. Nov. 12. Jany. 17. Feb. 16. July 28. April 24. Jany. 22. May 16. Feb. 1. Sep. I. May 17. Dec. 6. Nov. 27. Dec. 28. Peb.. 25. DARLEY DALE REGISTERS. 7 M' Josiah Stubbs, of Bloare ? co. Staff: & Mary Benite, of Darley. M* Humfrye Jennens, of Brimingham, & Mary, d. John Millward, of Snitterton, esq : Robert Constable, of North-cliffe, co. York, Esq: & Eliz", d. John Milward, of Snitterton, esq : M* John Steere, of Stancliffe, & M*® Elizabeth Hides, of Cowley. M' William Bache, of Stanton, & M® ffraincis Senior, of Cowley. Francis Swindel & Anne Shakerley. George Willimot & Isabel Rimington. Benjamin Heathcote, of Chesterfield, & Mary Bestall. William ffranklin & Dorothy Taylor. M* ffrancis ffolmbige-bache, & M™ Mary Potte. M* George Birds, of Stanton-hall, & M® Brighet ffox, of Youlgrave. Adam Woolley, of Allen-hill, & Millisent, d. M* Henery Wiggley, of Cromfort. W" Grantham, of Darby, and M™ Anne Adderly, of Chesterfield. John Ford, of Leeke, & Hellen, d. Thos: Statham, of Stantcliffe. M* John Berisford & M* Cath® Reynes. Gilbert Thacker, of Etwall, esq: & M® Elizt® Marbury, of Darley. M* John Greaves, of y* Woodhouse, & M™ Annie Bird, of Stanton-hall. _ Edward ffinnie, esq: & M® Anne Senior, of Cowley. M’ Joseph Butler, of Sheafield, apoticary, & Sara, d. M* Peter Barker, of Darley. Henry Nightingale, of Morton, & Sarah Had- field. 1707, May 5. 1713, Mch. 16. 1714, Jany. 6. 1716, Mch: 16. 1724, Augt. 13. 1726, July 18. 1751, Feb. 6. DARLEY DALE REGISTERS. John Grenoway, of Tilass, Berks, & Marg* Draper, of Sullam, Berks. Ralph Gell, of Carsington, & Eliz" Worthy, of Slalie. John Revell, of Morton, & Mary Ryley, of Pentrich. W™ Fallows, of Alderley, & Frances Bateman, of Yolgreave. William Milnes, of Hope, & Mary Bagshawe, of Chesterfield. Thomas Beresford, of Allstonfield, & Jane Tipping, of Darley. Thomas Hall & Mary Goose. BuRIALS. 1551, Nine persons were buried from the 5th of Julye till the roth, which dyed of y* sweatinge sicknenes. 1557, Agnes Buxton dyed of y* plague & was buried the tst March. 1558, Alice Stafford (and 5 others) dyed of y° plague & was buried 1559, Feb. 3. ” Pl 12. 1560, ThO2. Deca. 1581, May 25. 1589, July 14. 1590, March 14. 1593, April 2. 1594, April 5. ” 7 14. r6r2,, Oct..1. 1616, Dec. 15. 1623, Nov. 18. 14th April. Elizabeth Pendleton was buried. Agnes Ballidon was buried. Elizabeth Ballidon was buried in January. John Rowsley had a child buried. Richard Needham, gen: buried. James Plato was buried. M’ Holland buried. Hugh Brough. Mr’ Vavesour. Old Ottewell Williamot had a sonne b* William Carlell, a strange beggar. John, sonne of John Warde— petrified with cold on y® moore. Joan, da M" Robt Evans, parson of Darley. 1624, Jany. 25. 1631, Feb. 3- 1634, June 18. 1639, Mch: 31. 1642, June 6. 1644, Apl. 2. ee ne-20- 1640, we paly sr. Feb. 23. Deex7: Jany. 15. may Dep. E32. Feb 23. May 4. Sep. 11. May 28. Dec. 7: June 11. Hec.g. June 20. Oct. 4. Apl. ro. DARLEY DALE REGISTERS. 9 Richard, sonne Godfrey Baall. Ould Catharaine was buryed. William Norman. Mr’ Robt Evans, parson of the North Medietie of Darleigh, dyed 15th Nov: sep: 23° John Supper. Widdow Cheethome. M® Walburge Columbell, of Stancliffe, widdow. M’ James Holland, rector of South-medietie, eet. 69. Margery, wife of Adam Marshall, from Rowsley- hall. Richard Bendbow, of Hackney-lane. Collumbell, s. M' Fs: Grantham, of Hackney- lane. Charles Broxholme (?) rector South-Medietie, zet. 56. A male child of Robert Gregory, of ffrogatt ; drowned, brought downe the River in the fflood. James, s. Edmund Tatersall, a straunger. Ottiwell Arnfeild, a slater. ffrances, da. of col: John Millward, of Snitter- ton ; by Anne, ux ejus, da. James Whitehalgh, of Whitehalgh, y* wife of Sir William Boothby, baronet, buried the 11th, aged 21. Damorish, da. W™ Buxton, b* at Darby. Edward Shackerlie. Walburge, d. M* John Potte, rector of y* North- medietie. Robert Dum, of Toadhole. M* Edward Paine, minister of the South- medietie. M* John Milward, of Snitterton, Chaptaine (captain). Thomas Ironfeild. Aug. 19. Feb. 5. May 8. Sep, 12. May 30. June 17. Nov. 9. Aug. 24. Oct. 4. Mch. 2t. Feb. 14. DARLEY DALE REGISTERS. A maide from Sniterton Hall. Roger Ball, killed in a grove (mzne). Philippe Barnes, of Brigtowne—was huntsman to Jo. Earle of Rutland. A son of one Abill, a stranger and by trade a tinker. Anne, d. Samuel Giles, a stranger y' came out of Staffordshire. M® Frances Chadderton, of Doncaster, and da. M’ Godfry Columbell. Katherine Harper. M® Catherine Harpur, of Bridge-town. M'* Mary Harpur. M*® Mary Langford, from Leek, Staffsh : Thos: Cheyney Savage. II Charles Balquy, AVD. (1708-1767.) By S. O. Appy, M.A. all too brief as they are, respecting the life of a man of letters and a physician of eminence whose name has been almost forgotten. Though his later years were spent, and the work of his life was done, in another county, he was the son of a Derbyshire country gentleman, whose family had long been settled in the Peak. Two centuries ago, and later, the Balguys were possessed of large estates in Derbyshire. For several generations they seem to have been engaged in the pro- fession and practice of law, and in adding one estate to another.* Thomas Balguy was Recorder of Stamford, and member of Parliament for that city from 1597 to 1600. His son John Balguy, who in 1634 is described as ‘‘ cousin” to William Earl of Exeter,{ occupied his father’s place as Recorder. From the Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire branch of the family was descended Thomas Balguy, elected Master of the Sheffield Grammar School in 1662. John Balguy was Recorder of Derby and a Judge on the Welsh circuit. Nicholas Balguy, of Magdalen College, Oxford, was Master of the Temple. *See Yorkshire Diaries (Surtees Society), and the Register of Admissions at Gray’s Inn, now in course of publication in the Collectanea Genealogica. At the present day, in Derbyshire, when a question hard to be answered 1s proposed, the reply often is, ‘‘That beats Balzuy.” Mr. Benjamin Bagshawe, in an excellent paper in Ze Religuary, relates how, upon the death of a member of this family, a large box was found in his room so tightly packed with guineas, placed edgeways. that they could not be got out. + Calendar of State Papers (Domestic), 1634. 12 CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. Charles Balguy, the subject of this article, was born in 1708. He was the younger of the two sons of Henry Balguy, Esq., of Derwent Hall, and Elizabeth, his wife, the daughter of ‘Thomas Eyre, Esq., of Newbold, near Chesterfield. His elder brother Henry, who lived at Alfreton, seems to have inherited the family estates. and from him is descended the present head of the family, John Balguy, Esq., of Waltham House, Chelmsford, the Police Magistrate for Woolwich and Greenwich There were five daughters—Ann, Dorothy, Mary, Catherine, and Elizabeth. I have not ascertained what became of the three elder girls, but on the 30th January, 1732-3, Catherine* was married at Hathersage to Joseph Greaves, of Moscar House, in that parish, gentleman. Elizabeth married John Littlewood, of Bamford,t gentleman, and it will be seen hereafter that she became possessed of half the property of her brother Charles. We may assume that Charles Balguy was born at Derwent Hall, for in the record of his matriculation at Cambridge he is described as the son of Henry Balguy, of Derwent. Over the principal doorway of the fine old hall in Derwent Dale, built or purchased by the Balguys in 1672, and now the country residence of His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, are carved the arms of Balguy. This house was, in fact, the principal} seat of the family before they * She was buried at Hathersage, 29th November, 1768. I have a few of her books inscribed in her own beautiful handwriting ‘‘ Kitty Greaves’s Book, 1733," &c. Some of them are copies of Zhe Spectator, Another is The British Magazine for 1760, containing Smollett’s Lancelot Greaves, first published in that form. Her daughter, Elizabeth, was married at Dronfield, 1st May, 1775, to John Oldall, or Odeil, of Cold Aston, gentleman, my great grandfather. Joseph Greaves made his will, 31st December, 1783, appointing John Oldall sole executor. It was proved by him at Lichfield, 29th April, 1784. +1764. Draft indenture between John Littlewood, of Bamforth, in the parish of Hathersage, gent., and Elizabeth his wife, of the one part, and Robert Newton, of Norton, co. Derby, Esq., of the other part. Conveyance of property at Hathersage for £600.—“ Local Notes and Queries” of Zhe Sheffield and Rotherham Independent. {They had other residences and estates in the Peak. Amongst these may be mentioned Aston Hall, in Hope Parish, Hope Hall, Rowlee, and The Hagg. Aston Hall is now a farm house, and Rowlee is the residence of Mr. Charles Greaves. Hope Hall, immediately opposite the north side of the ‘restored ” church, is now the village inn. It is an interesting building, and has some quaint old rooms and oil paintings, let into the panels, which once belonged to the Balguys, and were doubtless put there when the house was built. One of the paintings represents Danae in the shower of gold. CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. 13 finally left the Peak district, after some centuries of residence there. The exterior of the house itself remains nearly as it was when first built. The gardens seem to have been little altered, the old trees are there, and the quaint and narrow bridge spans the Derwent. The Duke has added many rooms to the house, and he has filled it with specimens, more or less genuine, of old oak furniture. He has clothed its inner walls with oaken panels and carved work which once adorned picturesque mansions of the Elizabethan or Jacobean period.* But we cannot make antiquity, and this miscellaneous collection of curious furniture, however rare and valuable some of the articles may be, forms no part of the history of Derwent Hall. Charles Balguy was educated at the Chesterfield Grammar School, under the Rev. William Burrow, M.A. For many years the masters of this school were men of the first literary eminence, and the school maintained a high reputation during the latter half of the seventeenth, and nearly the whole of the eighteenth century. A writer in 1762 says that *‘the school is reckoned the most con- siderable of any in the north of England, and sends great numbers of men to the universities, particularly to Cambridge.” Amongst others who were educated under the care of Mr. Burrow were Ellis Farneworth, the translator of Machiavel ; Halifax, Bishop of Gloucester; Dr. John Jebb, an eminent physician of the last century ; and Erasmus Darwin, M.D., grandfather of the author of “The Origin of Species.” Dr. Samuel Pegge,t the antiquary, and Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury, were also educated at this school.f Leaving the Chesterfield Grammar School at the age of eighteen, * Some of the finest of the oak wainscot was removed from Norton House, Derbyshire, pulled down by Mr. Charles Cammell in 1877. + He was about three years older than Dr. Balguy, having been born at Chesterfield, 5th November, 1704. Admitted pensioner of St. John’s College, Cambridge, 30th May, 1722. He was sworn fellow of St. John’s, 21st March, 1726, O. S., Balguy being at that time an undergraduate at the same College. Pegge’s father was a lead merchant in Chesterfield, and Mayor of that town. His mother was Gertrude, daughter of Francis Stephenson, of Unston, near _ Dronfield. : +See Hall's Aistory of Chesterfield (ed. 1839), p. 191, et seg. 14 CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. Charles Balguy was admitted pensioner of St. John’s College, Cambridge, on the 5th July, 1725. His tutor was Mr. B. Edmundson. He did not proceed in arts, but took the degree of Bachelor of Medicine in 1731. In 1734 he contributed to the Zransactions of the Royal Society an account of “the dead bodies of a man and woman preserved 49 years in the Moors of Derbyshire.” He is then described as of Peterborough, and I presume that he was then practising physic in that city. The account he gives is so curious that I venture to give it at length, quoting, however, the abridgement of the Philosophical Transactions.