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Rector of Upper Stondon Beds.

VOL. XX

JANUARY 1808

PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY BY

BEMROSE & SONS LTD. 23 OLD BAILEY LONDON
AND DERBY

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CONTENTS.

List OF OFFICERS - - 2 : 2 : 3 E :
RULES - - - S - : 2 = B Z =
List OF MEMBERS~ - : > 2 Z 2 , z
SECRETARY’S REPORT - “ : E : E =

BALANCE SHEET - - - - - - - - :

AGREEMENT OF THE FREEHOLDERS IN EYAM TO THE AWARD FOR
DIVIDING EYAM PASTURE, 121TH NOVEMBER, 1702.
CONTRIBUTED BY CHAS. E. B. BOWLES - - - -

A FEW BRIEF NOTES ON SOME RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR,
co. DERBY.
By THE Rev. R. J. BURTON” - - - - -

WILL oF ELizAseTrH FirzHerbert, Wipow oF RALPH I IIz-
HERBERT, EsQ., OF NorBURY, DERBYSHIRE, DATED 20TH
OCTOBER, 1490.

CONTRIBUTED BY Rev. REGINALD H. C. FITZHERBERT -

THe ANCIENT PAINTED WiINpow, Haurr HuUCKNALL CHURCH.
By THE Rev. C. Kerry - - - : 3 = P

Tue Court ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD, CO. DERBY,
WITH NOTES BY THE Epiror - - - : E a -

”, ILLUSTRATIONS.

EVEN PLATES OF THE PAINTED WINDOW AY HAULT HUCKNALL
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President ,

THe DUKE OF OULD AON) Diyas G.

Vice- Presidents :

THe Most REVEREND THE Lorp ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.

DUKE oF NorFOLk, K.G., E.M.

DuKE oF DEVONSHIRE, K.G.

DUKE OF PORTLAND.

Lorp SCARSDALE.

LoRD VERNON.

Lorp WATERPARK.

Lorp BELPER.

Lorp Howarp OF GLOssoP.

Lorp BURTON.

Lorp HAWKESBURY.

Ricut Rev. Lorp BIsHoP OF
SOUTHWELL.

Hon. W. M. JERVIs.

Hon. FREDERICK STRUTT.

Ricut Rev. Bishop ABRAHAM.

Ricut Rev. THE BIsHoP OF
DERBY.

Sir H. Witmot, Bartr., V.C.,
Kes

Sir J. G. N. ALLEYNE, Barr.

J. G. CroMPTON, Esq.

G. F. MEYNELL, Esq.

Sir H. H. Bemrose, M.P.

Gouncil :

GEORGE BAILEY.

WILLIAM BEMROSE.

Joun BorouGH.

Rev. J. CHARLES Cox, LL.D.,
F.S.A.

Rev. F. JOURDAIN.

C. JaMEs CADE.

J. GALLop.

E. GREENHOUGH.

W. MALLALIEU.

W. R. HOLLAND.

Rev. CHARLES KERRY.

Hon. Creasurer :
C. E. NEWTON.

JouHn WaRD.

J. R. NAyLor.

H. ARNOLD-BEMROSE.
GEORGE FLETCHER.
Sir A. SEALE HASLAM.
Rey. Rec. H. C. FITZHERBERT.
W. A. CARRINGTON.
C. B. KEENE.

Gro. BorroMLEyY.
Rosr. Cross.

G. H. Mitnes, M.D.
Rev. F. C. HIPKINs.

Hon. Secretary:

ARTHUR COX.

Auditors :

J. B. CouLson.

| Wm. BEMROSE.

OFFICERS OF THE SECTIONAL COMMITTEE FOR

NATURAL HISTORY.

Chairman :
H. ARNOLD-BEMROSE, M.A., F.G.S.

Commitiee :
W. BEMROSE. G. FLETCHER.
W. BLAND. C. A. GREAVES, M.B.
Desk. CARMEL AS | Rev. F. JouRDAIN.
W. G. COPESTAKE. | W. MALLALIEU.
Rev. J. CHartes Cox, LL.D., | Rev. J. M. Meio, M.A., F.G.S.
F.S.A. |. A. G.Pavnor.
ARTHUR Cox. | Levan
N. C. Curzon. W. H. Watton.

‘Hon. Seeretarp and Creasurer :

GEORGE Hypr, OsMasron Roap, DERBY,

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RULES:

I.—NAME.

The Society shall be called the “‘ DERBYSHIRE ARCHAOLOGICAL
AND Naturav History SociEty.”

II.—OBjeEctT.

The Society is instituted to examine, preserve, and illustrate
the Archeology and Natural History of the County of Derby.

II1I].—OPpERATION.

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.

j IV.— OFFICERS.

The Officers of the Society shall consist of a President and Vice-
Presidents, whose elections 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.—ADMISSION 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 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

RULES. 1x

Five Members of the Society. Five members of Council to
form a quorum.
X.—Sus-CoMMITTEES.

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 special objects. Such Sectional or Sub-
Committees to report their proceedings to the Council for
confirmation.

XJI.—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.

The Members whose names are preceded by an asterisk (*) are Life Members.

Cox, Rev. J. Charles, LL.D., F.S.A., Holdenby \
Rectory, Northampton.

Greenwell, The Rev. Canon, F.S.A., Durham.

Hope, W. H. St. John, Burlington House, Piccadilly,
London.

Irvine, J. T., 167, Cromwell Road, Peterborough.

Kerry, Rev. Charles, Upper Stondon Rectory, Shefford,
R.S.O., Beds.

Wrottestey, General The Hon. George, 75, Cadogan
Gardens, London, S.W.

Honorary Members.

*Abney, Captain W. de W., F.R.S., C.B., Measham Hall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
*Abraham, The Right Rev. Bishop, Bakewell.

Alleyne, Sir John G. N., Bart., Chevin House, Belper.

Allsopp, The Hon. A. Percy, Battenhall Mount, Worcester.

* Arkwright, Rev. W. Harry, The Hall, Wirksworth.

*Arkwright, F. C., Willersley, Cromford.

Arkwright, Miss Emily, Gate House, Wirksworth.

Arkwright, Miss Florence, The Hall, Wirksworth.

Amold-Bemrose, H., F.G.S., Friar Gate, Derby.

Auden, Rey. W., Church Broughton.

Bagshawe, W. H. G., Ford Hall, Chapel-en-le-Frith.
Bailey, Mrs., Temple House, Derby.

Bailey, George, Elmfield, Otter Street, Derby.
Barker, J. E., Q.C., Brooklands, Bakewell.
Bateman, F. O. F., Breadsall Mount, Derby.
Bateman, Miss, Rowditch Lodge, Derby.

LIST OF MEMBERS, xi

Bayley, Rev. C. J., Oakleigh, Buxton.

Beamish, Lt.-Colonel, R.E., Home Office, Whitehall, London.
Beard, Nevill, The Mount, Ashburne.

Beaumont, Rey. E., Hartshorne, Burton-on-Trent.

Benthall, Dr., Cedars, Breadsall, Derby.

Benthall, Mrs., Cedars, Breadsall, Derby.

Belper, The Right Honourable Lord, Kingston Hall.

*Bemrose, Sir H. H., M.P., Uttoxeter New Road, Derby.
Bemrose, William, Elmhurst, Lonsdale Hill, Derby.

Bennett, George, Irongate, Derby.

Blackwall, J. B. E., Biggin, Wirksworth.

Bogonschevsky, The Baron Nicholas Cassimir de, Pskov, Russia.
Borough, John, The Cedars, Belper.

Bottomley, G., 140, Uttoxeter Road, Derby.

Bowles, Chas. E. B., The Leas, Wirksworth.

Bradbury, Wm. Laurence, 10, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, London, E.C.
Brigden, Geo., Irongate, Derby.

Brindley, J. Ernest, Market Place, Derby.

Broadhurst, Rev. Fredk., Heath, Chesterfield.

Brushfield, T. N., M.D., The Cliff, Budleigh-Salterton, Devon.
Bryan, Benj., 18, Grandison Road, Clapham Common, London, S.W.
Buchanan, Alexander, 8, Wilson Street, Derby.

Burton, The Right Hon. The Lord, Rangemore, Burton-on-Trent.
Burton, Rev. R. Jowett, Stanton-by-Dale, Nottingham.

*Cade, Chas. James, The Homestead, Spondon.

*Cammell, G. H., Brookfield Manor, Hathersage.

Carr, Rev. Canon, Holbrooke, Derby.

Carrington, W. Alex., Wye Cottage, Bakewell.

Carrington, Arthur, Langdale House, Clapham Road, Bedford.
Carter, F., Irongate, Derby.

Carulla, F. J. R., F.C.S., 84, Argyle Terrace, Rosehill, Derby.
Chambers, R. B., Green Hill, Derby.

Chetham Library, Manchester—W. T. Browne.

Clark, G. D’Arcy, Burnaston, Derby.

Clayton, Mrs., Queen Street, Derby.

*Cokayne, G. E., F.S.A., College of Arms, London.

*Coke, Colonel Talbot, Debdale, Mansfield.

Coleman, Rev. W. L., Staveley.

Constable, W. G., 32, Ashburne Road, Derby.

Cooke, Charles, Spondon.

Copestake, Mrs., Kirk Langley.

XI LIST OF MEMBERS.

Corfield, F. C., Ormonde Fields, Codnor.
Coulson, J. B., Friar Gate, Derby.

Cox, William, Brailsford.

Cox, Arthur, Mill Hill, Derby.

Cox, F. Walker, Priory Flatte, Breadsall, Derby.
Craig, J. J., Repton.

Crompton, J. J., The Lilies, Derby.

*Cross, Robert, Bakewell.

Curgenven, W. G., M.D., Friar Gate, Derby.
Currey, B. S., Little Eaton Hill, Derby.
Currey, Rev. R. H. S., 100, Friar Gate, Derby.
Currey, Percy H., Little Faton Hill, Derby.
Curzon, William, Lockington Hall, Derby.

*Davis, Frederick, F.S.A., Palace Chambers, St. Stephen’s, Westminster.
Derby, The Right Rev. The Bishop of, S. Werburgh’s, Derby.
Devonshire, His Grace The Duke of, K.G., Chatsworth.

Eddowes, C. K., St. Mary’s Gate, Derby.

Evans, Walter, Darley Abbey.

*Evans, John, 20, Bolton Street, Piccadilly, London,
Evans, Henry, Highfields, Derby.

*Eyre, Lewis, Padley, Edge Hill, Wimbledon, Surrey.

*Fane, William Dashwood, Fulbeck, Lincs.

Farmer, Rev. R. L., Shardlow.

*Fitz-Herbert, Rev. Sir Richard, Tissington, Derby.
*Fitzherbert, Rev. Regd. H. C., Somersal Herbert, Derby.
Fletcher, Geo., 59, Wilson Street, Derby.

Fox, Rev. W., The Rectory, Stanton-by- Dale.

*Freer, The Venerable Archdeacon, Sudbury, Derby.
Furneaux, Rev. W. M., Repton Hall, burton-on-Trent.
Furness, Geo., The Grange, Willesden Grange, London, N.W.
Fyldes, Rey. W., Hartington, Ashbourne.

Gallop, Joseph, Normanton Road, Derby.
Gaunt, H. H., North Street, Derby.
“Gisborne, L., Allestree Hall, Derby.
Glover, E. M., Pear Tree House, Ockbrook.
Goode, Mrs.

*Goodwin, F. S., Bridge House, Bakewell.

LIS! OF MEMBERS. xii

Greaves, Charles, LL.B., Friar Gate, Derby.

Greenhough, Edward,‘ Parkfield, Willersley Road, Matlock.
Greensmith, L. J., 10, Wilson Street, Derby.

Gretton, John, M.P., Sudbury, Derby.

Hamnett, Robert, 24, Norfolk Street, Glossop.
Harpur-Crewe, Lady, Spring Hill, East Cowes, I.W.
*Harpur-Crewe, Hugo, Spring Hill, East Cowes, I.W.
Harwood, James, Tenant Street, Derby,

Haslam, Sir A. Seale, Breadsall Priory, Derby.
Haslam, A. V., Breadsall Priory, Derby.

Haslam, Edwin, St. Ielen’s Street, Derby.
*Hawkesbury, The Lord.

Heathcote, W., Bankwood, Duffield.

Hipkins, Rey. F. C., F.S.A., Priory, Repton.
Hodges, W. H., Osmaston Road, Derby.

Holland, W. R., Ashburne.

Holmes, H. M., London Road, Derby.

Holmes, G. E., London Road, Derby.

*Hovenden, R., Heathcote,- Park Hill Road, Croydon.
Howard of Glossop, The Right Hon. The Lord, Glossop Hall.
Howell, Rev. J., All Saints’ Vicarage, Derby.

Huish, Darwin, Kirk Hallam, Derby.

*Hunter, John, North Field, Belper.

*Hurt, Albert I’., Alderwasley, Derbyshire.

Hurt, Miss, 46, Clifton Gardens, Maida Hill, London, W.
Hurt, Miss Grace S. F., Chase Cliffe, Whatstandwell.

lliffe, W., 41, Osmaston Street, Derby.

Jackson, John P., Stubben Edge, Chesterfield.

*Jervis, The Hon. W. M., Quarndon, Derby.

*Jeudwine, W. W., Walton Lodge, Chesterfield.

*Jobson, Godfrey, Derwent Foundry, Derby.

Johnson, E. S., Littleover Hill, Derby.

Johnson, Mrs. Thewlis, Alderwasley, Derby.

Jourdain, Rev. Francis, The Vicarage, Ashburne.

Joyce, M. J., 4, Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn, London, W.C.

Keene, C. B., Irongate, Derby.
Keys, Mrs., Rosehill Street, Derby.
Kirke, H., Georgetown, Demerara, West Indies,

X1V LIST OF MEMBERS.

Leacroft, Rev. C. H., Brackenfield, Alfreton.

Leader, J. D., F.S.A., Moor End, Sheffield.

Leslie, Major J. H., Bellevue, Hathersage, Sheffield.

Lichfield, The Dean and Chapter of—Chas. Gresley, The Close, Lichfield.
Livesay, Wm., M.D., Sudbury, Derby.

Lomas, Geo. H., Diglatch, Chapel-en-le-Frith.

*Longden, J. A., Stanton-by-Dale, Nottingham.

Lowe, J. Landor, The Birches, Burton Road, Derby.

MacFarland, R. A. H., Repton.

Mallalieu, W., Swallows’ Rest, Ockbrook.

Manchester Public Free Library—The Chief Librarian, Manchester.
Manton, J. O., Wharfedale Villa, Swinburne Street, Derby.
Marples, G. J., Thornbridge Hall, Bakewell.

Martin, Rev. W., S. Chad’s, Derby.

Martin, Rev. Wm., Darley Abbey Vicarage, Derby.
McDonald, J. Allen, Duffield Road, Derby.

McInnes, E., Littleover, Derby.

Meakin, Miss, Spondon.

Meakin, Miss M. A., Spondon.

Meggison, A., Terrace Road, Buxton.

Mello, Rev. J. Magens, Mapperley, Derby.

Meynell, Godfrey F., Meynell Langley, Derby.

Milligan, Colonel, Cauldwell Hall, Burton-on-Trent.
Milnes, Rev. Herbert, The Friars, Priory Street, Cheltenham.
Milnes, Rev. N. B., The Knowle, Hazelwood, Derby.
Milnes, E. S., County Club, Derby.

Milnes, G. H., M.D., 103, Friar Gate, Derby.

Molineux, Rev. C. H., Staveley Rectory, Chesterfield.
Morley, Henry, London Road, Derby.

Mundy, Edward Miller, Shipley Hall.

Murray, Frank, London Street, Derby.

Naylor, J. R., Kirk Leys, Derby.

Newmane, Madame Cavania, Snarestone, Atherstone.

Newton, C. E., The Manor House, Mickleover.

Norfolk, His Grace the Duke of, K.G., E.M., Arundel Castle.
Nottingham Corporation, Town Library, Nottingham.

Oakes, T. H., Riddings House.
Oakes, C. H., Holly Hurst, Riddings.
*Oakes, James. Holly Hurst, Riddings.

LIST OF MEMBERS.

Parez, Rev. Claude H., Rose Hill House, Derby.

Pegg, J. W. Garratt, Chesham House, Chesham, Bucks.
Pegge, W. M., 4, Prince’s Mansions, Victoria Street, London.
*Portland, His Grace the Duke of, Welbeck, Notts.

Robinson, Mrs. F. J., Darley Slade, Duffield Road, Derby.
*Rutland, His Grace the Duke of, K.G., Belvoir Castle.

Sale, G. Hanson, Holme Cottage, Burton Road, Derby.

Sale, W. H., The Uplands, Burton Road, Derby.

Scarsdale, The Right Hon. Lord, Kedleston.

*Schwind, Charles, Broomfield, Derby.

Seely, Charles, Sherwood Lodge, Nottingham.

Shaw, John, Normanton House, Derby.

Sheffield Free Library—Thos. Hurst, Surrey Street, Shetheld.
Sheldon, J. P., The Brund, Sheen, Ashburne.

Simmonds, T. C., Technical College, Derby.

Simpson, John, Hopton Wood Stone Co., Wirksworth.

Sing, Rev. Canon, S. John’s Vicarage, Derby.

Sitwell, Sir George, Bart., F.S.A., Renishaw, Chesterfield.
Sleigh, John, Eversley, Matlock.

Smith, F. N., Wingfield Park, Alfreton.

*Southwell, Right Rev. Lord Bishop of, Thurgarton Priory, Notts.
Spilsbury, Rev. B. W., Findern, Derby.

Stephenson, M., F.S.A., 14, Ritherdon Road, Tooting, London, S.W.
*Strutt, The Hon. Frederick, Milford House, Derby.

Strutt, Herbert G., Makeney, Derby.

Sutherland, George, Arboretum Square, Derby.

Taylor, Rev. Canon Thomas, St. Breward’s, Bodmin, Cornwall.
Taylor, H. Brooke, Bakewell.

Taylor, A. G., St. Mary’s Gate, Derby.

*Thomewill, Robert, Craythorne, Burton-on-Trent.

Trubshaw, Chas., St. Aubyn Villa, 123, Osmaston Road, Derby.
Trueman, H., The Lea, Esher, Surrey.

Turbutt, W. Gladwyn, Ogston Hall, Alfreton.

*Vernon, Right Hon. the Lord, Sudbury.
li

xvi LIST OF MEMBERS,

Walker, J., Old Uttoxeter Road, Derby.

Walker, Rev. H. Milnes, Littleover Vicarage.

Walker, William, Lea Wood, Cromford.

*Walthall, H. W., Alton Manor, Wirksworth.

Ward, John, Corporation Art Gallery, Cardiff.

Waterpark, The Right Hon. Lord, Doveridge.

Whiston, W. Harvey, Idridgehay.

Whitehead, G. H. Taylor, Burton Closes, Bakewell.
Williams, J., Midland Railway, Derby.

*Wilmot, Sir Henry, Bart., V.C., K.C.B., Chaddesden Hall.
Wilmot, Rev. F. E. W., Burbage, Buxton.

Wilson, Rev. A. P. Hamilton, The Vicarage, Glossop.
Wilson, Arthur, 30, Ashburne Road, Derby.

Wilson, W. Mortimer, The Firs, Alfreton.

Woodforde, W. B., Breadsall Lodge, Derby.

Woods, Sir Albert, Garter King-at-Arms, College of Arms, London.
*Wright, Charles, Wirksworth.

Wykes, John, Wardwick, Derby.

York, The Most Rey. the Lord Archbishop of, Bishopthorpe York.

XVil

beeen tl OF HON: SECRETARY.

The Hon. Frederick Strutt presided. The Report
for the past year was read and adopted. The Rev. F. C.
Hipkins was elected to the seat on the Council vacant by
the resignation of the Rev. G. A. Shaw. All those members
of Council retiring under Rule V., viz., Messrs. Carrington,
Keene, Bottomley, J. Bailey, G. Bailey, W. Bemrose, Borough,
and Dr. Cox, were re-elected, as were also the Hon. Sec., Hon.
Sec. of Finance, Hon. Treasurer, and Auditors. The Rev.
Sir Richard FitzHerbert, Bart., was elected a Life Member
and a Vice-President of the Society. ‘The Revs. R. Jowett
Burton, R. L. Farmer, Miss Emily Arkwright, Miss Florence
Arkwright, Dr. Benthall, Mrs. Benthall, Messrs. H. Gaunt,
T. C. Simmonds, E. M. Glover, and E. Haslam were elected
members of the Society. At the conclusion of the business
part of the meeting, the Rev. Dr. Cox gave a most interesting
address, entitled “A talk upon the Monasteries and Monastic
Life in Derbyshire.” The nineteenth volume of the Society’s

“Proceedings” was distributed,

XVIil REPORT.

Early in the past year your Council received a suggestion
from the Burton-on-Trent Society that a joint expedition should
be held during the Summer at some locality within easy access
of the two Societies. The Burton Society was informed that
the Derbyshire Archeological and Natural History Society would
gladly comply with this suggestion, and the Church Broughton
neighbourhood was named as a suitable centre. ‘The Burton
Society having already arranged its meeting for May, it was
not possible to fix the combined meeting before the Autumn,
and September 18th was the date decided upon. On that day
the members of our Society left Derby vid Great Northern
Railway, at 1.22 p.m., for Tutbury, whence they were conveyed
in brakes to the church of Church Broughton. Here they were
received by the vicar, the Rev. Wm. Auden, who conducted
them over the church and pointed out the objects of interest.
Mr. Auden gave a very carefully prepared and most interesting
address, tracing the history of ‘‘ Kirk” Broughton from the
earliest times, its connection with the Priory of Tutbury, the
bestowal, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, both of the
manor and the impropriate rectory upon Sir William Cavendish.
In 1845-6 this church suffered from a “repairing” and re-pewing
which would seem to have necessitated raising the floor level
about eighteen inches, with the consequent concealment and
part destruction of the bases of the Norman pillars. Happily
there has since been a careful and conservative “restoration,”
with the result that the church now stands a good example of
the way in which a church’s history may be read in its architec-
ture when care is taken to preserve, and not, as is often the

case, to remove all that is characteristic. The special features

REPORT. xix

of the church—the circular Norman font, with its remarkable
ornamentation of interlacing triangles and circles; the three
sedilia, rising in gradation; and the as yet unexplained trefoil
opening in the south wall of the chancel, as well as certain
distinct features of the tower were all noted and thoroughly
inspected by the visitors under Mr. Auden’s guidance.

Leaving the church, a walk across the fields brought the
party to Barton Blount, the old seat of the Bradshaw family,
occupied at present by Mr. F. Cooper. Mr. Cooper has spent
much time in the Rockies and in Africa, and by his kind
permission our members were privileged to inspect what is
probably a unique collection of hunting trophies. Each skin,
each head with its horns appears to be a perfect specimen of
its kind ; the kinds vary to an almost endless extent, and include
even a beautiful specimen of the all but extinct white goat of
the Rockies.

Returning to Church Broughton, the visitors were entertained
to tea at the Vicarage by the kind hospitality of the Vicar and
Mrs. Auden, and drove back to Tutbury in time for the 5.51
train to Derby.

An earlier expedition was fixed for August, to be held at
Newark. The Vicar of Newark had promised to receive the
party, and the notices to members were duly sent out, with the
usual request for names to be sent in by a certain date. By
that date your Hon. Sec. had received three names ; forty-eight
hours’ law was given, during which the numbers reached a
possible, but dubious nine, and the expedition was perforce
abandoned. During the next forty-eight hours more than

sufficient names came in to have enabled the expedition to be

xx REPORT.

carried out. Members will easily understand that special
arrangements for railway travelling, for driving, and for meals
must be made for definite numbers, nor cam they be made at
a very few hours’ notice.

Your Council has had brought before it an interesting scheme
of restoration for one of our old Derbyshire Crosses ; a member
of the Council is deeply interested in the restoration, and has
taken every possible pains to assure himself as to what treatment
will give the most satisfactory result. Your Council gave a
unanimous opinion upon the matter as laid before it, and hopes
soon to be able to announce the satisfactory outcome of work
carefully carried through by loving hand, in the spirit of truthful
preservation. Members will further be interested to know that
the Cross at Longford has been carefully restored under the
direction of a member of our Council, and also that a protection
has been arranged for the old and well known Cross at
Bakewell, in danger of suffering at the hands of vandal youth.

No special act of destruction has been reported, but it has
been suggested that each Derbyshire Incumbent, or Church-
wardens, should assist our Society in drawing up an inventory of
all ancient objects of interest as now existing in the County.
Your Council will be glad to receive any further suggestions from
members of the Society.

Death this last year has deprived us of one Vice-President,
Mr. Curzon, and one member of Council, Mr. John Bailey.
Both were original members of our Society, and Mr. Bailey was
an elected member of our first Council. As long as their health
permitted Mr. Curzon and Mr. Bailey were constantly at our

meetings, and very few anniversaries have seen either of them

REPORT. XX1

absent. We treasure the recollection of all the help and interest
they have given us, and deeply mourn their loss. We have
also to regret the removal by death of Mr. Gisborne, who always
took keen interest in all the work of our Society, and of another
old friend, Mr. John Keys, who was very: constantly amongst us,
and whose hard work and careful investigation of old Derby is
known and appreciated by all. We can ill afford to lose such
staunch supporters. May the future bring us many more of the
same stamp.

There have been other deaths, a good many resignations, and
several erasions for non-payment, but the total number is
considerably exceeded by our new members elected during the
past year. We have not been able, for several years, to make
this announcement, and we believe it;to prove a keen interest in
our Society’s work, an interest which your Council trusts will be
kept up, and increased by every member still trying to get at
least one new member every year, by which means our improving
balance sheet may improve still further, our volume may revert
to its former more comfortable proportions, and our general
satisfaction be greater at the result of the twentieth year of our
proceedings.

ARTHUR COX,

Hon. Sec.
Mill Hill, Derby,

February 14th, 1808.

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IWATURAL History BOciery.

Aqveement of the fFreeholders tw Zvam to the
Award for vibiding EZvam Pasture,
12th Mob: 1702.

Contributed by Cuas. E. B. Bow tes.

(The original ts not punctuated.)

To all Christian People to whom these presents shall come We
William Eyre of Highlow in the Co. of Derby Esq’ John
Bradshaw of Brampton in the Co. of York Esq’ Henry Bradshaw
of Marple in the County of Chester Esq’ Benjamin Ashton of
Hathersage in the County of Derby Gent Tho* Wright of Eyam
in the s* County of Derby Gent Rich? Bagshaw of Castleton
in the s* County of Derby Gent Rob' Moore of Woodseats in
the s* County of Derby Gent Martha Moorewood of Alfreton
in the s* County of Derby Sp' & Mary Moorwood of Alfreton
afs* Sp’ Datirs & Legatees of John Moorwood late of Alfreton
afs* Esq" decéd Rich* Mills of Chesterfield in the s* County of
Derby Gent Joseph Hunt Clk Rector of Eyam afs* Thos
Robinett of Wales in the s* County of York Gent John Wilson
VOL. XX. I

2 AGREEMENT FOR DIVIDING EYAM PASTURES.

of Eyam afs* Yeom Rob‘ Middleton of Eyam afs’ Ironmonger
ffrancis Moor of Eyam afs* Yeom Tho* Froggat of Calver in
the s* County of Derby Yeom Robt Tagg of Normanton in the
s* County of Derby Yeom Geo Brownehill of Banford (? Bamford)
in the s? County of Derby Yeom & Amy his wife John
Townsend of in the s* County of Derby Yeom James
Hibbert of Eyam afs* Yeom Godfrey Massland of Baslowe in
the s? County of Derby Yeom Humphry Brushfield of Fowlowe
in the s? Co. of Derby Yeo Tho’ Gould of Chesterfield afs*
Yeom & Dorothy his wife Ann Redferne of Eyam afs* widow
Alex' Dam of Basslowe afs' Yeoman Peter Furnyse of Eyam
afs* Yeon Philip Sheldon of Eyam afs’ Yeorn Pp Sheldon of
Eyam afs* Yeomm Robt Morten of Brosterfield in the s* County
of Derby Yeom Tho’ Gregory of Folowe afs* Yeom Tho* Wylde
of Folowe afs* Yeom Tho’ Brushfield of Folowe afs* Yeom
Eliza Frith of Eyam afs’ widow Mary Fearne of Eyam afs*
widow Adam Gile of Chesterfield afs* Ironmonger Christ"
Leyland of Briningred in the County of Chester Yeom all
ffreeholders within Eyam afs* send Greeting Whereas we
together with the Heirs & Legatees of the late Marquess of
Hallyfax are promiscuously seized in Comon of a certain mean
& undivided Pasture called Eyam pasture within the Liberty of
Eyam afs* the Occup" & Enjoym‘ whereof is of very great Loss &
Inconvenience to the s‘ owners & proprietors of the same for want
of a Just & Adequate Stint for Adjustm' or an Equal Division or
partition thereof Wherefore to the Intent that for the future
every parclar ffreeholder may have & Enjoy his equal share
proporcon thereof without the Surcharge or Oppression of one
ffreeholder more than another We the s® ffreeholders of Eyam
afs‘ seriously considering the Inconveniences that did unavoidably
happen both to us & our.Tenants for want of such Stint
or Division as afs* & Concluding a Division to be the more
secure Method to prevent future Trouble & Confusion Did

Unanimously & Mutually Consent & Agree to Elect Nominate
& Appt John Hall of Darley Hall in the s* County of Derby
Gent R? White of Wardlow in the s* County of Derby Yeom

AGREEMENT FOR DIVIDING EYAM PASTURES, 3

& Sam! Eaton of Blackwell in the s* Co: of Derby Yeom to
Survey Separate & Divide the s* parcel of Gro“ called Eyam
pasture (Quantity & Quality consid") into adequate & propor-
tionable parts according to every Man’s Quantity & proportion of
ffreehold Land in Eyam afs* to Order Allot & Determine unto
every parclar ffreeholder within Eyam afs* w' Quantity of the
s‘ Eyam pasture he sh® distinctly have & enjoy in Severalty &
where the same sho lye And also to set forth & direct
the ways to be used to every ffreeholders Part & what ffences
sho* be made therein & how & by whom the same sh? be
respively made And whereas the s* John Hall Richard White
& Sam' Eaton as such Surveyors Directors & Arbitrators did
accordingly undertake the Managem! of the s* Survey Division
& Allotmt who having bestowed a great many Days thereon
did Survey the whole pasture into 153 Acres 2 Roods & 36
perches which upon Serious Deliberation they did Order app'
& Allot to the s* ffreeholders in Eyam To hold in Severally the
sev' pieces & parcels of Land hereinafter ment* in such Quantities
& lying in such places in the s* Pasture as. are herein after
expressed beginning at the East End of the s‘ pasture & so
going regularly on to the West End thereof thereby to keep a
more Intelligible Regular & Certain Order (that is to say)
Unto the s* ffrancis Moore at the extreame Eastward point of
the s* Pasture the Quantity of four Acres & two Roods of
the Land of the s* Pasture for his proportionable Share &
Dividend thereof To the s* John Wilson at the West End
of the s* ffran Moors part the Quantity of six Acres two
Roods & six & twenty perches of the s* pasture for his Share
& part thereof the Land allotted to the s* ffrancis Moore lying
Eastwardly & the Land allotted to the s* Tho* Froggat lying
Westwardly thereof To the s* Tho* Froggat for Land belonging
to himself & also purchased of other ffreeholders at the West
Side of the s* John Wilsons part the Quantity of five Acres
& three & thirty perches of the s* pasture for his Share &
Allotm' thereof the Land appointed to the s? John Wilson
lying Eastwardly & Lands allotted the s* Robt Tagg lying

4 AGREEMENT FOR DIVIDING EYAM PASTURES.

Westwardly thereof To the s* Rob‘ Tagg Geo: Brownhill &
Amy his wife at West end of the s* Tho®* Froggats part the
Quantity of one Acre & eight & twenty Perches for his Share
& part thereof the Land allotted to the s* ‘Tho® Frogatt
lying Eastwardly & the Mean Lands app‘ to the s* Wm
Eyre Henry Bradshaw lying Westwardly thereof To the s?
Wm. Eyre & Henry Bradshaw for Mean & Undivided Lands
at the West Side of the s* Rob‘ Tagg’s part the Quantity of
one Acre two Roods & Eighteen Perches of the s* pasture
Land the Land Allotted to the s* Robt Tagg lying Eastwardly
& the Lands Allotted to the s* John Townsend & James
Hibbert lying Westwardly thereof ‘Io the s* John ‘Townsend
& James Hibbert at the West Side of the s* Mr. Eyre &
Mr. Bradshaw’s Land the Quantity of two Acres two Roods
& thirty-two perches to be equally divided betwixt them at
their Discretion as their Share & Dividend of the s* pasture
Land the Mean Lands Allotted to the s* Mr. Eyre & Mr.
Bradshaw lying Eastwardly & the Lands Allotted to the s®
Benja Ashton lying Westwardly thereof To the s* Benja Ashton
at the West side of the s? John Townsend & Jas. Hibberts
Land the Quantity of fifteen Acres two Roods & eight Perches
as his Share or Div’ of the s* pasture Lands the Lands allotted
to the s* John Townsend and James Hibbert lying Eastwardly &
the Lands allotted to the s* Godfrey Massland lying Westwardly
thereof To the s* Godfrey Massland at the West End of the
s? Mr. Ashton’s Land the Quantity of two Acres & four &
twenty perches as his Share or part of the s* pasture the
Lands now allotted to the s* Benja? Ashton lying Eastwardly
& the Lands allotted to the s* Humphrey Brushfield lying
westwardly thereof To the s* Humphry Brushfield at the
West Side of the s* Godfrey Maslands Land the Quantity of
four Acres & 16 Perches as his Share & Dividend of the s*
pasture Land the Lands allotted to the s* Godfrey Masland
lying eastwardly & the Lands appointed to Mrs. Gold &
Widow Redfearn lying Westwardly thereof To the s* Tho* Gold
& Dorothy his wife & Ann Redfearn Widow at the West side

AGREEMENT FOR DIVIDING EYAM PASTURES. 5

of the s? Humphrey Brushfield’s Land the Quantity of two
Acres two Roods & 20 perches to be divided as followeth vizt To
the s* Tho’ Gold & Dorothy his wife the Quantity of One
Acre and two perches & to the s* Ann Redfearn the Quantity
of one Acre two Roods & eighteen perches for their respective
Shares & Dividends of the s* Pasture the Land now allotted to
the st‘ Humphrey Brushfield lying Eastwardly & the Lands
Allotted to the s* Alex’ Dam lying Westwardly thereof To the
s* Alex’ Dam at the West Side of the s* Gold’s & Redfearn’s
Land the Quantity of One Acre two Roods & nine & twenty
perches as his part or Share of the s* Pasture Land the Lands
allotted to Golds & Redfearns lying Eastwardly & the Lands
allotted to the s* M* Moore & M* Robinett lying Westwardly
thereof ‘Io the s* Robt Moor & Tho* Robinette at the West
side of the s* Alex’ Dam’s Land the Quantity of Six Acres
three Roods & one perch for their Share & Dividend of the
s* pasture I.and the Land Allotted to the s* Alex’ Dam lying
Eastwardly & the Sev' parcels of Land allotted to the s* Peter
Furnisse pp Sheldon & R* Bagshaw lying Westwardly thereof
To the s* Peter Furnesse on the West side of the s* M™ Moor
& Robinett’s Land the Quantity of one Acre & 33 perches as
the Share or part of the s‘ pasture Land the s? Land allotted
to M* Moor & M* Robbinett lying Eastwardly & the Lands
allotted to the s* Robt Morton lying westwardly & the Lands
allotted to the s* Philip Sheldon lying Southwardly thereof To the
s* Philip Sheldon at the S° End of the s* Peter Furnisse’s Land
the Quantity of two Roods for his part of the s* pasture the
Land allotted to the s* M™ Moor & M* Robinett lying East-
wardly & the s* Land allotted to the s‘ Robt Morton lying
Westwardly thereof To the s* Richard Bagshaw at the South End
of the s* pp Sheldon’s Land the Quantity of one Rood & thirty
perches for his Share of the s* pasture Land allotted to the s@
M Moor & M‘ Robinett lying Eastwardly the s* Lands now
allotted to the s* Rob‘ Morton lying Westwardly & the s?
pp Sheldons Land & the way leading from the great pasture
lying Northwardly thereof To the s* Rob‘ Morton for Lands

6 AGREEMENT FOR DIVIDING EYAM PASTURES.

allotted to him & purchased of others at the West Side of the
s* Peter Furnisses & M’ Bagshaws Land the Quantity of
three acres three Roods & five & twenty perches for his part
or Dividend of the s* pasture Land the Lands Allotted to the
s’ peter Furnisse pp Sheldon & M* Bagshaw lying Eastwardly &
the Lands allotted to the Heirs or Legatees of the late
Marquess of Hallyfax lying Westwardly thereof To the s* Heirs
or Legatees of the s* late Marquess of Hallifax at the West
side of the s* Robt Mortons Land the Quantity of One Acre
& three Roods for their Share & Dividend of the s* pasture
the s* Land allotted to the s’ Robt Morton lying Eastwardly
& the Land now allotted to the st‘ W Eyre Esq’ lying Westwardly
thereof More to the st‘ W™ Eyre Esq’ at the West Side of the
s’ Land of the Heirs or Legatees of the s* late Marquess of
Hallyfax the Quantity Six Acres two Roods & eight perches
for his Share or Dividend of the s* pasture Land the Lands
allotted to the s* Heirs or Legatees of the s* late Marquess
of Hallyfax lying Eastwardly & the Land now allotted to the
s’ Tho* Gregory & Tho’ Wild lying Westwardly thereof To the
s’ Tho* Gregory & Tho* Wild at the West Side of the s?
M* Eyre’s Land the Quantity of One Acre two Roods & 18
perches to be equally divided betwixt them at their Discretion
as their Share or Dividend of the s* pasture the Land Allotted
to the s* M' Eyre lying Eastwardly & the Land allotted to the
s* Tho* Wright lying Westwardly thereof To the s‘ Tho® Wright
at the West Side of the s* Thos’ Gregory & Tho* Wild’s
Land the Quantity of Thirteen Acres three Roods & Six &
thirty perches as his Share or Dividend of the s* pasture Land
the Land Allotted to the s* Tho® Gregory & Tho’ Wild lying
Eastwardly & the Land now Allotted to the s* Tho
Brushfield lying Westwardly thereof To the s* Tho’ Brushfield
at the West Side of the s* M* Wrights Land the Quantity
of three Acres one Rood & Seven Perches as his Share or
part of the s* Pasture the Land allotted to the s? Tho* Wright
lying Eastwardly and the Lands now allotted to the s*? John
Bradshaw lying Westwardly thereof To the s* John Bradshaw

AGREEMENT FOR DIVIDING EYAM PASTURES. 7

at the West Side of the s* Tho* Brushfields Land the Quantity
of fifteen Acres and two Roods as his Share or Dividend of
the s* pasture Land the s* Land Allotted to the s* Tho
Brushfield lying Eastwardly & the Lands now Allotted to the
s* Robt Middleton lying Westwardly thereof To the s* Robt
Middleton at the West Side of the s* M* Bradshaw’s Land as
well for Lands belonging to himself as for some parts purchased
of one Robt Anderton the Quantity of seven Acres one Rood &
three & twenty perches as his Share or Dividend of the s* pasture
Land the s* Land allotted to the s* M* Bradshaw lying Eastwardly
and the Lands allotted to the s* Rich* Mills lying Westwardly
thereof To the s* Richard Mills at the West Side of the s* Robt
Middleton’s Land the Quantity of seven Acres and twenty perches
as his Share & Dividend of the s* pasture Land the Lands
allotted to the s* Robt Middleton lying Eastwardly and the
Lands allotted to the s* Joseph Hunt lying Westwardly thereof
To the s* Joseph Hunt at the West Side of the s* M™ Mill’s
Land the Quantity of six Acres three Roods & four & thirty
perches as his Share & Dividend of the s* Pasture Land the
Lands allotted to the s* Richard Mills lying Eastwardly
& the Lands now Allotted unto the s* Eliza Fryth widow &
the s' Mary Fearn Widow lying Westwardly thereof To the
s* Eliza Fryth widow & M*™ Mary Fearn widow at the West
End of the s* M* Hunt’s Land the Quantity of two Acres three
Roods & one Perch to be divided betwixt them as followeth
viz* To the s* Eliza Frith Widow one Acre one Rood and
fifteen perches & to the s* M™ Mary Fearn Wid° One Acre
one Rood & six & twenty perches as their respective Shares
or Dividends of the s* Pasture Land the Lands allotted to the
s* Joseph Hunt lying Eastwardly and the Lands allotted to
the s* Adam Gill Christ’ Leyland lying Westwardly thereof To
the s* Adam Gill on the West Side of the s? Widow Frith’s
and Widow Fearn’s Land the Quantity of three Acres one
Rood & Seven Perches as his share and Dividend of the s?
pasture Land the Lands allotted to the s* Eliza Fryth widow &
Mary Fearne widow lying Eastwardly the Lands allotted to the

8 AGREEMENT FOR DIVIDING EYAM PASTURES.

s* Martha & Mary Moorwood lying Westwardly & the Lands
now allotted to the s* Christopher Leyland, lying Southwardly
thereof To the s* Christopher Leyland also at the West Side
of the s* Widow Frith’s & Widow Fearne’s Land the Quantity
of Two Acres & one Rood as his Share or Dividend of the
s‘ Pasture Land the Land allotted to the s* Widow Fearne &
Widow Fryth lying Eastwardly & the Lands now allotted to
the s* Martha & Mary Moorwood lying Westwardly thereof
And to the s* Martha & Mary Moorwood on the West Side of
the s* Adam Gill’s & Christ’ Leyland’s Land the Quantity
of Twenty Acres & three Roods being their Share &
Dividend of the s* pasture Land the Lands allotted to the s@
Adam Gill & Christ" Leyland lying Eastwardly & part of the
Ring ffence of the s* pasture lying Westwardly thereof And the
s* John Hall Richard White & Sam! Eaton have set out
ordered Directed & Appointed the Ways & passages into the

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Eyam pasture in manner & fform foll viz'® One way of
six Yards in Breadth called the way from the little pasture
which comes in at the South End of John Townsends &
Ja®* Hibberts part & so goes along the South side of the
Ring ffence Eastwardly thro’ the s* Townsends and Hubberts
part and so thro’ the s* Eyre & Henry Bradshaw’s
part unto the s* Rob’ Taggs part & Westwardly out of the
s’ John Townsends & James Hibbert’s p' unto the s? Mr
Ashton’s part One other way of Six Yards in Breadth called
the Way from the Great pasture which comes in at the South
Corner of the part belonging to Widow Redfearn & Tho*®
Gold and so going Eastwardly at the South Side of the s®
Ring ffence thro’ that part & thro’ Humphry Brushfields to
Godfrey Masland’s part & Westwardly from the s* Redfearn &
Gold’s part thro’ Alex" Damm’s & M"* Moor’s & M"* Robinett’s
part & so betwixt pp Sheldon’s & MT" Bagshaw's parts & on
along the West Side of Philip Sheldon’s part to the North End
thereof & so thro’ near the Middle of all the other parts
Westwardly till the same comes to divide the s* Ad™ Gill
& Christo’ Leylands part & so unto the s* Martha & Mary

AGREEMENT FOR DIVIDING EYAM PASTURES. 9

Moorwood's part Provided that it be in the Choice or Election
of every particular ffreeholder thro’ whose parts the s* ways are
laid out as afs* whether they will wall or ffence And it is also
Ordered by the s* John Hall Rich* White & Sam Eaton
that the s? Richard Mills shall have a certain piece of Land
called the Common Patch at Crooked Acre Side in Lieu of
& Satisfaccon for a Way laid out thro’ his Land at Crosslowe
into the little pasture And also that Widow Redfearn is to
allow a way thro her Land called the Barn Close at Crosslowe in
Cons" of Land allotted her over & above her proportion at
a certain place in the s* pasture called the Milking place
And in regard the s* M™ Martha Mary Moorwood’s West
ffence is already made being part of the Ring ffence of the
s* pasture It is Ordered that they shall make a wall thro’
Widow Redfearn’s Close And they are also to make the
West Wall of the Lane going Northwardly after the s* pp
Sheldon’s part And the s* John Hall Richard White & Samuel
Eaton have ordered & Directed that every particular ffree-
holder above mentioned shall erect & make at the West Side
of his respive part a good & Sufft Wall Mound Hedge or
ffence

And Whereas We the s° ffreeholders of Eyam afs* are very
well pleased contented & satisfied with the s* Division &
Allotm® of Lands laying forth & appointing of ways & ffences
Surveying & other Managem' & proceedings of them the s‘¢
John Hall Rich* White & Sam! Eaton as will appear by our
Sealing & Executing of these presents Therefore We the s¢
ffreeholders for the Coroborating Confirming & Establishing of
the s* Division Allotmt & other Proceedings afs* Do Severally
Mutually & Reciprocally Declare & Affirm that we are very
well pleased & contented with the s* proceedings And for that
Reason We do severally mutually respively reciprocally for
ourselves and our sev' & respive Heirs Extdrs Admors &
Ass* Cov' promise Grant & Agree Each with the other & to
& with the sev’ & respive Heirs Extdrs & Admors of each
other that We will stand to obey abide perform fulfill &

1e) AGREEMENT FOR DIVIDING EYAM PASTURES.

keep the sev' & respive Orders, Divisions Allotm* Surveyings
Appointings & Direccdns of them the s* John Hall Richard
White & Sam! Eaton of & concerning the premes in such
manner and fform as the same are Ordered Directed Surveyed
& allotted by these presents And We thro’ whose Lands
Ways are laid out and directed as afores* will also permit and
Suffer the severall ffreeholders of Eyam above mentioned to
pass & repass thro’ the same without any of our Molestation
or Interruption And to that End We Do severally and
respectively Grant to all & every the s* persons who have
such Right and Title to the s* Ways free Ingress Egress and
Regress upon into and out of the same And that we and
Every of Us our several Heirs Executors and Admors will at
any time hereafter as Councel Learned in the Law shall Advise
make do and Execute any further or better Conveyance
Assurance Deed or Instrument whatsoever for the better and
more perfect Assuring Coroborating Confirming and Establishing
of the Divisions Allotments Directions and proceedings aforesaid
And We do hereby severally and particularly Covenant Promise
and Grant to & with Rowland Merill of Eyam afs* and
Thomas Hardy of Eyam afs* that We will upon Demand well
& truly pay unto them the said Rowland Merill & Thomas
Hardy or one of them our severall and respective parts Shares
and proportions of the Charges Disbursements and Expences
concerning as well the s* Division & Allotments as the Charges
of this present Writing In Witness whereof the s* ffreeholders
have hereunto Set their Hands & Seals this 12 Day of Nov‘
in the first Year of the Reign of our most Gracious Sov” Lady
Ann by the Grace of God over England &c., Queen Annoqg
Dom 1702.

Signed by W™ Eyre J. Bradshawe Ben Ashton Tho® Wright
Tho® Froggat Fran: Sharpe Eliza Frith Fran: Mower Robt
Morten Ann Redferne p (Peter Furnisse) p (philip Sheldon)
Humphrey Brushfield Robert Middleton John Wilson Rich
Milnes Jun’ Adam Gill.

AGREEMENT FOR DIVIDING EYAM PASTURES. Il

Endorsed—“ Dated 12 Nov" 1702
“Copy of ffreeholders in Eyam their
“ Agreem' to the Award for Dividing
‘Eyam Pasture.”

Copied from the Original Copy in my possession.—Charles

= EH. B. Bowles:

,

2505-05

I2

A few brief notes on some Rectors and
Vicars of Heanor, co. Derby.

By Rey. R. J. Burron.

=m OR such information in these articles as is gleaned
from the parish registers of Heanor, I am greatly
indebted to the kindness of the rector, the Rey.
C. E. L. Corfield, who has allowed me free access

to those documents from time to time, as occasion for searching
them has arisen, The notes and extracts are unfortunately
incomplete, as they have been made at different times when
searching for other purposes.

In the time of King John the living of Heanor was in the
gift of the Greys of Codnor. It was then a rectory, but the
great tithes being appropriated to Dale Abbey in 1473, it
became a vicarage, and remained such until 1868, when the
then vicar, the Rey. Fredk. Corfield, assumed the title of rector.

The list of incumbents from 1298 onwards will be found in
Dr. Cox’s “ Derbyshire Churches,” vol. iv., p. 234-5.

From 1298 to 1475 there were 12 Fecfors, and from 1475 to
1866 there were 17 Vicars.

During the time that Heanor was subject to Dale Abbey,
from 1473 to the dissolution of the Abbey in 1539, there were
five vicars presented to the living by the Abbot of Dale, three
of whom resigned; the last one (Richard Nottingham) to
become Abbot of Dale. During the transfer of the advowson.
of Heanor vicarage from Henry, Lord Grey, to the Abbot of

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Dale, John Stanley was the Abbot; which office he held from
1469 to 1491. The later visitations found that the rules were
not properly obeyed, and that the Abbot was “imbecile” and
impatient.*

1348. NICHOLAS DE GREy. He was succeeded, on his death,
by Roger Sauseman, in 1349.

From this, it appears possible that Heanor suffered, in common
with the greater part of England, under the terrible scourge, the
Black Death ; which in 1349 swept away a great portion of the
population, more than half the Yorkshire priests, and more than
two-thirds of the beneficed clergy of Norfolk.

1304. ROGER DE SHUTTON.
1320. JOHN DE SHIRINGHAM.
1370. RALPH DE BarRTonN.
1385. ROGER DE CHERLTON.

These were all presented to the living of Heanor by the
Greys of Codnor. It may be noted that these Greys held
land in—

Sutton, co. Northampton.
Sheringham (spelt variously, Shiringham, Schiringham, Shy-
ringham), co. Norfolk.
Barton, in the counties of York and Nottingham.
Cherlton (Cherleton-Grey), co. Somerset.
(Cal: Inguis: Post Mortem.)
1485. RicHarD NorrinGHam became Abbot of Dale in
1491.

— Otiver PyccEen. Though the date of his institution is
unknown, he appears as vicar of ‘‘Henor” in the Valor Eccle-
Siasticus of 1535-6.

In the parish registers are the following entries :—
1577. Oliver Piggen of Codnor was buried the xiiij™ day of
Marche.

* “Dale and tts Abbey,” by John Ward, small edition, p. 57, and Dr.
Cox’s ** Derbyshire Churches,” vol. iv., p. 234.

14 RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR.

1578. Elizabeth Piggen, widow, of Codnor, was buried the
xxij of Septembe.

These are the first entries of the mame Piggen I have found
in the registers, but many follow.

1547. RICHARD ARNOLD. He was the first vicar presented
to the living of Heanor after the dissolution of Dale Abbey,
and successfully steered his way through the Marian reaction
well into the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

The earliest entry in the register is dated Jany. 26", 1559
(but see note under William Asheby).

1565. LAURENCE Brookes. ‘This vicar was careless and
unsystematic in keeping the parish registers—vzde ‘‘ Nota” under
William Asheby.

1591. “Laurence Brookes Viker of Heynor was buried the
iiij day of februarie Ano Domini 1591.” (P.R.)

1593. Witit1aAM AsHEBy. “ Willm Asheby succeeding ye said
Laurence Brookes was inducted ye xij day of Mai Installed
ye xiij of ye same moneth Ano. Regni Elizabeth Regine
tricessimo quito” (ze. 12" May, 1593). This leaves a consider-
able space of time between the decease of Laurence Brookes
in 1591, and the institution of his successor, May rath, 1593.

There are entries of the baptism of his son William, 9™
Oct’ 1599; and the baptism and burial of his daughter Ursula
on, respectively, Oct’ ro and Nov’ 20™ 1596.

1612. “An ye wife of Willia? Asheby vicar of Heynor was
buried ye 28 of Aprill.” (P.R.)

Ellen Ashby was buried July 13, 1643.

1614. ‘Oct. 3. I maried M’ Ashbie Vicar of Heanour by
a lieence:”*

1633. ‘Will Ashbye Vicar Dyed the vi of January and
was buryed the xiij‘ of the same monnth.”

William Asheby appears, from his entries in the parish
registers, to have been a neat, careful, methodical and business-
like man. His writing is good. He was careful to keep his

* Rev. Chas, Kerry’s MSS., vol. xii., p. 216. Transcript of Morley Registers.

RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR. 15

own registers exact (though they have been much spoilt by
later erasure, etc.), and to correct, as far as possible, the neglect
of his predecessors.

The first register begins in the handwriting of this vicar,
thus :—

“The names of all thoes that wear buried according as they
wear set dowen in ye olde Regest" booke as followeth :

At afto Dni 1559. ‘Weddings at Aio Dom | 1560 | ad
anh dom [577 | and forward was many as have ben found
in ye old Register book.” This note is interesting as bearing
on the mandate of 1597, in which it was ordained that parch-
ment registers should be purchased at the expense of the
parish, and therein should be transcribed the entries contained
in the former Zager books.

The following appears neatly printed in dlack ink over an
erasure, and is without signature :—

‘“Nota. This Register is very defective as to the four
previous years 1579, 1580, 1581, 1582, wherein the Burials
and Christenings were [for the] greatest part omitted, and the
subsequent years to 1591 (being nine years more) are totally
omitted.”

The original ink is of a reddish colour, and the note may
have been re-copied by James Rathborne, who appended to
the entries of 1634 the following note :—

* Memorandti.—That what is above written in this page
concerning the year 1634 (being in a different character fro
the other) was transcribed there by reason that the Register it
selfe (through the decay of the ink) was almost obliterated.

“James Rathborne.”

{William Asheby made several entries on business matters,

and notes for the benefit and guidance of his successors.]

1633. Jostas HawkswortH. During his incumbency the
registers were abominably neglected, wide note by James
Rathborne.

16 RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR.

1633. ‘Josias Hawksworth Ministar and Elizabeth his wife :
ther daughtar was baptized Cathrin the vij'" Daye of August.”
Jonathan & Eliz: were also baptized at Heanor.

In 1634, bell number 2 was placed in the church tower:
It bears the following inscription—

““GOD SAVE HIS CHVRCH. 1634.”

1650. SAMUEL WRIGHT. Appointed by the Parliamentary
Commission. There are entries of three (?) of the children of
Samuel Wright and Anne his wife. Elizabeth and Joseph only
are mentioned by name. The last of these entries is—

1662. “Samuell Wright y° guondam Mn" de Henor had two
children buried December ye 10™

In 1662 there was an entry which has been almost entirely
obliterated, but which was evidently a “Thanksgiving to
Almighty God”—referring to the Restoration and its conse-
quences, one of which was the ejectment of Samuel Wright.

“Heanor. Mr. Samuel Wright. A good man, and a very
able preacher. He lived in much weakness many years after his
being ejected. He could not preach so often as his more
healthful brethren could, but when he did he preached to very
good purpose, among his old parishioners, from house to house.”
(“* Nonconformists’ Memorial, by Ed. Calamy ; corrected by Saml.
Palmer, 1775. Vol. I., p. 322.) This vicar was living at Heanor
in 1664, when his son Joseph was baptized on the 16™ of April.
From 1650 to 1654 there are no entries in the parish registers.

1664. JAMES RATHBORNE. He was a very careful and
methodical man. He kept the registers in admirable order
during his incumbency, and did much to rectify the neglect of
his predecessors.

He thus dates his installation into the living—

“ A true Account of all Christnings, Weddings and Burials

since Mr. James Rathborne was authorized to officiate the cure
in the Parish Church of Heynor March goth 1664.”

Among several notes on parochial matters is the following,
which refers to the time of Josias Hawksworth’s incumbency—

RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR, 17

“That from the year 1634 to the year 1643 the account of
Christnings, Burialls, and Marriages cannot be found: and that
from the year 1643 till 1650 these ensuing notes (though
imperfect) were found in loose papers in the hands of John Dale
the present clark of this parish, and for the satisfaction of any
whom they may concerne are here transcribed and inserted (the
first day of Aprill Anno Dm 1669) by me

“JAMES RATHBORNE.”

He has handed down the names of some of the church-
wardens—perhaps the only wardens known by name prior to
this century.

1664. James Rathborne— Minister.
Richard Cleaton,
William Potter, Churchwardens,
John Scyvernes,

1665. [James] Rathborne Cur: Richard Cleayton (?) John
Moor (?)

1666. James Rathborne Cur: [the churchwardens’ names are
illegible].

1667. James Rathborne Cur: William Wild Richard (Coates)
(his mark) churchwardens.

1669. GEORGE Westwoop.* In imitation of James Rath-
borne’s entry he tells that he was “authorised to officiate y* cure
in y* parish church of Heynor February y* 27" 1669.”

The following entries of the Westwoods appear in the
register—

1677. George Westwood Minister of Heynor and Mary
Baker of Allestrey widow were married at Horsley August
ye 7™ with a licence.

1693. Mary the wife of George Westwood of Heynor
M™ was buried January 18th.

1698. M* George Westwood Minister of this parish was
Buried May 21*

* “George, the sonne of Edward and Ellen Westwood of Heynor was
baptized August 11th 1647.”—Reg.
2

18 RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR.

In the Horsley parish registers is the following—

““Georgius Westwood Clericus de Heynor et Maria Baker de
Allestry widua nupt: Cum licentia septimo die mensis Augusti
Anno Dom 1677.’ *

George Westwood’s name appears on a rather pretty inscrip-
tion round the shoulder of bell number 5 in the church
tower. The inscription reads—

“Tt TOLE THE TVNE THAT DVLFVLL IS
TO SVCHE AS LIVD AMISSE
BVT SWEETE MY SOWND SEEMES
VNTO THEM WHO HOPE FOR
IOIFVL BLISS
6GaO WEATWOOD 1686.”

1698. SAMUEL LEES.—1737. During his incumbency are
the two following entries—

““A true account of all Christenings Weddings and Burials
since I Richard Goodwin did officiate the clerc in y* Parish of
Heynor June y® 7™ 1702.”

“A true account or all y® Christnings w™ y* Wedings
since I Geo. Davenport did officiate here in this parish of
Henor

Anno Dom 1711
April. 4" rea."

The following entry possibly refers to the burial of a
Quaker at Codnor, as at the Breach was a meeting-house of
the “ Friends.”

1707. Cassandra Mannors of Codner made affidavit that
John Horsely the son of John Horsley was b[uried] accord-
ing to law—Aprill 20 at Breach.”

After this follow a number of affidavits.

[The dates of the various vicars above mentioned, except
William Asheby, are taken from Dr. Cox's “ Derbyshire
Churches.” |

* By the kind permission of the Rev. A. G. Waldy.

RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR. 19

Some persons distinguished by the titles of Lord,
Sir, Lsqre., Gentn, Mr, &c., in the Parish
Registers of heanor, co. Derby,

This list of persons lays no claim to completeness ; but is
taken from a large number of extracts transcribed from the
Registers from time to time.

Until about 1600 these distinguishing titles are very rare;
rom 1600 they gradually increase in number until about 1700,
when they become much more frequent. The titles, however,
are not zzvariadly given with the names, e.g., ‘‘ Jasper Dracot,
gent™” is merely described as “ Jasper Dracot of Losko” prior
to 1595.

1592. Thomas Satchev’ell, gentl™ He died at Heanor Aug.

8th, 1592, and was buried at Morley.

1593. Jasper Dracot, gent™ His wife was named Ellenor.

He is not described as “gent"” until - 1595.

1610. John Dracot thelder gent”

1622. M™" Jone Dracott (see Alexandar Alin).

1626. George Drecott (also, Dreacott) gent. His wife,
Elizabeth.

1670. M® John Draycott (also described as “ gentleman”).
Wife, Jane.

1684. M™* John Draycott of Codunor.

[Many members of this family have no special designation
in the entries. They lived at Loscoe in the parish of Heanor.
The name is spelt variously in the registers. The entries
relating to this family are very numerous. (Vide Lyson’s
Magna Britannia, vol. v., pp. clix. and 182.)]

1602. Henry Hide (also spelt Hyd), gent. His wife was
named Mary. Described as of Oldercar Park. He was
buried Sept’ 22" 1610,

1621. John Hid — gentleman —of henor. The word
“gentleman” is a later insertion in different ink, but
in 1626 there is an entry of ‘John hid of henor gent.
and Joyce his wife.”

20 RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR.

1602. Robert Throckmorton — gentilma’. He lived at
Codnor: died on the 8", and was buried on the 9" of
July, 1602.

1605. Felix Fox—gent. Wife named Briget. He lived at
Codnor Pke. The entries of this family, which dwelt
at Loscoe, are numerous.

1566" “Tuce Zouche was, buried the xx", dayeor
Februarie.”

1579. Sir Jhon Zouch (of Codnor Castle). “S* John
Zouche knight was buried y® 3™ day of Apprill,” 1610.

1607. An Zouche—gent"—daughter of Sir John Zouche
Knight, Buried Feby: 8™ 1607.

1611. Righte Hondrable Lord Edward Zouch, Barron. His
wife Elianor was buried April 3% 1611. ot of
Codnor Castle.

1611. John Zouche Esquire — of Codnor Castell. His
wife, Iszabell. Their son John was christened at
Codnor Castle, Feb. 25", 1612.

This John joined his father in selling the Codnor estates in
1634 (Glover's “ History of Derbyshire,” vol. ii., p. 312). He is
called ‘‘M* John Zouch” in 1618.]

1632. Isabell Zouch, Ladye, wife to the Right Worshipfull
S' John Zouch of Codnar Castall, was buried. She
was the daughter of Patrick l.owe of Denby (G/over,
vol, ii., p. 367).

{Sir John Zouch of this entry is the John Zouch, Esq., of the

previous one. |]

1607. A servant of “S* Henry Beaumonnt Knight in
y® countie of Leicester” was married “ licensed under
y° seal of my Lo Archbishop of Cant.”

1608. John Bampton — gent. and Caterine his wife, of
Heynor Hall, their daughter Dorothy buried.

1610. John Low—gent.—of Shipley his wife, An.

1672. M™ Mary Lowe daughter of M" ffrancis Lowe and
Elizabeth his wife was buried.

RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR, 21

1694. M' Bridget Lowe of Oulgreaves buried.

1697. M* ffrancis Low of y* Oulgreaves buried.

1699. M™ Lucy Low of Oulgreaves buried.

[The family of Low or Lowe of Shipley or Oulgreaves is
distinguished by the title ‘gent.’ or ‘M*™’; but the families of
the same name dwelling at Codnor, Loscoe, and Langley do
not appear to be distinguished in that manner.]

1610. Jarvis (or Jarvas) Dodson—gent., his wife ffrances.
His son Jonathan was buried in 1614.

1615. Jarvis Dodson minister and p*cher of God his Word and
Mary Hayes of Kerkby in ye countie of Nottingha™ wear
maried ye 23 day of June.” [Second marriage] This
Mary was buried in Noy., 1618, and in Dec" of the
same year Mary the daughter of “ Jarvice Dodson of
Langley” was buried.

The following extract may possibly point to the reason why
the Dodsons took up their abode at Langley—

1598. ‘“ Robert Dodson of Little Eaton and _ Isabell

Lowe (?) of Zang/ey wear maried the xix" day of June.”

1624. M*™ Dodson of Langley—widow, was buried.

1611. Sampson Coleclough—gent" his wife, Jane. In this
year three of their children—Thomas, Antony and Clare
were christened on the same day.

[The references to this family are very numerous, but the
distinguishing title is found only with Sampson Coleclough,
and not always with him. In 1602 he is described as
‘Sampson Colecloe of Codn castell” and in 1611, as
“gent® of Heynor hall.” There are tablets to later members
of the family on the walls at the west end of the south aisle
of Heanor Church.]

1612. John Weellock (?) gent. and Hellen his wife—their
daughter Mary christened.
1612. Henry Porter—gent.—wife named Cassander.
[Described as of Kerkby in the countie of Lincolne. An
entry as to his daughter Briget’s being christened. ]

22 RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR.

1616, William Kite—gent. Died 20 March at Newman
Leas and was buried at Cossall in the countie of
Nottingha™.

1618. Anthony Thwaites—gentilma". Of Milnehay in the
parish of Heanor, was buried Feby. 4™

1620. A badly preserved note by William Asheby (vicar
of Heanor from 1593 to 1633) seems to close with the
following words—

“In cOonsideratio wherof for my good will and cosent
their was promised 4 loads of coales to be brought mee
home by John Hide ye soone of one M*™ Henry Hide
ye same day in the p’sence of M®* Willia™ Bennit &
one M™ Jerom Baker of Risley & Thomas Dean with
others.”

[In the body of the note is mentioned ‘ M* Willia Bennit of

Morley Kerk”*—evidently the same man as the witness.]

1621. Richard Lewes—Gentilman. His wife named Jane.
Described as ‘‘ Dwelling in Oularcar parcke ”

1622. M™ Anne Rooper widow was buryed July 18.

[This entry is neatly printed. The Ropers lived at Heanor

Hall.]

1628, Alexander Allin—gentill—of Loscoe.

1622. “M* Allexandar Alin and M"* Jone Dracott was
maryed the xv day of september.”

1629. Joseph More—gent

1644. Captain Tod—his daughter Sarah baptised.

1669. M* Richard Clayton—senior.

1682, M*™ Benjamin Clayton of Loscoe—buried.

1693. M* Edward Wood of Swanwick and M™ Alice
Clayton of Codner were married October 19 w™ a
license.

1695. M* Richard Clayton the younger, of Codnor — wife
Sarah. Their daughter Alice baptized at Heanor
Ap 2"° 1695.

* (?) Clerk.

RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR. 23

1697. M* Richard Clayton—senior—of Codnor—his wife
Alice, buried.

[Mr. Richard Clayton, the younger, of Codnor Breach, was
a retired attorney of Nottingham. His daughter Alice, above-
mentioned, was married, about August, 1714, to Thomas Roby
of Denby—(M" Roby of Denby Old Hall”—/.2.), and
was buried at Heanor, 1762. Sarah, the daughter of Thomas
and Alice Roby, is probably referred to in the Registers.]

1738. Mrs. Roby was Buried May y* 16™
1675. M* Joseph Hieron—of Loscowe—buried in 1690.
His wife named Mary.
1676. M* Samuell Hieron “of ye parish of Duffeild”—
Wife named Mary. Their daughter Ruth buried.
1680. M*: Mary Green, “died at M*™ Hieron’s” and was
buried Jan. 3™
1682. ‘“M*™ John Hieron of Losco was buried July...
1682.”
“John Hieron” is described as living at the ‘‘botome of
Codner” in 1655.
{M" Samuell Hieron is probably the Nonconformist minister
ejected from the living of Shirley in 1662, and mentioned in
the “ Wonconformists Memorial,” vol. i., p. 334-5-]

M*™ John Hieron, buried in 1682, was the Puritan Divine
who was ejected from Breadsall at the Restoration. The late
Rey. Frederick Corfield, rector of Heanor, used to say that
his tablet or tombstone was discovered when the church was
taken down in 1868—but since then it seems to have been
broken up or lost. For the following brief sketch of
his life I am greatly indebted to a friend who has spent
much time and thought on the subject. It will be noted
that though there are some items omitted which are given
by Calamy, there are some interesting additions to his
account.

“John Hieron, son of the Vicar of Stapenhill, near Burton-
on-Trent, was born in 1608, and educated at Repton and

24 RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR.

Christ College, Cambridge. He was ordained both deacon and
priest at the Trinity Ordination in 1630, by Bishop Morton of
Lichfield and Coventry. A year and a half later, he became
chaplain to Sir Henry Leigh at Egginton, and preached at
Newton Solney, where he made the acquaintance of the
Countess of Chesterfield, from whom he received many tokens
of esteem.

“ When the Rev. Joseph Taylor, Schoolmaster and Lecturer
at Ashbourne, died in 1634, John Hieron became Lecturer,
and not long afterwards married Taylors widow. He caused
great uneasiness and controversy in Ashbourne by his vehement
denunciation of the Book of Sports and Sabbath desecration.
The Bishop of Lichfield was powerless to settle the contro-
versy, and Hieron was summoned to Lambeth Palace, but was
discharged without a trial. At the commencement of the
Civil War he was apprehended for preaching against Episcopacy,
but was liberated through the influence of his father-in-law ;
his house was searched, and fearing further molestation he
left Ashbourne for Derby in 1643. He was appointed to
the living of Breadsall by Sir John Gell. His wife died
in 1657 at Hopton, the residence of Sir John Gell, and was
buried at Breadsall. Before his ejectment in 1662 he instituted
a monthly lecture at Dale Abbey: he petitioned to preach
there gratis afterwards, but Bishop Hacket would not allow
this unless he conformed. From Breadsall he settled for a
short time at Little Eaton, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and Newthorp,
settling finally at Loscoe in the parish of Heanor, where he
continued the work of his ministry in his own house and at
the houses of neighbours as long as he lived. He died at
Loscoe on July 6th, 1682, aged 73.

“By Anne Taylor he had a son Joseph (mentioned above),
who died in 1690, leaving five children, Ann, Mary, John,
Rachel, and Joseph—all these are entered in the Heanor
Registers, but Rachel’s name is obliterated.

“John Hieron collected a mass of valuable material for a
topographical history of the county of Derby—the MSS. are

RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR. 25

now in the possession of F, Godfrey Franceys Meynell, Esq.,
of Meynell Langley. He was apparently an_ acceptable
preacher, and at his death had preached in 66 Derbyshire
churches.

“The house of Ann Taylor, daughter of the Rev. Joseph
Taylor, and step-daughter of John Hieron, seems to have
been made the common home at Loscoe.”

An account of the life and character of John Hieron was
written by Mr. Robert Porter, who was ejected from Pentridge,
and died at Mansfield Jan. 22nd, 1690.

1676. ‘Charles Griffin one of M*" Wild’s workmen at
Loscow furnace was buried March yr 87.

1686. M* Samuel Coates—of Ollercar Hall. His wife,
Sarah.

1686. Gervas Disney, Esq.—of Oldercar His wife Rebekah
was buried at Crich June 7th 1686.

1692. M* Edmund Winter—of Langley his wife Elizabeth
buried.

1699. “M* Edmund Winter of Langley in this Parish and
M* Mary Chappel of Riber in ye Parish of Matlock
were married at Trinity Chappel with a licence
Sep? 5t™

1700. ‘‘ffrances ye daughter of M™ Edmund Winter of
Langley and Mary his wife was Baptized Aug 12"

On the South wall of the tower (within) of Heanor Church is a
brass plate (measuring 9} in. by 122 in.) bearing the following
inscription :—‘‘ Here lyeth the body of Dorothy Winter davghter
of Edmvynd and Francis Winter of Langley who Departed this
life the tenth day of November and was bvried the thirteenth
day of the same Month Anno Dom. MDCLXNXI.

‘““Occidi hev virgo nulli pietate secvnda
Terras destitvit gvippe svperna petit
Abstersit lacrymas merito qvas fvdimus omnes
Ac letho lvctvm letitiam qve tvlit.”

26 RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR.

Immediately above this is an inscription on a slate tablet
(somewhat chipped) set in stone—

Here Lieth y® body of France [s]
Winter of Langley, Widow ©
And relict of Edmynd Winter
Rector of Carcolston, who
Dyed April 21*
Anno Dom. 1678.

Here also lieth ye Body of Elizabeth
her Davghter, Late wife of

Edmvnd Elliott of Heynor, And

seven of her Children, viz. Edmvnd,

Thomas, William, John, Frances,
Dorothy, And Mary.

Addenda.

1560. ‘“M*™ Hellen Trappers sometime M™ (? Zouch) of
Butterley was buried in ye chansell of hey [nor|

1576. “Brian Garnett Late Skoolemaster of Nottingha™
was buried ye xxi day of December.” *

In the Nottingham High School Magazine (Zhe Forester,
for July, 1888, p. 4), Mr. Corner, in his article on the history
of the school, mentions Brian Garnet as the third headmaster
in 1555, but adds a query.

On pp. 9 and to of the same magazine, referring to various
historical works, he mentions that the celebrated Jesuit, Henry
Garnet, is said to have been the son of Brian Garnet, Master
of the Nottingham Free Grammar School. (The only mention
there is of Brian Garnet having been master there is in
Foley’s ‘‘ Records of the English Province of the Society of
Jesus.”) Qne authority mentions Nottingham or as others
write “Hennary [? Heanor] in the neighbouring county of

* A most interesting and valuable discovery.—Zaztor.

RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR, 27

Derby.” It is stated that the Garnet family seat was in
Derbyshire. Brian Garnet married a Protestant, Alice Jay,
and the children were brought up in the reformed faith, but
it would seem that they afterwards entered the Roman
communion.

Other entries of this family appear in the Parish Register :—

1570. Ursula Garnet was buried the xiij" day of December.

1576. John ye soone of Brian Garnet was buried the
xix™ day of June.

1579. Augustine Askew & Ales Garnet wear maried ye
xxij™ of December.

1585. “George Smith of ye pishe of Hekington, in ye
countie of Lincolne and Luce Garnet of y* pishe of
heyn’ wear maried the xxix day of June 1585.”

1597. S' Jhon Birron Knight—his servant Roger Long-
worth married to Ellenor Day of Codnor.

1603. “Thomas Asheby Esqire heire & possessor of ye
Lordship of Lousby in ye cdtie of Leircest was buried
ye 21 (?) of March.”

[It is to be noted that William Asheby was Vicar of Heanor
at this time.]

1606. Jhon Brownloe— gent—his wife named Iszabell—
Lived at Heynor.

1607. Robert Purefrey of Maperley, gent., and Dorothy his
wife—their daughter An buried.

1612. Robet Breg... gent. and Matilda his wife. Their
daughter An christened.

1615. ‘‘Mary the Daughter of Henry Cavendish Esqr. &
bridget his wife was baptized the xxi‘ of Maye 1615.”

1618. Richard Lewes gent. and Jane his wife.

He is first described as “dwelling at Codner Castell”; but
in 1624 as “dwellinge Oularcar partke.”

1618. Anthony Thwaits of Milnehay gentilma’—buried.
1627. Mistris Thweates of Millhea—buried.

28 RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR.

1677. M* Matthew Sheapard of Mill-hey—buried at Dendy.

1697. M* Henry Shepard of Millhay—buried.

1662. M* John Shepard de Miln-hey—a daughter buried
at Denby.

There are other Shepards mentioned as of Milnehay, but
without any distinguishing title. Lysons in the Magna Britannia,
vol. v., p. clxv., gives the arms and a short notice of ‘ Shepherd
alias Thwaites of Miln-hay, in Heanor.”

1625. M* Kinesman of Knowtes[all]—his son Ambrose
buried.

1633. Godfree Garratt—gent.—buried

1646. M* Worden—? of Shipley. His daughter Anne buried.

In 1707 John Worden of Shipley is described as “ yeoman.”

1655. M*™ Deken—of Langley.

In 1658 and 1660 described
as “de Henor.” M"® ffrancis Deken buried 1671.

1656. M* Robert Wild—de Codner.

1673. M* Zouch Wild—of Codner Castle—buried.

1681. M* Henry Wild of Codner.

1622. ‘“‘M* Anne Rooper widow was buried July 18.”

1658. ‘‘Samuel Rooper of Heynor Esq. was _ buried
September the 2%” i

These entries are very neatly printed in black ink, no doubt
by James Rathborne. The arms and a notice of Roper of
Turnditch and Heanor will be found in Lyson’s Magna Britannia,
vol. v., pp. clxi. and clxiii.

1661. M* Johnson de Loscoe—buried.

1662. M*: Tompson de Henor.

1663. M* John Piniger de Loscoe.

1673. M* John Piniger of Kirby, co. Nottm—buried.

1665. M*™ Matthew Smith of Loscoe. ? High-Sheriff in 1685.

1668. ‘*Ashburneham the sonne of M* Charles Toll &
Elizabeth his wife (daughter of Samuel Rooper of Heynor
Esq deceased) was baptized April 2°”

[This entry is neatly printed.]

RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR, 29

1669. M*™ Thomas Wetton of Loscoe—his son Thomas
buried.

1669. M”* David Jackson of Derby—his wife Anne buried.

1671. M* Henry Goodere & Martha his wife of Heynor.

1695. [Henry ?] Goodere of Heynor Gentleman was buried
Nov‘e go

1674. M*™ John Middleton—of Mill-hay. Nicholas Rawson
of Kirkbey co. Lincoln died at his house.

1675. M*™ Elizabeth Middleton of Mill-hey—her daughter
Jane baptized. fs

1675. M*™ Elizabeth Vickers of Codner—buried

1676. M*" Edmund Elliott of Heynor—his wife Elizabeth.

[There is a tablet to this Elizabeth in the church tower. She
was the daughter of Edmund and Frances Winter.]

1675. M* Thomas Bott of Derby )

M*™ Mary Watton of Loscowe | married

? Mayor of Derby in 1750.
1672. M* Joseph Houlden of Normanton

by Derby married

M™*™ Mildred Pilkinton of Stanton J

[There is a notice of Pilkington of Stanton in Lyson’s Magna
Britannia, vol. v., p. CXxxix.]

1681. M* Edmund Winter of Langley and M™ Elizabeth
Spencer of Wirksworth were married at Kirk-Ireton by
George Westwood vicar of Heynor.

1688. M”* John Ricard of Doncaster, co. York and M™.. .
Spencer of Ashley Hay were married.

1694. M* Samuel Spencer of Codner and Mary his wife.

1681. ‘*M*™ Samuel Richardson of Smalley and M*™ Martha
Goodere (daughter of M*™ Henry Goodere of Heynor) ”
were married.

1681. M®" William Wright of Carberton and M*™ E......
Middleton of Millhey were married.

1683. M*" Henry Wawin of Losco. His wife Jane buried.

1685. M*™ Ellin New of Heynor (widow) buried.

30 RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR.

1688. M" William Brett of Heynor and Anne his wife—
their daughter Jane Baptized.

1688. M"* Jonathan Broadhurst of Langley and M™ Elizabeth
Willson ?] of Codner were married Dec. 27"

1688. ‘Elizabeth ye wife of M™ Jonathan Broadhurst of
Codner was buried March 11™”

1692. M* Thomas Wilson of Codner, his wife Elizabeth
buried.

1693. M" Thomas Wilson of Codner buried.

1690. .. . George Pierson of Sheffield & M™ Hannah...
of I.angley were married.

1706 (?), M*... Hunter and... his wife of Killborn—
daughter Mary buried.

1659. German Newton de Loscoe gentleman—buried.

1662. ‘*Samuell ye sonne to Ralph Watson was baptized
December ye 2° day.” Ralph and Bridget Watson are
described as of Heynor-comon.

[Is this the celebrated sculptor, who is mentioned in Glover,

vol. ii, p. 107, as being born Dec" 15" 1663 ?]

Parish Clerks of Meanor,

1614. ‘Willm Frerlands Clearke at Henor.”
1669. In a note by James Rathborne, John Dale is said to
be the parish clerk then.
In 1678 a John Dale of Heynor was buried.
1719. In the churchyard is a stone bearing the following
inscription :—
“ Here lyeth Thomas.
Gillot Who Was Cla
rk aboue 50 years
Who died 1719.”

1757. In the Register is the following entry :—

“Thomas gillott Clark of heanor Church Buryed December ye
6 hee Dyed Discember ye 4: 1657 in the Ringing Loft of

—=

RECTORS AND VICARS OF HEANOR. 3I

heanor Church betwixt 7 & 8 o’clock when hee had Just
rung ye first peal for seruis in ye fore noon this was one ye
Sabath and was suposed to be appereplecttine fitt for he had had
2 before, one in this place, and one in the Street.

“ Hee was Clark 38 years 2 months & 3 days and his father
which was buryed in ye Church poach was Clark 54 years and
odd.

‘‘Ninety 2 years was wee Thies book keepars, but now By
death wee air free Euer Lasting Sleepers so euery one that
this do see, think of your own mortallatee ”

[This Thomas Gillott’s gravestone is in the churchyard ; but
much of the inscription is illegible.]

Burial of Suicides.

“ Buried in ye year 1768.
*J]ohn ye sun of Joseph Swain ot Heanor wood hanged himself
a small oak tree in tantums Calf Close ye jury brought him in
Lunicy by reason y‘ Evedence prooved he had been subject to fits
hee had Cristian burial by that vardit one ye 17 of April aged
Ir years and a 11 month.”

32

GA of Klbabeth #itsherdbert, ZAawWow of
Ralph Hisherbert, Lsq., of Morbury,
Derbyshire, Dated 2ZOth October, 1490,

Contributed by Rev. RecinaLp H. C. FirzHERBeErt,

Rector of Somersal Herbert.

Copy in possession of B. T. Fitzherbert, Esq., of
Swynnerton Park, Staffs.) is at once a Will and a
Deed of Appointment; the Will ending with the
word ‘‘above written,” and the Deed of Appointment com-
mencing with the word ‘ Furthermore.”

It is interesting on account of the many articles of domestic
use and of dress mentioned by the testator; and it also supplies
some information useful for genealogical purposes. The original
Will appears to be lost. The testator was the only daughter
and heir of John Marshall of Upton and _ Sibbesdon,
co. Leicester, Esquire.

The question as to what the testator meant by “the Church
of Saint Barloke” has been already discussed in this Journal,
vol. xix., pp. 95-96. On the whole, it appears probable that
“the Church of Saint Barloke” may have been the Chapel
at the east end of the north aisle of Norbury Church, and not
the south-east Chapel. It is true that the latter contains a figure
of St. Barloke in the window; but most of the stained glass in
Norbury Church has been moved from its original position ;

WILL OF ELIZABETH FITZHERBERT, OF NORBURY. 33

and as the windows of the north aisle and south-east Chapel
are of the same size and shape, the glass may have been removed
from the former to its present position in the latter. Who this
Saint Barloke was has not yet been found out.

We learn from this Will that in the year 1490 the testator’s
youngest son Antony (afterwards Sir Antony Fitzherbert, Justice
of the Common Pleas) as yet had “no part of his father’s goods
but his bare finding” only; and his eldest brother John is
directed to pay him the sum of five marks per annum “ towards
his exhibition at Court” (¢.e., his studies at Gray’s Inn), “upon
condition that he continue his learning at the same.” This is
strong evidence that Antony was not that “ Master Fitzherbert ”
who in 1523 wrote the books of Husbandry and Surveying,
and who had then been an householder and exercised husbandry
for forty years. (See Journal D. A. & N. H. S., vol. xix., pp.
96, 97; also an article on this subject in the LZnglish
fistorical Review for April, 1897).

I subjoin a list of certain words in the Will the meaning of
which may not be apparent to all readers, with their explanation
as given in Hadliwell’s Dictionary, and Guiles Jacol’s Law
Dictionary, etc. :—

To the forgeyng=ad fabricandum, ad fabricam reparandum ;
fabricare = to forge.

Raucester = Rocester, Staffs.

Crokesdon = Croxden, Staffs.

Derley = Darley Abbey, near Derby.

Bredpayne= probably a mistake for bedpayne, 7.e., counterpane,

In bredde=in breadth.

My doughter Benct=Bendicta Bradburn, wife of testator’s
eldest son, John Fitzherbert.

Elne brodde=ell broad, the width of an ell.

Bordcloth= tablecloth

A maser=a bowl or goblet.

A nutte harnessed=a silver-mounted coco-nut.

Tuke =“ tewke, to make purses of, trelis ” (a//iwe//) ; apparently
a kind of net or gauze.

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34 WILL OF ELIZABETH FITZHERBERT, OF NORBURY.

Sey =a delicate serge or woollen cloth.

Pounced=ornamented with punch work, repoussé.

A garnesse=a garnish, 7.e., a complete set or service of vessels.

Brandyron=same as andiron, @.e., hearthdogs (Aa//iwel/) ; but
query=brandreth, 7e., an iron tripod to support kettle or pot
over fire.

Landeyron=‘‘landern, a grate’ (Had/iwe//).

Throwone leed= turned lead, a round leaden vessel.

Throwen stoles=turned stools.

Stepyng fate= steeping vat.

Yeleyng fast=ale vat, brewing tub.

Ale lomes=ale tubs.

Purfled = ornamented, trimmed.

Cowedron = Cauldron.

Yrne=iron.

Scom* = skimmer,

Skelett =a long-handled metal pot.

Broche = spit.

Puke=a colour between russet and black.

Shankes = fur from the legs of animals.

Iche, ichon=each, each one.

Medful = profitable.

Co.-maundre= Commandery of the Knights of St. John.

Wared in bredde=laid out in purchase of bread.

Suete= suit.

Be (Marie fifius.”*
“©In Dei noie. amen. the xxth day of the moneth of Octobr the yere of
our Lord God m.ccce.Ixxxx. I Elizabeth ffitzherbert Wydowe, stidfast of
mynde & of good remembraunce make my testament in this wyse: ffurst,
I bequeth my sole to almyghty god. And to the blessed virgyn our Lady
seint Mare. And my body to be bured in the Churche of seint Barloke
by fore the ymage of seint Nicholas by syde the body of Rauffe ffitzherbert
late my husbond orels in the Chauncell of Sebestian fast by my ffather
& Mother, by the advyse & discrescion of myfi executours. Also I bequeth
in the name of my Pryncipall as the matt & custome asketh. Also I bequeth
to etly Prest beyng at my bereyng that is to witte at my durgee & att my

WILL OF ELIZABETH FITZHERBERT, OF NORBURY. 35

masse iiij’, & to ely clerk ther beyng j*. Also I bequeth in wax to be
brentte abowte my body in the day of my berying vi li. in weght. Also I
bequeth to the Cathedrall Churches of our lady of Couentre & of seint
Chadde of lychefeld to ayther of theym xij’, Also I bequeth to the
fforgeyng of the Curche of Sybbesdon vjs. viiit, Also I bequeth to the
forgeyng of the Church of Yoxall iijs% iiij4, also I bequeth to the
forgeyng of the Churche of Duffeld iijs. iiij4. Also I bequeth to Calwych xij‘.
And to the Paroch Church of Raucest? xij4. Also I bequéth to the abbotte
_& couent of Crokesdon to p*y for my soule for a Trentall to be song &
seid of them x%. Also I bequéth to the Priour of the ffreres of Derby &
to the Couent to p*y for my soule. And to syng & saya trentall xs. Itm,
I bequeth to the abbot & couent of the abbey of Derley to p*y for my soule
for a trentall to be seid for my soule xs. Also I bequeth to the fyndyng of a
Prest to p*y for the soule of Rauffe ffitzherbert late my husbond & for my
soule xti of money be syde the rent of Calton. Also I bequeth to vij
Prestf at the trust & dispocicion of myn executours to p*y for my sole xlvjs.
viij4, that is to wytt to etly Prest vj%. viij4, to say Placebo & derige efly
nyght & masse on the morowe duryng that yere And etly Prest to be
assigned to his day by myn executours. Also I bequeth to John ffitzherberd
myn eldest son the best standyng Pece of syluer wt a coli, the best standyng
salt of syluer wt a coi. Also my best tabull clothe of dyapur wt ij the
best Towells & iiij of the best napkyns & the best bredpayne (szc) & the
best Payre of shetes of 1ij webbes in bredde. also to my Doughter Benet
my best gurdyll & an newe brasyn morter & a Pestell. also I bequeth to
Henr’ ffitzherbert my son xls. in money & to hys wyffe a peyre of shetf of
iij webbes also I bequeth to Thomas ffitzherbert my sone a Goblet of syluer
wt. a coil a peyre of flaxen shetf elnebrodde, iij kuschyns, a short bordcloth
of diapur wt. ij short towelles of dyapr’. also I bequeth to Richard ffitzherbert
my, sone xlS. in money. Also I bequeth to Will*m ffitzherbert my sone A
maser wt. a bande of syluer & gylt A nutte harnessed wt syluer & gylt
wt. a coll of syluer & gylt iij Spones of Siluer of the xij. a peyre of flaxen
shetf? elnebrodde, ij blankettf, ij cotllett? a bett & a wors. A materes
wt. a Bolster of fethers. A Browed Chest at Pollesworth & a white hangyng
bedde that is in the old Chambur. Also I bequeth to my sone Antony
ffitzherbert a flatte pece of siluer, iij syluer spones of the dosen, a peyre of
flaxen shetf elne brodde, ij blankettf, ij collett? A bet? & a wors. A
materes a bolster And the blake Chest in the Parlour A white hangyng
bedde that is in the Parlour, also I bequeth to Edithe Babyngton my
Doughtur my Best Prym, a Curtyll of blake Tuke and a ryng of gold wt.
Images. And Anne Babyngton her Doughter A gowne clothe & a Curtell
& a peyre of shetf yerd brod & an heyfur Calfe of ij yere. Also I bequeth to
Margery Purfrey my doughter a ffethurbed wt a bolster in the Chambre

36 WILL OF ELIZABETH FITZHERBERT, OF NORBURY.

ij blanketts ij Cofllett? on’ is of rede in the Chambr wt. a coilyng of red sey. A
white hangyng bedde in the same Chambr & a Pelowe. Also a materes wt. a
bolster wt. the hangyng of red sey in the best Chambr. also a peyre of
shetf flaxen yerd brod. also a bord cloth of diapur wt a long towell of
diap~ that come from Norbury iiij napkyns of diapur & a cotipayne, a pleyn
Bord clothe of flaxen a yerd brod. also a hempyn bord clothe wt. ij towels
of Canves. Also a syluer pece Pounced wt. a Coil. iiij syluer spones iij of
the xij & on of the other. the litull broken salt seler of syluer. iij Cusshynes,
the Chest that stondf in the maydyns chamber. also half a Garnese of
Pewt' vessell of the worste sworte, ii candulstykf a bet? & a worse a basyn
& an ewer and the gretyste Brasse Potte conteynyng viij galons. a gret
panne conteynyng xxiiij Galons, and the lesse Poi conteynyng vj galons,
And the lasse fyre dysshe, a grete brandyron, a spyt of iij yerdf in lenght
a grete landeyron, a newe throwone leed, also ij Throwen stoles, a stepyng
fate, a yeleyng fast, & ij ale lomes. Also I bequethe to Dorathe Cumberford
my doughter a fetherbed wt. a bolstur, ii blankettf, ii shetf of elne brodde, iij
coulletf?, & a hed shete, ij Pelowes, a grene hangyng bed that is at Duffeld,
also iiij materes wt. iiij bolsteres ij blankettf, ij shetes of elne brod, ij collettf,
the hengyng of grene saye in the Parlour wt. a cotlyng of grene saye for the
bedde, also iij payre of Canvas shetf, a borde cloth of Diapur that is at
Pollesworth wt. ii Towels of the same a pleyne bord cloth of flaxen elne
brode, wt the Towels of the same, ij hempyn bord clothes, wt ij hempyn
towels, vj napkyns of diapur, also my violet gowne furred wt greye a long
goune purfeld wt damaske: a flat sylil Pece wt a coil And the secund
salt seller wt vj siluer spones iij of the xije™ & iij other, yf ther be so mony, vj
kusshynes, also the Chest that was at Wellesborowe, and a Paynted Cheste,
And a steyned bedde, & iij throwen stoles, And a grete fatt, also a
garneshe of Pewter vessell & iij leedes in forme that byn at Duffeld. Also
a Basyn & a laver, the Newe holowe basyn, wt a lytyll bason and ij :
candylstykkf a bet? & a wars, also a grete Pott conteynyng vj gallons, &
a lytyl Potte conteynyng a galon, a Cowedron bounden wt yrne
conteynyng iiij galons, a grete Panne conteynyng xx" galons, a Panne
conteynyng vj galons, a brasyn ladyll wt a brason scom, & the lasse
skelett. Also I bequeth to the seid Dorathe ij Rakkes of yrne to roste
wtall, ij lytyll Anndyrnes that are occupied in the Parler chymney, An yrne
broche iij yerdf & a quarter in lenght, wt a brand yrne. Also I bequeth to
Angnes Lyster my Doughter my longe Puke goune purfeld wt shankes, &
a Peyr of flaxen shetf yerd brodde, and to Richard Lyster a gowne clothe
of violet. Also I bequeth to Thomas Babyngton a gowne clothe of violet.
Also to Robert Jakes x‘. for a gowne clothe & to his wyffe a rounde gowene
Purfeld wt damaske. also to Sir Henry Prynce person of Norbury xs. for
gowne clothe. also to Sir Hugh and gefferey my chappellens efly of them

WILL OF ELIZABETH FITZHERBERT, OF NORBURY. 357

a blake gowne cloth. And Sir John Savage a peyre of flaxen shetes. also
to John Grenehep my Su*nt a gowne clothe blake wt a peyre of hoseclothe
w' a blake trotyng horsse. Also to Henry skotte a gowne clothe blake,
And to ely of theym a calfe of this yere. Also I bequethe to Johan
Scatergoode my Su*nt a peyre of canvase shetf & to Cecile my Sunt a smok
of myn owen orellf ix’ to bye her of wt. Also to Alice my Su*nt a borde
clothe canvas, & a Calfe, Also to Thomas Janyn my Su*nt a shert a gowne
clothe, a Bonett, also to etly other of my howsehold 8u@nts Iche of them,
a shepe. Also where it is so that my sonnes Willtm & Antony as yet have
no ptie of their fathur goodf but their bare fyndyng, I wull that etly of
them have x m*rs of my godys that is to witt x m*rs apece for suche pte as
they ought for to haue hadde of ther fathers godys & the resydewe I bequeth
unto myn eldys son and heire. also I bequeth to John Lyster a bullock
of ij yere age, And a gowne clothe & fustyon to make hym a cote. Also I
bequeth to Bradfeldf wyffe a gowne of black ffurred wt shankf, & to hym a
gowne cloth, the price v’. And for a bedde by the discrecion of myn
executours. Also to the old vicar of Duffeld vis. viij*, also I will that all
suche goodf as I have bequethed any money or other goodf abyde the
delyflaunce & payment of the same to suche tyme as myn executours mey
convenyently selle suche goodf and catellf as I have syned, that the sell the
same to the best intent wtoute eny hast or hynderauns of the same. The
resydue of my goodys off this not bequethed, I putt vnto John ffitzherbert,
Thomas Babyngton, Thomas ffitzherbert my sonnes, & Robert Jakes whom
I ordeygn & make my true & lawfull executours, that they as I truste
thame dispose my seid goodis & catelles as they thynk moste medfull to
my solle. Also I bequeth to Ichon of my seid executours xx for their labours
Thes witnesses Thomas Purfrey Sir Nicholas Irpe pische Preste of Sybbeston
Sir Hugh Pemburton wt other. Yeven at vpton the yere & day aboue
wryton / / fforthermore wher’ I by my dede beryng date at Norbury the xth
day of the moneth of february the furst yere of kyng Richard the iijt¢ enfeffed
John Purfrey, Robert Jakes Thomas Powtrell Thomas Babyngton & Ric‘
Lyster in fee of all my Manes Meses landf tenementf renttf & Suice wt their
apPten*ncf whiche wher sityme John Marshals my ffather in ypton & stoke
w'in the countie of Leycestr’ Sedsale in the Countie of Derby, Calengewodde
& Roddelowe in the Countie of Stafford of confidens & truste to pforme my
wylle. And after that by my dede triptite indented beyryng date the last
day of Decembr in the yere of our lord god mlcccc. Ixxxiiij. & the ij4e yere
of the reg of kyng Richard, Declared my wille to my seid feoffees opon
the same ffeoffament as well for the mariage of my Doughtours as for other
estates aft to be made of the same, the whiche wille & estates to be made,
I revoke and adnulle by this my last wille, And will that it in all thyngf
stond as voide & of non effect & that the seid dedes indented be cancelled

38 WILL OF ELIZABETH FITZHERBERT, OF NORBURY.

in whose handf that ei! they come. And that my feoffes stand & be seased
of the seid Man§ landf & tenementf to my behove duryng my lyffe, & aft
my discease that they make suche estate to myn eldest sone & heir’ of the
same as discended to me fro my father for suche estate as discended to me,
I wull shal be made to hym & in non other man chaunged by taill nor other
wyse. but I wull all way that suche wyll as my husbond Rauffe ffitzherbert
made, stand, & be in his strenght this my will not wtstondyng. Also where
my seid husband by his last wylle wold that landf & tenementf in Norbury
& Rossyngton to the yerely value of xxte m*rs shulde be diuided among his
yonge sunes for terme of lyffe, And that diuision to be hadde by the
discrescion of his executours as in his seid wille more playnly appereth, of the
whiche executours, I am on—this is myn advice & councell And assent
that the seid xx m*rs be diuided vnder this forme, that is to witte, that my
sonnes Henry Richard Will’tm & antony have nowe forthwt eily of them
v m*rs to the tyme the seid Richard be pferred to si cOmaundre, And aft
my discease I wull that my sonne Jofin suffer my seid sonnes pesable to haue
iiij oxgangf of land purchesed by my seid husband & me in sedsall, orelles
that he make them sure for terme of thir lyves And landf & tenementf
to the yerely value of iiij m#rs off all charges at the libette of the seid John
And when the seid Richard my son is pferred to a co@undre or yf he discease
by fore that tyme, then I wull & gyffe myn assent that the seid landf of the
whiche the seid Richard shall take the pfett be divided in this forme, that is
to witt xxvis. viij4. to the seid Will@m for tme of his lyffe & liijs. & iiijd. to the
seid Antony my sonne for terme of his lyffe so that my seid sone Henry
shall haue for ?me of hys lyffe landf & tenementf to the yerely value of vj
m*rs, Will’m for ?me of his lyffe viij mrs, And Antony for tme of his lyffe
x m*rs, Also I require my seid son John ffitzherbert that he make ynto
my so# Antony a sufficient & lawefull graunt of landf & tenementf, or elles
of rentf to the cler’ yerely value of vy m*rs toward his exhibicion att court
appon condicion that he contynue his lernyng at the same & elles to hold
hym content wt x m@rs when it ffalleth, the whiche so to do & pforme, my
seid son John hathe pmysed before my sonnes Thomes Babyngton Thomas
Purfrey the seid Antony ffitzherbert Robert Jakes & other. Also I wull that
my seid fieoffes retenne & kepe in their handf landf & tenementf to the
yerely value of xx*. to fynd an obet yerely at Norbury for my seid husbondf
soule, my soule, our fathers & Mothers & all cristen soules. And that the
seid xx, be disposed in this wyse :—furst to ely Prest ther’ being at derige &
masse iiijj?, And to eily cherk (sé) ther being j*. And that at remaineth of
at eny tyme to be wared in bredde & diuided among the pore pichons of
Norbury by the discrescion of my seid son & heir’ & curate of the Church
for the tyme ther being. And yf eny contrarnesse difficulte or doute fall in
construccion or exposicion of eny pts of this my wille, I wull that the same

WILL OF ELIZABETH FITZHERBERT, OF NORBURY. 39

be construed & dePmend by John ffitzherbert, Thomas Babyngton, Thomas
fitzherbert, Thomas Pufrey & Robert Jakes whiche knowe the true meanyng,
& the intente of me in the Bmisses. And I exourte me & also charge all
my seid sonnes that they & efly of them hold them content acordyng to this my
wille wtoute makyng forther stryffe suete or debate for the same as they wull
haue goddf blessyng & myn, & avoide the confrie.”

Probatu approbatu & infirmatu (sic) fuit presens testm Cora nobis
Magistro Johi Sherma Officiali dii Archidiaconi leices? in ecctia sci Martini
dée ville leicestrie pimo die més Augusti Anno dni sup’script Comissa q est
administ’cO bono dem test’ cdcernécm executorib3 supscriptis in forma juris
juratis & p eosd admiss’,

(Endorsed) **Vitima Voluntas
Elizabeth ffitzherbert.”

Dag 95

40

The Anctent Painted Aindow, PWault
Hucknall Church.

By Rev. C. Kerry.

“aN comparison with other counties, Derbyshire possesses
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a very fair proportion of ancient painted glass in
the windows of its churches. Much was undoubtedly
battered down during the lawlessness of the Civil
Wars, as at Ashover, but very much more has perished from
the apathy and ignorance of the last, and beginning of the
present century. A reparation of a window involving reglazing
was (may I not say, 7s?) always certain to be fatal to any
relics of old glass which might or may adorn it. A few years
ago, there were six fragments (viz., four quarries, and two
elegant leafy designs for tracery openings) in the windows of
Horsley Church, Derbyshire. On my last visit a few months
ago, I found that the whole of the aisle windows had been
reglazed with staring white glass, and the ancient fragments
had altogether disappeared. Happily, I made copies of the
old designs on a former visit. Thus little by little are our
old churches denuded of all indications of their former
magnificence, and the relics of the past are swept away, regardless
of their worth or interest.

Besides the churches of Norbury and Morley, and the
chapel of Haddon, where we have whole windows glowing still
in their pristine beauty, there is one in very fair preservation

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at Hault Hucknall, which is interesting if only as illustrating
the art of glass painting in the last stage of Gothic decadence,
when old forms were paling before new ideas, and the feeling
of the Renaissance overshadowing the devotional school.

The Hucknall window is fairly preserved, but it would
seem to have been at considerable risk: the subjects have
been remounted in a plain quarried ground, evidently by a
local glazier.

The inscription on this window in its original form is
quoted by the Rev. Dr. Cox, in his “ Churches of Derby-
shire,” from an old visitation of the County, as follows :—

*Orate pro bono statu Johis Sauvage Militis et Elizabethe
fieems clus. qui me - fieri fecerunt ap. MilCCCCC
vicessimo septimo.”

Of this inscription we have ‘“ Orate pro bono. ;
Johis” in the first light; the piece of glass containing the
first two words has been reversed (turned inside outwards) by
the glazier, so that they must be read backwards, and the
word “statu” has disappeared. No more of the inscription
remains until we come to the fourth light, where under the
feet of S. Ursula we find the date 1527. On my last visit
was discovered a fragment of glass bearing the name “ Sauvage ”
at the back of the monument beneath the window, with one
or two other pieces probably from the tracery of the west
window of the nave. These are now carefully preserved by
the vicar. It is to be hoped that funds may be forthcoming
to re-instate this window, when the a// important name will be
replaced.

The Crucifixion of our Lord, with the accompanying figures
of SS. Mary and John, occupies the first three lights of the
window ; the fourth—to the south—contains the figure of S.
Ursula. The inscription band runs across the window at the
foot of these figures dividing the principal subjects from the
lower panels.

Careful photographs of the window have been kindly provided

42 ANCIENT PAINTED WINDOW, HAULT HUCKNALL CHURCH.

for this Journal by the Rev. F. Brodhurst, the vicar, to whom
our best thanks are due, as well as for the extracts from the
“* Ing. post mortem” illustrative of the Sauvage family.

A drawing merely (however well it may be executed) can
hardly convey the true expressién of the original glass; and
although we may lose the charm of colour by the more
accurate process of photography, a specification of the tints
may in some measure compensate the loss.

As in all windows of this period, there is but little
colour, the prevailing hue being a warm dusky white. The
general effect at a distance is pleasant and soothing, and
whatever imperfections theré may be owing to the decadence
of treatment and style, these all vanish in the breadth and
unity of colouring.

The figure of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the first light has lost
the head, as well as the lower portion. The mantle is open in
front, the left side of it being gracefully brought round and
tucked under the right arm. This robe has a stained border
with a kind of inscription by way of ornament pegged out of
the heavy ‘mat’ which covers it

‘ Statin’ is the technical term for the beautiful light yellow tint
applied here and there for decoration on the larger pieces of
white glass. It is the only tint (not an enamel) which can be
applied by the artist for the decoration of his draperies, and
other portions of his work. Stain applied to blue glass
produces various shades of green, according to the relative
density both of glass-tint, and stain. With ruby it produces
orange, and so on according to the laws of colour. Grey
takes stain with charming results, and the same may be said
of many other tones of glass.

‘Stain’ is produced by an application of nitrate of silver
compounded with a medium for application; and fixed (after
the other work has been through the kiln) at a second firing.
Its use was discovered about the year 1370, and its intro-
duction gradually imparted a lightness and silvery beauty to
windows quite unknown to the earlier schools of art. It is

PLATE II.

BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.

PLATE III.

ANCIENT PAINTED WINDOW, HAULT HUCKNALL CHURCH. 43

specially characteristic of the glass of the Perpendicular period
until its decline.

‘Colour’ is a technical term for the reddish-looking paint
used by the artist for lining or tracing, and for shadows. It
is a compound of oxide of iron and other ingredients, which,
by the action of fire, become incorporated with the glass. The
line work must have solidity or opacity, and for finer work
the colour is applied with a fine pencil of red sable, whilst
the shadows are laid over or upon the mat, and _ stippled
down to the required density by a stippler of hogs’ hair.

‘Mat’ is the term used for a thin layer of colour spread
evenly over a given surface. This, when dry, is often removed
with a pointed instrument, so as to form diapers or brilliant
patterns on a dark ground. By this method was formed the
inscription on the band across this window, as well as the
pattern on the mantle of the Blessed Virgin before mentioned.
The process was as follows :—First came the application of the
‘mat,’ then the removal or ‘fegetng out’ the pattern or
letters desired, then the firing. After this, the stain was
applied at the Jack of the glass, which was passed a second
time through the kiln. In the case of features and drapery,
the glass is first coated with a ‘mat,’ the high lights are
then brushed out, then the tracing of lines and ornaments
required, then the deepening of shadows, and rounding of
figures, usually with a medium of oil of tar, followed by
careful stippling or toning down. In the figure of the Blessed
Virgin, the cuffs of the sleeves are stained, and all the mantle
save the border is white. The floor is composed of diagonal

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alternate squares.

In the second light we have the Crucifixion. All the
darker portions of the photograph represent the parts stained
yellow—the cross, the sun, the upper part of the hair,
including the nimbus, the crown of thorns, and the waist-
cloth ; all the rest is of white glass, duly shaded and stippled.

_ The topmost arm of the cross was probably lost at the re-setting

44 ANCIENT PAINTED WINDOW, HAULT HUCKNALL CHURCH.

of the glass in the new quarries. There is an eye in the
centre of the sun. The copious streams of blood flowing
from the sacred wounds are remarkable for their volume,
perhaps designed to set forth the truth, that ‘‘ With Him is
plenteous redemption.”

In the third light stands the figure of S. John. The
hair, the outer rim of the nimbus, and the figured border of
the robe (visible on the right shoulder), are stained ; all the rest
is white with light brown shading. The spots visible on the
face are caused by the corrosion or decay of the outer surface
of the glass from exposure.

In the fourth light we find the figure of S. Ursula.

The legend of this saint is given at great length by Mrs.
Jameson in her charming volume of “Sacred and Legendary
Art,” p. 299. She is said to have been a princess, the daughter
of Theonotus, a king of Brittany. Her hand was sought in
marriage by Conon, son of Agrippinus, king of Britain. Having
made a vow of perpetual virginity, she departed with a large
company of virgins on a pilgrimage to the holy places in Rome.
They ventured to sea in a ship without sailors, and were driven
into the mouth of the Rhine as far as the port of Cologne.
Eventually they reached Rome, where they were received with
much reverence and honour by S. Cyriacus, bishop of that
city. Conon resolved to set out in search of her, and by a
miracle arrived in Rome as Ursula and her company were on
the point of departure. Being happily re-united with Ursula at
the feet of Cyriacus, and having learnt her determination, Conon
received baptism, changing his name from Conon to Etherius, to
express the purity of his soul. He no longer sought possession
of Ursula; but rather, with her, the crown of martyrdom. After
a long and perilous journey they arrived in the port of Cologne
at the time the city was besieged by barbarians, who at once
attacked the holy company. Etherius fell, pierced by an arrow,
at the feet of the beloved princess, and the maidens were all
massacred: Ursula, distinguished for her beauty, was carried
before their leader, who at once wished to make her his

PLATE IV.

S. JOHN.

PLATE, V.

S. URSULA.

ANCIENT PAINTED WINDOW, HAULT HUCKNALL CHURCH. 45

queen. With indignant words of defiance S. Ursula rejected his
offer, upon which, the pagan, seized with fury, bent his bow
which he held in his hand, and with three arrows transfixed her
breast, so that she fell dead at his feet; ‘but her spirit ascended
into heaven with all her glorious sisterhood of martyrs whom she
had led, and there with palms in their hands they stand round
the throne of Christ, and live in His light and His approving
smile, blessing and praising Him for ever.”

In the east window of the north aisle of Morley Church is a
figure of S. Ursula, with eleven virgins in her lap, in the act
of ascending into heaven.

S. Ursula is invariably represented with a crown on her head
as a princess, an arrow in her hand as a martyr, and on each side
several of her virgin companions, as in this most interesting
fragment at Hucknall. In this figure, as before, the darker
shades represent the stain; all the rest is white. The lower
extremity of the arrow-shaft is yellow; the upper, white. The
dresses of the virgins beneath the right hand are also yellow, as
well as the remains of the kirtle of S. Ursula. As eleven virgins
are usually depicted with this saint, and only six are visible on
the right side, we may fairly presume that five others were
placed under the diverging mantle on the left.

We now come to the four lower panels beneath the principal
figures.

The Rev. Dr. Cox, in his “ Churches of Derbyshire,” i., 245,
gives a quotation from an old heraldic visitation of Derbyshire
made in 1611, from which it may be inferred that more old glass
existed at Hucknall then, than at present; and it seems very
probable that some of the glass in the present window, particularly
two of these lower panels, formed part of these demolished
windows.

There was certainly .a window to the memory of Richard
Pauson, containing the arms of some religious house of royal

: foundation.
Again, there was the figure of a man kneeling, wearing a

tabard bearing the Sauvage arms, viz.: 1st and 4th, argent, a

46 ANCIENT PAINTED WINDOW, HAULT HUCKNALL CHURCH.

pale lozengy sad/e; 2nd, or, on a fesse azure, three garbs ppr. ;
and 3rd, a chevron between three martletts; whilst connected
with ¢Azs figure was the inscription remaining in ¢/#zs window.
The figure wearing the arms of John Sauvage is lost; but the
wife of John Sauvage, wearing the arms of her family on a
tabard, remains in the present window. She is thus described:
“ Upon a woman kneeling—Quarterly 1st and 4th, France and
England on a fesse within a bordure gobonée (Somerset) ;
2nd, Herbert; 3rd, Woodville.” Here, then, are mentioned
two panels belonging to the Sauvage window, one of which is
lost.

We come, now, to the next quotation: ‘Under the arms of
Hardwick impaling a broken coat is this inscription, ‘Orate pro
bono statu Johannis Hardwick generosi et . . . . uxoris eijus.’”
This clearly relates to a separate Hardwick window. The second
panel of our window exhibits these very arms impaling, as in
1611, the identical ‘“ broken coat.” These arms, therefore, have
been taken out of the Hardwick window, now destroyed, and
placed in this. The third panel exhibits a single kneeling figure
habited in a long blue cloak. It clearly represents an ecclesiastic
because of a hood visible at the back, whilst the under vest-
ment is white, as would be the case with a priest vested ina
cope with an accompanying albe or surplice. Is this figure
from the Pauson window? It seems very probable. In 1611
we are told that in Pauson’s window was a shield of the arms
of England bearing in chief a religious building with a woman
holding a crozter. The Valor Ecclesiasticus of 27 Henry VIII.
speaks of the Prior of Newstead as patron of Hault Hucknall
and of Mr. Richard “ Palson” (Pauson) as vicar. The arms
of Newstead were: Azure, three lions passant guardant in
pale or; on a chief gw/es, the Virgin and Child of the second.

The Virgin and Child must clearly have been taken by the
old herald for a woman holding a crozier. Possibly the Blessed
Virgin Mary was represented as holding a sceptre in one hand
whilst supporting the Holy Child with the other, as on a brass
at Morley.

PLATE VI.

ANCIENT PAINTED WINDOW, HAULT HUCKNALL CHURCH. 47 .

These arms are destroyed, but the figure of Pauson which
accompanied them has clearly been inserted here to make up
the quartet of panels. Newstead Abbey was founded by King
Henry II., hence the royal arms beneath the figure of the
Virgin.

Of the fourth panel, containing two male figures habited in
blue gowns furred or purfiled at the collars and sleeves, nothing
can be said, save that the diapred background and the side pillars
correspond with those of the frst panel, and so associate them
with the Sauvage window. Hence we may conclude they
represent the children of John and Elizabeth Sauvage.

Now let us examine the treatment.

There can be no doubt but that the whole of this window,
including the two strange panels representing two other windows
now destroyed, are the work of the same artist. In other words,
there were once three painted windows in Hucknall Church,
erected about the same time, and executed by the same workman.
Apart from artistic evidence, what do we find ?

1st, Pauson died about 1536; but he erected his window
before his death, as we may certainly infer from the inscription
on his glass, ‘“‘Orate pro bono statu.” He might have had it
done when the Sauvages erected theirs nine years before.

and, The present window of the Sauvages is dated 1527.

3rd, John Hardwick died in 1528, which would be the date
of the Hardwick glass.

There can, therefore, be no doubt but that the three memorials
were erected under the care and supervision of the then vicar,
John Pauson.

The foremost lady in the first panel wears a tabard of arms
identified by Dr. Cox as Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Somerset,
Earl of Worcester, a lady of royal descent and the wife of
Sir John Sauvage.

The blazonry of arms in old painted glass is not always correct,
because of the difficulty experienced in placing the bearings of
‘certain colours upon a field of another colour. When the

charges of the shield became more complicated, every means

48 ANCIENT PAINTED WINDOW, HAULT HUCKNALL CHURCH.

was resorted to in order to represent them in their proper
colours, whether by “leading in” the various tints required, or
destroying by abrasion the surface of the coated or ‘flashed’
glass. In the more ordinary specimens, stained yellow and
white glass were often for convenience sake substituted for the
proper heraldic colours. This should always be borne in mind,
especially in the examination of shields of many quarterings.

In so small a figure as this, revealing four quarterings on a
small tabard, the emblazonry cannot be absolutely relied upon.

The two ladies in this panel are habited in gowns of a purplish
ruby tinge; the head dresses are stained. The fenestrella of
the prayer-desks are stained, as well as the side columns of
the canopy. The background is white, with a diaper drawn
in the matting.

The Hardwick arms in the second panel are fixed in a wreath
of leaves stained, and shaded with brown on a white ground.

The figure of the ecclesiastic in the third panel has been
described. His girdle, as well as the side columns and_back-
ground, is stained.

In the fourth panel the architectural features are all yellow.
The background is a brownish white, with the diaper tricked
out in the ‘mat.’ The darker tones in the prayer-desks indicate
the stain. The heads and central portions of each figure are
executed on one piece of white glass, as may be seen by the lead
lines and stain applied to the hair, neckband, and trimmings.

The removal of the high lights out of the ‘mat’ on the gowns
of these figures is very sharp and crude, no attempt having been
made to soften down by stippling. A bit of an inscription
from another window appears in the margin on the right.

The editor desires to record not only his gratitude to the
Rev. F. Brodhurst for his courtesy, shewn to him on his visit
to Hault Hucknall; but also to the artist, Mr. G. E. Snell, for his
excellent service in the production of the fine photographs of
the window accompanying this paper.

PLATE VII.

ANCIENT PAINTED WINDOW, HAULT HUCKNALL CHURCH. 49

Manor of Stevnesby.

At the Domesday Survey Steinulf appears to have held it
under Roger of Poicton.

In the Pipe Ro. of 1 John we find that William, son of
Walchel, paid sixty marks for having hounds for following the
hare, the wolf, and the wild cat, and for having the confirmation
of the king for the same, and that his woods should not be
afforested ; for King Richard I. disafforested them, but did not
confirm the act; and for having the king’s confirmation of his
lands at Steynesby, which he had by charter of King Henry II.

About the year 1198, Robert le Sauvage was fined for marrying
the daughter of Will. fitz Walchel, or Walkelin. Mr. Yeatman,
in his “ Aiudal History of Derbyshire,” states that the charter of
King Henry, as well as King John’s confirmation of it, are still
at Hardwick Hall.

In the Zug. Post. Mort. (anno 27 Edward J., No. 45) it is
stated that the “Treasury Rolls” of 7 Henry III. record that
Robert le Sauvage surrendered at Szyncum (?), before the king,
all his lands which he held in chief, to the use of John Sauvage,
his son, who did homage for the same.

It seems probable from Jug. Pos. Mort., 4 Edward I., that
Robert, the first of the Sauvages of Steynesby, acquired this
manor by his marriage with Andeluya, the heiress of William
fitz Walchel, for we find that on the death of her son, John
Sauvage, she was entitled to one third of the manor for her
dowry ; and that Hawysia, the wife of John the son, was entitled
to a third of the two remaining shares.

The succession of the Sauvages will be better seen from the
accompanying pedigree than from a detailed account.

In the Jug. Post. Mort. of 4 Edward I., the manor was held
in chief, and in socage, at the yearly rent of a soar sparrow
hawk for all services. The manor was then worth £20 13s. 6d.
yearly. The hawk might be compounded for by 2s. paid into
the exchequer. Anno 27 Edward I., the manor house and
garden were valued at 3s. perannum. There were fifty acres of

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50 ANCIENT PAINTED WINDOW, HAULT HUCKNALL CHURCH.

plough-land, worth 4d. the acre, and a meadow 15s. yearly.
There was a park producing gs. yearly from agistments ; also a
separate pasture worth 4s. per annum. ‘The watermill was valued
at 30s. 8d.; the assize rents paid by the free tenants, “ natives,”
and cottars amounted to 6s. 1od.; and the profits of courts
were valued at 20s. yearly.

In the sth of Edward II. we find that an additional rent of
4 lbs. of cummin (“cuminum’’) was paid to the king, as well
as 2 lbs. of pepper—a very considerable addition. We can easily
understand the use and value of pepper in the Middle Ages ; but
what was the cummin for? Mattheolus, in his commentary on
Dioscorides, the old medical authorities of an early period, shall
inform us:—‘‘Ciminum sativum—Excalfacit, adstringit, exiccat :
ad tormina inflationesque convenit, coctum et cum oleo inditum,
aut cum hordacea farina illitum: orthopnoicis datur in posca:
demorsis a serpente in vino: testium collectionibus auxiliata
impositum cum uva passa aut folii farina ceretove ; mensium
abundantium inhibet: contritum autem in aceto et naribus
objectum sanguinis profluvia sistit: colorem bibentium mutat in
pallorem.” Even calculated to change the rubicund hue of the
worshipper of Bacchus into the pallor of the total abstainer !

In the survey of 50 Edward III. this rent of spices is not
mentioned. There were two carucates of plough-land, valued
at 13s. 4d.; ten acres of meadow at 20s. ; forty acres of pasture
worth 17s.; ten marks (£6 13s. 4d.) of yearly rents. The
court of the manor produced 5s. 8d.; and the watermill, beyond
reprises or expenses, 6s. 8d. per annum. From a Muster Roll,
given by Mr. Yeatman in his “ Feudal Flistory,” part 2, 481, it
appears that Isabella, widow of John de la Legh, had lands in
Steynesby worth 10 marks; John de Herdwick 4os. in lands ;
Robert Savage, 4os. in goods; Richard Savage, 20s. in lands,
One bowman John Wyndgate.

In an Inquest of Knights’ Fees, 1o Henry VI., it was presented
that John Savage, of Clyston, County Chester, Kt., had in demesne
a free tent in Steynesby which he held in socage, worth gos. He
also held 30s. in socage in Dore.

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ANCIENT PAINTED WINDOW, HAULT HUCKNALL CHURCH. 51

Socage was a tenure by which men held their lands to plough
the lands of their respective lords with their own ploughs and
at their own expense. This slavish tenure was afterwards by
mutual agreement of Lord and tenant turned into money
payment, and from this it was termed “vee Socage, whereas the
other was Villain Socage, which also included the Oath of Fealty.
This was a tenure of so large an extent, that Littleton tells us
all the Jands in England which were not held by Knight’s
Service were held in Socage. The lands held by Anzgh?'s
Service descended to the eldest son; but those held in Vil/ano
Socagio, equally among all the sons. Socage is a tenure of lands
whereby a man is enfeoffed freely, without wardship and marriage,
paying to his lord some small rent which is called “ Free
Socage.”— Vide ‘“‘ Bloun?s Law Terms.”

In 1580, or 1581, John Savage conveyed the Manor of
Steynesby to Lord Chancellor Bromley, by whom it is probable
it was again conveyed about the same time as Rowthorn to
S' William Cavendish. It is now the property of the Duke of
Devonshire.—Zysons.

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The Court Rolls of the Manor of
Holmesfield, Co. Derby.

WirH NOTES BY THE EDITOR.

49, is a matter for much congratulation that, through
the courtesy of the Duke of Rutland and the
kindness of Mr. Carrington, the custodian of His
Grace’s archives, we have been able to recover the
parochial history of Holmesfield from the year 1480 down
to 1651—a period of 171 years—from the Court Rolls of
that manor. The church registers of Holmesfield only reach
as far back as 1727; but the unrecorded years after 1538, when

Parish Registers were first instituted, may perhaps in some way
be covered by the registers of Dronfield, which once comprised
the township and district of Holmesfield.

Some people are apt to complain of dry names, and to thirst
for entertaining biographies ; but every name involves a biography
—if unwritten, perhaps as edifying to a thoughtful mind as the
garnishing of character which often attaches to others. ‘ He lived,
and he died,’ is the summary of the lives of most men. The
church registers tell us no more, and their record is prized
exceedingly. The Court Rolls, however, frequently reveal the
estate and status of most of the parishioners, especially of the
copyholders ; whilst in the records of the Courts Leet the poorer
class appear and live again. We see them in their quarrels, their
trespasses, and frailties ; for these Leet Rolls are the records of
parochial jurisdiction and administration, invaluable to every
lover of local history.

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD, 53

The word manor is immediately derived from the old French
manoir, habitation, or from the Latin manere, to stay or dwell,
because the lord usually resided there in the.curia, hall, or chief
seat on the estate, where he held his courts, received his rents and
services, and transacted all his manorial business. The records
of these transactions are termed ‘‘Court Rolls.” The Courts
were of two kinds: one was termed Court Baron, and the other
Court Leet.

The Court Baron was an inseparable incident to the manor,
and was held by prescription. The homage jury were bound to
enquire that their lords did not lose their services, duties, or
custom, to see that the tenants made their suits of court, paid
their rents and heriots, kept their lands and tenements in repair,
and were bound to present all matters which might tend to
prejudice the lord’s interest in his manor.

The Court Lect was ordained for punishing offences against
the Crown, and is said to be the most ancient court of the land.
It was called The “‘ View of Frank Pledge,” because the King was
to be certified by the steward how many people were within every
Leet, and have an account of their good manners and govern-
ment, and every person of the age of twelve to fourteen years who
had remained there for a year and a day might be sworn to be
faithful to the King, and every person from this age to sixty
dwelling in the Leet district was obliged to do suit in the court.
A Leet court was as incident to a Hundred, as a Court Baron toa
Manor. This court was to be held twice a year, viz., within a
month after the feasts of Michaelmas and Easter. The Steward
was the judge of this court, as the Sheriff was of the ‘Turn.’
He had powers to elect his officers, as constables, tithingmen,
as well as punish offenders. Twelve freeholders or residents were
to form the jury. They were to inquire whether all that owed
suit of court were present, of customs withdrawn, of purprestures,
of lands, woods, of houses set up or beat down, of cottages
erected contrary to law,—of bounds removed, ways or waters
stopped, of thieves, of ‘Hue and Cry’ disregarded, of blood-
shed, escapes, persons outlawed, money coiners, treasure trove,

54 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

assize of bread and ale, persons keeping alehouses without license,
false weights and measures, unlawful games, offences relating to
game, idle persons, brawling women, etc. The lord of the leet
was to provide a pillory and tumbrel to punish offenders, and for
want thereof was either fined, or his liberty withdrawn, as may be
seen in the ‘“ Placita de Quo Waranto” (zide Law Dictionaries of
Jacob and Blount, Spelman’s Gloss., etc.).

At the compilation of Domesday Survey the Manor of
Holmesfield belonged to the Deincourts, and continued in that
family unto the death of William Deincourt in the reign of
Henry VI. One of his sisters and co-heirs married Sir Will.
Lovell, and on the attainder of his son, Francis Lord Lovell, in the
reign of Henry VII., this manor was granted to Sir John Savage,
from whose descendant it was purchased in 1586. (Lysons.) As
a Sir John Savage held the Manor in 1580 (Rolls), and Sir John
Manners in 1606 (Rolls), probably we have here the names of the
actual vendor and purchaser.

(Translation and Abstract.)

Court Geld af Hofmesfiefd on Thursday in fhe meek of
Qentecost in tBe rr. year of Ring Edmard to. (A.D. 1480-1.)
Roger Elott sought to be admitted tenant of divers lands and

tenements formerly William Webster’s and Agnes his wife, as

the next heir of the said Agnes.

Cecily, wife of Thomas Mylner, sought to be admitted to the
above-mentioned lands, etc., by virtue of a surrender of the
said lands made to John Wattes, Thomas Cooke, and other
tenants, by the said William Webster and Agnes his wife, to
the use of the aforesaid Cecily after the decease of the said
William and Agnes: upon which came John Wattes, and
testified to the same surrender before Robert Eyre, Esq.,
Seneschal of the Court,

Thomas Cooke and Richard Schawe also came and desired
admission to the same lands, etc., by virtue of a surrender
made to William Brokehouse, a tenant of the manor, in the

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD, 55

presence of Thomas Beamond, Tho. Wattes, John Jepson,
etc., by Agnes, formerly wife of Will. Webster, to the use of
the said Thom. Cooke and Ric. Shaw after her decease.
Will. Brokehouse then came and certified to the surrender
before Rob. Eyre, Esq., Seneschal. A jury was appointed to
decide the claims at the next Court.

EBe Court of Francis, Lord de Lovell, Bed af Bofmes:
fiePd on Thursday nerf after Be feast of S. Martin in
winter (Cov. rf.) Gnno rri. Edward iv. (A.D. 1481-2.)

The jurymen appointed for the inquest relating to the claimants
of the lands of Agnes Webster were—Will Fflyntt, John
Ffaunchall, John Harry, sen. Will Harry, John Stevynson,
Tho. Morewodd, Nich, White, John Harry, jun., Will. Wattes,
Tho. Wattes, Ralph Hattersley, and John Wattes, who said
upon their oath that Agnes Webster held the said lands
at her death, upon which a cow fell to the lord for a heriot,
and that Cecilia, wife of Thomas Mylner, is the next heir
of the said Agnes, and that she ought to be admitted tenant
all the lands in Holmesfield which were Will. Webster’s,
whereupon the said Cecilia was admitted, and paid ss. for
her “ relief,” and did fealty, and had seisin.

(Lutermediate rolls lost.)

“ Hofmesfield. Curia Magna, JoGis Sauvage WMifitis
junr. fenf. iBm rif die Mareti Enno R. HR. Henr. Septi.
Secundo.** (A.D. 1486-7.)

Jury.—John Cooke, Tho, Wulstenholme, Will Brokhous, John
Ffaunchall, Will. Fflinte, Will. Wattes, Will. Crofte, Edmund
Owttrem, John Ffox, John Kynge, jun., John Owttrem,
Edmd. Wattes, John Barnesley, Will. Webster, Will. Harry,
Thomas Harry & Emma his wife (sister & heiress of
Rich" Wode, son & heir of Robert Wode) desired to be
admitted to 2 ac. and 2 bovates of land, &c., in Holmefeld,
as sister & heir of Rich* Wode.

William Clay son & heir of Myerie “ Seva” (?) sister & heir of Rich.

56 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

Wode, and senior dau. of Rob. Wode, sought to be
admitted to 2 mess. & the s* 2 bovates of land, &c., in
Holmesfield.

Robert Dolphyn surrendered one mess. & 2 bov. of land to
the use of Tho. Robynson, of York, glover. Fine of
admission 6° 8°¢

Edw? Owttrem surrendered one toft & a croft lying near ‘‘ Ze
Chapell Stelle” to the use of John Harry jun’. Fine of
admission 2°.

Will. Green took up a close called ‘‘ Zhe Storth,” formerly in the
tenure of John Owttrem.

Presented by the Bailiff on his oath that John Celler of Baslow,
& Rob. Solseytcroft are common transgressors in taking
away “Thornez” and other fuel from the woods of the
lord without licence. Fined 2° each.

The jury presented that Hen. ffoljambe Esq. owed an
appearance, & made default, 4".

Rob. Cook of C. occupied “ My/nthorpe ffyide” without licence
of the lord—2".

Henry Clay occupied a close called “ Hogefv/d” without licence.

William Badyear held a tenement called “ Brokehus” without
licence.

A tenement called “ Honothorn” in the tenure of Will. Watts, &
occupied by Edm* Watts is ruinous.

The tenants holding “‘ Ozw¢t/ands” to repair the fences.

ry4 Rich? Wode died since last court. Nothing due to the lord.

Hofmesfefd. Court of John Savage, funr.. RE.. Geld

Bere ttt. Ocf., Gnno B. Hen. vit. (A-D. 1489.)

Jury.—John Owttrem, Tho. Wodhus, Edm‘ Owttrem, Will.
Harry, John Wattys, John Ffoxe, John Harry, Tho.
Wolstenholme, Will. Fflynt, Nich. Whyte, Will. Croft,
John Wolstenholme, Ed. Wattys, John Kyng jun’.

Will. Clay plaintiff against John Wattys & Tho. Coldwell on
the plea of detention of rent.

William Clay cousin & next heir of Ric. Wode acknowledged

—————

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 57

that he held of the lord 2 bovates of land &c. of the
said Rich. Wode within the demesne of Holmesfeld.
Paid for fine 13° 44

John son & heir of Thomas Cooke claimed to hold a mess.
& a bovate &c. in Holmesfeld.

The jury presented that Henry Ffolgambe Esq., Roger Eyre
jun’, Roland Eyre, & Tho. Robynson owed suit & came not.
Will. Badyear & Tho. Harry had not made suit. Nich.
Stevenson held a cottage & not paid his fine. Tho.
Beaumond held a toft & not paid his fine. Henry Clay
& Tho. Wodhous held messuages & not paid their fine.
Rob. Haselom holds a close called “ Dykjild” & not p* his
fine. That the tenants of Baselow & Calver are common
trespassers in cutting down thorns and other wood within
the lordship without leave. Those who are caught to be
fined 15°

The sheep fold (“ovile”) of John Kyng jun’. and another in
the tenure of John Harry have decayed roofs. To be
repaired under a fine of 12° each.

John Wattys & Thom. Coldwell retain the rents of Will. Clay
from the death of Ric. Wode until this time.

Hofmesfefd. Great Court of John Savage, funr., Geld
tBere Mov. rij. GY. RB. HR. Bt. Hen. vit. (A.D. 1490.)

John Kyng desired suit against Tho. Robynson of York
because he occupied a rood upon the ‘“ Stanyland.”

Stephen Harry son of Thom. H. surrendered a tenement
formerly in the tenure of Henry Clay to the use of John
Wattys jun’. for 16 years to come. Fine of ingress 40%

Will. Morewode holds a croft called “ MWorewode,” & has not
paid his fine. Thomas Harry, Will. Badyear, John Ffox,
Will. Barnes, Nich. Stevenson, John Beamond, Henry
Clay, Tho. Coldwell, Thom. Wodhouse, John Wodhouse,
all hold lands &c. & have not paid their fine to the lord.
John Ffox has trespassed in the open common without

58 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

licence. The “ovile” (Aovel or sheepcote) of Tho.
Wodham is ruinous.

Will. Fflynt is not in fault for a trespass against John Kyng
in holding two selions of land as it seemed.

HofmesfePd. Great Court of Fobn Sauvage, Rf.. Geld

affer Pentecost, Qnno vf. Hen. vif. (AD. 1491.)

Ric. Swyfte of Bradley plaintiff against John Ffaunchall of
Holmesfield.

John Owttram plaintiff against Edm* Owttrem his brother on
the plea of trespass concerning a mess in H. in the tenure
of John Harry.

The bailiff ordered to summon Tho. Robynson of York to the
next court.

Henry Ffoliambe Esq came by Will. Barnes his attorney, and
surrendered a parcel of land abutting on the common on
the west, & on the land of Thom. Robynson of York
on the east, and lying between the highway leading from
Flolmesfield Chapel as far as the ‘ Chapell Lydzatte”
(? Litchgate) on the north, & the land of the s* Will.
Fflynte on the south, to the use of Will. Fflynte, his heirs
& assigns for ever, according to the custom of the manor ;
in pure exchange for another parcel of land & a meadow
of the s* Will. Fflynt, as appears in the copy made by the
said Will. to the aforesaid Henry.

(The land thus exchanged by Fflynt is described thus)- A
parcel of land and meadow lying between the land of
Tho. Robynson & Henry Ffoliambe on the north, &
the land of Rob. Haslome on the south, & abutting on
the land and meadow of John Owtrem on the west, &
the land of the s? Rob. Haslome on the east, to the
use of Henry Ffoliambe, Esq., his heirs and assigns, in
exchange for another parcel of land of the said Henry
Ffoliambe.

To this court came Christopher Harry, & took the Watermill of
Hlolmesfeld from the date of this court to the end of the

tl ceeaae

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 59

term of 20 years at the yearly rent of 26° 8* p* to the
lord. The said Christopher to repair the mill at his own
expense during the whole term.

John Newbolt desired to be admitted to a messuage in Un¢hank,
viz., “Jachous,” “ Jakfyld,” & “ Nedir-lowkok gorrs” of
Richard Moghson’s, from next Michaelmas for 18 years
following.

Will. Croft desired to lease a toft, &c., near “ Ffownchal Gate
Head” to Thomas Harry jun’ for the term of 10 years.
Licence 2*

William Croft desired licence to lease a toft near “ Afownchall
Gate Head” with other lands to Thomas Harry junt for
ro years. Licence 2*

William Clay surrendered a mess. in Holmesfield near the
“ Bolys” (lead smelting hills) between the “ Hazefe/d” on the east,
and the ‘‘ Bo/ys” on the west, abutting on ¢he moor on the south,
to the use of Thomas Leek his heirs & assigns. Fine of
ingress 3°.

The house on the land of Will Clay reported ruinous.

The watercourse at “ Zhurspyttys” stopped up by neglect of John
Owtrem. He is to amend that & make the watercourse
leading from his house to the “ Zodenjild.”

The watercourse at the “ Storth-jed” between “ Cartleyn” the
mill is dangerous by neglect of John Wattys.

Pf The jury said that Will. Green who held a mess in Unthank
had died since the last court, and that Robert is his son
and next heir. Ingress 3° 4%

Will. Fflynt surr* a mess. & bovate in Holmesfield to the use
of Henry his son & heir; who again surrendered the same
(except a parcell of land called ‘ Ashwel/ close,’ and another
parcell between the “ guicksetts” and the “ Dyrtbroksyk”) to the
use of William Fflynt his father. Ingress 3° 4°

Hofmesfefd. Great Court of John Savage, KnigbhE,
fun., BePd there rrt. Mov.. Ynno. vit. Hen. vit. (A.D. 1491.)

Jury—John Ffownchal, John Cook, Ed. Wattys, Will. Crofte,

60 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

Rob. Haslome, Will. Claye, John Kynge, Tho. Morewode,
John Wattys, Tho. Wulstenholme, Will. Brokebyns, Will
Fflynt, Will Harry.

To this court came Thomas Andrew of Ekyngton by Lawrence
Eyr Tho. Harry and John Coke his attorneys by virtue of a
letter of attorney exhibited in full court dated May 5, Anno 6
Henry VII., and surrendered into the hands of the lord one
messuage and one bovate (about 18 acres make a bovate) lying
in Cartleye within the territory of Holmesfe!d w* the appurts., to
the use & behoof of Nicholas Whyte of Holmesfeld his heirs
& assigns. Upon this came the aforesaid Nicholas and took
of the lord the aforesaid messuage & bovate of land; Having
& holding to him, his heirs and assigns, according to the
custom of the manor, the rent per annum thence issuing.
Fine of ingress 6* 8% He did fealty & was admitted tenant.

(This seems to be the same land referred to in the following
notice of an endowment of Holmesfield Church.)

To this court came Nicholas Whyte in his own person, and
surrendered into the hands of the lord an annual rent of
12° issuing from his messuage in “ Cartz/eye,” which formerly he
had from the surrender of Thomas Andrew fo the use and
sustentation of the chapel of St. Swithun of Holmesfeld, for the
welfare of the soul of the aforesaid Nicholas & his successors
for ever; payable at the Feast of the Nativity of S. John
Baptist. And if the aforesaid yearly rent be in arrears, and not
paid by 20 days, that then it shall be lawful for the warden of
the chapel to enter in the aforesaid messuage & appurts. to
distrain, and the distraint thus being taken to lead or drive it
away, and himself to retain possession of the same until the

4. and

said annual rent with its arrears shall be paid. Fine 2
it was granted by the lord.

The jury presented that Will. Badware who holds a tenant of
Will. Croft, and Will Barne and Brian Netham who also hold
tenements had not paid their fine. John Beamond_ holds
“ Mylnthorpfield.” John Wodhouse holds a tenemt. of Roland

Eyre—and John Ffox overburdens the commons.

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 61

Thomas Wattys came and surrendered ‘“ Zrnesclyf” to the use of
John Wattys for 22 years.

A pain (penalty) was imposed by the assent of the jury that if
anyone break the fences about the Chaf/ain’s garden from
this present time, he shall forfeit to the lord 40%

Hofmesfefd. Prima Magna Curia ne Margarete
Saouage nup. urts Zobis Sauage Mififis. fenf’ tBm dite
Marfis pror post Fm. Invencois Sce Crucis, Gnno KR. MR.
vtif. Benr. vit. (A.D. 1493.)

To this court came Thomas Leek, gent, by John Cook of
Cardwell & Edward Owttrem of Horsley Gate his attorneys
(attached by virtue of a letter of attorney dated 28 April 7
Hen. VII.) and surrendered a mess. with all lands, meadows,
woods, pastures, pertaining to the s* messuage, lying in
the fee of Holmesfeld near the “Solys” between
Hogefyld” on the east of the Bolys, & before the way
on the west—abutting on ‘he movr to the south, and on the
land of Will. Clay to the north. To the use of Will. Parker
of Hast/hurst his heirs and assigns for ever. W. Parker
paid 5* for his ingress.

Laurence Harry a tenant of Roger Eyress—Tho. and John
Wodhouse tenants of Roland Eyre’s.

Hofmesfefd. Great Court Bed May rri.. Onno ir.

Henry vit. (1494.) :

Roger Eyre surrendered a messuge in Unthank formerly held
by Hen. Clay, to the use of Lawrence Herry for seven
years. Fine 20%.

Will. Croft desired to surrender “ Brokehous” in Ffaunchal Gate
to the use of Will. Bagger for eight years. Fine 12%
Dame Katerina Eyre surrendered a mess. & lands called “ The
Overhouse” in Horsley Gate to be leased to Tho.
Wodhouse jun" for five years. Also another mess. called
“ Netherhouse” in Horsley Gate, to lease the same to John

Wodhouse for five years.

62 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

William Fflint surrendered certain parcels of land to the use
of Nich. Stephenson for 15 years. The jury present that
Henry Ffoliambe Esq. owes suit. In mercy.

Will. Morwood occupies a small parcel of land called Morwood
without licence.

Will. & John Beamond & Brian Nedham to be distrained for

their fines.
Matilda, formerly wife of John King, who held a mess. in
Milnthorpe for life, is dead. The estate was purchased
by her husband from John Nowble. John King is their
son & heir. <A heriot due.

Hofmesfeld. Great Courf of Mame Margaret Savage
Befd rriv. October, Ynno ir. Hen. vit. (A.D. 1493.)

The jury said that M‘ Philip Eyr, parson of Ashover, had by
the delivery of Thomas Bemonde certain ‘“ A/okis” and
“ Shankaldys” to the value of V shill. They said that the
same Thomas B. had cut down two oaks on the bounds
of the park. They said that they had heard that John
and Robert Brokhouse were ‘Natives’ (az/vz)* of the
lady of thir manor, and dwelt in Barley & Brampton
without the licence of the lady.

* A © Native’ is one who is born a slave or serf, and thus differs from him
who has suffered himself to be sold. We call some serfs ‘ Bondmen,’ some
‘ Natives,’ and others ‘ Villains.’ ‘ Bondmen’ are those who by covenant have
bound themselves in service; whence the term ‘ Bond,’ that is, ‘ bound,’ as
with a chain. ‘ Vi//azns’ are those who are ascribed to the soil, and till the
lord’s demesne lands, and they are not allowed to leave without their
lord’s permission (vzde Spelman). By a charter of Rich. II. all were released
from bondage (? villainage) in the county of Herts. By a charter of Hen, III.
it was provided ‘That if any za/ive dwell in any borough and hold land
in it, and shall be a member of the corporation or guild of our burgesses
there for a year & a day without blame, from thenceforth he shall not be
recovered by his lord, but remain a free man in the same town.’

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 63

Hofmesfiefd. Curia AWagna (Courf Baron) of Lady
Margaref Savage, formerfy wife of Sir Fon Savage. Ke..
Befd there on Thursday nerf affer Be feast of S. CatBarine
Wirgin, in fBe 10 pear of HR. BHenrp vit. (ze, 26 Nov.,
A.D. 1494.)

HomaceE* Jury. Will. Croft, John Ffaunchall, Rob. Haselome,
Will. Fflynt, John Watts, Edm*. Watts, Will. Brokhous, Ric.
Moggson, Tho. Wolstenholme, Will. Harry, Nich. White,
John Barunesley, John Newbolt, Tho. Wodhus Jun". John
Harry Jun.”

John Newbotte, of Wodthorpe, surrendered a tenement called
“‘ Jachomwic” in Victharn to the use of Geoffry Swifte and
Emmota his wife, for 39 years next following the date of this
court. The said Geoffry was admitted tenant.

John King surr“ a mess. in “ My/nthorpe” to the use of William

King his son and the heirs of his body.

William King surrendered a messuage to the use of the s* John
King and Margery his wife—his father & mother.

Will. Crofte surr* 3 mess. and 3 bovates &c in “ Fawachall gate”
to the use of William his son and his heirs, with succes-
sive remainders to his other children, brothers of the
s‘ William, viz Roger, John, and Edward, and then to his
own right heirs.

* * Homage’ (Fr.) is derived from ‘ Homo,’ and this duty is called
‘homage’ because when the tenant does this service he says ‘‘ Z become your
man.” The form is given in Stat. 2 of 17 Ed. II. in these words: ‘* Whena
freeman shall do homage to his lord of whom he holds in chief, he (kneeling)
shall hold his hands together between the hands of his lord and shall say
us—‘ J become your man from this day forth for life, for member and for
oridly honour, and shall owe you my faith for the land I hold of you, saving
he faith that I owe unto our sovereign lord the King, and to mine other lor ds.’”
religious man (Bishop or other) may do homage but may not say to his lord
Ego devenio homo vester,” because he has professed himself to be only God's
‘man, but he may say, ‘‘ I do unto you homage, and to you shall be faithful and
loyal.” (Zho, Blount.) (Montfaucon, in his Avtiguities of France 1750, has a
fine plate of Louis II. doing homage to Charles V. for the Earldom of
Clermont. pl. cxxix. p. 65. See Fealty under a.p. 1538.

64 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

Henry Ashamb Esq. owes suit. William Morewood holds a
parcel of land. William Barnes, Brian Redlan, Will. Watts
holds land. John Bernard, Will. Bermonde, for advice 2“

John Kyng surr*. all his customary and copyhold lands in
Holmesfield Horsley Gate to the use of Robert Kyng
his son and heir appar’, and his heirs by Alice his wife, with
remainder to Christopher K. one of the younger sons of the
said John, with remainder to William another son, with
remainder to John King the younger.

Robert King son and heir appar’. of the s* John surr. half
of all the s* customary or copyhold lands to the use of John
Kyng his father, and Dorothy his wife, for the term of their
lives and the survivor of them. The other half he surr*. to
the use of John Kyng his father from 25 March next for the
space of 6 years, free of all rent.

Hofmesfefd. Great Court Befd it. June. @nno r.
Henry vit. (AD. 1495.)

To this court came Will. Parker (by Will. Croft of Woodthorp,
& John Newbolt his attorneys, by virtue of a letter of
attorney dated 2 July, ro Hen. VII.) and surrendered a
mess. with all meads, lands, woods, pastures, commons, &c.,
in Holmefield near the “ Bolys” between “ Hogeffe/d” on the
east part; the Bolys & the highway on the west, & abutting
on the moor to the south, and the land of Will. Clay
to the north, to the use of Thom. Leeke, gentleman; and
Henry Triggs, of Chesterfield, clerk, their heirs & assign,
for ever. Admission 5* (See under 1491 & 1493.)

Ordered that no tenant of this manor from henceforth cut
down any oaks within the demesne without the licence of
the lady, under penalty of ro‘ for every tree.

BHofmesfefld. Court Befd ir. Gug.. Ynno rt. Henry vit.
(A.D. 1496.)

H. Ffoljambe, Tho. Leek, John Wolstenholme, Rob. Grene,

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 65

Rich. Mokeson, W. Flint & John Wattes jun" owe suit
of court.

Will. Morewode, John Ffox, Will. Barnes, Brian Nedham, Nich.
Bagshawe, Will. Watts & Thom. Beamond hold their
several tenements & have not paid their fine.

Hofmesfefd. Court Befd Bere rrvtit. Map. @Bnno rit.

Henry vit. (AD. 1497.)

Robert Hanley holds a toft of John Kynge without licence.

Roger Whetcroft and John Celler of Baslow cut down wood
without licence from the lady in “ Smeykheclyf.”

Any stranger feeding his cattle on the common moor of the
demesne after the feast of S. Barnabas next, shall pay
to the lady each time for every beast 4° for every caball*
4° and for every 1o sheep 4*

Hofmesfefd. Court of Ladp Waragaref Savage Befd

rtit. Mov... Bnno rit. Henry vit. (AD. 1496.)

Thomas Harry Constable.

John Ffounchall surrendered all his lands, &c., &c., in the
lordship of Holmesfeld to the use of Henry Ffownchall
his son & his heirs, &c., for ever. Henry F. paid r1o®* for
his fine of admission or relief.

The same Henry, son and heir of John, surrendered the half
of all the lands, &c., which he had in Holmesfeld to the
use of John, his father, for life. Admission fine, 3° 6%

William Croft and Edward Owttrem surrendered a mess. &
lands lying on the north side of the way called Horsley
Gate, near Bakhouse side, which Will. Fflynt held for
life. The lands, &c., lying in “ Aightown fyld” with three
crofts called “ E//ott croft,” “ Ellyott Ryddinge” & ‘ Lamb-
croft Hill,’ to the use of Emmote, wife of Henry Fflynt
for life.

_ * *Caball,’ for Caf/e a_ horse. Caballa (from the Latin Caballus)
belonging to a horse.— Domesday.

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eI John Barley died since last court, who held of the lady one
mess. called ‘‘ Ze Knollys.” Thomas Barley is his son &
heir, & is of the age of 14 years. The said Thomas, the
son, ‘took up’ the Knollys in the tenure of Edmund
Wattys, & paid 6* 8* for his admission. At the same
court the said Thomas Barley leased the Knollys, &c.,
to Edmund Wattys, Agnes, his wife, and James their son,
at the yearly rent of 13° 6%

Hofmesfefd. Court of Mame Margaret Savage, Beld
Saturday nerf affer the Feast of S. Martin in winter.
@Bnno ritt. Hen. vit. (Nov., A.D. 1497.)

Robert Grene surrendered a messuage in Unthank to the use
of Philip Leche, Esq., and the said Philip Leche surrendered
the same to the use of Robert Grene for life.

DHofmesfefd. Courf Bed on Mondap nerf Before Be

Seast of S. Yndrewm the Ypostfe. Gnno riv. Henry vit.
(Nov., A.D. 1498.)

Esson—Thomas Barley, John Ffaunchall.

Jury.—John Coke, Will. Clay, Will. Harry, Edm‘ Owtrem,
John Newbold, Nich. White, Henr. Flint, Edm‘ Wattez,
Will. Fflynt, John Owttrem, John Wattez, Rob. Haselem,
Tho. Wodhous, John Wodhous, Will. Croft.

Nicholas Wolstenholme, after the death of Thomas Wolstenholme,
his father, came & took up the messuage his father held.

Robert Wolstenholm came and surrendered a field called
“ Pelethhalgh,” butting upon ‘ Clayflatte” on the west, and
upon the “Szorth” on the east, to the use of John Wolsten-
holme, brother of the said Robert for ever—paying to the
said Robert his heirs, &c., one penny at the usual
terms (times).

The said Robert Wolstenholme in his own person surrendered
a field called ‘* Gos/e” lying at ‘‘ Cartleye” between the land of
Henry Ffoljambe on the west, & the highway on the

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east, and butting upon Edm* Owttrem on the north, to
the use of Oliver Wolstenholme, brother to the said
Robert, paying yearly to John Newbold, his heirs &
assigns 1* at the usual times. Admission 12“

Thomas Robinson leased to Thomas Harry for ro years, a
messuage in ‘ Hightown.”

Dk Thomas Wolstenholme died since Jast court seized of a
messuage etc. Robert Wolstenholme is his son and next
heir.

bq William Brokehouse died since. last court, seized of a mes-
suage in “ Unthank.” Isabel Brokehouse is the daughter
and heir of the said William.

John Barnesley died since last court—a heriot fell to the
lady of the Manor.

Robert Owtrem a tenant of Edward Owtrem has not paid his
fine.

Brian Nedeham, Elizabeth Barnes, Robert Harry, Rob. Hanley,
John Ffox, tenants of Henry Ffoliambe have not paid their
fines.

Walter Wattes a tenant of Robt Greene in the same fault.

Thomas and William Beamond tenants of Thomas Leeke have
not paid their fines.

Thomas Harry cut down an oak.

John Watts diverted the common water course to the mill since
the last court.

Edw* Owtrem, Nich. Heyward, John Kyng, William son of
Robert Owtrem and Ric* Ball junior all reported for killing
hares.

Hofmesfefd. Court Befd rvit. Mov., Ynno rv. Hen. vit.
(A.D. 1499.)

The jury said that John Owtrem died since last court.
William Owtrem is his son and heir & of full age. By his
death a heriot is due.

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Hofmesfefd. Court Geld on Monday nerf affer Be feast

of S. Lucy (Mec. rit), Bnno rot. Hen. vit. (A.D. 1500.)

Nicholas White surrendered a field called ‘“ Zhe Hatt” in
Holmsfeld butting on “ Beryhil/” to the south, and on the
way to the mill on the north, to the use of Will. Kyng, paying
to the said Nicholas r° yearly, on this condition ; that if the
said Nicholas shall pay to the said William 5 marks of lawful
money, that then the said Nicholas shall recover his field
again.

William Clay surrendered a messuage and a_ bovate in
Holmesfield formerly Rich? Wodde’s, abutting on the land
of Thomas Leeke lately in the tenure of Will. Bemonde
towards the west, and upon the ‘ Axol/ys” toward the
south, upon a field called ‘‘ Ze Clyffe” lately in the tenure
of John Watts towards the east, and the common way
leading to the “ Boolys” to the north, and ¢he other part
upon “ Heghwodeffeld” in the tenure of John Watts toward
the west, and upon the wood called ‘ Smeyclyffe” to the
north, and upon the “wy/dgrene” to the east, and the
said common way to the south—with the reversion of
“ Hogeffeld” when it falls, To the use of Thomas Leeke,
Bailiff of Chesterfield and Scarr, his heirs and assigns for
ever; who then became tenant, and paid 6° 8° for his
admission.

Thomas Leeke, Bailiff of Chesterfield and Scarr, surrendered
the aforesaid messuage and bovate to the use of William
Clay and Isabella his wife for their lives and the longer
liver; they paid 3° 4%, did fealty, and were admitted
tenants.

Presented John Eyre of Padley, gent., Thomas Barley of
Wodhouse, John Barley, Thomas Herytage, Tho Grey,
James Maser, Will. Hancock, Will son of Rob. Owtrem, for
breaking the warren of the Lady with dogs, killing hares,
and hunting without license. Each of them in mercy.

All the pigs in the demesne to be rung before Christmas under
a penalty of 40° for each one.

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William son and heir of John Owtrym came and took up a
messuage called “ Zhe Hallestede,” formerly John Owtrym’s
“‘patris mei.” Admission fine 1o*

The jury presented that Robert Knotton did not keep the
watermill to grind the grain but his wife did it in his
place. He is to amend under penalty of 12% The same
Robert inclosed a parcel of land on the common at
“ Mylnethorp” with a fence—to be amended before next
court under penalty of 12°

Hofmesfefd. Courf BePd on Wednesday nerf Before the
Feast of Corpus CBristi. Fnno rvit. Hen. vit. (AD. 1502.)
Henry Fflynt surrendered “ Z//oyt Croft” to the use of Robert

Haselom, lying at the end of the south house of the said

Robert.

James Ellott came and by license took a messuage and lands
of Roland Eyre, having and holding to the said James
and Alice his wife, for the term of 15 years, with this
condition ; that if the said Roland or Dame Katherine his
mother wish to remain upon the said messuage, that then
the said James must relinquish his term,—this copy notwith-
standing. Admitted tenant, and gave Roland 20% per ann
and to the lady 8* 11% for chief rent.

Hofmesfefd. Great Court of Margaret Savage. widow,
Beld Thursday nerf affer Feast of S. Fames. Onno rvfit.
Hen. vit.

The jury presented that Roger Whetcroft 4° of Baslow, John

Selar 4° of the same, had trespassed in the woods called

« Smeyclyff.” Each fined.

“ Stow-wood” and “ grene gate” mentioned.

Hofmesfeld. Court Beld rrit. Mov... YFnno rviit. Hen. vit.

Thomas son and heir of Thomas Watts claimed to hold 2
messuages and one bovate called “ Lrneseyff.”
Roger Eyre by license of the lady received of Thomas Watts

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the said messuages and bovate called “ Ernesclyff” for the
term of 20 years at the yearly rent of 20* to Tho Watts,
and 10° & 11° chief rent to the lady.

BHofmsfefd. Court of Waragaref Savage Geld in fhe
Digi? of S. Lawrence, Onno rir. Hen. vit. (Aug. 9, 1504.)

Roger Ffoliambe gent, son of Henry Foliambe Esq. came and
took of the lady all the messuages lands & tents. in Holmes-
field in the “ Heghton,” and “ Milnthorp,” which formerly
were his father’s, and formerly Thomas Noble’s_ of
Holmesfield, or of his son Ralph, heir of the said
Thomas, or of Isabella, formerly wife of the said Thomas, in
Holmesfield and Milnethorpe, and was admitted tenant.

Robert Haslome surrendered a mess, etc., etc., in Horsley Gate
to the use of Robert H. his son and heir.

Nich. White, John Coke, and Rob. Haslom surrendered a parcel
of meadow in Cartlege, between the land of Will. Harry on
the south, the highway on the north, Will. Kyng’s field called
the “ Alu¢” on the west, and the land of the said Nicholas
on the east: To the use of John Toft of Totley, and Will.
Croft of Holmesfield and their heirs and assigns for ever,
at the yearly rent of 2“—with this condition, that if the said
Nicholas pay the said John and Will. Croft or their heirs
4 marks, that then the said Nicholas shall repossess the
parcel of meadow—this surrender, etc., notwithstanding.

Hofmesfefd. Great Court of Margaret Savage, Befd
rrvttt. (Wap. Gnno re. Hen. vit.

Jury.—John Coke, Edw* Wattez, John Newbold, Will. Owtrym,
Rob. Wolstenholme, Will. Harry, Will. Croft, Will. Clay,
Will. King, John King, Robert Haslome, Ric. Mokeson.

Will. Flint surrendered one mess., etc., on the south part of
Florsley Gate to the use of his son Will™ etc.

To this court came Roger Eyre of Ho/m Esq’ and John Eyre,
Gent., his brother, and took of the lady two places of land,
and one house rebuilt, situated between the said two places of

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land in the demesne of Holmesfield, upon a hill called
“ Hewod,” upon which they might place, have, and occupy
two boles with ‘Smeltyng Ovynz’ and ‘Wesshyng trolls’
suitable for the said boles, with free ingress and egress to the
said boles, house, ‘Smeltyng ovynz’ and ‘ Wesshyng trolls’
with all carts or carriages, having and holding the said two
places of land, etc., to the aforesaid Roger and Philip (sé¢.)
and their assigns with all commodities, etc., as well under, as
above ground, to the end of 20 years next following this
court, paying yearly to the lady and her heirs 3° 4° for the
two places, and for the house 2° at the feast of S. Michael.

Tho. Leek gent, Roland Eyre gent, Tho. Barley of Stoke gent,
Tho. Robynson of York, Steph. MHarry, and John
Wolstenholme owe suit of court.

Henry Barley is a common hunter in the demesne.

John Watts jun’ is to turn the water at “ Hewod field end” into its
right course and there keep it. William Beamond is ordered
to place the water current by his house in its right course ;
both under penalty of 40% Presented that Edmund Owtrym
turned the water at “‘ Wepish-end field” out of its common
course by which the highway there is injured—all to be
remedied by June 24 under penalty of 40%

Hofmesfiefd. Courf Baron. (A.D. 1505.)

HoMacE Jury.—Rob. Haslem, Edm. Owtrem, John Kyng, Edm.
Watts, John Ffaunchall, Nich. White, Will. Kyng, Thom.
Wode, Will. Harre, Rob. Wolstenholme, John Coke, Hen.
Fflint.

_ Will. Owtrem son of and the right nearest heir of John Owtrem,

took up one mess. and 3 bovates of land called “* Had/fodder,”

___lying in Holmefeld.

Nicholas White surr? “Ze Ffait” in Holmefeld, abutting
upon “ Bery-Ai/l” towards the south, and to another acre
above (suger) the highway, leading towards (versus) the mill
towards the north, to the use of William King.

Hen. Ffoliambe Esq., Tho. Leeke, Roland Eyre, Thom. Barley,

"= =~ *

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Rob, Gree, Rich. Harre, John Fox jun’, Will. Burton, Brian
Nedeham, Rob. Hanley, Will. and Geo. Bemond, John Eyre
of Padley gent, Tho. Barley of Wodhouse, John Barley, John
Herytage, Tho. Grey, Jas. Maker, and Will. Owtrem son of
Robert owe suit of court.

A fence to be repaired at ‘‘ Oztelandheye.”

BHofmesfefd. Court Bed on Monday nerf affer tBe

Feast of Corpus Christi. Gnno ret. Hen. vit. (AD. 1505.)
Robert Haslem, jun. (by Will. Croft, and John Newbold, his

attorneys), surrendered ‘‘ Shotcroft” at the south end of the
house of Rob. Haslem to the use of Henry Flint, his
heirs and assigns.

PA Thomas, son and heir of John Wolstenholme, deceased, took

The

upa croft called “‘ Ze Pellet-hal/,” in Holmesfield. Admission
fine 20% The said Thomas Wolstenholme surrendered
‘“* Pellethall” to the use of John Coke his heirs and assigns.
Admission 20%

said Thomas Wolstenholme took up a toft built upon in
Mitnethorp, formerly Ralph Noble’s, and he surrendered
the same to the use of Roger Eyre, his heirs, &c. Roger
Eyre took up the toft. Nicholas White surrendered a
close in 4as/ow in the demesne of Holmesfield between
the land of Will. Harry on the east, the highway on the
west, the garden of the said Nicholas on the north, and
the field of Will. Herry on the south, to the use of John
Kyng jun. his heirs &c., paying to the said Nicholas
2% yearly, on condition that if the said Nicholas pay the
said John the sum of 4o* that then the said Nicholas shall
repossess the land for ever. 20% for admission fine.
Eds. Owetrym, who held two messuages and certain lands
in Holmesfield is dead. Margaret Parkin is his daughter
and next heir.

William Wodhouse, who held a mess. with its appurts. in
Holmesfield, is dead. John Lee son of Ellen Lee

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daughter of the said William is the next heir—and he
is a ‘native’ of the Lady’s by reason of his tenure.

Hofmesfefd. Court Beld Wednesday after S. Martin

in Winter, Bnno ret. Hen. vif. (A.D. 1506.)
> Thomas Robinson of York who in right of Alice his wife

held a mess. and lands in Holmesfield has died since last
court. A heriot. Alice Robinson his widow surrendered
a mess. and two bovates of land in “ The He Town”
(High Town) which formerly belonged to Rob. Dolphyn
her father and came to the said Alice by heirship, to
the use of Thomas Bellamy for life.

Hofmesfefd. Court Beld viii. aune, rrit. Ben. vit.

(A.D. 1507.)

hq John Kyng, sen' who held a mess. at the nether end of

fiigh Town in Holmesfield, near the mess. of Tho,
Barley of Stoke on the east, died since last court.
William Kyng is his son and next heir. John Newbold
(by Will. Crofts and Rob. Haslem, sen™) surrendered
all his lands in Holmesfield except the “ Holmes” to the use
of John Newbold his son and heir. Fine 6* 8%

John Newbold, the son, surrendered all his lands in Holmesfield,

except a tenement in “ Unthank,” lately in the tenure of
Rich* Moldson to the use of the said John Newbold his
father. Roger and Roland Eyre Esquires by licence of
the lady have demised to William Sha(z) a mess. and
lands in Horsley Gate (formerly in the tenure of Thom.
Wodhous) for the term of twenty years paying yearly to
the said Roland 46* 8% and if Will. Sha should die
within the term, ‘then Agnes his wife shall have the
premises, but not to let or assign them to others,

Henry Parkin and Margaret his wife (in right of the said

Margaret dau. and heir of George Owtrym lately deceased)
claimed two mess. and two bovates in the ‘* He-Zown” which

74 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

formerly belonged to [Edward (Owtrym) and which he
bequeathed by will.

John Kyng senior surrendered a mess. lying in Holmesfield
upon ‘‘ Ze Corner” on the east of the highway to the use of
John Kyng his son. Admiss. 6* 8*

Hofmypsfefd. Court Beld Bere vitt. Zune, xrit. Hen. vit.
(A.D. 1507.)

John Kyng sen" surrendered a mess. in the ‘‘ He Zown” upon
the ‘‘ Corne/l” upon the east leading unto Carf/ege, with all
pastures &c, to the use of John Kyng his son and heir.

Will. Sha took up the property leased to him for 20 years by
Roger Eyre as ‘ ffeoffator’ of Stephen Eyre.

Hofmysfefd. Court Befd ritt. December (S. WMarfin),
Brno gritt. Hen. vit. (A.D. 1507.)

Nicholas White surrendered a field called “ Zhe Nedergosse”
lying between “ Pe/ethagh” on the west, and the land of the
said Nicholas on the east, on Roger Foliambe’s field on
the north, and on ‘‘ Zhe Storth” on the south, lately in the
tenure of Rob. Haslem, junr., to the use of Roger Eyre,
his heirs and assigns.

Will. Kyng (son and heir of John Kyng) claimed to hold a
messuage in ‘‘ Vederhende”’ of the ‘ Hetowne” of Holmesfeld
near the mess. of Thom. Barley, of Stoke, on the east.

(Anno 1508 nothing worthy of record.)

Hofmpsfeld. Court of Lady Margaret Savage Befd
Med. nerf after Holy Trin.. Bnno t. Hen. wifi. (A.D. 1509.)

Jury. —Rob. Haselem, Henry Flint, John Wattez, Will. Kyng,
Will. Herry, Edwd. Wattez, John Newbole, Will. Clay,
Rob. Wolstenholme, Hen. Perkyn, Nich. White, John
Kyng.

Henry Faunchall, Will. Croft, John Faunchall.

Thomas Ffaunchall, Will. Bemonde, Ro. Hatterley, Will.

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Borgear, Ro. Knotten, Ro. Smyth, John Waynwright,
Jas. Lee, John Wattez, Tho. Hallerley, John Wodhous.
All owe suit.

Thomas Barley, of Stoke, who held messuage, &c., has died
since last court. George Barley is his son and next
heir.

Presented that John Owtrym cut down oaks and saplings
in the “ Zordurs” without licence. Roger Croft to amend
a house called ‘the Shepecote.’ Henry Ffounchall, John
Newbold, John Herry, Will. Flint to amend their houses.
Fined 12% each.

BHofmesfefd. Great Court of John Savage, Kt., Beld

rot. June, Gnno itt. Hen. vitt. (A.D. 1511.)

Roland Eyr complained that Henry Ffaunchall unjustly
detained a parcel of land called ‘‘Vole Doles.”

Alicia Zeyllot, widow, and John Ellott, son of James Eylott,
took of Roger and Roland Eyre a messuage in Holmesfeld.
Holding to the said Alice and John to the end of the
term of the lease, viz., 20 years, made to James Zeyllott,
formerly her husband, at yearly rent of 20° to the said
Roland, and 9* fee to the Lord.

A memorandum appears on these rolls concerning certain
boundaries of pasturage in Yorkshire. It would be interesting to
know whether a similar memorandum relating to this matter

appears in any other court rolls in South Yorks. etc.

“Anno 3 Hen. VIII. ‘An arbitration made by the Earl of
Shrewsbury between Thos. FitzWilliam of Aldwark in the
Co. of York, Esquire to the King’s Body, and Edward
Grisakers of Barmeborough in the same county, concerning
the right of pasturage in certain waste ground ; viz.: to the
aforesaid Thomas from his lordship of Addewycke south-
eastward to the bridge called ‘Stone Brigge’—and in like
manner to the said Edward Grysakers from his lordship of
Barmebrough northward to the same stone brigge. The
beasts of each if found trespassing over and beyond the said

76 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

stone brigge ¢o be kindly driven back without dogs, or injury
of any kind, to their respectively assigned pasturage.

“Subscrybyd with my sign manuell at my castell of Shefelde the
xxlij. day of June, the thirde yere of the Reygne of Kyng
Herry the eyght.’’*

Hofmesfefd. Court of Fobn Savage, KE.. Befd rviv.

MokemBber, Bnno itt. Hen. vitt. (1511.)

Robert Grene surrendered a mess. and lands in Unthank, to the
use of Ralph Leche gent., who paid 5° for admission.

The said Ralph surrendered the same again to Robert Grene for
life.

John Kynge surrendered ‘‘ Zhe Bankes” south of his house to the
use of Nicholas Whyte.

(Roger Croft, Tho, Ffaunchall, Will. Beymond, Rob. Hanley,
Brian Netham, Will. Bagere, Rob. Knutton, Rob. Smythe,
John Owtrem, John Harry, John Waynwryght, Ric. Yowkson,
Will. Lee, John Watts jun, Nich. Bagsha, Thom. Attley,
John Wodhous) owe suit of court.

Will. Owtram stopped a watercourse at ‘‘ 7hurspitts.”

Hofmesfiefd. Great Courf of FoBn SaBage, KnigBe.
Befd tBere on fBe rot. dap of Guagusf, in fhe tv. pear of
Henry viti. (A.D. 1512.)

The jury said upon their oath that Roger Fuliambe, Tho. Leeke,
and Robert Grene owed suit of court.

And specially they presented that Rog. Crofte, Tho. Ffounchall,
Will. Beamont, Rob. Hanley, Will. Bagger, Rob. Knotton,
Ralph loo, John Owtrem, Rob. Smyth, John Harre, John
Waynwright, Ric. Moxeson, Nich. Bagschaw, John Watts jun’,
Henr. Beamont, Thom. Hatterley, John Wudhouse are all
transgressors, because they have not been admitted tenants,
nor paid their fine to the lord—therefore they are each
in mercy.

* Bambrough and Adwick lie on opposite sides of the river Dearne, which
flows into the Dun at Coningsborough Castle. —Ep.

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And that Thomas Barley is a common hunter (vena/for). In
mercy.

Hofmesfefd. Great Courf Bed rriti. Mov., tv. Hen. vitt.
(A.D. 1512.)
Thomas Barnesley, Geoffry Swifte, and George Strey occur among
others.
Robert Hanley ordered to amend the common way at “ Storthed.”

Hofmesfefd. Great Courf Geld xr. May, tv. Hen. viii.

(A.D. 1513.)

The jury reported—That Henry Barley, chap/ain, is a common
hunter (vezazor) within this lord’s warren, without a licence.
Wherefore he is in mercy.

[Dr. Cox, in his account of the Church of Barlow, Vol. i., p. 68,
states that a younger branch of the ancient family of Barley of
Barlow were settled at Dronfield Woodhouse. See the index of
that volume for further notices. |

HofmesfePd. Great Court of Fobn Savage, Kf., Beld
tBe rrti. dap of Mo8ember, ». Hen. vitt. (AD. 1513.)
Homage Jury (¢zter aia). Will. Cley and Will. Shaw.

To this court came Oliver Fflynt cleric, and Rich. Fretwell
attorney to Tho. Leeke of Hasland, by virtue of a letter
of attorney exhibited in court and dated 12™ April,
4 Hen. VIII., and surrendered into the hands of the lord all
his lands and tenements in Holmesfeld, now in the tenure
and occupation of Henry Beemond, to the use of Thomas
Fitzherbert D.D., James Bersford clerk B.D., Roger Eyre
Esq., and John Newton and their heirs, to fulfil the last will
of the same Thomas Leeke, and the lord granted the said
lands and tenements to the aforesaid Thomas Fitzherhert,
James Bersford, Roger Eyre, and John Newton according to
the custom of the manor etc.

Presented that Henry Barley 2%, Will. Kynge and Thom,

Newbold are hunters within the warren of this lordship ;

wherefore they are in mercy.

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William Croft and Will Kynge atttorneys to John Coke of

Caldwell surrendered all the messuages and lands etc. which
formerly were in the tenure and occupation of John Coke to
the use of Joan relict of the said John Coke—but only during
her widowhood.

Hofmesfefd. Little Court of Bir Zohn Savage, HE..

Beld tBere rritt. MoBember, Bnno vi. Hen. vitt. (A.D. 1514.)
Among the jurors are Will. Cha and Tho. Bernesley.

John Hudson, and Margaret his wife, plaintiffs, and Joan Coke

widow, defendant, in the plea of lands. The plaint related
to a messuage called ‘‘ Ca/dwal/” and to certain lands
lying in Caldwall.

this court came Will. and Roger Crofte, attorneys for
Henry Parken and Margaret, his wife. The said Margaret
affirmed that she was not influenced by her husband in
surrendering a messuage lying in the ‘‘ Azgh Towne” and
certain lands lying between the land of Roger Foliambe on
the north, and the ‘‘ Carzelege” on the south, and between
the land of Robert Dolphin, son of Richard Dolphyn, on
the west, and the highway on the east, to the behoof and
use of Roger Eyre, Esq., to whom the lord of the manor
had granted the aforesaid messuages and lands, for which
he did fealty.

William Crofte and Will. Kyng, attorneys of Nich. Whyte,

surrendered a mess. and all the lands, tenements with
appurts, lying in ‘‘ Cartleegge,” lately in the occup. of the
said Nich. Whyte to the use of Roger Eyre, of Holme,
Esq., his heirs and assigns.

William Croft in his own person surrendered a messuage and

two bays in the barn, and one bay in the ‘Cote,’ and
six parcells of land, to the use of Roger Crofte for the
term of eighteen years.

ohn Watts in his own person surrendered a bovate (eighteen
p g

acres) of land in Milnethorpe, to the use of Thomas
Watts, his heirs and assigns.

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COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 719

Thomas Watts in his own person surrendered a certain
yearly rent of 13% 4% issuing from a mess. and bovate in
Milnethorpe, to the use of Elizabeth Watts, wife of the
said Thomas, in the name of dowry and jointure for life.

Thomas Watts and Elizabeth, his wife, surrendered a mess.
and bovate in Milnethorpe to the use of John Watts for
his life.

Roger Eyre in his own person surrendered a meadow plot
lying in Cartlege, in the tenure of Nicholas Whyte, to the
use of the said Nicholas, for life.

rtd John Coke who held a mess. and lands in Holmefeld, died
since the last court, by which his best animal fell to the
lord, for a heriot. Margaret, the wife of John Hudson is
sister and next heir of John Coke, and is of full age.

Here follows a fragment of constable’s returns relating to
CHELMERTON, dated 6 Hen. VIII. It bears the following :—
Andrew Morewood, constable.
John Norton
Thurstan Dall Assistants,
Edward Brixton
All reported in good order: discords, wz?.

Heriot, A. Saxon ‘ Heregate,’ from Here an army and ‘gaze’ a beast.
It signified originally a tribute given to the lord of the manor for his better
preparation for war. By the laws of Canute, at the death of the great men of
_ this realm, so many horses and arms were to be paid as they were in their
respective life-times obliged to keep for the king’s service. Spelman. Jacob.
In many, if not all, modern copyholds the best beast (whether it be horse,
Ox, or cow—or the best goods, furniture, or plate) of which the tenant dies
possessed is due and payable to the lord of the manor,
The present payment of death duties imposed by the late Radical Govern-
ment is far more severe on our aristocracy and the wealthier portion of our
_ community than the severest of the old feudal obligations, for incidentally it
constitutes a Zevalty or fine on every patron of the fine arts for their possession
of choice articles of vvtz, and a penalty and restriction on the production of these
things by our most talented artisans. It is almost a death blow to the pros-
perity of English art, for few will care now to obtain or treasure those things
the possession of which will entail such disastrous consequences to their families
and estates.

80 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

— Hofmesfiefd. Great Court of YJobn Bavage, KE..

@nno viii. Hen. viii. (AD. 1516.)

HomacE Jury.—Rob. Haslem, sen™ Will. Kyng, Will. Harre,
Ric. Whyte, Rob. Wolstenholme, Will. Cley, John Watts,
sen™ John Kyng, Will. Owtrem, John Coke, Hen. Parken,
Edw. Watts, Rob. Haslem, jun™> John Newbold, Thomas
Leeke and Robert Green, owe suit.

Thomas Fauchall, Rob. Hanley, John Rychelas, Will. Bagger,
Will. Harre, jun™’ Rob. Knotton, Rob. Smyth, John Harre,
John Weynwryght, Annes Moxson, James Wolstenholme,
John Wattz, jun’ Tho. Hatherley, Oliver Caskyn, John
Wuddus, John Owtrem, are all common tenants, and have
not been admitted, nor paid their fine (relief).

The intervening Court Rolls are missing.

Holmesfiefd Courf. Enno rer. Hen. vitt. (AD. 1538.)

Thomas Leyke of Hardwyk, Derbys., Gent., for the sum of
444, received by him from Rich* Alvey of Blytheworth
in Co. Nottingham, husbandman, surrendered to the use
of the said Richard Alvey and his heirs, two messuages,
with their appurtenances, within the demesne of Holmes-
field; which messuages were formerly in the tenure and
occupation of J. Cley, and previously in the tenure of
Thomas Leyke, father of the said Thomas Leyke. And to
this same court came Lady Brereton by her seneschal,
and granted to ‘the said Richard Alvey two messuages
with their appurts., to be held by the said Richard and
his heirs, who paid for his ingress xi* and did fea/ty* and
was admitted tenant.

* (Fealty special is performed either by Freemen or by Villeins. Anno
6 Ed. II. When a freeman shall do fealty to his lord, he shall hold his right
hand upon a book and shall say thus :—‘‘ Hear you my lord A. . . . that I,
B.... C.... shall be to you both faithful and true, and shall owe my
fealty to you for the land that I hold of you, at the terms offered. So help me
God, and all his saints.”

The oath of homage is taken by the tenant keeling, but that of fealty is

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 81

DHofmesfied. Court Geld in fhe Wigif of S. Laurence,

@nno revit. Henry vitt. (A.D. 1540.)

The jury presented that George Barley of Stubbin surrendered
a messuage etc. in Holmesfield to the use of George Barley
his son, for the term of his life.

rq William Crofte died since the last court holding 3 messuages
and lands in Holmesfield.

>A Robert Wolstenholme died since the last court holding the
mess. with the appurts. in Holmesfield by the rent of
6° 11° per annum, and James Wolstenholme is his son
and next heir.

William Kynge died since last court, seized of two messuages
and lands in Holmesfield, and Christopher King is his son
and next heir.

Hofmefiefd. Court of EfizabetB Savage. widow, Befd
anno rerio. Ben. viti, (A.D. 1542.)
Homage Jury :—Christopher Kynge, Michael Croft, James
Wolstenholme, Rob. Gasylham, Will. Harry, Thom. Watts,
Ric. ... Ric. Owtram, Jas. Watts, Geo. Newbold, Hery
Perkin, Ric. Gasylham. They presented that Richard
Leyche and Ric. Alvee have made default etc.
ie) Rich* Ffirlyeham died since last court, holding 2 messuages
and Geoffry Ffirlyeham is his son and next heir.
ri Rowland Eyer, gent, died since last court seized of 2
messuages and lands in MHolmesfield. Stephen Eyre
succeeded.
mA George Barley of Stoke, Esq. died since last court holding

taken s¢azding, and includes six things which are comprised in these words—
©Incolume,’ ‘Tutum, ‘utile,’ ‘honestum,’ ‘factle,’ ‘ possibile,’ all
hich is comprised in the law of Henry I., cap. 5. Every man shall give faith
his lord concerning his life and members, his earthly honour, and in keeping
his counsel, by honest and useful means; his faith to God and to his earthly
ince alone excepted. —Blount.

ontfaucon in Axtiguzties of France, 1757, Vol. I., p. 62, gives a quaint
lustration (plate cxxiii.) of the Duke of Bourbon (A.D. 1369) receiving the
th of fealty.