* **These two persons were lost in a great snow on the moors, ‘in the parish of Hope, near the Woodlands, in Derbyshire, January 14th, 1674, and not being found till the 3rd of May following, the snow lasting probably the greater part of that time, they then smelt so strong that the Coroner ordered them to buried on the spot. They lay in the peat moors 28 years 9 months before they were looked at again, when some countrymen, having observed the extraordinary quality of this soil in preserving dead bodies from corrupting, were curious enough to open the ground to see if these persons had been so preserved, and they found them in no way altered, the colour of their skin being fair and natural, their flesh soft as that of persons newly dead. They were afterwards exposed for a sight 20 years, though they were much changed in that time by being so often uncovered, and in 1716 their condition was as follows, viz:—The man perfect, his beard strong, and about a quarter of an inch long, the hair of his head short, his skin hard and of a tanned leather colour, pretty much the same as the liquor and earth they lay in. The woman by some rude people had been taken out of the ground, to which one may well impute her greater decay ; one leg was off, the flesh decayed, the bone sound ; on her face the upper lip and tip of her nose decayed, but no where else. Her hair was long and springy, like that of a living person. They were afterwards buried in Hope Church, * Philosophical Transactions, No. 434, p. 413. CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. 15 where viewing them some time after it was found they were entirely consumed.* They had lain about a yard deep in the soil or moist moss, but without any water in the place. When their stockings were drawn off, the man’s legs, which had never been uncovered before, were quite fair; the flesh, when pressed with the finger, pitted a little, and the joints played freely and without the least stiffness ; the other parts were much decayed. What was left of their clothes (for people had cut away the greater part as a curiosity) was firm and good. The woman had on a piece of new serge, which seemed never the worse.” He contributed to the ‘‘ Medical Essays” in 1736. Dr. Pegge says that he married at Peterborough. As Pegge was an accurate genealogist, and must have been well acquainted with Balguy both at school and college, I cannot think that he was mistaken. Yet there is no mention of wife or children in his will or on his monument. Nor have I succeeded in finding any clue to his marriage in the parish registers of Peterborough. He seems to have been on terms of intimate friendship with the Misses Eleanor and Sarah Hake, a name well known in Peterborough a century ago. To the former he left half his property, and it seems probable that he was related to these ladies by marriage. The house which he occupied at Peterborough is that which “had in its front in plaster two boars’ headst with a bend or dagger in them, which dagger was found in the Isle of Ely, and lent to Dr. Stukely, who promised to return it, but gave it to the Duke of Montague.’’ He was Secretary to the Peterborough Literary Society,§ and a member of the parent Spalding Society. * See more on this subject in Cox’s Churches of Derbyshire, vol. I1., p. 266, et seg, also p. 237. + Allibone’s Dictionary of Authors. + His family crest was a bear passant, proper, collared and chained, or. § The founder of the Peterborough Society was Dr. Timothy Neve. Writing from that city in 1741, Dr. Neve says :—‘‘ Since I came to settle in this place I have instituted a society of gentlemen, most of University education, who meet every Wednesday evening, whereof the Dean is president, and myself secretary. We are near twenty regular members, and about a hundred honorary. . . . We have a pretty large collection of curiosities, natural and artificial, such as shells, minerals, petrifactions, prints, medals, etc., etc., which now and then amuse us a little, and give us the appearance of meeting to do something else than smoke a pipe or drink a bottle.” —Nichol’s Literary Anecdotes, vol. VI. 16 CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. The latter numbered amongst its members Pope, Gay, the two Wesleys, and Sir Isaac Newton, and its transactions show that it did better and more lasting work than the giving of popular lectures. It was, in fact, a learned society.* In 1741, when he was 33 years old, he published a translation of The Decameron. The volume is a closely and well printed octavo of 591 pages. Its title page is The | Decameron, | or | Ten Days Entertainment | of | Boccace | Translated from the Italian | London : | Printed for R. Dodsley at Tully’s Head in Pall Mall | MDCCXLI. It is dedicated “‘ to Backe Thornhill, Esq.,”+ and was published anonymously. In his preface, speaking of Zhe Decameron, the translator says—‘‘ This hath been reprinted an infinite number of times, and translated into diverse languages. Two translations there are in French that have come to my knowledge, and the same number in our own language, if they may be stiled so, for such liberties are taken everywhere in altering everything accord- ing to the people’s own taste and fancy, that a great part of both bears very little resemblance to the original.” The translations to which he probably refers are that of William Paynter, who, in 1570, published a translation of sixty of Boccaccio’s novels under the title of Zhe Palace of Pleasure, and Jaggard’s folio of 1625. Of the former of these it is well known that Shakespeare made great use. : We have it on the authority of Burton, the author of Z%e Anatomy of Melancholy, that in his day the novels of Boccaccio were commonly related at English firesides. We may well imagine that in the hill country of Derbyshire, where news was scarce and travellers were few, old stories and traditions would be often repeated. Such a man as Charles Balguy, with his love of *See Nichol’s Literary Anecdotes, VI., pp. 4, 74, 122, and Hzstory of the Spalding Society (Nichol’s), 1784. + Bache Thornhill, of Stanton. He married (1) Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Coke, of Melbourne, knight of the shire, and Vice-Chamberlain to George L., and (2) in 1742, Margaret, dau. of Anthony Eyre, of Rampton and Grove, co. Notts. She was descended from the Eyres of Newbold, co. Derby. “It will have been noticed that Charles Balguy’s mother was a Miss Eyre of Newbold. CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. 17 books and his fondness for natural science, must have heard and remembered many of these. Though his life was mostly spent in the flat fens of Northamptonshire he could not forget the loveli- ness of the Derbyshire valleys, and the poetry which lingered there.* In his boyhood members of his family had espoused the cause of James Stuart, the Pretender.t Had he lived in our time, he might have forsaken the older scholarship and written a good novel or two. As it was, he practised physic, and contented himself with translating the ‘‘ Decameron.” In 1741 the modern novel had hardly been “invented.” Richardson, himself a Derbyshire man, had only published the first part of his “Pamela” in 1740, at the very time when Balguy was engaged in turning the most famous collection of novels in the world into English prose. Fielding had published nothing but pamphlets and essays. Smollett was a surgeon’s mate on board a ship of the line, and did not publish his first novel till 1748, nor his translation of Don Quixote till 1755. The modern novel was really begun by Addison’s “ Roger de Coverley,” and besides that there was nothing to read in 1741 but old volumes of romances, printed in folio, and often inexpressibly dull and tedious. My own copy of Balguy’s translation was described by Mr. * The making of ballads, and sometimes of lampoons, could not have been uncommon in the Peak district. In 1742 a reference was held before Joseph Hall, of Bamford, touching. ‘the making, singing, and publishing a song.” An action for libel had been brought in the Exchequer.—*‘ Local Notes and Queries” of Sheffield and Rotherham independent. + See some letters written in 1717 by Philippa Balguy, fourth daughter of Henry Balguy. Esq., of Hope Hall, to a young Mr. Heaton, in Sheffield, who supplied her with news about politics and the movements of the Pretender. She writes to him of the birth of a Royal Prince as ‘‘ the birth of a Royal whelp.” In one of her letters she says, ‘‘ You had better by half send me a lover, or put me in a way to get one, for they are very scarce in the Peak.” (Religuary xxii. 44). . Heaton seems to have admired her eldest sister, Frances, whom she describes to him as “killing Mistriss Fanny,” ‘‘ resplendent Mistriss Fanny,” etc. Frances did not marry him, but the Rev. W. Lucy, D.1)., Rector of Hampton Lucy. The Heatons seem to have lived near the Charity School, Sheffield, for on the 2nd Feb., 1726, Thomas Heaton, iron- monger, leased to John Balguy, then of Sheffield, clerk, part of his garden near the Charity School to build a house upon,—L. N. & Q. of Sheffield _ Lndependent (15th March, 1877). 4 18 CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. Quaritch, of whom I bought it, as being bound in “bright old calf.” The stories themselves are bright as Italian skies. If the novels of Boccaccio and the tales of Chaucer give true pictures of the times, life must have been a joke in the fourteenth century. Chaucer’s heart was light enough, but Boccaccio’s was lighter. Chaucer put his stories into the mouths of pilgrims journeying to Canterbury ; Boccaccio’s Florentine young men and women coolly go a pic-nic into the country to avoid the awful Black Death, they dance and sing, and during their sojourn there relate stories which have moved the laughter of the world for centuries. We are reminded of another and older Italian writing to his Lesbia— ‘‘Vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus, Rumoresque senum severiorum Omnes unius aestimemus assis.” But we are concerned here with one of the worthies of Derby- shire, and not with the history of romance. It was Charles Balguy’s task to present those old stories in a fair English dress, and he accomplished that task well.* His English is always pure, and some parts of his prose translation read like poems. His metrical versions have no great merit. They are merely such as a scholarly writer would make in an age when everybody imitated Pope. His prose has the true Addisonian ring, and the archaisms which have been altered in subsequent editions have no uncouthness to the literary eye.t Whether Balguy had ever lived in Italy I know not, but he had certainly a scholarly acquaintance * It need hardly be said here that many of the stories are licentious, but not more so than those of Chaucer, who, as is well known, borrowed from Boccaccio. Yet it appears to me that they always render vice ridiculous, and never attractive. +In a modern, undated edition of ‘‘ The Decameron” (Chatto & Windus) with Stothard’s plates, and an introduction by Thomas Wright, M.A., the well known antiquarian writer, no mention is made of the edition of 1741, though it is re-printed, word for word, from that translation, with modernized spelling and some unnecessary alterations. Two novels are, however, given partly in French and Italian, which, for obvious reasons, Balguy thought it proper to omit. Several other editions have been printed, either without acknowledg- ment, or with a bare reference to the edition of 1741. CHARLES BALGUY, M.D, 1g with Italian literature, and when we take into account his attainments in medicine, and his knowledge of the Latin lan- guage, in which he wrote a scientific treatise, there seems no reason to doubt the judgment written on his monument—that he was ‘‘a man of various and great learning.” In 1750 he was made Doctor of Medicine at Cambridge. In 1758 he wrote Zfistola de Morbo Miliart. It was published in London, but I have in vain endeavoured to procure a copy. I gather, however, from its title, that it is a short Latin treatise on some form of pulmonary disease. In his will he mentions an estate which he had bought at Colne, near St. Ives, in Huntingdonshire. - For some of the facts contained in this article I have to thank Professor Mayor, of Cambridge ; Messrs. Green and Mellor, solicitors, of St. Ives; and Messrs. Percival and Son, solicitors, of Peterborough. But especially I must acknowledge my _ in- debtedness to the Rev. W. D. Sweeting, Vicar of Maxey, and late Head Master of the Peterborough Grammar School, for the researches kindly made in that city. My thanks are also due to William H. Weldon, Esq., Windsor Herald. I subjoin as appendices the will of Dr. Balguy and his epitaph, some pedigrees from the College of Arms, abstracts of Court Rolls, and a very interesting communication from -the Rev. W. D. Sweeting. A WILL oF Dr. Batcuy. “I Charles Balguy of the City of Peterborough Doctor of Physick make this my last Will and Testament as follows First I remit to M® Eleanor Hake and M* Sarah Hake all sums of money advanced by me for their use amounting to four hundred and sixty pounds for which I have M® Eleanor Hake’s note dated Jan. 1 1766 which I hereby cancel or declare of no form or 20 CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. effect I also give and devise unto M*® Eleanor Hake and her heirs for ever All my Copyhold Estate lands and tenements at Colne in the County of Huntingdon purchased of Robert Pigott Esqre and of William and Edward Burton to a certain part of which she has already an equitable right And to my sister M® Elizabeth Littlewood Wife of M*. John Littlewood and to her heirs for ever I give and devise all my Copyhold Estates in Peterborough aforesaid consisting of an House in tenure of M:. Thomas Bowker and a piece of Ground called the Holt in my own occupation Lastly all my ready money securitys for money books furniture and all my personal Estate whatsoever I give equally between the said Eleanor Hake and Elizabeth Littlewood whom I appoint Joint Executrixes of this my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven. * Ch: Balguy €3) “Signed sealed published and declared by the aforesaid Charles Balguy as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and at his request have set our hands as witnesses hereto Ashby Dean Eli Miller Tho. Bowker.” “On the 13th June 1767 the Ex’ors in the within written Will named were then at the Petition of Smith their Proctor sworn faithfully to perform the same according to law and so forth before me Geo. Jefferys, Sur.” CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. 