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82 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD,

a messuage and lands in Holmefield, and George Barley
is his son and next heir. Christopher, Harry, and William,
are also sons of the said George Barley.

John Lees is the son and heir of Robert Lees.

Richard White surrendered messuages, lands and meads in
Carteleche to the use of Joan his daughter and heiress the
wife of James Wolstenholme jun’, and the heirs of her
body.

James Wolstenholme sen" surrendered a mess. in Curteleche
to the use of James Wolstenholme his son and heir,
William Harry is the son and heir of William Harry, and
John Harry son and heir of the first named William.
Ralph Leyche (by Rob. King his attorney) surrendered his
estate in Holmesfield called ‘ Caldwall’ to the use of Rob.

Shakerley and his heirs.

Ralph Leche, formerly of Chattesworth in Co. Derby Esq.
surrendered all his lands in Holmesfield which Johanna
Coke formerly held for her life, called Caldwall, to the
use of Rob. Shakerley.

Stephen Eyre, of Hassop, son and heir of Rowland Eyre,
surrendered his holding in Holmesfield to the use of Michael
Eyre. Fine 28* 11°

Thomas Barley of Dranffeld Wodehouse, Gent, desired per-
mission to lease his land to Edmund Watts, holding to
him and his assigns immediately after the death of James
Watts for the term of 20 years.

Richard Alvey desired licence to devise his messuage and a
bovate of land in the occupation of William Ffoxe for the
term of 60 years, at the yearly rent of 33° 4*

ria Thomas Leke Esq. died since last court. John Leeke Esq.
is his son and next heir and Richard Leeke is son and heir
apparent of the said John.

i) Stephen Harry died since last court, holding a messuage
and a bovate, and Agnes Damme wife of Richard
Damme is his cousin and heir and she is the daughter
and heiress of William Cley.

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIEI.D. 83

Hofmesfefd. Court of Dame Efizabeth Savage, widow,
Befd Wed. nerf after Geast of S. edd, Gp.. Enno
rert8. Den. vtii. (A.D. 1543.)

Dk The jury said that Roger Ffulyeham Esq died since the last
court and held by copy 2 mess. with lands meads etc. with
appurts in Holmesfield by rents and services ‘ad antigua,’
and that Godfrey Ffulyeham is son and next heir and of full
age. The said Godfrey came and was admitted tenant and
paid for his fine 17°

bf Also that Roland Eyre gent. died since the last court holding
two mess. with lands and tenements in Holmesfeld and that
Christopher Eyre gent. is his son and next heir and of full
age.

rH They said that George Barley of Stoke died since the last court
who held one mess. with land tenements pastures etc in
Holmesfeld. And to this court came Robert Hasylham and
Xpof. King by virtue of a letter of attorney dated 28th Aug.
Anno 34 Hen. VIII. and surrendered the said mess. tene-
ments meads etc to the use of George Barley son of the said
George the father for the term of the life of George the son—
and after the decease of George the son, the said estate to
remain to Christopher, Henry, Will. and Anthony sons of the
said George the father for the terms of their lives and the
longer liver—and after their decease the said estate to remain
to Thomas Barley son and heir of the said George Barley the
father his heirs and assigns. Upon this came George the son,
and took up the said estate etc. and was admitted tenant.

°K John Kynge died since last court who held a mess. with lands

in Holmesfield. Rob. Kynge is his son and next heir, and

q of full age. Admitted tenant.

oh John Coke, of Cowley, died since last court holding a croft
called ‘‘ Pellethaugh” in Holmesfield. John Coke is his
younger son and heir.

kl Robert Lee died since last court holding a messuage and a
toft. John Lee is his son and next heir.

hq Stephen Harre died since last court.

84 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

BHofmesfeld. Court Befd ri. July, anno rreB. Hen.

Bit. (A.D. 1543.) !

Fines and Payments.

Michael Eyre for two mess. formerly held by Stephen, son of
Rowland Eyre, 27° 11°

Edmund Watts for a mess. demised to Thom. Barley 16%

John Leek, Esq., son and heir of Tho. Leek. For two mess. 2*

Agnes, wife of Richard Damme, took up a messuage as daughter
and heir of Will. Cley, formerly held by Stephen Harry,
ae 4°

John Leek, Esq., and Ralph Leek, his son and heir, for a
messuage formerly held by Agnes Damme, 3° 4%

Richard Alve, for three messuages, formerly held by John
and Ralph Leek, 13° 4°

William Ffox for a messuage leased to him by Richard
Alve, 20°

James Wolstenholme, son and heir of James Wolstenholme,
for a messuage in Holmesfield, 3° 4°

Joan White, daughter and heir of Richard White, and wife of
James Wolstenholme, jun., succeeded to one messuage
surrendered by Richard White. .

i) “TP, Johne Ffanshawe p una bova p hariet Johi Kynge,
KI 2
“1D, Johannis Ffanshawe ballivis ibm p ui bone qui accedit
diie de harriett post mortem Johanne Cooke vidue xxi*”

iH “TD. eodem ballivis p una agna que accedit dne post mortem
Henrici Perkyn iii* iiij*”

[These are the first entries of the Fanshaw family on
these rolls. John Fanshaw appears here as dazliff of the
manor of Holmesfield (then in the parish of Dronfield).
This office was not one of much distinction, but such as
might be held by an intelligent farmer or copyholder. If
this is the John Fanshaw whose brass remains in Dronfield
Church, he married an Eyre, and may have obtained his
standing through this marriage. As he was about 74 at
his death, he would be born about 1504.]}

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 85

Richard Whytt for a messuage given him for life paid 16%

Richard Newbold for a tenement and lands leased to him by
Michael Croft, 20%

Godfrey Fuliambe, Esq., for suit of court, 4°

Thomas Cartwright for feeding his animals on the common
for three years, 18%

Thomas Bradshaw for council 2*

James Mower, jun., for council 2% Will. Newbold 2°

Nicholas Newbold for trespass 2%

Edw Ots, John Mower, John Adamson, Jo. Botham, Hen.
Botham, Edw. Wyrall, Will. Levet, Nich. Waynwright,
Ric. Damme, &c.

Hofmesfeld. Court Befd Wednesday after the Gasump-
tion of @. ©. W.. Gnno rerBitt. Hen. wtit. (A.D. 1546.)

George Newbold’s fine for a field called ‘* Holmes,” 6%
The same George for a heriot for William Newbold his
father.

bia Robert Hasilham for a mess, &c., formerly belonging to
Robert Hasilham, his father, 5*

Nicholas Newbold for a field leased to him by Michael Croft.

Hofmesfefd. Curia Magna Jobannis Savage Mit.
ifm. fenft. die veneris p*r anfe Gm. Qssumpcois Qe
Marte Virginis. Gnno Regnt @ni Edmardt Serti.—yprimo.

(A.D. 1547.)

Suitors—George Barley, gent.; Will. Newbold, Thom. Newbold,
Nich. Ward, Edw*. Ots, Rob. Staci, Rob. Hancocke, Rob.
Herbert, John Kynge, John Coke, Philip Lowe, John
Bothome, Hen. Smith, Will. Wilson, Will. Levet, John
Woodhouse, John Wainwright, Rob. Hasylham (? Haslem),
Hen. Helot, Ric. Davy, Jas. Harry, Will. Doo, Ralph
Taylor, Rog. Coke, Humfrey Whitt. All fined 2° for suit
of court.

Thomas Eyer, son of Edward, for lands granted to him by
Edward Eyre, 20°

86 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

Robert Eyer, son of Edward, for lands granted to him by
Edw? Eyre, 20%
Will. Wolstenholme, for lands granted by Edw* Eyre, Esq.,

a ae

Robert Wolstenholme, for lands, &c. granted by Edward Eyer,
Hisg.7.3° 4°.

Rich, Hatherley, for lands, &c,y granted by Edw* Eyer,
SQ.,, 23

Edward Hatherley for the same, 2~

John Harry for the same.

James Wolstenholme for the same, 12°

Richard Whitt for the same, 8°

John Adamson for mess. and lands granted by Christopher
Kynge, 2°.

a Christopher Woods for his “ Relief” after the death of

Elizabeth Woods, his mother, 12° 3" Heriot, 1o*

Hofmefeld. Great Court of John Savage, Knighf,
Beld Enno itt. Edmard vt. (1549.)

Homace Jury.—Christopher Kynge, John Harry, of Cartlege ;
Richard Whyte, Rich. Hasylham, Edw" Hatterley, Rob.
Hasylham, Rich. Owtrym, Rob. Wolstenowe, Rich.
Shawe, Mich. Waynwright, Ric. Dame, Will. Ffoxe, Tho.
Wattes, John Coke.

The following names occur—Godfrey Ffulyeham (Foljambe) of
Plumley, Esq., (? Rob.) Shakerley of Caldwell, gent. ; Geo.
Barley, gent.; Will. Newbold, Thomas Newbold, Nich.
Warde, Rob. Stacy, Rob. Hanecoke, Rob. Geleye, John
Kynge, Philip How, Rob. Elot.

ry James Wolstenholme died since last court. At ‘‘ Gzymst . .
and at “ Hatende” Rich. Grey and . . . Owtrem ought
to keep the ditches cleansed.

”

(Rolls missing.)

q
,

q Befd af * Heth* (Heath) on Wednesday. rrir. Gprif. anno

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COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 87

Hofmesfefd Court. Gnno tit. and i. HPBifip and

QMarp. (A.D. 1557.)

John Ffanshawe for entrance on the common 6%

Joan Newbold, for breaking fences, 2°

Alice Davie and Agnes, her daughter, for cutting greenwood
and barking the ‘‘ollers” (? Alders now pronounced
* oollers ”) 2°

Jas. Hardwyke, Esq., and Elizab. Leyche for counsel iiij* each.

Christopher Kynge, for not reparing “ Smeyclyff” hedge, 2%

Rob. Stacye for frequent trespass on the demesne common
with his sheep, 2°

Thomas Ffoliambe and Godfrey, his son, for ingress to a mess.
and lands in Mylnethorpe, 20%

John Ffanshawe, fine for entrance on a pasture, formerly
Roger Cartwright’s, 6%

James Watts, John Casken, Rob. Hancock, John Adamson,
Tho. Taylor, John Swyft, Leone Allen, Hen. Eyre, Ro.
Heybert, Hum. Whyte, Will. Doo, Ro. Waynwright, Will.
Molson, all pay 2% each for counsel.

Hofmesfiefd. Courf of Sir Fobn SaBage. Hf., Befd
Bere iB. and 8. PBifip and Mary. (A.D. 1558.)

al For a heriot after the death of Thomas Watts, 26° 84

John Roworth for cutting down an oak growing on the
demesne between Benetfeld and Raworth close 12%

James Hardwick, Esq., for counsel 4*

Elizab Leyche, for same 4%

Sfainesby. CErfracts of Fines and @mercements of
Stank Pfedge mith the Great Court of Henry. Earl of
Ruffand. and of offer feoffees of FoBn Savane. Gniabe.

#B. and 8. (PBifip and Mary. (A.D. 1558.)

Of Thomas Lansdale, because he is a common brewer of ale,
and baker of bread, and has broken the assize, 4°
The following payments are for counsel:—Rob. Smoote 4°;

88 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

John Fernylegh, 4°; Eliz. Walker, widow, 2°; Thom.
Newbold, 27; Alice Emitton, wid., 2°; Euphemia Wilson,
wid., 24; Ro. Barker, 24; Ric. Savage, 24; Rog. Stapleton,
4°; Tho Brayleford, 2°; Tho. Allwood, 2°.; Ric. Johnson,
2°; John Walkdon, 2"; the heirs of Ralph Langford, 22°;
the heirs of Sir Miles Busshy, 12".

James Hardwike, 4°; Will. Baker, 1°.

James Scoll for counsel against Geo. Skinner, 6".

Rich. Savage for counsel against Lan. Whitehead, 6°.

Rob. Hill for counsel against Rog. Rockley, 5°.

Rich* Perkinson for brewing, 2°.

John Woolhouse, gent., because he is a common trespasser in
the woods of the demesne, 2%.

John Hardwyke, Christopher Hardwyke, and James Cowpap
(possibly intended for Cowhap or Cowipe) for cutting down
the Maypole.

George Morton, because he was associated in the action by
Humphry Charles against the inhabitants, 2°.

John Chaworth Knight, because he is a free tenant and made
default, 12°.

Roger Walker, because he is an inhabitant and did not come,
2° (? to pay suit of court).

Agnes Cowap for cutting off the tops of trees, 4°.

Rich. Perkinson for not ringing his pigs, 2".

Agnes Cowap for ploughing of pasture land (ruptura), 2°.

Roger Rockley for an assault on Rob. Hill.

Rich* Savage for drawing blood upon Laurence Whitehead, 6°.

* Doore * or More.
Of Isabel Barker, widow, for suit of court, 12°; John Barker,

for counsel 12%.

Efmefon. Magna Curia of FoBn Bavage (sc) Beld on
Thursday rit. Sep. @nno 8B. and Bi. (MGifip and
QNary. (A.D. 1558.)

Of the heirs of Sir Nich. Gansell, Kt., for suit, 12°,
d

Hugh Willoughby, Esq., for counsel, 12°; the heirs of Ric.

a a

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COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 89

Barry, do. 12°; Rob. Minwike, do. 4°; Peter Edeson,
do. 4%.

Edward West, Esq., for relief of lands which he holds of the
lord of this manor, 2%.

Oliver Woodhead, for ploughing the lord's lands badly, 2

Rich. Marshall, for cutting down an oak, 12%.

Will. Kempe, for an ash tree, 6".

The relict of John Kitchen, of Bolsover, for cons, 2°.

Thom. Barker, of Oxcroft, for bushes, 2°.

John Barlow, of Bolsover, for hedgestakes, 4°.

Oliver Woodhead, for breaking down the hedges of his
neighbours, 12° (see above).

Do. for dam staves, 2" (? stakes for supporting the sides of
the dam).

Thomas Roger, of Clowne, for cutting gorse.

Edward Champeney, for giving bushes to outsiders.

Brian Baker, of Cresswell, is a common trespasser in the
woods, 4°.

Rich. Robbe, 44; John Newport, 24; Tho. Winter, 2°; Rob.
Kemp, 2°; Ralph Billam, 2°; John Kitchen, 24; Xpofer
Kitchen, 2°, for counsel.

Richard Marshall for selling wainstaves, 2°.

[edward Wood for taking away a fence at Blacksike.

No Court Rolls ‘proper’ for the reign of Philip and Mary.

Hofmesfefd. Court of Sir John SaBage, Feld rev. Gugust,
@Bnno t. EfizabetB. (A.D. 1559.)

Homace Jury.—John Ffanshawe, Rob. Haslam, Ric. Owen,
Christopher Wode, Christopher Kynge, Geo. Neubold, Jas.
Wolstenholme, Rob. King, John Harrie, Ric. White, Hen.
Hatterley, Ric. Dame, Will Hasslame, Mich. Neubold, John
Waters.

Dk Thomas Barley who held divers lands in this demesne at a
yearly quit rent of 5° 6° died since last court. Robert
Barley is his son and next heir.

go COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

Michael Wode, Henry Brome, Rob. Weynwright, Ric. Haslem,
Xpof. Lathum, Xpof. Stace, Rob. Hancock, Hen. Ston, Rob.
Tor, Tho. Taylour, John Swyft, Philip Lacye, John Caskene,
Hen. Smith, Will Taylor, Will Leyvet, Brian Alen, Geo.
Perken, Hen. Gerge, Rob. Heybard, Will Watts, Humfr.
Wyet, Will Doe, Ralph Taylour, Hen. Weyt, James Herre,
are all transgressors and are fined 2° each.

Michael Pytts, plaintiff against Rob. Shakerley Esq., on the plea
of land.

Ralph Leyke Esq. plaintiff, son of John Leyke of Hasland and
Rich. Alen deft on the plea of land.

Hofmesfiefd. Court. Ynno itt. Efizabefh. (A.D. 1560.)
Richard Alve of Arnold, Notts., and William Alve his son
and heir surrendered 3 bovates in the occupation of Richard
Dam, Will Fox, and John Coucke to the use of Robert Alve
son of the said Richard Alve.

*Me Ertrete for tBe great Courte of fhe Right Wor-
sBipfull Sir John Savage. Knight. Bofden for $is Manor
of Hofmesfifd and Moure. fhe Mondape Biz: fhe rev day
of Gugust in tBe pere of fBe raynge of of sou’apnge fadp
EfizabetBe. ce., the fBred.** (A.D. 1561.)

Sutores that have made default at the Greate Courte aforsaid :

John Barker gent 4°, Rob. Grynewode 2", and for a tree 2°,

Mr Shakerley 4", John Harry 2", Godfrey Ffoliambe 2°, Harry

Stone 2“, Rob. Hanwyke 2°, John Cadason 2", John Swifte

2", Hen. Smythe 2%, Jas. Harry 2°, Will. Taylor 2°, Will.

Levet 2%, Lyon Alene 2°, Hatry Eyre 2°, Geo. Parken 2°,

Rob. Heyberd 2°, Humfr. Wayte 2°, Will. Day 2°, Harry

Wayte 24, Mich. Woods 2°, Harry Brown 2°, Rob.

Waynwright 2°, Nic. Atlesone 1°, Mich. Croft 2°.

George Newbold for his fine of adm. 20°.

Hofmesfefd. Court of Sir John Savage. Uf.. Befd
ree. (Map, @nno iv. EfizabetB.

Levy of Fines of ancient custom, adjudged by the jury—
For CounseL:—Rob. Hancok 2%, John Adamson 2", John

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. gi

Caskene 2°, John Swifte 2, Hen. Smith 2°, Wm. Taylor 2°,
Wm. Levett 24, Lione Allen 2‘, Hen. Eyre 2°, Geo. Parker
2°, Rob. Hyberd 10%, Jas. Harry 2%, Will. Doc 2%, Hen.
Browne 2“, Hen. Weyt 2°, Mich. Woods 2°, Nich. Atkinson
12"

Ok James Watts, one of the tenants of this manor, died since last
court. Heriot a black ox value 265 8°.

Hofmesfield. Bnno vt. EfizaB. (A.D. 1563-4.)

rE James Wolstenholme died since last court. A black cow
valued at 20° is due for a heriot.

James Wolstenholme is his son and heir. He paid for his relief
Batis.

Will. Haslooe for a distraint in “ Pz//otts Wood” 12.

Geo. Turner for trespassing with a Cow in the “ Spring” 6°.

Do. for 2 ‘‘ burthens of Watlings” fine 8d.

Roger Wood of Baslow for new building at Unthank 2°, for the
Eimyine "2°,

Ralph Clarke for counsel on his building against the order of
court 2°. Rob. Kynge 3° 4".

Elizab. Leach widow for default of suit 6°.

Roger Wood, Rob. Haslem, Ric Whyte Xpof King, John Watts,
Jno. Cobb, Edw‘. Hatterley, H. Ellott, R. Damm, all 6°
each for counsel

Christopher Wood because he did not goe and appoint the landes
in controversy betwixt Rob. Kynge and Ric. Owtram afore
Michaelmas last, 12%.

Examined by me, Thomas Arderne. '

@oore. Courf Befd af Hofmesfiefd, rr. Map, anno iv.
EfizaB.
Edw Bush fined 12°. Rob. Greenwood for default of suit, 6%

Hofmesfield. Court Befldv. Gugust. Ynno v. Efizabeth KR.
(A.D. 1563.)

For DEFAULT oF SuiT.—John Cooke 2%, Rob. Torre 2%.
For CounsEL.—Rob. King 2°, Joan Botham 2%, Joh. Hancok, 2°,

g2 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

Hen. Stone 2‘, John Swyft 2°, Joh. Casken 2°, Hen.
Smyth 2°, Phil. Doe 2°, Will. Levett 2%, Lion. Allen 24,
Hen. Eyre 2°, Geo. Parken 2°, Rob. Herbert 2%, John
Walhed 2°, Isabella Whit 2°, Jas. Harry 2°, Hen. White 24,
Rob. Torre 2%.

Will. Mason for trespassing with his cattle on the demesne, not
being a tenant 3° 4%.

‘John Cooke because he kepeth moe bestis in dominiti than he
y* hable to wynter,” 20%,

Robert Kyng because he made recovery on the bailiff 10°.

Michael Croft because he went away from the mill of the demesne
contrary to the appointment of the court 2°.

The Villagers of Holmesfeld who ‘did not repayre the mylne ”
according as it was ordered were fined 20°.

Mich. Woodhous for trespass in the vill. 2°.

John King for his fine of admission 5° 6°.

Doore.
Rob. Grenewood for suit 12%.

For keeping under tenants contrary to the order of the court
Gos.

Heath and | Fines of the Court of John Savage, KF.. Befd

Stepnesbie.) vi. Gug.. Wnno wv. Efizabeth R.

Ric. Savage for default of suit 3%

James Hardwick, Esq., for Counsel 12%

Elizab. Leach, widow, for counsel 12%

The heirs of Busshey, by Ralph Lynnson, 12%

Rich. Willson, because he sold above the market and did not
keep the assize, 6“

For counsel Rob. Smote, 6°; Tho. Lendale, 6°; Eliz. Walker,
6"; Nic. Smote, 62; Tho. Newbold, 6%

John Noble because being Verderer * he did not account for
the trespasses made in the woods, 12%

* Verderer—An official whose duty was to attend to the preservation of
the vert or gveenwood of the forest. He was required to wéew, receive, and
enrol the attachments and presentments of trespasses of Vert and Venison.
(Manwood, 348).

EEE

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 93

Tho. Newbold, for unjust detention of a debt of 14" belonging
to Tho, Whitehead, 3"

John Ireland drew blood upon . . Cooke, 9*

John Wylly, for an assault on John Ferniley, 3° 4°

James Cowpe because he had not made ‘Le AHobyn
Stubbings” as was appointed, 6* 8%

Pq Godfrey Ffoliambe, Esq., son and heir of Godfrey Foliambe,
Esq., the son and heir of Roger Foliambe, Esq., gave
an ox value 51° for a heriot for Godfrey, his father.

“Memd. This ys an old dett of Mr. Ffoliambes, and entered
before in Anno. primo Marie Reginz, and not answered
before this time.”

(The Rolls for the reign of Queen Mary are all lost.)

John Harry surrendered a mess. in Cartledge to remain after his
decease to his son Michael Harry, and his heirs and
assigns.

John King, son of Robert King, succeeded to his father’s
lands. 5° for his fine of ingression.

Rich. Simpson for trespass in the lord’s wood, 12°,

Agnes, servant of John Stones, for breaking the peace, 3° 4%

Elizab. Sherbrook, for lopping a tree growing by “Ry/eyforde,”
3 4%

Isabel Garret, for not ringing her pigs, 12% *

Rob. Rysler, for treading down hedges, 20%

Ralph Clarke did not make his part of the park enclosure, 10%

From the bailiff of the demesne for a good heifer sold per
battrysh for 30° and worth 33° 4°. Of the same for a
“ Wetherhogg ” 3° 4°

Efmton. Court Befd vit. Gug.. Gnno v. EfizaB. MH.
For Suit—Edward West, Esq., 12°
For Counsel—Peter Ideson, 6°; Brian Jay, 6° 8%; Joan

* A rule very necessary for preserving the turf and pasturage on the
common lands—observe this court was held at the latter end of the year,
when pigs were usually turned out for masting.

94 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

Westby, for counsel for four beasts, 3°; Joan Barker, Keey

Ric. Marshall, 3° 4°; Christ Kitchen, 12°; John Turner,
127; John Wither, 12°; Anna Kemp, 6° 8°; John Rhodes,
87; Will. Kechen, 8°; Alice Tomson, 2°; Joan Westby,
widow, 12°; Ro. Hallam, 12°; Francis Westby, 12°; John
Sherston, 12°; Ralph Barker, 12°; Joan Barker, Pane
Christ’. Sherston, 12°; John Blacksmith, 12°; Thom.
Woolley, 12°; Hen. Gascoigne, 12°, and for breaking the
penalty of imparcation, 6° 8".*

Will. Kemp, for keeping a close contrary to order, 3° 4".

Brian Jay, for the same, 3° 4°.

Henry Gascoigne, because he put four beasts on the open
common, contrary to order, 4°.

Edw‘ Wood, for not repairing his tenement, 10°.

Will. Kitchen, for ditto, 12°.

Will. Russel’s wife took wood without leave, 12%,

Rob. Seint, for cutting two ash poles, 12°.

Christ. Kechen, for getting “lynnt” bark, 12%

John Swynoke, for letting land contrary to order, 6° 8°.

Ralph Billam, for “making recovery ”’+ from the Bailiff, 5°.

Geoffry Fowne, for carrying “‘ wevers ’{ out of the lord’s wood, 2°.

Attalen Kemp, because she is a common “scowlde,” 6° 8%.

The same Attalen is an ‘‘ Evysdropper,” 2°.

Rob. Hallam, because he did not mend his part of the hedge
in “ Mereland.”

Francis Westby, for not making his fence at the ‘‘ O/dfyshedame,”
2°; and because he did not yoke his swyne, 12°.

Hofmesfiefd. QBnno vit. EfizaB. (AD. 1564-5.)

Godfrey Foliambe, of Chesterfield, appointed Richard Outrem
and Rob. Haslam, of Homfold, to deliver seisin of mess.
and lands to Thom. Rowland.

* Imparcare signifies to impound. Gascoigne was guilty of pound-breach,
or breaking open the pound to release his cattle confined therein by the
“* pinder.”

+ Making recovery is to take by force out of the hands of the Bailiff
anything attached or taken by him pursuant to order of the court.

{ Young timberlings left standing in a fallen wood.

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIEFLD, 95

Robert Shakersley, of ‘the ‘ Spy7fy//,” in Chesterfield, gent.,
appointed Rich. Outrem and Xpof. Wood, yeoman, to
surrender ‘Great Morewood” lately occupied by John
Ffanshaw to the use and behoof of the said John
Ffanshaw for the term of 21 years. Dated 18 July,
Anno. 7, Elizab.

Robert Eyre, of Greys Inn, gentleman, appoints Robert
Haslam and George Newbold, his attorneys, to surrender
one mess. and lands in the parish of Dronfield in the
tenure of Edward Hatterley at the yearly rent of 36° 8°, in
the Court of S‘ John Savage, K‘, at his manor of Holmes-
field, according to the custom of the manor to the use of
Elizabeth MHatterley for the term of 21 years. And if
the said Elizabeth marry again within the 21 years without
the consent of Robert Eyre, then she must resign the
occupation thereof; and Joan and Agnes, daughters of
Edward Hatterley, shall have the occupation thereof to
the use and bringing up of all the children of Edward
Hatterley.

Hofmesfiefd Fines, cc. Court of Fobn Bavage, Kt..

Befd tBere rrtit. Fuly. YFnno vit. EfizaB. HR.

Rowland Eyre, gent., suit, 12°.

Elizab. Leach, widow, 12°; Jas. Hatterley, 124; Agnes, ditto,
12°, Rob. Torre 24, Mich. Atkinson 24, Rob. Coxle 24,
John Gascoigne 2°, Rob. Elliott 2°, John Swift 2°, Hen.
Smith 2%, Will. Levett 24, Lionel Alen 2°, Hen. Dare 24,
John Walhed 24%, Geo. Parker 2°, Jas. Hanes 2°, Will.
Doo, 2°, Weyts wife 2°, Hen. West 2°. All for counsel.

bq Executors of Rob. Wolstenholme. Heriot, an ox, val. 33° 4°.

J« Executors of Edward Hatterley. Heriot “one good Sees
one of his chattels), 30°.
oe) Executors of Rich. Dame. Heriot, “‘ one good,” 33° 4°.

John Fanshaw, for his ingress, 4° (s7c).
Thomas Roland, for his ingress, 4° and 11°.
Will. Owtrem, for his ingress, 1o* 7%.

96 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

Rich" Owtrem, for his ingress, 5°.

Nich. Wolstenholme, for his ingress, 5°.

Rob. Hattersley, for his ingress, 2° 6".

John Harry and Helena, his wife, for ingress, 2° 4".
Hen. Brome, for trespass in the demesne wood, 2°.
Mich. Bathon, for cutting a balk of an old house, 4".

Heath and | Court of Frank Pledge Geld there ri. MarcB,
Stepnesby. ) Q8nno viit. Efiza8. KR.
For Surr or Court.—The heirs of Ralph Longford, Kt., 12°;
The heirs of Miles Bussey, Kt., 12°;
James Hardwick, Esq., 12°; Elizab. Leach, wid., 12°;
John Webster, 2°; John Cantrell, 4°; Jas. Cowpe, 12°;
Ric. Savage, 12°; Isabel Garrett, 44; Nich. Smote, 6°;
Fr. Mason, 4°; Tho. Lonsdale, 64; Art. Fretwell, 6%; Ric.
Wilson, 64; Anne Newbold, 6°; Rob. Elles, 6°; Ric.
Savage, 6°; Jas. Wilgose, 6°.
Will. Turner did not make the house as he ought, 2°.
James Wilgose is a nightly wanderer, 3°. 4°.
James Cowpe, for not mending two ‘“gappes” in his ease-
ment, 8%.
Christopher Hardwick, for not removing his stile as enjoined
at the last court.
John Stones did not repair his house, 12".
The Bailiff of the manor for concealment of a waif sheep in the
hands of George Weynwright, price 3° 4°.
Ric. Wilson for not mending 3 gaps.
The tenant of ‘‘ Zowzds,” because he did not make the “ welle”
in the same vill., 5°.
ASSAULTS :—James Roland on Ralph Taylor, 3° 4".
Rob. Wants upon Ralph Taylor, 3° 4°.
Rob. Taylor upon Will. Turner, 3° 4°.
John Midleton upon Thom. Hill, 3° 4°.
John Lansdale upon John Hill, 3° 4°.
Hugh Maddow for one swarm of bees, 2°.

Ss

[It would seem from this, that the lord claimed all

age

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 97

swarms settling on his demesne, by the same rule that he
claimed waifs and strays. ] |

From the Bailiff of the manor for a waif calf, 10°.

Will. Noble is a night wanderer, 3° 4°.

John Webster did not come to the court when the jury should
elect the Chief Constable, but evaded it, and went away,
10°. is

John Wright for stubbing of “ Hassels,” 12%.

Joan Heth for “dystrowing of ote sheaves” of her neigh-
boures, 12¢

Robert Smote’s wife is a common brewer and baker.

Sfepnesby. Wiem of Srank Pledge Bed tBere r Acfober.
@nno ir. Efiza8. HR.

Ralph Langforth, Esq., for default of suit, 2°.

_ The heirs of John Bussy, Esq., do. 2°.

The heirs of Sir John Chaworth, K‘, for counsel, 12°.

Ralph Taylour, 3°; Ric. Johnson, 3°; Ric. Harrison, 3°.

Edw* Adeshed for counsel upon Pollarde, 6° 84; John Myddle-
ton do. upon John Ferneley, 3° 4°; Ric. Wylson, 2°.

Geo. Wright against John Middleton, 3° 4°.

Ric. Savage, 3° 4°; John Stones, 4°; Ro. Barker upon Roland
Hill, 42; John Bacon, 4°; John Lonsdale for counsel at
thre rowe end, 4%. (See next entry).

Elizab. and Roger Garrot, 4°; Ric. Wilson concerning “ Béew-
lands,” 4°; Francis Roynshaw for cons. at ‘thre lands
end.”

Thom. Larnsdale for his wife, who is a common scold
(objugatrix), 6° 8°.

Geo. Hunt for an assault upon Lawr. Tretam, and drawing
blood, 6° 8°. ;

John Middleton for not ringing his pigs, 4°.

James Cowpp, 8° for not making “ heamentum,” 4°.

Ric. Wilson for not repairing his house, 2°.

Rob. Smote is a brewer, and does not keep the assize, 8%.

Ric. Wilson is a baker, and does not keep assize.

7

98 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD

ry The executors of Edmund Brodhurst have retained his
heriot, a cow, valued at 22° 84,

Holmesfied. Court, Fnno tr. Efizab. R. (Heading torn of)
Fines of ingress.—Lawrence Watts, 5°; Thomas Barton, 4°;
John King, 6°; Michael Wooddus, 8°; Tho. Roland, 6° 8°;
John Gaskyn (Gascoigne), 3° Ate
ae John Harry for his father’s heriot, 10°.

Thomas Eyre, Henry Browne, wife of Botham, Rob. Torr,
Mich. Atkinson, Ric. Hatterley, Will. Haslem, Jas. Lee,
Will. Hilton, Rob. Oxeley, Rob. Hancok, Joan Botham,
Phil Swifte, Hen. Smithe, Edw. Roland, Will Levett,
Lyonel Allen, John Walhed, Hen. Eyre, Geo. Parkyn,
Heybard’s wife, Jas. Harry, West’s wife, Doo’s wife, and
Hen. West are all tenants, and are fined 2° each.

Robert Hatterley, because he did not appear at the inquest
being impannelled, 3° 4°-

Rog. Wood did not repair his house, 2°.

On same sheet.
Moore.

Rob. Greenwood, 6°.
Rob. Oots, Rob. Barbour, John Lyttlewood, Rob. Alen, gf

Thomas Bright cut a pole, 2°.

Holmesfiefd. Gines of tbe Court Befd there rvtit. Oct.,

Gnno rv. Efiza8. KR.

For scounsel:=-Ana Croft, 5°. Rob: King for Caldwell,
x0". Mrs. Elizab. Leach wid., 20°. Rog. Wood, 2°. etc.

John King for not amending his water course, 20%,

Geo. Turner for not doing his part at “ Smetclyf,” 4°.

‘Of the Bailiff for averages of rent from Tho. Eyre’s mess. for
21 years, 3° 6° (2° each year).

Fines of Ingress :—Robert King, 12° 11°. Tho, Eyre gent;
>°. Will. Haslem, ro’. John Harry, 20°, Rich, Hatterley,
6° 8¢, Elizab. Wolstenholme, 2° 3°. Joan Wolstenholme,
5°. John Botham, 2°.

Ric. Wilson, 4°.

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 99

StepnesBy c ) Fines of Court Geld af HetB. rir. Oct.
Heath. ) GQnno vr. Efizabeth KR.

For counsel :—Ric. Wilson, 12% Rob. Smote, 8°. John
Greaves, 8°. Alice Lamsdale, 8’. Nic. Smote, 8°. Ric.
Savage, 12°, James Wilgose, 6°, Ric. Savage upon Rob.
Gladwin, 3° 4°. John Hardwick for drawing blood on Rog.
Stones, 6° 8°.

Ralph Oldham for counsel against men unknown, by pledge of
the parson of Hethe.

Thomas Hilton for taking up a waif sparrow hawk, and selling it
as his own, 12%.

Laurence Bingham for keeping unlawful games in his house
against the statute, 12%.

Rich. Savage is a common player in the same house, 4".

Ric. Watson for cutting down an elm, 2°.

Ralph Watson cut down divers trees in the lord’s wood—oak,
elm, ashes, etc., 3° 4%.

Will. Stones for putting cattle in th’eddish field, 12°.

Bart. Fretwell retained a cottage against order, 10°.

Agnes Brodhurs for counsel 2° because she is poor.

John Cantrell for leaving a gap open, 12°.

Ric. Wilson for throwing open Peverel Yat, 6°.

Roger Stones for not ringing his swine, 8°.

Christ Hardwick for not yoking his swine, 12°.

Edw® Robert for not making his “‘ heamentum,” 8%.

4, John Lansdale, 4%. Fran. Reynshaw, Will.
Hetham, 3°. John Newton, Christ" Brelsford, John Okefeld,
Matt. Okefeld, Ric. Sonsom, Ric. Harryson, John Cowper,
Rob. Walton, Tho. Hilton, Will. Rycroft, all fined 3°.
The Bailiff for 2 oxen, 20°. Fora sheep called a “ broked ewe,”
s @d
e: Examined by Tho. Arderen.

Hofmesfefd. Court Fines, ritt. Oct.. Ynno ri. EfizaB. HR.

Godfrey Foliambe, of “ Sprat Hall,” 4°.
Jas. Lee, Hen. Brown, Rob. Toore, Nic. Atkynson, Tho.

10o COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

Wagstaff, Rob. Hanck, Rob. Oxley, Art. Ffyrehurst, Alice
Botham, John Swyft, Hen. Smith, Chr. Cool, John Hiller,
‘Lion Alen, John Bromehead, Geo. Parker, Heybard’s wife,
Jas. Harry—all fined 2° for trespassing in the woods.

Michael Croft for defalt in Smethclif Hedge, 12°. Christ King,
12°, Robert King for not repairing his house, 2° 6°.

Thom. Rowland for admission, 5°.

Hofmesfiefd. Bnno ri. EfizaB. (AD. 1568-9.)

George ‘Turner of Holmesfield, husbandman, appointed Rich.
Outrem and Rob. Haslem his attorneys to surrender a barn
and house adjoining by the wayside and all the ground
appertaining, except the house in which George dwelleth, and
all the ground from the east end of the Chappell yard betwixt
Houndsfield Park and the highway for all his interest in the
term ot years to come, which he had by virtue of a surrender
made by Godfrey Foliambe Esq. to the use of Thomas
Roland, his heirs executors and assigns.

StepnesBbye ie of Grank Pfedge, riit. Oct.. Wnno ri.
@ BHeatfB. EfizabetB RR. (A-D. 1569.)

James Hardwick Esq.

Edward Gascoigne assaulted and drew blood upon John Cley, 10°.

Philip Midleton assaulted Ant. Ludlam, 6°. |

John Ferneley, Rob. Smot, Alice Lamsdale, Mich. Smot, Ric. —
Wilson, John Greves, Rob. Clarck and Ric. Savage are
common brewers of ale, and have not kept the assize.
4° each.

Jas. Wilgose, Ric. Walker, Agnes Ellis, are bakers, and have not ©
kept the assize, 4° each.

rie The executors of John Cley gave a plough ox for his heriot,
val. 10s.

Will. Reason for cutting and carrying gorse off the common, 3° 4%.

John Hardwick for felling hollies, 12°.

Effrem Robert for moving a hedge between himself and John
Cantril, 12°.

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. Io!

Rob. Dodd for getting draught trees, 12".
Rob. Cantrell for getting “ Coyndings,”
Rob. Clark for detaining 15° 8° from Ralph Tagg 3°.
Ric. Knotton versus John Middleton 3°.

Te".

Alex. Malenson v. James Wilson 3°.
Christoph. Hardwick v. John Cope 3°.
Will. Rycroft 17° 3°.

Efmton. Court Befd rv. Oct... Bnno ri. Efizab. CG.

(A.D. 1569).
Ralph Billam for removing meers, 3".
John Bonyrant for not ringing his pigs 2°.
Will Byles for trespass in the woods, 4".
Ralph Billam for cutting hollies, 4°.

Oliver Woodhead for defalt at “ Merklands hedge” 16", and for

cutting down thorns, 3".

Rich. Shurstan for falling wood, 3°.

Attelina Kemp for gathering acorns forbidden, 12°.

pees. and Francis Westby for not making Merkland hedge,
4° each.
Agnes Westby for not ringing her pigs, 6°.
_ Fines.—Thomas Peres 3%, Will. Kemp 4", Brian Jay 4°, Jobn

Tapam 4°, John Newport 4°, Ro. Mersham, 4°, Will. Taffey

4°, John Scoynnex 3%, Will. Bely 2°, rian Barker 2°.

For Counsel.—Will. Kempe 12°, John Freynnox 12°, Rob.
Marples 12°, Rob. Thomasin, 12", Ulina Thomson 4", John
Sherston 4°.

On the back of this Elmton sheet is the following memo-
randum :—

“I doe pceve by John Ferneley & John Cartre yt Mr Nevell
his workemen and his bayle have vewede what may be made of
his Cole myne, And they thynke a workeman wyll gett in one
pyte-row VI hundreth roubles of coles in one yere ; wherof foure
hundreth wylbe worth XLti and that wylbe cleare to hymeselfe,
and towe hundreth to finde rope and loine, and pounche woode,
and workemens wakges (wages) : they vewe it after 20° the Rowfe,
ut they do not consyder the tyeth coles, w*" must be payde.”

102 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

BHeathe @ | Fines. ce.. of te Wiew of Frank Pfedge
StaypnesBye. ) of Be Great Court Leet of John Savage.
Ke., Geld af Heath. rriv. Oct.. Fnno RH. EfizaB. rit. (A.D.

1570.)

For Counsel.—-Jas. Willgose 8°, Ric. Walton 8°, Rob. Smote
6", Ant. Ludlam, 6%, Alice Lamsdale, 6°, Nic. Smote, 6°,
Ralph Hill 6°, John Greyves 6°, Ralph Clerke, 6°, Ric.
Savage 6°. The heirs of Ralph Lauckford 3° 4°, Heirs of
John Busshy 3° 4°, James Hardwick 12°, Elizab. Leach
12°, Hen. Montgomery 12°, John Webster 12°, John and
Geo. Wright, John Reasby, John Cattrull, Effram Robert,
John Cantrele, Matt. Eckenfeld.

Ric. Willson for 2 oxen for heriots 3% 6° 8°.

Rich*. Willson for goods of a felon 6° 8°.

Agnes Ellis baker has broken assize—8*.

John Ferneley brewer for not keeping assize—6*.

The heirs of Will. Myles 3° 4°, Ric. Woley, Esq. 3° 4°.

Dame Westby’s pigs not rung, 14°.

Francis Westby, Will. Belay, John Kempe, John Woder, Nic.
Barker, Peter Barton.

BHofmesfyld. Fines af Court Beld xriti. Ocf.. anno rit.

EfizaB. (R. (AD. 1570.)

rx Robert Roland for his relief 19° 4°.

For Ingress.—Tho. Ffanshawe 6°, John King 6°, Ric. and Will.
Owttrem 6% each, Geo. Newbold 6°.

Hen. Browne for trespass 2°.

Xpof. Wainwright 2°, Thom. Wagstaff 2°, Ro. Hancock 2", Rob.
Oxley 24, Arth. Fenhurst 2°, John Swyft 2°, Rog. Bagshaw,
Xpof. Heyberd, Philip Lowe, Matt. Emgefeld, Ralph Staley,
Lyon Alen, Henr. Eyse, Marg. Walhed, Geo. Perkyn, Art.
Baker, James Harr, James Lee, Hen. West, all 2° each,

Examined by me, Tho. Cludd.

Holfmesfiefd. Courf Baron, Wonday, rrviit. Oct., Fnno
rit. €fizaB. (A.D. 1570.)

re Robert Shakerley, gent., died since last court holding 2

eS ——————eel—~™

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 103

messuages, &c. Roland Shakerley is his son and next
heir.

Elizabeth Shakerley, relict of the said Robert, surrendered all the
lands, mess* and tents. which she ought to have in the name
of dowry to the use of the said Roland, who was admitted
tenant.

John Ffanshaw, in his own person, surrendered in exchange a
field called Bole Doles to the use of Geo. Newbold and his
heirs.

Rich. & William Owtrem surrendered land in Horsley Gate, in
exchange w‘ John Kyng.

HofmesfiePd. Littfe Customary Court of John Manners.
Ric. Guckfey «@ Thom. Sfanfey, Esquires, Garmers of
ZJobn SaBage. K., ford of he Manor There Befd riv. Bufy.
anno rtit. EfizabeftB. (A.D. 1571.) E

The jury said that Godfrey Ffoliambe Esq Elizab. Leeche
widow and Godfrey Ffoliambe for Mylnethorpe owed suit.
And that
Roland Shakerley held a mess called Caldwall at his death for
which a heriot and a fine of 19° 4° were due. Anna
Shakerley is his sister and next heir of the s* Roland, and of
full age. She was admitted tenant.

Stephen Eyre held 3 mess. and 7 tofts in Horsley Gate at his
death. Rowland Eyre is his son and next heir, and is of full
age. He was admitted tenant.

Rich" White surrendered a mess. in Cartleche in the tenure of
Thom. Burton* to the use of the s' Thomas during the life
of Rich* White.

* BuRTON.—Glover (History of Derbyshire, II., 288) gives a pedigree of this
ancient family, from which it seems that this Thomas was of Cartlege and
Dronfield, and that he married Ann, daughter of James Wolstenholme, of

_ Cartlege in Dronfield. He had issue, Thomas and Michael. The former

was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1629, and the latter in 1648.

104 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

@ore. Courf Bed rir. Sep.. Gnno itt. Efizabeth.
(A.D. 1571.)
Rich. Hobson for stopping the way in the vill., 20%. Henry
Asworth for suit, 3°.

HeatB « oe Befd af BHeatB. rr. Sep., anno rtit.
SfapnesBy. EfizaB. (A.D. 1571.)

John Ferneley brewer bioke the assize, 6°.

Rob. Smot 6%, Ant. Ludlam 6°, Alice Lamsdale 6%, Ralph
Hill 6°.

P< Anthony Ludlam died—Heriot 6° 8°.

John Greyves, 6%. Ralph Clarke, 6°. Ro. ‘Thommason, 6%. Ric.
Savage, 6°. Agnes Eilyz, 8°. Jas. Wildgose, 8%. Ric.
Wallby, 8°. Jas. Hardwick, 6°.

James Cowopp assaulted Rog. Stone, 3° 4°.

Rog. Stone drew blood on Jas. Cowopp, 6° 8°.

Thom. Hill assaulted John Middleton, 3° 4°, and John M. drew
blood on Tho. Hill, 6° 8°.

John Vardon assaulted Hen. Hull, 3° 4°, and Hen. Hull drew
blood on J. Vardon, 6° 8°.

John Wright for trespass in the wood, 6°.

Will. Rycroft, 4°. Ro. Barker, 6°. Francis Renishaw, 6°.
Isabel Garrot, Joh. Baker, Art. Ludlam, Will. Butler, John
Stones.

Francis Westby for not ringing his pigs, 12°.

John Westby 8°, Alex. Swift 4°, Will. Bylay.

Hofmesfie?d. Court. Enno rv. EfizaB. ((1572.)

John Beckingham of Pudlintt co. Oxon gent, and Ann his wife
surrendered (by Xpof. Wood their attorney) a plot called
*: Toftstede” in Holmesfield, and “* Adamehouses” with garden
and close adjoining, to the use of John Casken.

Hofmesfie?d. @nno 1573.
Thomas Eyre of Dunston appointed Thom. Haslem and John
King his attorneys to surrender a cottage in Mylnethorpe

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 105

with 3 pastures called the ‘ Storthes” and a meadow at the
* mylnegate” lying in Mylnethorpe aforesaid, now in the
occupation of Joan Wolstenholme, to the use of Thomas
Burton from the year 1590 for 30 years following, paying
yearly to the said Thomas Eyre, 20%. Given the
26 June’ 1573:

** Bower (More). rot. EfizaB. (1573.)

Jury.— John Briggs, Antony Bryggs, Thomas _ Brygs,
Edw? Alen, John Ferth, Rob. Grenwod, Rob. Ottes,
Will. Stone, Hugh Ward, John Byrtley, Rob. Bright,
Thom. Barnysle.

Richard Owtrem surrendered his field called “Ze Stubbyng”
to the use of Will. Owtrem his son and heir.

Hofmesfie?d. Enno revi. Efizab. (1573-1574.)

HomacE Jury.—George Newbold, Steph. Dam, Rob. Hatterley,
Rob. Haslem, Will. Fox, Nich. Wolstenholme, Xpof.
Wood, Ric. Hatterley, Laurence Watts, Ric. Owtrem,
Michal Woodhus, John Casken.

Thomas Rowland of Hope (‘‘ Artium Magistri”’) appoints Rob.
Haslem of Horsley Gate and Rich. Owtrem of the same,
yeomen, to surrender to Godfrey Ffoliambe of Norton Lees
all his estate in Holmesfield, given 23 March, 16 Eliz.

a2 George Barley Esq. senior, deceased, surrendered his holding

in Holmesfield in the tenure of John Kyng to the use of
George Barley his son and heir. Thomas Barley is the son
and heir of George Barley (jun") and is of the age 20 years
and more. Thomas was admitted tenant.

Hofmesfiefd. Court. xrtt. Hprif, rot. EfizaB. (1574)

Thomas Barley sen‘ of Longden Esq. surrendered his mess. in
Holmesfield in the tenure of John King to his use for ever.
Thomas Barley jun’ son and heir of T. B. sen" surrendered
the same to the use of the same John King.

John King sen" and Margaret his wife surrendered the “ Zzttle

106 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

Meadow” between the land of Rob. Cook on the east, and
the land of John King on the west, and the highway on the
north, and a field called “Clays” on the south with
“ Carretonge” and ‘“ Woodfold” &c. to the use of John
King junior.

Roland Eyre gent, surrendered his lands to the use of Thomas
Eyre for 9 years without rent, save the customary dues to the
lord of the manor.

Humphry Wood of Horsley Gate, son and heir appar’ of
Christopher Wood, surrendered ‘‘ Little Dearbrook” in
Holmesfield to the use of Rob. Haslem his heirs and
assigns for ever. Sealed 27 July 1574.

BHeatB « ) Fines of Court Geld rvtit. MovemBer, Ynno
savin rot. EfizaB. (1574.)

James Hardwick, 6°.

John Bacon for trespass in Steynesby Park, 2° 3°.

Christ’ Hardwick for taking away one “rier,” 12".

John Hardwick took away “the coking howse.”

Laurence Robert for trespass in Steynesby Park, 12".

Henry Grunley, of Glapwell, 12°.

Roger Stones for carrying wood out of the park, 12°.

Leonard Tagg, 2°, and John Wright, 4", for not making a
footpath in the field.

Ralph Clarke and Ralph Hill for not making the footpath
near “‘ Crothorne field,” 8°.

Rob. Barker broke “ Stoppfes Gate,” 4°.

John Lamsdale for not mending a gap, 4°.

James Cowpe, 4°; Jo. Cantrell, 4°; Sherlock’s wife, 4°; Ric.
Savage for not cleaning out “ Hawkin Powle.”

Geo. Pacie for assault and drawing blood on Ralph Richardson,
Biss

John Neyler draw blood on Geo. Ellis, ro°.

Ric. Tingle for counsel upon Jo. Neler, 3° 4°; and for counsel
on Geo. Killer, and drawing blood, 6° 8".

In the hands of Rog. Fretwell, 2 sheep, val. 7°.

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COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 107

In the hands of the bailiff remain the goods of a vagabond, 2° 8".
Thom. Heath, of Glapwell, for trespass in the park, 4°;
John Greensmith, 4°.

“William Torner pro cusdod. in domo suo meretricem ad

perniciosum exemplum et contra ordinacioém curie, v’.
Agnes Ellis is a baker, and has broken the assize, 8°.

HofmesfiePd. Courf Bed itt. QJugust, rot. EfizaB.

(1574. )

A parcel of land called ‘‘7e Aves Dole” was confiscated by escheat
into the hands of the Lord ; for Michael Croft who occupied
the land ‘“‘hath confessed in open courte that he had no
copie to shew for the same, and if he had had any right to
surrender the same land to Rowland Eyre, he would not
have sould yt.”

‘Thomas Eyre shall repayre his barne and others their howsings

before S. James’ Day next, sub pena iij® iiij*.”

Hofmesfiefd. Court Befd rit. Mov., roi. EfizaB. (A.D. 1574.)
Christopher Wood and Alice his wife (she of her own free will)
surrendered “ Little Dirbroke” in the tenure of Rob. Haslem

to the use of the s* Rob. for ever.

Ralph Oldfeeld and Elizab. his wife surrendered all their right in
their estate in Unthank to the use of Godfrey Ffoliambe, his
heirs and assigns. Ingress 5°.

Roland Eyre, gent., surrendered a mess. &c. to the use of Lyon
Allen for 3 years, and another messuage to the use of George
Parkin for 3 years.

Thomas Eyre surrendered 2 fields called “‘7e Gorses” in Mylne-
thorpe to the use of Thomas Burton for 30 years, at the
yearly rent of 6 shill.

Thomas Eyre came and surrendered a cottage in Milnethorpe, 3
fields called ‘‘ Ze Storths” and a meadow at the Mill gate in
Milnethorpe lately in the tenure of John Wolstenholme to
the use of Thomas Burton, his executors and assigns, from
the feast of Annunciation 1590, to the end of the term of 13
years, at the yearly rent of 20°.

108 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

Heath \ Court of the Manor of Zohn Savage, Kf.,
with + Beld af HetBbe, tt. September. Gnno KR. KR.
Stapnatp. | EfizabetB roti. (A.D. 1575.)

Jury.—John F freak, Jno. Webster, Ralph Hill, Will. Robart, Jno.
Bacon, Ric. Kyle, Rog. Holme, Jas. Wilgose, Jas. Cowpe,
Ralph Carman, Jno. Fox, John Wright, Rob. Smote, Hugh
Maddar, Rob. Savage.

Suitors. - John Huntington, Rog. Smote, Ant. Ludlem, Alice
Lamsdale, Nich. Smote, Art. Fretwell, Ric. Dyre, John
Greves, Jo. Fernley, Will. Watkynson.

Will Watkynson died since last court. There falls an ox for a

bj« John Cantrell died since last court. Heriot ‘‘a brasse pan,’
val. v° iiij*.

A horse called a “‘ Waif mare” is in the hands of the bailiff, val.
xiii? iitj®.

James Hardwick owes suit of court, fine 6°.

George Hunt made an assault on Rob. Woo, 3° 4°.

John Morley of Tybshelf assaulted and drew blood upon John
Pidcock, 6° 8".

Rob. Watson assaulted Edw" Manifold, 3° 4°.

George Hunt assaulted and drew blood upon Tho. Hill, fined
6° 8°.

Lawrence Garret assaulted John Midleton, 3° 4°, also on John
Neler and drew blood, 6° 8°.

John Neler drew blood on Laur. Garret, 5°.

Thomas Noble trespassed in Steynesby Park, 12°.

Will. Turner did not attend ‘‘ make view ”—the view ‘ Wapentake
in the field 4°.

Ric. Eckenfeld and Cecilia Ellis broke the hedges, 4°.

John Ffanshaw plaintiff against Christopher Hardwick, on the
plea of debt.

Robert Ffanshaw plaintiff against John Midleton on the plea of
debt, 10°.

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 109g

Agnes Walker plaintiff against Agnes Brodhurst, 4°.

Rich“. Wheatcroft do. against Laur. Garret, 10°.

John Wright pl. against Ralph Hill, 4°.

George Hunt against John Midleton, 24°.

Anthony Ludlam do. 16%, and John Stevenson 3° 5°.

Oliver Noden pl. against John Tomson, 7°.

James Cowpe against Roger Stones for trespass, 8°, and for pigs
killed. 4°.

Isabella Watkinson against John Tomson for debt, 2°.

Rich". Burley against John Midleton, 16°.

John Bacon against Matthew Eckenfeld, 2° 8°.

Cecilia Cantrell, 3° 4°.

Will. Lake, gen., pl. against Ric. Savage on plea of debt of
28°, defendant acknowledged 265 8°. ;

Hofmesfefd. Court of John Savage. HE.. Befd t. Sep.,

Gnno HR. HR. Efizab. roti. (A.D. 1575.)

Robert, son of Edward Eyre, formerly of Holme, near
Chesterfield, surrendered a mess. and lands in Horsley
Gate, lately in the occup. of Nich. Wolstenholme, a
parcel in Holme in the tenure of John Kynge, a mess. called
“ Birks” lately held by John Hattersley, a mess. lying in ‘‘ Ze
Bank” \ately held by Robert Hatterley, and another lying in
Unthank lately held by John Harre, to the use and behoof of
Thom. Eyre (‘my brother”) to the before named Robert,
his heirs, &c. Admiss. fine 30° 9%.

Pl eriot of James Wolstenholme 30° 9°

Thomas Eyre, of Dunston, gent., surrendered all mess., tents.,
&c., &c., in Holmesfield, now in the separate tenures of
Will. Haslem, Ric. Hatterley, John Ffanshawe, Elizab.
Wolstenholme, widow, Joan Wolstenholme, widow, Thom.
Burton, Rob. Haslem, Nich. Wolstenholme, John Harry,
Rob. Hatterley, Joan Hatterley, spinster, and John King,
junior. To the use of Hugh Thomazon, his heir and
assigns, on this condition; viz., to the use of Jane Eyre,
now wife of the aforesaid Thomas Eyre, for her dowry

IIo COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

and jointure, with reversion to the said Thom. Eyre, and
“my” heirs, after the death of the said Jane Eyre.
Admission fine, ro®

John Beckingham, of Pellycott, Co. Oxford, Esq., and Anne,
his wife, surrendered the east of a barn of 2 bays in
Caldwell, late in the tenure of Will. Kyng, and “ Brode
Meadow,” in Caldwell, late in the ten. of Elizab. Shakerley,
widow, to the use of Will. Kyng for 12 years, paying

”

yearly to John Beckingham and Anne, 41°. Admiss. 3° 4°.

John Beckingham and Anne also surrendered ‘* Zhe Cif” and
“Lamb Croft” in the separate tenures of Ric. Owtrem and
Geo. Mawer to the use of Rich’ Owtrem for 20 years,
at the yearly rent of 20°.

John Beckingham in right of his wife Anne, surrendered a
pasture called “ Zztélemore Wood,” \ate in the ten. of Rob.
Ffanshawe, to the use of the said Rob. for 20 years,
paying yearly, 13° 4°.

The said John Beckingham and Anne surrendered all that capital
mess. in Holmesf? called “‘Caldwall Hall,” with all houses and
lands in the several tenures of John Ffanshaw, Rob‘.
Ffanshawe, Will Kynge, Ric. Owtrem, John Casken, and
Elizab, Shakerley, widow ; to the use of Christ’ Kyng and
John Casken, their heirs and assigns. Ingress, 9° 8°.

Christoph. Kyng and John Casken surrendered Caldwall Hall,
with all its appurts. which they had by surr. and gift of
John Beckingham and Anne, his wife; to the use of the
said John Beckingham and Anne and the heirs of their
bodies, and in defect of issue, then to the right heirs of
the said Anne for ever.

Robert Haslem surrendered a mess. in Unthank, held by
Godfrey Ffoliambe, of Norton Lees, Esq., comprising 22
acres, to the use of the said Godfrey, in exchange for a toft,
called “‘ Hobb Yard,” to whom the lord by his seneschal
granted seizin by the staff. Admiss. 5°.

Godfrey Fuliambe surrendered ‘‘ Hurse Croft,” alias “ Hurst,”
formerly divided into 4 fields, and “Maggot Lees,” “ Le

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COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. Vt

Gorses” and ‘“ Lamb Crofts,” formerly in the ten. of Tho.
Burton and lately in the occupation of Jas. Mower, of
Holmesfield ; to the use of the said James Mower, at the
yearly rent of 6°.

The same Godfrey surr‘a mess. in Unthank, formerly John
Lee’s, all his lands in Milnethorp, ‘‘ Symon Acres,” ‘ The
Nethermost Lamb Croft,” “ Little Hobb Field,” and another
called ‘‘ Ffanshawe Acre,” to the use of Edward Blunt, of
Burton-upon-Trent, gent., and Arthur Mower, of Woodseats,
their heirs and assigns for ever; to the intent that they
should fulfil the last will of me, the said Godfrey Ffoliambe :
to whom the lord by his seneschal granted seisin. Ingress
ae.

John Kyng, sen‘, and Marg*, his wife, granted “ Ayrr Wood Field”
to the use of Thom. Burton, his heirs and assigns.
Fine;-3° 4°.

Efmeton) Court of ZFobn Savage. Ht.. Befd Before
Magna. | JoBn Buffock.* Seneschal af Efmfon,
Wednesday, vtit. Gug.. Anno rvitt. EfizabetB. (A.D. 1576.)
Jury.—Francis Westbye, Geo. Plumtree, Tho. Brokefeld, Will.
Kitchen jun., Tho. Winter, Rob. Topham, Brian Jaye,
John Topham, John Kitchin, Will. Kempe, Ralph Barker,
Christ" Halley, Alex. Swyfte, Brian Barker, John Thornhill,

* This John Bullock may have been the same person who purchased Darley
Abbey, and whose monument may still be seen in S. Alkmund’s Church,
Derby. His name frequently occurs in the Court Rolls of Duffield, e.g.,
20th October, A.D. 1600—when John Bullock, having lent 4100 to Will.
Bradshaw, sen., gent., and Anna, his wife, Anthony Bradshaw, son of the
said William and Gertrude, his wife, and William Bradshaw, brother of
the said Anthony, he received as security for repayment twenty acres of land
at Chevyn Side, near Belper. The said sum to be repaid to John Bullock
at his mansion called ‘‘ Dar/ey Hall” on the 20th of December next. But
in default of payment, then John Bullock, sen., should pay to the Bradshaws
460 more, and retain the four closes at Chevin Side. (The money was
paid to Bullock on the day appointed). John Bullock, Esq., sen., occurs on the
Duffield Rolls, on 5th April, 1604. ‘‘John Bullock, sen., and John
Bullock, jun., of the Inner Temple, London, gent.” by Henry Bullock, gent.,
their attorney, surrendered certain lands to the use of Will. Parker.—(See
Lyson’s “‘ History of Derbyshire. ”)

rT2 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

John Newporte, who said that they had chosen Edmund
Barker and Thoms. Brokefield to the office of the ‘‘ Burley-
men” (Asszstant Constables).

Henry Shepston, for throwing down an ash, 12".

John Newport made a staff called a “‘ Hyvewand” in the lord’s
wood, 12°.

Oliver Woodhead, of Clowne, put two beasts in ‘‘ WZarkeland,”
ne.

Edward Woodhead “‘ cmparcavit” (impounded) oxen at Clowne,
against the custom of the manor, 3° 4°.

Thom. Heley had a beast purchased in ‘‘ Markland” contrary
to order. He also destroyed the hollies in Morewood, 12°.

Ralph Billam must cut his garden fence within 6 days, or—2°.

Holmesfefd. Court of Fobn Savage. Kf., Before Fobn
Bullock, Eaq.. Wed.. r. Yug.. Gnno rotit. EfigaB. (A.D. 1576.)

John King and Rob. Hatterley chosen ‘ Birleymen.” The
jury found a certain piece of ground and a narrow way in
the tenure of Thomas Burton, and another piece called
“ Aslen Fiill” to be waste land of the demesne; and they
considered, the narrow way to be a “brydell way” unto
Ffanshaw Yate, and they declared they were all of one
mind in the matter. Thomas Eyre, of Dunston, gent.,
and Jane, his wife, surrendered a mess. at Horsley Gate,
lately in the separate tenures of Joan Wolstenholme,
widow, and Nicholas Wolstenholme, to the use of Nicholas
W. from Lady Day, 1587, for eleven years following,
paying yearly to Tho. and Jane Eyre, 42°.

Thomas Eyre, of Dunston, Esq., and Jane his wife leased a mess,
in Untnank for 21 years to John Harry and Ellen, his wife,
at 40° per ann.

The said Thomas Eyre and Jane ieased “‘ Derebrook,” “ Ashwell”
and the “ Zown Meadow,” lately in the tenure of Rob.
Haslem, to the said Robert for 13 years, at 13° 4° per ann.

They also surrendered “ S7rdes” in Holmesfield to the use of John
Bromehead and Joan, for 21 years, at 26° 8° per ann.

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COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 113

Also a messuage to the use of Robert Hatterley for 21 years, at
33° 4° per ann.

George Newbold surr* 3 mess. &c., to the use of George
Newbold, his son, who was admitted by the staff. Fine of
admission 21° 6%,

Michael Croft surr’ “ Zee Meadow” to Will. Newbold for
Ig years, at ro* per ann.

Oe James Wolstenholme died since last court : Rob. Wolstenholme
is his brother, and the next heir toa mess. &c. in Cartlege.
Fine 5° 6°.

@oure. Court of Fon Savage, Ke., Befd x. Hug.,
@Bnno rviti. EfizaB. (AD. 1576.)

Jury.—John Bright, John Birley, Will. Stone, Tho. Bright, Rob.
Bright, Rob. Ottes, Edwd. Allen, Hugh Ward, Rob.
Greenwood, Will. Bright.

Elizabeth Barker holds ‘ Ve/elands” at 10° per ann., a house at
g° 27 per ann., and another at 6 8%. She also holds two
doles in the “‘ Vewecroft” and one in “‘ Broode Lyme.”

Heath @ | Wiew of Frank Pledge at the Court of John
Stapnesbie.) Savage. Kf.. Before Fobn Bullock, Esq.,
SenescBaf, Bed on Thursday, ir. Gugust. Enno viii.

GfizaB, (A.D. 1576.)

Jury.—John Ffreake, Jas. Cowpe, Ric. Eckenfeld, Hugo
Wainwright, John Bacon, Ralph Hill, John Ffoxe, Rob.
Savage, Jas. Wilgoose, Will. Robert, John, Owtram, Ric.
Walker, Ralph Carman, Geo. Wright, Ric. Rileye.

Presented that James Hardwicke Esq. owed suit of court, and
made default, 4°.

Roger Ffretwell trespassed in divers places in ‘‘ Stanesbie Parke”
in the Willows and Ashes, to the damage of the years shoots
there.

James Savage had not broken up his land, 4°.

Leonard Tagg, Fran. Renishawe, Ric. Birde, and John Nowright,
in mercy for counsel.

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I14 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

John Garret drew blood of Will. Noble against the Queen’s
Beaces. to.

John Thomson and George Ellis for cons. 2 mercy.

George White for cons. against John Midleton, 1o°.

Roger Hardwick assaulted Ric. Clay, 3° 4°.

Laur. Garrett for cons. against Rob. Smote, 3° 4°. The same
Laur. made a recovery from Robert Ffanshawe deputy bailiff,
and would not allow him to distrain for a fine to the lord,
nor permit him to levy a certain . . . recovered against
the s* Laurence by Ric. Savage. ‘‘ In misericordia.”

p¥q Laurence Whitehead died since last court. A pot, price
4°, accrued as heriot.

‘“Stop-gap ” will be lawfully made every time hereafter under
pain of 12° for every breach. The old pains’(Jena/ties) made
at the last court will continue in effect.

Leonard Tagge to make the Pinfold gate within ten days under
pain of 124%,

No person shall cut away “ Hollen” trees nor disturb oaks upon
Stainesby moor for the next three years, swb-pena, 3° 4°.

All the lord’s tenants in Blingsbie to mend the way at the Gate,
by the feast of S. Bartholomew next, sab-pena, 12°.

Anthony Ludlam to make his fence about his apple orchard by
the s® feast, swb-pena, 12°.

William Watson must not put another ‘‘ Hare pipe ” nor take any
partridges, sub-pena, 3° 4°.

Francis Renishaw to put his house in good repair by S. Andrew’s
day, sub-pena, 3° 4°.

Presented that John Greves, Ric. Birde, Art. Fretwell, Nic.
Smote, Geo. Hunt, Alice Lamsdale, John Fferniley, Ant.
Ludlam, Rob. Smote, Rob. Thomson, John Sturdie, Tho.
Harrison, Ric. Eckenfeld, Ric. Savage, John Huntingdon
are brewers of ale and have broken the assize; fined
6° each.

Will. Stones, Ric. Edmundson, and Effram Roberts are bakers of
bread, and have broken the assize, 6° each.

Anthony Ludlam and Ralph Carman chosen constables,

es,

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 115

Heads of the Pledge—Roger Stones for Stainsby, Ralph Hill and
John Ferniley for Heath.

Burleymen for Stainesbie—Rog. Stones and Leo Tagg.
: for Heath—Ralph Hill, John Bacon, Hugh Mader
and Ralph Clarke, who were sworn.

Heath « \Wiew of Frank Pledge here, Wednesday,
StainesBie.) rit October, Wnno rir. EfizaB. (A.D. 1577.)
Jury.—John Ffreake, John Bacon, Geo. Wright, Ric. Brelsforth,
Jas. Cowpe, Hugh Mather, Ralph Carman, Ric. Rilye, Rob.
Savage, Jas. Wiligose, Rob. Smowte, Nich. Smowte, Will.
Robert, Ralph Clarke.

ik John Webster, one of the free tenants of this manor is dead.
“Emmott,” now wife of John Woodham is his daughter and
next heir.

Rich*. Naylor broke the pinfold at Stainesbie, 2°.

Ric. Bird for trespass in Heath Field, 2°.

Henry Hall did mowe grass in “‘ Hollen Mere” and carted it
away, 6°

Laurence Garrot cut an ash in two pieces which had before been
thrown down on the same mere, 2°.

Rich. Eckenfeld and Godfrey Milner cut down an oak in
“ Timber lane” and took out of it a nest of bees which
they carried away, 4".

Thomas Newbold drew blood upon John Bocher, 10%, and
Bocher drew blood from Tho. Newbold, 3° 4°. (According
to the fines Newbold must have been the aggressor.)

John Naylor assaulted John Fferneley, 3° 4°.

Hen. Brown drew blood on Ric. Bacon, 10°.

Ric. Savage also drew blood on Ric. Bacon, ro*.

John Garrett assaulted Tho. Brook, 3° 4°.

James Savage assaulted Ric. Bacon, 3° 4°.

Rich*. Eckenfield drew blood on Matt Fox, 10°.

James Garrett assaulted Rob. Savage, 3° 4d".

Ric. Savage assaulted Laur. Garrett, 3° 4°.

John Garrett drew blood on John Fernilee, 10°.

116 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

Richard Savage and Henry Bawme made “ Austell Pustell,” each
fined 12°, (? the game of “Pitch and Hustle”).

Anthony Hill made an assault on Ric. Bird, 3° 4°.

James Savage assaulted Lau. Garrett, 3° Ae.

Laur. Garrett made a rescue or recovery on John Fferniley.
Rich. Hill died since last court. Two oxen valued at £4 fell
to the lord for heriots.
The wife of Cowpe died since last court. Heriot a
bullock 22°.

James Wilgoose has a stray sheep taken in the demesne, 3° Aas

John Fferniley has 3 stray sheep and 3 lambs taken on the
demesne, 15° value.

A swarm of bees has been appropriated by Rich. Savage, 16°.

Anthony Ffretwell and John Owtrem have not yet made Peverell
Style gate. 6° each.

Richard Riley and Jas. Wilgoose appointed ‘‘ Burleymen”™* for
“ Stainesby,” and Thom. Hill and Laur. Robert for “ Heath.”

Rich’ Bride appointed Constable for “ Heath” and Anthony
Ludlam his deputy.

William Robert and Arthur Mason elected ‘“ Thirdborowes ”
(constables) for “‘ Heath,” James Cowpe for “ Stainesby,” and
Matt. Ffox for ““Astwit” and “ Harstoft.”

Hofmesfierd. Great Court of Sir FoKn Savage. GF.,

Gnno xrit. Elizabeth, March xetit. (A-D. 1579-80.)

Homace Jury.—George Newbold, James Mower, John Casken,
Steph. Damm, Christoph. Wood, John Kinge, sen’, Geo.
Newbold, jun’, Will. Ffox, Ric. Outreame, John Wright,
John Cooke of Cowley, Will. Newbold.

Trespassers on rights of common lands—The. Newbold, Will.
Orwen, Rob. Milward, joan Hancock, Ric. Muttone, Rog.
Mylnes, Elizab. Waynwryght, Jas. Lee, Ralph Woods, Ric.
Fox, Arthur Ffeyrehurst, Rob. Swyfte, John Bonne, Hen.
Brome, Henry Waynwright, Rob. Torre, John Hybbert,
Xpof. Mower, — Allen, Jas. Harre.

* Constables’ assistants,

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COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. I17

> John Ffanshawe, who of the lord held divers lands and tents.,
died since last court. Heriot one horse, value £4. (He
died on the 22nd February, 1578*—dérass in Dronfield
Church). Thomas Ffanshawe is his son and next heir.
(z.e., 1578-9).

fq Christopher King is dead. Heriot an ox, price 46° 8°.
Joan, wife of Richard Mower, is next heir.

To this court came Robert Ffanshawe (attorney for his brother
Thomas Ffanshawe) and took out of the hands of the lord
all those messuages, tofts, cottages, meadows, pastures,
feedings, lands, rents, &c., which to him descended by
the death of John Ffanshawe, his father, holding the same
of the lord by the yearly rent of xv. Fine of ingress xv*.
(Appointed attorney 20th Feb., 1579).

ria John Sutton died since last court, and William Sutton is
his son and next heir. The said John Sutton died 20th
July, Anno. 21 Elizab., and Thomas Sutton held his
father’s land from the day of his death until the day of
this inquisition. The said William owes 54° 4° for his
“relief,” and for the heriot, a mare and foal, 53° 4%.

ria Christopher Wilson is dead. Heriot 23°.

A) Lawrence Ffallowes is dead. Heriot an ox, xxx°.
ak Robert Byley is dead. Heriot 5°.

Edmund Sutton had made an enclosure in “ JZy/nane.”

Fines of Ingress—Thomas Burton, on 3 fields, 15°; Richard
Kynder, 3° 4°; John Fox, 16°; Thomas Burton, 6° and
6° 8¢; Ralph Smalbent, 13° 4°.

ya Thomas Ffanshawe, Esq., for the heriot of John Ffanshawe,
a horse, value £4. (See adove.)

P< John Mower for a heriot for Christoph. Kinge, an ox
value 45° 8°.

Arth. Ffleyrehurst, Christ. Mower, Rog. Mylnes, Jo. Bonne,
&c., suitors.

* See also Cox’s “ Churches of Derbyshire,” vol. i., p. 209.

118 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

Hofmesfiefd. (Anno xvii. fo xro. Eft3.) (Roll wndated.)

To this court came William Knyveton gent., and Matilda his
wife, and claimed and desired in right of the same Matilda to
be admitted tenant of 2 mess., 2 tofts, 120 acres of land, 40
acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 60 acres of heath and
brushwood, with appurts., in Caldwell and Holmesfield, in
the jurisdiction of this court, which Edward Mitchell and
Anne his wife lately held, and which formerly pertained to
Roland Shakerly uncle of the said Matilda, whose heir she
is. And for this title they showed that Roland Shakerley
was seized of this estate in his own demesne as of fee, and of
this title &c he died seised within 25 years last past, after
whose death this estate descends of right to the said Matilda
as next heir of the same Rowland, being daughter and
co-heiress of Margaret Rollesley sister and next heir of the
said Roland.

ROBERT SHAKERLEY=
came into possession of Caldwall
in 1542. Was of ‘‘Spittall,”
in Chesterfield, gent., in 1564.
Died in 1570.

Roland MarGARET = John Anne = Edward.
Shakerley. Shakerley. | Rollesley. Shakerley. Mitchell.

MATILDA= William Knyveton,
Rollesley. gent.

HofmesfiePd. Courf $efd rrv. March, Gnno rrv. Efizab..
Before (Rob. WBHifbye. senescBal. (1583.)

Suirors.—Hen. Merden, Tho. Neuton, Jas. Lee, Ralph
Woodhus, Rob. Torre, Hum. Stafforth, Joh. Hiberd, John
Hankoke, Will. Craven, Ric. Stubbing, John Kerye for
counsel, 2°. Humf. Forest, Nic. Wolstenholme, Rog.
Milne, Will Outram for fine of ingress, 10°.

rt Robert Haslem deceased. Heriot an ox of 10°. Marg.
Smith, Anne Treves, Margt. Colton, Rob. Swifte, John
Browne, Lion Allen, Humfrey Rouson, Jas. Harry, Hen.

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COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 119

Browne, Mich. Harry, Christ. Wood, Thomas Burton, James
Mawre, Ric. Outram.

Hofmesfyfd. Court of John Savage, Kt., Beld rvi. Oct...

@nno rrot. MR. HR. EfizabetB. (A.D. 1584.)

mH The executors of Michael Croft for his Heriot (a cow valued
at 43° 4°).

bi The executors of James Wolstenholme. Heriot a cow of 20°.
James Wolstenholme for his ingress. 5° 11%.
Geoffry Ffoliambe fora heriot for his father 51°, and for his
relief and fine of ingress. 22° 4°.

John Herry for his relief and ingress. 2° 6°.

Michael Herry for his ingress. 4° 6°.

Mich. Newbold for lopping and cropping trees and carrying them
out Holmesfeld into another lordship, 12°.

Hen. Ellott for carrying holly (“‘ bowes”) out of the lordship, 3°.

John Bother of Dronfield for keeping sheep on the common, 4°.

Heath and) Court G$etd Wednesday. rviii. Oct.. Enno
SfapnesBye.) rrvt. EfizaB. (A.D. 1584.)

PJ« The executors of Roger Colyer and his wife for heriot, fines,
and two goods, 66° 8%.

Ralph Dobb for not moving his hedge as ordered ro*, Henr.
Ffoliambe for counsel 10°,.William Noble for not mending
the highways 6°, John Noble 12°, John Cantrill 12°, Ric.
Savage 3° 4°, John Fretwell assaulted Rob. Smote 3° 4°.

Henry Ludlam assaulted John Fretwell 3° 4°.

Ric. Wilson made a gap in the “ Whetfeld” 4°.

John Lamsdale 4°, Ric. Savage for getting ‘draughts’* called
“ Mylston hoks” and for not repairing his house 3° 4%,
Ralph Clark 12°, Ric. Riley 12°, James Cwop 12%.

John Fretwell “ for the suffering of a wayf to one who challenged
hym, to the grete damage of the lord and breachment of the
Lybertyes of this Lordshippe ” 6° 8°.

* “Draught Hooks.”—With Gzmners, large iron hooks fixed on a
cannon carriage on each side.—Bazley’s Dictionary. The ‘ Draughts’ here
must have been of wood, and for some more homely purpose.

120 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

John Cantrell for not mending his hedge, 12°.

Ric. Willson, John Ferneley, Ant. Ludlam, 3° 4°.

Thom. Newbolt for selling ale and not keeping the assize 12°.

Rob. Smote

Nicholas Smote bycause he wold not sell ale out of his house 6°.
Tho. Lamsdale 12°.

Elizabeth Walker for brewing and baking and not keeping
assize 12°,

Efmton. Court Geld rir. Oct.. Ynno revi. EfizaB. (1584.)

Suirors.—John Swyneck 8‘, George Foliambe 12°, Hugh
Willoughby 12%, Oliver Woodhead 3°, Francis Westby 4°,
Joan Westby 4°, Rob. Hallam 4°, Christ. Kechen 4°, Brian
Barker 4°, Ric. Hall 6%, Ric. Kalley 12°.

Brian Jay “for spekyn slanderows and vyle woords agaynst the
great Inquest in saying they were fals and naughty knaves,”
6° 84, Will. Kechen 6° 8%, Joan Barker 12", Robert Haslem,
Joan and Brian Barker. Henry Gascoygne for breaking the
“pynfold ” 6° 8°, for other offences rr’.

John Swaynock for letting his lands 6° 8".

Christ. Kechen 12%, Edw*. Wood, Ric. Mershall.

Geo. Plumtry 3° 47, Thom. Winter 3° 4°.

Dofmesfiehd. (circa 1586.)

To this court came Hercules Ffoliambe, brother and heir of
Godfrey Foliambe, Esq., deceased, and sought to be admitted
tenant to all the lands customary, &c., in Holmesfield,
which the s* Geoffry held at his death.

George Newbold, son and heir of George Newbold deceased
sought to be admitted to his father’s lands as his son and

heir.

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. Ur i

Tenants of the Manor of holmesfield compiled
about H.D. 1586, when the Aanor passed from
the Savage Family to the Manners.

Robert Haslam.—copyholder.

Uxor Wolstenholme—one of Mr. Thos. Eyre’s tenants.

William Owtram —copyholder.

The Executors of Robert Haslam and James Haslam—tenants

by demyse of Mr. Thomas Eyre.

The Executors of Mr. Rich’ Owtram.

John Mowne (? Mowre)—tenant to Mr. Rowland Eyre.

The Executors of William Newbold, of Totley.

Tenants to Mr. Rowland Eyre by his promise
for 21 yeares. And hereby £7 7s. thought
to defraud the lord of fyne and heriott in
that the estates are not passed.

Of these Mr. Manners should have had
heriott.

Godfrey Hartley (
Roger eel
John Gaskyn

Thomas Allen
Lionel Allen

Godfrey Ffoliambe who died last seised.
Quere—Whether Hercules hath leased his
copyhold to one Grene before admission ?
And what happeneth to the lord thereby ?
Grene and Mr. Ffoliambe cut woods in
Holmesfield, and burnt them at Monsall.
Also he kepeth a severall shepewalk.

The Heires of
Mr. Ffoliaumbe.

Matilda filia Johis Rolesley and Margarete
uxor eius fuit sefl. filia Roberti Shakerley

and consanguinea and proxima heres Anne
The Heires of 8 P

Mrs. Anne
Mychell.

Shakerley uxoris Edwardi Michell sororis
predict Margarete. Que Anna compta
fuit soror and heres Rolandi Shakerley. Et
admissus tenens and obiit seis. Prima

E Ffoliambe, brother and heire to

nupt. Al. Beckingham.

L223 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

The Heires of ( Hath made warrants of attorney to surrender,
Mr. Thomas and hereby he would avoyd the lord of his
Eyre heryott. Quere of this warrant.

Mr. Thomas Ffanshawe—Tenante by Copy.
Mr. Rowland Eyre—Tenant by Copy.
The Heires of Mr. Anthony Barley—
Anne Croft—Quere de qlI' estate.
Robert Ffanshawe Tenant for a yere yet to Mr Knyveton.
The Heires of Michaell Crofte—
Robert Hatterley the yonger—Tenant for yeres.
James Mowre—Copyholder.
John Knight—Copyholder.
The Heires of John Kynge, th’elder.
Tenant in jure uxoris nuper uxor Thome
Burton. Habet terciam partem in dote.
The Heires of Thomas Burton.
Robert Wolstenholme.
Michael Harrye.
The Heires of John Cook, of Cowley.
Robert Mowre.
- John Watts.
The Heires of Robert Haslem, for Leech’s land.
Haslem hath exchanged this land with Mr. Godfrey
Ffoliambe, and dyed seised both of his own land and
Mr. Ffoliambe’s, and there is no surrender yett of that land,
which was L.eeches land.

William Kesters

Ellen Harry, vidua. One of Mr. Thomas Eyre’s tenants.
George Newbold, a copyholder.
Lawrence Watts, Mr. Barloes (? Barley’s) tenant by copy.
Tenant of Richard Alvey. Et predict’ Johes
John Cooke Cook duxit in uxorem Johannan filiam
Nicholai Waynewryght.
John Ffoxe—By surrender of William Ffoxe, his father.
John Bromehead—One of Mr. Thomas Eyre’s tenants.
Stephen Dam—Tenant to Richard Alvey.

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 123

Robert Hatterley—The elder, one of Mr. Tho. Eyre’s tenants.
Widowe Chaskyn—Dwelleth upon My. Knyveton’s land.
Christopher Wood—Copyholder.

DHofmesfiefd. Court Garon of Sir John Manners, Kt..
@nno iv. James t. (A-D.; 1606.)

Jury—Richard Alvey, Humfrey Edmundson, Tho. Burton,
Rob. Syckes, Jas. Hobson, Humfr. Wood, Will. Shipley,
Jobn Wattes, Rob. Hatterley, John Rodgers, Rob. Paynton,
Gilb. Cooke.

Tenants at Will fined 2d. each for trespass :—

Ric. Grieve, Anker Chapman, Hen. Hartley,
Tho. Shepherd, Hen. Cooke, John Bradshaw,
Will Hewet, John Hibbert, Hen. Dame,
Ralph Parker, Ellen Harrie, Will. Ingmanthorpe,
Richd. Lime, Xpof. Pearson, Xpof. Wood,
Robt. Wright, Humfr. Rowlston, Arthur Fferhest,
Rog. Milnes, Jas. Casken, Godfrey Hartley,
Allen Jepson, ° Jas. Dune, Michl. Maseley,
Rob. Cooke, Rob. Swifte, Hen. Cropper,
Will. Woods, John Owtram, John Wright,
Thom. Barwicke, Edmd. Rowleston, | Uxor Crapper.

Adam Hawkesworth shall not sett his hedge at the lane head
called “Ffanshaw Gate,” and at the nether end of “ Ciiffhead.”

Rob. Owtram’s kiln is not decayed.

Dk Lawrence Watts has died since last court.

Court Baron of Sir George Manners, Kf.. Hofmesfield.
—-:1612,

Jury—
Rob. Mower, Hugh Sleighe, Arthur Wattes,
Will. Owtrem, Rob. Sykes, John Wattes,
Rob. Wolstenholme, Rob. Newbold, Edwd. Morte,
Ric. Alvey, Rob. Hatterley, Ric. Turner,

John Rodger,
The names of 45 tenants at will follow here.

124 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

The following do not occur in the previous list :—Edwd.
Bomford, Ellen Harries, John Chapman, Eliz. Fox, Rich. and
Christr. Dam, Allen Wright, Nich. Barnesley, Ric. Taylour,
Rob. Smysle, Edmd. Ronson, Will. Warde, Clemence Bradshaw,
Will. Key, Hugh Jowett, Rob. Skargell, Geo. Rexam, Jas. Morte,
Hen. Sheartclyffe, Ant. Hill, Cotton Hartley.

Hofmesfiefd Court, May rrvit., 1613.
Pq James Mower has died since last court.

bq Sir Henry Ffanshawe is dead since last court. A heriot is
due.

The jury present Adam Hawkesworth for not grinding his
corne growing within the lordship at the lord’s mill ;—and
Anthony Bright and Will. Woodhouse for the like.

There was usually a mill attached to every manor, as well
for the convenience of the lord as of his dependents. The
tenants were obliged to assist in its reparation, and to keep the
water course and dam free from obstruction and mud. (The
tenants of the Abbot of Ramsey cleansed the pond at Shillington
Mill, Beds., on the Thursday in Whit-week every year.) They
were bound to grind their corn at the lord’s mill, paying a multure.
Alexander de Whitworth held the manor of Woodham 7x capite
of the Prior of Durham, and among other duties he was to grind
his corn at the Mill of Ackley fo the Twentieth dish, and all
his tenants were to grind there to the thirteenth dish. This is
obviously the amount of toll in the way of grist these tenants
were expected to contribute; one dish for every sack—7.e.,
thirteen sacks. It was the custom for millers to take their
toll for grinding by a vessel called a toll dish, so that
one dish would be taken out of each sack brought to be ground.
Of the size of the toll dish and its relation to the sack, there
seems no reliable evidence; but the dishonesty of millers in
the olden time was proverbial. Aimost every ancient court
roll records presentments of millers for taking ‘“ excessive” toll.
Fuller relates a quaint anecdote of the miller of Matlock who
happened to be in church while the Latin Gospel for Good

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 125

Friday was being read, containing the words “ tolle, tolle,” which
he interpreted as a warrant for him to take double ‘‘ toll” from
his customers’ batches.

Chaucer writes of them in his day :—

““Wel coude they stelen corne, and tollen ¢hrzes.”

The following interesting regulations were in force at the
manorial mill of Shillington, Beds., in 1255, for the tenants of
the Abbot of Ramsey.

“Each one shall perform suit to the mill to which they shall
send their corn.

“And if on the first day they cannot grind the entire corn,
as much as would suffice that day for his family, he is then bound
to grind the mill.

“And if on the same day he cannot grind there, it shall be
lawful for him to take back his corn and take it elsewhere at his
pleasure.

“It shall be lawful for each one if he duys his corn, to grind
it without challenge at the nearest mill he shall come to.

“From the Gules of August (1st of August, or S. Peter ad
Vincula) unto the feast of S. Michael, it shall be lawful for any
one at his pleasure to grind his corn, if he cannot grind his corn
at the lord’s mill on the day he sends it.

** Also, if by chance at any time the lord’s mill is broken, or
the millpond so that he cannot grind, it shall be lawful for him
as before, to take his corn elsewhere at his will.

“But if he shall be convicted, so that in due manner he
cannot perform suit to the lord’s mill defore judgment, he shall
give sixpence: and if he shall have suffered judgment, he shall
give twelve pence. (Under the provision of “ Fulsting Pound.” —
Ep.)

“ For the whole year he shall grind his corn in the space (time)
in which he does not yield toll for wheat (except against Christmas
and Easter) for multure.

“Tt was the duty of the Reeve to carry the lord’s corn to the
mill,”—Ramsey Chartulary, vol. i., 458.

126 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD,

Holmsfiefd Court, Feld Sep. rrti., 1618.

ri The Jury present that Robert Ffanshawe died since the last
court, and that he was tenant, ‘‘they suppose,” for
Holmesfield Myll.

Will. Lord Cavendish, Thomas Ffanshawe, gent., Humfrey Wood,
Will. Woodhouse, Rob. Hatterley, Rich Harreis—all pre-
sented for not performing their suit of court.

BHofmesfield. Courf revit. May, Enno ziti. James,

(A.D. 1615.)

Robert Hatterley, the younger, of the “‘ Baxk” in Holmesfield,
and Robert Hatterley the elder of the same “ Webster,”
appointed Robert Wolstenholme and Will. Owtrem, yeomen,
their attorneys to surrender “ Wetherfield” and “ Round
Meadow” to the use of Rob. Owtrem, of Dronfield Wood-
house, yeoman, and Frances, his wife, for ever. Given
5 March, Anno ro James.

Richard Alvey, customary tenant, surrendered a barn in the
occupation of Xpof. Wood and John Bothome, and a
fold and croft, by the footpath leading to “Hwuett Bolehiil”
and a field (zzfer alia) named “ Healthyfield” to the use of
the said Richard Alvey for life, and after his decease to
Robert Alvey, son and heir of the said Richard, with
remainder to Margaret Alvey, third daughter of the said
Richard; but if she marry without her father’s consent,
this bequest to be void, and the estate to go to Robert,
and after his death to Margaret and her heirs.

The same Richard surrendered many other holdings to his
own use for life, and after his death to remain to Anne
Alvey, his daughter.

Another surrender of lands in favour of Marie Alvey, his fourth
daughter, after his death, but to the present use of brother
Richard Alvey, and afterwards to Mary Alvey, her heirs —
and assigns.

Another fourth part of his estate was surrendered for the benefit

COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 127

of Will. Blyth, and Helen, his wife, and to the heirs of
Helen.

Other property was surrendered by the same Richard Alvey
to the use of Edward Drabble, his heirs and assigns for ever.

Richard Harries surrendered (Oct. 24) 1 mess. and 5 fields,
called the ‘ Ho/mes,’ to the use and behoof of Thom.
Burton and Edward Owtrem, for the remainder of his
tenancy.

Court, Oprif rrvti., 1615.

Ok Ralph Ffanshawe has died since last court. He was tenant
for Holmefield Milne. (See under 1613.)

> Ralph Wheeldon has died since last court.

Agnes Edmondson has died since last court, and Robert
Newbold hath agreed to give 2os. for her heriot.

Court, rio. January. 1617.

Thomas Burton and Rob. Wolstenholme surrendered a
messuage in unthank called “ Harries Farm,” in the tenure
of Robert Newbold, to the use of the said Robert for the
remainder of their tenancy.

Hofmesfiehd, Court of John, Earfof Ruffand, Zufy rvit..
1648,

aC The Jury present that Thomas Burton, Esq., has died since
the last court. Heriot an ox. Michael Burton, Esq., is his
brother and next heir.

OK Henry Damm has died since last court. Heriot, an ox.
Note.—An interesting document, dated 1649, relating to
the endowment of Holmesfield Church or parsonage, and
containing the names of the principal tenants of the manor
at that time, is printed in Zhe Churches of Derbyshire, vol. i.,
p- 216.

Hofmesfield, Courf Bed Mow. vifi., 1651.

Robert Mower, of Milnethorpe, in consideration of a marriage
“shortly to be solempnized” between himself and Mary

128 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD.

Prichard, of Hognaston, daughter to Roger Prichard, of
Uffington, co. Lincoln, gentleman, surrendered to the use of
the said Mary Prichard for her life as a jointure, “ Upper
and Nether Croft,” ‘‘Great and Little Oaks,” the Three
“ Parkin Fields,” the “ Well Field,” the “ Broad and Little
Meadow,” ‘‘ Great and Little Clays,” ‘‘ Wattring Close,” &c.

Several ancient charters relating to Totley, Dore, and Dronfield
are printed in the third volume of this /Jowrna/, p. 95, &c.

OEE

129

Snover.

The asterisk (*) denotes recurrence on the page.

Allin, Alex., gent., 22
Allwood, Tho., 88 75
Alvey Family, 126; Ric., 80, $1, 82, | Ashbourne, 24
84, 90, 122, 126; Will. fil. Ric., | Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 24
fe)

Arbitration about Pasturage in Yorks.,

A.

Persons and Families. | Places and Subjects,
Adamson, Jno., 85, 86, 87, 90 / Adamehouses, 104
Adeshead, Edw‘4., 97 Admission Fines, 117
Alen, Edward, 105, 113*; Ric., 90; | Ale-brewers of Heath and Stainsby

Rob., 98 | fined, 114
Allen, Leon or Lionel, 87, 92, 107, | Alfreton, 1

121; Thom., 121 | Allestree, 17

|

9 Ashover, 62
Andrew, Tho., of Eckington, 60 Ashwell, 112
Arderne, Tho., 91, 99 Ashwell Close, 59
Arnold, Ric., 14 Aslen Hill, 112
Ashamb, Hen., Esq., 64 Assaults, 96 ; at Heath, 115

Ashby, Ursula and Ellen, 14; Will., | Aves-dole, The, 107
Vicar of Heanor, 14*, 15, 18, 27

Ashton, Ben., 1

Askew, Augustine, 27 |

Assheby, Tho., Esq., 27

Astworth, Hen., 204

Atkinson, Mich., 95 ; Nich., 91

Atlesone, Nic., 90

B.

Babington, Anne, 35; Edith, 35, 36, | Barmeborough, Yorks., 75
39 | Bakers, The, of Heath and Stainsby
Bacon, John, 97, 106, 108, 113 fined, 114
Badyear, W., 56, 57 | Bakhouse Side, 65
Bagger, Will., 61, 80 | Bamford, 2
Bagshaw, Nic., 65; Ric., 1; Roger, | Bankes, The, 76
102 ' Bank, le, 109, 126

9

130

PERSONS AND FAMILIES,

Baker, Brian, 89; John, 104; Mary
17; Will, 88

Ball, Ric., 67

Bampton, Dorothy, 20; Jno., gent.,
20

Barbour, Rob., 98

Barker, Brian, 101, 111, 120; Edm‘,
112; Eliz., 113; Isabel, 88; John,
88, 108 ; Joan, 94, 120; Nich, 102 ;

’ Ralph, 94, 111 ; Rob., 88, 97, 104,
106; Thom., 89

Barley, of Stoke, 83; Family, 83

Barley, Anthony, 122; esaplaia, “pe
Geo., 75, 81*, 82, 83%, 86, 105*;
Hen., 71, 82 ; Jno., 66, 68, Woks
Rob. 89 ; Tho., 665 168570725735
75, 77, 81, 82, 83, 84, 89, 1055
William, $2

Barloke, St., 32, 33

Barlow, J., of Bolsover, 89

Barnes, Eliz., 67 ; Will., 58, 60, 64

Barnesley, John, 55; Tho., 77, 78

Barnysle, Tho., 105

Barton, Ralph de, 13; Thom., 98 ;
Pet., 102

Bathon, Mich., 96

Beaumond, Geo., 72; Jno., 60;
Thom., 55, 57,62, 65, 67; Will.,
62, 67, 68, 71, 72, 74

Beaumont, St Hen., 20

Beckingham, Anne, 110; John, 104,
110*

Bellamy, Tho., 73

Bely, Will., 101, 102, 104

Bennett, Will., Rector of Morley, 22

Bersford, Rey. Jas., D.D., 77

Billam, Ralph, 89, 94, 101, 112

Bingham, Lan., 99

Birde, Ric., 113

Birley, Jno., 113

Biron, S‘ John, 27

Birtley, Jno., 105

Blacksmith, Jno., 94

Blunt, Edmé, » gent., III

Blyth, Helen, 127 ; Will., 127

Bocher, Jno., 115

Bonne, john, 117

Bonyrant, Jno., 101

Borgear, Will., 74, 75

Bott, Mr. Tho., of Derby, 29

Botham, Hen. 8s ; Jo., 85*, 91, 126

Bowles, Chas. E. ‘Bradshaw, Esq., 11
(contributor of Eyam Award)

Bradfield’s wife, 37

Bradshaw, J., 1; Hen., 1; Clement,
124; Tho., 85; Family, 111, 7.

INDEX.

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Barley, 62

Baslow, 2, 56, 57, 65, 69, 72

“ Battrysh,” 93

Bees, A swarm taken, 115, 116

Bells, Heanor, 16, 18

Benet Field, 87

Bery (or Bury) Hill, 68, 71

Birks, 109

Birles, 112

‘* Black Death,” The, 13

Blackwell, 3

Blingsbie, 114

Blokis, 62

Blytheworth, Notts., 80

Bole Doles, 103

Bole Hill Huett, 126

Belys, or Bowles, or Boles, 59, 61, 64,
71; Boolys, 68

Bondmen, 62 72.

Bordurs, The, 75

Brackenfield, see ‘‘ Trinity Chapel,”
25

Bradley, 58

Brampton, Yorks., 1

Brampton, 62

Breadsale, 24

“ Bridell Way,” 112

Briningred, Chesh., 2

Brodemeadow, I10

Brokehus, 56, 61

Brood Lyme, 113

Brosterfield, 2

Burley-men, 112* ;
Heath, 116

Burton-on-Trent, 111

Butterley, 26

for Stainsby and

INDEX.

PERSONS AND FAMILIES.

Braylesford, Tho., 88

Brelsford, Cristoph., 99

Brereton, Lady, 80

Brett, Mr. Will., 30

Brian, Allen, 90

Bride, Ric., 116

Briggs, Ant., 105; Jno., 105 ; Tho.,
105

Bright, Ant., 124; Jno, 113; Tho.,
98, 113; Rob., 105, 113; Will., 113

Brixton, Ed., 79

Broadhurst, Jon., 30

Brodhurst, Agnes, 99, 109; Edm“,
98; Rev. F., Vic. of Heath, 42,
48

Brokebyns,.W., 60

Brokefield, Tho., 111, 112

Brokehouse, Isab., 67;
Will., 55*, 67

Brome, Hen., 90, 96

Bromehead, John, 112, 122

Bromley, Lord Chancellor, 51

Brown, Hen., 99, 102

Brownhill, Amy, 4; Geo., 2

Brownlow, John, gent., 27

Brushfield, Humph., 2, 10; Thom.,
270) |

Buckley, Ric., Esq., 103

Bullock, Jas., Esq., 111 7., 112, 113

Butler, Will., 1o4

Burton, Michael, 127; Sheriffs of
Derbys, 103; Thom., 103 7, 105,
TO7*2 100, 117*, 122%, 127": Wil.,

RasetO2\s

72
Bush, Edw4., 91
Busshy, S' Miles, 88; The heirs of,
2

9
Bussy, Jno., Esq., 97
Bylay, Will., 104; Rob., 117
Byron, S* John, 27

C.

Cadason, Jno., 90 |

Cantrell, Jno., 96, 99, 100, 102, 106, |
108; Rob., 1o1

Carman, Ralph, 108

Carrington, Mr. W., of Bakewell, 52

Cartre, Jno., 101

Cartwright, Rog., 87 ; Tho., 85

Caskyn, John, 87, 90*, 92, 104, 110;
Oliver, 80

Cattrull,. Jno., 102, 104

Cavendish, St W™., 51; Henry, Esq.,
27; Mary & Bridget, 27

Celler or Seller, Jno., 56, 65

131

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Caball or Caple, 65 7

Caldwell, 78*, 82*, 86, 98, 103, 110;
Hall, 110*

Callingwood, 37

Calton, Rent of, 35

Calver, 2, 57

Calwich, Church, 35

Cambridge, Ch. Ch. Coll., 24

Carberton, 29

Carcolsion, Rector of, 26

Cardwell, 61

Carretonge, 106

132

PERSONS AND FAMILIES.

Cha (? Sha, or Shaw), Will., 78

Champney, Ed., 89

Chaplains (St Hugh and Geofiry), 36

Chappell, Mts. Mary, of Riber, 25

Chaworth, John, Kt, 88, 97

Cherlton, Rog, de., 13

Chesterfield, Countess of, 24

Clarke, Ralph, 91, 93, 102,
Rob., 101

Clay, Hen., 56, 57, 61; John, 80,
1oo* ; Will., 55, 56, 57, 59, 68, 77,
82*, 84

Clayton, Alice, 22*, 23* ;
Mz, Ric., 22", 23

Cleaton (Clayton), Ric., 17*

Cludd, Tho., 102

Coates, Ric., 17; M'. Saml., 25*

Cobb, Jno., 91

Coke, Jno., 70, 71, 72, 78, 79, 83;
Joan, 78*, 82, 84*

Coldwell, Tho., 57

Coleclough, Sampson, 21

Conon, Prince, 44

Cook, John, 55, 59, 60, 61,92; Rob.,
56, 106; Tho., 54

Cope, Jno., 101

Corfield, Rev’. C. E. L., 12; Rev’.
Fred, 12

Corner, M*'., 26

Coucke or Cook, Jno., 90, 91, 92

Cowp, Agnes, 88* (or Cowap) ; James,
93, 96", 97; 104
owpap, Jas., 88, 106, 108, 109 (evi-
dently Cowhap or Cowp)

Cox, Rev4. D*., 41, 45

Coxle, Rob., 95

106 ;

Rens e2278

Croft, Anna, 98; Mich., 85, 92, 107; |
Rog., 75, 78; W., 55, 59%, 60, 63, |

64, 65, 79, 78*, 81
Cumberland, Dor., 36
Cyriacus, St., 44

Dale, John, 30

Dall, Thurstan, 79

Dam, Steph., 122

Damme, Agn., 82, 84*; Hen., 127;
Ric., 82, 84, 85, 86, 89, 90, 91, 95

Dare, Hen., 95

Davie, Agnes, 87; Alice, 87

Day, Ellenor, 27

Deken, Mr., of Langley, 28

Devenport, Geo., 18

Disney, Gervaise, Esq., 25

Dobb, Ralph, 119

INDEX,

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Cartleye or Cartileye or Cartlege, 60,
66, 74, 78*, 79, 82, 93, 103

Cartleyn, 59

Castleton, I.

Chelmerton, Constables’ Return, 79

Chester, I

Chesterfield, 1, 2*, 64 ; and Scarr, 68

Clays, 106

Clowne, 89, 112

Clyffe, The, 68, 110

Clyston, Co. Chester, 50

Coal mine in 1569, Estimate of, 101

Codnor, 20, 22, 27*, 30; Breach, 18 ;
Castle, 28

Coking House, The, 106

Cologne, 44 :

Cornell, The, 74

Corner, Le, 73

Cossall, Notts., 22

Cote, The, 78

Courts, Baron and Leet, 53, 54, 102

Court Rolls, what, 53

Coyndings, IOI

Cresswell, 89

Crich, 25

Crothorne Field, 106

Crokesden, Abbot of, 35

Cummin, its uses, 50

Curtleche, 82

Dale Abbey, 12, 24

Dam-staves, 89

Darley Abbey, 111 7; Hall, 111

Dearne, Rey., Yorks, 76 7

Denby Old Hall, 23

Derby, St. Alkmund’s, III

Derebrook, 112

Dirbrook, Little, 107

Dore, or Doore, 88, 91, 92, 98; Court
at, 104, 105, 113

Draught-hooks, 119

Draughts, 119

INDEX.

PERSONS AND FAMILIES.

Dodd, Rob, tot
Dodson, Jarvis, 21 ;
Dolphyn, Rob., 73, 78; Ric., 78
Doo, Will.,

gs, 87, 90, 91, 95; Phil.
(Doe), 92

Drabble, Edw®., 127
Dracot, Family, 19; Jasper, 19
Dyre, Ric., 108

Rob., 21

Eaton, Sam , 3

Eckenfield, Matt.,
113, 115

Edeson, Pet., 89

Edmondson, Agn., 127

Elles, Rob., 96

Elliott, Edm4., 26; Eliz. 29; Jas.,
69; M*. 29; Roger, 54

Ellis, Agn., 102, 107; Geo., 106

Ellott, Hen., 91, 95, 119; R»b., 86

Emitton, Alice, 88

Eyre, Christoph., 83 ; Dame Kather-
ine, 61, 69;
of Padley, gent.,

102; Ric., 108,

68, 70, 72;

Hen., 87, 92; John, |
Jane, |

|

EK.

|
|

109, I12; Lau., 603 Michael, 82, |

84; Philip, ee of Ashover, 62;
Roger, 57, 61*, 69, 74, 75; 70; 72;

73s 74) 77, 783 Robert, 55, 95",
fil Edw., 86, 109 ; Roland, 57, Ol,

69, 71, 73, 75*, 81, 82, 83, 84, 955 |

106, 107, 122; Stephen, 74, 81, 82,
84; Tho., 85, 98, 104, 106, 107%,
109, 112, 122; William, of Baslow,
I

Eyse, Hen., 102

Fallows, Laur., 117

Fanshaw, Family, 84; Jno., Bailitt,
of Holmesfield, 84, 89, 95*, 103,
108, 109*, 110, 117* ; Ralph, 127 ;
ixob,, 108, Tlo*, 114, 17, 122,
126 ; St Henry, 124 ; Thomas, 102,
117, 122, 126.

Faunchall, Hen., 74, 75; Jno., 66
71, 74; Thom., 74

Fenhurst Art, 102

Fernley, Jno., 108, 116

Fernylegh, Jno., 88, 93, 97, 100, 101,
102

Ferth, Jno., 105

Ffirlyeham, Ric., 81 ; Geoffry, 81

FitzHerbert, Rev. Reg. H. C., Rector

of Somersal Herbert, 32

’

F.

133

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Dronfield, 95 ; Church, 117
Dronfield Woodhouse, 117
Duffield Court Rolls, 111

Ekyngton, 60

Elliot Croft, 65, 69; Ryddinge, 65

Elmerton, 88, 93 ; Court of, 88, ror
III, 120; Homage Jury, I11

‘¢ Erier,”’ for ‘ Eyrar,’ A nest or brood
of hawks, 106

Ernes-clyff, 61, 69, 70

Eyam, Agreement to the Pasture
Award in 1702, I. (From the
original M.S. contributed by C. E.
B. Bowles, Esq.)

Fanshaw, Acre, 111; Gate, 112, 123

Fealty, What, 80 w.

FitzHerbert, Will of Elizabeth, widow
of Ralph FitzHerbert, Esq., of
Norbury (contributed by Rey Reg.
H. C. FitzHerbert, Rector of
Somersal Herbert), 32

Flat, The, 70; Le, 71

Frank Pledge, Heads of, 115

Fyrrwood field, 111

134 INDEX.

PERSONS AND. FAMILIES.

FitzWilliam, Tho., of Aldwark,
Yorks., 75

Flint, Hen., 69, 71, 723 Oliver,
Cleric, 77; Will., 79, 75

Foljambe, F oliambe, &c., Geoffry,
119; George, 120; Godfrey, 83, 85,
86, 87, 93) 94; 99, 100, 103, 105s
107, 110, I1l1*, 120, 1223 Henry,
66, 67, 70, 71, 1193 Hercules, 120 ;
Roger, 70, 74, 76, 78, 83", 935
Thomas, 87

Forest, Humphrey, 118

Fowne, Geoffry, 94

Ffox, Felix, gent., 205 John, 67, 725 |
108, 117; John fil. Will., 122;
Will, 82, 84, 90

Freak, Jno., 108, 113

Frerlands, W., 30

Fretwell, Art., 96, 108 ; Barthol., 99 ;
John, 119* ; Ric., 773 Rog., 106,
113

Freynnox, Jno., 101

Garnet, Brian, late schoolmaster of
Nottingham, father of Henry, Pro-
vincial of the English Jesuits ; exe-
cuted for concealment of Treason,
1606, 26; Family, 26, 27

Garratt, Godfrey, gent., 27 5 Isabel,
93, 96

Garret, Laur., 108, 109, 114, 1155
John, 114

Garrot, Elizab., 97 ; Roger, 97

Gascoigne, Edw’, 100 ; Henry, 94*,
120; John, 95, 98

Gasylham, Ric., 81; Rob., 81

Geleye, Rob., 86

Gell, St John, 24

Gile, Adam, 2, 10

Gillott, Thom., 30, 3!

Gladwyn, Rob., 99

Goodere, Hen., gent, 293 Mrs.
Martha, 29

Goodwin, Ric., 18

Gould, Tho., 2

Greaves, Jno., 102, 104, 108

Gree, Rob., 72

Green, Rob., 64, 66, 67; 76*; Will.,
56, 59.

Greensmith, Jno., 107 :

Greenwood, Rob., 91, 92, 98, 105,113 |

Gregory, Tho., 26

Grenehap, Jno-, 37

G.

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Gaming House, 99
Glapwell, 106*, 107

Glass Painting. 42, 43, etc.
Gosle, 66

Grene Gate, 69

Grays Inn, 95

Grymestone, 86

INDEX.

PERSONS AND FAMILIES.

Grey, of Codnor, 12; Nic., 13; Ric.,
86; Tho., 68, 72*

Griffin, Chas., 25

Grisakers, Edw®*, of Barmborough,
Yorks., 75

Grunley, Hen., 106

Halifax, Marquis of, 6

Hall, Jno., 2; Ric., 120

Hallam, Rob., 94, 120*

Halley, Christop., 111

Hancock, W., 68

Hanes, Jas., 95

Hanley, Rob., 65, 67, 72, 77

Hardwick, Christ’, 88, 99, 101, 106,
108; James, 87*, 88, 92, 96, 102,
104, 106, 108, 113; John, 88, 99,
100; Rog., 114

Harry, Christoph., 68 ; Ellen, 96, 98,
II2, 122; James, 90, 92; John,
55» 56, 57, 75; 86, 89, 93, 96, 109,
112, 118; Laur., 61; Mich., 93,
118, 122; Stephen, 57, 82, 83, 84;
Thom., 59, 59, 60. 67*

Harryson, Ric., 97, 99

Hartley, Geof., 121

Haslem, Haselom, &c.—Rob., 57,
58, 60, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 83,
85, 89*, 90, 94, 95, 98, 104, 105,
106, 107, 109*, I10, 118, 120, 122

Hattersley, or Hatterley, Edw‘, 91,
95, 96; Eliz., 95*, 96, 98* ; Henry,
89; John, 169; Joan, 95. 1-9;
Ric., 86, 98, 109; Rob., 96, 98,
109, 112, 113, 122, 123, 126*

Hawkesworth, Adam, 123,
Josias, 15, 16*

Hayes, Mary, 21

Heath, Thom., 107; Joan, 97

Herbert, Rob., 92

Herdwick, John de, 50 (see Hard-
wick)

Herytage, Tho., 68;

Hetham, W., 99

Heyberd (Hibbert), Xp", 102

Heybert (Azbéert), 87, 90*, gt

Hibbert, Jas., 2

Hiberd, Jno., 118

Hide, Hen., 19, 22; John, 22;
Joyce, 19; Mary, 19

Hieron, Fam., 23; Mr. Sam, 23;
Mr. John, of Loscoe, 25; His
collections for a History of Derby-
shire, 24

124 5

Joan, 92;

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Halodder, 71

Hallestede, 69

Hardwick Hall, 49

Harepipe, A snare for hares, 114

Harries’ Farm, 127

Hasland, 90

Hasilhurst, 61

Hathersage, I

Hatt, The, 68

Hault Hucknall Church, Article on
a painted window there (by Rev. C.
Kerry) 40

Hawkin, Powle (f00/) 106

Healthy-Field, 126

“* Heamentum,” 99

Heanor, Notes on some Rectors and
Vicars of (by Rev. J. R. Burton,
curate of Dale Abbey), 12; Bells,
16; Gentry buried there, 19; Hall,
20, 22; Oldest Reg'., 15; Parish
Clerks, 30

Heath, 100; Parson of, 99; Manorial
Court held there, 87, 92, 96, 102,
104, 106, 108, 113, 115, I16, 119;
In Field Trespass, 115

Heghwoodfield, 68

Heghton (Hightown), 7

Heriot, what, 79

Hewood, 71; Field End, 71

Hightown, 67, 70, 73*, 74, 783
Field, 65

Highwood (Hewood)

Hobb Yard, 110; Field, 111

Hogefield (Highfield), 65, 68

Hollen-mere, 115

Holme, 109

Holmes, The, 73, 85, 127

136

PERSONS AND FAMILIES.

Hill, Ralph, 102, 104, 106; Ric.,
116; Rob., 88*, Roland, 97

Hilton, Thom., 99; Hobson, Ric.,
104; Hobyn, le, 93

Holme, Rog., 108

Houlden, Mr. Jos., 29

How, Phil., 86

Hudson, John and Margt, 78, 79

Hull, Hen., 104

Humfrey, Chas., 88

Hunt, Geo., 97, 108*; Rey. Jos., of
Eyam, I

Hunter, of Kilbourn, 30

Ideson, Pet., 93
Treland, Jno., 93
Irpe, Sé Nic., 37

J.

INDEX.

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Holmesfield Manor, Digest of Court
Rolls (by Rev4 Chas. Kerry), 52 ;
Suitors of Court, 76, 80, 85, 86, 98,
105, 118; Defaulting tenants, 90 ;
Tenants of Manor and Subtenants,
121; At Will, 123, 124eeChapen
58; Yard, 100; Lydzate or Lich-
gate, 58 ; Chapel Style, 56 ; Warden,
60; Endowment of Chantry, 60;
Dedicated to S' Swythun, 60;
Parsonage, 127 ; Chaplain’s Garden,
61; Watermill, 58, 59, 67, 69, 92*,
124, 127

Homage, What, 63 7. ; Jury, 63, 66,
70, 71, 74, 80, 81, 86, 89, 105,
108, 116, 123* ; of afreeman, 63 7. ;
of a Bishop, 63 7.; Method of
doing, 80 2.

Honouhorn, 56

Hope, 105

Hopton, 24

Horsley, Derbyshire, 17, 18 ; Church,
40

Horsley Gate, Holmesfield, 70, 73,
103, 105, 106, 109, 112.

Hue and Cry, 53

Hursecroft, 110

Hunting or Poaching, 68, 77

| “ Hustell Pustell,’”? a prohibited game,

116
Hyve, or Hive, Wand, A, 112

Imparcation, 94*

Jackson, Anne, 29; Mr". David, of | Jacomwic, 63

Derby, 29

Jakes, Rob., 36, 39

Jay, Brian, 93, 94, 101, 111; a slan-
derer, 120

Jepson, John, 55

|

Johnson, M's., of Loscoe, 26 ; Ric., 88, _

97
Jowett, Hugh, 124

|

Juries, 66, 70, 71, 74; (see Homage
and Holmesfield, Heath, &c. )

¢

INDEX.

PERSONS AND FAMILIES.

Kelley, Ric., 120

Kechyn (see Kitchen)

Kempe, Anne, 94; Attalena, 94, IOI:
John, 102; Rob., 89; Will., 89,
94, 101*, III

Kerry, Rev". Chas. (Editor), 40, 52

Kerye, Jno., 118

Kesters, Will., 122

Killer, Geo., 106

Kinesman, M*., 28*

King (see Ayng)

Kitchen, Jno., of Bolsover, 89*, 111 ;
Will , 94*, 111, 120; Xpof. 89, 94*,
120

Knight, John, 122

Knight’s* Service, 51

Knotton, Rob., 69, 75; Ric., 1o1

Kyle, Ric., 108

Kynder, Ric., 117

Kyng, Dorothy, 64; John, 55,62, 64,
65; 67, 71, 725 73. 74"; 76, 83, 84, |
86, 92, 93, 102, 103, 104, III; |
Margaret, 63, 105, 111,112; Rob., |
64, 83, 89, 91. 92, 100; Xpoft., 64,
81, 83, 86, 87, 89, 91, 100, I10,
117*

Knyveton, Will., gent., 118, 122

i

Lake, Will., gent., 109

Lamsdale, Alice, 102, 104, 108 ; John,
119

Larnsdale, or Lonsdale, Tho., 97

Laurence, Rob., 106

Leach, Eliz , wid., a1, 92, 95, 96, 98

Leche, Phil., Esq., 66; Ralph, for-
merly of Chatsworth, 82, 84

Lee, Jas., 98, 102; Jno., 83, 111;
Rob., 83

Leek, Tho., gent., 59, 61, 64*, 71,
76, 77* ; Ralph, 84, 68*

Legh, John de la, 50

Leigh, St Hen., of Egginton, 24

Leke, John, fil Tho., 82, 84*; Ric.,
fil John, 82

Lewes, Ric., gent., 27; Jane, 27

Leyche, Eliz., 87* ; Ric., 81

Leyke, Ralph, fil John, 90; Tho., of
Hardwick, gent., 80*, 82

Lendale, Tho., 92, 96

Levet, John, 85; Will., 85, 90, 92,95

_ Littlewood, Jno., 98

_ Longden, 105

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Kirk Ireton, 29
Kirkby, Lincoln, 21
Knollys, Le, 66, 68
Knowtesall, 28

Lambcroft, 110, 111* ; Hill, 65
Lambeth Palace, 24

Langley, 21, 25

Leadworks, 71

Lee Meadow, 113

Leech’s Land, 122

Leicester, S. Martin’s Ch., 39
Lichfield Cath!., 35

Little Dearbrood, 106

Little Eaton, 24

Little Meadow, 106

Little Morewood, 110
Lousby, ;Co. Leic., 27

37

138

PERSONS AND FAMILIES.

Lonsdale, Tho., 97*
Lovell, Francis Lord, 54, 55 ; St Will.,

4

Low, Eliz., 20; Family, 21; Francis,
20; Isabel, 21; John, gent., of
Shipley, 20; Mary, 20

Lowe, Phil., 85, 102

Lowndes, 96

Ludlam, Ant., 100, 102, 104, 108,
114*

Lynnson, Ralph, 92

Lyster, Agnes, 36; John, 37, Ric., 36

INDEX.

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

M.

Maddow, Hugh, 96

Madder, Hugh, 108

Maker, Jas , 72

Malenson, Alex., 101

Manners, Cassandra, 18; Jno., 103;
Sir John, 54

Marples, Kob., 101

Marshall, Jno., of Upton, 32, 37;
Ric., 89*, 94, 120

Maser, Jas., 68

Mason, Will , 92; Frau., 96

Matthews, M'., 28

Merden, Henry, 118

Mershall, Ric , 120

Mersham, Rob. 101

Meynell, F. Godfrey; Franceys, Esq.,

same person

25

Middleton, Eliz., 29; John, 1o1, 104,
108*, 29

Midleton, Phil., 100

Milner, Godfrey, 115

Minewike. Rob., 89

Mitchell, Edw?., 118

Mokeson, Ric., 65, 70

Moldson, Ric., 73

Molson, Will., 37

Montgomery, Hen., 102

Moore, Fran., 2, 3; Rob., 1

Moorwood, Mary, 1, 8

More, Jos., gent., 22.

Morewood, Andr., 79; Tho., 55; W.,
57, 62

Morley, Jno., of Tibshelf, 108

Mort, Edw4., 123; Jas., 124

Morton, Rob., 1, 10

Morton, Bp. of Lichfield, 24

Mower, Arthur, of Woodseats, III ;
Francis, 10; Geo., 110; Jas., 85,

III, 122, 124; John, 85,117; Rob., |

122, 127; Xpof., 116, 117
Moxson, Annes, 80

Maggot, Lees, 110

Manor, Etymol of, 53

Mansfield, 25

Markland, 112

Marple, Cheshire, 1

Matlock, Miller of, 124

ee Cutting down the, in 1558,

Mereland, 94

Meretrix, A, 107

Merkland’s Hedge, 101

Meynell Langley, 25

Mill, 124; Old grinding regulations,
tolls, &c., 124

Milnhay, 28

Milnthorpe, 62, 63, 69, 70, 72, 78, 79
87, 107

Monsall, 121

Morewood, 112

Morley, 19 ; Church, 40

Mylnegate, 105

Mylnlane, 117

Mylnethorpe, 103, 104, 107

Mylnethorpe Field, 56, 60

Mylston Hoks, 119

,—_

INDEX.

PERSONS AND FAMILIES.

Mychell, Mrs. Anne, 121
Myddleton, Jno., 97*
Myles, W., 102

Mylner, Rog., 117; Tho., 54, 55

>

Nedam, Brian, 62, 66 (see Wetham),
67, 72

Neler, Jno., 106, 108

Netham, Brian, 60

Nevell, Mr., ror

New, Mrs. Ellen, 29

Newbold, Anne, 96; Geo., 85, 89,
95, 102, 103, 113, 120, 122; Joan,
87; John, (66, 67, 73*, 753 Mich,
So, 10S5 INich., 85); Ric, 85);
Rob., 127*; Thom., 85, 86, 88, 92,
93, 115, 120

Newbolt, John, 59, 64

Newbottle, Jno., 63

Newport, Jno., 89, 101, 112

Newstead, Prior of, 46

Newton, John, 77, 99; Tho., 118

Noble, Isabella, 70; John, 62, 92;
Ralph, 70, 72; Thom., 70, 108;
Will., 97

Noden, Oliver, 109

Norton, John, 79

Nottingham, Ric., 12, 13.

Okefield, John, 99; Matt., 99.

Oldfield, Ralph, 107

Oldham, Ralph, 99

Otts, Ottes, Ots, Oats, Oots, Ed., 85 ;
Rob., 98, 105, 113

Owen, Rich, 89

Owttrem, Outrem, Outram, Edm‘, 55,
56, 58, 66, 67, 71; Edw’, 56, 61*,
65, 67, 72, 74, 127; John, 50%.
no 59, 67; 75, 80, 113, 116;
Rich*, 86, 91, 94, 95, 96, 102, 103,
105, 9110; Kob., 67, 123, 126;
Will., 67, 68, 69, 71, 76, 95, 102,
105, 118.

139

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Native, what, 62 x; a, 73
Nedergosse, the, 74
Neder hende, 74

Nepish Field, 71
Netherfield, 126.

house, 61
Newcroft, 113

Newman Leas, 32
Newthorp, 24

Newton Solney, 24
Newstead Priory, Arms of, 46
Night Wanderer, a, 96

| Norbury Church, 32, 33, 40; Parson,

36, 37

Normanton, 2

Norton Lees, 105, 110

Nottingham Schoolmaster, 26 (Brian
Garnet)

Oaks, Great and Little, 128
Objugatrix, or Scold, 97
Oldercar Park, 19

Oularcar, 22, 27

Ollercar Hall, 25

Old fyshedame, 94

Overhouse in Horsley Gate, 61
Ovile, hovel, or sheepcote, 58
Owteland Haye, 72

Owttlands

140

PERSONS AND FAMILIES.

Pacie, Geo., 106

Palson, see Pauson

Parker, Geo., 95; Will, 61, 64, 111

Parkin, Hen., 73, 78, 84; Margt., 72,
8

Pauson, Rev. Ric., 45, 46, 47

Pemberton, S‘ Hugh, 37

Peres, Tho., ror

Perkin, Geo., 90, 92, 102, 107

Perkinson, Ric., 88*

Pierson, Geo., of Sheffield, 30

Pilkington, Mrs. Mildred, 29

Pinigar, Pinegar, John, 28*

Prichard, Mary, her jointure, 128

Plumtree, Geo., I11, 120

Poicton, Rog. of, 49

Porter, Bridget, 21 ; Cassander, 21 ;
Hen., gent., 21; Rob., 25

Potter, Will., 17

Prince, St Hen., 36

Purfrey, Ann, 27; Dorothy, 27; |
Mary, 35; Rob., gent, 273
Thom., 39

Pyggen, Eliz., 14; Oliver, 13*
Pytts, Mich., 90

Rathborne, Jas., 15, 16, 17, 28

Rawson, Nich., 29

Reasby, Jno., 102

Reason, Will., 100

Redfern, Anne, 2, 10

Renishaw, see Reynshaw

Rexam, Geo., 124

Reynshaw, Fran., 99, 104, 113, 114

Rhodes, Jno., 94

Ricard, Mr. John, 22

Richardson, Ralph, 106; M". Sam\.,
of Smalley, 29

Riley, Ric., 113

Robbe, Ric., 89

Rockley, Rog., 88*

Robert, Edw‘., 99;
Will., 108, 113

Robinett, Tho., 1

Roby family, 23

Robynson, Thom., Glover, of York,
56, 57*, 58*, 67, 71, 73

Roger, or Rodger, John, 123 ; Tho.,
8

Epht.,

9

Rollesley, Marg., 118

Rooper, Anne, 22, 28; Sam!., Esq.,
28

100; |

INDEX.

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Pain, what, 61
| Painted Glass, Hault
Church, by the Rev’
Kerry, 40; Norbury, 32, 33
Parkin-fields, 128
Pasturage, 65
Peleth halge, or Pellet Hall, 66, 72,
4, 83
Pellycot, Oxfords., 110
Pentridge, 25
Peverell Yat. 99 ; Stylegate, 116
Pidcock, 108
| Pigs, 68, 88, 109
Pillory, 54
| Pinfold, Breach of, 115, 120
Plumley, 86
Poachers, see Hunters, 77, 114
Pollesworth, 35
Pudlintt, Oxfords., 104

Hucknall
Chas.

Raworth close, 87

| Recovery, a, 116 ; what, 94
Repton, 23

Riber, in Matlock, 25
Rocester Church, 35

| Roddelowe, 37

Round Meadow, 126
Rowthorn, 51

Ryley Forde, 93

|

INDEX. 141

PERSONS AND FAMILIES, PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Rouson, Edmd., 127

Rowland, M. A., 105 ; Tho., 94, 95, |
100*

Roworth, Jno., 87

Russel, Will., 94

Rutland, Duke of, 52 ; Henry, Earl .
of, 87 |

Rychelas, Jno., 80

S.

Sacheverell, Tho., 19 | Shearts Clyffe, 124
Sauseman, Rog., 13 | Shillington Mill, Beds., 125
Sauvage or Savage, Arms of Fam., 45, | Shotcroft, 92

46; Eliz., 41; James, 113; Margt., | Slander, a, 120

Lady, 65; Ric., 88*, 92, 96*, 97, | Smalley, 29

99*, 100, 102, 104, 106, 109, 114, | Smeltyng Ovynz, 71

116, 119*; Robt., 108, 113; St" | Smeyclyffe, 68, 69, 87; Hedge, 100

John, 37; 41, 54, 55, 95 Smeykeclyff, 65

Scargell, Rob., 124 | Snell, Mr. 48

Scattergood, Jno., 37 Socage, what, 51

Scoll, Jas., 88 Solseytcroft, 56

Scoynnex, Jno., 101 Spratt Hall, 99

Scyvernes, 17 | Spring, The, 91

Sebastian, Church of, 34, 35 Spittle, or Spyttyl, in Chesterfield, 95
Seint, Rob., 94 Stanyland, 57

Selar, Jno., 69 Stapenhill, 23

Servants of Eliz. Fitzherbert, of Nor- | Steynesby, or Stainsby, Acct. of Manor,
bury, 37 by Rev’. C. Kerry, 49, 87, 92, 96;
Shakerley, Anne, 103; Eliz., 103, Frank, Pledge of, 97, 99; Court,
110; Pedigree, 118; Rob. 82%, 100, see Heath; Park, 106 113;

86, 90; gent, 95,102, 103; Roland, Moor, 114

103*, 118 Stoke, Leicesters., 37
Sharpe, Fran., 10 Stop-gap, 114
Sheldon, Phil., 2, 10 Stoppes gate, 106

Shepherd, Hen. & John, 28
Sherbrook, Eliz., 93

Storth, or the Storthes, 56, 66, 74,
105, 107 ; Head, 59, 77

Sherlock’s wife, 106 | Stow-wood, 67

Sherston, Jno., 94, 101 ; Rich., 101; | Stubbing, le, 105
Xpof., 94 | Suicides, burial of, 31

Shrewsbury, Earl of, 75 | Sweyncum, 49

Shutton, Rog. de, 13 Swinnerton Park, 32
Skinner, Geo., 88 Sybbeston, Priest of, 37
Skotte, Hen., 37 Symon Acres, 111
Sleigh, Hugh, 123
_ Smallbert, Ralph, 117
Smith, Hen., 90; Matt., 28
Smoote, Smote, Nic., 96, 108, 120;
| Rob., 87, 92, 97*, 102, 104, 114;
Rog., 108 :
Somerset, Chas., Earl of Worcester, 47
Sonson, Ric., 99
Spencer, Eliz.,29* ; Mary, 29; Sam\.,

_ 29
tacey, R., 86, 87 ; Xpof., 90
tafforth, Hum., 118

142. INDEX.

PERSONS AND FAMILIES. | PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Staley, Ralph, 102; John, Abbot of |
Dale, 13

Stanley, T., 103

Stapleton, R., 88

Stevenson, Nic., 57, 62

Steinulf, Lord of Steynesby 4g

Ston, or Stone, H., 90, 92; W., 113

Stones, Jno., 93, 96, 97, 104, 106;
Rog., 99, 104, 106, 109 |

Strey, Geo., 77 |

Stevenson, John, 55

Sutton, Edm4., 117; John, 117;
Tho., 117; Will., 117

Swain, Jos., 31

Swaynock, Jno., 120

Swifte, Emmota, 63; Geof., 63

Swyfte, Swifte, Alex., 104, 111;
Geof., 773 Jno., 87, 90, 92, 95.
102; Ric., 5

Swynoke, Jno., 94

Sykes, Rob., 123

Ake
Taffey, Will., ror Third-borowes, 116
Tagg, Leo., 106, 113, 114; Ralph, | Three Row End, 97
101; Ro., 2 | Three Land’s End, 97
Tajsam, Jno., 101 Thurspyttys, 59, 76

Taylor, Anne T., wife of Rev. John | Timberlane, 11 5
Heiron, her fam., 24, 25 ; Rev. Jno., | Todenfield, 59 :
of ‘Ashbourne, 24; Ralph, 85, 90, | Toft side, 104
97, 98; Thom., 87, 90; Will., 90 Totley, 70

Theonatus, King, 44 | Town Meadow, 112

Thomasin, Kob., 101 Trespassers, 100; a Clerical, 77; on
Thomazon, Hugh, 109 the Common, 57

Thomson, Ulina, tot | Trinity Chapel in Brackenfield, a
Thornhill, Jno., 111 marriage at, 25

Throckmorton, Rob., gent., 20 Tumbril, 54

Thwaytes, Ant., gent., 22, 27 Turnditch, 28

Tingle, Ric., 106

Tod, Capt., 22; Sarah, 22

Toll, fam., 28

Tompson, of Heanor, 28

Tomson, Alice, 94

Topham, Jno. and Rob., 111 |

Tor, or Torre, Rob., 90, 91, 92,95, 99

Torner, Will., 106, 108 }

Trappers, Mrs. Helen, 26

Tretam, Laur., 97

Triggs, Hen., 54

Turner, Geo., 91, 98, 100; Jno., 94; |
Ric., 123 ; Will., 96, 106, 108

U

Ursula, St., 41; Acct. of, 44 Unthank, 66, 67, 73, 107, I12;
Places in, 59
Upton, Leicesters., 32, 37

INDEX. 143

A
PERSONS AND FAMILIES. PLACES AND SUBJECTS.
Vardon, Jno., 104 Vicharn, 63
Vickers, Elizab., 29 Verderer, of Holmesfield, 92

View, The, or Wapentake, 108
Villain, what, 62 7.
Vole Doles, 75

W.

Wagstaft, Tho., 100, 102 Waifs and Strays, 79
Walby, Ric., 104 Waif-mare, A, 108
Walchel, Walchelyn, Andeluya, 49; | Wales, Yorks, 1

Will Fitz., 49 * Wardlow, 2
Walhed, Jno., 92, 95 ; M., 102 Watlingz, Burdens of, 91
Walkdon, Jno., 88 Wattring close, 128
Walker, Agn., 209; Eliz., 88, 120, | Webster, A, 126

Ric., 113; Rog., 88 Wesshyng Trolls, 71
Ward, Hugh, 105; Nic., 86; Will., | Wild cat, 49

124 ' Wilson Mont., 25, 26
Waters, Jno., 89 | Wolf, 49
Watkinson, Will., 108 Woodfold, 106

Watson, Ralph, 30, 99; Ric., 99; | Woodthorpe, 64
Rob., 108 ; Sam!., the Sculptor, 30 | Woodseats, 1
Wattes, Watts, or Wattez, Agnes, 66; | Wyldgrene, 68
Edm., 55, 56, 59, 66, 71, 82, 84*;
Eliz., 79; Jas., 66, 82, 87, 91; |
John, 55, 57, 61, 67, 71, 75; 78; 79;
QI, 122; Laur., 98, 122, 123

Walter, 67; Will., 55, 56, 90

Waynwright, Geo., 96; Hugh, 113;
Jno., 75, 80; Nic., 85, 122; Rob.,
87, 90; Xpof., 102

Webster, Will. and Agnes, 54, 55;
John, 96, 97, 102, 108

Weellock, Jno., gent., 21

Westby, Agn., 1o1; Dame, 102;
Francis, 94, 101, 120; John, 104;
Joan, 94, 120

West, Ed., Esq., 89, 93; Hen., 95, 102

Westwood, Ed., 17 7; Geo., 17, 29

Wetton, M". Tho., 29

Waynwright, Geo., 96

Weyt, Hen., 90

Wheatcroft, Ric., 109

Wheeldon, Ralph, 127

Whetcroft, Rog., 65, 69 |

White, Hen., 92; Humf., 85, 87, 90;
Isabella, 92; Joan, 82,84; Nich.,
66, 68, 70, 71*, 72, 76, 78, 79;
Rich., 82, 84, 85, 86, 89, 91

Whitehead, Laur., 88* ; Tho., 39*

Whyte, Nic., 55, 60; Isab., 92; Ric., |

gi
Wild, M'. Hen., M'. Rob., Will., 17 ; |
Mr. Zouch, 28

144 INDEX.

PERSONS AND FAMILIES. | PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Wilgose, Jas., 96*, 100, 102, 104, 108, |
113, 116

Willoughby, Hugh, 88, 120

Wilson, Eliz., 30, 92 ; Euphemia, 88 ;
Jas., 101 ; John, 1, 3, 10; Ric., 92,
96*, 97*, 99, 102; M'. Thom., 30*

Winter, Dorothy, 25 ; M'. Edm‘“., 25*,
29 ; Eliz., 26; Thom., 89, 111, 120 |

Wither, Jno.

Wode, Ric., 55, 56, 573 Mich., 90; |
Rob., 56; Tho., 71

Wodde, Ric., 67 |

Wodham, Tho., 58, 61*

Woley, Ric., Esq., 102

Wolstenholme, Eliz., 98, 109 ; James,
86, 89, 91*, 109, 113, 119; Jno.,
64, 105, 107 ; Joan, 98, 109, 112;
INice:, 166, 66,¢100*, 8112) 118 ;
Oliver, 67; Rob., 66, 71, 81, 86, |
Qs, 113, 122, 126; Thom., 55, 56*,
66, 67, 60, 63; Will., 86

Wood, Alice, 107; Mr. Edw’, of
Swanwick, 22, 89, 94, 95, 120;
Humf., 106, 126; Rog., g1*, 98;
Xpof., 104, 106, 107, 122

Woodhouse, Wodhus, 56; Jas., So,
81, 82*, 84* ; Jno., 60, 61, 66, 71;
Mich., 92, 98; Tho., 58, 61%, 66,
Woe, yor s Will.. 7e*, 120

Woodhead, Oliver, 89*, 112, 120

Woolley, Tho., 94

Worden, Mr., 28

Wright, Geo., 97, 102; John, 97, |
TO2. 01045) LOG;, TOS7:) Sam, 16%: |
Will, 29*

Wyet, Hum., 90

Wylde, Tho., 2, 6

Wylley, Jas., 93; Jno., 93

Wyndgate, Jno., 50

Wyrall, Ed., 85

yy:

| Yelelands, 113
York, 56
Yoxall, 3

Z.

Zellott, or Elliott, Alice, 75; Jas.,
753; John, 75 |

Zouch, Ann, 20; Baron Zouch, 20;
Isabel, Lady, 20; St‘. John, of Cod-
nor Cast, 20; Lucy, 20 H

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RULES 2 = s 2 2 * 2 : 2 2 2 vii
List OF MEMBERS - : - - - - - - - x
SECRETARY’S REPORT - - : 2 2 - E s xvii
BALANCE SHEET : : ‘ : p ; 3 5 E xxii
ROMAN REMAINS AT BRADWELL.

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NOTES ON SOME OLD DERBYSHIRE COTTAGES.

By Percy Currey, Esq., ARCHITECT - - - - 5

MELANDRA CASTLE, DERBYSHIRE.
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TAPESTRY AT RENISHAW HALL.

By Rev. C. Kerry - - - - - - - - 20
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT.

WirH Notes By Rev. CHAs. KERRY - - - - 26
ENCLOSURE RIOTS AT CHINLEY, A.D. 1569 - - - - 61
HUNDRED OF APPLETREE AND WAPENTAKE OF WIRKSWORTH. AYD

To His Majesty KiInc CHaARLEs I., 1627.

By Rev. R. Jowetr BurToN, B.A. - - - - - 69
LETTERS FROM TANNER MSS.

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SLABS OF THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES, DISCOVERED

IN THE WALLS OF BOLSOVER CHURCH AFTER THE FIRE, 1898.
Frontispiece.
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RAFTER-BUILT CoTTaGEs AT Moriey Moor - - - - - 7
IAGRAM OF GABLE END OF COTTAGES AT LITTLE EATON - - 7
TAPEstTRY, ‘‘THE TRIUMPH OF PEACE,” RENISHAW HALL - - 21
TOUSE BUILT BY LEONARD WHEATCROFT, ASHOVER, 1676 - - 40

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Vice- Presidents :

THE Most REVEREND THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.

DUKE OF NorFOoLk, K.G., E.M.

DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G.

DOKE OF PORTLAND.

Lorp SCARSDALE.

Lorp WATERPARK.

Lorp BELPER.

Lorp Howarp oF GLOssop.

Lorp Burron.

Lorp HAWKESBURY.

Ricur Rev. Lorp BisHop oF
SOUTHWELL.

Hon. W M. Jervis.

HON. FREDERICK STRUTT.

RicuTr Rev. Bishop ABRAHAM.

RicHt Rev. THE BisHop OF
DERBY.

Sir H. WIcMot, Bart., V.C.,
KCB:

Str J. G. N. ALL&YNE, Barr.

Rev. Sir Rp. FirzHEerRsBert, Br.

Str Geo. SITWELL, Bart, F.S.A.

J. G. Crompton, Esa.

G. F. MEYNELL, Esq.

Sir H. H. Bemross, M.P.

Council :

GerorGE BAILEY.
WILLIAM BEMROSE.
JOHN Boroucu.

Rev. J. Cas. Cox, LL.D., F.S.A.
C. JAMES CADE.

J. GALLOP.

E. GREENHOUGH.

W. MALLALIiEU.

W. R. HOLLAND.
Rev. CHARLES KERRY.
Joun Warp.

J. R. Naytor.

Hon. Treasurer :

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C. B. KEENE.

H. ARNOLD-BEMROSE.
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Rev. Rec. H. C. FITZHERBERT.
W. A. CARRINGTON.

C. B. KEENE.

Gro, BorroMLey.

Rost. Cross.

G. H. Mitnes, M.D.
Rev. F. C. Hipkiws.
Rev. R. Jowerr Burron.
Rev. W. H. ARKWRIGHT.
Rev. F. BRODHURST.

Hon. Secretary :

ARTHUR Cox

Auditors : :

Wm. BEMROSE.

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RULES:

I.—Name.

The Society shall be called the “ DERBYSHIRE ARCHEOLOGICAL
AND NATURAL History SOcIETY.”

I].—OpjeEcr.

The Society is instituted to examine, preserve, and illustrate
the Archzology and Natural History of the County of Derby.

IIT.— OPERATION.

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
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3.-—The publication of original papers and ancient
documents, etc.

1V.— OFFICERS.

‘The Officers of the Society shall consist of a President and Vice-
Presidents, whose elections shall be for life; and an Honorary
Treasurer and Honorary Secretary, who shall be elected annually.

V.—CouNnNCcIL.

The General Management of the affairs and property of the
Society shall be vested in a Council, consisting of the President,

Viil 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.—ApDMISSION 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 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

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Five Members of the Society. Five members of Council to
form a quorum.

X.—Sus-CoMMITTEES.

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 special objects. Such Sectional or Sub-
Committees to report their proceedings to the Council for
confirmation.

XI.—GENERAL MEETINGS.

The Annual Meetirg 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.

The Members whose names are preceded by an asterisk (*) are Life Members.

Cox, Rev. J. Charles, LL.D., F.S.A., Holdenby
Rectory, Northampton.

Greenwell, The Rev. Canon, F.S.A., Durham. |

Hope, W. H. St. John, Burlington House, Piccadilly, |

ieee \ Honorary Members.

Irvine, J. T., 167, Cromwell Road, Peterborough.

Kerry, Rev. Charles, Upper Stondon Rectory, Snefiord,
R.S.O., Beds.

Wrottesley, General The Hon. George, 75, Cadogan

Gardens, London, S.W.

*Abney, Captain W. de W., F.R.S., C.B., Measham Hall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
*Abraham, The Right Rev. Bishop, Bakewell.

Alleyne, Sir John G. N., Bart., Chevin House, Belper.

Allsopp, The Hon. A. Percy, Battenhall Mount, Worcester.

*Arkwright, Rev. W. Harry, The Hall, Wirksworth.

*Arkwright, F. C., Willersley, Cromford.

Arkwright, Miss Emily, Gate House, Wirksworth.

Arkwright, Miss Florence, The Hall, Wirksworth.

Arnold-Bemrose, H., F.G.S., Friar Gate, Derby.

Auden, Rev. W., Church Broughton.

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Bagshawe, W. H. G., Ford Hall, Chapel-en-le-Frith.
Bailey, Mrs., Temple House, Derby.
Bailey, George, Elmfield, Otter Street, Derby.

LIST OF MEMBERS. x1

Barker, J. E., Q.C., Brooklands, Bakewell.

Bateman, F. O. F., Breadsall Mount, Derby.

Bateman, Miss, Rowditch Lodge, Derby.

Bayley, Rev. C. J., Oakleigh, Buxton.

Beamish, Lt.-Colonel, R.E., Home Office, Whitehall, London.
Beard, Nevill, The Mount, Ashburne.

Benthall, Dr., Cedars, Breadsall, Derby.

Benthall, Mrs., Cedars, Breadsall, Derby.

Belper, The Right Honourable Lord, Kingston Hall.

*Bemrose, Sir H. H., M.P., Uttoxeter New Road, Derby.
Bemrose, William, Elmhurst, Lonsdale Hill, Derby.

Bennett, George, Irongate, Derby.

Blackwall, J. B. E., Biggin, Wirksworth.

Bogonschevsky, The Baron Nicholas Cassimir de, Pskov, Russia.
Borough, John, The Cedars, Belper.

Bottomley, G., 140, Uttoxeter Road, Derby.

Bowles, Chas. E. B., The Leas, Wirksworth.

Bradbury, Wm. Laurence, 10, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, London, E.C
Brigden, Geo.; Irongate, Derby.

Brindley, J. Ernest, Market Place, Derby.

Broadhurst, Rev. Fredk., Heath, Chesterfield.

Brushfield, T. N., M.D., The Cliff, Budleigh-Salterton, Devon.
Bryan, Benj., 18, Grandison Road, Clapham Common, London, S.W.
Buchanan, Alexander, 8, Wilson Street, Derby.

Burton, The Right Hon. The Lord, Rangemore, Burton-on-Trent.
Burton, Rev. R. Jowett, Stanton-by-Dale, Nottingham.

Burton, Miss Hannah Haslam, Laburnum House, Heanor.

*Cade, Chas. James, The Homestead, Spondon.

*Cammell, G. H., Brookfield Manor, Hathersage.

Carr, Rev. Canon, Holbrooke, Derby.

Carrington, W. Alex., Wye Cottage, Bakewell.

Carrington, Arthur, Langdale House, Clapham Road, Bedford.
Carter, F., Irongate, Derby.

‘Carulla, F. J. R., F.C.S., 84, Argyle Terrace, Rosehill, Derby.
Chambers, R. B., Green Hill, Derby.

‘Chetham Library, Manchester—W. T. Browne.

Clark, G. D’Arcy, Burnaston, Derby.

*Cokayne, G. E., F.S.A., College of Arms, London.

‘Coke, Colonel Talbot, Debdale, Mansfield.

jleman, Rev. W. L., Staveley.

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Constable, W. G., 32, Ashburne Road, Derby.
Cooke, Charles, Spondon.

Copestake, Mrs., Kirk Langley.

Corfield, F. C., Ormonde Fields, Codnor.

Cox, William, Brailsford.

Cox, Arthur, Mill Hill, Derby.

Cox, F. Walker, Priory Flatte, Breadsall, Derby.
Crompton, J. J., The Lilies, Derby.

*Cyoss, Robert, Bakewell.

Curgenven, W. G., M.D., Friar Gate, Derby.
Currey, B. S., Little Eaton Hill, Derby.
Currey, Rev. R. H. S., 100, Friar Gate, Derby.
Currey, Percy H., Little Eaton Hill, Derby.
Curzon, William, Lockington Hall, Derby.

*Davis, Frederick, F.S.A., Palace Chambers, St. Stephen’s, Westminster.

Derby, The Right Rev. The Bishop of, S. Werburgh’s, Derby.
Devonshire, !lis Grace The Duke of, K.G., Chatsworth.

Eddowes, C. K., Strand, Derby.

Evans, Walter, Darley Abbey.

*Evans, John, 20, Bolton Street, Piccadilly, London.
Evans, Henry, Highfields, Derby.

*Eyre, Lewis, Padley, Edge Hill, Wimbledon, Surrey.

*Fane, William Dashwood, Fulbeck, Lincs.

Farmer, Rev. R. L., Shardlow.

*Fitz-Herbert, Rev. Sir Richard, Tissington, Derby.
*Fitzherbert, Rev. Regd. H. C., Somersal Herbert, Derby.
Fox, Rev. W., The Rectory, Stanton-by- Dale.

*Freer, The Venerable Archdeacon, Sudbury, Derby.
Furneaux, Rev. W. M., Repton Hall, Burton-on-Trent.

Furness, Geo., The Grange, Willesden Grange, London, N.W.

Fyldes, Rev. W., Hartington, Ashbuine.

Gallop, Joseph, Normanton Road, Derby.

Garrett-Pegg, J. W:; Chesham House, Chesham Bois, Bucks.
Gaunt, H. H., North Street, Derby.

*Gisborne, L., Allestree Hall, Derby.

Glover, E. M., Pear Tree House, Ockbrook.

Goode, Mrs.

LIST OF MEMBEKS.

Goodey, W. H., 40, Ashburne Road, Derby.

*Goodwin, F. S., Bridge House, Bakewell.

Greenhough, Edward, Parkfield Willersley Road, Matlock.
Greensmith, L. J., 10, Wilson Street, Derby.

Gregory, Thos., Eyam, Sheffield.

Gretton, John, M.P., Sudbury, Derby.

Hamnett, Robert, 24, Norfolk Street, Glossop.
Harpur-Crewe, Lady, Spring Hill, East Cowes, I.W.
*Harpur-Crewe, Hugo, Spring Hill, East Cowes, I.W.
Harwood, James, Tenant Street, Derby.
Haslam, Sir A. Seale, Breadsall Priory, Derby.
Haslam, A. V., Breadsall Priory, Derby.
Haslam, Edwin, St. Helen’s Street, Derby.
*Hawkesbury, The Lord, Kirkham Abbey, York.

_ Heathcote, W., Bankwood, Duffield.

| Hipkins, Rev. F. C., F.S.A., Priory, Repton.

Holland, W. R., Ashburne.

Holmes, H. M., London Road, Derby.

Holmes, G. E., London Road, Derby.

*Hovenden, R., Heathcote, Park Hill Road, Croydon.

Howell, Rev. J., All Saints’ Vicarage, Derby.

Huish, Darwin, Kirk Hallam, Derby.

*Hunter, John, Quarry Bank, Belper.

*Hurt, Albert F., Alderwasley, Derbyshire.

Hurt, Miss, 46, Clifton Gardens, Maida Hill, London, W.
Hurt, Miss Grace S. F., Chase Cliffe, Whatstandwell.

Jackson, John P., Stubben Edge, Chesterfield.

*Jervis, The Hon. W. M., Quarndon, Derby.

*Jeudwine, W. W., Walton Lodge, Chesterfield.

*Jobson, Godfrey, Derwent Foundry, Derby.

Johnson, E. S., Littleover Hill, Derby.

Johnson, Mrs. Thewlis,. Alderwasley, Derby.

fourdain, Rev. Francis C. R., Clifton Vicarage, Ashburne.
oyce, M. J., 4, Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn, London, W.C

eene, C. B., Irongate, Derby.
eys, Mrs., Rosehill Street, Derby.
irke, H., Georgetown, Demerara, West Indies.

Howard of Glossop, The Right Hon. The Lord, Glossop Hall.

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XIV LIST OF MEMBERS.

Leacroft. Rev. C. H., Brackenfield, Alfreton.
Leader, J. D., F.S.A., Moor End, Sheffield.
Leslie, Major J. H., Bellevue, Hathersage, Sheffield.

Lichfield, The Dean and Chapter of—Chas. Gresley, The Close, Lichfield.

Livesay, Wm., M.D., Sudbury, Derby.

Lomas, Geo. H., Diglatch, Chapel-en-le-Frith.
*Longden, J. A., Stanton-by-Dale, Nottingham.
Lowe, J. Landor, The Birches, Burton Road, Derby.
Lunn, Richard, 122, Rose Hill Street, Derby.

MacFarland, R. A. H., Repton.

Mallalieu, W., Swallows’ Rest, Ockbrook.

Manchester Public Free Library—The Chief Librarian, Manchester.
Manton, J. O., Wharfedale Villa, Swinburne Street, Derby.
Marples, G. J., Thornbridge [all, Bakewell.

Marsden, Geo., Wirksworth.

Martin, Rev. Wm., Darley Abbey Vicarage, Derby.
McDonald, J. Allen, Duffield Road, Derby.

McInnes, E., Littleover, Derby.

Meakin, Miss, Spondon.

Meakin, Miss M. A., Spondon.

Meggison, A., Terrace Road, Buxton.

Mello, Rev. J. Magens, Mapperley, Derby.

Meynell, Godfrey F., Meynell Langley, Derby.

Milligan, Colonel, Cauldwell Hall, Burton-on-Trent.
Milnes, Rev. Herbert, The Friars, Priory Street, Cheltenham.
Milnes, Rev. N. B., The Knowle, Hazelwood, Derby.
Milnes, E. S., County Club, Derby.

Milnes, G. H., M.D., 103, Friar Gate, Derby.

Molineux, Rev. C. H., Staveley Rectory, Chesterfield.
Mundy, Edward Miller, Shipley Hall.

Murray, Frank, London Street. Derby.

Naylor, J. R., Kirk Leys, Derby.

Newton, C. E., The Manor House, Mickleover.

Norfolk, His Grace the Duke of, K.G., E.M., Arundel Castle.
Nottingham Public Library, South Sherwood Street, Nottingham.

Oakes, T. H., Riddings House.
Oakes, C. H., Holly Hurst, Riddings.
“Oakes, James, Holly Hurst, Riddings.

Lad

LIST OF MEMBERS.

Parez, Rev. Claude H., Rose Hill House, Derby.
Peck, Dr., St. Helen’s, Chesterfield.
*Portland, His Grace the Duke of, Welbeck, Notts.

Robinson, Mrs. F. J., Darley Slade, Duffield Road, Derby.
*Rutland, His Grace the Duke of, K.G., Belvoir Castle.

Sale, G. Hanson, Holme Cottage, Burton Road, Derby.
Sale, W. H., The Uplands, Burton Road, Derby.

Scarsdale, The Right Hon. Lord, Kedleston.

*Schwind, Charles, Broomfield, Derby.

Seely, Charles, Sherwood Lodge, Nottingham.

Shaw, John, Normanton House, Derby.

Sheffield Free Library—Thos. Hurst, Surrey Street, Sheffield.
Sheldon, J. P., The Brund, Sheen, Ashburne.
Shore-Nightingale, Mrs., Lea Hurst, Cromford.

Simmonds, T. C., Technical College, Derby.

Simpson, John, Hopton Wood Stone Co., Wirksworth.
Sing, Rev. Canon, S. John’s Vicarage, Derby.

Sitwell, Sir George, Bart., F.S.A., Renishaw, Chesterfield.
Sleigh, John, Eversley, Matlock.

Smedley, J. Marsden, Lea, Matlock.

Smedley, Mrs. J., Lea, Matlock.

Smith, F. N., Wingfield Park, Alfreton.

*Southwell, Right Rev. Lord Bishop of, Thurgarton Priory, Notts.
Spilsbury, Rev. B. W., Findern, Derby.

Stephenson, M., F.S.A., 14, Ritherdon Road, Tooting, London, S.W.,

*Strutt, The Hon. Frederick, Milford House, Derby.
Strutt, Herbert G., Makeney, Derby.

Taylor, Rev. Canon Thomas, St. Breward’s, Bodmin, Cornwall.
Taylor, H. Brooke, Bakewell.

Taylor, A. G., St. Mary’s Gate, Derby.

*Thornewill, Robert, Craythorne, Burton-on-Trent.

Trubshaw, Chas., St. Aubyn Villa, 123, Osmaston Road, Derby.
Trueman, H., The Lea, Esher, Surrey.

Turbutt, W. Gladwyn, Ogston Hall, Alfreton.

Walker, J., Old Uttoxeter Road, Derby.
Walker, Rev. H. Milnes, Littleover Vicarage.

XV

XVI LIST OF MEMBERS.

Walker, William, Lea Wood, Cromford.

*Walthall, H. W., Alton Manor, Wirksworth.

Ward, John, Corporation Art Gallery, Cardiff.

Waterpark, The Right Hon. Lord, Doveridge.

Whiston, W. Harvey, Idridgehay.

Whitehead, G. H. Taylor, Burton Closes, Bakewell.
Williams, J., Midland Railway, Derby.

*Wilmot, Sir Henry, Bart., V.C., K.C.B., Chaddesden Hall.
Wilmot, Rev. F. E. W., Burbage, Buxton.

Wilson, Rev. A. P. Hamilton, The Vicarage, Glossop.
Wilson, Arthur, 30, Ashburne Road, Derby.

Wilson, W. Mortimer, The Firs, Alfreton.

Woodforde, W. B., The Cottage, Spondon.

Woods, Sir Albert, Garter-King-at-Arms, College of Arms, London.
*Wright, Charles, Wirksworth.

Wykes, John, Wardwick, Derby.

York, The Most Rev. the Lord Archbishop of, Bishopthorpe, York.

XVil

Peron! OF HON. SECRETARY.

g HE Twentieth Anniversary of the Society was held, by

kind permission of the Committee, in the Technical
College, on Monday, March a2rst, 1898. In the
absence of Sir H. H. Bemrose, who had promised to preside,
the chair was taken by the Hon. F. Strutt, V.P. The Report
for the past year was read and adopted. The Rev. R. Jowett
Burton was elected to the seat on the Council vacant by
the death of Mr. John Bailey. All the members of
: Council .retiring under Rule V., viz., Messrs. Jourdain, Cade,
Gallop, Greenhough, Mallalieu, Holland, Kerry, and Ward,

were re-elected, as were also the Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Sec.,

and Hon. Sec. of Finance. Mr. Keene was elected Auditor
in the place of Mr. Coulson, resigned, to serve with Mr. W.
Bemrose, who was re-elected. Messrs. Hamnett, Hamilton-
Wilson, Wm. Curzon, N. B. Milnes, Leslie, A. V. Haslam,
and R. B. Chambers, were elected members of the Society.
Mr. Robert Hamnett read a very interesting paper upon
“ Melandra Castle,” and exhibited various objects of interest
: found at, or connected with, the place. The twentieth volume

of the Society’s “ Proceedings” was distributed.

XViil REPORT,

The first expedition of the Society for the past year was held
on Saturday, June 11th, to Wirksworth and Kirk Ireton. The
party left Derby at 1.40, in saloon carriages attached to the
train for Cromford, whence brakes conveyed the visitors to
Wirksworth Church. Here they were received by the Vicar,
the Rev. W. H. Arkwright. Dr. Milnes conducted the party
over the building and gave an exhaustive address upon its
history, architecture, and various interesting details, calling
special attention to the brasses and sculptured monuments to
members of the Blackwall and Gell families; and to the
ancient font now again in use, and with the restoration of
which this Society had somewhat to do a year or two since.

After a thorough inspection of the Church the visitors
were most hospitably entertained at tea at the Nether House
by the Vicar and Mrs. Arkwright; after which the drive
was continued to the church of Kirk Ireton, The Vicar,
the Rev. W. Hombersley, received the party and conducted
them over his small but very interesting Norman +Church,
describing its history and details. From Kirk Ireton the party
drove to Idridgehay station and returned to Derby by special
train.

A second expedition was held on Wednesday, August roth,
to, Bolsover and Hardwick. The party left Derby in special
saloon carriages attached to the 11.10 a.m. train for Ches-
terfield, where luncheon was taken at the Angel Hotel.
Brakes conveyed the visitors to Bolsover Castle, where the
Rev. Chas. Kerry read an interesting paper, tracing the history
of the ancient castle, and its changes of ownership from the

Crown, through Cavendishes to its present owner, the Duke

REPORT. xix

of Portland, by the kind permission of whom the visitors
were permitted to inspect the modern part of the buildings.

From Bolsover the drive was continued to Hardwick, where
the party was conducted over the Hall, and in the Great
Gallery listened to a paper, by Mr. Kerry, dealing mainly
with the structure of the house and the history of Arabella
Stuart. The Rev. F. Brodhurst supplemented Mr. Kerry’s
paper by pointing out many of the pictures in the gallery,
and the portraits of various personages connected with the
history of the house.

Tea was taken at the Hardwick Inn, and the party drove
back to Chesterfield in time for the 7.10 p.m. train to Derby.

Your Council has not, during the past year, had any
instance of destruction or “restoration” brought before it,
which needs special enquiry or comment. This is satisfactory
in itself, but members are not on that account to suppose
that the work of our Society is done, or is being left undone.
Points are often raised where advice and counsel are given,
some times gratefully received, though not invariably, and we
believe that help and instruction are given quietly where
results do not necessarily appear on the surface.

It cannot be too strongly impressed upon members. that
it is the duty of each individual to look out in his or her
_ own neighbourhood, and to report to the Council any suggested
restoration or demolition of what is ancient or interesting.
The end of the nineteenth century is far too eager to
have things brand new for the commencement of 1900, and too
regardless of the vast importance of preserving, not obliterating,

the history of the past.

XX REPORT.

There has been a suggestion made as to possible excava-
tions on the site of ‘‘Melandra” Castle in this County : this
matter is under discussion, but so far it has not been
possible to arrange for the work to begin.

The Archeological Survey of the County is proceeding
under the skilled supervision of Mr. John Ward. Upon this
subject Mr. Ward will shortly issue a circular asking the
co-operation of members in their own neighbourhood.

Last Winter and this have been so mild that one did
not expect to chronicle instances of visits from unusual
birds: it will be interesting to our naturalists therefore, to
know that last year we were favoured by visits from three
varieties of birds for the first time, as far as I am aware.

In February, 1898, a specimen of the Rotche or Little
Auk was shot on the Trent; in May, a Black Cormorant
appeared, and paid the penalty in the same neighbourhood;
and in September, just outside Derby, two Spotted Crakes
made their appearance, these latter were young, so one
might almost hope they had been bred in this County.

Another unusual visitor, a Stag Beetle, turned up also
last year at Chaddesden.

It may be mentioned also that a few years back the
(Quail nested in Derbyshire, I believe for the first time on
record,

Your Hon. Sec. will be very glad always to receive infor-
mation of the appearance of any bird out of the common
in the County.

Our obituary for the past year includes one Vice-President,

Lord Vernon, an original member of this Society, and one

REPORT. XX1

who, as long as his health permitted, was always keenly
alive to our work and interests. We have also sustained a
great loss by the death of a member of Council, the Rev.
I, Jourdain. No member of the Society was more thoroughly
and practically interested in all that concerned us. Mr.
Jourdain was always ready to work for the good of the
Society, to advise, and, if required, to inspect and to
superintend any work that was in progress. Your Council
will miss his valued help, and deeply regret his loss.

The sum total of deaths is small, and added to resignations,
just equals our number of new members; this is good, but
we want it better, if the size of our Journal is to swell to
its original proportions. We must again urge our members
to do their individual duty by getting friends to join the
Society. There are numbers of people in the County and
in the Town who might and ought to join the Society,
and to whom, probably, a personal appeal means very much
more than any number of printed notices. Let this be each
member’s care for 1899, and we shall have no reason to
be other than satisfied with the result of the twenty-first

year of our proceedings.
ARTHUR COX,
Hon. SEC.
Mill Hill, Derby,
February 24th, 1899.

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237d January, 1899.

DeRBySHIRE ARCHEOLOGICAL

AND

NATURAL History BOcIETY.

Roman RWemains at Bradwell.

By JoHN Warp, F.S.A.

Da January, 1896, the remains of a Roman oven were

< found in this Peak village, and through an over-
sight no notice of the discovery was sent to last
year’s Journal. The discovery was made while
levelling a piece of ground on which a stable had stood. After
pulling down this stable, it was observed that an elevation in
the ground had been taken advantage of to support one of the
walls. It was found to contain a strongly-built structure, but
the labourers had removed most of it before it attracted the
attention of Mr. Francis Harrison, a gentleman of Bradwell,
who was struck with the Roman character of the masonry.
He induced the owner to stay his hand until it had been
properly examined.

A few days later, Mr. J. D. Leader, F.S.A., of Sheffield, and
other gentlemen inspected the structure. Mr. Leader com-
municated notes on the discovery to the Society of Antiquaries,
VOL, EXI; I

2 _ ROMAN REMAINS AT BRADWELL.

which are printed in vol. xvi, No. 1 (mew series), of the
Proceedings of that Society, pages 95-6. Another account of
the “find” was contributed to the Sheffield Telegraph, of January
2oth, 1896. From these two sources a full description of the
structure may be drawn.

Mr. Leader describes it as a “circular building of finely
wrought stone, well put together without mortar, and probably
of Roman workmanship. The whole formed a circular chamber,
8 ft. 9 ins. in diameter, and not more than 2o ins. in height.
There had been an entrance on the east side, and beneath this
a shallow pit, 30 ins. square (the foundation stones of which
are remaining), into which ashes from the chamber could be
raked.”

** All that now remains is a segment of the circle, 6 ft. 8 ins.
in diameter (? length). The floor of the chamber was formed
of close-fitting and smoothly dressed sandstone flags, 6 ins. in
thickness, resting on a rubble foundation. The underside of
one of these stones was seen to be roughly dressed, in diagonal
lines, with a pick. The sides of the chamber were formed of
a single row of dressed stones, each one curved to form the
circle, and standing 12 ins. high. On these rested a projecting
corbel table, 53 ins. deep, and also wrought to form the circle.
On this rested the first row of stones that went to form the
roof. The roofing stones were not worked to the curve of the
circle. The key-stone, with its lewis hole, had unfortunately
been broken up and used in the building of a cottage.”

The accompanying drawing is taken from photographs kindly
lent by Mr. Leader, but the perspective is slightly altered so as
to show the construction more clearly. The lower surface of
the roof was obviously flat. Two of the voussoirs are zz stfu
and it will be noticed that they are of peculiar shape, and are
“joggled.” The Sheffield Telegraph description of this roof is
as follows :—‘ On the top of the cornice were the roof stones,
the bottom being flat, half the upper part convex, the other half
with a plain surface running back obliquely from the top edge
of the convexity. That was the first row; the second one,

ROMAN REMAINS AT BRADWELL. 3

which was placed on the top of it, having a concavity formed
to fit into the convexity of the one supporting it, the whole
roof being dome-shaped, and pieced together by a method of
dove-tailing without mortar, and finished off by a well-fitting
key-stone.” The statement that the roof was dome-shaped refers
probably to its outward appearance.

“The stone,” to again quote the Sheffield Telegraph, ‘is
skilfully worked, and is altogether different from anything to be
found in the more modern buildings in Bradwell. Further than

ROMAN REMAINS AT BRADWELL.

this, the Red Sandstone of which it (the oven) is composed is
nowhere found amongst the rocks of the district, and must have
been transported some distance, probably from Lancashire, as
the Romans had good roads from that county into Derbyshire.”

The writer of that article describes the structure as a potter’s
kiln; but there can be no doubt that Mr. Leader’s surmise is
nearer the truth. ‘No traces of Roman tiles or pottery were
seen among the dédris. The stones bore marks of fire, and
the whole may have formed a baker’s oven heated by burning
wood within it, and, after the ashes had been raked out, then
receiving the bread or other food to be baked.”

\

4 ROMAN REMAINS AT BRADWELL.

Since compiling the above, my young friend, Mr. W. H. Salt,
of Buxton, has sent me some particulars he has gleaned of an
ancient interment found in Bradwell, near the above oven, last
Spring. The skeleton, he was informed, was much decayed, and
appeared to have belonged to an adult. No particulars could
be obtained as to its attitude, whether extended or contracted.
It lay immediately below the turf, in a covered cist of sandstone
and limestone flags, which had an east and west direction ; its
dimensions are given as 3 ft. long, 2 ft. wide, and 2 ft. deep.
With the skeleton was an iron spear-head about 7 ins. long, much
rusted, and with strong mid-rib and socket devoid of rivet holes.
This spear-head lay at the west end of the cist, but its point
was towards the east. In the cist were also a leaden spindle-
whorl, button, and coin. The spindle-whorl was 1 in. diameter
and about 3} in. thick. Its upper surface was decorated with
five raised fillets so arranged as to suggest that a five-pointed
star was intended. The button consisted of a disc of copper
about } in. in diameter, with a small ring attached to the
back. It was decorated with small hollows inlaid with gold.
The coin, unfortunately, is lost. The spear-head, spindle-whorl,
and button are now in the Buxton Free Library.

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e7

Notes ow some ol¥ Derbyshire Cottages.

By Percy Currey, Esq., ARCHITECT.

™)MONG all the works that have been written on the
architecture of the middle ages, very little attention has
yet been given to the timber buildings which for so

many centuries comprised the great majority of the
smaller class of houses. Messrs. Turner and Parker’s invaluable
work on the domestic architecture of the middle ages illustrates
many timber buildings, but gives no details of their construction
and gradual development, and confines itself almost exclusively to
the larger buildings, besides which it concludes with the fifteenth
century, after which period the majority of the buildings of this
class now in existence were erected. The fine timber houses of
Cheshire and the West of England are often illustrated, but a well
studied historical account of the development and characteristics
of timber construction seems to me to be much wanted. For
this reason I have thought that it might not be altogether
uninteresting to the readers of the Derbyshire Archzological
Society’s Journal, if I were to give a few brief notes which
I have made from time to time on some very primitive timber
buildings of the humblest class in this county, and I am the
more induced to do so by the fact that they are very rapidly
disappearing to give place to the modern builder’s six-roomed
cottages, a great gain no doubt from a sanitarian’s point of
view, though one cannot help wishing that they might be spared
to relieve the deadly monotony of pressed brick fronts and cast-
iron palisades ; if kept in repair they would probably long outlive
their modern successors.

6 NOTES ON SOME OLD DERBYSHIRE COTTAGES.

These old labourers’ cottages might be said to have no features
of architectural interest, but they display what was probably the
earliest form of timber construction. In their erection, two massive
pairs of rafters were first hewn out, usually selected with a slight
curve near their lower end ; these were either framed together at
the top, or else framed into a short horizontal piece of timber,
which formed a firm seat for the ridge beam ; the rafters were then
set up on the ground, or on a wooden or stone cill to form the two
gable ends of the house to be built, and across them horizontal
timbers of lighter scantling were notched and secured by oak pins,
longitudinal timbers (ridge, purlins, and wall plates) being notched
and pinned on to these, and stiffened by diagonal wind braces. The
whole formed, with a minimum of labour, a very rigid and strong
skeleton frame, whose durability and sound construction is attested
by the number of centuries which some of them have stood. In
the examples which I have been able to examine, the filling in of
the gables and side-walls appears to have been made with light
upright pieces of round timber let into the horizontal timbers,
between which willow rods were interlaced in the manner of basket
work, and the whole plastered with clay in which chopped grass
was mixed to give it cohesion; but in almost all cases this filling
in has been subsequently replaced by brick or stone. The roofs
were formed of rough rafters and thatched, and the floors would
probably be also formed of clay beaten down and trodden hard.

A very picturesque house of this class is still standing near the
station at Little Eaton, but as it now forms one of a row of three
houses, only one of the gable ends is visible. Another pair of these
houses still stands on Morley Moor, close to the picturesque old
Sacheverell Almshouses ; they are now uninhabited, and rapidly
falling to pieces. Each house appears to have originally consisted
of a single room, about eighteen feet long by fourteen feet six
inches wide, the walls being about seven feet high to the level
of the wall plate. There is an upper floor at the level of the
eaves, forming a chamber in the roof, but this is evidently a
subsequent addition, as the joists rest on the brick filling in of
the walls, and not on the wall plate, which indeed could scarcely

NOTES ON SOME OLD DERBYSHIRE COTTAGES. 7

have carried them before the brickwork was inserted, the round
holes in the timbers showing that the spaces were originally
filled in with wattles and clay as described above.

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There are one or two other examples which I have come across
in Derbyshire which show the original construction, and the large
number of houses which—though the rafters have been removed
or covered up and the buildings enlarged—can still be seen,
with a little observation, to have been first built in this form,

8 NOTES ON SOME OLD DERBYSHIRE COTTAGES.

show that this must at one time have been the usual type of
labourers’ cottage in the country.

A house at Little Eaton being pulled down in 1896, disclosed
a very perfect pair of cottages of this kind, and gave me an
opportunity of examining their construction. An additional
room having been added at each end, the original gables had
become inner walls, and thus their original construction of
wattles and clay had been preserved intact. Each house con-
sisted of a single room, about fifteen feet by thirteen feet, and
seven feet high to the wall plate; a door had been cut through
the centre wall to throw the two houses into one, and a
chamber floor had been added, as in those at Morley. At
one end was a large open fireplace, with a projecting hood to
carry off the smoke, also formed of wood and clay like the
walls. Another cottage at Little Eaton, pulled down in 1897,
also had the original rafters remaining in the partition wall;
whilst an uninteresting looking cottage at Matlock Town, when
pulled down, disclosed a very massive pair of rafters, bedded
in the wall, which had evidently been rotted away at the
bottom when the stone walls were built, and appeared to be of
a great age.

In the Rev. J. C. Atkinson’s delightfully interesting book
entitled Forty Years in a Moorland Parish, mention is made
of examples of this kind of buildings, to which he gives the
appropriate name of ‘ Rafter-built houses,’ existing in the Cleve-
land district, and the exact similarity of construction between
these and the Derbyshire examples is rather remarkable. In the
course of time these ‘“‘rafter-built” houses were superseded by
framed buildings, which required greater skill on the carpenter’s
part, as the framing of the walls had to bear the weight of
the floors and roof instead of having merely to carry the feet
of the small rafters, the timbers had therefore to be carefully
mortised and tenoned together, and stiffened by diagonal braces ;
but in spite of their more careful construction, the frame-built
buildings have in many cases, through the decay of the pins
and tenons, become crippled and given way long before the

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NOTES ON SOME OLD DERBYSHIRE COTTAGES. 9

older rafter-built buildings, which were not dependent upon the
fastenings for their stability.

The question will naturally be asked, What is the age of
these cottages? but to this I find it most difficult to give an
answer with any confidence. It is, I think, safe to assume that
they are older than the seventeenth century frame-built houses,
many of which are, or were until recently, standing in close
proximity to them, for it would scarcely be likely that the rafter
construction would be used for houses after the more roomy
framed work was in common use, even for farm buildings; but
how much older they may be, it seems hard to say. It seems
to me probable, however, that this would be the ordinary form
of construction for small buildings in the country during several
centuries, though the great similarity of all the examples might
be brought forward as an argument against this; the existence
of a timber building at Matlock, where stone and lime are in
such close proximity, seems to point to an early period.

In conclusion, I must ask to be excused for occupying
the very valuable space of the /owrnal with these short and
fragmentary notes, but the subject of them seems to me to
deserve more consideration than they have yet received, as they
serve to bring before our minds the actual conditions of the
lives of our humbler forefathers, and they display a skill in
construction, with very rough materials and tools, as great in
its way as that which erected the splendid timber roofs of the
Norfolk Churches, and similar triumphs of medieval carpentry
with which we are familiar.

10

Melanira Castle, Derbyshire.

By Rost. HAMNETT.

ELANDRA CASTLE is situated at Lower Gamesley,
Charlesworth, in the ancient Parish of Glossop, Derby-

shire. Melandra is a Roman name derived from the
Greek MJelandryon, which means ‘‘a herb among
corn, with a white flower.”* We know that the ancient Britons
cultivated corn, and it is quite probable when the Romans selected
this site for the station, the herb might have been so prevalent
there as to induce the Romans to give it this name; _ but,
according to William Thompson Watkin’s Roman Cheshire, the
proper name is Lerdotalia or Ledrotalia. It is, however, better
known by the name of Melandra Castle. Glossop is surrounded
by hills belonging to the British Alpine Range, and, prior to 1792,
there were no turnpike roads through it, only pack-horse roads
and footpaths, consequently, it was difficult of access, and,
apparently, escaped the notice of antiquaries.

I am not aware that anything was known of its antiquities
before July, 1771, when the Rev. John Watson, Rector of Stock-
port, visited Melandra Castle, and identified it as a Roman station.
He wrote a letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary of the Society
of Antiquaries, London, describing his discoveries, which that
gentleman read to the Society on the roth December, 1772, and
which appears in full—with a sketch of the plan of the station,
and translation of an inscribed stone—in Vol. III. of Avchelogia,

L775:

* MeAavopvov = the heart in oak timber. Perhaps so named from the
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Mr. Watson, it is well known, was a trustworthy authority,
being careful not to make any statement unless he had convincing
evidence of its truthfulness, therefore, his letter is most important
to us, as it gives a better idea of the station than we can form
from its present condition. ‘The plough had not then defaced
it, and its form could not be mistaken.”

The form of the station was a parellelogram, with the corners
rounded off; its extent, 122 yards by 112 yards; and the walls
were twelve feet thick, their height, of course, not now being
ascertainable, but sufficient, we may depend, to resist any sudden
onslaught.

There were four entrances, and, most probably, an inscribed
stone over each, as one was found by the farmer who farmed
the land, a few years previous to Mr. Watson’s visit. The
farmer had this stone built over the doorway of his house,
where it remained until 1842, when the farmhouse was pulled
down and re-erected, the stone being again built in the wall,
over a doorway, exposed to the weather, and there it remains
to this day. By the way, the site of the station seems to
have been a veritable quarry to the farmers in the vicinity
for dressed stone, for most of the farm-houses, barns, out-
buildings, and fence-walls in the neighbourhood contain con-
siderable quantities of stone obtained from this Roman station,
the nature of the stone and the peculiar manner in which
it was dressed—by a kind of pick—making them easily dis-
tinguishable. —

I have brought with me a plaster cast of the inscribed stone,
also a photo of same. If you compare them with Watson’s
engravings in Vol. III. of Avchelogia, you will perceive a

_ slight difference—for instance, there is no dot in the centre of the

O ; Watson has a dot between L: V: it should be on the other
side of the V ; and the conjunction of the mw are separated. I am
not in a position to say it alters the translation, but it may be
a point worth noting; however, Watson’s translation has never

been questioned, and it is thus: ‘“Cohortis, Prime, Frisian-

orum, Centurio, Valerius Vitalis”—that is, ‘‘ Valerius Vitalis,

12 MELANDRA CASTLE, DERBYSHIRE.

commanding a century, or company of the first Cohort of
the Frisians, was stationed here.”*

Of all the numerous officers of the twentieth Legion—in the
long period the Romans were stationed here—who commanded
detachments, Valerius Vitalis is the only one whose name we
have any record of—such is fame!

The Right Honourable Lord Howard of Glossop is presenting
a Technical School to Glossop, and when it is completed, I hope
this Society will make such representations to his Lordship as will
persuade him to have the stone removed from its present position
—being on his estate—and placed in a suitable case in the
Technical School, where it could be better and more conveniently
seen, untii such times as we have a regular, properly cared-for
museum.

In 1832 a portion of a larger inscribed stone was found, and so
little was thought of it by the finder that Captain de Holyngworthe,
of Holinworth Hall, purchased it for 2s. 6d. I have, fortunately,
a sketch of it, made from the original fragment by Mr. Ralph
Bernard Robinson, author of Longdendale.