21 He died a few days after signing his will. He w chancel of St. John Baptist’s the chancel piers is a marble t as buried in the Church, Peterborough. On one of ablet, with this inscription : LVear this Place lie interr’d the Remains of CHARLES BALGUY M.D. a Man of strict Integrity, various and great learning, and of distinguished eminence in his Profession. Which He exercised, thro a Course of many Years in this City. He died March y* 24.- 1767 Aged 59 Years, Underneath are sculptured his armorial bearings, viz., or, three lozenges, azure, two and one, surmounted by the crest a bear passant, proper, collared and chained, or. 22 CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. B. Balgay. From ‘ Vincent’s Derby.” Page 1 is headed, “‘ The gentlemen of name and arms in the countie of Darbie, Anno dni. 1569 11° Elizabeth.” The shield of ‘‘ Balgey of Aston” is left blank on this page. Page 27—‘ Georgius Eyre dux. fil. Tho. Balgey de Aston in com. Derb.’= From the Ped. of Eyre of Padley. A Page 184. A shield left blank. JING TDS SispAasneotcoc filia Balgey Poole de Aston Thomas Balgey = Emma Filia Lau- de Aston in| rentii Stafford de com. Derby Botham | | ] | | | Jana ffrancisca Alicia Thomas Balgey Margaretta Laurentius ~ de Aston, szfer- 2 stes a° I611 | | | 3 Elizabetha Johannes Adamus Robertus Edmundus C. 34 (‘‘ Visitation of Derbyshire,” 1662) fo. 59»: *Emma daur of Lawrence=............ Balgay Stafford of Bothams Hall of Aston in the parish of Glossop co. Derby * A brother of hers died about 1610. CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. 23 Cc Balgav of Hagg. Bakewell, 13 Aug. This cote and crest is respited for proofe till Michaellmass ‘l’erme next. No proofe made. Thomas Balgay of=............... Aston inthe parish of Hope in com. Derb. | 2 Adam Balgay of Hagg=Jane, daughter in the parish of Hope, | to ......... Tye Derb. died | of Retford in 1 | Thomas Balgay of Aston, from whom the Balgays of in com. Aston derive them- about the yeare 1611 com. Nott. selves | 2 | 1 John dyed Thomas Balgay of=Dorothy daughter to Thomas unmarried Hagg died about} Massy of Wickleswick- in co, Lance. the yeare 1649 Edw: Barber of | the Hagg zt. 53 ; Edward Allyn of Rowley in co,|ann 13 Aug. | Tydswell in com. | of Oakes in co. Derb. 1 wife 1662 Derb. 2 wife Ebor. 3 wife fe Grace daughter to= Henry Balgay of=Eliz: daughter to=Anne daughter to John Morewood Henry Balgay eet. 14, ann. 13 Aug. 1662 | | 1 Elizabeth Dorothy (Signed) Henry Batcay. The above is taken from the original “ Visitation of Derby- shire,” A.D. 1662, fo. 81. William H. Weldon, Windsor Herald, May, 1881. 24 CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. D. Balgay. [1. The following is taken from “ Pegge’s Collections,” Vol. VI. :— The Genealogie of y* Surname of Balgay sometimes written Balguay, anciently Lords of y® manor of Baguley Co. Cestr. brought down to y® Person of Henry Balgay of Hagg Co. Derb. Gent. faithfully Collected & Copied from an old Pedigree & other authentic Proofs by Jn° Taylor at the Lute in Fleet street. A Thomas Balgay of Ashton in y® Peak Esqre 4 H I 1104 * Evidently a slip John = Rosaline d‘ of Jno Fitzherbert of the pen for 3. Esq. | of Norbury A° 11572 KS * | i | | mo 2 Thomas 1188 Robert, = Ann d & h of S* Jn®° Brailsford 3 Richard Esqré of Norton 6 H 2. 1167 | | 3 | 2 Brian= Ursula d. of Jn? Edmond=Amy d. of Jn° Lang- Anthony m. Ann d. Langley Co. Esq. | ford of Langford Co. Robt Alsop of y® Derb. Esqr® Derb. Dale Co. Derb. | | Jane ux. Rich? Margaret, ux. Jn° Bently of Henry=Rose d. of Jno Knyfton Okeover Hungrey Bentley Esq'* Esq'* of Bradley Kt. | | 2 Robert=Alice d. of Jn° Staveley St John=Ann d. & co-h., of S* of Morley | Tho Leigh Kt. a | ia 1 Eliz. ux. Pet. Fretchville of Stay] John =Rose d. of 3 Ann ux. Jn° Pole of 2 Mary ux. Tho. B Esq’ | Jn° Foljambe Radburne 5 Jane ux. Jn° Ausley of Ausley Esq. Esq. 4 Xtina ux. Jn° Cha worth, Esq. | I Rose ux. Jn° Bagshaw, Esq. Christopher = Dorothy d. of St Jn° Bassett 2 © Avey ux Tho. Blundevile Esq | of Bletsworth Esqr Anthony =d. of Jn° Leeke Susanna ux. Tho. Barley Susanna ux. Tho. Black- Esq. Esq. of Barley Esqr. well Esq. Grace ux ‘lho. D Basford Esq. Amy ux Jn° Powtrell Esq’ | | James= Bridget d. Tho. St Brian= Alice d. & h. of St daur ux Thomas Esq. | Marson Esq. W™ Leich Kt Brinsley Esq'® E ‘ a CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. 25 Eliz. d. & h. of=John—Elianor d. of Ralfe Lowe Jn° Gars Esqr | of Denby 24 wife | | 2 John Edward= Barbara d. of Jn° = Thomas of Aston = Joan Jane 3 Henry Esqr* | Sacheverell Esqr Co. Derb. died young | re ae Thomas of Aston Adam of Hagg Co. Derb. —ane ds of, =... Tye of Retford Co, Nott. Esqre | | | ] ; 2 John Ann Jane Margt Thomas of Hagg = Dorothy d. of Thos. Massey of Wickleswick Co. Lance. | Grace d. of Edw4 Barber of = Henry of= Eliz. d. of Edw. Allyn of=Anne d. of And- Rowley Co. Derb. 1 wife | Hagg | Tydswell Co. Derb. 2 wife | rewMorewood of Hallowes 3 wife Dorothy Eliza- Henry of As-=Walburge d. &h. of Anth. senior | beth ton Esqr® of Cowley Co. Derb. Esq. John | | | | | | | | | 2 John Esq'* 4 Gervas 2 Dorothy 4 Mary Henry of Dar-= Eliz. d. of Tho 3 Charles I Frances 3 Anne’ 5 Phillippa wentCo. Derby | Eyre of New- bold Co. Derb. | | | | | | 2 ° Charles 1 Ann 2 Dorothy 3 Mary 4 Catherine 5 Elizab. Henry ° Charles educated at Chesterfield, was after of St John’s Coll., Studied Physick, and practised at Peterborough, where he was mar., & died 28 Feb., 1767. He translated Boccacio’s Novels. 26 CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. Balgay. [2. The following is taken from ‘‘ Pegge’s Collections,” Vol. VI. :— The foregoing Pedigree is of no great authority as to y© upper part of it, for yt Taylor was only an Herald Painter. It appears to me from an inspection of 57 Peter Leycester p. 217 that they took Baguley and Balguy for y® same Name, but q. as also whether there be any Proof y* Balguy was ever Lord of Baguley Co. Cestr. In consequence of this Error, for such I suspect it to be, they gave to Balguay the Arms of Baguley for see Zeycestex p. 216. No Arms in my Book, f. 13, b. So there f. 4 Balgay of Aston is an zszrper. This Roll was lent me 1759 by Mr. Henry Balguy who writes his Name Balgay. I take it to be Scotch, viz., the two last syllables of Strabolgie. A Ashton y© same as Aston. B q. the Name of Mary’s Husband. C Avey, f. Amy, for her Niece is so called. D Basford, suppose should be Beresford, for y* Coat is Beresford’s. Two sisters of the same name, Susanna, q. E The Balguys of Derwent are a younger branch ; q. if any of the elder branch is now remaining. F Hagg, q. where thisis? ’tis different from Hagg in Staveley Par. The line of Thomas of Aston is not carried on. I take it yt y° Pedigree in my Book f. 13, b is this line, thus : (Here follows the Ped. from ‘‘ Vincent’s Derby,” page 184. W. H. 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MANOR OF PETERBOROUGH. 1753, ov. 64h.—Chas. Balguy, of Peterborough, Doctor of Physic, admitted on a surrender made to his use by George Kitchin to a part of a holt or ozier ground in Peterborough, divided by a ditch from the other part abutting on a close of Sarah and Eleanor Hake. 1756, ov. 16¢h.—Chas. Balguy, Doctor of Physic, admitted on a surrender of Wm. Stacey to two Copyhold cottages within the said Manor, in a place called Priestgate Lane, next a messuage of Mrs. Hake West. 1767, May 26¢2.—Death of Doctor Balguy presented at a Court then held. Seized to himself and his heirs of a Customary Messuage, with the outbuilding in Priestgate Lane, which was formerly two Jenements, and lately rebuilt in one, and late the estate of Wm. Stacey; then in tenure of Tho. Bowker. And also of part of a willow holt, late the estate of George Kitchin. Mrs. Littlewood admitted. 1773, Dec. 6¢4.—At an Adjourned Court then held it is stated that John Littlewood and Elizabeth his wife, who was the sister of Charles Balguy, deceased, surrendered the piece of pasture or meadow, late called a holt or ozier ground, being then laid to a Close of Eleanor and Sarah Hake, Spinsters, to the use of the said Eleanor Hake, her heirs and assigns. Eleanor Hake admitted. 1774, April 21st—It was presented that on 21st April, 1773, John Littlewood, of March, Isle of Ely, and County of Cambridge, Farmer, and Elizabeth his wife, sister of Chas. Balguy, surrendered the messuage in Priestgate Lane to the said Elizabeth Littlewood for her life. Remainder to the said John Littlewood for his life. Remainder to the use of George Littlewood, their eldest son, his heirs and assigns for ever, charged with the payment of £100 to Sa SS Sy CHARLES BALGUY, M.D, 29 Chas. Littlewood, and Ann, wife of Anthony Worral, son and daughter of the said John and Elizabeth Littlewood, within 12 months after the death of the said John and Elizabeth. The said John Littlewood admitted for his life. Memorandum in margin of Court Roll as to payment of the #100. From this Ann Woriall appears to have re-married one John Stringer. 1780, Jan. 17¢h.—Court held. Surrender of 21st of April, 1773 recited, and deaths of John Littlewood and Elizabeth his wife. Presented that George Littlewood was also dead without having been admitted, and that the said Charles Littlewood, then of March aforesaid, Farmer and Grazier, was the surviving son of the said John and Elizabeth Littlewood, and brother and heir at law of the said George Littlewood, to whom the said customary premises descended, and to which he was admitted. 1789, April 22nd.—FPresentment of Surrender from Chas. Littlewood, late of March and then of Tyd St. Giles, in the said Isle and County, Grazier, of the said messuage, to the use of Jane Puckney, who was admitted. H. On the floor at the E. end of the chancel at Stoke Doyle Church, co. Northants. Pi MoS. HIC IVXTA SITVS EST THOMAS BALGUY S. T. B. RECTOR HVIVS ECCLE PER XX ANNOS OBIjT 16° MAij, ATATIS SVZ 58. DN 1653 Relicta posuit moestissima MARIA. [The chancel was, by license of the Bishop of Peterborough, pulled down in 1722, and a new one built. The old monuments, inscriptions, etc., were to be preserved, and this seems to have been done, after taking copies, by leaving those that were in the floor in their places, and covering them with earth six or eight inches deep—burying them in fact. No other monument or 30 CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. inscription is now to be seen to the Balguy family. but this notice is preserved amongst the copies made at the time when the church was pulled down. |] ‘“On one of the Pillars on y® North side of y* said Chancel, hung a Wooden frame, abt 3 ft. long, and 19 Inches brood, in Memory of Frances Balguy daughter of Tho. Balguy, Rector, and of Mary his Wife, the daughter of Tho. Westfield late L* Bp of Bristoll. The s* Frances dyed 27 April, 1650. Scarce 6 months old. Under y® Inscription are y* Arms of Balguy and Westfield in a Lozenge, and y” some Verses, w" I omitt, here supposing y° s* frame will find a Place in y* New Church.” The frame has zof been preserved. The crescent for difference on the tomb of the Rector shows him to have been the second son. He was Rector from 1632 to 1653. The only entries I find in the register are the baptism of his children— 1646. 