The stone was evidently of far greater importance than the one
existing, the letters “I M P” indicating a more exalted personage,
probably the name of the reigning Emperor when the station was
built ; unfortunately, since Captain de Holyngworthe’s death, all
trace of the fragment has been lost.

Previous to the reservoir belonging to the Manchester Corpora-
tion being made at the Hague on the Cheshire side, the river
Etherow was undermining the bank, and it was found necessary
to build a wall to prevent its encroachments. For this purpose the
workmen took away all the stone then lying at Melandra, and
amongst them was another inscribed stone. One of the men
employed had no knowledge of its antiquarian value, and built
it in the interior of the wall, though a bystander remonstrated
with him for so doing, using these words in the local dialect:
“Thart puttin’ summut in neaw ut ull be wanted sum day.” A

* An engraving of this stone and inscription is given in Gough’s Camden’s
Britain, Vol. I1., 431, Ed. 1806.

MELANDRA CASTLE, DERBYSHIRE, 13

few days afterwards, Mr. Bennett Woodcroft, a gentleman visiting
in the neighbourhood, hearing of the matter, went to the place
and offered £5 if the workmen would recover the stone, but the
clerk of the works would not permit the wall to be taken down, as
the exact spot where it was could not be accurately located. I
mention this, so that if at any future time it is found necessary to
take down the wall, the stone may be looked for and taken care
of. The other, and the remaining portion of what is called the
Holyngworthe stone, remain yet undiscovered.

The station is situated, as many Roman stations are, at the con-
fluence of two streams, the Glossop brook and the river Etherow,
and on elevated ground. According to W. T. Watkin, the
famous Roman Consul and General, Agricola, wintered at Chester
in the year of 78 and the early part of 79, and took the opportunity
of tracing the tributaries of the Mersey to their source. If this
is true, which I have no reason to doubt, then he would come up
the Etherow, and it was to him that Melandra Castle owed its
existence.

The Etherow, before the Manchester Corporation took most
of the water, was a river of much larger volume and dimensions
than now, and must at the period of the appearance of the
Romans have abounded with salmon and other fish, which would,
of course, be acceptable to the Roman soldiers, furnishing them
with sport and also a welcome source of food supply. The brook,
the river, and the declivities protected the station on two of its
sides, the other two sides being protected by deep ditches, part of
which yet remain. The proximity of the British fortress at
Mouselow rendered it absolutely necessary for a station here, and
no better site, from a Roman point of view, could have been
selected. It was not so elevated as to expose the garrison to the
cold winds, so prevalent on the adjacent hills, and sufficiently far
enough away from them to prevent—by judicious posting of
sentries and picquets—being taken by surprise. The Druidical
remains found in the neighbourhood, and the revelations of the
bone caves and barrows in the Peak, are sufficient evidence to
convince us that there must have been a large force of Britons

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inhabiting this part of the country, and as the country was
well wooded, hilly, and almost inaccessible, many severe con-
flicts must have ensued before the Romans became firmly
established.

There is a tradition in the neighbourhood that Mouselow Castle,
the British fortress mentioned, was attacked by an enemy, whose
nationality is not known, and that a dreadful battle took place.
Certain it is that on the side which is most accessible there
is a field, named in old deeds, ‘“‘ Almen’s Death,” and many
remains of weapons of war have been turned up there by the
plough. I have here a spear-head found during excavating
operations, in the clay near to the castle. I am unable to say
whether it is Roman or British, but of its antiquity there can
be no doubt.

Another place near to is called Redgate, and tradition asserts
that it is so calied because of the blood which flowed down the
bank. Watson visited Mouselow shortly after visiting Melandra—
they are within a mile of each other—before the hill was planted
with trees, and he describes it as a place of great strength,
defended by ditches, which are even now plainly discernible.

Whether the battle, which tradition says took place, was between ~

the Romans and Coritani, or during Anglo-Saxon times, will
probably never be known, but it is scarcely credible that the
British fortress would be abandoned without an attempt at
defence. That an attempt was made by the natives to drive the
Romans from their camp is inferred from the battle-axes and other
British weapons that have been found there.

In 1865 the tenant of the land was digging for stone, and he
discovered one of the entrances to the station. The stones then
unearthed are lying in the area of the station, and are of large
size. There is a key stone of an arch, several cap stones, and
pilasters. The workmanship is rude, what one might expect
from unskilled labour, working under the direction of a mason.
In several cases, where an attempt at ornamentation has been
made, the workman, in measuring off his distances, has sunk the
tool used too deep in the stone. The large size of the stones used,

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the width, and the extent of the walls, shows plainly that the
station was a most important one, and their solidity proves that
the Romans had fully made up their minds for a lengthened
occupation.

I have here a portion of cement, or concrete, from Melandra,
used for filling up the interior of the walls. It is composed of
gravel and sand from the river bed, and united by magnesium lime
from Ardwick, Manchester, which is another link in the chain
confirming that Melandra was contemporary with the Roman forts
at Stockport and Manchester. Whittaker, in his story of Man-
chester, 1773, says on this point, ‘‘In making the Roman mortar,
the sand was mingled with the lime, unrefined by the screen, and
charged with all its gravel and pebbles. On breaking it, some
of the mortar appears to have been tempered with powdered
brick ; small fragments of the latter very prettily chequering the
surface, and being thoroughly incorporated with the said substance.
The lime was not derived from the hills of Buxton or Clitheroe,
which have long supplied the town with that necessary fossil. The
Roman is strikingly different from that of both in its colour, being of
a much shadier and browner hue.” Whittaker, when writing this
description of the cement, had no knowledge that such a place as
Melandra Castle existed, yet his description corresponds with this
portion I found there. About two years ago during sewage
operations at Stockport, a Roman brick kiln was discovered, also
a large number of tiles and bricks of all descriptions. These
correspond in shape, colour, etc., with the bricks and tiles found at
Melandra, the latter having evidently been made there. They are
made of Permean Marl and sand in various proportions. This
kind of marl does not exist in the neighbourhood of Melandra, and
is not to be found nearer than Stockport, at the spot where the
brick kiln is.

In 1841, Messrs. Shepley, of Brookfield, had occasion to make
a ‘“‘race,” “goyt,” or “cut,” as it is variously locally called, in
connection with their mill dam, and discovered a stone coffin
within a hundred yards to the east of the station. Among the
débris was also a coin of Domitian, who was Emperor of

16 MELANDRA CASTLE, DERBYSHIRE.

Rome 81 to 96. _ If we take, then, into consideration, the nature
of the Roman cement, the tiles, the date of the coin, and the
probable visit of Agricola, we can fix the date of the erection
of the station not later than from A.D. 77 to 84. Many coins
of Domitian have been found in the area of the station, but
have got into the possession of private collectors.

In January of the present year, Mr. John Hurdman, of Glossop,
and myself, were walking round the area, when we noticed that a
portion of the old fence wall had recently fallen down. On
examination, we found in the foundation of the wall a brick, and
on removing this from the soil we perceived some lettering which
at first sight we took to be the word prRatn, but on closer
observation we found it was a Roman inscription “ DRAIW.”
That it is Roman can scarcely be doubted; it is longer, wider,
thinner, pressed from the narrow side, and composed of the
glacial clay found on the site; the material is better tempered
and burnt than any local modern brick—in fact, there was
scarcely any brick used in Glossop fifty years ago, before the
advent of the railway, stone being so plentiful at hand—the
conjunction of the last two letters W, the known antiquity of
the site, and the age of the fence wall, all being evidence in
its favour.

Watson mentions seeing a gravel road leading from Melandra,
and pointing towards Stockport, another road passing through
the Hague and Mottram-in-Longdendale to Doctor’s Lane Head,
where it joined the great military road from Manchester to York.
Another road, called the Doctor’s Gate, passed through Glossop to
the Roman station at Brough. This road was of great value from
several points of view. It enabled reinforcements to be sent
quickly right into the heart of the mountain fastness of the Peak ;
was a means of keeping the turbulent tribes in check; and was
available for conveying mineral and other resources of the country
to the various headquarters of the Roman legions. The road
was paved with large stones, proper drains being made where
necessary. A considerable portion of this road was used up to
1821, when the opening of the Sheffield turnpike road led to its

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disuse. In some places it is in excellent preservation, and worthy
of a visit by members of this Society. Another road went to
Buxton, where the Romans had baths, and where they probably
sent their sick, using the place as a sanatorium. Watson states
that the foundations of a large building, in the area 25 yards
square, with walls 43 feet thick, was distinctly traceable, and he is
of opinion that it was the praetorium, the residence of the
commander of the detachment and governor of the districts,
the place where markets were held and justice dispensed. Watson
also mentions a subterraneous stream of water. This issues some
distance down the hill side, and from its direction evidently passes
immediately under the centre of the station. There is another
and similar one about one hundred yards to the west. I am of
opinion that if this was examined, it would prove to be one, if not
the main sewer. At one point the archway must have given way,
as at this particular place the earth continually sinks in, and, being
near to a footpath, the farmer is periodically filling the hole up
with fresh soil; you can see the sand washed out by the water at
the exit.

When the natives became reconciled to their lot, wolves, boars,
deer, and bears being plentiful, the garrison would not lack for
want of sport—hunting, fishing, bear-baiting, and hawking finding
them in amusements to fill up their time when not occupied with
military duties.

After some years of occupation, time-expired soldiers and
colonists settled under the protection of the station, midway on
the slopes of the surrounding hills, inter-marrying with the natives,
and forming British-Romano settlements. Roman coins have
been found in nearly all of the surrounding hamlets and villages.
In 1838, in a field near Hooley Wood Quarry, two men, John
Hyde Roberts and George Rolley, whilst removing the soil,
discovered a considerable quantity of Roman coins of Billon.
The coins were mostly those of Alexander Severus—one of which
I have had lent me for this occasion—and Julia Maesa, all of
them being of a later date than some of those found at the station.

Nearly a century ago, whilst digging the foundations for a mill at
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18 MELANDRA CASTLE, DERBYSHIRE,

Woolley Bridge, a beautiful Roman sepulchral urn of red earthen-
ware was found, It remained in the possession of Messrs. Lees,
the owners of the mill, until some years ago, when a careless
servant knocked it from the mantel, and it was broken beyond
repairing. Another one found on the site is in Warrington
Museum, along with other curios from this ancient military
position.

It has been stated by several historians that the plain at the
foot and to the north of Melandra was at the time of the Roman
occupation a vast lake, and that these people cut the hill at Best
Hill, Broadbottom, thus letting off the waters and effectually
draining the land. This is an illusion, In 1841, at Pym’s
Parlour, a deep recess in the rocks—called by the country people
the Fairies’ Cave—a few yards from the river edge, were found
some old coins, one of them of a date, I believe, anterior to the
Roman invasion. Had such a lake as I have mentioned existed,
it would have been impossible for the coins, and the stone coffin
found in Shepley’s goyt, to have been where they were discovered.
That a lake has existed there cannot be denied, but it was
thousands of years ago.

Many Roman remains were found on the plain when the
reservoir, previously mentioned, was constructed. Between the
reservoir and Melandra Castle the Glossop Corporation are
going to construct settling tanks in connection with their sewage
works, and we may therefore anticipate important finds, and it is
to be hoped the local municipal authorities will arrange for
anything of historical value to be collected and preserved.

No systematic effort has ever been made to excavate and
thoroughly examine the site of Melandra Castle. In 1863 or
1864, during the Cotton Famine, some men were employed in
laying drains, about eight yards apart, across the area, being
ordinary drainage operations and not for any antiquarian object,
when they came across several querns and other remains, which
were taken to Glossop Hall; but the coins found were pocketed,
as were other small articles.

I am sorry to say that the inhabitants of the district, with one

MELANDRA CASTLE, DERBYSHIRE, T9

or two exceptions, have taken very little interest in Melandra
Castle. There was scarcely one inhabitant in a hundred, until a
few weeks ago, knew that such a place existed; however, the
Vicars of Glossop, Whitfield, and Dinting, and a few other
local gentlemen, are bestirring themselves, and if we could prevail
upon some gentleman from this Society to come to Glossop and
address a public or select meeting, on the advantages and
importance of such societies as the Derbyshire Archzeological and
Natural History Society, there is no doubt you would have more
support from the Glossop end of the county, and be the means of
a local branch being formed, the members of which would always
be alert to any find, and on the look-out for any fresh information
relating to the history of the district and county. Reparation
would then be made for our past neglect, and eventually lead to a
thorough and exhaustive search being made, not only of the site,
but also of the surburban buildings which evidently existed round
Melandra Castle. The present is a most opportune time for
excavating, as the tenant of the land is giving up his tenancy this
month, and I am sure that the lord of the manor, who is a
member of this Society, would willingly give his consent, providing
the work was done under the direction of a competent person.
Why should not an effort be made for this to be done? If this
Society and the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
were to join hands, assisted by a local committee, I am sure
funds could be raised for the carrying out of this project. Much
remains to be known of this ancient place, which only a careful
and systematic search of the site will reveal.

I am sorry that an abler person than myself is not addressing
you ; my only excuse for my presence is that I am interested in
these matters, and contribute my mite in the hope that someone
with more time, ability, and resources will be aroused to take that
interest in the antiquities of Glossop that they deserve. Should
such be the case I shall feel amply repaid for my slight and
humble effort in trying to explain to you what Melandra Castle is
and has been,

Gapestry at Renishaw Hall,

By Rev. C. Kerry.

OME of the finest and largest tapestry hangings’ in
Derbyshire are to be found in the stately rooms at
Renishaw, the seat of Sir George Reresby Sitwell, Bart.

The principal suite! consists of five hangings, of
which three are suspended in the great Drawing Room, and the
other two in the Ball Room. ‘These are traditionally said to
represent the “Triumph of Solomon,” and to have been purchased
in France by Sir Sitwell Sitwell when he was making the “ grand
tour” about a hundred years ago. He left Christ Church,
Oxford, in December, 1789, or January, 1790, and, according
to tradition, travelled abroad before his marriage in the summer
of 1791. The whole of these hangings, which were probably
placed in their present position on the completion of the great
Drawing Room in 1803, were executed in the seventeenth
century, at the azedier of Judoc de Vos, of Brussels, as may be
seen by his name and mark on the lower sinister margins of
the several pieces. The texture is singularly fine, there being
no less than nineteen threads of the warp, and forty-eight threads
of woof in one square inch of surface; an unmistakable
proof of the infinite labour bestowed on this example. The
seven magnificent hangings in the Queen’s Gallery at Hampton
Court, representing the History of Alexander from the cartoons
of Le Brun, Louis XIV.’s minister of art, were woven by the
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tapestry is also from the designs of Le Brun, for the backgrounds
and figures are French, and both the composition and the
colouring suggest the hand of a great master. The de Vos family
had long been established as tapestry weavers at Brussels. In the
beginning of the seventeenth century the firms at Brussels
included upwards of one hundred masters. As time passed by.
the manufacture tended to become concentrated in the hands
of a few families, who formed positive dynasties, and amongst
these may be cited the family of de Vos. In the eighteenth
century (writes Miintz in his Astory of Tapistry), Josse de Vos,
of Brussels, executed a replica of ‘‘The Conquest of Tunis,”
which is now at the Imperial Palace of Schoenbrunn, near
Vienna. The original, now at Madrid, was designed by Jan
Vermeyen, and executed for Charles V.

In the Great Drawing Room we have :—

1. The Triumph of Peace, measuring 18 ft. 4 ins. in length
by 11 ft. 95 ins. in height. The central figure in the design
represents Peace as a Queen enthroned beneath a canopy
awning attached to the branches of a tree. ‘The monarch’s
left hand is placed upon the model of a temple, beside which
lie the emblems of Royalty and Episcopacy, and with her right
she extends her sceptre to a figure trampling upon swords,
shields, quivers, bows, and other accoutrements of war, near
which lie the crowns and sceptres of vanquished foes. Towards
this figure she looks, averting her gaze from a triumphal car
laden with military trophies which passes by on the left side of
the throne, the horses being guided by a genius who aims his
dart at the Queen. Before the thtone lie various scientific
and musical instruments, including the celestial and terrestrial
spheres, violins, flutes, mandolines, a palette, a bust, a clock,
compasses, and books; and on the right stand three sceptred
figures, of whom one imposes her authority on a lion by her
side ; intended perhaps to show the effects of peace on the savage

‘and unbridled passions of mankind. On the dexter side, two

figures, male and female, are reclining: the former, a river god,
crowned with sedges, and resting upon a fountain; the latter,

22 TAPESTRY AT RENISHAW HALL.

guarding various fruits of the earth in her lap, and holding a
sceptre in her right hand. In the left background a beautiful
palace is shown, from which there is a long descent by richly
decorated stairs and fountains; and on the other side extensive
gardens laid out in the style of Le Notre, with parterres,
fountains, avenues, and triumphal arches. The colours are
harmonious and subdued, and the high lights here, as throughout
the series, are woyen in white silk.

2. The Triumph of Justice. This sheet is suspended upon
the same wall, and measures 16 ft. 3 ins. by 11 ft. roins. The
principal figure, impersonating Justice, stands upon a festooned
pedestal, and bears in her right hand an erect sword, and in
her left a pair of scales evenly balanced. The projecting and
circular base of the pedestal affords a seat for four female figures,
representing the cardinal virtues: Truth, with her mirror, trampling
upon a number of masks ; Fortitude, bearing a column in her
hands; Temperance, holding out a bridle towards the figure
above ; the fourth figure is crowned with bay or laurel. On the
left, Wisdom, a female figure, seated upon a throne, holds the
lamp of knowledge in her left hand, whilst behind her an atten-
dant bears a sceptre surmounted by an eye refulgent with light.
In front of the throne lie clasped books and open manuscripts.
The background again gives a vast lay-out of fountained and
terraced gardens, and in the distance a lake or canal is faintly
seen. On the base sinister margin of this hanging (as is also
the case with those in the Ball Room) the maker’s name and the
mark of the Brussels manufactory are shown.

3. The Triumph of Commerce. This sheet hangs over the
mantel-piece.* It is the brightest and lightest of the series, but
has, unfortunately, been cut at the lower margin in order to
adapt it to its position. In the centre a female figure, her
robe floating lightly on the breeze, advances from a large vessel
moored near the shore; an arrow is in her right hand, and by
her side a crocodile. In the foreground are several reclining

* A fine example of Italian sculpture in white marble.

TAPESTRY AT RENISHAW HALL. 23

figures occupied in admiring the treasures from distant lands—
gems, pearls, coral, tortoiseshell, brightly coloured parrots, tropical
shells, and richly chased vessels of gold—profusely displayed
before them. The scene is laid amongst pastures and foun-
tains, and in the background is a palace by the sea, with
distant views of a town and mountains beyond.

The two remaining sheets are suspended in the Ball Room ;
one measures 15 ft. 6 ins. by 1o ft. ro ins., and the other
15 ft. 103 ins. by ro ft. 11 ins.

4. The hanging near the door is a graceful and beautiful
composition, which may be intended to represent “ The Conquest
of Earth” and its fruits, or possibly the arrival of the Queen
of Sheba on her visit to King Solomon. In the centre a female
figure crowned with flowers dismounts from a kneeling camel.
With her left hand she swings a smoking censer, whilst in her
right a wreath of flowers is supported upon the camel’s haunch.
Before her are vases of admirably rendered flowers, with melons,
pomegranates, and other fruits scattered upon the ground.
Behind the camel is seen a female figure seated upon a couch,
overshadowed by stately trees. On the right, a prince (perhaps
intended for King Solomon) approaches the principal figure with
extended sceptre. He is followed by three sceptred princes, who
are descending a flight of steps, protected by an awning from
the door of a palace beyond. On the left of the design, a lady,
followed by a trainbearer, approaches and points to two crowned
turbans, lying upon a table, covered with a crimson cloth. In
the background, a palace surmounted by a dome is visible
between the trees on the right, while fountains, obelisks, and a
picturesque cliff overhanging a town occupy the centre and
left of the design.

5. The fifth and last of this series is the least intelligible.
It seems wholly given to waters and fountains, and may perhaps
represent “The Conquest of Water.” In the centre is a princess
seated, adorned with a feathery crown, and resting her right
hand upon a sceptre. An attendant behind her, wearing a
similar head-dress, holds out a shell into the jet of water which

24 TAPESTRY AT RENISHAW HALL.

spouts from the nostrils of two horses of stone into a cistern
beneath. The stream may be seen again issuing below from
the mouths of three vessels, guarded by the figure of a river
god, who is represented as crowned with reeds, and holding a
kind of paddle in his left hand. The final receptacle is a lake
or large fountain in the lowest foreground, and from the verge
of this rises the pedestal of the structure upon which the central]
figure reclines against an oblong cistern. Behind, and standing
by a couchant lion, is a female figure capped with a head-dress
imitating an elephant’s head, with tusks and extended trunk.
In her left hand she holds out a fish towards the fountain,
and with her right sustains a sheaf of wheat beneath her arm.
On the dexter side of the hanging stands a majestic turbaned
figure, whom another figure, in a sitting posture and _ holding
a narwhal’s horn, is addressing. In the background a vast lay-
out of gardens and pastures leads up to terraces and yew arcades :
the centre is occupied by an elaborate palace of fountains, with
niches and statues, in front of which a large square pool of water
is refreshed by the jets which descend from spouting dolphins of
stone, This hanging also has the name of Ludocus de Vos, and
the Brussels trade mark, concealed behind the frame in the lower
sinister corner. Both these fine hangings in the Ball Room were
carefully cleaned with breadcrumbs in the South Kensington
Museum, in 1888, by Mr. F. W. Andrew, who is employed in the
tapestry department there. The other three pieces in the great
Drawing Room have never been taken down since they were hung
at the completion of the room in 1803.

There are two fine examples of greeneries in a bedroom at this
end of the mansion, which were evidently executed in the
seventeenth century, and which may be coeval with the older
part of the house. No weaver’s marks are visible. The texture
is not so fine as that of the hangings already described, and they
may be of English workmanship.

Two more pieces are now in a store room—one of which has
an interesting landscape, and is about twelve feet in length by
four feet in height, and is well and neatly woven. The other is

TAPESTRY AT RENISHAW HALL. 25

much faded, and seems to have been retouched, many years ago,
in a few places with a brown dye, as if to revive the brown tints in
the hanging. It is needless to say that the attempt has been an
injurious failure.

Sir Geo. R. Sitwell writes :—‘‘I think the two reclining figures
in No. 1 represent Earth and Water, and I connect them in my
mind with the subject of sheets 4 and 5.

“You admired the fineness of my hangings, but I don’t feel
sure that you appreciated as much as I do (perhaps possession
inclines me to an exaggerated estimate) the beauty of design and
colouring. I showed No. 4 in London to Sir W. B. Richmond, R.A.,
and he was in raptures over it. I feel sure that none of the
tapestries now left at the Gobelins are equal to this set; nor do
I remember having seen any in my travels which could be said
to be superior.

“These emblematic female figures, placed in stately gardens,
seem to me to offer the perfection of decoration in tapestry, and
I wish our modern makers would take the same motive, instead
of offering us life-size figures with no background worth looking
at.

“I have written this because I suspect you may be more in
sympathy with the earlier tapestries, which are more curious and
interesting, but not to be compared for decorative value as for art.
In theory, it may be true that tapestries should not resemble
pictures, and should not show a distant background ; but is there
any adverse rule which some great artist has not shown us how to
treat with advantage?”

The Autobtography of Leonard AWAheatcroft,

WiTH NOTES IN BRACKETS [ ] BY Rev. CHas. KERRY.

R.NOTHER interesting Derbyshire relic—the autobi-
ography of Leonard Wheatcroft—has been placed in
our hands for publication in this journal by the

Rev. Nich. Milnes, to whose kindness we were
indebted for the poems and memoranda of this Derbyshire
worthy published in vol. xviii. of this /vwrnad.

The little MS. of twenty-four leaves, and measuring 5 inches
by 3 inches, is stitched in a brown calf binding, formerly secured
by small clasps, and bearing the word ‘ GALLEN,” with ‘‘ 1660”
impressed or stamped on the first cover. As there does not
appear to have been any original connection between the cover
and its contents, and since no copy of any of Galen’s works would
appear to have been in Leonard’s library, the name may be simply
intended for G. Allen. A slip, probably intended for a sort of
title page, has been inserted at the commencement, evidently by
Leonard himself, inscribed :—

“A History of my Birth, Parantage
And Pilgrimage who was
Borne May the first 1627
and was Buried ”—

[The hiatus has probably been supplied by his son, Titus. ]

‘* January 3
1706: and was clerk 36 years
Aged 79 years and 8 moenths.”

Oe

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT. 27

At the head of his autobiography, on the first page, we
have—

‘* A history of the Life and Pilgrimage of
Leonard Wheatcrofte of Ashover.”

“TI was through God’s Providence borne upon May day in the
yeare of our Lord God 1627, in the Raigne of King Charles
the First. My father’s name was also Leonard, son to John
Wheatcroft and Mary his wife, who was daughter to William
Daine. My mother’s name was Anne. She was daughter to
John Harrison and Mary his wife, and I was the firstborne to
them both, who had in all 6 sonns and 3 doughters.

“Then did it please God ‘that at forty years of age my father
dyed of a fever, and was buried in Ashover Chirch yard on Saint
Tantru’s day [St. Andrew’s] in the year 1648,—witnes his
Toumbe [vol. xix. 42]. I was then almost 20 years ould;
part of which time I was a Tayler with my father, and after his
death I tought 4 of my brothers that trade.” [He appears to
have been impressed with a sense of duty to his widowed mother
and her charge as long as he might safely remain at home.]

“Then was there wars in Ingland betwixt King and Parl-
ment: then was father against son, and son against father, and
brother against brother. Then did I run vp and downe the
cuntry to save myselfe from being a soulger, but at last I was
forced to take vp armes, and was a soulger ffor the space of 8
or g years. I shall say little of soulgers now, but tell you what
I did, and what hap’ned in the Intrim [¢z¢erim] and so go on.

“In the yeare 1649 I set y° Horse medow hedge, and the
whiging [gwzckset] before the doore, and the first Sabath in May
1650, I began to be Clarke of the Church, in which place I
continued for the space of 13 years. I was also the Parrish
Regetr [Registrar], on both which offices I waited, but when
occasion of soulgery tooke me off; for about 1653 I began to
be a soulger.

“ And in 1655 I went a wooing to my wife, and was above two
years before I was married to her. I shall not tell you heare

28 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT.

what hap’ned in our wooing, for you may find it at large in my
book of ‘ Mirth and Melody ” [see vol. xviii. 35, 40, etc.].

“Tn 1657 I was married, being May 20, by the Justis of
Peace—it was then Oliver’s Law. We had a great wedding
for many dayes togather. I had above two hundred and twenty
messes to it, and in my Booke of accounts you may find what
meate and drinke I provided to your admiration. [Unfortunately
this book seems to be lost.]

“In 1651 (I should have said before), I planted an Orchard
for Master Bourne. The year after, did my grandfather Harison
dye, 1652.

“In 1657, I builded the parler and chamber over it, and in
1658, the shop: but before these, I builded my mother’s buttry
and paved the house: then I went up to Lundon. And after my
retourne, I spent sum of my estate. Then did I let my house,
and went to live at Boulsover in 1654. There did I live for the
space of four years, in which time I planted one orchard for
Esquire Huchingson and another for . . . of Duckmanton.
I took there one malthouse and malted a great deale of barley ;
and there I had two children by my wife—John and David; but
before I went to Boulsover, I had three children, Leonardus,
Anna, and Ester ; but as for the years and time that they were
borne, I shall speak of (that) hereafter and place them altogather
for memory’s sake.

“In the year 1666, that was while I lived at Boulsover, I
planted both Orchards at Overton Hall, made them their gardens,
and [planted the] close hedges, and set several Wall Trees, and
a codling hedge.

“Sumtimes at my trade, and sumtimes in planting and re-
planting, I spent my foure years time at Boulsover, and withal
stxscore pound to y° hundred.

‘So being resolved to retourne to Ashoure againe, I came ouer
Jan. 4 1667, intending to take a house there, but could get none
according to my mind. Then at my retourne Justis Woolhous
dyed, upon whom I writ an Epitaffe which you may find in my
booke of verses amongst severall others [see Journal xviii. 76],

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT. 29

and after that I was busy about sum sutes and troubles that I
was in, that I was forced to run and ride up and downe to
seeke moneys, but get little, tho I stood in great need, for my
wife was just at “dating of child” [at the point of confinement].
Not long after she was delivered of a son (Mar. 30, 1668) whose
name was [called] David. He was christened April 14, at
Boulsover. After that I went to Ashover againe, and there
was an ancient maid dead whose name was Eline Bower upon
whom I writ an Epitaff.

“ After that, I toke a jorney above 50 miles to see sum freinds,
and withall parson Chadwicke’s lady then at Bakwell. So
running up and downe, and being careless in spending what I
got, and more, my goods was taken for rent, and I could never
redeeme sum of them. Then was I forced to take 3 of my
children ouer to Ashover and Winster for my freinds to take care
of till I was better provided. I did endure many troubles for
two years in 1667 and 1668. I was 3 times taken prisoner for
debt, so that I was forced to make bad bargins for money, and
first paune [pawn] then sell my land and Inheritance, so that at
last I was forst [forced] to move the Parrish of Ashover for a
house vpon the Common, but they would not graunt it because
I had not absolutely sould all I had.

“JT was at that time in sum Trouble concerning one Columbell
who was arrested at Boulsoure, which caused me 3 jorneys to
Derby, 2 to Lundon, and 2 to Chesterfeild, whereby I suffered
much damage, but the Partyes more, for they spent above 300
pounds a peece, and dyed wors than beggers.

“About Jan. 6, 1668, I and my man tooke in hand to go a
jorney to Over-Haddon to see a woman that by Relation had
receued noe food for the space of 40 weeks. With this maid
I had much discorse of God, & Jesus Christ, of herselfe, &
of her distemper. But no food she tooke meate or drinke for
the space of many years after, as may be I shall hint of here-
after concerning her condition.” [This was Martha Taylor, who
it is said began to abstain from food-on 22nd December, 1667,
being in her 18th year. Her abstinence is said to have been

30° THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT.

caused by a blow received some years before. She underwent
two watches, having been attended by some forty to sixty
women who watched strictly night and day. One of these
watches was appointed by the neighbouring townships, the other
by the Earl of Devonshire. Four different pamphlets were
published, one by Joseph Reynolds, and addressed to the
Royal Society: the last extant is dated March 3oth, 1669.
By an entry in the Parish Register it appears she was buried
June r2th, 1684, having survived the publication of the last
pamphlet fifteen years. There is no account as to whether
she was detected as an impostor, or whether she was a real
sufferer, and having recovered, returned to her usual habits.
It is probable some of these pamphlets might have fallen into
the hands of the notorious impostor, Ann Moore, the fasting
woman of Tutbury, who also is said to have been a native of
Derby. The latter pretended to have lived without eating or
drinking from 1807 till 1813, when her case was discovered
to be a fraud.|*

“Jan, 21, 1668, I came to Boulsoure againe but I was resolved
not long to stay there because they were base crosse Neighbours,
so to Ashover I went againe. ‘There did I take a house of
John Farnworth at which house I lived 4 years. There did my
wife begin to sell Alle, and so did continew for many years
after. I took this house Aprill 5, 1669, but stayed at Boulsover
until April 17, on which day I and my wife and 4 of my
children came to Ashover, where many of our ould Neighbours
bade us hartily welcome home againe, tho’ our substance was
but small then, for both my wife and I could make ( fossessed)
but two pence in brasse at that time; but it pleased God I
did soone fall to worke amongst my ould customers and get
moneys againe.

“June 7. I went to Boulsoure for sum of my goods I had
left behind. After I came home I went to Winster to fetch
home the rest of my children, and soone after (June 24) was

* See Bradshaw’s History of Derby, p. 413.

I ———————— ll

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHAEATCROFT. 31

Ashover Wakes, [when] Mother Hawley and many more came
to Ashover for to wellcome us to house again. In the same
week I went towards Lundon to be an evidance for Cullenbell
as I said befor. After my retourne, then to Derby ’size [assize]
about the same [matter].

“ After these long jorneys I and my man went to a great bull-
beating at Wensley; then to my mother-in-law’s at Winster,
where I had much discours with my Relations. Some of these
did [ap] poynt to meete me at Matlock Wakes which was about
Sep. 2, 1669, and according to promis they came. There did
my mother-in-law give me five pounds, with which I came
merrily home. Then did my wife and I (Sep. 6) go to Boul-
souer for some more goods, * which came home by a drought. +

“Then having a little set my house in order, and provided
work for my sarvants, I had occasion to go to London againe ;
and upon Tuesday Nov. 23, I arrived there where I stayed
till Nov. 27. All that time I spent in walking up and downe
about Law matters. I had then a very fowle jorney by reason
of foule weather frost snowe and raine.

“Dec. 11. I fetched more goods from Boulsouer and placed
them at home.

“Then Dec. 27, 1669, I went with brother Samuell to his
wedding at Trinity Chapell.”

[This wedding is recorded in the Morton Church Register,
for this chapel was in the old parish of Morton before Bracken-
field was formed into a separate Ecclesiastical district. The

entry is as follows :—‘‘Samuell Whetcroft of Ashover and Ann
Chadwick of Wirksworth were married by Licence 27 December
1669.”

This ancient but now disused chapel lies in Brackenfield on
the lower slope of an off-shoot of High-Ordish, one of the
highest summits in the district. The approach to the chapel
is about a hundred yards beyond “ Mather’s Grave,” on the
way to Knot Cross and Ashover from Brackenfield. It is now

* Probably left in pledge. + By wain and oxen,

32 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT.

so embowered in trees that no distant view of it can be
obtained. This old sanctuary was dismantled at the erection
of the present Church of Brackenfield, where its ancient rood-
screen may be seen attached to the west wall of the nave.

The font, a modern fluted bason (¢. 1800) with its shaft
similarly adorned, now stands on the vicarage lawn. Trinity
Chapel is rapidly falling into ruin. It consists of one rectangular
block with a continuous roof from east to west, covered with
slabs of stone. There are only three windows—one at the east
end and two on the south side, all square-headed with chamfered
stone mullions, but without tracery. A large stone, which has
been thought to have been the mensa of the ancient altar, lies
under the east window within. A porch with a flat-headed door-
way is on the south side. The fabric possesses a most picture-
esque bell turret with two openings of very Norman-like
character, but hardly so early—it has, however, a quaint beauty
seldom met with, and it is a pity that it should be destined
ere long to become a thing of the past. A few of the old
oak benches (rude forms, I believe, without backs) still remain
in the building. There is no chapel yard, and no interments
have been permitted to take place there.

The site for the chapel has been cut out of the rocky hill
side, and the bell turret at the west end rises but a few feet
above the slope of the hill.

The chapel appears to have been erected but a short time
before the Reformation, perhaps about 1520—1530.

In the Churchwardens’ accounts of Morton we find, 1634,
“Item, given to a poore woman of Duffield upon Trinitie
Sunday (the Wakes) at the Chapell by the consent of the
P’shners there, which had her house burnt away—2*”

In vol. xix. of this /owrnal, p. 108, will be found the
monumental inscriptions of the Revs. Wiliam and Peter
Wilson, successively ministers of this chapel, on a high tomb
in Morton churchyard.] Leonard continues :—

* After that I went to Winster and wrought there 7 dayes
before I retourned. ;

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT. 33

“Upon Jeul [? July] 28, I went to a faire at Chesterfeild where
I staied all night, and as I came hom I help’d my vnckell
Anthoney Ragge to flit to his new hous which he had built
in the ‘ Hostige’: this was in Aprill 1670.

“In May after, I tooke a cow to the hire of my ant [azum/]
Frances Norman, which did please my wife and children well,
for they had had none to give them milk for 2 years before.

“Vpon Saterday June 18, I went to Chesterfeild to louse
[redeem] some goods I had pauned 2 years before and brought
them home: the week after was Ashover Wakes, upon which
Even (the Church is dedicated to All Saints) my wife was
brought to bed of a daughter /wwe 25th, 1670, whom after-
wards we called Elizabeth.”

{I cannot reconcile the Eve of the Wakes Sunday with June
25th—for as All Saints’ Day always falls on the 1st of November,
the Eve of that festival would be on the last day of October.
Can the Church have had a later dedication to All Saints, while
the villagers retained an earlier dedication festival for their
wakes? If so, it is probable that the first dedication of
Ashover Church may have been to S. John Baptist (June 24th).
Dr. Cox, in his Churches of Derbyshire, writes: “In more than
one Directory for the county, Ashover Church is said to be
dedicated to S. John, but on what authority we know not :—
the Lider Regis, etc., etc., are unanimous as to its being under
the protection (?invocation) of All Saints.” The Church
evidently then was re-dedicated to All Saints at the extensive
re-construction about the commencement of the sixteenth
century, whilst the original dedication festival connected with
S. John Baptist was retained.]

‘Shee was baptized July 23 and my wife churched y* same
day. After that I traveled many wayes vp and downe the
cuntry, and at last strained my anckell to my much sorrow for
many dayes, and upon my jorney Sep. 25, I was lost in my
way, and at last I found a marke upon the mores, vpon which
marke I writ this verse heare following :—

3

34 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT.

‘*Great Monement for my content
T’le rest me heare a while;
Had’st thou not beene, for me to’ve seene,
T’de wandred many a mile.”

“After I had rested awhile, the mists cleared up, and it ceased
from snowing.” [The track over the moors was clearly obliterated
by the snow storm, and hence our traveller missed his way.
This will form the key to an otherwise unaccountable proceeding
of Leonard’s further on.]

“Then I set forwards againe, and after I had travelled about
4 or 5 miles, I arrived at that famous house called Chatsworth,
where for a certaine time I stayed to behould the Beauty and
rare Work-man-ship of it. And from thence I went to Stoney
Middleton where I stayed for a certaine time to refreshe myself
and ease my weary limbes: and from thence to Padley where I
met with some freinds yt I had long sought. My business with
them was to borrow money, but none would they lend unless I
would mortgage land to them for it. So finding noe good to be
dun, I returned home againe. That jorney was about 30 miles.
Then did my son Leo and I go to Winster, and accoynted my
mother Hawley with it, and she paid y* debt: it was 5 poundes ;
so we cum merrily hom, and for a memoriall we erected by the
way 4 heapes of stones betwixt Matlock and Ashover which we
judged would stand to many generations: this was done Oct. 5,
TO7Ose

[The first impression this apparently romantic act naturally
causes is, its manifest absurdity. Leonard, however, had only
just been lost in a snowstorm on a bleak and desolate moor,
and was only reminded of his exact locality by some familiar
stone; and anyone who is acquainted with the way (then an
almost unbeaten track) across Tansley Moor, between Matlock
and Ashover, must be struck with the almost patriotic spirit
shewn by Leonard in the erection of these Vnfexv land marks,
to guide the traveller along the snow-hidden tracks. It was
done as an act of thanksgiving, and for the good of the general
public. Whatever may have been his faults and his improvidence

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT,. 35

in the waste of his time, in wakes and fair-going, this most wz-
selfish and thoughtful act raises him at once above the ordinary
level, and places him among the honorable list of public bene-
factors. |

“Upon Oct. 31, I went to Boulsouer againe, it being the roth
time that I had been there since I brought my wife and children
from thence. The reason I went so often thither was because I
had some goods left there, and moreover, I wrought for Justis
Chadwick and some others.

“Vpon November 23, 1670, I, with severall more of the
Parrish of Ashover, went to Derby to give our voats for a knight
for ye shire, whose name was William Sacheverill, of Morley ;
but there was another stood against him, whose name _ was
Esqr. Varnon. I stayed a whole weeke before ale was dun, in
which time I writ this prophesie—

‘*Shout out, brave Blades, I am for Cheurill,
Let Varnon’s friends do what ye can or will,

He is our voat, whose voat for us will be,

Pleasing to us and to his Maiestee,” &c. *

*“« These verses are in my booke of poetry, with another prophesie
of verses which I writ in the year 1678, when he and my Lord
Cavendis was chosen againe. I also writ a booke of divinity,
called by the name of ‘The Bright Starre of Love.’ I was
one-and-twenty years before I had finished it for the Pres.

[This work is not extant, nor is it probable that it was ever
published. ]

*“ Nayther was I negligent in other affairs, for, for many years
I writ down in a book all my daly expenses: that was a great
trouble to me to looke over againe and behould my vanity and
folly.

[Well done, Leonard! He did not flinch the unpleasant task
of beholding himself in the mirror of his recorded frailties.
Retrospection is a duty too often neglected.]

* (See Journal xviii., p. 43).

36 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT.

“But as for my daly travills and idle jorneys to and fro, they
came to above 550 miles a yeare, which I believe I went for above
20 years togather, as my accounts shewed me.

“Dec. 25, 1670. Being Chrismas Day I went to pay for a
stacke of hay I had bought at Tupton. After that, in the time
of Chrismus I went with a freind and kinsman of mine vnto one
Francis Steevinsons who had a mind to sell his land, for which
we bad him 4oo and 60 pounds, but it would not be taken ynles
my freind would give 20 pound more, which he would not, and
so we parted. But he sould it for les after, and now goes vp and
down the cuntry like a begger.

“Jan. 1. I fell to worke and rought very hard till Feb. 19.

[Perhaps Leonard’s retrospect .of time wasted had inspired
better resolves for the new year. A closer application to the
needle seems to have been the result for a time; but a little
respite from the board was now no doubt thought desirable. ]

“That day I fetched Mr. Daykin (of Stubben Edge) a vine
and a cherry tree from Bateman’s [? of Youlgrave] so I continued
gardening till Feb. 28. That day being Chesterfeild faire day,
I, like a bad lad, went to it, and staid there all night.

“March 7, being Fassen-Tuesday [Shrove Tuesday] my wife
and I according to our ould custom went over to Winster to se
our relations and freinds.

“March 11. I had sum notions of being clarke of the Church
of Workesworth, and the 16™ day I went over to speak to sum
freinds of whom I had good hopes of the place, but preveled
not.

‘June 4, 1671, my wife and I went over vnto Winster againe
to the christening of my Brother Robard’s child whose name was
Eliz. After that I rought hard at my trade till July 25. That
day I thought to have built me a house at Sir William’s Well
[probably a corruption of St. William’s Well], but our goodly
Parson Obediah—y' sma// profit—would not suffer it, because I
had pulled down his father’s ‘ Zz¢acke’ [enlcosure of waste land]
in Asher Hill. Then did I fall on my owne ground and began
to rid for a house stid, in a place which I call now by the name

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT. 37

of Hockley. But how that will prove, you shall heare more
here-after.

“So going on with my trade and with my gardening and
ridding, I writ down these questions following :

1. What is the Reason that one man is not like another in
Phisogmony? [Phystognomy.]

2. What mettall is the sight of the eye made of ?

3. Why have men Beardes and women none ?

6. What is the cause sum men and women stut? [Stammer.]

7. What is the cause sum men and women whar/? [An
inability to pronounce the letter ‘‘ R.”]

8. What is the cause we dreame of things wee never saw, or
knew, or ever heard of ?

10. What is the cause of our yoaning [yawning] when we see
another yoane ?

11. What is the cause a cat never puts her taile betwixt her
leggs ?

13. What creature hath the least pleasure in the world ?

14. What is the cause some children are hare-shorne, and
others mis-shapen ?

17. What is y® cause a swine goes not like another creature
that is yoak’t, but hits is yoake w' his fore-feet as he goes?

18. What is y® cause that a goose stoopes when she goes
thorrow [through] a high doore ?

20. What is y° cause a man swings his arms when he goes by
the way?

21. Why doth a dogge hold up one leg when he pisseth ?

22. What is y° cause a swine will cry when his belly is full ?

23. Why doth a dogge hould up a fore-foot when he
listeneth ?

24. What is y® cause that a ‘‘shirm-but” or “clock” lights
most in a Cow tourt?

29. What is the cause a dogge shews his love most in his
taile ?

[There are thirty of these questions, but some are better
omitted. |

38 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT.

“Aug. 26. I went on sum busines to Matlocke,: and upon

Aug. 31 I went againe to y* Wakes, where I met with one
Antoney Souter with whom I bargined to plant an orchard,
and vpon Sep. 25 I began. On that day I removed 45 trees,
and Oct. 5, 14 trees at Mr. Coates garden. The 16 day,
I tuned the Virginalls at Overton.
. [A virginal—either so called from the Virgin Queen, or because
it afforded musical recreation for the unmarried—was the precursor
of the spinet, as the latter was of the harpsichord, the forerunner
of the modern grand piano—but with this difference, the
vibration of the wires of the earlier instruments was produced by
pointed quills inserted in extremities of the key rods. The
leathered hammers are a more modern invention. Col. Coke,
of Brookhill, possesses the spinet (perhaps from the word
“ spinster”) used by Miss Chaworth, of Byron celebrity.]

“Upon the 25 of August, my wife and I went to Will. Hibard’s
to a feast of Crispin where we was merry that night.

“So in gardening and Taylering I spent my time: till the 4 day
of Feb. 1671, being Sunday, I with my wife and 2 children went
over to Winster, to brother Ralph’s wive’s churching (of her
daughter Betty). There we were forced to stay till Feb. 12
before I could get them home by reason of a great snow that
then did fall.

“After our retourne, I went to Chesterfeild Faire, which was
then Feb. 28, 1671. There I did buy of one Richard Cempe
[Kemp] 52 quarters of malt, and a horse of John Buxton my
brother ; the malt was at 20* the quarter all y' yeare; t’horse
price was 37°.

“Mar. 26, 1672, I bargined with John Farnsworth for his house
another yeare till I had made mine ready, for which I was to pay
three pound seven shillings the yeare. Wedensday after being
Apr. 17, was a fast day for our preparation against y* Duch
[Dutch].

“July 10, 1672, I and my wife besides 100 more went to
Ashley Heay to welcome Brother Toby and Sister Sarah to
house, who was then lately married.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT. 39

[Compare this with the festivities at Leonard’s own wedding
celebrated for eleven days, during which two hundred persons
were hospitably entertained (/ournad xviii. 42).]

“At my retourne my son Leo and I went to Mr. Sleight,
where we made a bed and 12 chears in 6 days,

[Besides the inventory of Books (printed in vol. xix.) there was
another of joiner’s tools—with lathes and various chisels, which
must have belonged to Leonard, who seems to have been an
all round man, and highly accomplished in almost every useful
art—tailoring, gardening, tuning virginals, carpentering, turning,
&c., &c.]

“Then I went to Mr. Coates to dresse him a Jacke, and cord
some beds, and the like. [‘‘ Jacke’’—-either a soldier’s leather
jerkin, or perhaps a jacket. May it be a leathern jug which had
become unstitched ?—a black jack.]

“All this while my Bulding was going forwards, and I seeking
out for timber and other materials as framing of windows and
doores till Oct. 27, when I did finish Antoney Souter’s orchard
at Tansley.

‘You may heare take notis that in all this discorse I have
said nothing of soulgery, for I writ all my doings and actions in
another booke. I was soulger in the dayes of King and Parli-
ment, and all Oliver’s dayes till the King came in againe, which
was Charles 2, who of his clemancy and goodnes granted to us
all (excepting those who were excessary to his father’s death) an
act of indemnity, &c.

“Till 1673, and all that yeare I did many things of noate; I
writ a Catechisme titeled ‘4d Free Gift to Ashouer Free Schoole,’
and other memorable things now in writing.

“Mar. 26, 1673, I set that Sick-a-more at the ‘Rodd,’ and
upon May 2 after, I came to my ould house againe which I had
mortgaged to one Antoney Tourner, but like a good lad, I sould
it about 2 years after, for I was in sum debt and nothing would
serve crrditors but Money, Money.

“And moreover, the same day, I came to my house againe, and
my wife fell a labour and was brought abed of a son whose name -

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we called Sollomon, May 2, 1673. So then being arived at my
owne house againe, I ceased to buld me a new one, but repared
my ould one which was left me foule, and out of order, so as
five pounds did not make it good againe; for one beay of my
barne was fallen, besides windowes swat [knocked] all in peeces.

[Leonard seems to have completed the house still standing
at Hockley in 1676. Over the lower win-
dow, but immediately
stone bearing the
his wife Elizabeth,
beneath, but separated
chevron. |

a Tae eeee aad Mee 8a 27 a Ee ; [er 5” ee ee ee |

under the eave, is a
initials of himself and
with the date 1676
from the initials by a

IIousE BUILT BY LEONARD WHEATCROFT, ASHOVER, 1676.

‘Whe

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‘In 1674 I began to write another booke called ‘ Zhe Memory’s
Recreation,’ but if I live to make it out, you will all be better
satisfied and I cumended ; however, the coppy of it you may find
among the rest of my writings in my Libry.

* Oct. 2 being Friday, 1675, was my wife brought abed of a
daughter whose name we call Maddum Sarah.

“My wife continued all this while a brewing, and I wrought
and did what I could, so that it pleased God we did a little
recover againe, and got ourselves and children close [clothes],
paid sum debt, and so by degrees gained our freinds again.

[Keen observer of the world! When money goes friends go
too; but with recovering prosperity they gradually return.]

**T put Leo and Ester to Darby to learne sum better worke and
Breeding, after that to Nottingham. In the meane while I was
taking care of some water workes which were then at Youlgreave,
in which I had some share, and for three or four years I was
imployed about that business, of which I shall say more here-
after.

“In the year 1678, Blessed be God, I was able to give, as
before I was willing to receave, for in that yeare I gave money
towards bulding of Paul’s Church, in Lundon, which y®* Papist
Plotters had destroyed and bournt by fire before, in y* year ’7o.

‘‘In the yeare 1679, the Engeneare, James Wass by name,
came to Youlgreave, to dreane our waterworks, but his engine
would not do it, so was I and many more much damnified
by it, and he likewise to the vallew of 300 pounds. In that
yeare, July 4, was my wife brought abed of a son, whom we
called Titus, he the 5th son and the eleventh child. But
to tell you all their names that are now alive, and when
they were borne, and under what planet, is as followeth
(Aug. 12, 1679) :—

1. Leonardus was Borne May 30, 1659, about 2 o’clocke in
the afternoune.

2. Anna was Borne July 29, 1661, being Munday in the after-
noone about 5 aclocke. Then did Capricor rule.

3. Ester was Borne Novem. 16, 1663, being Wodensday in the

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afternoune about 3 aclocke. She died March 16, 1751, aged 88.
[The obit. in another hand.]

4. John, my second son, was Borne June the 14, 1666, between
the hours of 11-12 in the night. Then did Aris enter.

5. David, my 3 son, was borne Mar. 30, being Munday, about 6
aclocke at night. Then did Pissis enter.

6. Elizabeth, my 3 daughter, was borne June 25, 1670, being
Saterday betweene y° howers of 7-8. Then did Aquaris rule.
She died Octo. 3, 1751, aged 81. [Another hand.]

7. Sollomon, my 4 son, was Borne May 3, being Friday
morning about one aclocke. Then did Aris enter in y® yeare
1673.

8. Madum Sarah, my 4 daughter, was Borne Octo. 2, 1675,
being Friday morn between the hours of 6-7. Then did Jupiter
rule.

g. Titus, my 5 son, was borne July 4, 1679, being Friday morne
about one aclocke. Then did Vanus rule.

«« After Titus was borne, the same year, 1679, I planted an
orchard for Mr. Robert More, of Winster, wherin I set (with
wall trees and others), above 200.

“From thens I went to Newhaven Faire where I was never
before, which faire is alwaies upon Saint Luke day. That faire
standes most by sheepe. It is held Oct. 18.

‘“‘ After that, I went to Lenton Faire, to see two (of my)
children that lived at Nottingham where I had a long cummision
with Mr. William Gladwin and severall other gentellmen for
2 dayes and 2 nights togather. And at my retourne I and my
wife went over to Winster unto a christning of a daughter of
my wife’s brother, John Buxton—called Mary.

‘“From thence, my son Leo and I went to Haddon where we
stayed all night, and gave unto them sum verses of y* death of
that Honourable Lord John Manners, Earle of Rutland, as you
may find them (among severall others) in my Booke of Poetry.
[See vol. xviii., 77-78.]

‘*‘ After that, I went to Stanton to dress an orchard for Mr.
Colton, where I was 4 dayes, and at my retourne hom, I and my

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wife went to Bonsall, to John Raggs, to the christening of his
second child.

“Then did fortune so favour my daughter Ester at my retourne,
that upon Apr. 9, 1679, I went with her to sarvis to a place called
Routhorne, near Hardwick Hall, where she lived with one John
Hardwicke for the space of 2 years.

“From thence I ‘went along to a towne called Carlton, in
Nottinghamshire, where my daughter Anna lived. From that
place I brought her to one Mr. Horns, of Butterly, Apr. 13.

“So having settled her there, I retourned hom againe, doing
severall workes of necessity, till at last the Injenere as I tould you
before, came to Youlgreave againe, being May 15, 1680. Then
did he begin with wheeles and ¢rickes that summer ; but all did
worke no effect that I saw. So leaving him, as Icame hom July
20, I set up 3 heapes of stones for hey-way markes betwixt
Matlock and Ashover, and about Aug. 2 I went to Youlgreave
againe to pay my grove [draining] charges, where I stayed all
night. The next day did Mr. Bourne and Mr. Daykine cum to
Youlgrave, and did informe me that Adam Cowlishaw was dead,
and tould me if I would make hast hom I might very well be
Clarke of y° Parish again, to whose words I gave heed, and hom I
went, and speaking to sum freinds, they did persuade the parson
to entertain me, which he did, so as I entred vpon the office
both of Clarke and Saxton August 6, 1680; and vpon the g day I
began to teach Scoole, and had many schollers for the space of
2 years. In which time I went little abroad, only at Crismus I
went to see my relations and friends, and what in seeing them
and gathering of my clark-wages, I spent that Cristmus; and
Feb. 4 my son Leo and JI, each of us, went with ‘abourne’
{a burden] of trees to Winster and Brassington, to one Mr.
Buxtons, who did very honestly pay me for them.

“Then upon Feb. 24 I drest Edward Hall’s orchard, of
Houmgate. Then did my son Leonard desire me to suffer him to
take a journey to Lundon, which I granted; and vpon Munday,
March 11, 1680, I went with him agatward for the space of 7 or 8
miles, and Ester with me. So when we parted, I went with Ester

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to her master’s house, that was 8 miles more. The next day I
came hom, and finding all well, the 15 day I went to Chatsworth
upon sum businis for my master.

‘* After this, my daughter Anna came from Mr. Horn’s, having
served her whole yeare, and staying awhile at hom, I went
with her to servis againe to Mr. Wollhouses, of Glapwell, being
Apr. 20, 1681, where shee was liked very well, and so much
of her.

“Since then, I stirred very little abroad, but only to feast
and bankit [banquet] at nighbours houses, at weddings, and
christnings. Indeed one day I went to see my sister Anne at
Barlo, who lay sore, sicke, and weake, and another day to
see my sister Mary, who lay in, and one day to see an aunt
at Chesterfeild.

‘« After awhile I went to see my daughter Anna againe, but not
before Aug. 11, and when I came home, I went to Derby with
Mr. Couper, Aug. 18, the next day to Bakwell.

‘“Vpon Sept. 5 I had occasion to go to Chesterfeild, where
I met witha bone-lace-weaver, with whom I bargined to take
a daughter of mine apprentis, Elizabeth by name. So for
3 pounds ro shillings we agreed, and bound she was, Sep. 14,
being Chesterfeild faire day, for 4 years. But of her, more as
occasion serves.

‘Oct. 18, both I and my wife went to se our two doughters,
Anna and Ester, at Glapwell and Routhorne, where we was very
rarely entertained, and our children very much made of, to our joy
and coumfort.

‘And after our retourne we both went to Winster, it being
Dec. 3, to se our parents and freinds, and after our retourne
came both our doughters to se us, it being Crismus, and after
3 or 4 dayes sporting was ended amongst their breethren and
freinds, so they all parted to their severall places of aboade.

“Jan. 6, I and Mr. Hodgkinson [probably Mr. Will, of
Overton], went to Chatsworth, and on Jan. 30, we went to
Barlborough, where we bought many trees. Then came we to
Staly [Staveley] where we bought more, and to several other

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places we went for trees of all sortes for to furnish a plantation
about a new hall, which was new bult, called ‘ Clatercoates.’
In which orchard and garden I planted in 1681 and ’82 above
200 trees.

[This house is still standing, and is a very picturesque structure,
with stone mullioned windows, ball-crowned pinnacles on the
gables, etc. It stands by the way leading from Mill Town to
Brackenfield. ]

“The next bout I had of sporting was to brother William’s
weding, March 7, 1681, where we spent the day very joyfully in
myrth and melody. He was married at Morton to Elizabeth
Marriet.

[ ‘‘ William Wheatcrort and Elizabeth Marriout were
married by licence, to March, 1681.”
Morton Register.)

“After that I heard from my son which lived in Lundon
that he lived so well, and that he had a mind to have his
brother John to cum yp to him, and that he would provide
him a master, to which I and my wife gave consent to his
jorney, and with all speed we got him ready, and towardes
Lundon he went Aprill 6, 1682. He had a’ very good jorney
.thither, and was well entertained both of his vnckell and
brother and other freinds. So after a little tryall he bound
himself for 4 years as appears by his letters to me. He was
bound April 20, 1682. He was to have 2 pounds the first
yeare, and 3 the second yeare, and 4 y* third, and 5 pounds
the last yeare, meat, drink, washing, and lodging, and some of
his M* ould close, all which I liked well: and so much of him
at present.

* But againe, John had not lived w' his M‘ above halfe a yeare
but he dyed. Then did his vnckell John tak to him, and as a
‘club’ * he served him for 3 years.

* All that time he was with him till he cum down w* his brother
Leo to se his relations in the cuntry. In the interim all my

* A rough servant.

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doughters came to see me, but still, I went no ways from hom but
about my Clarkes concearns.

“In 1682, Jan. 12 I planted Thomas Bower of Gorse-hall
[a fine old stone house in the valley opposite Knot Cross] an
orchard. In that yeare my daughter Elizabeth’s Dame dyed.
Then was I at an ‘on plus’ to seeke for another for her, And
vpon Feb. 28, I went to Chasterfeild faire, where I lighted upon
another dame one Mary Jenings to whom I bound her for
2 years, and sowne after she dyed, then my doughter came
hom almost halfe a yeare. Then I went to see my doughter
Anna at Glapwell, where I stayed grafting and planting for the
space of 3 dayes.

“Then came I hom, and being perswaded by my neighbours
that I would take upon me to teach a scoole, so I did, beginning
May 1, 83, and vpon May 26 I went w' my son David to
Chesterfeild to be a Tayler wt one Will. Webster, wt whom he
stayed one yeare. This was on Sep. 8 in the yeare 1684.

“After that I followed my occasions at hom, till at last I, not
finding myself well, I sent to my souns at Lundon desiring to see
them before I dyed. So according to my desire and their
mother’s, they came down to vs August 15, 1685. Then all the
rest of my children com from their servises to give them the
meeting whom they had not seen in 4 years time.

‘*So after they had rested awhile with me and told me all their
trauills and adventures and cheared up their parents Mournfull
sperits, we all concluded to go to our brother Robert Hawley’s to
a Wakes which was there at that time, Sep. 4.

“ After that, Anna went to live at John Thweates July 6, 1685,
where she stayed for one yeare.

“Then did my doughter Betty goe to live with one Catrin
Balme for 2 years. She was hired Oct. 26, 1685. And David
was hired againe by my son Leonardus to one Samuell Higgins
a London Taylor for 2 years Dec. 30, 1685. This year being
Feb. 27, my son Leo and I went to Hather-seige where we
beheld the grave where they say Little John was buried, which
is 14 foot in length. After that we came to behould the famous

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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT. 47

hall of Chatsworth, where we was well received, and withal had
the happynes to view the house within, and without, which was
most amiable and famous to behould. At last, coming to
behould those admirable gardens and platformes, and those new-
invented water-workes, I called to mind that I wanted my
Anchent and much admirable crag: but finding that to be all
gone and destroyed, I could forbere no longer, but immediately
writ its Farewell, as you may find in my book of vesses—towards
the later end.

“March 7, 1685, My son Leonardus was minded to go towardes
Lundon againe, and then did all my children come togather
againe to take leave of him with severall more of our Relations
to all our coumfort. The next day, taking his jorney forwards,
we all departed to our severall places.

‘After that, John (having recovered from his sickness) and
I had occasion to go to Glapwell and Boulsouer to see his
godfathers and godmothers, where he was borne. There we
were July 8, 9, 10, 1686, and on Feb. 3 John went to Lundon
again where he stayed.

“And after him, David went Feb. 24, 1686, where he stayed
waiting on King James the 2, to be touched by him for his in-
firmity called the Azug’s Evi//. There was he touched twice by
him, but was never the better at his retourne.

[Notre.—The office used at the healing was first compiled
in the reign of Henry VII. The ceremonial used by Queen
Anne was shorter than that used by her predecessors. The
power of touching was also exercised by the son of James IT.
as James III. in the hospitals at Paris, and by Prince Charles
Edward at Edinburgh.

In January, 1683, a proclamation was issued by the Privy
Council and ordered to be published in every Parish in the
Kingdom enjoining that the time for presenting persons for
the “‘ Public Healings ” should be from the feast of Al! Saints
(Nov. 1) till a week before Christmas, and after Christmas
till March 1, and then to cease till Passion Week.

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The service is printed in Sparrow’s Collections of 1685 at
p. 165.

Two Gospels were used—the first S. Mark xvi. 14. During
the reading of this the King laid his hands on those pre-
sented (kneeling) at the words, ‘‘ They shall lay hands on the
sick and they shall recover.”

During the reading of the second Gospel taken from S.
John chap. i. 1, at the words “That Light was the true
Light,” &c., the afflicted were again presented unto the King
upon their knees, and the King “ put his gold” about their
necks.* Then followed the lesser Litany, Pater Noster and
certain versicles, followed by ‘‘O Almighty God, who art the
Giver of all health, and the Aid of them that seek to Thee
for succour, we call upon Thee for Thy help and goodness
mercifully to be shewed unto these Thy servants, that they
being healed of their infirmity may give thanks unto Thee in
Thy Holy Church through,” &c., &c. ‘The grace,” &c.]

‘* And when David was com hom, he and I went to see my
sister Sarah at Shottle where she dwelt; and by the way a
woman tould us how shee was cured of that disease: and after
she was cured she was wed, and had 4 children, and never a
one of them ever had that distemper. I saw the great scars
that was upon her neck and throte. Her receit was as
followeth :—

“That a man might go to a dead woman or a woman to a dead
man (as shee did) and with their dead hand touch all their affected
or sore places, saying these words ‘‘ He that send thee, I pray
God mend thee.” That must be done, and (these words) said
9 times over—which he (David) did Dec. 26, 1687.

* A coin placed in a little pouch and hung round the neck. Dr. Daines
Barrington tells us of an old man who was witness in a cause, and averred that
when Queen Anne was at Oxford she touched him whilst a child for the Evil.
Mr. Barrington when he had finished his evidence asked him whether he was
really cured. Upon which he answered, with a significant smile, that he
believed himself never to have had a complaint that deserved to be considered
as the Evil, but that his parents were poor—avnd had no objection to the bit of
gold.

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[Scott in his Discovery of Witchcraft, p. 137, gives the follow-
ing :—‘ To heal the King or Queen’s Evil, or any other soreness
in the throat, first touch the place with the hand of one that died
an untimely death: otherwise, let a virgin fasting lay her hand
on the sore—repeat certain words—and then spit three times
upon it.”]

‘But he (David) being so far gone by that distemper continued
till Oct. 15", 1688, then dyed. But severall since have been cured
by doing and saying as aforesaid.

““Vpon Oct. 9 did my doughter Ester go towardes Lundon,
and I went with her as far as Nottingham.

**In the mean time my brother John dyed Aug. 1, and his
wife not long after.

**Then did another daughter of myne, Anna by name, take a
jorney into Yorkshire Aug. 15, 1687, where she had not lived
above 2 years, but she was married to one John Ingle, a farmer
living in the Towne of Barwick near Castellford. In the same
yeare 1687 I did bind my son Sollomon to my cuzen John
Wheatcroft for 2 years to be a Tayler. In the mean while,
my wife Elizabeth dyed, viz. March 3, 1688, whose Elegy you
may find and David’s also in my Book of Poetry. [See /ourna/
xviii. 75.]

“In the yeare 1690 my brother William’s wife Elizabeth dyed
in childbed. She was buried Feb. 19, 1690.

**My son Titus begun to work at the Tayler trade in the yeare
1690, and Anna had a child borne July 2, 1695.

**My eldest son Leonardus was wed to one Ellen Pirkin, of
London, a widdow Feb. 9, 1690, and upon May 29 I went to his

honours Parpoynts where I presented to him verses of his Birth-
day, who veri well rewarded me. [Samuel Pierpoint of Oulecoates,
Journal xviii., 73].

“In the yeare 1691, my doughter Anna and her husband John
Ingle came to see me at Ashover Wakes, and I was as glad to see
them as they me. And in that yeare I bulded y* fabrick upon the
top of Ashover Hill upon which I made a song which you may
find in my Book of Poetry.

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[This song does not appear among the selections in volume
xvili. of this Jowrnu/, but it is in Leonard’s MS. It has no par-
ticular merit, but is rather roisterous, and full of contempt for
those who had made sport of his romantic undertaking. |

“That yeare also was my second son John wed to a widow in
London. Her name was Anne .« . . . ‘Dec. 23) aGor.
Upon New Years day after, I went to brother Hawleys to the
christening of his child Dorathy (the fourteenth child).

“In the yeare 1692, my son Leonardus and Hester came from
London to see me, for they had never been since their mother
died. So in sorrow they came to the place of their birth. They
came Aug. 7, and upon Aug. 26 we went to see my doughter
Anna at Barwick in Elmet in Yorkshire, where we found all very
well and in good health, blessed be God for His mercies to vs all,
but we did not retourne hom till Aug. 31. Then I went with
Hester as far as Mansfeild towardes London which was Sep. 19,
1692. The same day was brother William wed to one Jane
Butler of Chesterfeild.

*“* After that I receved a leter from London that my son John’s
wife was brought a Bed of a doughter whose name was Catrina
Oct. 19, 1692.

‘“‘Sowne after, my owne Mother fell sick. She then had beene
blind above 4 years. She dyed Mar. 12, 1692. She was of
age fourscore and eight. She had 9g children—6 sonns and
3 doughters, and when she dyed she was mother to 6 of them,
and Grandmother and Greatgrandmother to fourscore and 3.

‘‘ Not loung after, I had occasion to go from hom, and coming
late, lousing my way fell down a rocke of stone, broake my head
in 3 places, and broake 3 of my ribs. There I lay all night, very
lickly to dey, but it pleased God after a loung sickness and sore
sides, I recovered againe. In the meane time my doughter Anna
sent for her sister Betty to be with her when she lay in. She went
to her April 4, 1693. And Anna was brought a bed of a
doughter May 12, 1693, whose name was called Elizabeth.

“And when it pleased God I did recover of my fall, I was
resolved to jorney againe and to vizit ail my brothers and sisters,

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First I went to my brother Samuells, then to Solomon Sheldons
who married my sister Mary May 6, ’93. Then to my sister Sarah
Chadwick’s, where I had not beene of 5 years before. This was
July 4, 1693.

[We must remember that Leonard was now 72, and a widower,
and as his accident confining him to his home so long, occurred
between October, 1692, and the following May, he must have
greatly enjoyed the needed change, and the society of his brothers
and sisters. |

“My next travill was to Winster to see brother Robert Hawley.
There I stayed one night July 7, 1693.

“ Againe, Aug. 21, Brother William, Brother Samuel, and myself
and several more of my Relations to the number of 25, met at one
of my Relations near Shefeild, whose name was Edw. Gill where
we was rarely entertained. The next day to Shefeild, there were
we all ‘‘sivily ” [? civilly or similarly] merry with more of our rela-
tions for the space of two dayes. And after our retourne I stayed
‘about hom maney dayes trauelling no further than oure next
market townes, in which time (which was no less than one whole
yeare), both I, and all my Relations ‘I praise God,’ were in good
health. In that year did my doughter Sarah as a seruant go to
live with her vnckell William Wheatcroft, and Titus and I kept
house togather in 1694 till June 26, 1695, almost 2 yeares.
Blessed be God we lived very quietly togather, and he ordered
all things very handsomely both within doors and without.

[A very pleasing tribute to the worth and kindness of Titus. He
was for some years the clerk and village schoolmaster, and was
deeply imbued with religious principles, but whilst possessing his
father’s talent and ability, had less of his parent’s buoyancy of
spirit, and love of society and change.]

“And after Sarah came hom, I had more liberty, and Titus
too, to walke abroad to se our friends and Relations.

[One for Titus, and /zwo for himself.}

“In the interim, I was desired of sum Jentellmen to cum to
Tupton to discours with one Ouldham, who professed himself to
be a poet, and was one who had writ severall verses not only

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against me but in derision of the fabricke which [ had bulded upon
the top of Ashover Fiiil. So according to their desires we met,
where a great company were gathered togather. There did I
challenge him to walk with me vnto Parnishus Hill [ Parnassus’),
but we both missing our way, we chanced to light on an ale-house,
and after we had drunk awhile, we fell into discours concerning the
9 Muses, which he could not name, neither could he tell from
whence they came, or what they had done, or what they might
doe (!)

[Leonard must have ‘“‘ read up” for this meeting, for there are
many in these days who claim the acquaintance of the muses who
would have been hard set to comply with Leonard’s demands. |

**So in the audience of all the companey I gave them their
right names, and all their right titles. Wherevpon they decked
my head round with Zori/7 branches, to the great vexation of
my antagonist, Ouldham. So ever since I am called ‘ The Black
Poet.’ [Perhaps from his sombre suit worn as parish clerk. |

[Leonard does not inform us who were present at this contest,
but there is such an under-current of humour in the whole
transaction, that it would almost seem the work of some scholarly
wag at the expense of the Ashover “Laureate” and his
“antagonist.” Leonard, however, regards the matter in a very
serious light, and honestly looks upon his victory as honourably
obtained, and himself quite worthy of the Laureate’s wreath. It is
with no small pride he informs us—“‘ Ever since, I am called the
Black Poet.”

The Muses had several names according to the several places
where they dwelt. Sometimes they were called Pierides, from the
forest Pieris in Macedonia, where they were said to be born;
sometimes Heliconiades, from M" Helicon, which is near to their
beloved Parnassus ; from whence also they were called Parnassides,
and Cytherides, from M* Cytheron: Castalides and Aganippides,
from two noted fountains that were consecrated to them. Their
names and attributes were as follow :—Calliope was the supposed
president of heroic poetry ; Clio, of history ; Erato, of the lute ;
Thalia, of comedy ; Melpomene, of tragedy ; Terpsichore, of the

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT. 53

harp; Euterpe, over wind music; Polyhymnia, of music ; and
Urania, of astronomy. (Vide NV. Bailey’s Dictionary, 1736.)]

‘* My next jorney was to the Earl of Rutlands. The hearing
of my poetry there caused them to desire that I would come to
Haddon on my Lordes Birthday, and withall give his Honour
sum verses upon y® same, which I did, it being May 29, 1696,
his age being then 58. His Honnour being no little pleased
with them (and all the nobility besides), gave us rare enter-
tainment, and sumthing besides.

“Sep. 12, 1696, my son Leonardus came from London to
see me and all his Relations, and I at his retourne went
agatered* with him as far as Howbrooke [Holbrook, near
Horsley], and there we parted Sep. 28.

“Then coming hom, I did little stir abroad, no further than what
concerned my clerkes business till June 17, 1697. Then did my
daughter Sarah and I take a jorney into Yorkshire on foot [he at
the age of 70, and “‘Madam” Sarah at the age of 22], to
see my tow doughters Anna and Elizabeth at a towne called
Barwicke, above 50 miles from Ashover. We was 3 days in
going thither, and 3 dayes in coming home again, but blessed
be God, we found them all in good health and prosperity ; and
for 6 days we weré very merry together, and the Lord make us
ali thankfull. We found all well on our Retourne, which was
June 28, 1697.

“ But we had not long rested at hom, but we were both invited
a welcoming unto my cuzen, Samuell Billings, who had married
my sister Sarah’s doughter, by whom he had one child called
John. He was borne May 21, 1697. The welkuming was not
till July 1. There was we all very merry for 2 dayes, and
we did safe retourne.

“After that I went to Matlocke with 12 staves, to get them
dyed blacke against my buriall, intending them for those who
carried me to. my grave: this was July 9, 1697.

[Coffins were not usually provided at that time for common

* dvatered, on the gate or way with, a word still in use.

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interments, but one was kept at the church, in which the body—
secured in its winding-sheet—was laid to be carried to the church.
Leonard had provided that his body should be placed in an
ancient stone coffin, which probably he had discovered in his
grave-digging within the church. This coffin he had caused to be
placed in his future grave, so that on the day of the funeral, his
body sewn in the winding sheet, would be borne in the parish
coffin, carried on these black staves,* to the church and grave,
and from thence transferred to the stone receptacle. already
prepared in the ground ; it was, in fact, an exact repetition of
an interment of the middle ages].

‘Upon July 17, I and my doughter went to Chesterfeild to buy
some household goods, when Rich. Stringfelow broke. After that
I went to severall places up and downe to se my Relations, but
above all, I and my brother William went to Morton to see an
vnekell of ours, who married my father’s sister, whom we had not
seen of maney years, nor he us, for he had beene blind 7 years, and
no little was he coumforted to hear of us at that time, which was
May 31,’99. The next day I did retourne to my family. And
againe June 5 in the same yeare, I went to a christning at Cow-
hous-lane, to my cuzen, John Benbrig, who had married James
Brough’s doughter Mary. There, and at my sister Chadwicks, I
stayed tow nights, and from thence I safely retourned, but very
ill tired.

“My next jorney was to Chesterfeild, July 8, with the Church
Bible to get it bound. That day I came hom by Alton. There
I spent 6d., and so came hom.

“Oct. 9, 1699, I went to brother Sollomons, where I met with
brother William. There did we 3 bretheren spend the day very
merrily, and blessed be God, hom very well that night.

““Vpon Jan. 31, I went to Winster, to my brother Robard’s,
where I taried 5 nights, and with him to Higrouses [? Highouses],
and seeing good store of oare [? lead ore] I bought of him

* Hand-staves. In the Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xv., p. 372
(1795), concerning Campsie, co. Stirling, we have, ‘‘ However distant any part
of the parish was from the place of interment, it was customary for the attendants
to carry the corpse on hand-spokes.”

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a 12-part of a new tacker, called by the name of ‘Shelldon
mere.’

“Then, coming to Wensley and meeting with a company of
Miners, I bought another 12-part of one Antoney Pidcocke.
Then I rested at home till I went to my Brother William’s, at
their Wakes, where I was 2 nights.

** And, unexpected, my son Leonardus came from London, Aug.
23, 1700, who stayed with me till Sep. 9, in which time he bought
that hous and land which I sould, which was to the vallew of
one Hundred and 20 pounds, which was great joy to me and all
my neighbours and Relations.

“Then resting myself at hom till Mar. 16, I went to Winster
againe, where I bought part of a ‘Grove’ of Mr. Hand. And how
it will prove, you shall know hereafter. There I stayed at my
brother’s 4 dayes ; and about June 20 my daughter Hester came
down from London to se me, who at that time was very lame, but
she brought me an ointment which gave me much ease—Blessed
be God!

[With these significant words Leonard concludes the history of
his life and pilgrimage in the year 1701. He was then in his
74th year. The writing at the end of his MS is very little inferior
to that at the commencement ; but, as the writing is fairly uniform
throughout, the whole of it must have been compiled towards the
end of his days, from his previous notes and collections.

The journal from this point is taken up by Titus. ]

“Jan. 1, 1706, my ffather died, and I supplyed his place in his
absence, 4 years before [this date].

“*T began to teach school in that house which is called ‘ Twitch-
bank,’ and was there a year, 1699; and then I tought in
Solomon’s parlor, 1 yeare and a halfe. Then at Towndrow house,
in Ashover, for 2 years and a halfe; and, in the mean while, a
school was built just above, by Mr. Will. Hodgkinson, of Overton,
in 1704, and I taught in it a quarter of a year before any other
schoolmaster came; and then came one William Heald, who
was borne at Wootton, near Ashbourne, but had taught
school at Darley 8 years. He had 20 a year, and I had

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54 a year, which money was raised by subscription for the
3 first years.

“In the year 1707, June 29, Mr. Obadiah Bourne began to
preach in this Church of Ashover. His text was 1 John v. 3.

“On June 22, being y° Wakes Sunday, my sister Hester came
from London and staid with me. Likewise Unckle Samuel’s
daughter, Ann, and her husband came with Hester, but they
went on the g of September and took cuz. Samuel’s daughter,
Ann, with them.

‘** March 20, sister Hester made the new surplis for Mr. Bourne.
She had 5* for making it, and I had the old one, April the
16 1708. My father made this in 1662.

‘“Hester went up to London, May 31, 1708, and was wed
to cousin Matthew Hawley, May 28, two days before she went
up.

“June 10, 1708, being the Visitation at Chesterfield, there
I light on a young woman who came to the Visitation to be
confirmed by the Bishop, called Anne Bowne, at which time
I fell in love with her, and courted her till Michezlmas, and
we were three severall Lord’s days or hollidays published both
in Matlock Church and Ashover Church, and nothing was
objected against us, but that we might lawfully proceed to
marriage, the which wee did, being Oct. 7, 1708.

‘Tt pleased God that my wife conceived by me, and had a very
sore labour, and on Wednesday, the 29 June, 1709, she was
brought to bed of a daughter, and it was baptized on the 30 July,
and I called her name Hannah.

‘Nov. 5, 1712, came 2 singing masters to our town of Ashover :
one was called Richard Atkins, and the other Joseph Wright.
They came from Wigson in Leicestershire. They taught halfe
a yeare and had above 50 schollers.

“March 4, 1712, my daughter Martha was borne, and baptized
April 6, 1713. Her godfathers were brother Henry Bowne and
Richard Atkin [evidently the singing master], and the godmothers,
Anne Botham and Mary Yates.

“In the year 1714, April 11, Mrs. Anne Hodgkinson, of

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Overton, was wed to one Mr. Joseph Banks, of Scofton, in the
parish of Worsop. Her son, Joseph, was borne Feb. 27, 1724,
about 3 in y* morning, and baptized Mai. 27

[Lysons (Derbyshire, p. Ixix.) states that Sir Joseph Banks,
M.P. for Peterborough, married the heiress of Hodgkinson :
that William, his son, assumed the name of Hodgkinson for the
Overton estate ; and that Joseph Banks, Esq., of Revesby Abbey,
Lincoln, son of the said William, who had assumed the name
of Banks, was created a Baronet in 1783. In 1792 he became
possessed of Overton Hall, where he occasionally resided. This
gentleman was the eminent Sir Joseph Banks, K.B. and K.G.C.]

“Tn 1714 I took Hockley of brother Hawley, and was to pay
him 20s. a year, but the mantle and jamb being broken, and other
things being amiss, and Matthew not standing to his word or
bargain, I would not go to it, but took this house of Richard
Beighton for ro years, and (we) sealed our leases March 20, 1713.

“It pleased God, after a long time of sickness, to call my wife to
His mercy. She dyed Nov. 15, 1714, about 2 o’clock on Monday
morning, and was buried on y® 16", about 2 in y® afternoon, aged
35 years 9 months 1 week and 5 days.

‘‘Ann, daughter to William Bowne and Elizab., his wife, was
borne Feb. 23, 1680, and was babtized Mar 6, 1680.

“On Candlemas Day, 1714-5, I went to pay respects to Mary
Walker, of Matlock [his late wife had only been dead two
months and sixteen days], in a good design to make her my
wife, and March 25 she told me she had changed her mind,
when I had been at her to times, which was a great trouble
to mee.

*On the 15th of March, 1716, I went to Frances Lovit, and
on the roth of October wee were wed (1716), and I hope we
shall live very happily together,

** At Christmas, 1717, my daughter in Law, Anne Lovet, came
to Elton, and I went for her to come see her mother. She
staid with me about a month, and then went with her Aunt
Jane to Arnah [? Amold] again, where she staid till July 9, and
then they sent her to me on Horseback, with all her close.

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‘*My wife was brought to bed of a brave lusty son on the
5th of July, 1718, about 1 o'clock afternoon, and on the 3rd
of August he was baptized, and called Zizus.

“On the 11 August, my daughter Anne, went to live with
Anthony Alsop, of Tansley, 1718.

“ August 2, 1718, brother Leonard’s wife died, and was buried
Aug. 5. He made a great funeral, and had a sermon. They
was wed Feb. 9, 1690.

“June 26, 1720, Mr. Obadiah Bourn came to Ashover, and
brought his wife. (Rebecca, dau. of John Lynch, of Groves, co.
Kent ; she died 1754).

“June 17, 1721, Ann went to Chesterfield, to live with one
Mr. Yebb, and staid till Oct. 21.

“ Oct. 23, 1721, I and my wife went with Will to Lenton, to be
w' his unckle, Ralph Lovet, and that time twelve months after
I went to see my son W™ at Lenton, and when I came there,
I found his unckle dead, and staid the Burial, which was no
little trouble to us all.

“This last year, I had a very sore fit of sickness, which began
at Candlemas, Feb. 2, and continued shaking for 14 weeks, but
I was not well until Michalmas next following.

“ Sept. 20, 1723, my wife and I went to Arnal, to W", intending
to bind him prentice, it being the wakes, and Frances staid a
week.

‘Jan. 29, 1723-4, my unckle Robert Hawley was buried, and
that day sennight (Feb. 7), my aunt Margaret was buried,
Frances went to Tuxforth in y° claye, to see her sister Mary.
June 3, 1725, where she staid about 2 weeks.

‘‘By Mr. Bourne’s persuasions, my unckle Samuel delivered
up his Church-Door-Key to me, y' I might tent y* Clock, and
ring y® Bell; it was Aug. 30, 1725.

“ Ap. 8, 1726, my son Titus began to turne in his frame in
the shop. I pray God send him a good beginning.

[Among the papers of the late Mrs. Nodder is a Bond, dated
May 1, 1718, between Richard Bower, of Egstaw, in North
Wingfield, and Leonard Bower, of Ashover, Framework

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Knitter, of 40 to Lawrence Bourne, of Ashover, Gent.,
before they hire a stocking frame of the said Lau. Bourne,
engaging to maintain the same in good repair, &c., and
to deliver up the same with all materialls thereto belonging

to the said Lau. Bourne.
(Signed) LEONARD Bower.
RICHARD CULTON.

GopFrr. HEATHCOTE. |

“June 18, 1728, I went to Derby, to a trial that Mr. Hodgkinson,
had wt Mr. James Sleigh, of Highgate, in London, for the 4 £ a
year, left by his unckle Cap. Samuel Sleigh, of Northidge, in
Ashover parish, in his last will and Testament, that if y° inhabit-
ants of Ashover, did build a school in y* waste, or common,
near to St William’s Well, then he left the sum of 4 pound a
year, to be paid for ever out of y° Lands in Washington [Wess-
ington] Hay. (The school was built in y* year 1703, and ever
since been supplied or taught by me, being 24 years, and at
4* per year is 96,4).

“ April 1, my son W™ came over from Arnal, and brought his
indentures, having served his vnckle 7 years. He was bound
Jan. 16, 1722.

“Jan. 15, 1737, I went to another Commission at Chesterfield,
w" W™ Goodale, about ye School.

“Feb. 27, 1730, Anne Lovet went to live at Esq. Hurts, of
Arrows-Lee. She staid 27 weeks.

“June 28, 1732, Martha went to live with Rowland Sudbury.

“May 12, 1733, Hanna came home from Unston, fo spin
against she was married, and on Monday, 25 June, she was
married.

“Sunday, 8 July, Martha went to Loscoe, to live with Geo.
Hodgkinson, and staid about 5 week, and came home ill
1733-

“ Dec. 25, 1733, Anna Lovet went to Ashbourn, to live with
Mrs. Brookfield.

“May 20, 1734, I was cited to Derby, to the Election, or
Voteing, with 10 more of my neighbours. The same day my

b

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son, Titus, went to Richard Bower, as an apprentice, for 5 years
and a half, if he like. [Probably as a Framework Knitter.]

“Feb, 20, 1734, my daughter Anne, was wed to Geo. Hole,
and went to house, Ap. 15.

“Anne, dau. to Joseph Beadmore, and Hannah his wife, was
born Jan. 17, about 11 o’clock at night, and was Bap. Feb.
24, 1735:

“Frances, dau. of George Hole and Anna his wife, was born
May 5, and was bap. June 2, and on the same day its mother
was buried, 1736.

“Titus and Rich. Bower went to Nottingham, Jan. ro, and
came again the next day, and brought Will with them. Then
Titus and Will went again Jan. 13, 1738, and Titus had got
44 week to serve Richard Bower, till Nov. 17, 1739, 07 Mr.
Barns in Nottingham. Titus was married to Sarah Basford,

Jan. 1, 1742.
‘‘Martha was married to George Bassit, June 26, 1749.”

———

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61

Guclosuve Wiots at Chinley.
A.D. 1569.

AMONG the numerous ancient deeds of the Bradshaw
Family belonging to Chas. E. Bradshaw Bowles, Esq.,

of Wirksworth, is an interesting décument relating
to the enclosure of certain common lands at Chinley.
This transaction was greatly resented by many of the inhabitants,
who endeavoured by force to retain their ancient privileges, and
their “ Ryotous” proceedings on the occasion was the cause of an
official enquiry, embodied in the following “ Interrogatories.”

The disturbance took place on the roth of April, 11 Eliz.
(1596), and appears to have been carried to serious lengths,
sufficient to warrant the interposition of State authority.

From an indenture made 15 Nov., ro Eliz. (1568), it
appears that a lease of a parcel of herbage called Mayston
Field, alias Chynley, was granted for thirty-one years by the
Duchy of Lancaster to one Lawrence Mynter, at a yearly
rent of £14 13s. 4d., to begin as soon as the lease of the same
to Geo. Grymesdich expired. The very day Mynter obtained
his lease, he sold it again to Richard Celey, who sold it on
the znd October following to Godfrey Bradshaw, “who has
now sold to Anthony Bradshaw his brother, and to Leonard
and Francis (sons of the s* Godfrey), for a certain sum of
money, a certain portion of the said ground called ‘ Oxstyefearne’
alias ‘Okyn fearn syde’ and ‘Hynd Thorn,’ Buttyng and
boundyng upon Chyndley Brock of the east part, or syde; upon
the Ashen Cleugh on the north part or syde, then up so on
forth of the old Dych or mear which leadeth through the Stowpes
beyond on the west part or syde, and upon the Boars Cleugh

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on the south parte or syde, being in the said parcell of herbage
called Maystonfyeld, alias Chynley, which piece of ground
aforesaid is by estymacion one Neighbourshipp and a_ half
neighbourshipp.”*

Signed by Godfrey Bradshaw.

This abstract shews the connection of the Bradshaws with
the land in question. We will now proceed to the “ Inter-
rogatories,” from the nature of which many very interesting
particulars may be gleaned of the disturbance.

Nothing can be conceived more interesting to a person of
ordinary intelligence, and especially to those who reside in the
locality illustrated, than details of the character afforded by this
document. The disturbance has long ago subsided, and the
spirits, then so much moved and swayed by passion and con-
tending interests have passed away; the heart-burnings have
ceased, and the present villagers may not even know that their
little hamlet, now so quiet, was once the scene of so much
contention. It is one of the privileges of an Archeological
Society to draw aside the curtain occasionally, and afford a
retrospect.

From these original and authentic sources, we can see our
ancestors in their struggles, and their yearnings for justice and
for right ; we mark their crude ideas, and note our own advance-
ment; and if it were only for this—to afford us the feeling of
contentment that our lot is cast in better times—these various
publications of the Society will have contributed to some good
end. We are very much indebted to Mr. Bowles for his
permission to publish this valuable document.

“ Interrogafortes to be furnished upon the behaulf of Godfrey
Bradshaw (? plaintiff, against) Edward Kyrke, Thos. Bawden,
—Kyrke, Otwell Kyrke, Edward Shower, Ranulphe Mellour,
Roger—,—Whyte, Will Rydge, John Hatfield, Robert Burnes,
John Bawdon, Richard Kyrke, and others.

* One “‘neighbourship’’=16 Cheshire acres ; one Cheshire acre=one forest
acre, which is equivalent to about 2 statute acres, or 10,240 sq. yds.—ED,

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(1.) ‘‘In Primis. Whether do you know certayne the Herbage
or ground commonly called Maynstonfield alias Chynley.

(2.) ‘Item. Whether Godfrey Bradshaw have the sayd herbage
or farm by Lease or not, and if so, from whom, and by whom
(was) the said herbage demised to the said Godfrey Bradshaw.

(3.) “‘Item. Whether did the said Godfrey graunte any part
or portion of the said herbage unto this si aa ae yea, or no.

(4.) (very imperfect).

(5.) ‘‘Item. Whether hath Otwell Kyrke erected and buldyd
one house upon the seid herbage, and included certein parcells
of the-same....<... ? was the enclosure made in ryotous manner
or not, and how many persons were at the doing thereof, and
what were their names ?

(6.) ‘It. Whether hath one Charles Kyrke builded uppon the
same herbage and taken in a p’cell of the same, and whether
was the same done in ryotous manner or with fforce? yea,
or no, and how many p’sons were there, and what there
names ?

(7-) (defective).

(8.) ‘‘Whether hath Ranulphe Mellour taken a p’cell of the
p’misses, and whether was the same done in riotouse manner
and w' force, and howe meny p’sons were at the doinge thereof,
and what weapons had they, and what is there names?

(g.) “‘Itm. Whether hath Edward Kyrke taken in any peces
or p’cells of the same herbage in lyke ryotouse manner as is
aforesaid, and howe meny p’sons were p’sent at the doinge
thereof, and what is there names?

(10.) “Item. Howe many howses hathe the sayd Otwell
Kyrke and others buylded uppon the seyd Herbage, and howe
manye sundrye and dyverse p’cells of the same be taken in by
the sayd p’ties, and what eu’ye of them have taken in thereof,
and of what valewe the sayd howses and Intacks the w™ the
sayd p’ties have taken in be of, and whether they be worthe to
be lett for syxe pounds a yere or not, and whether dyd they
not w great force and in Riotouse manner buyld the sayd
Intacks, and take in the sayd enclosures, and howe manye

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p’sons were at the doing thereof, and what weapons had they,
and what were there names?

(x1.) “‘Itm. Whether the sayd Thomas Rawlynson Edward
Kyrke Thomas Bawdon Will Ridge and others did riotouslye
and forcibly pull downe one newe dyche. made by the sayd
Godfrey, and threaten to kyll, murther, and mayme the sayd
Godfrey Bradshawe, and howe meny p’sons were at the doinge
thereof, what weapons had they, and what were there names?

(12.) Itm. Whether dyd the sayd Godfrey Bradshawe for his
owne Savegard obteyne warrand for the p’se'vacon of the Quenes
Ms peace owt of the Queenes benche at Westmynster ageynst
Thomas Bowden Thomas Rawlynson Richard Shower and others,
and whether the sayd Rich* Shower was served w™ one of the
sayd Warrants or not, and if he were not, what was the cause?

(13.) “Itm. Whether dyd the sayd Godfreye Bradshawe
delyver to George Bowden and other occupiers of the sayd
herbage a letter from the Right Honorable S$" Raulphe Sadler
chaunceller of the Duchie, and from M* Bromley Attorney of the
sayd Duchie whoe required them by the same letter to kepe
in reparacion all the houses hedges and dyches environinge
the sayd herbage, and whether they doe p’forme the contents
of the sayd letter yett? yea, or no, and what is the cause they
obey not, and p’forme the effecte of the sayd letters?

(14.) “Itm. Whether dyd Thomas Rawlynson, Raulphe
Mellour, Thomas Bowden, Edward Shower, Edwarde Kyrke,
and others riotouslye assemble and mete together in the sayd
Herbage (not regarding the sayd letter to them dyrected) with
unlawfull weapons marchinge towards a place called Chynleye
Hyll. Howe many were there, and what weapons had they, and
what was there entent in soe doing? and whether about Twesday
before our Ladye day in Harveste last past, did they riotouslye
pull downe one p’cell of ground enclosed by the sayd Godfrey
Bradshawe in Chinleye aforesayd, and whether they soe did by
the consent counseil and commaundement of William Beard and
Raulphe Bradley of the Haughe, or by the counseil of ether of
them or eny other, and howe you knowe the same to be trewe?

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(15.) “Itm. Whether dyd Reynold Kirke Thomas Rawlynson
and others gyve unto Willm. Beard a pece of ground in the
sayd herbage called Half a Neyghbourshipp to maynteyn them
geynst the Quenes Ma“, and ageynst the sayd Godfrey, and to
thentent that the sayd Beard should from tyme to tyme send
them ydill ryotouse p’sons to assyste them in there yll doinge ?

(16.) “Itm. Dyd Raulphe Mellour, Reynold Kyrke, Richard
Kyrke, Otwell Kyrke, Thomas Rawlynson w‘ a great nomber
of others aforesayd riotouslye assemble and mete together
in the Forest of the Highe Peake to consult to mayntene there
wicked enterpryses, and soe about the tenthe daye of June last
paste marched on to a place called Bakewell—Howe many they
were in nomber, what weapons they and every of them had,
and what was there p’pose, to do at Bakewell, and with whom
had they conference there, and to what entent and purpose ?

“TItm. Whether Edward Kyrke would have hyred and gyven
money to anye p’son to have burned a howse of the sayd Godfrey
Bradshawe in the sayd Chinleys or not, and how you knowe
the same to be trewe?

“Ttm. Whether the sayd Thomas Rawlynson Willm Ridge
Thomas Bowdon Reynold Kyrke and others doe suffer xxi
pcells of the ground to be taken in “, the sayd (herbage) or
thereabouts, and whether they suffer them all to stand excepte
one p'cell taken in by the sayd Godfrey, and whether they
Riotouslye uphold and mayntayne, and in what sorte they mayn-
tayne, the same with howe many p’sons, and what weapons
have they, and what want they soe to doe?

“Itm. Howe many tymes Edward Kyrke Reynold Kirke
Edward Shower Nichs Aston Thomas Thomas Lomys Anthony
Barber and the other have riotouslye assembled and gathered
grete stores of money to meynteyn there unlawfull doings and
what is the cause they be doe?

(19.) (Zrased).

(20.) “Itm. Whether Edward Bradshawe beinge appoynted
Officer to serve the sayd Warrants came to Heyfild to attache the
said Thomas Rawlinson, Thomas Bawdon, Otwell Bawdon

5)

66 ENCLOSURE RIOTS AT CHINLEY.

George Andrewe, Reynold Kyrke, Richard Shower and others,
was ryotously by them resysted—howe manye p’sons were they,
and what weapons had they, and what ys ther names?

“Itm. Whither the sayd p’tyes or enye of them dyd ryotouslye
assemble themselfs together in great companies at the Towne of
Hayfeld w™ unlawfull weapons, that is to saye, w™ bowes, pytche
fforks, clobbes, staves swords and daggers drawen and Ryotouslye
dyd then and there assaulte and p’sue the sayd Godfrey and
Edward Bradshawe, and in ryotouse manner dyd reskewe and
take from them the Bodye of the sayd Richard Shower, beinge
attached; the Quenes Officer George Yeaveley constable of
Bawdon then beinge p’sent commaundinge the peace to be
kepte—yea, or no—-howe many p’sons were at the doinge
thereof?

‘‘Itm. Whither dyd not the p’sons before resyted ryotouslye
resyste the sayd Edward beinge then offycer as aforesayd, and
would not suffer him to arreste suche p’sons as were conteyned
in his sayd warrant and p’cepte, and howe you knowe the same
to be trewe, howe many p’sons were they that soe dyd, and what
were there names ?

‘““Itm. Whither dyd Thomas Rawlynson Thomas Bawdon
beinge on foote, and Raulphe Mellour upon his horse backe,
ryotouslye followe the sayd Edward Bradshawe and Godfrey
Bradshawe the space of one quarter of a myle from the sayd
towne of Heyfield, and w™ drawen weapons had ryotouslye
like to have slayne and murthered the sayd Godfrey and Edward
Bradshawe—what weapons had they—and howe you knowe the
same to be true—and how many p’sons were they, and what are
there names ?

‘‘Ttm. Whither dyd the sayd Edward Rawlinson and others
about may daye paste . . . and in ryotouslye manner
assemble themselves together in the sayd pasture or Herbage

called Chinleys, w™ bowes staves clubbes pytchforkes spades

mattockes and pul! downe a pece or p’cell of enclosed grounde
enclosed by the sayd Godfrey Bradshawe, and why dyd they
soe, and whether was not the same enclosyed by ther consents ?

—_—s

ENCLOSURE RIOTS AT CHINLEY. 67

“TItm. Whether Edward Shower Richard Kyrk Anthonye
Bradshawe and other of the p’sons aforesayd dyd ryotously,
and at another tyme by nyght, a bout the tenth daye of Aprill
in the xi yere of the Quenes Ma‘*s Reigne that nowe is, the
sayd p’cell of grounde beinge newlye enclosed agayn by the
sayd Godfrye by ther consents, beinge quick setts w" xliii
hundreth quicksetts willowes and willowe stacks, pull downe
the same agayne, and utterlye destroy and cutt the sayd stacks
and quick-setts in peics—and howe you know the same to be
trewe ?

“TItm. Whither dyd Edward Kyrke Otwell Kyrke Raulphe
Mellour w™ the moste parte of the sayd p’sons before named
agree in May last paste and before grass tyme that the sayd
Godfrey should take in a peice of ground in the sayd herbage
and erecte a howse therevpon, and afterwards in ryotouse manner
pulled downe the same inclosure, and how many p’sons were at
the doyinge thereof, and what weapons had they, and what ther
names ?

“Itm. Whither dyd Reynold Kirke aboute May daye last
paste, and dyverse tymes synce, and before, or any other tyme
confederate, consulte, practise, or other wise confer and talke
w' one M* Bircles of the Countye of Chester, at the howse of
the sayd Reynold in the countie of Derb.: or elsewhere, touching
or concerning prophesies by noblemen or otherwise, and what
books of prophesie have you or the said Bircles seen or heard,
and what is the effect thereof, and howe often have you or he
perused, used, or conferred of the same, or about such purposes,

and with whom?

“TItm. Whither did you after any such conference practyse

-consultacon or talke, assemble, or confederat in companye or

_companyes, to, or about a place in the sayd countye of Derb.

—s

called the Lord’s Yate, and who were the p’sons soe assembled,
howe many were they, and when and howe often have they soe

done, and whether were not William Beard in the sayd countie

of Derbie gent, and Raulphe Bradley of Haughe in the same

countye yeom. then thereat eny suche assemblye, what meant

“e

68 ENCLOSURE RIOTS AT CHINLEY.

they by such assembly, and what dyd the sayd Books of
prophesye conteyne ?

“Ttm. Whither dyd not Reynold Kyrke Raulph Mellour
Richard Kyrke Thomas Bawdon Edward Coqswer and others
ryotouslye assemble themselves at a place called Chinley Hall
in the Countye of Derby aforesaid, about June last past, or eny
tym eells, w bylles staves pychforkes mattocks daggers or other
weapons defensyve and invasyve, and soe arrayed and marched
forward to have pulled downe a certeyn close of one Godfrey
Bradshawe in Chynley aforesayd, or to have done some other
unlawefull acte. And whither dyd not George Yeavly and
Edward Barbar use some persuasion or speche for the surceasinge
and appeasinge of that ryotouse pretence and entent to the sayd
Reynold or eny other, what be the name of suche p’sons w™ soe
assembled. What was there purpose and entent, and whither
dyd not the sayd Reynold Kyrke and others the same day of
the sayd assemblye and at the towne of Chapell of Ffrythe in
the sayd countie of Derby move, entreat, speke to, or persuade
w' the sayd Godfrey Bradshawe to lett passe or not to comp—
of the sayd riotouse assemblye and whether dyd you consent
and (vow?) that the sayd . . . . shuld have and enioye
that pece of ground in Chinley aforesaid w® the sayd Godfrey
dyd lately there enclose, and put your hand seale and marke
to eny such agreem', and whither dyd you or enye other to
your knowledge afterward ryotouslye pull downe or distroye eny
more enclosure or eny part thereof. When was the same done,
and by whose counsell, Howe many p’sons were at the doing
thereof ?

Whether dyd Nicolas Broke, Dan Molt, Edw‘ Kerke, Rufe
Meller, Rafe Garb, Rob Tonsted . . . John Buzgard? Xpof |
LElote, Will Kerke, . . . Samson Ward, Otwell Kerke, Charles y
Kerke, Wili Barber, Edw* Sowden, Richard Shower, Antoney —
Redferne, Antoney Ward, on Easter Daye last paste and dyvers —
tymes before. . . . (Zhree lines more complete the MS., but
th are illegible.)

69

Hundred of Appletree anv UAapentake of
UA irks worth,

Apd to His Majesty Hing Charles L., 1627,

By Rev. R. Jowerr Burton, B.A.,
Curate of Dale Abbey.

4 HLE Society is indebted to the courtesy of Mrs. F, J.
Robinson for allowing the publication of this interest-
ing addition to the knowledge of the part Derbyshire
has taken in national affairs.

We may infer from the Roll that Derbyshire, in common
with other counties, strongly objected to the illegality of the
course taken by Charles I. in raising a levy (under the less
offensive name of “loan”) without the consent of Parliament.
The cause for this inference will be found in the appended
notes.

The Roll consists of five Strips of parchment bound together
at the bottom—the width is 74 in. and the length of the strips
respectively 244 in., 23} in., 23+ in., 26% in., and 183 in. On
the back of the first strip are the words :—

““Ayd to his Maz 2° Car Is
—Collected by Robt Wyllimott
of Cheddesden Gent.”

7O AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES IL., 1627.

Com Merb :

fBe Bund:
of
Gyppletrec.

EBe roffe indented of the pticuler names and
sirnames of all such persons within the hundred
of Appletree and Wirkesworthe wapentage as haue
agreed to lende to his ma’’ these somes of mony
followinge After the rate of ffive Subsedies accord-
ing to their last Assessment ffor the defence of
his ma**s kingdomes and mentaynance of Religion
together with the seu°all somes agreed vpon by the
said parties before vs the laste daye of January in
the seconde yeare of his ma"® raigne By vertue
of his ma‘*s Comission to vs and others directed
and herevnto annexed The one parte of which
rolle together with the bonde of Robert Willymott
gent whom we haue appointed Collectour for the
said hundreds Is retourned to the right honor’
the lords and others of his ma‘*®* most honor®®
privy Councell And the other part is deliu?ed to
the said Collectour thereby to collect and gather
the same as followeth :—

QlderBasfy and GWabfeGep.

Edwarde Lowe esquier — me

willm Storer Hie he aon LV Sl

Jhon Woode sae ise Ri (ane

will Topleis ane ie via

Thoms wingfeild ... a wie pL WASs EIS
@fE&mantfon.

S* will Cobbe k'... Sh eames 00 2
@tfowe.

Robert Cockaine ... ok sont Mal
Braofep.

S* Gilbert Knyveton k*‘ sie fe

Thomas Pegge ... S8c Sore ale

Jhon Whithall ... sie cee!) iti tne

¢ peti

AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES I.,

Henry Olde

william Jackson
Gredsafe.

Dame Mary Bentley

Robert walker

Robert wright
BartonBbfount,

S' Henry Merry knight
Geafpar cu Membris.

Godfrey Pole

Samuell Thacker .

Elize Symmes

Robert ffraunces

Jhon Tayler

Robert Bruckshawe

ffrancis Bruckshawe

will Beardsley
Gopfston.

Jhon willson

Jhon white
Grapfesforde.

Thomas Draper

Edwarde Astle

Jhon Reeve

Thomas Hopkin ...

CBaddesden.
Robert willymott ..

Richarde Chedleton als Cheadle

Edwarde Newton ...
Robert Rolande
ffrancis Cockaine .
EBurcB BrougBton.
halfe Henry Bullyvant ..
halfe Jhon Parker
halfe Henry Knyveton ...

iiii!
D.9.0, 08
xls

pee! lies d

xP

iii! vi> viiit
liii® 1i1i4
x13

xlvi® viii?
xe

KT

xls

SNe
xlvi> viiit
xls

72 AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES 1, 1627.
Cubley.
halfe willin fflower ae ey ise el
halfe Jhon Baull ee 28 ere
@afburyp Lees.
willth Dyke ae wee nage
Jhon ffowler sas a noes
George Dickinson... ne nts 1 Oe
Douebridge.
Charles Cavendishe the heire of Henry
Cavendishe ie de .... In warde
halfe will Myllwarde ... be st oe |
Jhon ffolderinge ... sie ade Li tet?
o half Henry Hille ae bas aos, ki atid
Richarde Pratty ... Sue Per: iy
o Richarde Myllwarde Bis Jaa ee
Buffeifde cu Membris.
Will white 4 oe ... his ma®* warde
Sara white pas aH és je ale
Thoms Challenour we eee axle
Nicholas Oldham ... =e ee ERE
will Raynor oe ap me Mee
will Parker ee ist peay ode
Christopher ffletcher a cringe |
Vicesimus Bradshawe ae a,
Henry Gregson... x
Thomas Jhonson : Dwelleth i in n Staffordshire,
Anthony Myllnes ... sie sia
Henry Stoakes_... See af eel
Thomas Harrison ... on sot PSIe
EftBall and BWurnasfon.
Raphe Bunnington ne nea al
Christopher Hinton che a. Xvi vine ana
Jhon Rollinson... os sar XR
Jhon Orme a sie a RS
Will Jackson... <u .o. XlVie Viti

Thomas Heacocke aie te XK

AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES I.,

Edfastfon and Wpasfon.
Richarde Reeve
Jhon Salte
halfe Anthony Colwidge

Cdnaston.
willth Myles

fforsfon and Scropfon.
S* Henry Agarde, kt.
Clement Rossington
Stephen Sharman ...
Richard Archer
George Harrison ...
Jhon Hampson
Richarde woodwarde

DHatffon.
Trystram Dayntree (0)
Robert Hill iu) (0)
Hoffingfon.

ffrances Morley
Roger Bakewell

Hoffand cu Membris.
Jhon Knyveton
Willm Mellor
Henry Tayler (0)
will webstar (0)
George willcockson
Jhon Hutchenson
Richard Pickeringe
wynifride willcockson
will Alsoppe

Honary Bentley.

Thoms Browne: payeth in Staffordshire.

liii® iiii*
bakes onion .

dt

iii! vis viii®

xl§
iii’ vi> viii"
0.6)

iii! vié viii?

xlvis viii?
xlvis viii?

xx

74 AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES 1., 1627.

DHiftton.
Jhon Pryme

Arthur Harrison

Boone.

cee cece d

liiis iiii*

ffrancis Lathburye : payeth in Staffordshire.

Redfeston.
Jhon Curzon esquier

Little Jrefon.
Callingewood Sawnders

Langforde.
Clement Cooke, esquier :—Att London.

willm Merryman ...
Robert Gooddall ...

Mircaston.
S* will Knyveton barronett

Gilbert Somers

Meanefl Lanafey.
Dame Judithe Corbett

(Marston Montgomp.
halfe will Browne

halfe Jhon Wolley

halfe Jhon Conway

halfe will Prynce

halfe willia Bowyre ne see
halfe Raphe Sheldon: In Staffordshire.
halfe Richarde Coape

halfe Nicholas Loton

Marston iurfa TufBurpe.
hadfe Walter Bagnolde ...
haife George Needham ...

QNuggingfon.
Robert Bamforde ...

anor, Gaara d

aoe tenet d

xxi

xxvl° viii*

iii!
litis titi" Pd. but
xlui (2)

AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES 1, 1627. 75

MorBurp and Rosson.
M®*® Martha ffitzherbert
Anthony Coape
Robert Bille
Phillippe Hawkesworthe

Osmaston turta GobBorne.
Homfrey Pegge
william ffryerson

Osfaston and TBurvaston.
Jhon Agarde
Robert Roe
James walker
Thomas Trubshall
Robert Aulte

(RadGorne.

xx"

S' Germane Pole k‘: his lands all extended.

Richarde Pole (o)
Paup Jhon Newton

Rorsfep.
halfe Peter Prynce

Sudbury.
S' Edwarde Vernon k*
Thomas Bankes
Henry Noone

Bomersall Barberf.
ffrancis ffitzherbert
Richarde Stubbinge
Jhon Irelande

Sinfine and Grfeston.
Dame Amye Blount: liveth in London
Robert ffearne

xlvi® viiit
xlvis viii?

ill

xls

xl°

76 AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES I., 1627.
Snefsfon.
Dame Mary Browne: absent beyond y* seas
M®* Dorothie Okover a me
(?) R@ iiii! ix* & vii® viii desede
Ellen Archer By i ... xvi’ viiit

SBerfey and Peovefey.

halfe Edwarde Olyver ... sits te ian we

halfe Robert Aulte 3% ie AAAs ig

haife Jhon Steedman_... ba vod, Li WIP Vile

haife Wills Pegge & ature: o :

Standley and Mapperfey.

George Baker als Stables... sti ies
Gregory Richardson sie a:
Hughe wrighte_... “105 cee ie RA
Sutton on the Hilf.
Thomas Dickinson ir ye betas
ffrancis ffayrbrother i oo, bhi Mitte
Spowndon.
Thomas Gilbert ... an aye) «(PLE
willm wyddowson... icf ee 2
Jhon Hollingworthe oe ste ae
Robert wrighte’... he je3
Jhon Carrington ... or des
Jhon Hibbert ee bis oe RE
Thomas Hollingworthe Sha =o Gar

Ewiforde and Stenson.

Thomas Stone... am ah PERKS

haife will Knyveton ... ae aL ee

halfe Thomas Holmes ... sie ste ye
Thomas Sharpe... ne ioe ee
Richarde ffoster_ .-. 88: terete

halfe Jnon Warde “ae it Pe.) cee

AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES lL, 1627.

Trusfey and Babe.

S‘ ffrancis Coke knight
Robert Hope (a)
Samuell Slighe

Wiirkesworth wapentage.
@sbBorne.

William ffletcher
will James

Hughe Woode
Robert James

Jhon Allen

willih Oldfeilde
Richarde Shipley ...

Bontsafe.

Anne Hopkinson ...
william Buckley
Edwarde wolley
Henry ffearne
Thomas Marple
George Hardinge ...
Anthony Hardinge
John Harding

Bradforne.

George Buxton

paup Richarde Harrison iunl

(Brassingfon.

Jhon Buxton
Edwarde Lane
George Buxton sen)
Rolande Alsoppe ...
George willcocke ...
Vyncent Greatrax ...

Balfpdon.

Roger Hurte

s

xl
xl§

iii! vis viii?

~~

~~

78 AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES I., 1627.

CafoBe and Ihe.
will Greatrax ... oe Sec
Thomas Spencer ... shes reeieenle
Thomas Greatrax ... de eee
Jhon Buxton ere ae ce Sle
Anthony Greatrax... ue ie oS
Margrett Bontsall ... ed on ale

Dethicke, Tansey and Lea.
wendesley Blackwall: Assessed in Hertfordshire.*

Robert Haughe ... sae “as AVE -vill®

ffrancis Burton... af vines RLV VME |
Efton.

James Marshall... xt oe) hE vi? yas

Henry Newton ... ae - din ig

Easton and Ofsoppe.

Jhon Alsoppe esquier ee ye ig

Jhon Mellor AnD ae ex
ffenp QBenffey.

George Spooner ... ee con I aire

Hopfon and Carsingfon.

Jhon Gell esquier ... dae Pea.
Thomas Stone way sree ar
willm Greatrax ... aaa eee, le
Raphe Gell tes Pe ee: 2s
Jhon ffearne ee sd Bay age
willm Boothe tei aoe me ake
Hartington.

Jhon Slighe “ 3 nape 3dF
Henry Slack =e nae My aod
Thomas Latham ... cme ee XR
Jhon Hambleton ... es oe vive ani
Jhon wolley 5 Ha ear (Bee

* Probably under Bushey.—ED.

AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES lL, 1627.

Richarde Bateman a boa xls
George Crichelowe = eh
willm Endsor ate Pe 2. 0D erKL
Thomas ffearne... ma OA we) te
Jhon Cantrell =e ae sony OX?
Richarde Sternedall ei nel aa
Robert Dale ee ae See
Richarde Goodwin ue ee Bae
Thomas Harrison we ore?
Jhon Harrison... in xD ie hy
Jhon ffrogott oe ree PP at 2 5
Robert Lummas ... xe argc ke
willm Mellande .... a: ae) x8
Thomas Goodwin... BSS SAGER
Raphe Wooddis ... oe the ER
Jhon ffearne aes ea sat RR
Homfrey Needham aa oe a
Raphe Smythe... ts eos RES
Lawrence wardle ... xl§

will Bruerton: lyveth in Staffordshire.

Elizabeth Goodwin are cee Mest
Hognasfon.

Homfrey Alsoppe... cao ANN Nate

Martha Bradley widow re ora)” MONK TUES

Knprveton Ofcoaf and Ondermoode.
Anne Whithall: Assessed in Staffordshire
Thomas Smythe: Assessed in Derby

. Thomas Hurte ... eh Pe exe
| Thomas woodwarde ee ae 8/6
Edwarde ffroste ... ay se sab

Qirke Jrefon.
willfa Glossoppe ... — ae tes it
widdowe Brownlow ai: hep ttiaale

ts

Henry Twigge... Bie, ie |

80 AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES I., 1627.

Middfefon and Smprrefe.

Christopher ffullwood esquier sect e
Robert Bateman ... se tice: ale
ffrancis Smethley ... Bas Soa dt

MiDddfefon and Cromforde.

Thomas wigley esq3 so Lat ae
Jhon Spencer iun ... yy we. Vidi iiii4
Thomas Wooddiwis aie oe) tl VP oe

Mapypfeton and Thorpe.

Jhon Mylwarde Esq3 ae rae

Jhon fflackett geil... ei ot)

Jhon Stubbs ba he woe sahara

will Allcocke ... on ioe) UES
WNatfocke.

Elizabeth wolley wydow __.... Pe

Dorothie fflynte ... a cect UE aaN

will Walker ba se eres IP .

Anthony Woodwarde 5 pe ele :

Adam wolley = oft Se DRE

widowe Bowne ... oes eoctuele

Jhon Bowne Age mit kl

will Ludlam a a Root ae
ParwicBe.

will Parker gen ... te ... liti® iii?

will Alsoppe_... ra tiny ea

Jhon Goulde ae . eee, Sea

Jhon Dakin Ade ate Bere de
Syssingfon and Lea.

S' Jhon ffitzherbert k' rey: rn

S* Jhon fferrars kt: Assessed in Warwickshire

Homfrey wright... eit Sop edi vies

George Endsor ... ae ce) Li? sine

AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES I., 1627. 81

WirkeswortBe.
Richard wigley — ... id soa) Phin? iii"
Jhon Topleis ws sas sey palve viiit
Robert ffeildinge ... ait aed (isk
Richarde Lee ee in euepxle
Thomas Tayler... “at aepeexl?
George Somers _... ae SRR
I)ionise Wetton... are See Rod
Jhon Ormefeilde ... sea ae dt
Henrye Buxton... ait ao Oe

Wendesfey and Snefferton.
Jhon Shoare get ... es oe. tea
Margrett Browne ... Sec 5 SS
Richarde Senyor ... hee site oA

M* the pticuler psons in this roll (being two in number)
against whose names this word pauper is written We thinck fitt
to be free and discharged from the p°sent loane to his ma‘*

[The roll is signed, without methodical arrangement, by the
following—]

W. Deuonshyre Henry Shirley Ri Harpur
He. Wilughby Henr Agard Fra: Coke
He. Legh John Manners John Curzon
Pet" Frecheuile Becerra at ?)

The seals are small, and are of dull red wax. Originally
there were seven, but the last one is now missing. The remaining
six have evidently been crushed when warm, and are consequently
most indistinct.

Such parts of them as can be deciphered are as follows :—

(1) In the dexter chief—a hart’s head caboshed.

(? Arms of Cavendish, for the Duke of Devonshire.)

(2) ? Quarterly. 31. ? A chevron between three hounds’

heads. 2, 3, and 4, obliterated.

(3) ? Two bars.

(? Brereton of Hurdlow in Hartington. Arg? two
bars Sab. [Zysons]).

82 AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES I., 1627.

(4) Unicorn’s head erased.

(This is apparently a crest, and not a coat of arms.)

(5) A chevron between three crosses paté.

(6) ? Quarterly. 1. 2. ? Three hounds’ heads
erased. 3. ——-— 4. ? A chevron between three
hounds’ heads.

(7) Missing.

The words in italics are additions to the Roll—in the hand,
probably, of the collector. There are illegible side notes and
marks, in addition to the side notes given above:

After John Pryme of Hilton—portion of which seems to

be vi*

Before Willm Bowyre of Marston Montgomery is a note
totally illegible.

There is also a curious mark before John Hollingworth of
Spondon.

The first three strips relate to the Hundred of Appletree

and the last two to the Wapentake of Wirksworth.

The mode of marking off payment was by a cross on the
line between the name and the amount in the Hundred of
Appletree, while in the Wapentake of Wirksworth it was, with
few exceptions, by a cross before the name. The following
names were not marked as paid—those described as “in Ward,”
assessed in other counties, etc. (except W™ Bruerton of Harting-
ton) :—

Robert Willymott of Chaddesden; Raphe Bunnington, under
Etwall and Burnaston ; Robert ffearne, under Sinfin and
Arleston; George Crichelowe, under Hartington; and
Thomas Hurte, under Knyveton Ofcoat and Underwood.

In the Hundred of Appletree where the word ‘“ halfe” appears,
the cross is made in two distinct parts—a V above the line,
and an inverted V below, except in the cases of Raphe Sheldon,
of Marston Montgomery, who is not marked off, and Anthony
Colwidge, of Edlaston, who is marked off with a V only.
The cross was made in two halves for John Pryme, of Hilton,

AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES I., 1627. 83

Mrs. Dorothie Okover and Ellen Archer, of Snelston, and all
the names except Thomas Gilbert, under Spondon. Thomas
Woodwarde and Edwarde Ffroste, under Knyveton Ofcoat
and Underwood, were marked off with only the upper part of
the cross. Unless the assessment in some cases seemed to
the Commissioners unjust, it would appear that some refused
to pay, and risked the consequences, while others, willing to
pay half the sum demanded, were compelled into paying the
remainder (of which the lower part of the cross is the mark
of payment) under the threat, and possibly the actual
experience, of imprisonment. Persuasions, threats, and force
were used throughout the country to extort the loan; and it
may be that these men of Derbyshire joined with the great
number of men, of whom John Hampden is most conspicuous,
in offering resistance to the 7//ega/ oppressions of King Charles.

84

Letters from Tanner MISS.
No. 131. Bodleian Library.

Contributed by Rev. W. Harry ARKWRIGHT.

"am yHO. BROWNE, Archdeacon of Derby, was Vicar

WN
a of Wirksworth from 1662 to 1689, when he was
DB.

aq} «deprived for refusing the Oath of Allegiance to
William III. He was also Vicar of Ashbourne

from 1660 to 1669. He was probably appointed to the
Archdeaconry of Derby in the latter year.
Archbishop Sheldon was a Derbyshire man.

Bodleian— Tanner MSS. 131.

Page 13.—[Part of letter from John Hackett, Bishop of
Lichfield, to Thomas Browne, enclosed by Browne in his
letter to the Archbishop. |

‘“Our Church worke is neither at a stand, nor insues fast,
but what is finisht is verie sightly. And within y° walls nothing
more pleasing to God & man, then the singing of a common
psalm after Sermon, w hath charmed the whole auditory to
take all y° praiers & the blessing with them: A reformation
that my hart reioyceth in. This is no innovation, it was so
in this Church ad antiguo, & but of late omitted. It is so in
S' Pauls London to this hower, it was so in Westm: Abby
from B?’ Andrewes to B’ Williams time. But if you goe
higher to the primitiue Church for the first 500 years the
comon people did partake at all times in singing the psalm:

LETTERS FROM TANNER MSS, 85

it was not omitted anie where, till the midle age, when Latin
Seruice came in. J dare stake an hundred of the gentry to
one, & most learned Clerkes against yours in this case, J
partly guess who hath complained to you, by excepting at
tithme. Why? are there not twentie anthemns in our Church
in rithm? Js that antique hymn of Gregory the great the
worse for the rithm, Hora mortis meus flatus intret Jesu tut
latus? © M* Brown knock at your own conscience, & feed
lambs as wel as sheep: let babes haue milke, as wel as men
strong meat, gain souls to X' by all meanes that are lawfull.
Too much rigidness brought our late confusions upon us,
Both psalm & anthem may do wel in seueral kinds: & let mee
inform you, a psalm in meter is more anchient then an antheme
in y* Church of England. The meter-psalms were allowed
under K. Ed: the 6 his priuie seale (proued in Parlament) ; no
antheme was set till y° 10 of 2 Eliz: by D™ Tye, & then by
Tallis. Custom took them up, but no antheme was spoken of
in Cothon praier booke or Canon, till within these three
yeares, & now it giues no comand, but permission. Jn your
conclusion you say the Deane should haue helpt the departing
of the people before the Blessing by discipline. He can not.
For if the people of the cittie will neither come to praiers or
sermon to the Cathedral, they can not be prevented. Thus I
have giuen you large satisfaction. And if J an old Veteranus
do not know how to gouern a Church better then one or two
malecontents, who are dissatisfied, & quarel at euery thing, God
help mee. So J impart my blessing unto you & rest
Your louing brother,& assured Frend
JOH: LICH: & COUEN:
Lichfield
April 14
1666

86 LETTERS FROM TANNER MSS.

Page 14.—[Letter from Thomas Browne to Archbishop
Sheldon enclosing the last.]

May it please Your Grace

My hearty thankes to God & reioycing for Your Grace's
Preservation in the midst of Contagion are inexpressible:
Especially considering, how much the Welfare of this Church
depends upon Your Grace’s. Very unwilling I am to trouble
Your Grace with impertinent Letters; but when the Affaires of
the Church require it. And now J think it my duty to let
Your Grace know, as followeth.

Our B® in the Absence of the Deane* hath appointed a
Common Psalme to be sung in the Cathedrall after Sermon
instead of y® Accustomed Anthem. This (J can assure Your
Grace) gives great Offence; not onely to the Churche’s best
friends at Lichfield, but also to many both of y® Gentry &
Clergy in this Diocese, especially in this County. Whereupon
J presumed (holding a Place in that Church, w™ gives me an

Jntereste in y® Ordering of God’s Service there) to write to

His Lo?’ + in these very words.

“Jt is some trouble to me that J cannot in pson tender my
Duty to your Lo’ as J hoped to have done: as for other
ends, so especially to have discoursed with your Lo” about
that Jnnovation (J hear of) in our Cathedral Service at Lichfield,
of singing a Psalme in Rithm instead of the Anthem after
Sermon. J can say it gives much offence in these parts to
many both of the Gentry & Clergy, who have been informed
of it. J make no Question, if it be done by your Lo?* Order,
you had some Prudential motive thervnto: But if that be it,
wherof I am told, That the Townes-people might therby be
allowed to Stay vntill the conclusion of the Service; The
exercise of Ecclesiastical Discipline would be (methinks) a more
Regular way, & perhaps more effectuall too, if Our Deane would,
as his Duty is, take care of it. J hope your Lo? will not
be offended that I have revealed my thoughts in y* matter.”

* Of Lichfield.

+ The Bp. of Lichfield.

‘K

ad

LETTERS FROM TANNER MSS. 87

To this his Lo” was pleased to answer, as is contained in
this inclosed part of His Lo®* owne Lette. Our Church
work &c: (see p. 84).

And his Lo? having sent a Comission to me to call together
the Principal Clergy to advance moneys for His Ma‘ service
upon y° late Act of Parliamt (w® J shall promote with all
diligence), J made bold (desiring His Lo?* farther directions in
the aforesaid Busines) to adde these words.

““T shal make what speed J can to Lichfield, after J have
pformed what your Lo? may iustly expect from mee in this
County; And then I shall begg Your Lo®* Patience & Leave,
that I may say somewhat to the last part of your Lo®* Letter,
for my Satisfaction, though not for my Conviction. For though
J may not in every thing judge or opine with my superiors ;
yet have J learned to Acquiesce, in submitting (to) their better
Judgments, & obeying all their Lawfuli Comhands. This Lesson,.
if the Schismatically-disposed at Lichfeild, would have learned :
there would have been little need (in my poore judgm') of
gratifying them with the Late Alteration in our Cathedral
Service. But I will say no more till I see yo Lo?’ nor would
I have said any thing at all: but that J have been told, the
Ordering of Divine Service in our Cathedral doth somewhat
concern me, by the Place I hold in that Church. And now,
my good Lord, I beseech you, for Christ his sake, not to bee
offended at mee for what I have (it may be) too boldly scribled
to your Lo?.”

This is y° whole concerning this matter, which I submit, my
most Honoured Lord, to Your Grace’s Censure; And J
humbly Begg Your Grace’s Counsell & direction. This
Jnnovation in God’s service in a Cathedrall (especially con-
sidering the nature of the Thing, & temper of y* psons, for
whose sake it is done, & the time & place) in my iudgment,
ought not to bee. And yet my Reverence to a B? is such,
that I dread to oppose; not for want of Courage, but out of
a True sense of Duty. But it is not difficult to fore-see
How nauseous Church-musick and Common prayer will again

88 LETTERS FROM TANNER MSS.

become, if Hopkins & Sternhold’s Rithms may justle out our
Anthem, & a long Pulpit-prayer seduce the Devotions of the
comon people.

J am very sensible my good Lord, what a great Trouble J
give you’ Grace by this tedious Scrible: But with hope J
humbly begg pardon, &, praying for your Grace’s good Health,
subscribe, as J really am,

Most Rev‘. ffather,
your Grace’s
most humble & most dutifull
Serv' & Creature

Thom Browne.
Wirksworth

Apr. 18.
1666.

This, the foregoing letter, is endorsed on the back :
** Archdeacon of Derby—Browne Ap 18. 1666.
Conc. a Common + sung aft. serm in y° Cathedr. & a long
praier before it. The Dean neglects Discipline.” .

Addressed :
“To the most Reverend Father in God Gilbert L°:
Arch-B? of Canterbury His Grace at His Grace’s Palace

of Lambeth
These,

most humbly p'sent.
Lambeth London.

Page 16.—[A letter from the Bishop of Lichfield to Archb®
Sheldon.]
Most reuerend Father, and my verie good Lord,

J haue been a truant for a fortnight in Bedfordshire,
to see my lately maried daughter at her own house, w‘" was
a kindness, though a troublesome one to my old age, due to
a child that allwaies deserued wel.

Upon my return to Lichfield, J betoke mee to examin what
monies my instruments had gathered in my absence, from the

LETTERS FROM TANNER MSS. 89

Clergy, for the loan to set out his Ma'® roial nauie (w the
Lord prosper). And this is the account w™ J can giue to
your Grace. The Diuines of Staffordshire haue subscribed
about 320', but they keep not touch for dayes of | ayment.
They are poore & dull. They of Derbyshire are wel put on
by M™ Brown, my comissioner, their subscription is 340’,
preter, propter. None of them richer then Dr. Sozlston,
and none more vnwilling to let goe anie thing. He is vnsound.
The Clergy of my part of Warwickshire haue subscribed 214'.
J am compelled to send out apparitors to bring it in. But
for my share in Shropshire J know not what to say. The
Archdeacon on the 4 of May sent mee word he would lend
an 100! (w" he may wel do) since that time J haue sent
letters, and messengers after them vnto him, & can obtain no
answere from him. He hath a rich Clergy to deal with: J
know not how he will speed: but certainly the worse, because
he is so tardy. J expect a thousand pounds will be advanced:
if it bee more, the more will be my comfort. This informa-
tion is due unto your Grace, with my thrice euery day deuoted
praiers for your health, safetie, and long continuance, the fruition
whereof will bee a larger comfort to
Your Graces most deuoted beadsman
and obliged suffragan
Joh: Lich: & Couen:
Lichfield
Jun: ult®.
1666.

Addressed :
To the most Reuerend Father in God
Gilbert Lord Archbishop of Canterbury
His grace
at the Palace of Lambeth
these most humbly
present.

go

The Bells of St. Peter, Derby.

By GeEorGE BAILEY.

rx HESE bells were removed from the old tower when
it was taken down for the purpose of re-building it,
and also extending the church westward. This"
afforded an opportuntity for taking out the bells
and sending them to Messrs. Taylor & Co., of Loughborough,
for needed repairs and tuning. é

It seemed desirable that a record of this event in the history
of the bells should be recorded in this /ourna/. The copies
of the inscriptions and dates here given, have been made from
rubbings, taken as the bells were being placed on the Midland
Co.’s dray for their journey to the foundry, on Noy. 3oth,
1897. One of them appeared to have a hole in it near the
mouth, and all were more or less weathered on the haunches,
so rendering the legends and ornaments somewhat indistinct.

The inscriptions were as follows :—

Nowa.
ge JESVS BE OVR SPEED ¢& IOHN DAYE ¢
f T & H gf 1636 ARH

No, 2.
[t] GOD AAW SAVE AK OVR AK KING
As= 1636 AE

THE BELLS OF ST. PETER, DERBY. gi

No. 3.

JOS: TABERER & HEN: EVERY. CH-WARDENS
A & R-1738.

No. 4.

ge GLOIRA DEO IN EXCELSIS &
WILLIAM de DVFFIELD ge THOMAS ge SKINNER AW

CW AMHR T & H 1636 AR

ING §:

I TO THE CHURCH THE LIVING CALL AND TO
THE GRAVE DO SUMMON ALL AK 1769 AK}

It will have been noticed that the inscriptions show none
of the quaintness of spelling usual in the period in which
they came into existence, except that the arrangement, or
reading, of the angels’ anthem, is not usual; and that the @ is
placed before the ~ in “Gloria.” All the letterings, except
those on the last bell, have the old form of v, and the w# in
that is a medieval one. The /fewr-de-lis is freely used for
dividing sentences, initials, and names. There are long orna-
mental scrolls in the unoccupied spaces ; but no elaborately orna-
mented capital letters, such as are found on the bells of All
Saints’ and others in the county. There is only one, No. 3,
that has a founder’s mark, ¢he de// of Abraham Rudhall, and
No. 5 has no founder's name or mark, but the letters used
upon it are of an excellent type for clearness and sharpness.
The inscription on this bell being long, allows no space for
ornamental scrolls, in which it is altogether lacking. We are
inclined to think that No. 3 must have been recast, as it bears
the date 1738, and comes between the znd and the 4th, which
are dated 1636. By this we conclude there were originally
four bells .of the latter date.

It would be interesting to ascertain who was intended by
the letters ““T. H.,” found on Nos. 1 and 4 of the 1636 bells.
We venture to suggest that they indicate a member of the

g2 THE BELLS OF ST. PETER, DERBY.

family of Hedderly, especially as that name is found on so
many bells in this County. The earliest mention of that name
found in connection with Derbyshire bells is on one at
Findern, which is dated 1704, and bears the name of Daniel
Hedderly, who was of Bawtry, Yorks., and there is another
of his bells at Breadsall, dated 1728. There is only a differ-
ence of sixty-eight years between 1704 and 1636, so that these
bells might easily have been the work of Daniel’s father, or
uncle, whose name we may assume to have been Thomas.
There was a John Hedderly, of Derby, who recast the great bell
at Melbourne in 1732* ; also Thomas Hedderly, of Nottingham,
whose name occurs frequently on bells in the County, e.g.,
at Mickleover, 1742; West Hallam, 1743; Weston-on-Trent,
1760; Heanor, 1781, and of the same date at Allestree.
After him came George Hedderly, whose name is found at
Rosliston, 1778-1788-9; again at Breadsall, 1786, and at
Allestree, 1790; also at Risley, of same year. Messrs. Taylor,
of Loughborough, have informed me that there is a bell at
St. John Baptist’s, Stowe, Staffs., dated 1632, which has the
same letters, “T. H.,” upon it.t Though I have made
numerous inquiries from gentlemen learned in bells, I have,
so far, been unable to obtain any information leading to the
identification of “T. H.”; but the Rev. Canon Raven, D.D.,
has written me that R. C. Hope, Esq., F.S.A., in an article in
the Archeological Journal, No. 198, Vol. L., names a Thomas
Handcock, of Walsall, who was a Bellfounder in 1636, and
he may be the founder of this bell.

S, Peter's, Derby.
From observations made by Mr. George Bailey during the recent
demolition of the tower of S. Peter’s, Derby, in 1898, it would
conclusively appear that the original tower was of Norman

* See Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. III., p. 407; also ReZéguary, Vol. XIV.,
p. 225, where an agreement between him and others is quoted 7¢ this bell.

+ See Lynam’s Church Bells of Co. Stafford, plate 80.

THE BELLS OF ST. PETER, DERBY. 93

construction, and that it was brought into its latest form some time
about the year 1470. The Rev. J.C. Cox, LL.D., in his Churches
of Derbyshire, considers that the tower arch was reconstructed
during the fourteenth century. This will be reinstated. The
responds of the nave arcades on both sides of the old tower
arch still retain their mutilated Norman capitals. The tower
once opened into the south aisle, but the archway was subse-
quently blocked. The finely moulded base of its western
respond was found in the south-west corner. Here, too, at
the back of it, was observed the curvature of the newell stair-
way once leading into the belfry chamber. Above this blocked
tower archway were seen remains of a window much like the
windows of the south clerestory.

On digging for the new foundations it was found that on
the north side, the old wall had rested on six iron-shod piles
covered with oak slabs fastened together with “ dog-irons ”
secured by long nails. Three of the piles taken out were three
feet in length, and appeared to have been driven into the
place of an old interment. They were in good preservation.
The tower pinnacles and gurgoyles were much decayed.
One of the best of the pinnacles has been erected in the
centre of the churchyard. The parapet was repaired in
fees under the-.care of \“W. T.” and “R. 5S.,” the then
churchwardens. “I. H. O. GIPSON” had immortalized him-
self on one of the belfry windows in ‘‘APRIL, 1829”—
perhaps one of the ringers. The old capstone of the newell
was found decorated with roughly cut leaves. Among the
débris of the tower walls were the bases of two small Norman
shafts. Besides these were found a piece of an incised alabaster
slab, with remains of some ornament, and three or four letters
undecipherable; a fragment of a black glazed mug of three
handles, one only of which remained; a gimlet; a pair of small
iron compasses; a currier’s knife; and two bits of painted
glass. The most curious thing, however, was turned up in
getting out the soil for the extension of the north aisle. This
was a circular leaden talisman, about four inches in diameter.

94 THE BELLS OF ST. PETER, DERBY.

The round edges were closed over like lids, so as to form a
central square. On opening these a circle was found on two
opposite flaps: one of these contained a compass, and within
its extended points four crescents, with other astronomical signs.
The inner square was divided into nine smaller squares by
cross lines, each of these containing a number. A jetton by
Hans Kravwinckle (of Nuremburg), with the legend “ Gotis
reich blibt ewick,” interpreted as ‘“‘ The kingdom of God
remaineth for ever,” completes the list.

95

Snover.

The asterisk (*) denotes a recurrence on the page.

A.
Persons. Places and Subjects.
Agard, St Hen., Kt, 73 Aganippides, 42
Agarde, Hen., 81; John, 75 ** Agatered ” (On the way with), 53
Agricola, 13, 15 Aid, or Subsidy for King Charles L.,
Allcocke, Will., 80 69
Alsop, Ant., 58 Alderwasley, 70
Alsoppe, Hum., 79; John, Esq., 78; | Ale-selling, 30
Will., 80 Alexander, History of, 20
Andrew, F. W., 24 Alkmonton, 70
Andrewes, Bp., 84 Allegiance, Oath of, 84
Anne Queen, 48, 7 Allestree, 92
Archer, Ellen, 76, 83 Almen’s Death, 14
Arkwright, Rev. W. H., 84 Alsoppe, 78
Atkins, Ric., 56% Anthem, verses Hymn, 84
Atkinson, Rev. J. C., 8 Appletree Hundred, 69, 70
Ardwick, 15
Arleston, 75
Arnold, 57, 58

Ashbourn, 55, 57

Ashe, 77

Ashen Cleugh, 61

Ashley Hay, 38, 70

Ashover Church, 27; Clerk of, 43;
Common, 29; Hill, 36, 49;
Laureate, 52; Rector of, 55, 56;
Registrar, 27; School, 39, 43, 46,
59; Sir William’s Well, 36; Wakes,

| . 31, 33, 49

Atlowe, 70

B.

Bagnold, Walt., 74 Bakewell, 29, 44
Bailey, Geo., Article on St. Peter's | Ballidon, 77
Bells, etc., Derby, 90, 92 | Barlborough, 44
Bakewell, Rog., 73 Barlow, 44
Balme, Cath., 46 Barton Blount, 71

96

PERSONS.

Bamford, Rob., 74

Bankes, Thom., 75

Banks, Mr. Jos., 573 5’ Joseph, 57

Barber, Ed., 68 ; Will., 68

Barker als Stables, 76

Barnes, M'., 60; Rob., 62

Barton, Ric. J., 69

Basford, Sarah, 60

Basset, Geo , 60

Bateman, Kic., 79; Rob., 80

Bawden, Jno., 62; Tho., 62

Beard, Will., 64, 67

Beardmore, Jos., 60

Beighton, Ric., 57

Benbridge, Jno., 54

Bentley, Dame Mary, 71

Bille, Rob., 75

Billings, Sam!., 53

Bircles, M'., of Cheshire, 67

Blackwell, Wendesley, 78

Blount, Dame Amy, 75

Boilston, D'., 89

Boothe, Will., 78

Botham, Anne, 56

Bourne, Rev. Obadiah, 28, 36

Bower, Ellen, 29; Leonard, 58, 59 ;
Ric., 58, 59, 60; Thom., 46

Bowles, Charles Bradshaw, Esq., 61

Bowne, Ann, 56; Hen., 56; Laur.,
58; Will., 57

Bradley, Ralph, 64; Margt., 79

Bradshaw, Ant., 61; Edw., 66;
Francis, 6*; Godfrey, 61, 63, 64 ;
Leo, 61* ; Vicessimus, 72

Broke, Nich., 68

Bromley, M'., 64

Brookfield, M's., 59

Brough, Jas., 54

Browne, Tho., 73; Dame Mary, 76;
Rev’, Tho., Archd. of Derby, 84

Bruckshaw, Rob., 71

Bruerton, Will., 79

Burton, Fran., 78 ; Rev’. W. Jowett,
6

Bran Geo., 77; John, 38, 42, 43,

77
Buzzard, Jno., 68

C.

Calliope, 52

Cantrell, Jno., 79 |

Castalides, 52

Cavendish, ‘* My Lord,”
72; Henry, 72

35 ; Charles,

INDEX.

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Barwick-in-Elmet, 49, 53

Bateman’s, 36

‘* Bating of Child,” 29

Bawtrey, Yorks., 92

Bedfords, 88

Belper, 71

Best Hill, 18

Lillon, a coin metal, 17

Birthdays and Planets, 42

Boars Cleugh, 61

Bolsover, 28, 30, 35, 47, a character
of the inhabitants, 30

Bone-lace weaving, 44

B mnsall, 43, 77

Boyleston, 71

Brackenfield — Old Trinity Chapel
there, 31, 32, 45

Bradbourne, 77

3radley, 70

Bradwell, Roman remains at, 1;
Interment, with Relics discovered
at, 4

Brassington, 43, 77

Braylesford, 71

Breadsall, 71, 92

Brewing, 41

*¢ Bright Star of Love,” 35

Broadbottom, 18

Brookfield, 15

Brough, Roman Station at, 16

Brun, le—Cartoons of, 20, 21

Bull-baiting, 31

Burial of Leonard Wheatcroft, 53, 54

Burnaston, 72

Butterley, 43

Buxton, 15, 16

Calowe, 78

Campsie, Stirling, 5472
Carlton, Notts.,
| Carsington, 78
| Castleford, 49

43

INDEX.

PERSONS.

Celey, Ric., 61

Chadwick, parson, 29, 54; Ann, 31;
Sarah, 51

Chaworth, Miss, 38

Clio, 52

Coake, Ant., 75

Coates, Mr., 38

Cobbe, St Will., 70

Cockayne, Francis, 71 ; Rob., 71

Coke, Francis, 81; Sir Francis, Kt,

77
Colton, Mr., 42, 43
Columbell, 29, 31
Cooke, Clement, 74
Corbett, Dame Judith, 74
Couper, Mr., 44
Cowlishaw, Adam, 43
Crichelowe, Geo., 79
Culton, Ric., 59
Currey, Percy, Esq., Archt, 5
Curzon, John, Esq., 74, 81

Daine, Will., 27

Dakin, Jno., 80

Dale, Rob., 79

Daykin, of Stubbin Edge, 36
Dayntree, Tristram, 73
Devonshire, W., Earl of, 30, 81
Duffield, Will., 91

97
PLACES AND SUBJECTS.
Cats, 37

Cement, Roman, 15

Chapel-en-le-Frith, 68

Charlesworth, 10

Chatsworth, 34, 44*, 46, 47

‘*Cheshire, Roman,” to

Chester, 13

Chesterfield, 33, 38, 44, 54; Con-
firmation at, 56

Chinley, Enclosure Riots in 1569,
61* ; Hill, 64

Church Bible, 54 ; Door-key, 58

Church Broughton, 71

Clattercoates, new hall, 45

Clergy, contribution from, for the
Navy, 87

Clitheroe, 15

*©Club,” a (a Servant), 45

Coffin, 54; of stone, 15, 53

Coins, Roman, 17

Commerce, Triumph of, a Tapestry
design, 22

Coritani, 14

Cottages, old, in Derbyshire, 5

Cotton Famine, 18

Cowhouse Lane, 54

Crispin, Feast of, 38

Cromford, 80

Cubley, 72

Cytherides, 52

| Dalbury Lees, 72

Darley, 55

Derby—St. Peter’s, Bells of, by Mr.
Geo. Bailey, 90

Derbyshire, Subsidy, 69 ; Old Cottages
In, 5

Dethic, 78

De Vos, a family of Tapisiers, 21

Diary of Titus Wheatcroft, 55

‘* Discovery of Witchcraft,” 49

Doctor’s Lane, 16

Dogs, 37

Domitian, a coin of, 15, 16

Dovebridge, 72

Dreaming, 37

Duffield, 32, 72

Dutch, the, 38

98

PERSONS.

Elote, Christ", 68

Endsor, George 80; Will., 79
Erato, 52

Euterpe, 52

Every, Henry, 91

Farnsworth, Jno., 30, 38
ffayrbrother, fran., 76
ffearne, John, 78; Rob., 75; Thom.,

79
fferrars, S‘ John, 80
fheldinge, R., 81
fitzHerbert, St John, So
ffitzherbert, francis, 75; Mrs. Martha,

75
fflackett, Jno., gent., 80
fletcher, Christ", 72
flint, Dorothy, 80
ffroste, Edw“., 79
ffrancis, Rob., 71
ffrecheville, Pet., 81
ffulwood, Christ'., 80

Garb, Ralph, 68

Gell, John, Esq., 78; Ralph, 7
Gilbert, Thom., 76, 83

Gill, Edw4., 51

Gladwyn, Mr. Will.. 42
Glossope, W., 79

Goodale, Will., 59

Goodall, Rob., 74

Goodwin, Ric., 79

Goulde, Jno., 80

Greatrax, Ant., Tho., and Will, 78*
Grymesdich, Geo., 61

a

INDEX.

E.

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Earth, a Tapestry scene, 22
Edlaston, 73

Ednaston, 73

Egstow, 58

Electioneering in 1670, 35
Elmet, Yorks., 50

Elton, 78

Enclosure-fences destroyed, 67
Engineer (J. Wass), 41
Etherow Riv., 12, 13
Etwall, 72

| Eye, The, 37

| * Fabrick,” the, on Ashover Hill, 49,

2

| Fairies’ Cave, 18

Fasting woman, the, of Over-Haddon,
29

“* Fasson Tuesday,” 36

Fenny Bentley, 78

Fforston or Foston, 73

Framework Knitting, 58, 59

Frisians, II

Funeral in the old style, 53, 54

Furniture making, 39

Gamesley, Lower, 10

_Glapwell, 44*, 47
Glossop, 10, 12; Brook, 13; Cor-

poration, 18; Hall, 18
Gobelins Tapestry, 25
Gorse Hall in Ashover, 46
Goyt Race, or Cut, 15

ae. OO

INDEX.

99

H.

’ PERSONS.

Hackett, Jno., Bp. of Lichfield, 84
Hambledon, Jno., 78

Hamnett, Rob., Esq., 10

Hand, M"., 55

Harding, Ant., 77; Geo., 77; John,

77
Hardwick, Jno., 43
Harpur, Fran., 1; John, 27; Ric., 81
Harrison, Art., 74; Geo., 73; Tho.,

79
Hatfield, Jno., 62
Haughe, Rob., 78
Hawkesworth, Philip, 75
Hawley, Matt., 56, 57; Rob., 46, 50,
51%, 58
Heald, Will., 55
Heathcote, Godfrey, 59
Hedderley, Geo., Danl.,
family of Bellfounders, 92
Hibbard, Will, 38
Higgins, Sam., 46
Hinton, Christ", 72
Hodgkinson, Mrs. Anne, 56; Geo.,
59; Mr., 44; Will, 55
Hole, Geo., 60
Hollingworth, Jno., 76, 81; Thom.,
6

Jno., a

Hope, Rob., 77

Hopkinson, Anne, 77

Horn, Mr., 44

Howard, The Rt. Honble. Lord, 12
Huchingson, Esquire, 28

Hurdman, Mr. Jno., 16

Hurt, Rog., 77; Tho., 79, 81
Hyde, Jno., 17

Hyll, Rob., 73

Ingle, Jno., of Barwick, 49
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ennings, Mary, 46
Judoc de Vos, 24

J.

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Haddon, 42, 52

Haddon Over-, Fasting woman of, 29

Hague, 12, 16

Hampton Court, 20

Hand-staves at funerals, 54 7

Hartington, 78

Hathersage (Little John’s Grave) 46

Hatton, 73

Healings, Publick, 47

Heanor, 92

Heliconiades, 52

Heyfield, 65, 66

High-houses, 54

High Ordish, 31

High-way marks, or winter guides,
34) 43

Hilton, 74

Hockley-in-Ashover, 37, 40, 57

Hognaston, 79

Holbrook-in-Horsley, 53

Holland, 73

Hollington, 73

Holmegate, 44

Holy Trinity Chapel in Brackenfield,

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Holyngworthe, Cap. de, 12
Holyngworthe Stone, 13
Hooley Word Quarry, 17
Hoone, 74
Hopton, 78
** Hostige, The,” 33
Houmegate or Holmgate, 43
Hungry Bentley, 73
Hymn versus Anthem, 84
Hyndthorne, 61

Tbl-, 78

Idle journeys, 36
Indemnity, Act of, 39
Ireton, Little, 74

Jack, A, 39
Justice, Triumph of, a Tapestry sub-
ject at Renishaw, 22

100

PERSONS.

Kempe, Ric., 38

Kerry, Rev. Chas., 20, 26

Kniveton, W., 76

Knyveton, St Gilbert, 70 ; Henry, 71 ;
John, 73; St Will., 74

Kyrke, Charles, 63, 68; Edw’, 62,
63, 65, 68; Otwell, 62, 63, 68;
Reynold, 65; Rich., 62; Will, 68

Lane, Edw‘., 77

Leader, Mr. J. D., 1

Lees, Messrs., 17

Legh, H., 81

Lovit or Lovet, Anne, 59; Fran., 57;
Ralph, 58

Lynch, Jno., 58

INDEX.

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Kedleston, 74

Kensington, South, Museum, 24

King’s Evil, Touching for cure of, 47;
A charm for healing, 49

Kirk Ireton, 79

Kniveton, 79

Knott Cross, 31, 46

Knyveton, 79

Lancaster, Duchy of, 61

Laureate’s Wreath awarded to Leo.
Wheatcroft at Tupton, 52

Lea, 58, 80

Lead, Grove of, 55

‘Le Notre,” Style of, 22

Lenton (Notts.), 58; Fair, 42

Lerdotalia, or Ledrotalia, 10

Lichfield Cathedral— Hymn substitu-
ted for an Anthem by Bp. Hackett,
86

Little Eaton, 6, 7, 8

Little John’s Grave at Hathersage, 46

Longdendale, 12

Loscoe, 59

M.

Maesa, Julia, 17
Manners, Lord John, 43
Marriott, Eliz., 45
Mellor, Ralph, 68
Mellour, Ran., 62, 63
Melpomone, 52

Merry, S' Hen., 71
Merryman, W™., 74
Milnes, Rev. Nich., 26
Molt, Dan!., 68

More, Rob., 42
Morley, Francis, 73
Myles, Will., 73
Myllnes, Ant., 72
Myllwarde, Ric., 72 ; W., 72
Mynter, Laur., 61

Madrid, 21
Magnesian Lime, 15

| Manchester Corporation Reservoir, 12

Mansfield, 50
Marston-on-Dove, 74
Marston Montgomery, 74
Mather’s Grave, 31
Matlock, 53, 56

——— Wakes, 31, 38

| Maystonfield, 61, 62, 63
| Melandra Castle, Derbyshire, Paper

by Rob. Hamnett, Esq., 10
‘* Memory’s Recreation,” 41
Mersey, river, 13
Meynell Langley, 74
Milltown, 45

| Mercaston, 74

‘* Mirth and Melody,” 28

Moors, Derbyshire, Snow and Mists
on, 34

Morley Moor, Cottage at, 7

Mortar, composition of Roman, 15

Morton, 54; C.-W. Accounts, 32;
Marriage at, 45

INDEX.

PERSONS.

N.

Needham, Geo., 74 ; Humf., 79
Nodder, Mrs., 58

Noone, Hen., 75

Norman, Frances, 33

Norris, Rev., 10

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Okeover, Mrs. Dorothy, 76, 83

Old, Hen., 71

Olyver, Edw., 76

Ormefield, Jno., 81

Ouldham, defeated by Leo. Wheat-
croft at Tupton, 51, 52

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Parker, Geo., ° 1; Will., gent., 80
Pegge, Humf., 75

Perkin, Ellen, 49

Pidcock, Ant., 55

Pierpoint, Sam., of Oulcoates, 49 |
Pole, St German, 75; Godirey, 71; |

Ric., 75

Exynce; Pet., 75
Prynne, Jno., 74, 81, 83

Iol

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Mortuary Staves, 53
Mottram-in-Longdendale, 16
Mugginton, 74

Miintz, ‘* History of Tapestry” by, 21
Muses, The Nine, 52

Navy. contribution for, from the
Clergy, 87 j

Neighbourship, an old measure of land
(about 32 acres), 62, 65

| Newhaven Fair, 42

Norbury, 75
Norfolk churches, 9
Nottingham, 49, 92

Offcoat, 79

Orchards, planting of, 28, 38, 43*, 44,
46

Oslaston, 75

Osmaston-by-Ashbourn, 75

Oven, a Roman, at Bradwell, 1

Overton Hall, 38, 44, 55, 56, 57

Oxford, Christ’s Church, 20

Oxstyefearne, 61*

Padley, 34

Papist Plotters, 41

Parnassides, 52

Parnassus’ Hill, 52
‘arwich, 80

Paul’s, S., London, 41

Peace, Triumph of, a tapestry subject,
21, zllustration

Permean Marl, 15

Peterborough, 57

Physiognomy, 37

Pierides, 52

Planets and Birthdays, 42

Poet, ‘‘ The Biack,” 52; a Laureate,
52; Rivals, Meeting of, 51

Polyhymnia, 52

Prophecy, Books of, 66

Pulpit, Prayer in, 88

Pym’s Parlour, 18

102

PERSONS.

Ragg, Ant., 33

Raggs, Jno., 43

Rawlinson, Tho., 64, 65

Redfern, Ant., 68

Reeve, Ric. 73

Reynolds, Jas., 30

Richardson, Greg., 76

Richmond, Sir W. B., R.A., 25

Ridge, W., 64

Robinson, R. B., 12; Mrs. F. J., 69

Roe, Rob., 75

Rolley, Geo., 17

Rudhall, Abr., Bellfounder of Glou-
cester, QI

Rydge, Will., 62

Sacheverell, Will., Esq., of Morley, |

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Sadler, or Sadlier, St Ralph, 64
Saint Gregory, a hymn of, 85
Salt, John, 73; Mr. W. H., 4
Sawnders, Collingwood, 74
Senior, Rich., 81
Sharpe, Tho., 76
Sheba, Queen of, 23
Sheldon, Gilbert, Abp. Cant., 84;
1 rots srry :
Shepley, Messrs., 15
Shirley, H., 81
Shoare, Jno., gent., $1
Shower, Edw‘., 62; Rich., 68
Sitwell, St Geo. Reresby, Bt., 20, 25
Skinner, Tho., 91
Slack, Hen., 78
Sleigh, Mr. Jas., 59
Sleight, Mr., 39
Slighe, Sam., 77
Smethley (? Smedley), Fran., 80
Somers, Geo., 81 ; Gilbert, 74
Souter, Ant., 38, 39
Sowden, Edw"., 68
Spencer, Jno., 80; Tho., 78
Stephenson, Francis, 36
Steedman, Jno., 76
Sterndale, Ric., 79
Storer, Will., 70

INDEX.

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Questions droll, for solution, put by
Leo. Wheatcroft, 37

Radbourn, 75

Renishaw, Tapestry at the Hall, 20

Revesby Abbey, 75

Rioters at Chinley, 65

Risley, 92

Roads, packhorse, 10; Roman, 16 ;
Guidemarks for winter, 34, 43

“Rodd,” the, 39

Rodsley, 75

Roman remains at Bradwell, by Jno.
Ward, F.S.A., 1; 3;

Rosliston, 92

| Rosson or Roston in Norbury, 75

Routhorne, near Hardwick, 43, 44*

Schoenbrunn, Palace of, 21
Scofton, 57

| Scropton, 73

Sheffield, 16

| Shepley’s Goyt, 18
| Shipping, loan for, 89
| Shirley, 76

Shottle, 48

| Sinfin, 75

Singing masters at Ashover, 56

Hymn in place of Anthem, 84

Sir (? Saint) William’s Well, 36

Smyrrell, 80

Snitterton, or Snytterton, 81

Snelston, 76

Solomon, Triumphs of, a tapestry sub-
feck, 20,28

Somersal Herbert, 75

‘© Sparrow’s Collections,” 48

Spinning before marriage, 59

‘© Spowndon,”’ 76

Staffordshire divines, 89

Stanton, 41

Staveley, 44, 45

Stenson, 76

Sternold & Hopkins’ Rhythms, 88

Stockport, 10, 15, 16

Stoney Middleton, 34

Stowpes, The, 61

| Sudbury, 75

INDEX.

PERSONS, |

Stringfellow, Ric., 54
Stubbing, Ric., 75
Stubbs, Jno., 80
Sudbury, Rol., 59 |

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Taberer, Jos., 91 |
Taylor, Henry, 73; Martha, a fasting |

woman, 29; Thom., 81
Terpsichore, 52
Thacker, Sam., 71
Thalia, 52
Thweates, Jno., 46
Tonstead, Rob., 68
‘Yopleis, Jno., 81
Toplis, Wm., 70
Trubshall, Tho., 75
Turner, Ant., 39 |
Twigge, Hen., 79

U.

Urania, 52

Vernon, —, Esq., 35; S' Edw’, Kt,

Vermeyen, Jan., 21

Vitalis Valerius, 11

Vos, Josse de, 21;
( Tapisier), 20, 24

Judoc de

Walker, Mary, 57; Rob., 71; Will,
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Ward, Ant., 68; John, F.S.A., 76;
Sampson, 68
Wardle, Laur., 79 ;
Wass, James, an Engineer, 41, 43
Watkin, W. T., 13
Watson, Rev. Jno., 10
_ Webster, Will., a Tailor, 46
Wetton, Dionise, 81

103

PLACES AND SUBJECTS,

| Surplice making, 56
| Sutton-on-the-Hill, 76

Swine, 37

Tailor’s business, 49
Tanner MSS., 84

Tansley, 39, 58, 78

— Moor, 34

_ Thorpe, 80
| Thurvaston, 75

Tissington, 80

Towndrow House, 55

Trinity Chapel, Brackenfield, a wed-
ding at, 31

. Trusley, 77

Tunis, Conquest of, 21
Tupton, 36, 51

Tutbury, Ann Moore of, 30
Tuxforth in the Clay, 58
Twitchbank, 55

Twyford, 76

Underwood, 79
Unston, 59
Urn, Roman, 17

V.

Vienna, 21
Virginals, 38

W.

Warrington Museum, 17, 18

Water, ‘‘Genius of” — Renishaw
Tapestry, 23

Weapons of Rioters, 66

Well, “* St William’s,” in Ashover, 59

Wendesley, 81

Wensley, 55

Bull Baiting, 31

Wessington Hay, 59

West Hallam, 92

104 INDEX.

PERSONS. PLACES AND SUBJECTS,

Wheatcroft, John, 49; Mrs.—her | Weston-on-Trent, 92
death, 50; Leonard, his autobi- | ‘‘ Wharl,” what, 37
ography, 26; accident, 50, 51; | Wigston, Leicester, 56
children, 28 ; house, with illustra- | Winfield, North, 58
tion, 40; Sam, marriage of, 31; | Winster, 20, 30, 32; 34;-36, 38942",
Titus, 42; diary of, 55 ; Titus, son 43, 44, 51, 55
of Titus, 57; William, 45, 50, 51 Wirksworth, 36, 61, 81 5 Vicar of, 84;

Widdowson, Will, 76 Wapentake, 69, 77

Wigley, Tho., 80; Ric., 81 ‘* Witchcraft, Discovery of,” 48
Wilcock, Geo., 77 Woolley Bridge, 17

Williams, Bp., 84 Wootton, 55

Wilmot, Rob., 71; see 69, 70 | Worsop, 57

Wilson, Revs. Will. and Peter, 32 Wyaston, 73

Wingfield, Tho., 70

Withall, Jno., 70

Woodcroft, Mr. Bennett, 12

Wooddis, Ralph, 79

Wooddiwis, Tho., 80

Woodward, Adam, 80; Anthony, 80;
Ric.,, 73; .bhow FO

Woolhouse, Mr., of Glapwell, 44

Justice, 28

Woolley, Edw., 77; Elizabeth, So;
Jno., 78

Wright, Hugh, 76; Humfr., 80;
Joseph, 56; Rob., 71

Wyllimot, Rob., 69, 70

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Yates, Mary, 56 | Yawning, 37

Yebb, Mr., 58 Yeaveley, 76
Yeaveley, Geo., of Bawdon, 66, 68

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Cox, Rev. J. Charles, LL.D., F.S.A., Holdenby ,
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Irvine, J. T., 167, Cromwell Road, Peterborough, | Honorary Members.

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Bowles, Chas. E. B., The Leas, Wirksworth.

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Carter, F., Irongate, Derby.

Carulla, F. J. R., F.C.S., 84, Argyle Terrace, Rosehill, Derby.
Chambers, Kk. B., Green Hill, Derby.

Chetham Library, Manchester—W. T. Browne.

Clark, G. D’Arcy, Burnaston, Derby.

*Cokayne, G. E., F.S.A., College of Arms, London.

xii LIST OF MEMBERS,

*Coke, Colonel Talbot, Debdale, Mansfield.
Coleman, Rev. W. L., Staveley.

Constable, W. G., 32, Ashburne Road, Derby.
Cooke, Charles, Spondon.

Copestake, Mrs., Kirk Langley.

Corfield, F. C., Ormonde Fields, Codnor.

Cox, William, Brailsford.

*Cox, Arthur, Mill Hill, Derby.

Cox, F. Walker, Priory Flatte, Breadsall, Derby.
Crompton, J. J., The Lilies, Derby.

*Cross, Robert, Bakewell.

Curgenven, W. G., M.D., Friar Gate, Derby.
Currey, B. S., Little Eaton Hill, Derby.
Currey, Rev. R. H. S., 100, Friar Gate, Derby.
Currey, Percy H., Little Eaton Hill, Derby.
Curzon, William, Lockington Hall, Derby.

Darby, Stephen, Cookham Dean, Berks.
Davis, A. L., The Beeches, Spondon.

*Davis, Frederick, F.S.A., Palace Chambers, St. Stephen’s, Westminster.

Derby, The Right Rev. The Bishop of, S. Werburgh’s, Derby.
Devonshire, His Grace The Duke of, K.G., Chatsworth.

Eddowes, C. K., Strand, Derby.

Evans, Walter, Darley Abbey.

*Evans, John, 20, Bolton Street, Piccadilly, London.
Evans, Henry, Highfields, Derby.

*Eyre, Lewis, Padley, Edge Hill, Wimbledon, Surrey.

*Fane, William Dashwood, Fulbeck, Lincs.

Farmer, Rev. R. L., Shardlow.

*Fitz-Herbert, Rev. Sir Richard, Tissington, Derby.
*Fitzherbert, Rev. Regd. H. C., Somersal Herbert, Derby.
*Freer, The Venerable Archdeacon, Sudbury, Derby.
Furneaux, Rev. W. M., Repton Hall, Burton-on-Trent.
Furness, Geo., The Grange, Willesden Grange, London, N.W.
Fyldes, Rev. W., Hartington, Ashburne.

Gallop, Joseph, Normanton Road, Derby.
*Garrett-Pegg, J. W., Chesham House, Chesham Bois, Bucks.

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LIST OF MEMBERS.

Gaunt, H. H., North Street, Derby.
*Gisborne, L., Allestree Hall, Derby.
Glover, E. M., Pear Tree House, Ockbrook.
Goode, Mrs.

Goodey, W. H., 40, Ashburne Road, Derby.
*Goodwin, F. S., Bridge House, Bakewell.
Goodwin, Rd., 52, Hartington Street, Derby.
Gould, J. C., Traps Hill House, Loughton, Essex.
Greensmith, L. J., 10, Wilson Street, Derby.
Gregory, Thos., Eyam, Sheffield.

Gretton, John, M.P., Sudbury, Derby.

Hamnett, Robert, 24, Norfolk Street, Glossop.
Harpur-Crewe, Lady, Spring Hill, East Cowes, I.W.
*Harpur-Crewe, Hugo, Spring Hill, East Cowes, I.W.
Harwood, James, Tenant Street, Derby,

Haslam, Sir A. Seale, Breadsall Priory, Derby.
Haslam, A. V., Breadsall Priory, Derby.
*Hawkesbury, The Lord, Kirkham Abbey, York.
Heathcote, W., Bankwood, Duffeld.

Hipkins, Rev. F. C., F.S.A., Priory, Repton.
Holland, W. R., Ashburne.

Holmes, H. M., London Road, Derby.

Holmes, G. E., London Road, Derby.

*Hovenden, R., Heathcote, Park Hill Road, Croydon.

Howard of Glossop, The Right Hon. The Lord, Glossop Hall.

Howell, Rev. J., All Saints’ Vicarage, Derby.

Huish, Darwin, Kirk Hallam, Derby.

*Hunter, John, Quarry Bank, Belper.

*Hurt, Albert F., Alderwasley, Derbyshire.

Hurt, Miss, 46, Clifton Gardens, Maida Hill, London, W.
Hurt,’ Miss Grace S. F., Chase Cliffe, Whatstandwell.

*Jervis, The Hon. W. M., Quarndon, Derby.

*Jeudwine, W. W., Walton Lodge, Chesterfield.

*Jobson, Godfrey, Derwent Foundry, Derby.

Johnson, E. S., Littleover Hill, Derby.

Johnson, Mrs. Thewlis, Alderwasley, Derby.

Jourdain, Rev. Francis C. R., Clifton Vicarage, Ashburne.

Joyce, M. J., 4, Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn, London, W.C.

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Keene, C. B., Irongate, Derby.
Keys, Mrs., Rosehill Street, Derby.
Kirke, H., Georgetown, Demerara, West Indies.

Leader, J. D., F.S.A., Moor End, Sheffield.

Lichfield, The Dean and Chapter of—Chas. Gresley, The Close, Lichfield.
Livesay, Wm., M.D., Sudbury, Derby.

Lomas, Geo. H., Diglatch, Chapel-en-le-Frith.

*Longden, J. A., Stanton-by-Dale, Nottingham.

Lowe, J. Landor, The Birches, Burton Road, Derby.

Lunn, Richard, 122, Rose Hill Street, Derby.

Mallalieu, W., Swallows’ Rest, Ockbrook.

Manchester Public Free Library—The Chief Librarian, Manchester.

Manton, J. O., Wharfedaie Villa, Swinburne Street, Derby.

Marples, G. J.; Thornbridge Hall, Bakewell.

Marsden, Geo., Wirksworth.

Martin, Rev. Wm., Darley Abbey Vicarage, Derby.

McDonald, J. Allen, Duffield Road, Derby.

McInnes, E., Littleover, Derby.

Meakin, Miss, Spondon.

Meakin, Miss M. A., Spondon.

Meggison, A., Terrace Road, Buxton.

Mello, Rev. J. Magens, Mapperley, Derby. j
Meynell, Godfrey F’., Meynell Langley, Derby.

Milligan, Colonel, Cauldwell Hall, Burton-on-Trent.
Milnes, Rev. Herbert, The Friars, Priory Street, Cheltenham.
Milnes, Rev. N. B., The Knowle, Hazelwood, Derby.
Milnes, E. S., County Club, Derby.

Milnes, G. H., M.D., 103, Friar Gate, Derby. |
Molineux, Rev. C. H., Staveley Rectory, Chesterfield. .
Mundy, Edward Miller, Shipley Hall. .
Murray, Frank, London Street, Derby. .

Naylor, J. R., Kirk Leys, Derby.

Newton, C. E., The Manor House, Mickleover.

Norfolk, His Grace the Duke of, K.G., E.M., Arundel Castle.
Nottingham Public Library, South Sherwood Street, Nottingham.

LIST OF MEMBERS, XV

Oakes, T. H., Riddings House.
Oakes, C. H., Holly Hurst, Riddings.
*Oakes, James, Holly Hurst, Riddings.

Peck, Dr., St. Helen’s, Chesterfield.

Peters, C. A., Peters, Bartsch & Co., Derby.
Platt, Joseph, Sudbury, Derby.

*Portland, His Grace the Duke of, Welbeck, Notts.

Robinson, Mrs. W. H., 177, Burton Road, West Didsbury, Manchester.
Robinson, Mrs. F. J., Darley Slade, Duffield Road, Derby.
*Rutland, His Grace the Duke of, K.G., Belvoir Castle.

Sale, G. Hanson, Holme Cottage, Burton Road, Derby.
Sale, W. H., The Uplands, Burton Road, Derby.

Scarsdale, The Right Hon. Lord, Kedleston.

Seely, Charles, Sherwood Lodge, Nottingham.

Shaw, John, Normanton House, Derby.

Sheffield Free Library—Thos. Hurst, Surrey Street, Sheffield.
Sheldon, J. P., The Brund, Sheen, Ashburne.
Shore-Nightingale, Mrs., Lea Hurst, Cromford.

Simmonds, T. C., Technical College, Derby.

Simpson, John, Hopton Wood Stone Co., Wirksworth.
Sing, Rev. Canon, Cromford Vicarage, Derby.

Slater, Wm., Vernon Street, Derby.

Slater, Mrs. W., Vernon Street, Derby.

Sitwell, Sir George, Bart., F.S.A., Renishaw, Chesterfield.
*Sleigh, Myles A., Eversley, Matlock.

Smedley, J. Marsden, Lea, Matlock.

Smedley, Mrs. J., Lea, Matlock.

Smith, F. N., Wingfield Park, Alfreton.

*Southwell, Right Rev. Lord Bishop of, Thurgarton Priory, Notts.
Spilsbury, Rev. B. W., Findern, Derby.

Stephenson, M., F.S.A., 14, Ritherdon Road, Tooting, London, S.W,
*Strutt, The Hon. Frederick, Milford House, Derby.

Strutt, Herbert G., Makeney, Derby.

Taylor, Rev. Canon Thomas, St. Breward’s, Bodmin, Cornwall
Taylor, H. Brooke, Bakewell.

Taylor, A. G., St. Mary’s Gate, Derby.

*Thornewill, Robert, Craythorne, Burton-on-Trent.

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Trubshaw, Chas., St. Aubyn Villa, 123, Osmaston Road, Derby.
Trueman, Edwin, 147, Bath Street, Ilkeston.

Trueman, H., The Lea, Esher, Surrey.

Turbutt, W. Gladwyn, Ogston Hall, Alfreton.

Wadsworth, A. F., 15, Weekday Cross, Nottingham,
Walker, J., Old Uttoxeter Road, Derby.

Walker, Rev. H. Milnes, Littleover Vicarage.

Walker, William, Lea Wood, Cromford.

*Walthall, H. W., Alton Manor, Wirksworth.

Ward, John, Corporation Art Gallery, Cardiff.

Waterpark, The Right Hon. Lord, Doveridge.

Whiston, W. Harvey, Idridgehay.

Whitehead, G. H. Taylor, Burton Closes, Bakewell.
*Wilmot, Sir Henry, Bart., V.C., K.C.B., Chaddesden Hall.
Wilmot, Rev. F. E. W., Burbage, Buxton.

Wilson, Rev. A. P. Hamilton, The Vicarage, Glossop.
Wilson, Arthur, 30, Ashburne Road, Derby.

Wilson, W. Mortimer, The Firs, Alfreton.

Woodforde, W. B., The Cottage, Spondon.

Woods, Sir Albert, Garter-King-at-Arms, College of Arms, London.
*Wright, Charles, Wirksworth,

York, The Most Rey. the Lord Archbishop of, Bishopthorpe, York.

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REPORT “OF: HON SECRETARY.

f HE Twenty-first Anniversary of the Society was held,
by kind permission of the Committee, in the
Technical College, on Wednesday, March 8th, 1899.
Godfrey Meynell, Esq., Vice-President of the
Society, presided. The Report of the past year was read and
adopted. The meeting confirmed the provisional appointment
by the Council of the Rev. W. H. Arkwright and the Rev. F.
Broadhurst to the seats on the Council vacant by the death of
the Rev. J. Jourdain, and the removal of Mr. Geo. Fletcher.
All the retiring members of Council (under Rule V.), viz.,
Messrs. Naylor, Arnold-Bemrose, Sir A. Haslam, Rev. R. H. C.
FitzHerbert, Carrington, Keene, Bottomley, and Milnes, were
re-elected, as were also the Hon. Sec., Hon. Sec. of Finance, the
Hon Treasurer, and the auditors. Miss Burton, Mrs. W. Slater,
Messrs. Gregory, Peck, Lunn, Goodwin, Platt, W. Slater, and
F. Adcock were elected members of the Society. The Rev.
F. C. Hipkins read a valuable paper upon the most recent
discoveries at Repton Church, and expressed a hope that the
Society would visit Repton at an early date. The twenty-first
volume of the Society’s “ Proceedings” was distributed.

The first expedition of the Society for the past year was held
on Saturday, June grd, to Repton. The party left Derby in
special saloons attached to the 2.25 p.m. train for Willington.
At the bridge over the Trent, the Rev. F. C. Hipkins met the
visitors and led them to the site of the Antient Camp in the
adjacent meadows, pointing out the encampment and the

XViii REPORT.

position occupied. The party walked on to the School Chapel,
after inspecting which they passed on to the Church of
St. Winstan, where Mr. Hipkins pointed out and described the
various interesting features of architecture. Special attention
was devoted to the crypt, where recent discoveries have been
made, and upon which the party had the advantage of hearing
valuable comments made by Rev. J. T. Irvine, who was present,
and keenly interested in all details. The visitors were also shewn
over the site of the old Priory Church, together with many
details of great interest in the Old Hall, and the Priory. Tea, by
the kind hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Hipkins, was taken at the
Priory, and the party returned to Willington in time for the 6.9
train to Derby.

A second expedition was held on Thursday, August 31st, to
Haddon Hall and Bakewell.

The party left Derby in special saloons attached to the
1.45 p.m. train for Bakewell, whence brakes conveyed them to
Haddon Hall. By special permission of the Duke of
Rutland, K.G., President of the Society, Haddon was inspected
without any of the usual restrictions. Mr. Alex. Carrington
acted as guide, and conducted the party over the Hall, calling
attention to all the important features of interest. Mr.
Carrington also read a valuable paper upon Haddon, tracing the
history of the Manor from the time of the Peverels, and noting
the deed, circa 1170, probably the earliest in existence concern-
ing Haddon, and in the possession of the Duke of Rutland, by
which the Haddon property was equally divided, and given by
Wm. Avenel to his two sons-in-law, Vernon and Basset.

After a full and careful inspection of Haddon, the visitors
drove back to Bakewell, and took tea at the Rutland Arms.
After tea a visit was paid to Bakewell Church, where the
Vicar, the Rev. C. J. Abraham, received the party, and
described the work recently carried out at the Church, pointing
out the newly-opened west door, and the Norman mouldings,
shewing also the old carved stones which have recently, and
mainly thanks to Mr. Abraham’s efforts, been brought back from

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Sheffield after years of absence from Bakewell. Mr. Carrington
also gave a sketch of the history of the church, and its
monuments. ‘The party returned to Derby by the 5.56 train.
‘Several matters of archeological interest have been before
the notice of your Council during the past year; help and
advice have been given, we hope with good results. Our atten-
tion was called to the strengthening of the old Swarkestone
Bridge, by means of blue brick arches, and your Council used
every endeavour within its power to effect the mecessary
strengthening of the bridge by some means less glaringly out of
keeping with the antient structure. Your Council’s suggestions

“

were considered with perfect courtesy by the “ powers that are”
in this matter, and, we hope, not altogether without result.

The proposed excavation at Melandra, mentioned in our last
report, has been commenced. Lord Howard of Glossop gave
his consent, under conditions, and members of the Lancashire
and Cheshire Society expressed their willingness to help. In
the circumstances, your Council thought it right to issue a
circular to our members, asking for help towards the necessary
expenses of excavation. Some response was received, but there
is ample room for more. Meanwhile, the work was begun.
At the request of your Council, Mr. St. John Hope went down to
Melandra, and inspected the excavations, reporting upon them
as desirable, and requiring care.

The local workers have now formed a “Glossop and
Neighbourhood Antiquarian Society,” which they ask may be
affiliated to the Derbyshire Archeological and Natural History
Society. The concensus of opinion in your Council is in favour
of some arrangement of this kind, sub-committees of the two
societies have been formed to confer as to details, and the
matter is under consideration.

It is hoped that an expedition to Melandra may be arranged
for a long day in the summer.

The Rey. F. C. R. Jourdain sends me a few interesting notes
on birds: I mentioned last year an instance of the quail nesting
in Derbyshire, which I believed to be the first on record.

XX REPORT.

Mr. Jourdain sends me two other authentic instances which have
come under his notice, one a nest of fourteen eggs in a field
of mowing grass close to Ashbourne Hall, in 1870, another in
the same year at Brassington; unfortunately, in both cases the
eggs were not hatched out, and the prospective colony was
untimely obliterated.

Mr. Jourdain also gives me another instance of the Rotche,
or little auk, in Derbyshire, a specimen which was picked
up on the Sheffield Moors in November, 1898; the same month
and year in which a Sclavonian grebe was killed at Allestree.

Mr. Jourdain also tells me that the tufted duck is breeding
in the Ashbourne district, and seems inclined to settle. We
must hope that every possible protection will be accorded to this
interesting visitor in order to encourage him to remain with us.
On the roth May last, a dotterel, in adult spring plumage,
was picked up on the Nottingham Road, just outside Derby.
This bird had probably struck the telegraph wires in its
nocturnal migration.

Three specimens of the bittern are also recorded by
Mr. Jourdain, one at Morley, last November, and two more
recently, at Egginton and Smalley respectively. All shot!!
Will the man with a gun ever consent to reserve his murderous
instinct for those feathered friends of whom we have enough
and to spare, and to give our rarer visitors some chance of
staying and multiplying in our land ?

Those members who recollect the history of the kingfisher
in my garden may like to hear that though the bird has
disappeared now, for some years, in October last another
specimen appeared one Sunday and made his plunge. The
pond was low, and very full of weed, and the kingfisher got
entangled and well-nigh drowned. He was extricated in a
landing-net, and put in a cage to dry, being supplied with
several small gold-fish in a flower-pot saucer full of water: by
the next morning he was nearly dry, and had assimilated all his
fish: more fish were supplied, and in the afternoon I went to
release him: he had eaten two fish, but himself was dead!

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He had injured his neck, apparently, when entangled in the
pond.

Our obituary this past year is small, but includes one member
of our original Council, whose loss we all sincerely deplore.
Mr. Edward Greenhough was a hard worker and a most genial
companion: he was always intensely interested in all we were
doing, and on one occasion said to me, “ This Society has done
so much for me, by its work and teaching, that I feel I can
never do enough for it in return.” We could well do with a
large supply of that stamp of member added to our present
lists.