2 Ap. Mary. 1648. 2June Edward. 1649. 14 Nov. Frances. 1651. 25 Ap. Adolphus. And these two from the burials— (650. 28 Ap. Frances Balguy the daughter of Thomas Balguy, Rector, and of Maria his wife was buried. 1653. May 16. Tho. Balguy Rector ecclesize Diem obijt. May 17. Tho. Balguy Rector ecclesiz sepultus. [He made some alterations and improvements in the Rectory House; and a handsome bay window, embattled, has his initials and the date 1633 T. B.|* * Ex inform. Rev. W. D. Sweeting. » KEENE, PHOTO. MEDIEVAL PATEN AT SHIRLEY. Sil Ow a MUcVteval Paten at Shirley, Devbyshire. By W._H. St. Joun Hops, B.A., F.S.A. OME time ago the question was brought before the Council of our Society of making a descriptive inventory of all the Church Plate in the county ; but, for some reason or other, the project was not carried out, and it was not until the appearance, in 1882, of the valuable volume on the Church Plate in the Diocese of Carlisle, published by the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archzo- logical Society, that the matter was taken up again in earnest. A form of return has been issued to every parish in the county, and we are already able to say what plate about half the churches in Derbyshire possess. Numerous beautiful specimens of Eliza- bethan chalices, and other interesting examples of the silversmith’s craft, have turned up; but, so far, only one piece of pre-Reformation plate. How this escaped the general confiscation of church plate in the reign of Edward VI., cannot be explained. The article in question is a paten of silver now preserved at Shirley. It is five inches in diameter, and, as may be seen from the illustration, is of the usual type, consisting of a circular plate with a narrow molded edge and plain brim, within which is sunk a circular depression, and this again has a six-lobed depression with central device. The spandrels are filled with the common rayed ornament, which has two lines. The central device has a 32 MEDIEVAL PATEN AT SHIRLEY. representation of the Vernicle, or face of our Lord, surrounded by a cruciform nimbus, and set in a glory of twelve rays. It is not enamelled, as in the Nettlecombe example. There are two hall marks: (1) the maker’s, a cross fleury in a shield; (2) the date letter, a double-cusped Q, being that for the year 1493-4. Mr. Cripps writes :—“I am almost sure the letter on the Shirley paten is the double-cusped Q for 1493-4. Why there is no leopard’s head I cannot say. It is usually present, but not always, on pieces of that date. We have now a number of patens of that exact period; indeed, the number is remarkable, and gives colour to the tradition that K. Henry VII. gave a paten to every church in England. I forget, for the moment, what this is based upon, but there are now several known of his reign.” The Shirley paten is in a remarkably good state of preservation, but the chalice to which it once belonged has disappeared, and been replaced by one of early seventeenth century date. It should be compared with a paten of very similar design at Hamsterley, Durham, engraved in Vol. XXXIX. of the 47cha@o- logical Journal. The paten, so named from its shape, gua patet est et ampla, was always used as a cover to the chalice, into whose bowl it fitted, so that the Shirley example must have belonged to a chalice almost identical in size with the Nettlecombe one, that is, 6 inches high and 32 inches across the bowl. The device of the Vernicle was no uncommon one. It occurs on the patens at both Nettlecombe and Hamsterley. Another common device, was a hand in the act of benediction, of which we have examples at Chichester, Hereford, and York. St. Paul’s also possessed one, with the addition of stars impressed round the rim ; another with a demi figure of the Saviour, and another with an image of the Majesty. At Lincoln, one had the coronation of our Lady, and another the Aguus Dei and the four Evangelists. The accompanying plate has been executed by the Autotype Company, from a photograph by Mr. Keene, of Derby. if Mi JEWITT, F.S.A,, del. WELBECK ABBEY, THE SEAT OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND. Oo Seo The “Green Dale Cabinet” at Wcloeck, AND THE “Green Dale Oak” from which t was wade. By LLEWELLYNN JEwITT, F.S.A., &c., &c. a Be T is not my intention in the present paper to enter Mq| at length into any particulars of the history of the Old Abbey of Welbeck, much less to attempt a description of the magnificent, and in many ways remarkable—indeed unique—mansion by which it has been succeeded, and which has not only been raised upon, but in great measure formed beneath, its site. This I have, to some extent, already done in my “Stately Homes of England,” and I purpose, therefore, on the present occasion, to confine myself to a few observations upon a remarkable piece of furniture therein preserved, and the grand old tree—the “Green Dale Oak ”—from the heart of whose trunk it was formed. It may, however, be well, in few words, to say that Welbeck was, before the Conquest, held by the Saxon, Sweyn, but, later on, passed, as part of the manor of Cuckney, to the Flemangs ; the Abbey being founded by Thomas de Cuckney, grandson of Joceus de Flemang, or Flemyng, in 1153, who colonised it with a party of canons from Newhouse, in Lincolnshire, the first house of the Premonstratensians in England. Welbeck was dedicated to St. James, and endowed with grants of land, which from time 5 34 ‘GREEN DALE CABINET.” to time were greatly augmented. In 1329, it is stated, ‘ The Bishop of Ely bought the whole manor of Cuckney, and settled it upon the Abbey, on condition of their finding eight canons, who should enjoy the good things and pray for Edward the Third and his Queen, their children and ancestors, &c.; also for the bishop’s father and mother, brethren, &c. ; but especially for the health of the said lord bishop while he lived, and after his death, for his soul; and for all theirs that had faithfully served him, or done him any good;” to which was added this extraordinary injunction, ‘That they should observe his anniversary, and on their days of commemorating the dead, ‘should absolve his soul _ by name,’ a process whose frequent repetition might naturally be considered as needless, unless the pious bishop supposed that he might perhaps commit a few additional sins whilst in purgatory.” In 1512, Welbeck was, it is said, made the chief house of the Order of Premonstratensians. At the dissolution it was granted to Richard Whalley, and later on passed to the Cavendishes, in the person of Sir Charles Cavendish, third son of Sir William Cavendish, by his wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, afterwards Countess of Shrewsbury, and founder of the noble house of Newcastle. From them it passed successively, by marriage, to the Holles (created Duke of Newcastle), Harleys (Earl of Oxford and Mortimer), ard Bentincks, in the person of William, second Duke of Portland, who, by his marriage with Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, acquired the estates of that illustrious family. It is to the second of these alliances, that of the Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles, with Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, founder of the “ Harleian” Collection of MSS. (and later on advanced to the dignity of Duke of Newcastle), that the interest of the piece of furniture I am about to describe attaches itself. The “Green Dale Oak,” to which I have made allusion, is only one out of many remarkable and historical trees that give a character peculiarly its own to the broad domains of Welbeck. It is one of the best known and most famous of trees, and takes rank among the oldest and most venerable in existence. Venerable ““GREEN DALE CABINET.” 35 for its antiquity, grand in its hoary age, and eminent above most in its picturesqueness and strikingly singular character, this * Monarch of the Forest ’—the “ Methusaleh of Trees,” as it has not inaptly been called—still stands, a living relic of long-past ages, and surrounded with a halo of historic and traditionary interest. It stands, in all its “forest pride,” a complete wreck of its former self, but finer than ever in its picturesque aspects, and grand and solemn as a ruin. When Hayman Rooke, in 1790, wrote his “ Description and Sketches of some Remarkable Oaks in the Park at Welbeck,” he spoke of this as being “thought to be above seven hundred years old; and, from its appearance, there is every reason to suppose that it has attained that age at least,” while Thoresby, in his “ Thoroton,” supposed it, when he wrote, to be upwards of 1,500 years old, thus making a difference of eight hundred years in the computations of contemporary authorities ! In Evelyn’s time, it was 33 feet in circumference at the bottom, the breadth of the boughs was 88 feet, covering a space equal to 676 square feet. In 1776, on the plate that accompanied Dr. Hunter’s edition of the “Sylva,” the measurements are given as:—Diameter of trunk near the ground, 12 feet; diameter of trunk at the top of the arch, 11 feet; girth of ditto, 34 feet ro inches; diameter of trunk at widest part above the top of the arch, 13 feet 3 inches; height of the tree from the ground to top of highest branch, 53 feet 6 inches; height of the archway, 10 feet 2 inches; width of archway, 6 feet 2 inches.” Major Hayman Rooke, in 1790, gave the measurement as :—“The circumference of the trunk, above the arch, is 35 feet 3 inches ; the height of the arch, 1o feet 3 inches ; width about the middle, 6 feet 3 inches ; height to the top branch, 54 feet.” The trunk of this gigantic tree having a century or two back become hollow with age, and so much decayed that large open- ings occurred in its sides, the opening was, in 1724, sufficiently - enlarged by cutting away the decayed wood to allow a carriage of the ordinary size, both in height and width, or three horsemen riding abreast, to pass through it. 36 ““GREEN DALE CABINET.” Through this opening, cut through the genuine “ heart of oak ” of the stem of the tree, one of the noble owners of Welbeck is said, with his bride, to have driven, or been driven in, a carriage drawn by six horses, on the occasion of his marriage. It is also said that on several different later occasions, carriages have been driven through the rudely cut and arched opening, while equestrians by the hundred have ridden through it from side to side. THE GREEN DALE OAK, IN THE PARK AT WELBECK. The event to which I have alluded, of the carriage drawn by six horses, and driven by a cocked-hatted coachman on the box, having passed through the tree, is admirably represented on a fine old engraving, executed by George Vertue in 1727 ; and it is to ‘“GREEN DALE CABINET.” 37 this, and the other engravings of the series, that I shall have to draw attention in reference to the cabinet upon which they are reproduced. The engravings form a series of five folio plates, etched upon copper by George Vertue for the Countess of Oxford, to whom Welbeck belonged. They are of extreme interest, and of con- siderable rarity. I have myself, for the first time they have ever been re-produced, had them reduced by the never-failing photo- relief process from the prints themselves, so that they are literally line for line and touch for touch, the very etchings themselves as they left the engraver’s hands more than a century and half ago ; but of a reduced size; and I have great pleasure in thus adding them to my present paper. The first plate of the series is a ground plan of dat part of the Welbeck property where the Green-Dale Oak stands. In the centre is represented the ground plan of the tree in dark shade, with the opening in a lighter tint, and the dimensions marked thus— 12 fee,” “10 feet,” “6 feet ;” and on the surrounding map, “* Foot Path.” “ The Road” “to Welbeck” and “Path Way” are all accurately laid down and marked, as is also the situation of “A small Oke 4 Feet diameter,” not far away. At the side of the plan are the monogram and coronet of the Countess (Henrietta Cavendish Holles, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer), and her motto, “Virtue et Fide ;’ at the top, on a roll, in six lines, the words, “A PLAN of the GREAT OKE call’d The Green Dale Oke in the Lane near Welbeck in Nottingham Shire ;’ and at the bottom, on the base of a pillar, “ Zhe Arch cut thro the Tree 10 Feet 2 Inches high.” ‘These Draughts taken 31 August 1727,” and the initials G.V.f' of the engraver, George Vertue. The plan is enclosed in an ornamental border, with corner and other pieces composed of oak leaves and acorns. This highly interesting print I have had re-produced from the original plate in the manner I have before spoken of, and here introduce it on the next page. 38 “ GREEN DALE CABINET.” ly at OAR SLANE NU = i= cee A thie hu | These Draughts taken jt Mig 29 EE : r ES Ta! EY nH a ¢ Mi FAC-SIMILE OF PLAN, AS ETCHED BY GEORGE VERTUE, IN 1727. “GREEN DALE CABiNET.” 39 The second plate of the series, here re-produced, gives a side view of the tree (or rather of its trunk, for the branches are not Lopes hacDrzaies 1 fistes darere chercas: Sape eam. manlids Netts C2 ordi, unel ; CGrreure modum: MERSUT Op, roberts ulead Luingne ler tmblebat-uec non ct catera tanto : wey * ° . Silva sib hic. wyloa gyecante yacet herlawel- ont. ; Ov, Meta | | Te Green Dale Che nearWillects, 1727. shown) with railings and landscape at the back. Above it is the following quotation from Ovid :— ; “ Sepe sub hdc Dryades festas duxere chorcas: Sape etiam manibus nexis ex ordine, trunci, 4o “GREEN DALE CABINET.” Circuiere modum : mensuraque roboris ulnas Quingue ter implebat. Nec non et cetera tanto Silva sub hdc, sylud quanto jacet herba sub ommnz, Ou: Met:” and at the bottom the words “ Zhe Green-Dale Oak near Welbeck, 1727.” The third of Vertue’s engraved plates, here given in “ GREEN DALE CABINET.” 4I reduced fac-simile, presents us with an angular view of the tree in its entirety, through the arched opening of which an equestrian is passing out towards the spectator. In the distance is the land- scape with trees. At the top are Chaucer’s words, ‘‘ Zo the Oke!” and at the bottom, ‘‘ Ze Green Dale Oke near Welbeck, F727. The fourth of the series of these remarkable etchings represents Ho the Bhe! at hath so leng anorishing Fro the time that we gonnilh b first to pring And hath so long a “fe, CS WE MAY KC 5 s Yet at the laste, wastid is the Tree fe Chaucer. Lhe Green-Dale. Ohe near Wilbechs 1727- 42 ‘‘GREEN DALE CABINET.” a front view of the tree from the opposite side, but, like the second of the series, leaving off the branches and the foliage. Through the artificial arched opening a man on horseback is exhibited as riding from the spectator towards the mass of forest trees forming the park scenery in the background of the picture. At the top of the plate are the following lines from Chaucer :— “Go the Oke | that hath so long a norishing Fro the time that it ginnith first to spring And hath so long a life, as we may see ; Vet at the laste, wastid ts the Tree. Chaucer.” At the bottom are the words—“ Zhe Green-Dale Oke near Welbeck, 1 as ee The fifth and last of the series of etchings (which I give upon the next page) is, perhaps, the most interesting, giving, as it does, a picture of the entire tree with all its upper branches and foliage, through the arched opening in whose trunk a carriage—one of the lumbering vehicles of the period, with the tires of its massive and clumsy wheels, and the front of the carriage itself, studded with large nails—drawn by six horses, is being driven towards the spectator. Its noble driver (as I imagine him to be, to bear out the tradition) is seated on the box, with reins in his left, and whip in his right hand, and wears a cocked hat. On one of the leaders is a postilion, also furnished with a whip. In the background is park scenery with trees—one of them (that to the right) being evidently the “ small Oke 4 feet diameter” marked upon the plan. At the top of the plate are the words ‘‘ Una Memus,’ and at the bottom ‘*‘ Zhe Green-Dale Oke near Welbeck, 1727.” From wood cut out in forming the arched opening through the trunk of this wonderful tree, and from some of its branches, the ‘« Green Dale Cabinet ”—one of the treasured possessions of the Duke of Portland—at Welbeck, was made, as I haye stated, for the then owner of the place, the Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer. Of it I give the accompanying “GREEN DALE CABINET.” 43 ngraving (on page 44) froma drawing made by myself, with speci permission of the Duke of Portland, and the following detail ; el al ed Gra Nemis, We Green Dike Ohes ner Welberhy, 1727 description, which I had the pleasure of being the first to put on Tecord. It appears to have b een made in 1753, the name of the 44 “GREEN DALE CABINET.” workman being brought to light on the occasion of its being taken to pieces for removal a few years back. A copy of the writing has been kindly furnished to me, and is as follows :—‘‘ John Hocknell made this Liberery Case September ye 22 1753.” The Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, for whom, as I have stated, it was made, died on the gth of December, 1755, and was buried with her husband, who had pre-deceased her some years, in Westminster Abbey. The cabinet, which is perfectly unique in style, character, and historic interest, and of paramount importance as connected with the history of one of the most remarkable of existing trees, measures seven feet six inches in height, six feet in width, and two feet two inches in depth, and is divided into two heights, each of which is furnished with a pair of folding doors. The upper “GREEN DALE CABINET.” 45 pair of these doors are each divided into four panels ; the lower pair, each into two panels ; and these are in each case separated from each other by inlaid bordering. The ends of the cabinet are each divided in a similar manner into three panels in height ; two in the upper and one in the lower portion. By the simple diagram here appended I have endeavoured to show the arrangement and character of these panels, and of the painted and inlaid designs—which in all cases are reproductions of Vertue’s views—with which they are decorated. The designs | ) A Cc | A rs 13 I ea 3 16 | B | D B D | / Ce a Cc A 14 5 2 7 a 17 D B D E G I K 15 9 10 II 12 18 F ERY iT; L | throughout, which are exquisitely inlaid and painted, and have a remarkably fine and good effect, are identical with the series of etchings which I have just described ; the details of trees, letter- "ing, etc., being strictly preserved. In the upper of these doors, in each of the panels I have on this diagram marked I, 2, 3, and 4, occur (thus four times repeated) the third of Vertue’s etchings—the one engraved on page 40, with the horseman passing through the tree towards the spectator—with the words, “ Zo the Oke!” at A, and “ Zhe Green-Dale Oke, near Welbeck, 1727,” at B, as there engraved. 46 “GREEN DALE CABINET.” In the panels which I have numbered 5, 6, 7, and 8, are the subject, thus again four times repeated, of Vertue’s fifth plate of etchings—the one in which the carriage, drawn by six horses, is being driven through the tree, as engraved on page 43—similarly painted and inlaid; the driver and the postilion on the first horse being habited in red coats and cocked hats. Above each of these, at C, are the words “Una emus,” and beneath each, at D, ** The Green-Dale Oke near Welbeck, 1727.” On the two of the panels of the lower pair of doors, upon which I have placed the numbers 9 and 12, occur the side view of the tree denuded of its top branches, as in Vertue’s second plate, engraved on page 39 av/e, with, at E and K, the quotation from Ovid, already given, and at F and L, the words “ Zhe Green-Dale Oke near Welbeck, 1727.” On each of the other two panels, which I have numbered ro and 11, are Vertue’s fourth subject—the one in which a man is represented riding from the spectator, through the arched opening in the tree stem, engraved on page 41 ante. Above each of these two, at G and I, is the quotation from Chaucer already given, and beneath each, at H and J, the usual words, ‘‘ Zhe Green-Dale Oke near Welbeck, ye foes The end of the Cabinet to the left has in its upper panel, which I have numbered 13, the same view of the tree, and the same lettering as already described on the panels 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the upper doors (engraved, page 43 az/e) ; the middle panel, 14, the same as panels 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the doors (engraved on page 4o ante) ; and the lower panel, which I have numbered 15, bears the ground plan of that part of Welbeck Park where the Green Dale Oak stands, which forms the first of Vertue’s series of etched plates, as already described and engraved on page 38 ave. The opposite end of the cabinet, that to the right, is similarly divided into three panels in height, and bears, in like manner, in its upper panel, which I have numbered 16, the same view, with the horseman riding through the tree towards the spectators, as occurs on the panels 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the upper doors; the middle panel, 17, the same (the one with coach and six horses) as on panels : fala eer ‘GREEN DALE CABINET.” 47 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the upper doors ; and the lower one, 18, the ground plan, as on 15 on the other end, and engraved on page 38 ante. It will have been gathered from the foregoing, that the “Green Dale Cabinet,” of which I have had the pleasure of preparing and illustrating this notice, is a piece of historic furniture of no little value, and no trifling interest, and, with care, it will last long after the tree from which it was made has ceased to exist. It may be interesting to note that, besides the series of etchings by George Vertue, done in 1727, other notable engravings of the tree have also been made. Among these are “4 North-West View of the Green Dale Oak near Welbeck,” drawn by S. H. Grimm, in 1775; engraved by A. Rooker ; and “ Published Jan. 21st, 1776, by A. Hunter, M.D., as the Act directs,” to illustrate his quarto edition of Evelyn’s “Sylva.” This isa remark- ably good and effective line engraving, in which a gentleman on horseback is represented as riding from the spectator through the archway in the trunk of the tree. Another quarto engraving for the same work, represents a north-east view of the same tree ; and others give outlines and full dimensions at various points, referred to by letters. Another engraving, ‘“‘ Drawn by H. Rooke,” “ Engraved by W. Ellis,” and ‘ Piblished Dec. 31st, 1790,” with the name of ‘ Zhe Green-Dale Oak,” formed plate 5 of Hayman Rooke’s ‘ Descriptions and Sketches of some Remarkable Oaks in the Park at Welbeck, in the County of Nottingham, a Seat of His Grace the Duke of Portland. To which are added, Observa- tions on the durability of the Tree, with Remarks on the Annual growth of the Acorn. London, 1790.” In this plate, which is, like the rest of the series, poor and tame, a gentleman in a cocked hat is represented standing beneath the archway in the trunk of the tree with his walking-stick raised to touch the top of the opening. His accompanying description it is needless to quote. Several wood-cut representations of the tree have also at one time or other been given in various publicatious, and it is pleasant to add that in recent years, during the lifetime of the late Duke—to whose unbounded genius, engineering skill and con- structive ability, as well as pure kindliness of disposition, I desire 48 ‘“GREEN DALE CABINET.” to bear emphatic record—a careful representation of the Green Dale Oak was, with other of the noted trees, designed to form the subject of sculpture in white marble, of one of the chimney pieces in the new part of the mansion. The Green Dale Oak, as it now stands, propped, supported, chained, and lovingly preserved on all sides, is assuredly, while eminently picturesque in its every aspect, the grandest, most solemn looking, and venerable “wreck of ages” that any forest monarch—not even excepting the ‘‘ Parliament Oak”—in appear- ance presents ; but in spite of its hoary age, its desolateness of aspect, and its apparent decay, it still retains its vitality, and gives out year by year fresh foliage in its upper branches, It is not, as Shakspere has it, an ‘‘unwedgeable and gnarled oak ”—‘‘ an oak, but with one green leaf upon it”—but an oak whose once ‘“‘ unwedgeable and gnarled” and knotty trunk and branches are now softened down, decayed, and rotted away into little better than “touch-wood,” but yet with its hundreds of leaves, season after season springing into life, giving to its hoary and propped-up frame a crown of joy and beauty, with just here and there an acorn to give evidence that even in the last stages of decay its powers of vitality are not yet exhausted. The Flolltes, Duffield, Derby. eee 49 A Dist of the Vills and fFreeholvers of Derbyshire, 1633. COMMUNICATED BY S. O. Appy, M.A. JHE following list has been transcribed from a MS. in the possession of Mr. G. A. Cubley, of Sheffield, who has kindly allowed it to be printed. The MS., which is of small quarto size, is written on paper bound in a parchment wrapper. It is evidently a draft, and is written in a good clerical hand, with erasures and additions by a more dashing but much more illegible writer. The additions are distinguished by being printed in italics. It will be noticed that the list does not include the town of Derby. I conjecture that it was made for some legal purpose, and that this town fell under a different assessment. Only one freeholder, ‘ Arthur Mower,” is given under the head of Chesterfield. The abbreviated words alloc, bre, prator, etc., written in the margin, present some difficulty. The former may be alocationts breve, meaning a writ or certificate of excuse, and I conjecture, with considerable diffidence, that the latter may be frocurator. If we take this document as a jury list, as probably it is, the words written in the margin become intelligible. Moreover, the absence of the names of peers, etc., is accounted for. I have expanded mil’ tery’ whenever it occurs into militaris terra, that is land held by knight-service. 