Numerically we are slightly in excess of last year, but we have
still plenty of room; let us each and all try to more than fill up
every vacancy, and we may be satisfied with the result of the
twenty-second year of our proceedings.

ARTHUR COX,

Hon. SEc.
Mill Hill, Derby,

February 3rd, 1900.

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NATURAL History BOCIETY.

Haddon:
The Hall, The Manor, and tts Lords,

3y W. A. CaRRINGTON.*

WHE Manor of Haddon is situated in the parish of
Bakewell, and it was anciently within that lordship,
as appears from the following extract from the
Domesday Survey :—‘“ King Edward had in the
Manor of Bakewell 18 carucates, with 8 vills or hamlets. The
King (William) has now in demesne 7 carucates, with 33 villains,

* We are very greatly indebted to Mr. Carrington for this original and
most valuable history of Haddon derived immediately from the archives of
His Grace the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir, and never before printed.
There is but one small paragraph relating to the history of the Manor in
Lyson’s, and not quite two pages more devoted to the architectural features
of the fabric; but here we have an almost exhaustive account which none
but the archivist of the family could have produced, and it is our great
privilege, as the County Archzeological Society, to publish the History of
Haddon and its distinguished lords in a form more worthy of the famous
house and its illustrious owners.

The author writes :—‘‘I had all the various and conflicting accounts of
the descent of Haddon to deal with, and it would have been a hopeless
undertaking had I not accumulated a large amount of documentary evidence,
extending over a number of years, to aid me.’”’-—EpIrTor.

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2 MADDON : THE HALL, THE MANOR, AND ITS LORDS.

and g bordars. Henry de Ferrers is assessed at 1 carucate in
Hadune.”

The Manor of Bakewell, with many other extensive domains,
was bestowed by the Conqueror upon his natural son William
Peverel, by Maud, daughter of Ingelric, who afterwards married
Ranulph, son of Payne Peverel (standard-bearer to Robert,
Duke of Normandy, father to the Conqueror), after whom not
only this William, but other issue he had by her, assumed the
name of Peverel.

William Peverel possessed sixteen manors in Derbyshire,
besides Peak and Nottingham Castles. He is said to have
founded the Priory of St. James, near Northampton, and the
Priory of Lenton, near Nottingham, in 1102, and to have died in
1113; but it seems more probable that it was not the son of the
Conqueror, but his grandson, a second William, who founded
these Priories.

William -Peverel the fourth, grandson of the last-named
William, was deprived of his great possessions by Henry II. for
poisoning Ranulph, Earl of Chester, in 1153. Most of these
lands and honours, including the manor and church of Bakewell,
reverted to the Crown, and were given by Henry to his son
John, Earl of Moreton, afterwards King.

Several Peverels are met with in this neighbourhood in the
Belvoir Charters at a considerably later date. A Henry Peverel is a
witness to a lease of Alport Mill, in the reign of John, or early
Henry III., and they were evidently located at, and held lands
in, Hassop in the reigns of Henry III. and Edward 1., where
they occur as Cecilia, the widow of Nicholas Peverel, Nicholas,
son and heir of Peter, and Roger, son of Nicholas. [It is not im-
probable that these were descendants of the Peverels of Haddon.
While, doubtless, the whole of the estates of William Peverel
which he possessed at the time of his outlawry were confiscated
to the Crown, it may be presumed that those lands and manors
which either he, or his predecessors, had bestowed upon their
dependants by tenure of knight’s service, escaped the general
confiscation,

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It appears that some of these possessions came to the family
of Ferrers, Earls of Derby, by the marriage of Robert de Ferrers
with Margaret Peverel, eldest daughter and co-heiress of William
Peverel the third, and on the forfeiture of William Peverel,
these lands were held direct from the Crown. ~-Haddon
and other possessions in Derbyshire had been granted by one
of the Peverels—apparently the second William—to one Avenel-
lus, one of his knights, who was one of the witnesses to the
foundation charter of Lenton Priory, in rr02. The records of
the Avenels of Haddon are somewhat scanty, but they appear in
local charters until the reign of Edward I., more particularly in
the records of Middleton and Youlgreave, in which they occur
as residents and owners of lands in those places.

In the reign of Henry III. William Avenel granted Meadow
Place and Conkesbury, with land in Over Haddon, to the Abbey
of Leicester. The Avenels were one of the great Norman
families and hereditary seneschals of the Counts of Mortaine.
William the Seneschal was one of the Conqueror’s companions,
and fought at Hastings, but he does not appear to have been
very amply rewarded for his services, though afterwards this
family became possessors of considerable property in various
parts of the kingdom. ‘They are found at an early date in the
counties of Bedford, Gloucester, Cambridge, Devon, Leicester,
etc. . . . . The earliest record in the possession of the
Duke of Rutland, and very probably the earliest existing at the
present time, relating to Haddon, is a charter in the form of
an agreement, or fine, between William Avenel of Haddon, and
his two sons-in-law, Richard de Vernon and Simon Basset, who
had married his two daughters and co-heirs, Avice and
Elizabeth ; this deed measures 634 in. by 5 in., but it has un-
fortunately suffered from time and exposure, in consequence of
which it is somewhat difficult to decipher. As this is a most
interesting and important record, a translation of it is given
as follows :—

“Be it known to all, as well present as to come, that I,
William Avenel, have entered into an agreement with Richard

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de Vernon and Simon Basset, who have my two daughters and
heirs, of all my land and inheritance, and to them as my heirs,
I have granted and enfeoffed all my land and inheritance after
my decease, which they shall divide, sharing equally everywhere,
and in all things, as my heirs, and so that Simon Basset and
his heirs shall do to Richard de Vernon and his heirs what the
younger shall owe to the elder. Moreover, in my manor, namely,
Haddon, I have granted to the aforesaid Richard my capital
mansion, which is at the east, where my father William Avenel
dwelt, and where the chapel of S. Nicholas is founded, with
the orchard on the same side, and to Simon Basset my other
mansion, which is at the west, with the orchard on that west
side. In Adestoca* I have granted to the said Richard de
Vernon my capital mansion with two orchards, one on each
side of the mansion. Also to Simon Basset in the same vill, a
certain mansion equal in size to the capital mansion, with the
orchard of Roger (szc). In Irtliburcy also I have granted to the
said Simon Basset a capital mansion, and to the said Richard
de Vernon in the same vill, a certain mansion equal in size
to the capital mansion. This covenant and agreement the said
Richard de Vernon and Simon Basset, my order having been
faithfully preserved, have affirmed by oath of this covenant and
agreement. ‘These are the witnesses, William, son of Hugh de
Fuletibi, William, son of ‘Hugh the falconer, Gerold, son of
Richard. . . .” (The names of the two last witnesses are
quite illegible.)

This concord, or agreement, would be executed in duplicate,
and as two labels, with guards of linen, are attached, it is evident
that this is the counterpart to which the seals of Richard de
Vernon and Simon Basset were appended. This deed has been
conjecturally dated about 1170.

The family of Basset continued to possess a moiety of Nether
Haddon in the reign of Edward III. (ug. p. m. 3 Edw. IL),

* Adstock, Bucks.
+ ?Irthlingboro’ (Northants,) vel.
Attleborough—Artleborough—Irtlingboro’. (Camden.)

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but in or before the reign of Henry VI. it became vested by
purchase in the Vernons.

In consequence of this agreement, or settlement, a portion
of Haddon and other property became vested, after the death
of William Avenel, in the family of Vernon. . . . . This
family derived its name from the castle of Vernon, now a Com-
mune in the Department of Evreux. A Roger was Baron of
Vernon about 1030, whose grandson, William, recovered Vernon
(which had been granted to Count Guy of Burgundy), and from
him descended the Barons of Vernon. ‘Two of his sons, Richard
and Walter, appear in Domesday, both holding lands in Cheshire.
Richard was one of the Barons of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester,
and had a castle at Shipbrook. He is said by Ormerod to have
been succeeded, in the fourth or fifth generation, by a second
Richard, from whose son William [Chief Justice of Chester
(1230-32),] all the legitimate lines of this family derive their
descent ; and on the assumption of this connection, this attempt
to trace the succession of the Vernons of Haddon in the male
line will commence with

Walter de Vernon, already referred to, who held, in 1086,
four manors of the Earl of Chester, and three manors of the
King in capite in Bucks. (Domesday.) This Walter was suc-
ceeded by another

Walter, probably a grandson of the last-mentioned, who was
living. 11 Henry II. (Pipe Roll, Oxfordshire.) A deed in Shaw
shows that Walter de Vernon, a grandson of a former Walter,
was enfeoffed at Harlaston, by Matilda, Countess of Chester,
during her widowhood. Eyton says this took place between
1154 and 1157. (Salt Collections.) The next in descent is

Richard de Vernon, who married Avice, daughter and co-heiress
of William Avenel, of Haddon, to whom John, Earl of Moreton,
during his brother Richard’s absence—probably in the Holy
Land—issued a license to strengthen, but not to fortify, his
house or mansion at Haddon, with a wall twelve feet high, of
which the following is a translation :—

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“John, Earl of Moreton, to his Justices, Sheriffs, Bailiffs,
Ministers, and all his faithful people, sends greeting. Know
you that I have granted and given licence to Richard de Vernon
to strengthen (/frmand7) his House of Haddon, with a wall raised
twelve feet high, without battlements. And I forbid lest anyone
of ours hereafter disturb him. Witness, Robert de Mara, at
Clipston.”

This document was exhibited by the Duke of Rutland to the
British Archeological Association when they visited Haddon
in 1851, and it is now preserved in a glass case in the library
at Belvoir, with a selection of other early and interesting charters.
This Richard de Vernon forfeited his estates in 6 and 7 Ric. I.
(Staffordshire Pipe Roll), but they were afterwards restored to
him. He was living in 16 John (Derbyshire Pipe Roll), but
was apparently dead before 3 Henry III., when William de
Vernon occurs. The Quo Warranto Pleas of the Channel
Islands show that a Richard de Vernon held the Island of Sark,
which was resumed by the Crown because Richard had selected
a Norman domicile on the separation of Normandy from Eng-
land. This Richard was succeeded, as already mentioned, by
his son

William de Vernon, by Avice, his wife. He occurs in
3 Henry III., in Derbyshire Pipe Rolls, and was living 20
Henry III. (Zesta de Nevill.) He was probably identical with
William de Vernon, Justiciary of Chester, 1229 and 1232. That
Richard Vernon was succeeded by William, his son, is placed
beyond doubt from the evidence on record amongst the Belvoir
charters. One of these is a confirmation by Richard de Vernon
and Avice, his wife, and William de Vernon, their son and heir,
to Azer, son of Nigel, of a virgate of land in Adstock (co.
Bucks.). The date of this deed appears to be temp. Ric. I.
or John. Richard de Vernon and Avice, his wife, occur in a
Fine made at Westminster, 27 Henry II. (1181), between Walke-
lin Harenc and Richard de Vernon, and Avice, his wife, of
the third part of the Fee of Swinfen (co. Staff.), on a plea of

a

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covenant, viz., that Richard and Avice, his wife, claim to quit
claim the third part of Swinfen to Walkelin Harenc, for which
the said Walkelin gives to Richard de Vernon and Avice, his
wife, four virgates of land, in exchange for the third part of
Swinfen. (Belvoir Chart.) William Vernon of Haddon and
Harlaston married Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert de Stoke-
port, Lord of Stockport. The grant of the manor of Baslow
and Bubnell by Sir Robert de Stokeport to William de Vernon
is still preserved at Belvoir, and is as fresh and clean as when
written. The following is a translation :—

“ Know all both present and to come that I, Robert de Stoche-
port, have given and granted, and by this my present charter have
confirmed to William, son and heir of Richard de Vernon, the
land of Baselawe and Bunbunhul, with all its appurtenances.
With Margarit, my daughter, in free marriage. But truly if the
aforesaid William shall not have an heir of the said Margarit,
the aforesaid William and the heirs of the said Richard de
Vernon shall hold half of the said land of Baselawe, they and
their heirs of me and my heirs, rendering to me and my heirs
the service of half a knight’s fee. These being witnesses,
Ric., son of Roger Will. de Bray, Rob. de Meinewarin, Tomas
de Nortbury, Walter de Stocheport, Mat. de Bromhale, Will.,
his brother, Simon de Stocheport, John de Bredburi, Jordan de
Bredburi, Rob., son of Bernard, Rob. son of Rahenald, Mat.,
clerk de Stocheport, Ric., his son, Gilebert de Louthian, Walter
de Parles, Hug, his brother, Roger de Estun, John, his brother,
Henry, clerk de Tideswelle, and many others.”

It appears from an. Inquisition taken after the death of Sir
Robert de Stokeport, who died in 1249, that Sir Richard de
Vernon, Knt., held Merpul and Wibberslegh from him in
demesne, and in service, except a certain liberty which Sir
Randle, Earl of Chester, conceded to William de Vernon, his
father. (Chesh. Zug. p. m.)

Robert de Stokeport, son of the last-named Sir Robert,
released and confirmed to William de Vernon and Margery, his
wife, sister of the said Robert, for their homage and service,

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as the right and heritage of the aforesaid Margery, all the land
of Merpul and Wiberslee, with all its appurtenances, by the ser-
vice of finding one Forester in the Forest of the Earl of Chester,
that is to say, in that of Macclesfield, saving to the said Earl
the hunting and the aeries of hawks, falcons, and sparrow-hawks.
Witnesses: Philip de Orreby, then Justiciary of Chester, Hugo
Despencer, Roger de Meinewaring, William de Venables, Richard
Phitun, Jordan de Bredburie, Benedict de Wurth, Roger de
Dounes, and many others. (Chesh. Grants.)

Philip de Orreby was Justiciary of Chester from 1209 to 1229.

The following additional information relating to William
Vernon is from the Belvoir and other collections :—

Deed dated 1237, recites that “ William de Vernon, for the
welfare of his soul, and the souls of his wife Alice and of all
his ancestors and successors, had given all the land which he
had in Stanton (near Haddon) to the Prior and Convent of
Lenton, together with his body, there to be buried beside his
father.” (Belvoir Chart.)

From another deed, dated 1242, it appears that the Abbot
of Dieulacresse, and the Priors of Lenton, Chester and Derby,
were the executors of the will of the said William Vernon, Knt.,
and that his debts were to be proved at Derby. It seems,
therefore, that William Vernon died about this time.

It will be observed that Alice is given as the wife of William
de Vernon in this deed, and in a portion of a Vernon pedigree
amongst the Woolley MSS., Alice is also described as the wife
of William Vernon. She must, therefore, have been a second
wife.

The following is an abstract of a transcript, in Latin, of a
charter in a vol. of the Towneley MSS. :—

TRANSLATION.

“To all about to see or hear this writing, &c., know you that
I have given, &c., for my soul, and the souls of Margaret, my
wife, and my successors, to God and S. Mary and S. Editha of
Polesworth (near Tamworth), 5s. of my rent of Harlaston, to

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be paid annually at the feast of S. John the Baptist, for the
maintenance of a lamp with oil, to burn every night in the
Chapter of the said House. Witnesses: Rob. de Grendon,
Nich. Nuers, Sir Rob. de Thoke, Adam de Herthull, Robert de
Vernon, and Robert de Dunes.”

Seal: “A Lyon passant in a Rundle looking to the ‘sinister
point.—Endorso two barrs in a schucheon.”

Sir William de Vernon was succeeded by his son,

Sir Richard de Vernon, Knt. He was alive in 4 Edward L.,
but dying without issue was succeeded by his brother,

Robert, who it is supposed died shortly after. Robert held
Adstock under his brother Richard. (Zesta de Nevill.) ‘The
descent of Haddon and other possessions terminated in the
male line of the Vernons with this Robert, who appears to have
died without male issue, leaving an only daughter, Hawise, who
married

Gilbert le Fraunceys, who was afterwards knighted, but about
whom but little seems to be known, but he was probably a
member of a Yorkshire family of that name. He held Harlaston,
in right of his wife. He was dead 6 Edward I. (Zug. p. m.), and
was succeeded by his son and heir,

Richard, born in 1261. Assumed the name of Vernon. He
was presented to the Advowson of Pichcote in 1310, and in
8 Edward II. he conveyed Harlaston and Appleby to his son
Richard, who re-conveyed them to his father. He married
Tsabel, daughter of Sir William Gernon, Lord of Bakewell (by
Isabel, his wife), son of Sir Ralph Gernon, Lord of Bakewell,
by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Robert de Vere, Earl of
Oxford. He was apparently alive in 16 Edward II., when his
son died (Zzg. p. m. 16 Edward II.), who had married Matilda
or Maud, daughter and co-heir of William de Camville, Lord
of Clifton, co. Staff. In 1337 William de Camville granted to
his daughters, Matilda de Vernon and Eleanor, wife of Richard

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de Penres, his manor of Clifton Camyille, with the advowson
of the church of Clifton. (Belvoir Chart.) On the Patent Roll
2 Edward III. is a grant and confirmation for the manor of
Lanstephen, in Carmarthenshire, to Matilda, formerly the wife
of Ric. dé Vernon, and Eleanor, her sister, daughters and
heiresses of William de Camville.

Richard Vernon, who died in the lifetime of his father, left
a son and heir, William de Vernon, born 1314 (lug. p. m.
taken at Bakewell 16 Edward II.), who succeeded his grand-
father, Richard.

William de Vernon was succeeded by his son and heir,

Sir Richard de Vernon, Knt., who seems to have been a
warrior from the records preserved at Belvoir, and other evidence.
One of these records is an indenture in Norman-French, dated
1357, by which he assigns to his trustees, Ric. de Leycester,
John de Alrewas, John de Osmonderlowe, Nic. St. Piere, chap-
lain, Rauf de Parys, chaplain, and John Wolf, chaplain, his
manor of Haddon, prior to proceeding to the Holy Land,
reserving to himself a right of re-entry if he returned to England,
otherwise he directs that his trustees shall enfeoff the said
manor to his heir, failing which, to Sir Alverey de Sulney, and
his heirs for ever.

Sir Richard Vernon evidently returned to England from the
Holy Land, as appears from another deed of later date, also in
Norman-French, reciting “ That Sir Richard de Vernon is to go
across the sea into Gascony in the service of our Lord the King
(Edward [1I.), and of his return the certain time cannot be
known, but at the will of God,” and by which he settles his
manor of Pichecote (Bucks.), together with the advowson of the
church there, upon trustees, on condition that if he die without
an heir before his return to England, that then the said trustees
shall found a chantry of two chaplains of the said manor, per-
petually chanting in the said church of Pichecote, and the chapel
of Herlaston (Staff.), for the soul of the said Richard, and for
the souls of his ancestors and of all Christian people, in the
first two years next after the death of the said Sir Richard.

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The deed charges the manor with the maintenance of the
chaplains in question, and contains the usual clause of reserva-
tion of re-entry.

An inventory, in Latin, of the goods of Sir Richard de
Vernon at the Manor of Harlaston, mentions iron furnaces in
the hall for burning .sea coal, and refers to beds ornamented
with oak leaves and fleur-de-lis.

A note is appended that after the inventory had been made,
Sir Richard took some of the articles included in it away with
him to Gascony.

He married Juliana, sister and heiress of Sir Fulke de Pem-
brugge, Lord of Tong, in Shropshire, by whom he acquired the
manor of Tong. She married to her second husband Thomas
Wennesley. In 1380 the King granted to Juliana, formerly wife
of Richard de Vernon, of Harlaston, Knt., and to Thomas de
Wennesley, a lease of two-thirds of Marple and Wibbersley, to
hold during the minority of the heir of Richard de Vernon.
(Chesh. Records.) Sir Richard de Vernon died in September,
1376 (Chesh. Zzqg.), Richard, his son and next heir being nine
years of age, and his widow in 1410 aged sixty years and
upwards.

Richard de Vernon came of age about 1389, and had livery
of two-thirds of Marple and Wibersley in the following year.
He married Johanna, daughter of Rees ap Griffith, Knt., cozen
and heir of Sir Richard de Stackpole (Mar. Sett. 1380), and
died in 1400 (Zug. p. m. 2 Henry IV.), Richard, his son and
heir, being aged ten years. The original will, in Latin, of his
widow, Juliana, who long survived him, remains amongst the
Belvoir Muniments. It is dated 1437, and it was proved at the
Deanery of Pembroke, 12th May, 1439. She gives her body to
be buried in the church of S. Michael, of Stackpool, to which
she bequeaths 4os. for providing bells. The residue of her
goods she gives and bequeaths to Richard de Vernon, her son,
Knt., who succeeded, and who proved his age in 1411. He was

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Treasurer of Calais, Captain of Rouen, and Speaker in the
Parliament at Leicester. He married Benedicta, daughter of
Sir John Ludlow, of Hodnet and Stokesay, co. Salop, by whom
he had a large family. ‘There is a rich alabaster altar tomb in
Tong Church, with the recumbent effigies of a Vernon and lady,
which are supposed to be this Sir Richard and Benedicta,* his
wife. He was succeeded by his eldest son and heir,

Sir William de Vernon, who was found thirty years and up-
wards in 1450. (lng. ~. m. 30 Henry VI.) Sir William Vernon
represented the County of Derby in the Parliament summoned
to meet in 1442, and was again elected in 1449 and 1450. He
had a grant of the office of Knight Constable of England for
life. He married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert
Pipe and Spernore. Sir William and Margaret were married in
1435, when they had grants of her grandfather’s lands. Sir
William died 30th June, 1467, and was buried in Tong Church,
where there is a fine altar-tomb, with slab inlaid with brasses,
having the following inscription (translated) :—

“Here lie Sir William Vernun, Knight, sometime Knight
Constable of England, son and heir of Sir Richard Vernun,
Knight, who sometime was Treasurer of Calais, which Sir
William indeed died the last day of the month of June, in the
year of our Lord 1467; and Margaret, wife of the said William,
daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Pipe and Spernore, Knight,
which Margaret indeed died ......... day of the month .........
in the year of our Lord 146..., on whose souls may God be
merciful. Amen.”

Margaret Vernon was living in 1470. (Had. Chart.)

Sir William Vernon had seven sons and five daughters. By
his will, dated June, 1467, and proved in the Prerogative Court
of Canterbury, 27th June, 1468, he bequeaths his body to be
buried in the church of S$. Bartholomew, in Tong, and directs
that a priest be found to sing for his soul at Tong for three
years, and that his tomb be made according to his degree. He
was succeeded by his son and heir,

* Sir Richard and Benedicta erected the east window of Haddon Chapel.
Both their names occur on the painted glass.

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Sir Henry Vernon, who, by an Inquisition, was found to be
twenty-six years of age in 1467. (/zq. p. m. 6 Edw. IV.) He
was appointed Governor and Treasurer to Prince Arthur (born
1486), who lived at Ludlow Castle; and when that Prince was
created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester and Flint in 1489, Sir
Henry was made a Knight of the Bath; and, according to tradi-
tion, Prince Arthur spent much of his time at Haddon with
Sir Henry Vernon. One of the apartments at Haddon was
called the ‘ Prince’s Chamber.’ Sir Henry witnessed the marriage
contract between Prince Arthur and the Princess of Arragon.
This marriage took place in 1501, when the Prince was only
sixteen years of age. Sir Henry represented the County of
Derby in Parliament in 1478, and was High Sheriff for Derby
1504. He was one of the nobles, knights, and gentlemen who
gathered round the Royal Standard, June, 1487. He married
Anne, daughter of John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury (Mar. Sett.
6th October, 1466), by whom he had a numerous family, of
which three sons are commemorated at Tong, viz., a monument
to Arthur, priest, fifth and youngest son; Richard Vernon, Esq.,
of Haddon, who succeeded his father; and a monument to
Humphrey, third son. Sir John, the fourth son, was the ancestor
of the Lords Vernon of Sudbury. Sir Henry died 13th April,
1515, and Anne, his wife, 17th May, 1494, and were buried in
the Vernon Chapel, in Tong Church, where there is a fine altar-
tomb, with stone effigies, commemorating them, which has the
following inscription (translated) :—

“Here lie the bodies of Sir Henry Vernon, Knight, the
founder of this Chantry Chapel, and Dame Anne Talbot, his
wife, daughter of John, Earl of Shrewsbury, which said Henry
died the 13th day of the month of April in the year of our Lord
1515, and the said Lady Anne died the 17th day of May in the
year of our Lord 1494, on whose souls may God be merciful.”

The following extracts are from the will of Sir Henry Vernon,
dated 18th January, 1515 :-—

“Ttem.—I bequeath my body to be buried at Tong, where
I have assigned my selfe to lye. And for as muche as wt good

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prayers and almes deeds the soule ys delivered from everlastyng
dethe and payne therfor ytt ys that I wyll and bequethe that a
Covenable (fitting) preste shall syng for my Sowle my wyffe
Sowle, my ffathur and mother and all my chyldern and all Crysten
Sowlys and say dayly wt ffull offes of dethe in the sayde Churche
of Tonge or in the Chappell when ytt ys made,” &c. “ Item.—
I bequeth and gyff for makyng of the sadye tombe and Chappell
eX.” “Ttem. I wyell that my sayd tombe and Chappell be
made wt in ij yeres next after my deceasse or erst (sooner)
and the better and the more hona'ble for the blode that my
wyffe ys comyn of.”

John Vernon, eldest son and heir of Sir Henry, died in 1477
in his father’s lifetime, and was buried in Bakewell Church.
The next in succession was,

Richard Vernon, second son of Sir Henry. From an Inquisi-
tion taken in 1515, after the death of his father, he was found
to be thirty years of age and upwards. He married Margaret,
daughter of Sir Robert Dimock, Knt. (Mar. Sett. 7th Nov.,
1507), and died August r4th, 1517, surviving his father only a
little over two years, and leaving an only son and heir, George
Vernon (/vq. ~. m. 16 Hen. VIII.), aged ten years and upwards
in 1524.

There is an alabaster altar-tomb in the Vernon Chapel in
Tong Church, with recumbent effigies of Richard Vernon and
Margaret, his wife, with an inscription in Latin (translated) :—

“ Here lie the bodies of Richard Vernon of Haddon, Esquire,
and Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir Robert Dymmok, Knight,
who had issue, George Vernon. Richard indeed died on the
Vigil of the Assumption of Saint Mary the Virgin, in the year of
our Lord, 1517, and the said Margaret died ......... day of the
MOUiMeeeE eos , in the year of our Lord 15..., on whose souls
God Almighty be merciful. Amen.”

It is very probable that Margaret, the widow of Richard
Vernon, was not buried at Tong, hence the blanks in the dates,
as she married secondly Sir William Coffin, Knt., a member of a
very ancient family of that name in Devonshire, by whom she

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appears to have had no issue, as this Sir William Coffyn, by his
will, dated 1538, and proved in the following year, devised all
his manors and lands in Devon to his nephews. William
Coffyn and Margaret, his wife, are described in various
deeds in the possession of the Duke of Rutland, as of Haddon,
where they probably resided during the minority of George
Vernon, who was only three years of age at the time of his
father’s death in 1517.

Margaret, the widow of the said Sir William Coffyn, and for-
merly the wife of Richard Vernon, married thirdly, in 1539,
Richard Manners, Esq., son of Sir George, and brother of Sir
Thomas Manners, first Earl of Rutland. She died in 1550.

Sir George Vernon was the last male of the Vernons who
dwelt at Haddon. Camden, alluding to him, says: “ Insomuch
that Sir George Vernon, Knt., who lived in our time, for his
magnificence, for his kind reception of all good men, and
his great hospitality, gained the name of King of Peak among
the vulgar.”

He was twice married; firstly to Margaret, daughter and co-
heiress of Sir Gilbert Talboys. Shortly after her death, and
on or about the 25th of March, 1558, he married secondly
Matilda, daughter of Sir Ralph Longford, of Longford, co.
Derby, Knt., by whom he had no issue.

Sir George Vernon died 31st Aug., 1565, when Margaret, then
the wife of Sir Thomas Stanley, and Dorothy, the wife of John
Manners, Esq., were found, from an Inquisition, to be his heirs,
Margaret being aged twenty-five, and Dorothy twenty vears of
age at the time of his death. (Jng. p. m. 8 Eliz.)

Sir George was buried in Bakewell Church, under a large
altar-tomb, upon which are the recumbent effigies of Sir George
and his two wives, with an inscription, which has not been com-
pleted, the dates of the deaths being left blank.

When the Vernon Chapel and other portions of Bakewell
Church were re-constructed in 1841, it was found necessary to
disturb the remains in the chapel, and in the report of these
proceedings, it is stated that three skeletons of adults were

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discovered under this tomb, supposed to be the remains of Sir
George Vernon and his two wives, but it may be questioned
whether Matilda, the second wife of Sir George, was interred in
the Vernon Chapel, as she married, secondly, Sir Francis Hast-
ings, of North Cadbury, in Somersetshire, of the family of the
Earls of Huntingdon. This marriage took place before April,
1569. (Belvoir Sett.)

A few remarks may be offered in connection with the Vernon
monuments in the Chapel. Regarding the small alabaster
altar-tomb commemorating John Vernon, son and heir of
Sir Henry Vernon, of Haddon, who died in 14747, it shas
been conjectured that this John was the father of
Richard, who succeeded Sir Henry, but this cannot
have been the case, on reference to an _ Inquisition
taken in 1515, after the death of Sir Henry, in which Richard
is described as the son and heir of Sir Henry, and of the age of
thirty years and upwards; accordingly he would be born about
1484, some seven years after the death of John, who would be
the elder brother of Richard, and not his father, and could not
have been more than ten years of age, as his father’s Mar. Sett.
is dated 6th October, 1466.

On the division of Sir George Vernon’s estates, Tong, Har-
laston, and other lands in Staffordshire, passed to Sir Thomas
Stanley, of Winwick, co. Lanc., while Haddon, and other large
possessions in Derbyshire, and elsewhere, became the property
of the family of Manners. In 1565 Margaret, the widow of Sir
George Vernon, surrendered her interest under the will of the
said Sir George in all his possessions to Thomas Stanley and
Margaret, his wife, and to John Manners and Dorothy, his wife.

In a deed dated 12th Dec., 1567, John and Dorothy Manners
are described as of Wiverton, co. Notts., a few miles from Bel-
voir Castle, and in the same deed occur Francis Hastings, and
Maud, his wife, late wife of Sir George Vernon, which shows
that the widow of Sir George Vernon re-married shortly after his
death. In two deeds dated 1569, John Manners and his wife
are described respectively as of Uffington, co. Linc., and of
Wiverton,

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Sir Thomas Stanley and Margaret were buried at Tong. He
died 21st Dec., 1576. Margaret was living at Tong in 1594.

That the betrothal and marriage of Margaret, the elder
daughter of Sir George Vernon, with Sir Thomas, had none of
the elements of romance which surround the alliance of her
younger sister is abundantly evident from the numerous refer-
ences in an early volume of Haddon Household Accounts, from
which the following selections have been taken :—

1555. ‘Paid for ale at S' Thomas Stanley’s being) ....
Bris Diet: Sabet hentia. ni tisthoa sen itebisess ny

“Spent by my M* at the new castle ee
under-Lyne) apon Thursday the v™ of Sept. at yj!
the talks of the maryage betwyxt S"™ Tho:
Stanley'and M™ Margett?.....s.cescccsseressssonses

“To my Mr’ in playe the viii. of Sep: w S' Tho :}

Stanleyand Swill Inglebe? sii. 0.7 Weegascckes Ni

1556. ‘‘Att London. Payd for the copyinge of
tharticles betwyxt theyrle of Derbye and my
Mr’ for the maryage that shold be had betwyxt
the said Erles son and his doughter” ............

‘*Gevon to M* Serjant Gawdye for his Counsey]ll )

WL SME Ge we hau renddeacernoasecud dcaatvatcancs eos )
“Spent there by M* Agard and Thomas Morten
beynge there for the makinge vpp of books
betwyxt the said Erle and my M”’ by the space
of vj.weeks lackyngeuj days: %..0.05.00sscdsenesnes

“17 Dec. To M*™ Margett to playe at tables} sd
es NOMS SEAMS! Nu. wre cacedecceusnschcMaay eee Re

The marriage of Sir Thomas Stanley with Margaret Vernon
appears to have taken place between Jan. and May, 1558, when
she was about eighteen years of age.

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It appears from an Inquisition taken in 1600 (Chesh. Ingq.),
that Sir Thomas Stanley, Knt., died at Clerkenwell on the
17th November, 1577, and that Margaret, his widow, married
secondly, on the rst Nov., 1579, at Harlaston, William Mather,
Esq., and that the said Margaret died at Coventry the 9th Sep.,
1596, and that Sir Edward Stanley, Knt., was son and next heir,
aged thirty-five and upwards.

There is a remarkably fine monument in Tong Church in
commemoration of Sir Thomas Stanley and Margaret, his wife,
and Sir Edward, their son, who died in 1632.

Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, for the romantic story
of the elopement of Dorothy Vernon with John Manners, the
volume of accounts from which the foregoing extracts relating
to the courtship and marriage of Margaret Vernon, terminate
with the year of her marriage in 1558, and the accounts are not
resumed until 1564, within which period doubtless the marriage
of John Manners with Dorothy Vernon took place. Whether
the popular legend of the elopement in question has any founda-
tion or not, will probably remain an unsolved problem. It is a
tradition in the family that the marriage was celebrated at
Aylestone, near Leicester. If it was a clandestine marriage, it
seems rather singular it should have been celebrated at Ayle-
stone, as it was one of the Rutland manors, where John Manners
would surely be known, as the family had a residence there long
before that time.

No trace of the handwriting of Dorothy has been discovered,
beyond her initials across the labels of one or two deeds at
Belvoir.

It is needless to pursue the history of the lords of Haddon
after it passed to the family of Manners, by the marriage of
Dorothy Vernon with John Manners, but the early history of
its possessors is somewhat involved, and although many attempts
have been made from time to time to elucidate the family history,
yet, with the result of these investigations, it will be found
that still at the present no two authorities are agreed. One of
the principal difficulties in regard to the Vernon genealogy

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arises from the prevalence of Richards, which renders it difficult
to distinguish one from another, as seven Richards occur from
the first, who married Avice Avenel, in the latter half of the
twelfth century, until the year 1450. The marriages of these
Richards have been a source of much perplexity, sometimes the
father and son being assigned to the same wife.

It is not probable that there were ever any interments in the
chapel at Haddon, but that such were contemplated appears
from the following note amongst the Woolley MSS. (Add. Ms.
6669, p. 308, Brit. Mus.):—‘“A Burying Vault ordered to be
made in Haddon Chappell. Lady Rutland’s 3 children buried
in the Quire at Bakewell, between Sir Geo. Vernon’s Tombe
and Sir Jno. Manners. She wanted their bones to be removed.
Query if done.”

The three children were George, Edward, and Roger Manners,
infant sons of John, eighth Earl of Rutland, and Frances, his
wife.

When Bakewell Church was restored in 1841, three small
lead coffins were discovered between the tomb of John and
Dorothy Manners and that of Sir George Vernon, which no
doubt contained the remains of the three children alluded to.

Haddon Hall was surrounded by a park, enclosed with wooden
pales, which must have been of considerable extent from a view
of the deer taken in 1637, when it contained 597 bucks and
does.

The Records,

INVENTORIES.

There is a very interesting series of Inventories at Belvoir of
the furniture, silver, pewter, linen, and effects at Haddon, taken
at intervals from 1623 to 1730, with the names and contents of
all the rooms, from which the following extracts have been
taken :—

1623.
SILVER PLATE.
Guilt Basons & Ewers
Guilt Canns

20 HADDON : THE HALL, THE MANOR, AND ITS LORDS.

Guilt Flaggons with chaines

Guilt Bowles with covers

A greate guilt doble sault with the pecocke on the top
Two other guilt salts the one being a double salt
A guilt casting bottle with a chane

A dozen of guilt spoones with Knobs at the ends
A little guilt bowle

A silver bason and ewer

Silver canns

A silver wine spoute

Silver drinking bowles

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Silver creame bowles

A silver double salt with the pecocke on the top

A nother silver salt

A silver trencher salt

A silver porringer with cover

Greate silver candlesticks

Little silver candlesticks

A silver chafing dish

Plaine silver spoones 12

Silver spoones with knobs on the ends 5

Ould silver bowles I
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Silver potts
One sugar box

IN THE GALLERY (BALLROOM).
A longe table & a cubboard
Plaine buffet stooles 5
Two black vellvet chaires, with two branched yellet stooles
A red vellvet chaire, with two stooles sutable
A red sattin chaire
A new longe screene covered with red cloath
Two new large chaires & a little one covered with greene cloathe
A dozen & 8 stcoles sutable to them
And 4 new greene carpets of the same
A greene Couch with a greene buckram cover
A window cussion of greene vellvet

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And nedleworke stooles 3

A window cussion of red vellvet

A window cussion of red satten —

Two window cussions of greene roed silke

Two window cussions of russet Damaske

A window cussion of white sattin inn broard dred

A window cussion of tapestry

A window cussion of black brancht vellvet

A window cussion of blacke & red brancht vellvet

A window cussion of blacke velvet & lade with copper lace, and
cutt with white taffaty

Two little cussions of greene vellvet

Tapestry cussions 6

fforrest worke cussions 2

fower longe turkie worke carpets

And three short ones of the same

A carpet of tapestry lined with blew cloth

Pictures little and greate 9

Two pare of brasse londirans, tongs, & fireshovells sutable

At the gallery dore a cubboard & a viall chest with a bandora
& vialls

1637-8.
PEWTER.

Of the newest sort of pewter marked with the boar’s head
and J.F.M.

great voyders

lesse voyders

dishes of a bigg size

dishes of the next size

dishes of the next size

dishes of the next size

dishes of the next size

of the next size

of the least size

saucers of the same sort marked J.F.M.

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3 large dishes
2 little dishes
2 little dishes

76 dishes of several sorts marked R.M. some with stamps and

| scored on the side J.F.M.

some scored, brought from Whitwell
5 plates marked R.M.

8 saucers marked R.M.

8 greate dishes

5 little dishes

1 pastie plate | marked G.M.G.
3 pye plates

20 smaller dishes )

godine’ dishes j marked J.M.
15 pye plates
I sauser

ro puter trencher plates scored M.

} marked J.M.

IN THE CHAPPELL.
The orgaine
The Comunion table
The carpett of stript stuffe
A longe cushion for the pullpitt of needlewarke lyned with blew
norwidg stuffe
12 brasse candlesticks
t Round bassock
Psalters
Bybles
In the Gallery or Ball room were “a gilded orgaine,
harpsicalls, with frames to stand on,” “a shovellboard table
with 5 tressells,” “a large looking glasse of 72 glasses,” and

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“4 pictures of sheapeards & sheapeardesses.”
SHOVELBOARD.—The game of Shovelboard was formerly in
great repute among the nobility and gentry, and few of their
mansions were without a shovelboard, which was a fashionable
piece of furniture, generally stationed in the great hall. The
length of these tables varied from ten to thirteen yards in length
to three feet or more in width, and the game was played with

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MADDON : THE HALL, THE MANOR, AND ITS LORDS. 23

flat pieces of metal pushed from one end of the board, over a
mark drawn parallel with the other edge, and about three or
four inches from it. (This pastime has been superseded by
billiards.)

The names of the rooms occur in the following order :—The
wainscotted parlour. The wainscotted hall. The buttery.
The strong beer cellar. The bread house. The wine cellar.
The bake-house. The bolting-house. The brew-house. The
dairy-house, milk-house, and inner-house. The kitchen. The
pastry. The inner pastry. The wet-larder. The wash-house
or nether dairy. The cellar in the nether court. The chapel.
The outward chamber to the best lodging next the chapel leads.
The best lodging. The drawing chamber to the great chamber.
The great chamber. The still chamber. The gallery. The
orange chamber. The green chamber. The uppermost cham-
ber in the Upper Tower. The chamber next below. The next
chamber. The chamber next under. The chamber called
Oxford Gaol. The partridge chamber. The bake-house
chamber. The brew-house chamber. The chamber in the
new buildings over my master’s chamber. The upper ward-
robe. The kitchen chamber. My mistress’s chamber. The
nursery. The little gallery. My mistress’s sweetmeat closet.
The chamber next the chapel. Sutton’s chamber. The school-
house chamber. The little chamber adjoining my mistress’s
chamber in the nether Tower. The parlour under the rose
chamber. The rose chamber. The inner chamber. The
hunter’s chamber. The inner chamber. The uppermost
chamber in the nether Tower. The low wardrobe in the nether
court. My master’s old chamber in the nether Tower. The
inner chamber to my masters. Sir Roger’s chamber, the
chimney piece carved with the arms of the house. The inner
chamber to Sir Roger’s, wainscotted. The lodge. The parlour
under the hunter's chamber. The nether stable and saddle
house, Windsor. The ox house. The closet over the great
oven.

24 HADDON : THE HALL, THE MANOR, AND ITS LORDS.

Feb. 25, 1639-40.
SILVER PLATE ATT HADDON.

1 very large dish wt 110 176

4 dishes of the next size wayeing aboute 78" a peece
8 dishes of the next size wayeing about 64" a peece
5 dishes of the next size wayeing aboute 44 a peece
2 dishes of the next size wayeing about 29 a peece
1 large pye plate

vi Sausers weyeinge aboute 6 a piece

(1) All the s? vessell hath the Manners and Montiques Cotes

in a Reathe

2 large Basons and Ewers

1 large Voyder

A skumer to take from the table

A suger Boxe

4 candlesticks

2 little hand candlesticks

A warmeing paun

3 dozen of spoones

6 forks

12 trencher salts

12 sweetemeate dishes

1 large fruite dishe

2 dishes for orringes and lemons

2 little botes

A paire of snuffers

A possennett and cover to it

48 trencher plates

2 porringers

4 porringers for the children

4 spoones to them

A morter and pestell

A cann

A maudlin cupp and cover

A ladle

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A longe spoone

A tosting forke

6 little spoones with forks att th’ends
2 pare fumeing panns

GuILT PLATE.
A great sault, 3 hights, with the Peacock on the topp
A greate bowle and cover
A challis and cover
(1. John Manners succeeded his cousin, George, as 8th Earl
of Rutland. Died at Haddon, 29th Sep. 1679. He married
Frances, daughter of Edward, Lord Montagu.)

1641.

IN YE GALLEREYE.
The organ

Two Harpsicalls with frames

A great picture over y° Chimney

Two Couches with silver and coloured leather

Twenty backe Chaires of y° same, all covered with Blew
bayes

One great Chaire, two Cushions with tassells, one foote
stoole of greene velvett imbrodred with gold and fringed with
gold

five Turkie Carpetts

One great glasse

The pictures of a Sheppard and Sheppardesse

Eight guild Armes, with Socketts

1668.—A list of silver plate at Haddon, Includes a “ Com-
munion boule and Cover.”

1701.
PICTURES GREAT AND SMALL FROM BELVOIR.
out of y° Musick Room II
out of y®° passage between y® Musick Room and y* tortois)
shell Room
out of y® passage between y° Jap-pannd Room and at ry
Ladies Summer Room

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out of y® Great Stair Case Io
in y° passage to y° Musick Room, paper and painted ones 20
in y° Wardrobe, paper and painted ones 07

pictures of all sorts 67

Haddon Hall was completely furnished so late as 1730, but
the latest reference to the occupation of Haddon in the
Stewards’ Accounts by the family occurs in 1702, but it appears
from the entries to have been a very short visit, but for some
years later the steward of the Duke of Rutland’s Haddon estates
resided there.

The collections of Records contained in the Muniment rooms
at Belvoir and Haddon in the possession of the Duke of Rut-
land are probably unsurpassed in extent and varied interest by
any other in the hands of a private individual in the kingdom.
Of the highest interest of all is a series of charters, relating
to many English counties, and numbering over 6,000, and
extending from the reign of Hen. I. to the reign of Hen. VIII,
inclusive, of which about 2,300 relate to Derbyshire alone, in-
cluding in the series over 800 Bakewell charters.

In the next rank may be placed the remarkable collection
of Court Rolls, many of which commence in the reign of
Edw. II. The remaining records include charlutaries of
Belvoir Priory, Croxton Abbey, Garendon, and other founda-
tions, Patents, Grants, Settlements, Wills, Household Accounts,
Forest Kolls, and an immense number of deeds, family and
miscellaneous records, too numerous to enumerate.

The earliest document preserved at Belvoir is a grant by
Hen. I. to the monks of Belvoir Priory, to hold a fair at Belvoir,
annually, for eight days, at the feast of St. John the Baptist.
A portion of a seal is appended to this deed, with representa-
tions of the King, on horseback, and on the throne. The only
instance in which Richard de Vernon, and Avice, his_ wife,
daughter of William Avenel, occur together, is a fine dated
27 Hen. II. (1181), between Walkelin 'Harenc, and Ric. de
Vernon, and Avice, his wife, of land at Swinfen (Co. Staff.).

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Amongst the Bakewell charters is a grant by King John, in the
first year of his reign, of the manor, or fee, of Bakewell to Ralph
Gernon (ancestor of Isabella Gernon, who married Ric. Vernon),
and a confirmation of the same by Hen. III., with seals
appended. These two charters are in excellent preservation,
and are amongst the charters exhibited at Belvoir.

The Gernons remained Lords of Bakewell until 1383, when
Sir John Gernon dying without male issue, the manor passed
in moieties to his two daughters. It was purchased by Sir
Henry Vernon from the representatives of the Gernons in 1502.
Moor Hall, the ancient seat of the Gernons, stood about a mile
westward of Bakewell, near the edge of the moor, and there
were vestiges of it remaining at the beginning of this century.

One of the most interesting deeds relating to Bakewell is a
Charter of Liberties, granted by William Gernon, Lord of Bake-
well, in 1286, to his Burgesses and free tenants of Bakewell.
This charter is in good preservation, and has a seal of dark-
green wax appended.

Another beautifully-written charter amongst the Haddon
series, is a grant by Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster,
second son of Hen. III., to the Abbot and Convent of Darley,
of a bovate of land near Wirksworth, with a seal bearing a tri-
corporate lion, and inscribed :—*“ Sigillum Edmundi filii Regis
Anglie.”

Hereafter are translations of the grant of Bakewell by King
John, and the confirmation of the same by Hen. III., already
referred to :—

“John, by the Grace of God, King of England, Lord of
Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, Count of Anjou,
to the Archbishops, Abbots, Earls, Barons, Justices, Sheriffs,
Provosts, and all his Bailiffs and faithful men, greeting. Know
you that we have granted, and by this our Charter have con-
firmed to Ralph Gernon, for his homage and service the land
of Bakewell, with all its appurtenances, which we have assigned
to him for sixteen pounds, land (1. libratis terre).* To have

* 1, Librata terre: \and worth 20s. yearly.

28 HADDON: THE HALL, THE MANOR, AND ITS LORDS.

and to hold to him and his heirs, of us and our heirs, by the
service of one Knight’s fee, for all service. Wherefore we will
and strictly command, that the said Ralph, and his heirs after
him, may have and hold the aforesaid land of Bakewell, with
all its appurtenances, well and in peace, freely and quietly,
wholy and honourably, in all places and things, with all liberties
and free customs pertaining to it, for the said service. Wit-
nesses: William de St. Marie Ecclesia, Bishop of London,
Philip de Poitiers, Bishop of Durham, Herbert Poore, Bishop
of Salisbury, Geoffrey Fitz-Piers, Earl of Essex, Will. Marshal,
Earl of Pembroke, Robert fil. Roger, Hugh Bardolph, Will.
Brewere, Robert de Turnham. Given by the hands of Simon,
Archdeacon of Wells, and John de Gray, Archdeacon of
Gloucester, at Porchester, xxvi. day of April, in the first year
of our reign (1200).”

Mutilated seal of brown wax, suspended by a silk cord. On
the obverse, an equestrian figure of the King. Reverse, King
John enthroned.

“Henry, by the Grace of God, King of England, Lord of
Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, Count of Anjou.
To the Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Earls, Barons,
Sheriffs, Provosts, Ministers, and to all his Bailiffs and faithful
men, greeting. Know you that we have granted, and by this
our Charter, have confirmed to our welbeloved Ralph Gernun
the land of Bakewell, with all its appurtenances, which the Lord
King John, our father, gave and granted to the said Ralph, and
by his Charter confirmed. Wherefore we will and strictly
command that the said Ralph, and his heirs, may have and
hold the said land, with all its appurtenances, well and in peace,
freely, quietly, and wholy, with all liberties and free customs
pertaining to the same, as the Charter of him our father, which
the said Ralph has thereof, reasonably testifies. Witnesses :
Eustace de Fauconberg, Bishop of London, Joceline, Bishop
of Bath, Walter Maclerk, Bishop of Carlisle, Hugh de Burgh,
Earl of Kent, Justice of England, William Marshal, Earl of
Pembroke, Gilbert, Earl of Gloucester and Hereford, Hugh

HADDON: THE HALL, THE MANOR, AND ITS LORDS. 29

de Nevill, Philip de Albiniaco, Ralph fil. Nich., Hugh Dispensar,
Henry de Capella, and others. Given by the hand of the
Venerable Father, Ralph de Nevill, Bishop of Chichester, our
Chancellor at Westminster, VI° May, in the twelfth year of
our reign (1228).”

Royal seal of yellow-brown wax, considerably damaged,
measuring 334 in. by 234 in., with impressions on both sides.

The Painted Wtindows tw the Chapel of
S. Nicholas, Haddon Hall.

By the Rev. Cuas. Kerry,

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executed at the period of the highest development of the

glass painter’s art in England, it possesses some of its most
charming features. Its admirable preservation is, without doubt,
owing to its sheltered position in the south-west corner of the
courtyard. The other windows in the outer walls of the building
have suffered in proportion to their exposure. Some of the
finest portions of the glass were stolen in the year, 1828, and,
it is believed, conveyed to the Continent. Certain it is, that
the south window of the chancel is all but denuded, save a few
fragments in the tracery, whilst the large east window has lost
its two side lights, together with the heads of S. Mary and
S. John the Baptist in the second and fourth. The two latter
figures can hardly have suffered from iconoclastic insanity,
because the head of our Lord in the centre still remains.
The north window consists of three lower and larger lights,
with six smaller ones or “ batements” in the tracery above. The
ground of the main lights is composed of figured quarries,
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figures form a central belt of charming, but subdued, gem-like
colouring, running across the whole. A_ shield of arms
decorates the centre of each basement panel. The batements
above are all occupied with small figures of saints on white
glass, with brown shading, and relieved with touches of stain.

The first of the larger lights has the figure of S. Michael, with
a seven-headed dragon beneath his feet, pierced with his
sword. The left foot of the archangel crushes the wing of the
reptile, while the right on the neck depresses the raised and
threatening heads of the dragon.

TREATMENT.—The face, hands, and feet on the exposed
portions of the angel are in white glass.* The body is
clothed in a feathery covering in yellow stain. The feathers
are arranged like laminz, or plates of mail, gradually increasing
in length towards the knees, which they protect—dependent.
This zrial mail terminates at the ankles. The plumage of the
wings—also stained—is beautifully arranged ; the inner feathers
diverge horizontally from the shoulders, while the returning outer
margin of the wings are arranged vertically, lipping the extremi-
ties of the inner feathers. Each wing feather is adorned with
a peacock eye within and without.

A cincture of ruby is folded loosely round the loins. The
right hand of the angel rests on the dexter corner of a tilting
shield, bearing a floriated stained cross, on a white ground, from
the centre of which projects a barbed boss, while the left hand
grasps the hilt of a plain cross-guarded sword.

A white mantle, lined with ermine, covers both shoulders,
and falls behind the figure to the ground.

The dragon is a weird-looking creature of a bluish tinge,
with green tufts of hair here and there on his body.

This, and the two other principal figures, stand on the
chequered floor of a slightly-raised square pediment, with smaller

* The head of the archangel, surrounded by a white nimbus, is slightly
inclined forward. The hair recedes from the forehead in loose, wavy curls,
while a cincture, with a cross erect in the centre, passes over the forehead as
if to secure the golden tresses,

32 PAINTED WINDOWS AT HADDON HALL.

Square projections placed diagonally at its angles, after the plan
of an angular buttress.

In the bottom panel of this light is a shield ar. fretty, gules,
with eight plates, evidently for Vernon. The space above
this coat, resembling a chief, is vacant, and filled with’ plain,
modern glass, but which, as appears from the shield in the
adjoining light, once contained the family or bearer’s name.
The Vernons of Sudbury bear arg?, a fret sable, with a canton
gules. Henry Vernon, Esq., of Farnham, Surrey, has on. his
brass (1656) a canton, and a frette with a plain quatrefoil in
the uppermost opening, as if for difference.

The centre light has a fine representation of S. Anne teaching
the youthful Virgin. The design is much like the treatment of
the same subject in the east window of All Saints’, North Street,
York, and may have been executed by the same artist, for the
two are apparently cozeval.

S. Anne is attired in a white mantle, with an embroidered
lower border, relieved with stain. She wears a widow’s hood
and wimple. The outer head-dress is of ermine, lined with
blue, and is doubled over backwards from the forehead. The
nimbus is white, with a yellow cusped trefoiled border. The
principal dress, or kirtle, of the mother, is of ruby; a little of
which is visible below the mantle on the dexter side.

The Virgin child has a wreath of small white-clustered pearls
round the head, with a large amber or golden ornament in the
centre. Her jacket, or jupon, is green, with a lower border of
ermine. The skirt of her frock is blue, of a very fine, chaste
quality, gracefully folded at the feet, which it conceals.

A narrow apron, or fall, of ermine depends from the neck,
while attached to the waist is a jewelled pendant of crowned
roses formed of pearls, each with a golden centre: the crowns
are also yellow. The right hand of the mother is placed by
the upper arm of the child, whilst the left hand on the other
side touches the margin of the book held by the little maiden.
The eyes of the child are slightly raised, as if in contemplation.
The device on the shield beneath is destroyed, but above is the
name ‘Ricard Vernon,

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The third light depicts S. George contending with the dragon,
a symbolical representation of the contest between the prin-
ciples of good and evil, or the combat between the Christian
and his spiritual enemy. The saint is pourtrayed in white
armour, delicately shaded with brown. On his head is a
vizored bascinet with a neckguard behind, whilst his throat is
protected by a gorget of mail. The visor is raised, showing a
handsome, manly face within. Two roundels protect the arm-
pits. The rest of the body is covered with armour of plate.
Over the shoulder is thrown a short mantle, with leafy fimbria-
tions of pounced work. The right hand above the shoulder
grasps the end of a lance thrust down the throat of the red
dragon on the left, whilst the warrior in sollerets tramples his
adversary under foot. The sword is suspended behind the
figure, the hilt being visible beneath the left elbow.

The third and last shield has only what looks like a first
quarter remaining, viz., a fesse dancette argt, charged with three
martlets sable.

The six smaller lights, or “ .?- babedtuaatet at the top (this being
a square-headed window) are arranged horizontally. Each
contains a single figure, executed on white glass, relieved with
stain, and shaded with brown.

The first figure, bearing a halbert in his right hand and a
book in his left, is probably intended for S. Matthew, though
S. Matthias and S. Jude are sometimes represented shes the
same symbols.

The second figure holds a knife in his left hand, and may
be designed for S. Bartholomew.

. The next, holding a sword (stained yellow), is, perhaps, in-
tended for S. James the Great.

The fourth light has a figure holding a book in his right hand,
while the left rests on the hilt of a sword, evidently represent-
ing S. Paul.

The next figure carries a club in his right hand, and a book
in the left—clearly meant for S. James the Less, Bishop of
Jerusalem.

4

34 PAINTED WINDOWS AT HADDON HALL.

The sixth, and last, has a fetter lock at the end of a chain
in his left hand, undoubtedly designed for S. Leonard, the
patron of prisoners and captives. All these have their skirt, or
lower robe, powdered or decorated with small, conventional
roses, in yellow stain, with invected borders, and an annulet
in the centre.

The background of the principal figures is composed of
quarries, with decorated centres. The lowest panels have been
re-glazed with plain glass, and the coats of arms re-set. Round
the central shield are five quarries from some other and later
window, each bearing a talbot, stained. A quarry above the
shield has the Staffordshire knot. It is probable that, for the
sake of wziformity, the glazier has removed the name of Richard
Vernon from the first shield, to which it seems to belong, and
placed it above the obliterated arms in the centre light.

Tue East Winvdow of the chapel, which is very large, has
five lofty lights below the tracery line, and thirteen openings
above. The tracery in the centre light differs from the rest,
owing to the overlapping of the two side designs, the centre
light being common to both. The lowest tracery opening over
this central light is a trefoil; higher still, two triangles, and at
the top, two “batements.” On either side of the central tracery
are three “batements,” each of the series being backed by an
“ angell.”*

The original scheme of the glass seems to have consisted of
a Crucifixion in the centre, with SS. Mary and John on either
side, each of these being backed by other saints in the outer
lights. The figure of S. John Baptist seems to have been
placed in the room of S. John the disciple, because the figure
of the Virgin on the other side occupies her normal position.
We may hence safely conclude that the figure of the Evangelist
formerly occupied the corresponding position under the cross
opposite the Virgin Mother, and that therefore the figure of
the beloved disciple was one of the stolen portions. It was

* A kind of triangular opening, with the outer side following the curvature
of the window arch.

PAINTED WINDOWS AT HADDON HALL. 35

probably of singular merit and beauty, for the medizval artists
seemed always to put forth their best efforts on their delinea-
tions cf this favourite character. From the pose of
the Baptist, turning towards the central figure, it is
probable that he was originally placed in the outer
light on the same side, and that the fragment of the
episcopal figure in the bottom of that outer light was brought
here from some other window—perhaps the empty south one.
There has obviously been an attempt to balance the window after
the robbery, by glass brought from some other place in the
chapel, and this is abundantly proved by the corresponding
piece on the opposite side having a small kneeling figure at a
prayer desk, utterly at variance with the scheme and proportions
of the whole window.

The larger lights of the tracery all retain (save one) their
original single figures. The two “batements” above the
second light show the Annunciation: the kneeling angel occupy-
ing one, and the B.V.M. the other. The central trefoil, the
two triangles, and the “angells” have been filled with foliations
shaded and stippled in brown, on a stained or golden ground.
The royal shield intrudes itself in the uppermost leaf of the

trefoil. In any restoration of this window this should be
removed: it is a showy blemish, quite out of tone and keeping
with the rest. These arms are, however, of considerable

antiquity, apparently of the Plantagenet period.

Just above the inscription which runs across the whole
window, near the base, are three shields, in the three centre
lights, each supported by a demi-angel, with wings slightly
displayed, and holding a scroll with the assignation of the arms,
but the names are almost concealed by the crossbars. The
first shield has a lion rampant gules, for Zudlow, the arms of
Sir John Ludlow, of Hodnet, Shropshire, the father of Bene-
dicta, wife of Sir Richard Vernon, who erected this window.
The second, or central coat, is that of Vernon, argt. fretty,
sable, with a canton. The third shield is blank. No doubt
this heraldic display once occupied the whole breadth of the

36 PAINTED WINDOWS AT HADDON HALL.

window. The commemorative inscription, happily perfect, is
as follows :—

Orate pro animabus Ricardi Wernon et Benedicte
urors eius gue fecerunt afio dni Millesimo ccccm
rrvij.

TREATMENT.—Beginning with the north side, we have at the
top an “angell,” filled with two broad, white foliations, on a
yellow ground, springing from a circular centre, the leaves lined
and shaded with brown. The next opening is a small “ bate-
ment” containing a female figure bearing a cross over the right
shoulder. Had this been intended for S. Helena, Empress, she
would hardly have been depicted without her crown. It may
be for S. Agnes, or perhaps some other less distinguished per-
sonage.

The principal figure is wanting in this first light, and the
quarries are all plain. At the bottom, resting on the inscrip-
tion band, is a small, mutilated figure in plate armour, with
sollerets, kneeling at a draped prayer desk, on which lies an
open book. His sword-belt is decorated with square jewelled
bosses. The scabbard has a central line of annulets, perhaps
meant for jewels, down its side, and is guarded at the end with
a pointed metallic casing. On the right arm is a shield bearing
the Vernon arms, fretty, sable, having a spiked boss in the
centre. This fragment is set in quarries, after the style of the
lowest ones in the central light, and foreign to this window.
The whole of this piece is executed in white glass. The second
light has two plain “batements” at the top, depicting the
. Annunciation, with a kneeling angel holding the salutation
(“ Ave Maria,” etc.) on a scroll in one light, with the B.V.M. in
the other. The latter, with a slight inclination of the head
towards the messenger, is a graceful figure. In her right hand
is an open book, slightly lowered; her left hand is raised, as
if surprised, and wondering at the visitation. A vase of lilies
is in the foreground. The central figure of the light beneath is
the B.V. Mary, keeping her station by the Cross, The head

PAINTED WINDOWS AT HADDON HALL. 37

is lost. The whole of the nimbus is in yellow stain, with an
inner trefoiled border, left white, imparting a fine effect. The
left hand, with a kerchief or portion of her mantle, is raised as
if to dry her tears. Her right hand, holding a book, depends
on the right side. The mantle, or uppermost robe, is white,
with a delicately embroidered border consisting of a band of
white roundels, with centres and ground of gold. The under-
kirtle is of blue.

One of the uppermost of the quarries has a sun in its glory,
with white and yellow rays. Above the Virgin, and inserted
in the quarried ground, is a roundel about the width of two
quarries, containing the symbol of S. Matthew the Evangelist.

Beneath the figure of the Virgin is the first shield of the three
remaining of the heraldic series, which must at one time have
been carried through every light. Each of them shows an
angel supporting a shield, suspended by a thong passing round
the neck, whilst a scroll, designating the arms, is held above the
shield, though now much hidden by the cross bars. The wings
of the angels, slightly displayed, are stained, and the plumage
is relieved with the “eye,” as in the north window before
described: indeed, the whole treatment is very similar. The
head of the angel is lost, but the nimbus (nebulée) remains, the
cloudy members being arranged cross-wise with singular effect.

The shield bears “argt. a lion rampant, gules,” the arms of
Sir John Ludlow, the father of Benedicta (the wife of Sir Richard
Vernon), who, with himself, is commemorated by the inscrip-
tion. The lower part of the shield is supported by two angels
cguchant on either side, each with a sustaining hand near the
base point. In every case the heads of these smaller angels are
missing.

The third, or centre light, has a singularly beautiful repre-
sentation of the Crucifixion, at a higher elevation than the side
figures. The stem of the cross is missing below the feet, but
no doubt the original cross was planted in a grassy mound, on
the same level as the base line of the rest. The glazing has
been made good by quarries from some other part of the window.

38 PAINTED WINDOWS AT HADDON HALL.

The flesh treatment is all on white glass, and shaded with
brown. The waist cloth is ruby, and the cross is tinted with
yellow stain. Four angels—two on each side—attend the suf-
fering Redeemer. The two uppermost with elevated wings, and
each with a chalice, are catching the sacred blood issuing from
the wounds in the hands: another is similarly engaged at the
pierced side, whilst the fourth, on the opposite side, with its
wings crossed over the head, is gazing downwards in deepest

sorrow.

The arms of the Crucified are in an almost vertical position,
the crowned head is slightly bowed to His right, and the legs
are arranged downwards in a line with the stem of the cross ;
the extremities of the feet are lost.

Just below the intersection of the cross is a gracefully curved
scroll, bearing in Lombardic characters the initials “I-N-R-I-”
The treatment of the hair is similar to that described in the
north window.

The shield supported by the angels at the base is that of the
Vernons—argt. fretty, sable, with a canton (which should be
gules, but has been filled in with w/ite). The head of the
principal supporting angel here is the only one left of the series.

The “batements” at the top of the fourth light have each a

“colour” could not

suitable figure, but the annealing of the
have been perfect, because all the surface painting has perished,
and the contour is preserved only by the lead lines.

The third principal figure below represents the Baptist with
an Agnus Dei lying on a book, resting on the left arm, while
the Harbinger is pointing to the Lamb with his right. S. John
is clothed with a camel’s skin, to which the animal’s feet and
tail are attached, the latter very large and hairy. All details
are executed on white glass, duly shaded with brown and tinted
with stain. The Agnus Dei holds a cross, with a streamer
attached to the stem. The whole figure and its treatment is
very similar to that in All Saints’, North Street, York. The
earth is of a brownish tint, with the grass and herbage finely
relieved with stain.

aa ——— = S--—~--~—rss—~—~=—rrd*?

PAINTED WINDOWS AT HADDON HALL. 39

The shield in the base is blank. The head and left side of
the supporting angel are missing, but the hands and _ scroll
remain.

The fifth, and last, light is capped by a small “ batement ”
and an “angell.” The outline of a figure only, exists in the
former, and one fragment of the leafy filling remains in the
latter. This light, like the first, has lost its prigcipal figure—
unless the fragment at the bottom once formed a part of it. It
represents the lower part of the figure of a bishop, in full
canonicals, with a pastoral staff.

The chasuble is white, powdered with quasi roses stained,
with a richly-embroidered orfray, also heightened with gold.
The dalmatic is fringed with blue. The alb is white, with a
rich orfray at the feet. The grass is boldly delineated on a
brownish-matted ground, and brightened with stain. Altogether
this is a well-wrought and beautiful fragment.

40

Aw Account of the Behabtour of the Derbyshire
Regiuent raised against the Rebels in the
peav 1745 under the conmmand of Bis —
Grace the Duke of Debonshive,

Contributed by Major J. H. LEsLig,
Late Royal Artillery.

(A Sgutb of the last century, copied from a MS. in the possession
of Col. A. J. Shuttleworth, Hathersage Hall, Derbyshire.)

sIND whilst these things were doing, Devonshire arose
and said unto the King, ‘O King, live for ever ;
let thine enemies fall down before the face of thy
mighty men. Behold now, if I have found favour
in thy sight, grant unto thy servant thy Royal Commission, that
I may raise a regiment in the province where I dwell: for why
should thy servant be idle when the enemies of the King are
conspiring against him ? ;

“ And the saying pleased the King, and he answered him, ‘ Do
as thou hast said: and, of the regiment to be raised, be thou
Colonel.’

“Now this Devonshire was a mighty man, honoured of his
King, and beloved of his country. He had been twice Viceroy
of the kingdom of Ireland, and, moreover, he was Lieutenant
of the county of Derby.

—s

ACCOUNT OF THE DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT IN 1745. 41

“And he drew near unto Derby and said unto the rulers
thereof and to the mighty men of the neighbouring villages,
‘Draw near unto me all ye that are loyal and true of heart, and
hearken to my voice. For Issachar, the Pretender, is approach-
ing: he hath taken the capital of Caledonia, he threateneth to
bring us to bondage, to put a yoke upon our necks, and make
us bow down to idols. Now, therefore, be ye steadfast and
unmovable: gird every man his sword upon his thigh, and let
us behave ourselves valiantly, that George, the King, may know
that the men of Derby are good and true.’ Moreover, he’ said
unto them, ‘ Unstring all your purses that we may raise us:a
regiment, and I will contribute largely thereto: my son *also
shall lay on an helping hand.’

“And he began to collect, albeit many who had large pos-
sessions were poor in spirit: and the sum collected amounted
to six thousand talents.

“ And he began to appoint Captains over Tens, and Captains
over Fifties, Lieutenants and Standard Bearers appointed He.

“Moreover, at the request of Nathan, were men appointed,
not men of valour, serving only for pay: and this grieved Devon-
shire sorely, for he said, ‘Surely we shall become a scorn and
derision to our enemies.’

“ And the number of the Regiment was six hundred men.

“ And they were arrayed in blue according to the tradition
of Samuel the scribe, albeit it was a colour of no repute, for
the men of that garb had fled before their enemies in Germany.
. “Now there was among the Captains a man named Lowe,
of the tribe of H—l—d ;* he was a mighty hunter, and he said
to his company, ‘ Verily, Issachar and his men are rebels, there-
fore will we pursue them unto the uttermost corners of the land
until we have destroyed them’; for he said in his heart They
will flee before us even as the timorous hare fleeth.

“And he made a great boasting among his kinsfolk and
acquaintance saying, ‘My men will follow me wherever I go.’

“ And Devonshire sent letters unto the several officers saying,
‘Gather yourselves together, both you and your men, that I may
review you.’

* Hazlewood.

42 ACCOUNT OF THE DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT IN 1745.

“So they assembled and came to Derby even as he had said
unto them. And they drew out into a plain called the Holmes
(the same is encompassed by the River Derwent), and were
reviewed there.

“And Devonshire looked, and behold many of them were
striplings, and not able to wield the sword.

“ And he shook his head and said, ‘Are those thy mighty men,
O Derby? The Lord protect thee, for vain is the help of
these men.’

“ And whilst they were yet in the field, tidings were brought,
saying, ‘Issachar is at Ashbourne, and he will be with you on
the morrow.’

“And when Devonshire heard these words his wrath was
kindled, and he said, ‘ Surely their advance guard cannot exceed
six hundred men? Why then should we be afraid? So let
every man be of good cheer, and prepare himself for battle.
Let us meet them on the Plains of Shirley, for I trust in the Lord
we shall discomfit them.’

“Albeit fear came upon them and sorrow, so that they
hearkened not unto the voice of Devonshire, for they said:
‘Should we be slain, our wives would weep and our daughters
would make lamentations.’ So every man took up his weapon
and prepared to flee.

“And when Devonshire saw that he prevailed not, he reasoned
with them, saying, ‘If you are determined to go, let us join
ourselves to William, the King’s son, who lieth in Staffordshire,
or unto Wade, the General, who is in the province of York;
peradventure we may serve our country.’

“ And they communed among themselves, saying, ‘If we join
ourselves to William we shall be in great danger, but if we join
ourselves to Wade, then shall we be safe, for behold he is a
peaceable man.’

“So they went forward to Nottingham under covert of the
night. And Devonshire said: ‘Go, refresh yourselves, lest you
faint by the way, and lest you be slain on empty stomachs.’

“And there was given to each man a portion of bread and
cheese ; moreover, they had strong drink in abundance.

ACCOUNT OF THE DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT IN 1745. 43

“ And about the tenth hour they departed, some shouting as
for a victory, others with weeping and swearing and gnashing of
teeth, and the cry of them was great.

“And they journied and came to Burrows Ash, a village in
the way as thou goest to Nottingham. There they made war
upon the poultry, moreover they did eat, and drank much strong
drink, and departed forgetting to pay.

“And it came to pass as they drew nigh unto Nottingham
that the noise and fame of them was heard, and it was told,
saying, ‘Issachar is at hand, verily he is on this side Stapleford,’
and the men of Nottingham were right sore afraid, and their hearts
failed them. And they sent messengers to spy out the road
and to bring them intelligence.

“ And the messengers returned, saying, ‘It is even so as you
have heard: moreover his army consists of ten thousand men.’

“ And the Rulers thereof arose, and laid their heads together,
saying, ‘Lo, the young man cometh for money, let every man
prepare his mite, and it shall be well with the town, and he will
be merciful unto our wives and to our daughters.’

“ Albeit he came not, so the money was otherwise disposed.

“And it came to pass that Devonshire arrived at Nottingham,

and when the men of the town, even the men of Nottingham,
saw that they had been afraid where there was no danger, they
threw up their hats, saying, ‘God bless King George, and may
all the machinations of Issachar come to naught.’
* “ Albeit, Issachar was at Derby, and heard them not. And
when they had refreshed themselves they looked upon one
another, and said, ‘This is no abiding place for us, neither is
there any safety in Nottingham.’ And they journied north-
ward, towards Mansfield, by the way of Sherwood. The same
is the King’s forest.

“Now there was among them a standard-bearer named Mills,
of the tribe of St. Giles: he was a man of war from his youth,
but a great boaster; moreover, he was a publican and a sinner.

“ And he, vaunting himself, said, ‘In the days of my youth
I was accounted a man of valour, and when a drunken black-
smith offended me I smote him with the edge of my sword, that

44 ACCOUNT OF THE DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT IN 1745.

he died. So will I also do to Issachar, for what is he that
defyeth the armies of George our King.’

“ And whilst they journied there came a lying messenger unto
them, saying, ‘Issachar cometh with speed: he will be with
you in half an hour.’ And Mills cried out with a loud voice,
saying, ‘ Halt, ye men in the front, for our rear is sorely pressed,
and we shall inevitably be cut off.’

“ And they laughed him to scorn, saying, ‘ How is the mighty
fallen, and his honour laid in the dust.’ Nevertheless they
slacked not their pace, and happy was the man that was swiftest
of foot. And they sent out messengers to spy out the road,
lest they should be surprised unawares. And they arrived safe
at Mansfield, and there abode that day.

‘“« And the messengers returned, having heard in the night much
talking and a noise like unto the tramping of an army. And
they made their report unto Devonshire, saying, ‘ Now of truth
the young man approacheth, we have seen them with our eyes,
and their vanguard is about two thousand.’

** And when the men of Captain Lowe heard this they cryed,
saying, ‘Captain, what shall we do to be saved?’ And he
answered them, saying, ‘ Run, lads, run,’ and he turned his back
and fled, and they followed him. This was done that it might
be fulfilled which was spoke unto Cope, the Squire, saying, ‘ My
men will follow me wherever I go.’ And they fled in great
confusion, and many being assaulted with the fumes of liquor
were sick with fear.

“ Albeit it was a false alarm, for it was only an herd of cattle
which their owners were driving to a place of security.

“ And one of these men lost in his flight a warlike instrument
called a drum, yet he turned not back to look after it.

“ And Gr— H—n, the Lieutenant, came riding furiously, and
he whipt his horse cruelly, saying, ‘ Flee swiftly, for on thy speed
dependeth my life.’

“And he saw not the drum, but rode upon it and burst it,
and the noise thereof was like unto the report of a great gun,
and the beast was in a fright, and threw his rider to the ground,

ACCOUNT OF THE DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT IN 1745. 45

and he roared terribly, crying, ‘Oh, I am slain’: and the stench
of that man was grievous to be borne.

“And when they came to Retford they abode until word was
brought that the young man was returned from Derby by the
way which he came. And they returned back, and when they
came nigh unto Derby they gave great shouts, saying, ‘ Hail,
Derby, happy are we to behold thee, for we greatly feared never
to have seen thee again.’

“And they came unto Derby with joy and gladness. Albeit
they were soon discharged, for Issachar had taken the money
which should have maintained them.

“So they were discharged. Each man went his way, some
to their labours, some against their wills, but others said, ‘We
are gentlemen, neither will we any more do servile work,’ and
those adhered to Granby the Marquess.

“Now the rest of the acts of the Blues, are they not well
known? And the money that was expended by them, is it not
written in the book of Samuel the Scribe? And these men are
called Drivers of Cattle unto this very day.”

46

Potes on a HMleasure of Grass, ov Standard
Bushel, vated A.D, 1677, and formerly
iw public use at Ashborne tw the County
of Derby.

By W. R. HOLLanp.

HE accompanying illustration represents a Brass or
Bronze Measure, now in my possession, the capacity

of which is equal to a Winchester Bushel, and which
was anciently chained at the covered Market Cross
which formerly stood near the bottom of the Market Place at
Ashborne.

The Winchester Bushel was first established as a fixed standard
by King Edgar, who reigned from a.D. 950 to 975.

The Ashborne Measure was doubtless used principally as a
gauge for testing and authenticating wooden measures of like
capacity, pursuant to an Act of Parliament of the 22nd year of
King Charles II. (a.p. 1670), entitled “An Act for ascertaining
the Measures of Corn and Salt throughout the Realm.” The
following are extracts from that statute :—

“‘Tf any Person or Persons after the Nine and twentieth day
of September One thousand six hundred and seventy, shall sell
any Sort of Corn or Grain, ground or unground, or any Kind of
Salt, usually sold by the Bushel, either in open Market, or any
other Place, by any other Bushel or Measure than that which is
agreeable to the Standard marked in his Majesty’s Exchequer,

e— _

NOTES ON A MEASURE OF BRASS, A.D. 1677. 47

commonly called ‘The Winchester Measure, containing Eight
Gallons to the Bushel, and no more or less, and the said Bushel
strucken even by the Wood or Brim of the same by the Seller,
and sealed as this Act directs, he or they shall forfeit for every
such offence the sum of Forty Shillings,” &c., &c. (Sect. 2.)

Section 4 relates to the gauging and sealing of various
measures, which are described as a Bushel, Half-Bushel, Peck,
Gallon, Pottle, Quart, Pint, and Half-Pint (a pottle is half a
gallon).

“And to the End that there may be a just and certain
Measure (to determine all Controversies) gaged as this Act
directs, be it further enacted, That at the Charge of such Person
or Persons respectively, who shall have the Toll or Profit of the
Market, &c., there shall be before the said Nine and twentieth
Day of September, One Measure of Brass provided, and chained
in the publick Market Place; upon pain to forfeit and lose
for every Person so neglecting respectively the sum of Five
Pounds,” &c., &c. (Zbid., Sect. 5.)

In Derbyshire and the neighbouring counties a bushel is
commonly called a “ strike,” from the immemorial practice, after
filling the measure with corn, of striking off all that is higher
than the rim with a flat and straight piece of wood. This usage
is alluded to by the words, ‘“‘ and the said Bushel strucken even
by the Wood or Brim of the same by the Seller.” The practice
of striking off the superfluous corn is alluded to in a subsequent
Act, 22 & 23 of Charles II., which forbade the “ shaking of the
said Bushel or Measure by the Buyer before it be struck,” upon
pain of a fine of #5, and the forfeiture ‘‘of all Corn, Grain, or
Salt,” bought or sold contrary to the Act. According to this
enactment “good measure” could evidently be given, although
not “pressed down and shaken together” (Sz. Zuke vi. 38).—
Corn of all kinds is now generally sold by weight.

The dimensions, &c., of the Ashborne Bushel are as follows :—
Height from ground, 1 foot; depth inside, 9 in. ; circumference
5 ft. 2} in.; width across, x ft. 8in.; colour, a rich dark green.

48 NOTES ON A MEASURE OF BRASS, A.D. 1677.

It stands on three feet. On the outer circumference are the
following words and figures in bold raised characters :—
ASHBORNE : IN : THE ! COVNTY : DERBYS : 1677.

te
id
‘

unc
MORNE IA THE Des

ere oe rar } ) . rc
aru THE, DRY COWNT Y-DEROSIETy
ee

Tue ASHBOURNE BRASS STANDARD BUSHEL.

Between the words there is a good representation of the Royal
Arms of Great Britain and Ireland as borne by the Stuart line,
viz. :—Quarterly ; 1 and 4 Grand Quarters, France modern and
England quarterly ; 2nd Grand Quarter, Scotland; 3rd Grand
Quarter, Ireland. The supporters, crown, motto, and garter
ribbon are the same as at present.

eae eee ee TT

eT sare =

49

Birehovber: An Lnbentory of the Hands
of Henry De Alvwerk, wm Bivehover,
A.B. 1413,

de Aldwerk saluting in the Lord. Know ye that I in
this present charter have defined and bounded all my
messuages, lands, and tenements, which I have in the
vill and territory of Byrchoure, with all liberties, feedings, pas-

tures, moors, and waters, with the appurtenances, that my heirs

and posterity may obtain perfect knowledge in all the aforesaid

messuages and lands, with all their appurtenances, for ever :—

One messuage is situated in the vill aforesaid between the mess.
of Will. Harvy on the south, and the mess. of William
Alan on the west, with a garden pertaining to the same.

Another messuage is situated between the mess. of Richard Fox
on the east, and the mess. of John Smith on the west, with
a garden pertaining to the same.

Three roods lying upon the Colepytt, butting upon Byrchour-
syche.

Half-a-rood lying upon the Schawcoppe, and a mountain called
Bramber.

Half-a-rood lying under the said Schawcoppe.

Three roods of meadow lying upon the Holme, butting upon
the Byrchoursyche.*

Three roods lying under the Grenehyll, butting upon the Roue-
torre.

One acre of land lying in the Long acre, butting upon the said
Rouetorr.

* © Syche”—an open dike or drain, dry in summer.

5

50 INVENTORY OF THE LANDS OF HENRY DE ALDWERK,

One rood of land lying under the Caldwell, butting upon the
Merssch.

One rood of land butting upon the Claypytt.

One half-acre of land and meadow lying in Whyttewallsyche, in
the open field of Bramber.

One half-acre of land butting upon the Lyddezate, in the More-
feld.

One half-acre of land lying under the Jakcrofte, butting upon
the Kyrkeflatts.

One rood of land butting upon the Medewplekkes, and so as
far as a Heydelonde of John Alan.

One rood of land lying in The Dale, and abutting upon the
Hallflattes.

One half-rood of land butting upon the Wymondstones.

One rood of land butting over against the More, and lying near
the land of John Smyth.

Three roods of land lying by the Hyllraw, and butting upon
the Heth hyll.

Three roods of land butting upon the Coste, in the Morefeld.

One acre and a half butting upon the Pygreue, and in Collay-
halgh.

Three roods of land butting upon the Coste, and upon the
Stubbyngs.

One rood and a half butting upon the Paddokwallrowe.

One rood of land butting upon the Kyrke (the Church), in
Costefelde.

One half-acre of land butting upon the Cowchote, and so on to
a headlond of John Smyth.

Half-a-rood lying in the Lylepyttheyche, and so on as far as
Denson’s half acre.

Three half-acres of land lying in the Scottefeldhalgh.

One rood and a half of land butting upon Wynsterheythe, and
so on as far as a half-acre of Denson’s.

Three roods of land butting upon the said Wynstreheche and
upon the croft of a messuage of mine before-named.

A parcel of meadow lying under the wood of Byrchour.

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INVENTORY OF THE LANDS OF HENRY DE ALDWERK, 51

One half-rood of meadow also lying by the said wood.
‘Half an acre butting upon Byrchour and by the Rowdole.
And all these messuages, lands, and tents, render xij pence
yearly to the chief lord of the fee, viz., vj’ at the feast
of the Annun. of Blessed Mary, and vj’ on the feast of
S. Michael the Archangel, by equal portions, and for all
services and demands.
In testimony of which to this my present deed, I have affixed
my seal.
Given at Aldewerk (“i cathedra Sci Petri,” 1.e., Feb. 22)
Anno 1, Henry V. (1413.)
(Belvoir Document.)

Baslow.

Know all, as well present as future, that I, Robert de Stoche-
port, have given and conceded, and by my present charter have
confirmed to William, son and heir of Richard de Vernun, the
land of Basselawe and of Bunbéhul*, with all the appurtenances,
with Margaret, my daughter, in free marriage. But if the
aforesaid William should not have heirs by the aforesaid
Margaret, then the aforesaid William and the heirs of the said
Rich® de Vernun shall hold the moiety of the aforesaid land
of Basselawe to him and to his heirs, of me and of my heirs,
performing to me and to my heirs the service of half a knight’s
fee.

These being witnesses :—Richard, son of Roger William de
Bray, Rob. de Meinewarin, Thomas de Nortburi, Walter de
Stocheport, Matt. de Bromhale, William his brother, Simon de
Stocheport, John de Bredburi, Jordan de Bredburi, Rob fitz
Bernard, Rob fitz Rahenald, Matthew the clerk of Stocheport,
Richard his son, Gilbert de Louthian, Walter de Parles, Hugo
his brother, Roger de Estun, John his brother, Henry, clerk
of Tideswell, and many others.

Seal lost.
(Belvoir Charter.)

i Bubnall.

The Court Rolls of Baslow, Derbyshire,
Conmmencing Anno 13 £4. Li, (1319220).

By the Rev. C. Kerry.

(By the kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Rutland,
Lord of the Manor.)

HETHER any earlier rolls for this Manor ever existed
it is impossible to say, but if this roll is the earliest,
it commences, as we might naturally expect, with a
list of the Tenants with their respective holdings

and their obligations.

Of Richard de Aye/e for j mess. & j bov. of land xiiij®
by foreign service . .

Of the same Rich® for j mess. iij and a half acres of the gift
of Richard son of Rich‘ de Vernon iij> . . . foreign
service & suit of court.

Of the same Richard for ij parcels in Depedale clife which he
holasate wily aij ne)! OF

Of William de Boterhales for j mess. & j bovate of land iij° and
one iron shoe p cartam dni Willm F*nceis.

Of Will. de Calvore for divers tenements xij°.

Of Rob. de Calvore for ij bovates of land i*. He holds by
charter for foreign service & suit of court.

Of Roger North for j mess. & j bovate of land vj’. He holds
by suit of court & mill duty & by foreign service,

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. ‘ea

Of the same Roger for the liberty of having quit claim of lord
Richard son of lord William de Vernon ij’.

Of Thomas Swan for j mess. & j bovate of land v*; of which
iiij. s. at the Feast of Mich., and xij’ at the Annunciation.

Of the heirs of William Wyne for j mess. & j bovate of land v°.
He holds by suit of court & mill duty.

Of Galfrid le Leche for j mess. & j bovate of land vij’. He
holds by suit of court & mill duty, by homage & foreign
service, by charter of Richard son of lord Rich. Vernon.

Of William del Hawe for j mess. & half a virgate of land in
Boterhales iiij® iiij*, measuring or mete-ing for one day at
the great price with . . He will grind to the xvj' grain.*
He holds by charter of lord Richard (sic) of Richard de
Vernon the father of Richard who died.

Of William le Leche for j mess. containing iiij acres of land
which Geoffrey Maycer held for xij‘ for all things save
foreign service.

Of the same William who holds at will ij acres of land in
Bronlleie &c., iij places of meadow near Tozeshurst v* vj‘.

Of the same William who holds at will viij acres of land in
divers places.

Of William le Leche for a proportion of the wood of Tozer-
hurst, land & meadow within the bounds of the same wood,
with j acre which once Ralph Brun held, with five acres
of land upon Bronile, with a portion of a certain place
of land which is called ‘ Zhe Grene’ in Basselowe lying
between Olveston and the vill of Basselowe vij® iij*, He
holds by charter of Richard son of lord Richard de
Vernon, doing suit to the mill to the xx" grain,t & suit
of court. He holds by foreign service.

ee for a portion of a certain place of land and meadow
called ‘ Gryseclif’ between the bounds of the aforesaid place
of Gryseclif iij* v* for all things.

* The toll to consist of a sixteenth of the whole.
T The toll to form yy of the corn brought to the ground.

54 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

Of Robert le Leche for one mess. lying between the water (sic)

xij". He holds by charter of lord Richard de Vernon.

“ Hawis del Shawe & Robertus de Fryggecote &@ . . . his

wife”—(written above the following entry)—

Adam del Shawe for j mess. & vj acres of Jand in ffroggecote
ij’ iiij*, & suit of the mill. He holds by charter of lord
Richard de Vernon Knight, & by foreign service.

The Inquest said that Gattescroft is outside the bounds
of Griseclosfeld, and that thirteen acres of land and one rood
are in Bromley, of which two acres & j rood of land Richard
de Ruley claimed to hold by charter: and one acre of ground
liesiagyy ©. Yi. sand: that:-one acre of land) is.im Pippesrenis
and the Buttes at the Boles. They said also that four acres of
land are outside the wood of Corshurst which Philip le Leche
claimed to hold by charter. They said also that one acre of
land is at the entrance to Torhurst lying near the meadow.
They said also that Richard de Ruley holds at will two acres
of land in Depedale clif (see first entry). Mem* that iij acres
are upon the mulnehull & $ acre beyond j acre near Oskelmedewe
side. The above-mentioned acre Philip le Leche claimed by
a charter which makes no mention of them. If he claims to
hold v acres of land in Bromlei no mention is made of
Overby . . . nor of Nether Bromley, of which in Bromley-
overe & Offechere are xiij acres & j rood, of which the same
Philip claims v acres by charter as his, & Richard de Ruyle
claims to hold ij acres & j rood. And Philip & William his
father claim to hold the whole of the remainder.

(The particulars of this inquest are written in another and a
larger hand. The following ts by the former scribe) :-—
Richard de Vernon who last died gave to William le Leche &

his heirs all my portion of a certain wood which is called
Tozeshurst, and all my land and my meadow, four measures
of the same wood with j acre of land which Ralph Brun
once held in Bobenhull, lying between the Stone cross
(“‘ crucem lapideam”) upon Astly fege in length on one
part, and the tenement of John de Calvore on the other.

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 55

And in breadth between Rymeles on one part and the land
of the said John de Calvore. I have given and granted to
the same William five acres of land upon Brumleie together
with part of a certain place of land called the ‘‘ Grene”
in Basselowe, lying between Olveston & the vill of Basse-
lowe. Holding to him & to his heirs of the same & his
heirs for ever by the service of vij’ & iij* for all things save
foreign service, suits of court and multure.