6 50 VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. J Freeholders, or free tenants (/ibere fenentes), were those who held portions of the demesne lands, as opposed to land held in villenage. ‘Those who are interested in the ancient tenures of English land, whether from an antiquarian or an economic point of view, should consult Mr. Seebohm’s masterly treatise on Zhe English Village Community (1883). Such a list as this may be useful to the students of economic history, but it is sure to be acceptable to the family historian and genealogist. 1633. Nomina villarum et liberorum* tenentium infra hundredum de Scarsdale t et resid[entium] Comitatus Derbiensis Staveley. Petrus Fretchvile, AZi/es. _/us|ticiarius. | Robertus Turner. ad/oc bre. Humfridus Brelsford Rogerus Watson, Herdinges. Robertus Rollinson. Couldaston. Rolandus Revell. Johannes Blithe. Georgius Wright.{ J/i/[ztarzs] ter[ra.] Richardus Cokes. Barley. Willelmus Shawe, gevervosis. Arthurus Mawre, gexerosus. alloc bre. Petrus Tippinge. Franciscus Caulton. Franciscus Owtram. George Slator. Scarcliff. Willelmus Bradley. Johannes Kesteven.$ [Zrased.] Thomas Spaulton. Duckmanton. Robertus Standley. 7’. Willelmus Rogers. * One would expect /zbere. + A blank follows this word. + This name is erased. § Opposite is written ‘‘noe land.” VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Tibshelfe. Carnethwaite. Pingston. South Normanton. Ogston. Whittington. Dunston. Wingerworth. Sherland. -Unston. Somerley. Crowlane. Hill houses. Swathwicke. Johannes Ouldham. Richardus Buckland.* [Zvased.] Volentine Jonson. 51 Edwardus Revell, Armiger. /us|tictarius. | Franciscus Byffeild, generosus. Christoferus Wood. alloc. Thomas Boote. alloc. Anthonius Bennitt. Hugo Farnesworth. Anthonius Farnsworth. Thomas Marriott. Johannes Wilson. Georgius Stubbinge. Edwardus Revell, Armiger. Nicholaus Sprentall. 7’. Godfridus Stubbinge. Ricardus Lowe. Johannes Somersall. Franciscus Renshaw. Thomas Poynton. Willelmus Reynoulds. Thomas Ludlam. Johannes Bullocke, geerosus. Franciscus Stevenson, geverosus. Godfridus Owtram. Robertus Goodlade. Franciscus Curtis, geverosus. p ca. Jacobus Cowper. Johannes Clarke. Thomas Brelsford. Franciscus Clay. Georgius Wagstaffe. alloc bre. Thomas Hancocke. alloc bre. * Milz¢arzs terra written opposite. 52 VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Sutton. Whitwell. Allferton. Ashover. Alferton. | Riddings. Swanwicke. Beighton. Henricus Parker. Johannes Barlowe (?) Franciscus Beveridge. Recus|ans. | Thomas Marshall. Georgius Westby. Anthonius Moorewood, geverosus. Georgius Turner, sevex. Johannes Howlmes. # cat Edmundus Memott. Johannes Duffeild. Johannes Sutton. Willelmus Bacon. adloc bre. Rogerus Sutton [erased]. Mil[itaris] ter|ra.] Ralphe Chriche, geverosus. Johannes Gregory, generosus. Johannes Mason. 7’. Edwardus Newton. djirm. Egidius Cowley Johannes Hill. ad/oc bre. Franciscus Clay, geverosus. Franciscus Stubbinge. Phillippus Flinte. a@d/oc bre Johannes Lowe, vecus[ans]. Thomas Platts. adloc. Phillippus Rowleston, generosus. Gilbertus Weste, geverosus. Henricus Williamson. Johannes Wood. Edwardus Wood. Edwardus Hunt. Jacobus Jessopp. Henricus Waynwrighte. Johannes Hobson. Godfridus Morten. Epifanus Scales. VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. 53 Hackenthorpe. Berley. Beighton feilde. Barlbrough. Blackwell. Dranfeild , Woodhouse. - Haslande. Stubley. Dranfeild. _ —— Ricardus Treeton. Georgius Shirte. Willelmus Blithe. Willelmus Staneford. A/i/[z¢aris] ter[ra.] Johannes Newbould. Thomas Creswicke. Robertus Foxe. Henricus Hewitt, recus[ans. | Johannes Rodes, mi/es. Christoferus Slater, gewerosus. Henricus Turner. alloc bre. Henricus Smyth. Georgius Machin. Wm. Smith. Johannes Boote. Ricardus Richardson, generosus. Stephanus Wilkinson. Johannes Turner. a//oc. Anthonius Wilson. Willelmus Thorpe. Willelmus Marriott. Johannes Buller. Johannes Dawson. Ricardus Dawson. La. Thorpe (?) [Erased.] Thomas Oxecroft. Franciscus Crookes. Robertus Owtram. Robertus Rose, generosus. Radulphus Hancocke. Thomas Mellor. Jervacius Staynerod. Robertus Outram. Carolus Blithe, Armiger. Lionell Fanshaw, Armiger. 54 - VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Eckington. Bramley. Ridgway. Forde. Pouey. Caldewell. Renishawe. Creswell. Glapwell. Milnethorpe. Chesterfeild, Dore. Brampton. Hallcliffe House. Hay Milne. Henricus Wigfall, gexerosus. Georgius Sitwell, gexerosus. Willelmus Cooper, geverosus. Johannes Levicke. Willelmus Rotheram. Thomas Staniford. Gilbertus Rotheram. (Zhe name following ts obliterated.) ‘Thomas Curtis. Thomas Kente. Johannes Kirkeby. Willelmus Leighe, gezerosus. Willelmus Cowley. Robertus Cowley. Alexander Vessey. Millitaris| ter|ra.] Robertus Woolhouse, Avmzger. Georgius Mawre. Arthurus Mawre. Edwardus Barker, Armiger. Stephanus Bright. Johannes Raworth. Edwardus Moore. Robertus Hounsfetid Godfridus Watkinson, geverosus. Henricus Bullocke, Armiger. Georgius Turner. Johannes Stevenson. Willelmus Shawe. Franciscus Stevenson. Willelmus Doe. .Anthonius Crafte, [ geverosws | Godfridus Cooke. Thomas Ashe. Johannes Stevenson. Ricardus Martyn. Ricardus Stevenson. VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Totley. Killomershe. Senor. Cutthorpe. Conygree. Northwinfeild. Wadshelfe. Wigley. Prat Hall. Norton. Norton Parva. Norton Lees. Greenehill. Hage. Johannes Brelsford. Georgius Newbould.* Johannes Harvey. Johannes Brelsford. Georgius Heathcott. . Georgius Harvey, zmpotens. Georgius Shawe. Thomas Hollis. Thomas Brelsford. Johannes Brelsford. Edwardus Allyn. Edwardus Heward. Georgius Revell. Jacobus Caulton. Petrus Caulton. Leonerdus Gill, generosus. Georgius Gill, generosus. Edwardus Urton, a/zas Steaven. Johannes Blythe, e/zas Rotheram. 55 Johannes Bullocke, Avmiger. /usticiarius. Rolandus Moorewood. Johannes Urton, alias Steaven. Johannes Parker. Hugo Rollinson. Godfridus Barten. Willelmus Blithe. Willelmus Hudson.t Johannes Kirke. Robertus Turner. * Over the doorway of a quaint house at Totley, now known as Totley Ha//, may be seen the inscription, *‘G. N., 1623.” builder and owner of this house was **‘ George Newbould.” + Johannes Hudson, filius et apparens heres Thomze Hudson de Sicke house, yeoman, juvenis zeli, pietatis, humanitatis, donisque graphice scribendi haud vulgariter [indutus]. Burial in Norton Parish Register 14 Aug. 1608. In all probability, then, the I have not been able to find out whether this youthful man of letters ever published anything. 56 VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Spinkhill. Brimington. Spittlefeild. Clowne. Hanley. Sherbrooke. South Winfeild. ‘Troway. Himsworth. Workesworth. Wigwall grange. Prat hall. Perwich. Hopton. Thorpe. Carsington. Robertus Hitche. Georgius Poole, junior, Armiger. Recus| ans. | Georgius Poole, senior, generosus Recus|ans. | Johannes Poole. ecus|ans. | Ricardus Cowpe. Anthonius Saxon. Robertus Shawe. Henricus Barker. Edmondus Woodhead. Ricardus Tompkyn. Ricardus Milward. Matheus Foxe. Thomas Plats. Robertus Turner. Willelmus Hudson. WORKESWORTH. Henricus Wigley. Thomas Taylor. Georgius Sommers. Johannes Lee [erased]. Ail ttaris| ter[ra.] Ricardus Wigley, generosus. Robertus Toplis. Johannes Gould. adloca. Matheus Halley. Johannes Pegg Johannes Dakyn. adloc. Simo Dakyn. Thomas Alsopp. adloc. Ricardus Roe. remember allo. Willelmus Alsopp. aoc bre. Anthonius Steeple. Georgius Cockeyn. Willelmus Greatrax. Johannes Stubbs [erased]. mid|t/arts ter| ra.) Thomas Buxton. fc. VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. 57 Brassington. Bradburne. Tissington. Kniveton. Fenny Bentley. Ashburne. Hognaston. Radulphus Gell. Edwardus Vallence. Robertus Westerne [erased]. Willelmus Steeple [erased]. Johannes Buxton, generosus. Willelmus Westerne, generosus [erased] morte. Edwardus Lane, generosus. Rolandus Alsopp. Radulphus Walton. Robertus Westerne. Georgius Buxton [erased]. mort[uus est). pe. Thomas Hande. Ricardus Harrison | erased] Matheus Wright. Arthurus Smyth. Nicholaus Hurt, generosus, Willelmus Sherwin. Georgius Spooner. Humfridus Manifould [underlined]. Franciscus Eaton, generosus. Mort. Rogerus Jackson, generosus. Gervacius Prince. aoc. Mort. Georgius Lees. Robertus Webster. Edwardus Shawe. alloc. Willelmus Tayler. Johannes Alleyne [altered to « Allen.” | Edwardus Buxton. Thomas Taylor. ad/oc. Willelmus Owfeild. Willelmus Fletcher. ad/oc bre. Edwardus Harrison. p’cator. Thomas Wood. Rogerus Owfeild. Johannes Slater, 58 VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Kirke Ireton. Middleton juxta Workesworth. Matlocke. Tansley. Hartington. Hurdlowe. Whildon trees. Crowdicote. Needham | grange. Bonsall. Franciscus Osbaston. Humfredus Alsopp. Johannes Jackson. Henricus Twigge. Radulphus Twigge. Thomas ‘Toplis. Ricardus Cowper. Georgius Storer. Robertus Smyth. Rolandus Higgett. far’. Johannes Spencer. Anthonius Woodward. Anthonius Cotterell. Thomas Flynte, geverosus. Anthonius Bowne. Willelmus Ludlam [erased ]. alloc. Adamus Woolley. alloc bre. /.C. Georgius Bowne. Willelmus Woolley * [evased]. Henricus Statham. Georgius Spateman. Ricardus Bateman, geverosus. Thomas Fearne [erased]. p'cator. Edwardus Brereton, geverosus. Robertus Dale. Mort. Johannes Froggatt. | Blank| Goodwyn. Mort. Ricardus Sterndale. f’ca?’. Willelmus Mellande. Thomas Lomas [altered to Robertus). Anthonius Shawe. Mort. *In margin Pr p. G. Greaves. Probably Per procuratorem. VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Biginge. Biginge grange. Heathcott. Cowley. Bridgetowne Middleton juxta Yolgrave. Crumforde. Ballidon. Greene. Blackwall. Wooscote grange. Alsopp. Alderwaslee. Ashlehey. Thurvaston. Windley hill. Biginge. Hollande. Thomas Marple. Edwardus Wooley. Thomas Needham. Thomas Bennett. Johannes Greatrax. Georgius Wood. Georgius Hardinge. Georgius Bowne. alloc. Anthonius Hardinge. Laurencius Ferne [altered to Thomas.| p’cat. Johannes Sleigh, ¢ €NEVOSUS. Johannes Humbleton. Willelmus Ferne. Ricardus, Senior, generosus. alloc bre. Jacobus Ouldefeild [erased]. Robertus Steere. Willelmus Riddierd. P cat. Robertus Bateman. Thomas Woodiwis. Peat. Rogerus Hurt, gexerosus. Johannes Ferne. mill itaris| terra]. Johannes Blackwall. Georgius Crichloe, generosus. Johannes Mellor. APPLETREE. alloc bre. Edwardus Lowe, Armiger. Johannes Rowland. Thomas Winfeild. Willelmus Storer. Thomas Merryman [erwsev’]. millitaris| ter[ra]. Robertus Rowe, generosus. Martinus Alsopp. Johannes Kniveton, generosus [Zrased]. alloc bre. alloc bre. Laurencius Wetton, generosus. 59 60 VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Windly. Haslewood. Belper. Duffeild. Lockoe. Chaddesden. Spoondon. Bredsall. Muginton. Radburne. Dalberie. Willelmus Webster. Martinus Alsopp. Johannes Stables. Franciscus Bruckshawe, geverosus. Thomas Johnson, geverosus. Willelmus Woollatt, gevevosus. Petrus Alsopp. Georgius Sellers. p’ca?’. Willelmus Raynor, generoszs. Nicholas Ouldham, generosus. Wiilelmus Parker. Franciscus Hodgkinson. Thomas Gilberte, Armzger. Robertus Willimott, Armiger. Franciscus Cockine, geverosus. Ricardus Cheadle. Edwardus Newton. Edwardus Carter. Robertus Rowland, generosus. Ricardus Roe, gemerosus. Robertus Bamford. Thomas Hollingworth [Zrased]. Johannes Hollingworth. Franciscus Brecknocke, geverosus. Robertus Wright, geverosus. Johannes Lockoe. Robertus Knowles. Thomas Widoson. Johannes Taylor. Johannes Carrington, geverosus. Robertus Walker. Willelmus Walker. Johannes Ratcliffe, generosus. Ricardus Poole, geervosus. Johannes Fowler, geverosus. Johannes Barke. a GS . VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. 61 Dalberie Lees. Stenson. Etwall. Bournaston Hilton. Hatton. Church Broughton. Scropton. Boylston Franciscus Fowler. Georgius Dickenson, generosus. Jervacius Brough. Ricardus Aulte. Ricardus Hankinson. Johannes Hankinson. Willelmus Kniveton, generosus. Twyford. Thomas Sharpe. Johannes Stone. Willelmus Holmes. Thomas Heacocke. Willelmus Clarke. Alexander [4/an&]. Michaell Beere. Johannes Terry. Arthurus Harrison. Willelmus Eliott. Tristram Dantrie. Ricardus Lawford. Mauricius Dilkes. Robertus Hill. Johannes Parker, gewerosus. Mort. Recus|ans.] alc. alloc. Robertus Brinsley. Robertus Yealde. Henricus Bullivant. Johannes Moore. Josephus Rossington. Radulphus Yeald. Radulphus Moore. JohannesArcher? [Zvrased]. mil| ttaris|ter[ ra}. Walterus Lorde, generosus. Thomas Chalmer. /’ca?’. Johannes Alsopp. Georgius Stone. Henricus Wilson. 62 VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DEKBYSHIRE, 1633. Johannes Bayly. Osleston. Simo Heane. Ednaston. Willelmus Miles. Hollington. Thomas Holme, gezerosus. Johannes Millington. Willelmus Smyth [Zrased ]. Johannes Smyth. Johannes Bakewell. Culland. Thomas Draper, generosus. Sherley. Humfridus Pegg. alloc bre. Yeavelie. Radulphus Pegg. Snelson. Nicholaus Coxon. Johannes Archer. Radulphus Doxeye. Ladehole. Johanes Lees, generosus. Sturson. Henricus Ould, generosus. Osmaston | Johannes Kniveton, gewerosus. juxta f Georgius Pegg. p’ca?’. Ashborne. Johannes Terry. Franciscus Bearde. Johannes Twigg, 7wn[zor']. Jacobus Prince. Ricardus Hall. Robertus Hord. ad/oc. Willelmus Hord. Thomas Riglie, Wyaston. Jacobus Ashton. alloc bre. Johannes Salte. Georgius Froste. Thomas Sherwin. Rodesly. Petrus Prince. Stephanus Parker. Nathaniell Fitzherbert. Somersall. Ricardus Stubbinge, generosus. Ricardus Stubbinge, generosus [ Erased]. VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. 63 Dovebridge. Marson Mountgomerye. Wadelye. Marson next Tutbury. Ashe. Wilsley. Catton. Stretton. Repton. Cauldwall. Horteshorne. Walton. Staping hill. Chealeston. Melburne. Heathcott. Chilcote. Johannes Ierland. Johannes Bowringe Thomas Raborne ? Ricardus Gilberte. Ranulphus Cowpe, you. (yeoman). Willelmus Prince, geverosus. Georgius Cowpe, yom. Johannes Woolley. Johannes Conway. #’c. Willelmus Ditch. kicardus Stubbinge, generosus | Erased]. Johannes Froggatt [Zrased]. Willelmus Bower. Anthonius Loton. Edwardus Burton. Nicholaus Loton, senex | Erased). Walterus Bagnold. ad/oc. Samuell Sligh, Avmiger. Consil|darius]. REPTON ET GRESLEY. Georgius Abney, Armiger. Christoferus Horton, Armiger. Johannes Browne, Armiger. al bre. J.C. Godfridus Thacker, Armiger. Callingwood Saunders, generosus. Johannes Benskyn, geverosus. Jacobus Royle, generosus. Samuell Whyttinge, geverosus. alloc. Johannes Coxe, generosus. Johannes Olliver, geverosus. Ricardus Whyniates, gezerosus. Henricus Cundy, generosus. Johannes Adames, generosus. Ricardus Vernon, geverosus. 64 VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Walton. Cauldwall. Walton. Linton. Donishthorpe. Okethorpe. Coton. Repton. Miltonne. Kinges Newton. Appleby. Chelleston. Johannes Tealer. Willelmus Callingwood. Edwardus Holland. Radulphus Tayler Ricardus Tomlinson. Henricus Callingwood. Johannes Burton. Johannes Daweman. Walterus Hartle [Zrased]. Walterus Tayler. Robertus Teatte. Franciscus Dethicke. Thomas Tayler. Johannes Cantrell, generosus. Gilbertus Hyde. Ricardus Weate. Ricardus Measume. Henricus Weate. Ricardus Hunt. Thomas Hill. Gilbertus Browne. Robertus Ragg. Willemus Bucknall. Brianus Cantrell. Johannes Cantrell. Thomas Houlden. Willelmus Spencer. Ricardus Prowdman Carolus Wright. Edwardus Heafeild. Ricardus Large [Erased]. Matheus Pratte Willelmus Roberts. Willelmus Rose. Edwardus Roberts. Willelmus Sore. Mortuus. VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Harteshorne. Swarson. Winshill. Stapenhall. Edingale. Ticknall. Potlocke. Osmaston. Litleover. Weston Underwood. Marketon. Allestree. Kilburne. Padley feildes. Ripley. | Willelmus Wilder. Thomas Hopkyn. Johannes Bancrofte. Servus. Johannes Henshawe. Henricus Bee. Willelmus Moseley. Franciscus Poker (svc). Robertus Gillter [a//ered to Gilbert}. Ricardus Weate. Robertus Carter. Saintlow Dawson. Laurencius Ball. Johannes Steare. Willelmus Leaper. MOoORLESTON ET LITCHURCH. Ricardus Vickars. Georgius Porter. Willelmus Porter [Zrased]. ? Senex. Gabriell Hopkyn. Hunmfredus Hail. Thomas Shepheard. Johannes Shepheard. Willelmus Twigge. Ranulphus Wade, geverosus. Robertus Bamforde. Franciscus Mundy, Armiger. Johannes Agarde. Henricus Barker. Edmondus Smyth. Radulphus Baker. Carolus Hope, generosus. Henricus Hunter. Isaacus Smyth, Armiger. Jacobus Wright, generosus. Ricardus Ryley. peat. 66 VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Codnor. Loscoe. Denby. Heynor. Langleye Heanor. Milne Hay. Kirke Langley. Mackworth. ’ Lockoe. Okebrooke. Little Chester. Draycott. Breason. Johannes Wathie. Willelmus Boultby. Georgius Hunter. Robertus Ryley. Johannes Clarke, geverosus. Zouch Wilde. Thomas Wilson. alloc bre. J.C. Johannes Piggen. Christoferus Dakyn. Willelmus Stubinge. Ricardus Clarke. Thomas Johnson, generosus, Thomas Vickers, geverosus. Vincencius Lowe, Armiger. Edwardus Bludworth. Robertus Dodson. Johannes Thwates, Armiger. alloc bre. Ricardus Parker. Johannes Malton [Zrasea|. Willelmus Malton. Willelmus Botham. Thomas Gilberte, Avmiger. alloc. Robertus Piggen. Johannes Adames. Michaell Jellicocke. Willelmus Battle. Thomas Cooke. Ricardus James. Johannes Cowper | Altered to] Zhomas. Ricardus Saunderson. Mich James. (?) Nathaniell Bate, Avmiger. Humfredus Carter. Michaell Whitehead. Jervacius Whitehead. VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Rysley. Long Eaton. Aston super Trent. Shardlowe. Willington. Finderne. Mickleover. Little Eaton. Henricus Willoughby, Barz|onettus|. peat’. Michaell Pym, gevevosis. Ricardus Howett. Edwardus Burton. Johannes Dodson. | Wm. Crofte. Johannes Hunt, geverosus. Robertus Cowper. Johannes Roulston, /wz{ zor’. 67 Robertus Porter, geverosus | Erased| Mortuus. Ricardus Sales, gezerosius. Godfridus Meynell, generosus. Johannes Wilson. Robertus Wilson. Johannes Knight. Thomas Hopkyn. Johannes Cooke. Franciscus Houlden. Hugo Roome. ~ Johannes Wilder [altered to “ Wm.” Michaell Porter. Georgius Wilson. Ricardus Earle. Ricardus Jessopp. Willelmus Botham. Johannes Porter. Henricus Butler. Johannes Cowper [| Z7rased]. Gabriell Spencer. Johannes Tabarer. Edwardus Newton, geverosus. Robertus Jackson [ Zrased]. i/[ttaris] terr[a] Willelmus Cotchett. FHlenricus Hanson. Edmondus Parker, geverosus. 68 VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Frichley. Ricardus Frichley. ad/oc bre. Watstandwell. Anthonius Wylde. Jacobus Oates. Barrow. Willelmus Sales, geverosus. Rogerus Gilberte. HIGH PEAKE. Darley. Johannes Braddowe. Bircheover, Winster. Stanton. Yolgrave. Over Haddon. Georgius Gladwin. Willelmus Watson. Ricardus Beresford. '7crcator (sic). Rogerus Eyre, geverosus. p'arcator (sic). Johannes Tomlinson. Ricardus Halley. p’cator. Ricardus Ashmore. Willelmus Parker [Z7ased]. Willelmus Watson. Ldwardus Parker. Radulphus Bache, generosus. Ricardus Cawton. Georgius Sternedale. p’ca?’. Willelmus Birdes, [| genxerosus erased]. Nicholaus Gilberte, Armiger. alloc bre. Johannes Whitacres, gexerosus. f’cator mort. Johannes Briddon, generosus. Ricardus Garratt. alloc bre. Samuell Roberts. Franciscus Bradbury, generosus. alloc bre. Franciscus Foxe, gererosus. Mortuusest. p'cat, | Zrased. | Franciscus Foxe, generosus. Ricardus Greaves, generosus, Cap{ttalis| 7 Const| abularius. | Ricardus Hodgkinson. Hugh Newton. Georgius Brodehurst. _ VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Bakewell. Lees. Beely. Basloe. Hassop. Pilsley. Longston Magna. Sheldon. Monyashe. Georgius Hodgkinson. Johannes Woodhouse, generosus. Franciscus Burton. Johannes Twigge. Rogerus Bretnor. Franciscus Sterndale. Willelmus Riddyard Georgius Riddyard. Edward Heaward. — Henricus Lees, generosus. Henricus Hardye. Robertus Norman. Johannes Heald. alloc bre. J.C. Henricus Norman. Robertus Wright. Johannes Froggatt. adloc bre. Johannes Greaves, generosus [Erased]. Godfridus Chapman. Thomas Eyre, Armiger. 69 Johannes Townrowe [Zrased|. mil[itaris| Henricus Townrowe. alloc bre. Rolandus Harrison, generosus. p’. Radulphus Pennyston. Henricus Heyward. miilitaris terra p'c. Henricus Greenesmyth. Franciscus Rippon de Pilsley. Willelmus Wright, geverosus. Willelmus Winscombe. Thomas Barker. Rogerus Dicken. Henricus Sheldon. Rogerus Harrison. Christoferus Iley. ad/oc bre. Humfridus Goodwin. terra]. 70 VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Hurdlowe. Flagge. Chelmerton. Taddington, Prestcliffe. Twichell. Stadon. Thomas Newton Ricardus Dale [Ouxe or two words following blotted out}. Thomas: Harrison. Josephus Goodwin. Edwardus Bruerton. Robertus Dale, genxerosus. peat’. Edwardus Platts [Zvased] in minoritate. Thurstanus Dale. [evased.| mil[itaris] ter[ra]. Radulphus White. Robertus Dakyn. alloc bre. Willelmus Robinson. alloc bre. Robertus Buxton. Thomas Robinson. Symo Buxton. Jo. Buxton. Elizeus Dicken. Ricardus Foxlowe. Robertus Innocent. Johannes Newton. Robertus Bagshawe. Thomas Buxton. Henricus Booth. Edwardus Jackson. Rogerus Harrison. Willelmus Bretnor. adloc bre. Willelmus Dakyn. Johannes Wilson. Henricus Eaton. Rogerus Wibbersley. Radulphus Lees. mii[ztaris] ter[ ra]. Robertus Warde. alloc bre. Willelmus Bateman. Rolandus Morewood. Andreus Morewood. alloc bre: VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. 71 Eyam. Wardlowe. Holme. Highlowe. Offerton. Fearnelee. *Grindleforde bridge. Hathersedge. Carrhead. North lees. Thornhill. Aston. Ashopp. Birchenlee. Dingebanke. Over Shatton. Brugh. Hope. Bradwall. Thomas Bray, generosus.* Nathaniell Middleton. Ricardus Gregorie. | Blank] Bennett. Barnardus Wells, generosus. Thomas Eyre, Armiger. Radulphus Glossopp. Ricardus Bennett. Leonardus Lowe. Thomas Lucas. Johannes Eyre. Lionell Smilter. Laurencius Walehead. Johannes Wilcockson. Willelmus Savage. Thomas Thornhill, jaa| zor]. alloc bre. 7.C. Johannes Poynton. Thomas Balgey, generosus. Willelmus Darwend. Johannes Ashton. Thomas Howe, generosus. alloc bre. AiG Robertus Morten. Edwardus Haighe, geverosus. Robertus Eyre, generosus. Ricardus Stevenson, geverosus. Franciscus Ashton. adzb7. Ottuellus Smyth. alloc bre. J.C. Thomas Stevenson [Zvased]. Nicholaus Hatfield. ad/oc bre. Johannes Hallam. Willelmus Marshall. Milo Marshall. * Franciscus Braye de Eyam, generosus, interfectus apud Bradway, parochize de Norton, sepultus fuit in ecclesia parochiali de Norton, post inquisitionem factam in causam ejus interfectionis vicesimo octavo die Julii, 1611. (Norton Register. ) 72 VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Redseates. Stephanus Staley, geverosus. Edall. Robertus Hall. alloc bre. Wheston. Johannes Bodon | Altered to oes | Tideswall. Woramhill. Tunstidd. Hardwicke wall. Meadowe. Nether Shatton. Milhousdale. _ Litton. Longson Parva. Abney. Bowdon. Bowdon head. Slackhall. Forde. Lidiate. Martinside. Lane side. Shalcrose. Ridge. Marshe. Ollerenshawe. Jacobus Peake. Radulphus Cantrell. Thomas Middleton. adloc bre. Henricus Cocke. aloe bre. Willelmus Walker. Ricardus Marshall. Robertus Walker. ad/oc bre. J.C. Jervacius Torr. Johannes Wright. Humfridus Thornhill. Nicholaus Palfreyman. Anthonius Torr. Robertus Wilson. Thomas Eyre, geverosus. Johannes Bagshawe, vecus[ans]. Johannes Creswell. Thomas Outfeild. Anthonius Longson, gezerosus. Johannes Mellor. Franciscus Wilcockson. Georgius Bowdon, generosus. Willelmus Lowe [Z7ased]. Georgius Lowe. Johannes Lingard, geverosus. Nicholaus Creswell, geverosus. Radulphus Gee. Arnoldus Kirke. Thomas Bodon. Johannes Shalcrosse, Armiger. Thomas Bagshawe, Armiger. Nicholaus Browne, Avmiger. Anthonius Ollerenshawe, geverosus. a VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. 73 Blackshawe. Johannes Dande, generosus. ailoc bre. J.C. Highgate Willelmus Rollinson, generosus. Swallowe houses Franciscus Eyre. Mellor. Willelmus Radcliffe, Axmiger. Blackbrooke. Johannes Carrington, generosus. alloc. Ollersette. Edmondus Bradbery, generosus. Courses. Henricus Kirke. Warmebrooke. Georgius Thornhill, senior. alloc. Georgius Thornhill, geverosus. Strines. Franciscus Clayton, generosus. ~ Whithough. Thomas Kirke. Underecles. Wm. Carrington. Gorstilowe. Carolus Ashton. f’ca alloc bre. Parke hall Willelmus Platts. Sterndale. Robertus Mellor. Robertus Micocke. Nicholaus Longden. Bugsworth. Jacobus Carrington, generosus. Johannes Olliver. Cowdale. Edwardus Bennett. Thomas Heathcott. - Anthonius Barker. Fairfeild. Rolandus Swanne. alloc bre. Willelmus Dakyn. Jacobus Carrington. Johannes Higginbotham. Rolandus Morewood. Edmondus Goodwin. Radulphus Fearne. Willelmus Micocke. Robertus Lomas. Pigtor. Dakin Micocke. Robertus Micocke. Johannes Goodwin. Heyfeild. Johannes Waterhouse. 74 VILLS AND FREEHOLDERS OF DERBYSHIRE, 1633. Woolowe. Johannes Hill. Cowlowe. Alexander Goodwin. Georgius [ Zrased]. Nether Cliffe. Robertus Hatfeild. Castleton. Rolandus Moorewood. Robertus Hall. Franciscus Lowe. Stony Middleton. Franciscus Sharpe- ad/oc. [Opposite the name Robert Dale, gent., of Flagge, occurs the following: p'cat p'ter p corp (?) com ad px asst The proof sheets of this list have been kindly perused by Mr. Benjamin Bagshawe, of Sheffield, to whom I am obliged for not a few valuable suggestions and emendations. | [ Fins. ] ~I wn On the Augqustintan Yriory of the Holy Trinity at Repton, Derbyshire. By W. H. St. Joun Hopz, B.A., F.S.A. Repton has not hitherto been gone into at any length ; partly on account of the fragmentary nature of the buildings, and also because the arrangements of a medieval monastery are generally but imperfectly understood. Recent excavations on the site have brought to light the ground plan of the church and other buildings, and we are now able to ascertain, pretty clearly, the extent of the Priory and the disposition of its several parts. It is not my intention to enter at length into the history of the ecclesiastical establishments which have from time to time flourished at Repton, but a few words are necessary to make the distinctions between them quite clear. I cannot pretend to add anything to what has been already printed by various historians, and more recently by Mr. Cox,* but the recent excavations have thrown much light on the history of its buildings, which, of course, was not available to previous writers. There are very few places in England which can lay claim to so peculiarly interesting a history as that of Repton. Under our Old-English ancestors it was the capital of the kingdom of the * Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. iii, 423. [Bemrose, Derby, 1877.] See also Bigsby’s History of Repton. [London, 1854. ] 76 REPTON PRIORY. Mercians, and its ecclesiastical importance actually dates almost from the introduction of Christianity into this country. Shortly before his accession as king of the Mercians, in 655, Penda wished to marry a daughter of Oswy, king of Northumbria, but his suit was refused on the grounds of his being a pagan. He therefore embraced the Christian Faith, and was baptized by Finan, bishop of Lindisfarne. His attachment to the new reli- gion appears, however, to have been more sincere than mere form for a wife’s sake, for on his return from the north he brought back with him four priests to preach the Faith to his people. One of these priests, Diuma by name, was consecrated as first bishop of the Mercians in 656, and at his death, two years later, was buried at Repton. The seat of the bishopric remained here until the consecration of S. Chad in 664. when it was removed to Lich- field. About this same period we have evidence of the existence at Repton of a monastery for men and women, under the rule of an abbess,* but whether founded by Penda or not is uncertain. What became of it is unknown. According to Ingulf, it was destroyed when Repton was despoiled by the Danes in 874, but he seems to be the only chronicler of the fact. We do not yet know where the Old-English town stood, so it would be in vain to attempt to localise the site of the first monastery. If it was destroyed in 874, it is useless to attempt to identify the earliest remains of the present parish church with it, as they pertain toa much later period. When affairs had become more tranquil, after the confusion and turmoil of the Danish inroad, a parish church seems to have been built at Repton and dedicated to S. Wystan, a pious Mercian prince, who was murdered in 849, and buried in the monastery at Repton by the side of his mother A£lfleda. Mr. Irvine has stated his opiniont that this church was originally a wooden edifice, but in the time of Edward the Confessor the present chancel was rebuilt of stone, while the pillars and vaulting of the crypt are *Tanner’s Wolitia Monastica. + Journal of the D. A. and N. H. Society, Vol. v. : 4 REPTON PRIORY. 77 insertions of Norman date. At the time of the Domesday Survey there was here a church and two priests, which, as Mr. Cox has pointed out,* speaks of the size and importance of the building, and is shared by Bakewell alone of all the other Derbyshire churches. It must, nevertheless, be borne in mind that this building was at no time of its existence anything else than a parish church, and had not any connection with the medieval priory, other than being a chapel of ease served by the canons. We now come to the history of the foundation of the Priory of Augustinian Canons which existed at Repton for nearly four centuries. Shortly after the Norman Conquest a Priory of Canons Regular of the Order of St. Augustine was founded at Calke, and dedicated to St. Giles. Who the founder was, and the year of the founda- tion, are uncertain, but the Priory existed here as such for about a century. During the episcopate of Walter de Durdant, bishop of Coventry (1149-—1161), Matilda, countess of Chester, granted to God and St. Mary, and to the canons of Calke, the working (cultura) of the quarry of Repton, beside the Trent, together with the advowson of the church of S. Wystan, of Repton, and all its appurtenances, on condition that, as soon as a suitable opportunity should occur, the canons of Calke were to remove to Repton, which was to be their chief house, and Calke Priory was to become subject to it. The removal of the canons from Calke to Repton is usually assigned to the year 1172, but I know not on what real authority, and the earliest portions of the conventual buildings seem to be anterior to that date. The continuous acquisition of lands and other property by which the Priory was enriched is a subject into which I do not propose to enter; all that is necessary for my purpose being the fact that it was well endowed, and that its property was much increased during the reigns of Edward I. and his son. The * Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. iii., 425. 78 REPTON PRIORY. Valor Ecclesiasticus (27 Henry VIII.) gives the gross: annual value of the temporalities and spiritualities as £167 18s. 21d., a sum equal to at least 4 3,000 per annum of the present time. At the visitation of the monasteries by Doctors Leigh and Layton, a few years previous to the suppression, the annual rental was £180. The Priory was suppressed in 1540, and the whole of its build- ings and possessions were assigned to Thomas Thacker, of Heage, a steward of the malleus monachorum, Thomas, Lord Cromwell. A very full inventory of the goods and possessions remains in the Public Record Office,* of which a transcript is here given : Herafter Ensueth the names of all & ev’y such person & persons as was by Thomas ligh doctor in the lawe & Wyllmus Cavendyshe Auditor Commissiono’s Appoynted by the Kyng o* sov’aigne lorde for the dyssolucon of thes Monasteryes folowengt by them Indiferently chosyn and sworne of and for the valuyng & ratyng & app'syng of all & singler the gooddes & Catelle cumyng & beyng found at the surrenders taken in the same late dyssolvyd Monasteries & p'ories win sundry sheres or Counties the names as well of the seyd howses as of the persons so sworne foloweng herunder wryghten in order That ys to say Edmund Currer Anthony Bott John Wryght Darby. Rycha'd lytster iF hugh ESS, | eS George Smyth ie Repton ) William day Bae po : henry Bowyston henry Cokken Rychard hay Ryc’ Bowilston * Augmentation Office Book, 172. + Viz., Merevale, Warwickshire ; Brewood, St. Thomas nigh Stafford, and Dieulacres, Staffordshire; Lilleshull, Salop; Darley, Dale, and Repton, Derbyshire ; Gracedieu, Leicestershire ; Pipewell, Northants ; and Barnwell, Cambridgeshire. ——-- The late plory of Reptonin REPTON PRIORY. herafter foloweth all suche parcells of Imple- | ments or houshould stuffe corne catell Orna- ments of the Churche & such otherlyke found the Countye | wythin the seid late p'ory at the tyme of the of Derby The Churche dyssolucon therof sould by the Kyngs Com- missionors to Thacker the xxvj day of October in the xxx yere of 0 sov’agn lorde Kyng henry the viij™ That ys to saye ffirst at the hye aulter v great Images . j. table’ of alebast’ w lytell Images . ilij. lytle Candle- styks of latten .j. ould payr of Organs one laumpe of latenn the Stalles in the quere certein oulde bokes .j. rode / In seint Johns Chapell .j. Imag of saint John .j. table of alebaster .j. partition of wode / in o° lady Chapell .j. Image of o* lady & .j. table o alebaster .}. table of wode befor the alter .j. hercloth upon the same alt’ .j.laumpe of latenn .j. grate of Ieron oulde stoles .j. partition of tymber / in saint Nicholas Chapell .j. Immag of seint John & .j. Image of seint Syth .j. table of alebaster in partition of tymber .j. Roode & a Image of seint Nicholas .j. table of alebaster the partitions of tymber & in the body of the Churche vij peces of tymber & lytell oulde house of tymber the xij Apostells .j . Image of o° lady in o* lady of petys chapell /.j. table of of (sic) wood gylte .j. sacryng bell & .j. partition of tymber seled ouer in seint Thom’s Chapell .j. table of wode the partition of lytell table of alebaster sould to Thaker for tymber & .j. sacryng bell .j. longe lader .j. | 719 80 REPTON PRIORY. Iv the Roffe glasse Ieronn the pavemet &) ee gravestones in the seid Churche coulda (It ther .j. Crosse of Coper too tynacles of baudkynn . ij. albes - j. sute of blake | |baudkynn .j. sute of oulde baudekynn w™ Conys on them . ij. Copes of velvet .j. of The tauny baudkyn . ij. of grene baudekynn . ij. vestry | of counterfeit baudkynn a Cope of Reysed > jjij 7 velvet iiij towells & ij alterclothes ij payented alterclothes .j. great presse of woode one oulde cheste ij Ieron stoles .j- ould tynacle ij holy water stokes .j . of brasse the other of } Jeade soulde for ) The It? the Chanons seats the glasse Teron & the) Cloyst’ (pavement & a laver of lead ar soulde for | TPE us. ) Chapter (r the glasse and pavement & a lectron of} oe wode are sould for | house The It’ the Chanons Sells & .j. bell ar sould) Dorter {or ee ele | It’ v tables . j . bell soulde for ve The It’ ther iij tables iij formes .j- Cupborde.j-) ., balle ee banket &.j- payented clothe j~ It’ ther yj oulde tableclothes yj ould eam, The iiij Coberdclothes xij napkyns.v. aletubbes Buttery | 4 oulde Chestes vj Candlestyks of laten «| .j- bason & an ewyar sould for Iv ther .j. Bedstedd .j- fetherbedd .j.)\ blankett .j. quilte .j- Covilett .j. boulst’.j. | The | pyllowe .j. tester of payented clothe 1j priors } Coviletts of Blewe lynyon clothe the heng- \ eee Chamber | yngs of grene saye ij fouldyng tables ilj | chayers iij formes ij Coffers .j. payre of | tonges & .j. aundyronn sould for REPTON PRIORY. The inner (It? ther .j . matres .j. Cov'lett & .j . boulster) ( Chamber (soulde for jis It’ ther .j. fetherbedd .j. boulster. j. pyllowe Seas .]- cov'lett ij blanketts . ie tester of dornyx: Phe: is payented hengyngs .j. ionyd Chayr i] Cupborde .j. forme soulde for The next | ay: pe Lo Seber er .j- matres .j. boulster 1) ov letts ey soulde for ther { Iv ther .j . fetherbedd .j . boulster ij Cov'letts The halle | J J : .]. tester of lynyann clothe .j. oulde table &; xs Chamber i: j- forme soulde for t’.j.fetherbedd ij matresis ij boulsters iiij The bygh | 7) as Cov'letts very oulde. hengyngs of redd saye &; vijs Chamber ie .j- Chayre soulde for It’ ther .v. brasse potts ij spytts ij pannes .j- dryppyng pann .j. fryeng panne .j. barre The a Ieronn . iiij . henches to heng potts upon ay ‘kycbenn . payr of Rostyng Ieronns .j. gridiron .j. * Ate .j. ladle . xvj . peces of peuter vessel oulde bordes & . j . ladder soulde for The It’ ther.j. oulde borde & .j. oulde table) larder |soulde for j viijd It’ ther . ij. bruyng leaddes . j. mashfatte .j.) : The a ot dxyys Brub buckett & a chene .ij. oulde bordes . ij. ‘iid Ses OUSE | bbes . ij. Cowles & ij Skyppes soulde for The Iv’ ther xvj Kelyngleades and ij mashfattes] xls velyng soulde for house } 82 REPTON PRIORY. oe It’ ther ij troffes.j. boultyng huche & .j - 7 Boultyng Syve sould for | house The \It’.j. heyr upon the kyll &.j. Sestiron of! XXxjs Try [lead soulde for viijd bouse |! 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