Richard de Vernon son of William de Vernon gave to William
son of Hugo de Stokis, this Hugo was father of
Richard de Ruyle, for homage and his service the whole
of Mutland with toft and croft in the vill and territory
of Bobenhull,—that viz. which Jordan son of Matthew de
Stanedon once held with the appurts. and w' the assart
which Roger de Griseclif once held in divers places in
the two Bromeleies and in Pipegrenes holding of me &
my heirs to himself & his heirs by the accustomed
services, paying iij* for all things, foreign service
excepted.

It is agreed by Matilda de Vernon that none of her
tenants shall leave her manor without any intimation of the
same under penalty of half a mark for each desertion.

Rental of Baslow.
Temp. Edwd. LI.

Richard de Riley did fealty—a free-tenant.

Will de Boterhales holds by fealty j mess. & j bovate of
land by the service of iij’ per ann. paying at Michaelmas.
He has a charter of lord Gilbert Franceys and renders one
pair of iron horse shoes.

Will de Calvour holds divers tenements by payment of xii° per
ann. by equal portions, and he holds a mess. and a
bovate by the service of v° per ann. with suit of court
and of mill.

Roger North did fealty & holds j mess. & j bovate of land
by the service v* per ann., suit of court and of mill.

56 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

Robert de Calvour holds two bovates by the service of i® at
Michaelmas, with suit of court, homage, & fealty, and by
foreign service.

Thomas Swan did fealty ; & holds a mess. and one bovate
of land by the service of v° per ann. at Michaelmas and
xij* at the Feast of the B. Mary.

John le Wyne (this name covers the name of John de Corde
burgh) holds a free tenement formerly held by Will le
Wyne. He holds a mess. & a bovate for a term of years,
and pays v* per ann., with suit of court and of mill.

Elias son of Rich* le Fox of Basselow a ‘“‘native” (a son of
the soil and alienable with it) resides near Clerkenwelle
and is named there ‘‘Elias the Mele-maker.” He is a
‘ native.’

Geoffry le Leche holds a mess & a bov. of land by vij® and
suit of court and mill. He did not render fealty. He
has a charter of lord Richard son of lord Will de Vernon ;
& holds by homage, & fealty, & foreign service.

Philip le Leche holds a mess. & a bov. of land by the service
of iij’ iiij* p' ann. by equal portions.

Hugh de Piwewrthe holds a mess. & half a bov. of land by
the service of v’ per ann. and j", and suit of court and
mill. He holds also j mess. & iij acres of land by the
service of xij’ halfpenny, with suit of court and mill.

William son of Geoffry le Leche did fealty and holds i mess.
& iij acres of land by xij* per ann., with suit of court and
mill.

Robert le Leche did fealty, & holds a mess. by the service of
xij? per ann. ;

Robert le Froggote did fealty, and holds a certain place of
land in the Linleye by the service of a farthing per ann.
at Michaelmas.

Rob. de Froggote and Avice his wife (ddam del Shawe is here
inserted, as though her second husband) holds j mess. &

& fealty, multure of mill, and foreign service.

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THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 57

William Pope did fealty, & holds one mess. by reason of a
bovate & ij acres of land, by the service of viij xj‘ and
j “bonepenny,” and other services, as suit of mill to the

vj" grain. He makes suit to court and also to the
arg

William le Marescall did fealty for one mess. by reason of a
bovate of land held by service of vj* viij‘ & other services.

Ralph Pras did fealty for a messuage and half a bovate; to
plough by service of iij* iiij’; with j bonepenny p. ann.
& other services.

Will. Jeke did fealty. He holds a mess. & a bov. of land by
service of vj* viij‘ and bonepenny, & other services.

Robert in the Wro did fealty. He holds a mess. & a half,
and a bov. and a half of land by serv. of xij® ix*, & bone-
penny & other services.

William son of Geoffry le Leche did fealty and holds a
moiety of a mess., and half a bovate of land by serv. of
vij* iij’ per ann. wt bonepenny & other services.

John Wryat did fealty. He holds a mess. & a bovate & one
heriot — land by xij’ ix’ p. a. & bonepenny & other
services.

Roger le Leche did fealty and holds xvij> in rental. j mess.
& a half, and a bovate & a half, by serv. of xiij’, by

’ reason of another half bovate & bonepenny p.a. & other
services.

Richard son of Henry holds a mess. & a bovate & in rents
xij* . . . viij’ vj? & bonepenny & other services.

Robert le roe did fealty, and holds half a bovate at a rental
of iiij’ iij’ by the service of iiij* vj* p. a. and bonepenny
& other services. ;

John de Boterhales did fealty. He holds vj® ix’ in rental, and
a mess. & half a bovate of land by the service of ij? &
bonepenny p. a., & other services.

Geoffry, son of Geoffry le Leche did fealty, and holds a
mess. & half a bovate of land by the service of iiij* p. a.
& bonepenny.

58 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

William Cademan did fealty, and holds a mess. & half a bovate
of land by the service of ij® vj? & bonepenny & other
services,

Robert Atteford did fealty, & holds a mess. & vj acres of
land by the service of xxj* halfpenny, and bonepenny &
other services.

Will del Hache did fealty, & holds a mess. & half a bov. of
land by the service of ij’ vj‘ 0d. & bonepenny and other
services.

William le ‘Tasker did fealty, & holds a mess. & two acres of
land by serv. of xv* & bonepenny & other services.

Will le Tasker) 4d fealty, and hold one mess. ‘‘togeder ”
one bovate by service of iiij’ p. a. and bone-

Will del Le penny & other services.

Henry son of Alan did fealty, & holds a message & four
acres of land by the service of ij* vj*.

Robert Hayward (erased) ‘‘ William Tagler in his place”
(written above) holds one mess. & ij acres & a half by
the service of ij’ vj‘ per ann.

John le Writhe (junior) holds a mess. & ij acres & j rood by
the service of xxj' & bonepenny & other services.

Agnes le Mason holds a mess. & an acre & a rood.

Richard de Vernon who last died gave to William le
Boole & his heirs the whole of his part of a certain wood
which is called ‘‘Corpshurste,” and the whole of my land
& meadow within the bounds of the same wood, with
one acre of land which Ralph Brun once held lying
between the stone cross (crucem lapideam) upon Lachynegge
(the Chine Edge) in length on one part: and the tenement
of John de Calvere on the other part: and in breadth
between Runeles on one part, and the land of the said
John on the other. I have given & granted to the same
William five acres of land upon Bromele (‘‘he hath the same
vij acres ””—zvitten above) with my portion of a certain place of
land which is called ‘Ze Gvrene’ in Basselowe lying between

Stas

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 59

Olveston & the vill of Basselowe, Holding to him and his

of mill to the xx (sixtieth) grain, & suit of court, and foreign

service. Given on Wednesday next before the feast of St Dionis
in the 4" year of the reign of K. Edward II. Foreign service
excepted.”

Richard de Vernon who last died gave to William le Leche
the whole apportion of a certain place of land (Philip le Leche
is tenant) and meadow which is called ‘ Brise-clif,” in length
and breadth between the bounds of the aforesaid place of
Brise-clif (it is outside the bounds of Brise-clyf) paying per
annum iij* & v pence for all services.

Richard de Vernon son of Gilbert Frances (Philip is tenant)
gave to William (Tite?) one of those said bovates of land which
Nicholas de Boterhales held, paying thence yearly four shillings,
and suit of court, and foreign service.

Richard de Vernon son of Gilbert Frances (Philip is tenant)
gave to William (Tite or Tice) one mess. and an acre and a
rood of land which Robert son of Nicholas held, (paying yearly
fourteen pence, and suit of court,) by foreign service.

Richard le Crouder did fealty. He holds one acre by the
service of ix* per ann. & bonepenny, & does other services.

«Henry son of Richard did fealty. He holds a cot and land at
11° p, a. and bonepenny.

Robert son of Richard did fealty. He holds a mess. & a bovate
of land, & ij acres by the service of ix’ p. a., & bonepenny,
& other services.

Peter Flote did fealty, & holds a mess. & a bovate of land by
the service of ix’ and bonepenny, & other services.

John Flote did fealty. He holds a mess. & a bovate & ij acres
of land by the serv: of ix* p. a., & bonepenny, & other
services.

William de Begeley (“ Rich. Flote” written above) did fealty &
holds a mess. & a bovate & ij acres of land by the service
of ix & bonepenny, & other services.

60 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

Richard Flote did fealty & holds a cot & a croft at xvj®* p. a.’
with bonepenny, & other services.

John de Ay(?)burgh did fealty, & holds a cot & a croft at ix' &
ij? p. a. with bonepenny, & other services.

Joan de Cast: (? Caster ? Chester) did fealty, & holds a place &

William Gregori did fealty. He holds a mess. and half a rood of
land at xii p. a. & bonepenny, & other services.

Peter Flote holds a garden & renders x’ p. a. and other services.

William le Leche (not yet paid for his ingress) holds at will three
places of meadow, ij acres of land in Bromlei near Tozer-
hurst & renders v* vj*.

The same William holds at will viij acres of land in divers places,
& pays ij*.: he has not paid for his ingress.

Philip le Leche holds a part of Vernon meadow of the Old &
pays iij". He holds at will.

Richard de Ruyle says that he holds at will ij parcels of land in
Depedale clif but he knows not how much land lies there.
He pays iiij® p. annum.

Md. That ij acres of land lie above Basselowe Barre which was
accustomed to yield vj‘ per ann. It is in the hands of the
lord.

Richard de Vernon who last died alienated to Richard de Ruyle
& Margaret his wife & their heirs and assigns one messuage
with the croft adjacent, and iij acres of land & one acre of
meadow which is called Ze Presteffoke in Bobenhull holding
to himself & his heirs of him & his heirs for ever by the
service of iii° to the end of the statute for all things except
foreign service, suit of court, & mill.

The jury said that the lady had in her hands one place of land
formerly enclosed containing j bovate of land called Vernoneslege

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 61

The jury said that the lady had after the death..... after the
church, and if not had, j beast due..... between the lady &
holy church by lot.*

They said that the lady ought...... of a certain place of land

which is called Pegcrofleg which Geoffry del Hakemon of Chats-

worth holds.

They said that a certain place of land which is called Gotescroft
which Philip le Leche holds of the feofment of William de.....
which R. Vernon who last died demised.

Robert le Leche exhibited a charter of one messuage (held) by
feofment of lord Richard Vernon Jdefween the waters (sic) at
xij* per ann.

Adam del Schawe exhibited a charter of Rich. de Vernon Knight
for one mess. & six acres of land in Froggot by the service of
xxviij’ per ann. & for common multure, except foreign |
service, & for suit of mill.

Roger North exhibited a charter made by Richard son of William
de Vernon holding by the service of v° one messuage & a
bovate of land for..... only, foreign service, and multure
to the sixteenth grain : and he has Warranty.

The said Roger North exhibited a Quit claim of William de Vernon
made to Roger Blund of all kinds of services (the services of
natives) and made him free—paying thence yearly to himself
& his heirs one penny for ever.

William le Leche of Basselowe exhibited a charter of Richard de
Vernon of a moiety of land which Geoffry Martel held, paying
thence yearly xii® for all things foreign service excepted.

William del Hache shewed a charter of Richard de Vernon
(leasing ?) landin Boterhales which Walkelin Pellipar held at
the rent of xv° & four pence half penny except once in fowling
at the great price, and to the mill to the sixteenth grain. And
the said William agreed to one price each year for xx years.

the death of a tenant, the lady had the choice of a heriot after the church, but
if there was only one beast, then it should fall to the lady or holy church by lot.

62 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

(Ad this point there isa gap in the Baslow Rolls from 1320 to
1346—2.e., 26 years.)

Basfow Court Befd Wednesday the Feast of the Conception
of tBe 05. ©. Mary Mec. 8, Bnno 20 Gd. III. (1346).

Jury :—Rog. de Boterales John Bagard
Will. de Ffalowe Will. le Webster
John Oforpins Will. le Milner
Nich. Dawson John Taillour of Quord-
Hen. Taillows — burgh
Will. de Ffryth Will Pope

John Grymbald

Ralph le Leach or Lech appears somewhat litigious.

The case of Rob. Labbot plaintiff & John Taillows defend* was
deferred until the next court, for free tenants do not owe suit,
neither did the plaintiff nor defendant appear.

John de Penyston had been summoned to respond to Ralph
le Lech Alderman of the Guild of the Blessed V. Mary (of
3aslow) on the plea of debt.

The land which John de Malthus held—now in the tenure of
Richard le Taillows—has deteriated by ij shill.

The house formerly Richard Wastells has been well repaired
by John del Malecam.

Basfow Courf, Wednesday nerf after S. Hifary same pear.

Ralph le Lech, Alderman of the Guild of the B. V. Mary, of
Baslow plaintiff against John Taillows of Quordborourgh on
the plea of debt.

John de Penyston junior, for detention of vj° viij’ belonging
to Ralph le Lech (in mercy). Robert de Boler also owed
Ralph xviij? (in mercy).

The Bailiff complained that he had not (in his custody)
John de Penyston senior to respond to the same Ralph on the
plea of debt. Ordered to make further distraint.

John de Grymball was another debtor ; in mercy.

Will. le Clerke Xc., plaintiffs against Will. le Milner & John
son of Henry le Taillows on the plea of debt; also against
Rob Cudy ; also against John North & Hen. le Taillows,

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 63

Basfow Court, Wednesday nerf affer fhe Feast of (Purifica:
tion, 20 Gdwd. III. 1345-6.

Magota Basset (her absence was excused at the last court),
now she is not present (in mercy).

Will. le Milner, John Taillows of Querdburg, Nich. Dawson,
Thom Habheson, John Grymbold, Rich Habheson, Will. del
Froe, Will. de Chynley & John del Maldane all owe suit.

Gasfowm Court, Wednesday, Feast of S. Cedde Gp. Mar.
2, 20 >. III.

John Taillows of Quedburgh was presented for detaining
iiij’ v' belonging to the Guild of the B. V. Mary. In mercy.

The Bailiff was in mercy because he had not William Milner
to respond to Will le Clerk & John le Taillows present in court,
on the plea of debt. Ordered to make further distraint.

John Taillows of Bubbenhall plaintiff against Ralph Tybboson
for detaining his cattle.

(Hiatus of 8 years. Rolls lost.)

Great Court of Basfow Befd Wed. nerf affer te Invention
of te BHofy Cross (May 3). Enno 28 &d. III. (1354)

Jury :—Geoffry Leche Ric. le Leche
Steph Cudy Will. Elyot
Ralph Leche John de Sheladon
Rob: Note Will. fil. Roger
Geoffry le Bolar John le Brughe
Ric. Swan Will. Spakeman*

The above named jury said on their oath that John de
Edensoure by William de Blithe his workman had turned a
separate water course of the lord’s unto a certain fulling mill
held by the same John. Wherefore it was ordered to be filled
up, and that the said John & William be attached to answer to
the lord for their transgression.

The miller presented that Will. le Brenner had withdrawn
his suit from the (corn) mill. In mercy.

* The same name undoubtedly as Spateman, Spademan, and sometimes
Spadman. The mother of John Flamstead, the Astronomer Royal, who
was born at Denby in 1646, was Mary Spateman.

64 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

Great Court of QBasfow Befld Tuesday on fhe Feast
(Oct. 28) of Be Bpostfes 5S. Simon ~ Jude. anno 2 .
Gdwd. II.

Excused—William son of Rog. Leche for non appearance.

Robert de Hethcote concerning a case.
Roger North, John Ugas, Giles Leche, John Wright,
John Atteyate.
William Leche complained that Geoffry Bolar with his dog
had killed his pig worth xl*.

Tenants of the Aanor of Baslow, A.D. 1355.

Court of Basfow Bed Wednesday on the Morrow of fhe
@ecension anno 29 Edward III. 1356.
Roger North did fealty, and acknowledged himself to hold a

mess. & a bovate by homage & fealty, and for the service
of iiij’ vj4; and one mess. & a bovate of land by fealty &
by the service of providing a pair of shoes of iij*: and ij
acres of land, & iij parcels of meadow at will, by the
service of 1ij® viij’.

Alice, the dau. of Robert the son of Thomas, did fealty, and
acknowledged she held iiij ac. of land which Roger North
held & concerning which she had a charter by

Dionis son of Will. Leche. John de Edinshour nearest.

uncle acknowledged that he held one messuage & half a
bovate of land, and one bovate of land called Tornshust
by the service of vj° x°.

Giles son of John did fealty & owned that he held of the lord
one place of land called Wychefeld, by the service of xv"
and vij acres of land at will for the service of ij’.

Stephen SmH did fealty, & owned he held j mess. & j bov. of
land by charter, by homage & by the service of v* and
also j mess. & half a bov. of land by the service of
iij® iiij* 0d.

Richard le Leche did fealty, and owned that he held by charter
j mess. & j bovate by the service of vij>: and j mess. and
half a bovate at will, by the service of ij° vj‘ 0d. and j" for
bone silver. (¢.e., doon sitver; a sort of present to the lord.)

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THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 65

Ralph son of Isabel did fealty, and owned that he held by
charter one mess. & 3 a boy. of land by the service of
ij ij* and ij? for multure, and iij acres of land at will by
the service of xij*, and it is called ‘ Hogfeld.’

Lord (Dus.) Will de Ruyley did fealty and acknowledged that
he held by charter a mess. and a bovate of land, and ij
acres and a rood & a half by the service of v° ij’.

William son of Robert le Leche did fealty, and owned that he
held iij messuages and other certain tenements by the
service of xviij‘.

Richard Swan did fealty and owned that he held by charter
one mess. and a bovate of land by the service of v‘.
Roger de Boterhal did fealty, and confessed that he held by
charter one mess. & ilij acres of land by the service of

xiij* 0d.

William Wyne Knight (chir.) acknowledged that he held of the
lord j mess. and j bovate of land by charter, by the service
of v*. And John son of Robert de Sheldon held the said
tenement of the aforesaid William.

Emma de Calvar & Joan de Reyleye free tenants came not;
and Robert son of Roger le Leche came not.

John Pope acknowledged that he held a messuage & a bovate
of land by the service of viij’ & vj* and j* (done penny).
Agnes, dau. of Roger did fealty, & owned she held j mess. &
half a bov. of land & j acre, by service of vj® iij? and

j. bone penny.

Ralph Leche owned that he held of the said bovate iiij acres
& half a rood by the service of ij® iij*.

William son of Robert le Leche did fealty & owned that he
held a mess. & a bovate of land by the service of viij® vj*
and j" and held a mess. & half a bov. of land by the service
of xxj? od. and j*.

Ric. le Ruscher did fealty & confessed that he owned i mess. &
j bovate of land by viij® vj*, and j*.

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66 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

John de Wrigth holds i cottage & j acre of meadow which was
John Machor’s, by the service of os . ae he held half

Robert Eliot did fealty, & owned that he held j mess. & half a
bovate of land by the service of iiij® iij*, and i*. And
Geoffry le Boler holds another half bovate of land by the
service of itij* iij*.

The same Geoffry holds a mess. & a Resa of Jand for viij® vj*
and i*, and a cottage which was Richard le Crowder’s for
ixtand i?and a piece of land for vj’. And he gave for
fine xiij® ilij*,

Geoffry de Leche did fealty. He holds a mess. and a bovate
of land by the service of viij® vj° and i*.

Richard de Derleye and Alice le Boler did fealty, and owned
that they held a mess. & a bovate of land by the service of
viijs vj? and i%.

Henry le Hostil & Ralph le Leche (apparently tenants).

William Spakemon did fealty, and acknowledged one cottage &
iij acres of land by the service of ij* vj* and i.

Robert le Webster acknowledged j cott. and ij acres of land and
a half by the service of ij’ vj? and i*.

Richard Wastel acknowledged j cotage by the services of
ij* and i*,

Henry de Couplond holds j cottag. & ij acres of land by the
service of xij‘ and j*. (Died 10 Ric. JZ—C. K.)

Rob. Pye holds a mess. & half a boy. of land by the service of
ij® vj? and i*.

Robert Note holds a mess. & a bov. of land by the service of
ix and. 1°,

Margaret in the Lane.

Robert le Taylour j mess. & half a bovate of land by the
service of v° and i*.

Nicholas Henry owned that he held the other half bovate
by the service of iiij* and also a cottage by the serv. of
xij* and j*.

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THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 67

William Elot holds a mess. and half a bovate of land by the
service of iij* vj‘ and he holds a cottage at xv and i*.

Robert son of Walter (le Hond) holds a cottage & j mess. and
half a bovate of land by the service of viij’ vj‘ and i*.
. . de Derley holds a mess. & half a bovate by the
service of vij’.

At an inquest the jury said that Rob. de Hethcote came
not. That Will. de Eliot had not repaired his house. That
Roger le North had brewed & sold ale contrary to the assize.

Rent Roll of the Manor of Maddon

tafien af fhe Court Befd there on Wednesday fhe morrow of
Be Yacension of our Lord GFnno 29 Edward III. (1355).

Ralph de Fremon did fealty, and he held of the lord a moiety
of a messuage and half a bovate of land by the service of
xviij, and suit of Court.

John de Haddon did fealty, and owned that he held of the
lord j place being a certain part of one bovate of land :
and he and others held for ij parts; paying yearly j lb of
pepper at the feast of S. Martin, and j lb of cummin.

Richard son of Philip did fealty, and owned that he held i
mess. & i bovate of land by the service of x’.

Rich". de la Hel. and Robert Somer.

Geoffry Somer held a cottage by the service of xiij*.

Roger Colyn held a mess. & a bovate by the serv. of x’.

William de Beley held iij acres & a half & a rood of land
by the serv. of iijs & v‘.

Hugh son of Geoffry held . . . . and j bov. of land by
the serv. of x°*.

Robert Knyte held i mess. & iij acres of land by the service
of iij’.

‘Stephen son of William held j mess. & j bov. of land by.
the service of x*.

Will. Fithel held i cott. by the sery. of ij) and he made a heriot,

worth xij".

68 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

Tilla wife of Ralph holds a cott. & pays xij°,
Ralph de Waistowe holds j toft and pays viij*.

Roger Scot holds a cott. by the service of ij’.

Thomas Turnour holds a cottage by serv. of xij®.

Hugh le Boler holds a cottage by the serv. of xiij%.

Robert White holds a certain tenement at xxvij® per ann.

Robert son of Marg. holds a cott. paying xij* 0%. p. ann.

Robert Altus (igh or Heugh) holds a place of land and a
pasture called Helleker (A///carr) paying iij’ while he
holds it.

Geoffry de Haddon holds a mess. and a bovate of land by
the service of x’.

The inquest jury said that Henry le Pole owed xij* rent; vj‘
for a place of land called ‘‘ Ze He/d” and vj" for the Ox-lese.
They said that John le Lindop and Rob. de la Croft agisted
their sheep in the lord’s pasture: in mercy. Item that Will.
le Hoke made a way in the meadows of the lord’s tenants
through the middle of his garden making egress and ingress.

Sum of the Rents of Haddon xviij® vij*.

Bassefow Courf, Wednesday in the Wigif of SS. Simon
and Jude, Ynno R.HR. 30 Edw. ITI. (1356).

Excused :—Will. de Ruyle, Rob. Pye.

John Fox, plaintiff, against Will. Leche on the plea of trespass.
He said that W. Leche had depastured his beasts in his
growing corn, who was ordered to recuperate Fox with 10
sheaves of corn. Richard Wastel complained that Henry
de Coupland had committed the like offence. Coupland
was ordered to compensate Wastel by giving him xxilij
sheaves.

Henry de Hostelar had trespassed with his pigs in the corn
of Walter de Leche, doing injury to the amt of vj viij®.
Inqusion taken on the oaths of Rog. North, Will. fil Rob.,
Giles de Leche, John de Endessore, Ralph le Leche, John
le Wright, Geoffry le Leche, Ric. fil Rob., Ric. Swan, John
fil Robert, Rob. Taylour, Will. Eliott, who said that Rob.

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THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 69

son of Rog. le Leche who held of the lord half a mess.
& another tenement did not come to do fealty. That
Rob. de Hethcote made default of court. In mercy.

FH That John de Couston who held an open field called
‘ Dylfeld’ by military service, and a bovate in ‘Grystly-
ffeld,’ is dead,* and is dau. Emma is under age, where-
upon the land is assumed by the lord in the name of
guardian.

KW William de Calvour who held of the lord a mess. & a
bovate of land called Stonhall by military service is dead,
and his dau. Cecily is under age, wherefore the land is now
in the hands of the lord as guardian.

Presented that a place of land called ‘ Pengersleye’ contains ij
acres, parcel of the manor. It is arranged that Alan
Foliaumb shall have it at the rent of iij’ per ann.

Dk Geoffry atte Wode who held of the lord one mess. & a
bovate & a half of land, and a cottage, is dead, by whose
death the lord had a moiety of a vessel—(“‘vase”) value
i. Whereupon Alice wife of the said Geoffry sought one
third part of the said tenement, according to the custom
of the manor, & the said cottage and a moiety of a bovate
(.e., 3 of the whole) was assigned to her.

Ralph le Leche came and took up the mess. and the bovate
which Geoffry at Wode formerly held, by the service due
& accustomed, and gave xx* for his admission, and did
fealty, and pledged himself to keep the same in good repair,
by Richard son of Robert and William son of Robert.

Alice, wife of Geoffry atte Wode paid a fine of iiij* for brewing
the following year.

(This license seems to have been allowed to widows to Sorm further
provision for their support.)

Roger de Wynfeld & John de Crech (probably old neighbours
and quarrymen from S. Wingfield and Crich) came and took
the quarry this year paying Ixvj® viij’ at the feasts of S.
James and S. Mark by equal portions.

f* in a subsequent entry this tenant is termed Wicholas de Songston, and
his daughter ‘ Amma’ as here.

7O THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

On a strip attached to the margin of this roll is the following :—

‘“Memorand. That Richard de Vernon Kt. lord of Basse-
low, granted to Robert de Hethcote the custody of the lands
and the heir of William de Calvour, viz: of Cecily daughter
of the said William, and one bovate of land w' the appurts. in
Basselowe, having & holding the same until the lawful age of
the said heir, save the services due unto the lord. In testimony
of which the aforesaid lord has placed his seal to this letter.
Given at Haddon on Wednesday next before the feast of Palm
Sunday, Anno xxx Edward III.

(Seal strip left, but Seal lost.)

Richard le Leche came & took up one cottage in Cordborgh
formerly Legger le Hunte’s: held according to the custom
of the manor.

John le Skynner came & took up a cottage called ‘ Holweyrede ’
in Baslow which Will. le Boller formerly held, & did
fealty.

Presented that William le Leche unjustly detained his rent of
ix’ for a field called ‘ Horseleye’-—also he unjustly kept
back vj? of the rent for dame Susanna Feld, and distrained
for the rent of two back years. His arrearage amounts
to xij’, It is ordered to be paid.

Presented that Will. le Leche and John his brother made an
assault with a sword and other arms, and with words,
upon Roger Barstow clerk to the lord.

Presented that Giles son of John, and Roger North cut down
the lord’s wood without licence.

It. Stephen de Ruyler fished the lord’s waters with a “ Law-
BREE. «

It. William son of Robert le Leche injured five houses at the
Ford to the damage of xx’. Ordered to be distrained
until he pay for the waste.

* (Law spear. Law=lake. Lawsper= Lake spear.)

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THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. (fas

Margaret de Ruyle came and made satisfaction to the lord
for the custody of Joan her daughter who is within age for
j messuage held of the lord, and iij acres lying in Bubnell :
and she gave to the lord vj viij* for the wardship of the
said Joan. Pledge Richard le Leche. To be paid at
Pentecost.

It was granted by the lord that a cottage upon Baslow Green
which Geoffry Boler formerly held should be held by the
Brethren of Saint Mary’s Guild of Saint Mary of Basselowe
celebrated in the church, holding the same at will to the
lord at the yearly rent of xij", and she did fealty according
to custom, and it was accustomed to pay x" p ann.

Robert de Hethcote gave to the lord for the marriage and
wardship of Cecily daughter & heir of William de Calvour

Roger North paying the same at Pentecost next.

In dorso. (Apparently a draft deed.)

Know ye all that we Thomas Symonde of Tamworth, Bur-
gess, and John Symonds of the same are chiefly held and by
this present writing are firmly bound to Richard Vernon of
Harlaston Knight, in the sum of twenty pounds of good &
lawful money—Paying to the same Richard or to his true
attorney on the feast of
to that we are bound to pay, doing faithfully and well as we are

without any delay, in regard

engaged by these presents, we, our heirs, and our executors,
In testimony of which, to this present writing we have affixed
our seals.

[The rolls of the next two courts are of paper, about 12
ribs or waves to the inch. The water-mark consists of two
circles arranged one above the other and a little apart, with the
single stem of a cross passing through the centre of each but
terminating at the base of the lower circle. Both sheets are in
an almost disintegrated condition; and no wonder, for they
have existed 541 years. The cross is quite plain ]

72 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

Great Court of Gasfow Geld Wednesday nert Before tBe
Seast of S. GarnaBas the Ypostfe. Enno 31 Gdw. IIL.

Essona Richard Wastell Rob. de Hethcote
John de Endesore

Jury. Ralph Leche John le Wrighte
John son of Rob, Hen. Hosteler
Roger Boterhales Rich® le Leche
Will. Eliott Rob. Taillour
Giles son of John Ric. Swan
Will Spakemon John Elott

They said Rob. son of Roger le Lech made default.

Presented that the water was stopped from its right course
to the mill.

A place of land called ‘ Pengerlee’ was formerly held of the
lord, and now, no rent is paid for it, although it is occupied by
Alan Fuliaumbe. It is ordered to be taken again into the
hands of the lord.

Will. de Stafford trespassed with his cattle on the Moor
without licence. Agnes del Dale has ij horses there.
Richard Clerk has ij ‘‘stirkes” there. Stephen of the
meadow trespassed with his sheep in the corn, placed his
calves at Depedale, and cut down the lord’s wood. John
Michel did likewise, John de Dylron damaged the fences
there to the value of xx° and Will. de Pilleslee, Will. son
of John, Thomas de Hele, & Agnes his mother, and
John de Wyches did similarly—They are all in Mercy.

Court Befd af Haddon By Henry de Gyplebyon Thursday
nert affer tBe Seast of Corpus CBristi in fBe 32nd year of
Edward III. (1358). ;

Ralph Ffremon free. John Deweler, Ric. del Hull, Geoffry
Senior of Rouleslie, Hugh son of Isold, Ric. son of Philip,
Will Walshe, John Hert.

Rob le White, Will Chiel, Rob. Kyte of Alleport, Roger
Beumaner, Rog. Colyn, Hugh Gonryg, Will. Bele, Geoff. de
Haddon, Matilda Glabour of Haddon, did fealty to the lord.

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 73

The jury said that a footpath at the Dedelone was stopped
up by Henry de la Pole to the injury of the tenants. John
de Waystowe agisted his sheep in the lord’s pasture. Rich.
Wilmeracre trespassed with his sheep in the same. John Hert
one of the lord’s natives staid away beyond his time from the
lordship, but it was not known where he tarried. Rich. Bergen
& Will. de Hull fished in preserved waters. In mercy. Roger
Beumanor brewed twice and sold ale contrary to the assize.

Court of fBe ford (RicBard fe Wernon Knight Befd af
Gasfow on Wednesday nert after the Feast of he Gssumpfion
. ©. Mary. GYnno 33 Edmd. IIT. (1359).
The tax collectors (¢axatores) Will. Helot & Ric. le Rischer
presented that Will Spakemon had brewed five times and sold
contrary to the assize. In mercy :—x*. Numerous others were
fined for a similar offence, and charged ij* for each brewing or
delinquency, but the wife of Roger North was forgiven.
Ralph Leche to repair his house under penalty of xl".
Surety Rog. North.

Henry de Couplond to repair his by next court under pain
of iij’ iiij*. Surety Will. Leche.

John le Taillour of Cordeburg took up a cottage and half a rood
in Cordeburg. Paid xij’ for his ingress.

The wife of Rich’ de Gryndilford agisted iiij animals upon the
moor. In mercy.

John le Briche of Midilton cut down the lord’s wood in the
‘Hawe’ in ‘ Hynechose.’

Richard son of Robert agisted xx animals upon the moor of
Cordeburg without licence of the bailiff. In mercy.

Court of Haddon Befd Bere on Wednesday on tBe Morrow
of the Gssumpfion B. WO. Mary the same pear.
Hugh de Boler excused.
William Colyn took up a bovate at the yearly rent of x* and he
paid xij‘ for his ingress.
The same William brewed, and sold ale contrary to the assize,
iiij*. Roger Bomar do. ij*. Rob Chelon iij*. John
Dawson j*. John de Haddon.

74 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

Gasfow Court. Wednesdap nerf after &. Wistan® King,

@nno MR. HR. 36 Ed. III.

John de Molnere to be distrained to do fealty for the tenement
he held in right of his wife.

Will. de Bentleye took up a cottage formerly John le Glover's.
Ingress ij*. Pledges—Rich. Wastel, and John Pope, for
the sustentation of his cottage.

Nicholas Coterell paid vj* yearly for the Fuller’s Mill.

John & William Spakemon came & took up a cottage formerly
William Spakeman’s. Ingress xx*. Tenants at will.
Geoffry de Leche took up a messuage & a bovate. Tenants

at will. Ingress xij iiij*. Fealty, &c.

Basfow Court. Thursday in Feast of S. Cedde Gy.
(War. 2) @nno 37 €d. III. (1362-3).

Jury :—Will. le Legh Ric. Wastell
John de Edensore John son Robert de
Steph Cuydy Curburg
Will Eliot Ric. Swan
Rich. son of Robert Nich. Hervy
John Wrighte Ric. de Derleie

Geoffry Leche
They said that Emmota de Calvour John son of Giles le Legh
Joan dau of Nicholas, & Rob. son of Roger Lech ought to
appear, & came not. In mercy.
Robert le Taillour de Curburgh 4°, John Taillour 4°, Robert
son of Walter 4°, and Marg‘ wife of John Retahunt
4°, owed suit of mill. In mercy.

* S. Wistan does not occur in Butler’s Lives of the Saints. His festival
was held on June Ist according to the old English Calendar :—‘‘ Nor shall my
history be wanting in thy praise, Wistan, blessed youth, son of Wimund, son
of Withlaf, king of the Mercians, and of Elfleda daughter of Ceolwulf who
was the uncle of Kenelm; I will not pass over thee in silence whom Berfert
thy relation so atrociously murdered.—A pillar of light sent down from Heaven
piercing the sable robe of night revealed the wickedness of the deep cavern
and brought to view the crime of the murderer.”” His body was interred at
Repton (Malmsbury). Ingulf says Berfert slew S. Wistan on the vigil of
Pentecost with the sanction of K. Bertulph his father. I mention this because
I am much inclined to believe that Wessington, anciently ‘‘ Wistan-ton” or
Wistan’s-town, was either the birthplace or property of this S. Wistan.—

[EpITor.]

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 75

Agnes dau. of Roger surrendered i mess. & a moiety of bovate
and j acre of the other part of the same bovate, upon
which John of Crynne servant of Rog. North came & took
it up at the will of the lord paying vj° iiij* yearly, aud a
penny called Bonepenny as ancient rent. Ingress fine ij’,
Roger North being pledge.

Nicholas Hervy gave xx pullets that he might not be elected
provost. Richard Rush was removed from that office and
William Spakeman was elected in his place, and took the
oath.

Robert Taillour, Richard de Derleie, and Will Eliot were
elected to the office of Woodward, & took their oath.

The following persons to build & sustain their houses
before S. John Baptist’s Day, under the several penalties
annexed, Will Eliot, xx*. Robert le Taillour, xxvyj° viij*.
Margery wife of John, xl.

Great Court, Basfow, Wednesday, morrow of S. Bndrem.
Onno. 37 Edwd. ITI. (1363).

John Taillour surrendered a cottage &c. in Corburgh for-
merly Roger Hunt’s. John Chapman took up the same.
Fine of admission xviij®.

John son of Ric. le Russher took up a cottage formerly Will.
de Bentley’s.

John de Ruyle, John and Richard Mulner of Midelton, Walter
Bosan of Midelton, & Walter Wareyn fished in the pre-
served waters, and Rob. Taillour had withdrawn his suit
to the mill.

John Chapman took up ‘ Hoggefeld’ in the hands of the lord

by the grant of Will de Heleye tenant at will ; and did
fealty.

John Spateman surrendered a cottage & lands adjacent, &
William Spateman took them up, paying 3° 4" for ingress.
A heriot will fall when he dies.

John Webster gave xviij’ that he might not be provost this

year.

76 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

Great Court of Gasfow, Thursday nerf Before S. Wichofas
Day. Bnno 38 Gd. IIT. (1364).

William de Burgh to be distrained for the water course to the
Fulling Mill.

Ralph le Leche surrendered iiij acres & j rood of native-
land of a bovate formerly Will. Boterhale’s, whereupon
Henry Ostyler took up the said native holding at the
lord’s will, with the remainder of the bovate by the services
first due and accustomed, and gave v* for his ingress, &
did fealty.

Ralph le Leche surrendered into the hands of the lord part
of a moiety of a bovate of native-land formerly William
Gekyn’s; whereupon John of Hervynne took up of the
lord the aforesaid part of the moiety of the bovate of land,
holding the ‘native-land’ at the will of the lord, with the rest
of the said bovate. He paid iiij* for his fine. Roger
North and Stephen Cuydy being his pledges.

The open field called ‘Dilfeld’ ought to pay i* per ann. and
this payment is in arrears for 15 years past, and the bone-
penny for ‘Gristlyffeld’ has not been paid for the last 15
years.

Alan Ffuliambe holds a waste piece of land of the lord’s
called ‘Pewgereslye’ without rent, and without the lord’s
licence.

John de Sheladon surrendered a messuage & a bovate of
native-land formerly held by John Note senior, where-
upon Robert Note took up the said mess. & bovate
holding of the lord as a native, at the lord’s will, by the
accustomed services. Fine of ingress x*°. Will. Note and
Stephen Cuydy pledges.

Great Court af WGasfow, Feld Thursday nert affer Corpus
Christi, 39 Ed. III. (1365).
Will. Eliot came & paid a fine to dwell where he pleased in
Corburg for x years next future. To sustain the houses
upon the holding formerly Will de Bele’s in as good

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 77

condition or better than when he first took it, & to the
satisfaction of the lord & to pay a heriot if he should
die within the term of x years. And for the observance
of these terms he found Stephen Cuydy, Will. Leche,
Roger North, & William Spakeman, to be his pledges.
Ingress v*.

Gasfow Court (Thursday, Feast of S. Edward King. same
pear).

Presented that a certain Grange at Basselowe called Tythe-
bern is parcel of the holding which Rich* Leche alienated
by Robert Leche his father, of free land. Wherefore it is
commanded to distrain the tenement of the Grange for
more defaults of court, & for fealty and for his service
acknowledged. (See next court.)

Three Lydyates at Baslow are not repaired.

Great Court of Gasfow, Wednesdap nerf Before the Feast
of S. Dunstan, Ynno. 40 Edwd. III. (1366).

It is commanded to distrain the tenement of a certain Grange
called Tythebern of Baslow for default of suit of court &
for fealty and service, and to ascertain what the nature of
the ingress is in the said grange. The said Grange is
parcel of the holding of Robert le Leche of free land,
and was alienated to John de Melburn Canon of the
Cathedral Church of Lichfield, his heirs & assigns,—as
is said.

The servants of Godfrey Foliaumb made trespass in Hake-
wode throwing down the trees there without licence.

Alice formerly wife of William le Boler held of the lord a
moiety of a bovate at the will of the lord formerly Richard
Bond’s. She is now married to Rich* Russher a_ tenant
at will of another bovate of land. Wherefore the moiety
of the aforesaid bovate of land was seised into the hands
of the lord according tu the custom, because she ought
not to hold of the lord any tenement without his licence.

78 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

Upon this came John Cuydy and took up the aforesaid
moiety of a bovate, holding the same at the will of the
lord by the services, &c. Ingress xix, And he paid the
whole rent for this year & did fealty.

Gasforw Court, Thursday nerf after S. Bndrew's Day,
40 €d. III. (1366).

PX John le Wright who held a mess. and a bovate & a half
of land & a cottage died since last court, and an ox
was due for a heriot, but there was no cattle. Alice
dau. of the said John took up the said holding and gave
x’, and afterwards her father’s cottage formerly John
Machams was granted to her until another tenant should
come to take the said cottage to dwell therein.

asfow Court, Wednesday in the Feast of S. Munsfan
(1366).

The twelve jurymen presented that Thomas de Womwell,
Godfrey ffoliambe, Cecilia dau. of Will de Calvour, John
son of Giles le Leche, the heirs of William Wyn_ were
defaulters at the court.

That Lord Thomas de Metham* held a place called Halle-
place near the Bridge of Bobenhull of Lord Richard de
Vernon, but by what service they knew not. Wherefore
it was commanded to distrain the said Thomas to do
fealty, and to acknowledge his service.

* Notr.—This Thomas de Metham succeeded his father Thomas in his
estates on his death, anno 29 Ed. III., when Walter de Montgomery was
ordered to accept security for the payment of his ‘relief,’ and to deliver to
him the whole land of the Hay (z.e., the enclosed or fenced land) of Wallay in
Sherwood Forest, which he held in capite by the service of £10 a year. The
Metham estates lay, however, chiefly in Yorks. See Juguis. P. Mort.
II. 192b.

Anno 36 Ed. III., the K. permitted Thom de Metham to give the ‘‘ Haye
of Walleye” in Sherwood to the Carthusian Priory of Beauvale which was
founded by Nicholas de Cantelupe, the said land being held at a yearly rent of
410 ; but the convent was to hold the same at the increased rent of £13. In
another entry dated 47 Ed. III., we are informed that Elizab., wife of Sir
Thom. Metham, was one of the sisters and heirs of Thomas de Stapleton.—
[EDIToOR.]

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 79

Gasfow Great Court, Tuesday nerf Before SS. Simon c
Jude's May, 41 Ed. III. (1367).
Margery formerly wife of John Pete held a house—ruinous
—in Corborough. To be amended by S. James’ day.
“ Depedale clyf” occurs.

CBasfowm Court, Wednesday Before S. Zohn Gay.. 42 Ed.
III. (1368).

Sir William Wyn Kt. held an estate and was succeeded by
Thomas Wenteneslew in Corbourg.

Will. Spakeman for not repairing a tenement xl‘; & unless
repaired by S. Martin’s Day vj® viij®.

Amongst the fifteen fined for pasturing their cattle on the
moor without licence is one “Ralph Jakkeknave ”—(p7o-
bably a nickname descriptive of character).

Roger North, Thom. de Womwell, Philip Chaplain, Will.
Leche, Steph. Cuydy, broke the attachment of the bailiff
at Tythebern. (See 4o, Ed. III., ante.)

David de Dereham, Henry Sotheron and John Mitchell,
butchers, sold meat contrary to the assize. They were
all presented for blocking up the lord’s ground against his
will with a table called a “ flesbord”’—(c/early a meat stall).

Hugh son of Richard Wastell azas Hewet took up a cot.
an acre & a rood formerly John Machon’s & previously
held by Alice wife of John Wright. Ingress xv°. House
to be rebuilt this year. He gave now a “ Hersive” (a
hair seive) for the lord’s use. Pledges R. Wastell, Hen.
Hostiler.

Here follows a rather suspicious entry.

Stephen Cuydy gave to the lord four horseshoes for his best
horse to obtain consideration of the court concerning a
certain way stopped up by John del Stones between the
s' Stephen & the s* John, to determine whether the said
John could legally do this or not, and a day was
assigned,

80 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

FH Will Eliot who held land under two lords—the lord of
Baslow, and Thomas de Metham, died this year. A
heriot was ineident to each holding, and there were two
jbeasts, one, an ox of burden, and the other a cow. The
respective bailiffs settled the assignments of the two heriots
by lot. ae “28

In the accounts of John Cuydy, provost of Baslow from Mich.,
anno 41 & 42 Ed. III., 1368-9, we have—

Of the rent of Tloresthurst which was occupied by Godfrey
ffoliambe & Thomas de Womwvell, iij® vj’. ;

For a hoop round a millstone, and for the repairs of a
spindle, & for the carpenter i)°.

Robert Ogle (or Cole) bailiff of Haddon.

For a “shroud” for the same mill ij) (probably. the wooden
cover for the millstones).

asfom Great Courf, Wednesday nert fefore SS. Simon
and Jude's Map, 42 Ed. III. (Y.D. 1368). '
The tenants of Middleton & Eyam ordered*to be distrained for
pasturing their cattle on the moor. ;
‘* Medowefurlong.”
The tenants of Pillesley distrained for cutting & carrying the
heath on the moor.

Great Court of Jobn de Hlremas, Mich. Sepnper, Mich.
InpugB @ FoBn de Gfaston, Befd af Basfow on Wednesday
nert Before S, George's May anno 43 Edw. IIT. (1369). ,
(Court probably held during the minority of one of the Vernons.)
PIM John Spakeman tenant of-a cotage & ij acres of land

at the rent of xv“ and a bone penny, died since last court:
A cow was taken for the heriot. Johanna his widow
succeeded her husband & paid ij* for the Relief. '

ns

Gasfom Great Court, Saturday nert affer S. Paul's Day.
anno 44 &d. III. (Q@.®. 1370).

Dk Geoffry le Leche who held 1 mess. 1 toft, ij half virgates
at will is dead. Heriot j ox.

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. ta: OE

Dk Richard de Derleie who held 1 mess and half a bovate
is dead. Heriot a cow.

FQ Robert Webster who held a cottage & 3 acres at will is
dead. Heriot a cow. ‘

ae William le Leche who held a cottage & iiij acres freely, &
a toft & j bovate of land at will, died, by which a calf
fell to the lord for a heriot. The free land was given to
his wife as in ancient time.

iH Margery wife of John Perkin who held a mess. & a bovate
at will is dead, by whose death the moiety of a calf valued at
xx’ fell to the lord, and the other moiety belongs to the
church.

rk Thomas son of Rob. le Leche who held a mess. & a
bovate and half a bovate is dead. He resides outside the
lordship. His widow was ordered to be destrained to
account for the heriot & for the custody of the heir, or
for relief.

x John son of Giles who held half a bovate has no chattels
for a heriot. His heir to be distrained to do homage,
& fealty, & to pay his Relief.

PEM John son of Ric. Russher who held a cottage is dead.
He has no chattels for a heriot. :

Bondage Tenure of tharleston.—Staffs,
(circa xxxi. Edw*. III.)

Except the details of the Bondage Tenure of the serfs of
the Manor of Shillington, related ine the Chartulary of Ramsey
Abbey, Vol. III., I have seen but few similar accounts: they
are somewhat rare. Although it is not our custom to illustrate
the records of other counties, the editor feels justified in pub-
lishing this account of the Bondage Tenure of Harleston,
because it was part of the estate of the Vernons of Haddon,
and because the original paper document is in the last stage

of tenacity.
7

82 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

“John Ywar came and acknowledged that he held of Sir
Richard Vernon Knight son of Gilbert Fraunceys one mess.
& one virgate of ‘Native’ land in Bondage and paid ij vij* per
annum for it; viz: viij’ at the feast of S. Martin, vij? at the
Purific. of B. V. Mary & viij’ at the Nativ. of S. John Baptist,
and ij loaves at Xmas.—price i*, and ij hens, price
at the same time. He will plough with the lord with one plough
at the winter seeding when his lord desires, for one day, with-
out food and drink. And the work of the same plough is
worth vi". And he will harrow half an acre of land when
the lord wills at the said season to the value of i. He will
also plough with the lord at the Lent or spring sowing with
one plough for one day without food & drink (ze., he must
provide food, &c., for himself) the value of his ploughing to be
vi". He will harrow half an acre of land at the said season
when the lord wills, and shall receive i‘. And he will plough
(“ Et arrabit Wartabit & rebinabit.” ‘ Warectare”’ = to plough
up land designed for wheat in the spring, tn order to let it he
fallow for better improvement. ‘‘ Rebinare,’—to give a second
stirring or ploughing to arable land that lay fallow, to prepare
it for sowing wheat, or to plough the ground a third time for
that purpose.” Jacob, Law Dic.) warectate or rebinate with
the lord upon the lord’s lands with his plough when the lord
wills, just as often as may be necessary at the will of the lord
or his bailiffs, having one meal every day at his lord’s expense.
He will hoe (or weed) the lord’s corn with one man for ii
days without meat or drink in the summer, one day with the
hand and another day with the hoe, at the rate of i* for each day :
and if there be zo need to plough with his plough, to harrow
the seed winter & spring as above said: and to weed with
the hand & with the hoe; then he shall give to the lord the
price for the work (not done) as above. And he shall mow
(falcabit) the Brode-madowe and Sondhul until all is cut
with the assistance of other natives, and the value of the
mowing of the said John reckoned by itself shall be vj’. And
(sparget h’bas) spread herbs (? making hay) in the said

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 83

meadow, and turn & cock & load hay in the aforesaid
meadows until all shall be carried with the aid of the cattle
of the natives, and the work shall be valued at ij* each. And
the lord shall give to the aforesaid natives xviij’ for the afore-
said mowing called ‘Mathale’ (‘ MWath’=mowing, & ‘ ale’)
“ excurialitate.” And he shall carry the whole hay of the
said meadow unto the grange of the manor until all shall be
carried with the help of the aforesaid natives, the carts of the
lord assisting. And he shall ‘pick’ the whole of the said hay
on to the stack at the grange or elsewhere at the will of the
bailiffs, the other natives assisting. And he shall mow the
lord’s meadow in Goseholm, anda piece of Bolandesmedewe
with the aid of the other natives: and the lord shall give the
mowers iij’ for their mowing, because the said meadow of
Goseholm is outside the manor of Horlaston. And he shall
carry the whole of the aforesaid hay of Gosehclm unto the
manor of Horlaston with the aid of the other natives, with
the help of the lord’s carts. And he shall with the other
natives mow all the meadows which the lord will have for
store at the manor of Herlaston, as well within the demesne
as without, for a satisfactory and reasonable reward. And
he shall measure (mefer) the whole growing corn of the lord
of the manor of Herlaston with the assistance of the other natives
without meat or drink at one price, called the Metebene
(? meat-boon). Assigned to each dish shall be ij loaves price
it and 3 white herrings price one halfpenny and sisezam to
drink: and the work of each shall be estimated at ij vj. And
he shall bind together the whole of the straw or corn blade
with the aid of the natives into sheaves, and shall stack the
said sheaves in the field—and he will carry with the help of
the natives until all is gathered in during summer, the

lord’s carts assisting. And he shall fork the blade* upon

* Blade—The straw having the corn in the ear
“Sunt segetes, dum seminantur ;
messes, dum metuntur ;
JSruges, dum fruunter ;
élaza dum in horreis triturantur. (Lindewode.)
Certe apud priscos Saxones d/ada seu bleda omnem fructum significat
etiam arborum et vitis. ( Spelman.)

84 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

the stack while at the grange or elsewhere, and place it at
the will of the lord or his bailiff. And he shall carry with
other natives of the neighbourhood the whole of the timber,
stones, trusses, hearths, for all edifices rebuilt, & for all old
ones repaired, and make fences to the said manor. With his
other neighbours he shall make the pond and the dam head
of the water mill of Herlaston of earth-work as often as it
shall be necessary. And he shall grind to the xviij® grain,
and do ‘averagium’ (an ancient service done by natives of
carrying the corn crops of the lord for one day) from Lille-
born, Shyrleye, & Appleby unto Herlaston, and to carry to
Lylleborn Appulby & Schyrleye unthreshed corn (bladum)
and malt for the advantage or profit of the lord as for them-
selves, & the assistance of the families at the aforesaid manors
. . . . And he finds loaves for (the use) of strangers
coming & lodging for the night at the manor; and it is worth
vj? per annum. And the same John and other of his neigh-
bours of the same tenure and condition shall give to the lord
from the feast of S. Michael vj to xiij® iiij*, which is called Ze
Stouth,* viz. it is at will (Z suppose at the will of the lord)
whether the serf shall give to the lord ‘manus’ or ‘munus ’f>
And he shall give marchetum for the marriage of his daughter
or for the crowning (sic.) of his son. And if his daughter
commit fornication he shall give deyrwyt; viz. v’ & a_ half
penny “p j alb" emend’ p dcis denar’ imponend’” (may
this be interpreted “for the repairs of an a/é for the imposi-
tion of the said penny” as though the church should be
entitled to some portion of the fine for the mora/ offence ?).

* «© Te Stouth.” I cannot discover any solution of this term. Du Cange
has the following :—

“‘Stouth-eres: Among the East-Angles they were so called who were
distinguished for courage. These they marked from childhood: They were
accustomed to place their youths upon the straw roofs of their houses, and he
who sat there timidly, or cried out lest he should fall, they pronounced to be
of timid disposition ; but he who laid hold of the straw quickly, so as to
sustain himself bravely, was taken with great applause and acclaimed a future
©Stouther.? Our modern word ‘stout’ for ‘ dvave’ or ‘ strong’ is obviously
allied to this early form.”

+ z.e., labour or money.

_—————————

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 85

Here follow the names of 35 Bondage Tenants, e.g. :—

Rich? Wold holds a mess. & a virgate of land in bondage,
and performs so much service.

Nicholas Maynard the smith holds a messuage & half a
virgate of land in bondage and does so much service
according to the quantity of his tenure.

&c. &c. &e.

John Swan, Jordan Milner & Milicent de Horsley ordered to
repair their houses.

Will. Son of Roger de Alfreton cut off a helve of birch in the
lord’s wood : in mercy. :

Ralph de Leche & Adam de Lymebrenner came and took up
a moiety of the quarry for this year, paying thence 1x* at
the usual times, being pledges for each other—at this rate
the whole quarry was leased for John Ffrere. Ingress roo’.

Gasfow Court Bed Wednesday S. Margaret's Day. Ynno 2
Ric. IL. (@.H. 1378).

Milicent de Horsley for license for an agreement with Matilda
le Leche. In mercy.

> Will Spakeman who held a mess., a bovate, & half a
cott. & two acres, died; &c. whence a cow as a heriot fell

to the lord. John Perkynson sold it for vij’. His widow
became tenant. Relief 13° 4%.

Great Court of John Wolf c Bis feffoms (profably fruste.s
during a minority) Befd af Basfow Thursday nerf affer

Be Seast of S. Mark Evan. Gnno HR. HR. 2 RicB. IL.
(1379).

Will. le Chinley fined x* for not carrying on his suit against
Thomas de Shatton.

Will Spakeman ordered to amend his house by Easter.

The Ale Taster presented that the foll. persons had broken
the assize: Matilda Leche in vi brewings *“* Thomas de
Shatton in iiij, ** Henry Taillour in iiij, ** James North in
ij, “7 Will Spateman in j, “4 Robert son of Will j, 7? Robert
Eliot j, 4 Will Eliot j,*4 Nicholas Hervy ij, 4.

86 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

Milicent de Horsley, John Bagard Rog. de Boterhales &
Henry de Couplond had to repair their houses under
various penalties.

John Grymbald took up a place of land called ‘ Zynlegh.’

It was agreed in the Court of Thomas de Metham Kt. that
Stephen del Medow, Thom. Son of Will., Alex. de
Pillesley had cut wood, as well brushwood as timber, and
taken it away.

Basfow Great Court of John Wolf and Bis feflows Thursday
in fhe Wigif of SS. Simon @ Zude. Bo R.K. 3 Ric. IL
(@.®. 1380).

It is ordered that the brewers sell with other measures than
the “ Lagina ” & “ Pitalfus” (the latter is the greater lagina).*

John de Crich & Adam Lymbrenner carried (lime?) outside
the demesne.

Jordan son of John de Wright took up a mess. and half a
bovate. Ingress v*.

It is agreed by the inquest in the Court of Sir Thom de

_ Metham, Will that de Huklow *"? for unsteady driving—in
mercy.

Walter Bosonson for fishing without a license: in mercy.

Elias del Dome for throwing down an oak: in m.

Ric. de Litton, Steph Hikton, John Wass of Grundelford for
iii cows. ‘Thom Amot for his horse and sheep. Robert
Sklatter, do.

Ralph serv‘ of Ric. de Shropshire do. Rog. de Shirley for
his horse. Margery de Roucliff for one cow, Thom de
Wolley for 3 sheep, Benedict le Chapman for 2 sheep,

* Lagena, a kind of measure among the English, thus described in the assize
of weights and measures of David, King of Scotland.

‘* The lagena ought to contain 12 lbs. of water; viz. 4 lbs. of sea water, 4 Ibs.
of lake or pond water, and 4 lbs. of clear spring water. It ought to be 6
pollices (thumbs) and a half in depth. In the lower breadth (? diameter) it
should be 8 pollices & a half, and with thickness of wood in both parts.
The upper part should be 27 pollices round, and the lower 23. (Ds Cange
gloss.) I suppose the breadth of the thumb may be taken for one inch.”

See ‘ agen’ in Jacob’s L.D. Compare ‘ Lag’—the stave of a barrel.

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 37

Margery Driver do., John de Burton do., Ralph de
Gryndelford, do. Will Walweyn for 3 sheep—all in mercy
for trespass on the demesne pasture.

Henry Ragged for rooting up heath on the moor.
The wife of Alex. de Bradshagh for the same— in mercy,

Che Great Court of FoBn Wolf c Bis feffoms, Gasfow.

Thursday nerf Before SS. Simon @ Jude, Y° 4 RicB. IL.
(G.®. 1381).

Thom. de Wombwell & Cecil his dau. absent. Cecil wife

Henry Ostiler who held a third part of a mess. burnt a
mess. and the straw and corn of Roger de Boterhales by
making (? too large) a fire in her own house. The said
Cecily was attached by proclamation to make satisfaction
to the lord. She appears to have had a chest, 3 sheets,
one pot of rice, anda carpet. She broke the attachment by
carrying them away.

It was, presented by the miller that Roger de Boterhales,

John le Taillour, John Cudy, John Bagard, John le
Taillour junior, Will. le Chinley, Will. le Boterhales,
Will. le Machin, John of Herynne, John Pope & Thom.
le Milner had a day appointed to do the millpond of their
two mills here, and they have lodgings whilst they do
their work. In mercy.

Casfow Courf: Wednesday nerf Before SS. PBifip and

James Day. 5 Rich. II. (1382).

Jury. Rog. de Boterhales Hen. le Tailleur
Ric. Hikdon John of Herymne
Will. Pope Rob. Eliot
Will. Webster Thom. de Maleus
Will. Pope John North

Ric. Swan John Taillour

Henry servant of Ric. de Shropshire took up a mess. and

and half a bovate in Bobenhull, which Roger similarly held.
Ingr. it.

88 THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

Thom de Wollow took up a cottage with appurts. in Cordburg
which Yvo Tynker formerly held, paying yearly xi? and
i? bonepenny. Ingr. yj’.

Milicent de Horsley has a ruinous house and not repaired it.
To be done by St. John Bap. Day next, under a pain of
xi?

Gasfow: Court of Fobn Wolf and Bis feffows. Thursday
nert Before S. Rufe’s May. Go. 5 Ric. I. (1382),

Felicia wife of Thom. de Milner is a common scold against
the peace of the neighbourhood.

John and Will. Pope, John Bagard, Joan Swan, Nich Walker
will not close their’ gaps by which the tenants receive
much injury: in mercy. Stephen & Robert Cudy ought
to enclose their field at Boterhales and have not. John
del Brough dug turves on the moor; in mercy.

Gasfow Court, Thursday nert affer S. James’ Map, Bo 6
(QRic. III. (&.. 1383).

Adam del Hull for licence to carry millstones over the moor
during the past year. In mercy.

Court of John de BHerfasfon c Bis companions, Qbasfow,
Tuesday, S. Luke's May. Go 8 Ric. Il. (G.D. 1384).
Thomas de la Grik gave a fine to carry over the moor with his

heifer vj’.
Benedict de Chapman surrendered a mess. & a bovate in
Corburg.
>< Will Eliot who held a cottage & a croft in Cordburg is
dead. Heriot an ox valued at viij, It remains unsold.
Roger son of Walter became tenant, & paid xij* for his
ingress.
vfs Nich. Waller who held a mess. & a bovate in Baslow
died since last court. His ox of burden taken for his
heriot, val. iiij< John Couper succeeded & paid vj viij®

for ingress.

—

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE. 89

John de Ryley & Milicent de Horsley ordered to repair their
houses,

The tenants of Pillesley committed destruction in Hakkedwod
—to be distrained.

Thurstan del Boure* occupied the ground of the lord yet had
no right of common.

Gasfow Court, Wednesday Before S. Wafentine’s Day, Go.
8 Rich. Il. (G.B. 1384-5).

>I John Pope who held a mess. & a bovate died since last
court. Heriot an ox value x*. Isabel his widow took
up the land and gave vj* viij* for admission.

>] John Swan held i cott. 2 acres i rod at her death when
her cow became due for a heriot. John Basset became
tenant.

Roger Burgon cut an oak in Walclif.

Qasfow Court, Wednesday nerf affer the quindene of
Easter (fortnight affer) Go. 8 Ric. Il. (F.D, 1385).

Elena dau. of Will. de Tidd took up a cottage which Yvo
de Tynker held, & gave vj pullets for admission.

To this court came John de Criche & Adam Lymebrenner
and took up the quarry for stone and millstones of
Lady Juliana Vernon at Baslow from this court day until
the feast of S. Martin next following, paying yearly 1oo* in
equal portions at the feast of S. James & S. Martinf
And the said Lady granted for herself and heirs that i.
it so happened that the said John & Adam were not
able to carry away their millstones then made before

* Thurstan del Boure, a wealthy yeoman of Tideswell, worked numerous lead-
mines about this period in the Peak. Very much information may be found
about him in the Belvoir archives.

yo

THE COURT ROLLS OF BASLOW, DERBYSHIRE.

the feast of S. Martin outside her demesne of Baslow,
that then it should be lawful for them to have xxiiij pairs
of millstones standing in the said quarry for them to
carry away & make their profit within the following year
without blame or detriment from the said lady or her
bailiffs.

(Zo be continued.) .

gi

A Literal Transevipt of the Earliest Register
of Dale Abbev, Derbyshire.

By the Rev. R. Jowetr Burton, M.A,,
Curate of Dale Abbey.

ANCTION for the transcript of the Register has been
very kindly given by the Rev. W. Fox, Rector of
Stanton-by-Dale, and Chaplain of Dale Abbey.

This Register is of greater value than those of most
villages, owing to the excessive number of marriage entries it
contains. The yearly average of marriages for the past sixty
years is about three; but in 1685 there were ¢hirty-ezght, and in
1686 there were forty-six. The first suggestion of the numerous
entries is, that the people were not inhabitants of Dale; and this
Suggestion is made a certainty by such remarkable entries as
“One maried Decb ye 4 there names not knowne.” Why, we
may wonder, did strangers come to this remote village to be
married? Was there some superstition as to a special blessing
on a marriage contracted in the quaint church beside the ruins of
an abbey, and under the same roof as an inn? Or was it a local
Gretna Green? Whatever it may have been, Burn in his
“History of Parish Registers” (p. 127) makes the following
remarkable statement :—‘‘ The marriages in the parish of Dale
Abbey were, until a few years previous to the Marriage Act (z.e.,
Lord Hardwick’s Act, 1754), solemnized by the clerk of the
parish, at one shilling each, there being no minister.” If this be

92 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

correct, it would seem that the people of Dale took a worldly-
wise view of the marriage fees. High fees might deter people
from marriage at Dale, and, in consequence, the poor of the
parish would be deprived of a certain amount of relief, as, at the
close of the seventeenth century, the shilling fees were distributed
by the overseers of the poor. This is shown by entries in the
Register. On the other hand, when the question of the place
of burial left little choice, the fee was a higher one—three
shillings and fourpence. It may be noted that, though there are
several different styles of writing, some extremely bad, almost all
the entries of any period are in one hand, be they weddings,
christenings, or burials.

The state of the document makes it desirable that a copy
should be made, and the information safely recorded. It is in
a state of sad dilapidation. It is a coverless paper book, with a
large hole through the first two leaves. It has, moreover, been
kept in time past in a damp place, and the paper is consequently
in a poorly preserved condition—the edges are worn away and
turned ; and as time goes on, words at present decipherable will
become unrecognisable, or will disappear altogether.

A study of the entries will show that they are not contemporary
ones. Omissions, cramped entries, and the want of chronological
order and sequence will show that the entries were made some
time after the ceremonies. Some of the words and figures have

been corrected by contemporary, and some by apparently later,
hands.

The book has been re-bound at some time, and it is plainly
evident that at that time there were more leaves than at present.
In the process of re-binding there was a considerable displace-
ment of the leaves. The notes on the text, it is hoped, will
explain this. To make this transcript as chronologically correct
as possible, the following order of the pages of the Register has
been made :—1 to 12 (13 blank), 45 to 48, 42 to 37, 43, 44, 36
to 26 (25 and 24 blank), 23 to 16 (15 blank), 14.

The volume measures 15 in. by 6 in.

TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY. 93

In the transcript, dots show where the Register is worn away ;
brackets, where words are undecipherable ; and spaces, where
omissions occur in the original.

A few notes are added from an inventory (in the overseers
account-book) of the contents of the parish chest in 1806. One

,

item is, “ Rec' for 10°/r1° for the French protestants 27 Sep*
1694.”

ye 16: 1667

dy of Deall (?) abey and ffranc

ame parish was married ;

[b] orne sonne of Richard Grun ]

andf . . wife was borne October ye 23? 1668: and was
babtised the 3° of nouember ffowllowing, By MT" Robert
horne then minister of westhallam.

Mary the ffirst borne daugter of Richard Grundy was borne
september ye 22° and babtised October the 25: 1670: and
died ye 6" of december ffowllowing

Isacke and Jacob being twins and second and third son[s] to the
aforesaide Richard Grundy and Frances his wife was borne
the 6 of Aprill 1672: and babtised the 7 day and buried
ye 14™ day by M” greatrex minister at Risley and west

[ha] llame
Elizabeth the seco . . . . Richard Grundy and frances
Grundy his . . was borne ye 25" . . and babtised ye
"of August . . . et vicar of Ockbrook
J[oseph?] . . . . of Henry tayler and kathe ;
wife was borne the 11 day of may an . . ised the 08

day of may 16
Hannah tayler daughter of Joseph and mary tayler was borne

July the 7 and babtised the o4 of the same 16 ;
Thomas ye sonne of George Wallker and Elizabeth his wife was
babtised december ye 16 i678
Ruth ye daughter of Richard Grundy and France . . his wife

was borne Octtober ye 3° i678
John Shaw the soon of William Shaw buryed 14 day of Febryary
Anno dom? 1678

94 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

‘Thomas Whith the soon of Francis wh . . buryed the rs day
of febray Anno dom? 16
m Gurtton was bured the 20 day of march Ann dm?

1675

hn briggs the soon of John briggs was . . uried the
29 day of March Anno dn

Marot the wife of La [?] marrot . . the rz day of

oe Anil dom? 16
15 day of June
eorge Clarke was buryed the: 25:
lizabeth walker was buryed the : 29: d

Mary the Wiffe of WilliamS . . . . buryed the 21 day of
nouem

Ame the Wiffe oe William . . . . buryed the 4 day of
decem

John Jankinson & Anne osbourne w . . marryed on Sunday

night the 25 day of december by m‘ Leeson m*‘ Gilberts
Chaplaine 1681

Elizabeth the Wiffe of George Walker was buryed the 27 day of
december 1681

John Wright of dalle abby Baker dyed upon Friday night
February the 10 & was buryed upon Sabbath day in the after-
noone February the 12: bym'G . . atrax then minister
of Westhallam 1682

. thy Boswell widdow of Edward Boswell departed this liffe

February the 13 at night & was buryed February the : 14 by
m’ Leeson then Chaplaine to m‘ Gilbert

John Wright seni... le abby yeoman dyed in February
16 . . buryed by the aforementioned mi

Will: Osborn ... <«. Abby .dyed’ May the 23™) ana
f the 25 1685

John Wrig . . . ~ sunn of John Wright aboue departed
this life february the 1™
3" 1682

Mary Wright the onely doughter of John Wright and Mary
his wife was baptized february ye 3'" 1682 the same day

and was buried february ye

her father were buried,

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Elezbeth Reyley widow departted this life Aprile ye 4 1693

Bow... meu by these pse -. .);.. $.tha.
neigh(?) . . . s of dalle abby whose hands are here j
tten did upon the second day of February r . . . about(?)

seuerall occations of the towne and finding (?) then & before
a great neglect of paying the summe of three shillings & ffoure
peance ffor euery corps be it man woman or child being
intered in the in the church of dalle abby according to an antient
& usuall custome, thereffore it is ordered the day & yeare
aboue written by Us the inhabitants whose hands are here
under written that ffor euery corps that shall hereafter be
intered in the parish church of dalleabby be it man woman
or child the shall beffore the makeing any graue in the church
for any person as aboue pay unto the Cunstable or head
borrow then in being the summe of three shillings and ffoure
peance according to there antient usual custome. and
that the parish Clarke ffor the time being shall not attempt
to breake open any ground ffor the interment of any in the
church aforesayd beffore such money be payd as aforesaid
upon paine of the Clarke then in being paying the the money
himselffe the same day of interment
Witnesse oure hands the day & yeare first aboue written

John Wright
Matt. Han ATE:
(Thomas ~.-. 9/3) tes Grange
John Br :
Williaiies \ eee
Bdwarden: “see. uamente

his marke

Ralph tealer
William Cooke
his W marke
Tho Wheatley
his marke
Edward Briggs
his marke

96 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

George Walker
his marke
Henry Greene
his marke
[This note is in the same writing as the entries of 1681 and
presumably of the same date.]

Will: James sun and Eare of Will: and Mary James was borne
att Dale Abby one good friday ye 6 day of Aprill 1694
and was baptised by ye Honourable Anchitills Grays
Chaplin one ye 5 day of May 1694

Anaccount of all the wedings that haue b . . . pish of
Dale Abby since January the first Anno Dom° 1684 as
followeth

1 Robert Hardy and Ellen Blood were married ye 4"
January 1684
Matt: Steeuens and Annie Burros were maried the 1o™ of

N

January 1684
Robert Winfeild and Sarah Burch were maried ye 28™ of

G2

January 1684
4 Joseph Morley and Anne Blarstone were maried ye r=

march 1684

s Rich. Morgill and Elin. Haward were Maried ye 1 march
1684

6 Will: Radcliffe and Amy Wright were Maried the 3 march
1684

7 Rich: Leausley and Mary Loccow were maried 20" Aprill
1684

8 Isack Aulby and Jone Shelton were maried the 15" march
1685

g John Fouk and Elen Bacon were Maried the 21 of Aprill
1685

[The last two entries were originally dated 1684, but
5 has been written over the 4.]
10 Will: Knight and Mary Wells were Maried the ro may
1685
11 Tho Brammer and Hannah Auldey were maried 11'" may
1685

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12 John Mee and Mary Bradley were maried may 17 1685

13 Edw Maston and Barbara Jreland were Marryed June ye
5" 1685

14 Hen: Lindop and Sarah Tompson were Married June

ye 7™ 1685
15 William Sanders and Mary Waters were Marryed June
13 1685
Will: Dexter and Eliz: Pemberton were married June 23"
1685

17 John Rilth and Martha Morris were married June 27'* 1685
18 Rob: Brook and Sarah Worthington were married July

8 1685
. .ob Close and Dorathy Gent. . . ried July ro 1686
Just Was and Anne Baly were married August the
2" 1685

21 John Bonssall and Majest (?) Smith were maried August
16" 1685

22 John Vrins and daroty Barker was maried August 23'"
1685

23 Rob. England and Darothy Bayly was maried Sept 6" 1685
24 Joseph Bayly and Darcas Choice was maried Octob ye 5" 85
[In this entry Sept was written, then erased, & Octob
written in the same hand.]

25 Abraham Hooe and Jane Longman were maried ye 5°
Octob 85

26 Will: Creswell and Elner Cooper was maried Octob 8" 85

27 Thomas Eaton and Mary Branson was maried Octob 8
85

28 Geo. Willgresle and Ann Poyfer was married Octob 9g‘
1685

29 John Redgate and Margerit Oldersha were married ye
16 day Octob 1685

30 John Asle and Jane Bloor were married ye 25" Octob
1685

31 John Dent and Anne Hood were maricd Nob. the 7"
1685
8

2)

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32 Ralph Jollecocke and Hannah Turton were maried Nob.
19" 1685

33 Will. Milner and Sarah Watson were maried ye 21* Nob.
1685

. Andrew Walton and Ann Chamberlaine were maried

December 2™ 1685

35 Edw: Fetherston and Margeret Gibbins were Maried Decb.
18° 1685

36 Tho. Dawson and Anne Finney were maried Decb. 18"
1685

--7 Rob. Smith and Elin Astis were maried Decb. 27" 85

38 Solomon King and Mary Wa[ ]ton were maried Decb. 29™

/1685
Anacount of all the wedings that haue bin in . . . of
Dale Abby since January the first Anno Dom . . . as

followeth

or Tho. Barker and Eliz: Roust were maried febr. 9 /1685

o2 John Roulland and Eliz: Ellot were maried Febr. 9" /1685

3 Tho: Franks and Eliz: Frances were maried March ye 3" /85

4 Will: Coats and Eliz. Newton were maried March ye 4" /85

5 Rich: Cocks and Mary Baley were maried March 11™ /85

6 Tho: Lee and Isabell Huskinson were maried March ye 19”
/85

7 Edw: Winncy and Millicent Day were maried March 24”
[1685

8 George Hanley and Mary Fish were maried Aprill ye
6% /86

9g Henry Robey and Millisent Pime were maryed Aprill ye
12" 1686

1o Rob: Pearsee and Eles. Hodkinson were maried Aprill
17 /1686

11 Danniell Moreland and Dorothy Martin were maried Aprill
29th /1686

12 Edw: Bosbos and Elizebeth Sison were maried May 2"
1686

13 John Robinson and Sara Hooley were maried May 2™ 86

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Josiah Wheldon and Jane Erringham were maried May
ye g" /1686

John Husbond and Sarah Chapman were maried May
17 /1686

John Woollans and Anne Whittacar were maried May
18" 86

Will: Smith and Eliz : Jones were maried May 25 /86
Augustin Low and Eliz: Middlebreek were married May
30" /1686

Rob: Heathcote and Susannah Lakin were maried June 23"
/86

IGE, 2) tir Man bkatomen Were: tess! t) ja). whys) 6

James Thacker and Millisent Roberts were maried July,
17" /86

Will: Burton and Mary Brightman were maried July 18" /86

Tho: Woodhouse and Eliz: Salt were maried July 18" /86

Tho: Wright and Mary Straw were maried Aug* ye 1: 86

Charles Baxter and Darathy Simpton were maried Aug* 2" 86

Tho : Harrison and Margery Dickson were maried Aug* 15"
86

James Hall and Jane Sherwood were maried Aug* 15: 86

Daniell Care and Hannah Taylor were maried Aug* 19 : 86

Robetta and Sosiae Moore were maried Aig ye 23" /86

Tho: Aire and Joan Wotherd were maried Sep‘ ye 4: 86

Edw: Steeinsun and Ruth Humychry were maried Sep‘ : 6"
/86

Tho : Goodale and Anne Hewett were maried Sept : 6" /86

Tho : Brookfeild and Anne Mecock were maried Sept : 22
/86

George James and Eliz: Flamsted were maried Sept 30'" 86

Rich: Allam and Mary Clay were maried Octob. 11 /86

Michaell Gregory and Ailes Hough were maried Octob 14"
/86

John Spery and Mary Souter were maried Oct? : 13" 86

Frances Hudsun and Ailes Charton were maried Nouemb.
15" 86

th

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39 John Ault and Mary Renald were maried Novemb, 16" 86

40 Henry Silkstone and Mary Silkstone were maried Novemb.
24> 86

41 Samuell Clarke and Mary Bacon were maried Novemb. 27 :
86

42 Rich: Hand and Mary Smith were maried Decemb? 5'" 86

43 Joseph Beardsley and Anne Row were maried Decemb. 12" 86

44 Rich Warriner and Martha Garner were maried Decemb.

26™ 86

45 Sampson Armishaw and Mary Coopstake were maried Decb.
27 86

46 Tho. Alsebreeke and Mary Bowler were were maried Decb.:
31 86

1 David Wealthdall and Eliz: Blackiall were maried Jan: 2™: 86
2 Tho: Johnson and Mary Weedcock were maried Jan: 2™: 86
3 Sam: Blood and Mary Dickin were maried Jan. 9 86

Anacount of all ye wedings that haue bin in this pish of Dale
Abby since Jan. 9 1686 as I Can Com to the knowledge of
1 John Adcocke and Rebekeh Millaiton (?) were maryed
Homphy Mainfeild and Grace Wouen were maryed October
8/ 1689
2 Henry Ashe and Hannah Play weare maryed Aprilr™ 8 ..
3 John Waller and os Rouers were maryed 1689
4 Will: Smith and Sara Chesterelen (?) were maryed 1689
5 Samuell Sarson and Mary Creswell were maryed March 16
/89
. ohn Walker and Ellim Billidges . . re maried 23 March 89
7 Tho. Slater and Elezabeth Armfeild were maried 25 March
1690
8 George Robey and Mary Barnesby were maried Jan. 7 89
g Tho: Borous and Sarah Harison were maried Jan. 13 1688
to Will: Tletcher and Ellezabeth Rollin were maried Jan 13 88
1 John Banéroft and Margerit Jackson were maried 2 May 1690

un

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Will Tou and Hannah Holinds were maried 6 May 1690

Will Criple and Katherin Noden were maryed 6 May 1690

John Woodward and Ann Wleelhouse were maried April
last 1690

Tho : Nixson and Ann Neuton one Care Sunday 1690. [Care
Sunday is the 5'* Sunday in Lent. Carling Sunday.]

Tho: Wood and Hannah Bailey were maried Septemb.
17/1690

Joseph Arme and Elizabeth Frerson were maried Sept 10/90

John Vnderwood and Darothy Cocer were maried Oct? 10/1690

Will : Cooke and Ann Wheatly were maried Sept? 27/yo

Will. Carter and Margerit Bowler were maried

Joseph Peile and Mary Talor were maried

Fran: Dexter and Kath: Anabell were maried

John Denes and Briget Harue . . were maried August
mae eT]

Rob: Parker and Elezbeth Bingh . . maried
August 24 /1690

Edw. Allceck and Deborah Symms were maried

John Woodward and Ann Wheelhous were maried [see this
entry above]

Edw. Smedly and Hannah Gose were maried Septemb 8:
1690

Rob : Bradbery and Ann Pete were maried 15 decemb. 1690
[? 5 decemb.]

Hen : Golder and Ann Hooley were maried Decb. 15 /16g90

Rich: Allin and Mary Wage were maried Nob. 6 /1690

Will: White and Lidiay Hemsley were maried ye last
Nouemb. go

Rob. Hodskinson and Mary Newton were maried Decemb
16/1690

James Talor and Anne Ratcliffe were maried Jan: 1 /1690

Will: Nortts and Elez. Jerram were married Aug. 17 /1690

Will. Moris and Rebeketh Breren (?) were maried Aug.

17 /go
Rich Toby and Ann Windly were maried Jan 12/1690

[02 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

Anaccount of wedings since Jan. 12. go
1 James Gad and Anne Wheatly were maried Jan: 1690
2 Hen: Smith and Soorsby were maried Jane: 24 /go
3 Jon: Wilson and Hannah Blood were maried 26 Jan: 1690
4 Godfree Sykes and Ann Knighter were maried feb. 6 1690
5 Tho. Worren and Mary Nuton were maried Aprill 12 /1690
. Edw. Burgiyn and Margery . . cocke were maried
May 4 /9
feb: 18. 1690
7 Will. Dally and Mary Carter were maried
8 Will. Egleston and Mary Corner were maried Feb. 24 1690
g Will Knowles and Jane Siylkington were maried May 15
1691
to Tho Boote and Helen. Merrill were maried May 25 /91
tr Joseph Ainsworth and Mary Simmes were maryed Jun 8. 91
12 Charles Dunnag and Lucy Boote were maried June 19: 1691
13 Hen: Roger and Eliz? Flecher were maried May 6 /1691
14 Timothy Harison and Sarah Brunte were maried July ig.
1691
15 John Wheelhouse and Deberra Richarson were maried
16 Tho: Perry and Ester Wilson were maried
17 John Preston and Mary Hayes were maried July 26 /1691
18 Isaack Jackson and Mary Wagstaff were maried Aug: 9: 91
19 John North and Sarah Hoges were maried Octo 11 /1691
20 Tho: Peate and Elez. Ball were maried 11 Octob. g1
2t John Walker and Joune Waites were maried Aug 12: 91
22 Michill King and Mary Harrison were maried Aug 12. 1691
23 Rob: Lasy and Anna White were maried 17 Octob. 1691
24 Dauid Jones Fran: Caluert were maried 21 Octob. gt
25 Edw. Plimmerand Re . . Rivit were maried 22.

[The next page, No. 13, is blank, and page 14 contains the late
entries of 1730 and 1731. The marriage entries which follow
have apparently been misplaced in re-binding the Register, and
are at the end of the book. They are in the same writing as the
foregoing, and, without doubt, originally followed immediately
after them.]

TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY. 103

Jon Eare and Sarah Orebl (? Orebb) . . . June
~th
i g2
John Habberam 6 June g2 and Grace Broomilow
9 John Clarke and Elizabeth Sleephers were maried 92
Io Frances Preen and Barbara Chambers were maried June 92
t1 Rouland Pi[?up]ost and Elez: Webster were maried August

ye 28 /g2

12 Charles Millard and Mary Shelden were married Septemb.
4— 92

13 Edmond Harte and Elez: Wallbaich were maried Septemb.
4 [1692

14 Geo: Hallam and Anna Fletcher were maried Septemb. 6 /g2

15 Will. Noble and Mary Harttill were maried Septemb. 11 /92

16 Fran: Kearke and Mary Robison were maried Septemb. 11 /92

17 Hen: Webster and Anne Shefeild were maried Septemb. ye
13 /92

18 One maried Decb. ye 4 there names not knowne

19 Joseph Dowman and Mary Kerey were maried Septemb.
1 /1692

20 Daniell Chaplin and Mary Slaicke were maried Octob.
2— 92

21 Samuell Barns and Mary Smith were maried Octo 9 — 92

22 Edw. Adeson and Martha Mabbat were maried the 18
day 92

23 Will. Smith and Elez. Chandler maried Nov. 10 — 92

24 Tho: Meeds and Saray Churchitt were maried 27 day 92

25 Rob. Okleuer [? Olleuer] and Mary Sadler were maried

Dees 4. 92
. » Rob: Knowth and Mary Drawlitt were maried ye 11 Decemb.
92

[The leaf on which the preceding 20 entries and the
following 16 entries occur has been turned the wrong way in
re-binding. The following 16 entries, therefore, should
follow “Edw. Plimmer and Re . . . Rivil” preceding
the last note above].

104 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

26 John Chapman and Elizabeth . . . were married Nob. |
29 /1691

27 Samuell Dudley and Ruth Goodw . . . were maried
Jun 2 /1691

28 Tho: Dowman and Margerit Pattericke were were maried
Decb. 24 /1691 |

29 James Haruey and Jssabell Woodard were married Decb. .
26/1691

30 John Oldershaw and Anne Seuern were maried January 2:

1691

Benimin Jackson and Plebe Ward were maried 17 Jan. 91

33 [No names entered | were maried

33 James Hanson and Eliz: Orm weare maried Jan: 27 /1691

34 Tho: Columbell and Ann Haries were maried Feb 3 /1691

35 John Hant and Eliz. Armsen were maried Feb. 3 /gt

Anaccounte of weding since March 28 /1692

or Tho, Adams and Jane Steuer were maried Apr. 3 /1692
o2 Tho. Pight and Susanna Williams were maried April 8 /g2
03 Edw. Boote and Eliz. Bostocke were maried April 10 /92
o4 James Hellond and Keaterin Newam were maried Apr.
16 /g2
o5 Phili. Peader and Mary Smalledge were maried May 16 /92
06 Will. King and Daras weare maried June 1" 92
and Mary Know . . . 8 Decemb. 92
+8 : sferdand Mary (?Sams . . .) were maried
29 Joseph Baxter and Elez. More were maried Feb. 19 /1693
30 Rob. Greene and Elez. Simson were maried Aprill 9 1693
31 Hen. Swifte and Margerite Wood were maried 93
32 One Cuple more there names not knowne
33 Rob. Bankrast and Ann Garland weare maried 93
34 Tho. Burryer and Jane balle were maried 63
35 Tho. Lim and Saray Smith were maried 93
36 Hugh Gaskin and ond (?) Ward were maried 93
37 One Caple more theire names not knowne

TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY. 105

Samuell Hancocke and Ann Cowle were maried by Mr. Leeson
att Chadson in this County Derby one August ye 3 Anno
Dom? 1693

Matt. Hancocke the first borne sune of ye foure sd Samuell and
Anne his wife were borne May ye 22: 1694 and baptised by
Mr. Baratt ye 29 of May next ensuing.

Edw. the second sun of ye foure sd Samuell and Ann his wife
were borne feb. ye 22: 1695 and baptiesed att Sendi
by Mr. Barate March ye first 95

John ye third sun of ye foure sd Samuell and Ann his wife weare
borne April ye 22: 16 .. and baptiesed by Mr. Barate ye
27 of ye s{ame]} m [onth]

Will (?) Wright of Bartto.. . . . . of Dale Abby weire

, Sarah ye firste borne . . . . and Sarah was borne ye
2[5 ?]

Michill ye fourth son of ye foure sd Samue . . and Ann weire

borne April 28: 1700

Josep the fifth son of the aforesaid Samul Hancock and Ann his
Wife were born July ye 19" 1702.

[The original entry was 1703, but was corrected to 1702 by

apparently the same hand. ]

Elizabath the fourst born douter of Samul Hancock and Ann his
wife were borne in Maye ye 22 1704

Samul Hancock sixth son of Samul and Ann his wif wear boorn
the 22 day of august 1706

Ann Hancock second douter of Samul and Ann his wif wer born
august 24—1708

Ann Hancock wido of Mathew Hancock departted this lif
Septem ye 19 1710

Samul Hancock the sixt son of Samul Hancock and Ann his wife
departted this lif Octo 20. 1710

Beniamin Hancock the 7th son of Samul and Ann his wif wer
born feb the 12 day. 1710

106 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

William Wright the Second Son of John and Elizabeth Wright
was born feb ye eight 1725

[This is the last page of the present volume. ‘The entries other
than marriages, with the above few exceptions, begin on page 42
of the Register, which was at one time, from its appearance, the
last page. The Register was evidently begun at both ends, and
the following pages retain the characteristic position. The first
leaf of these entries is much soiled, and one corner has been torn

away.]
h

fate...) ays nas see
ll: Cooke our (?)
ith the Cons
. Amy Bridges 64 w.
er 8° John Roper 1° 2°
; Joseph Roper 1°. 2° w
. . . John Haywood 6° wid Bo
n £. 6° Tho Eare 1°. 6" wid
emiah Maples 1° wid Spur 6
ae: ur 1S Will Jackson 1° wid
Rich. . 1% 6% in the wholle as aboue
oo'—18°—oo4 deuided January the 1™ 1684
Whereas there was the sum of thirty tow shillings Rec* by
Rich Haruey Clark for thirty tow weding before Crismas 16 .
it was by him deliuered to the parish . . . and by the Con-
sent of Nighboor will Co . . . Querseer of the poore, dis-
posed of it . . . the poore as followeth, wid Morley
Phill: Boden 1:—6, Amy Bridges 1° wid Reyley 1°—6° Mary
Talor 6° Joh . . Roper 15—6° wid Hardy 6° Jo* Rop :
Will Shirwood 6° Jo" Haywood 1° Rob Dowman 2°—6° Tho Eare
2—6%w . . . Taylor 2°—6°% Jere: Maples 15—6° w
Spur 1° Edw Spur 1° Will Jacson . . . . wid Richardson 2*
Edw Roulson 1° John Osborne 1° wid Bourous 6° J. .
Bowthers 6° Mary Wats 1° Will Shaw 1° Rich Mariatt 1° in the
who . . . as aboue o1!—12%—oo" deuided January the 4™
1685

ri
oI

ae

me

TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY. 107

In ye yeare 1686 William James being Ouerseer of ye pore hee
desstrebeted to ye poore of this parish ye sum of two po
and three shillings it being fo . . 43 wedings

& age eter rish ye sum
it being for t

IEMGrISINAaS: LOGO. Oi Yh aR, ck
being Ouerseero .

Distributed to ye p

parish ye sum of

for twinty weding .

March 28/1692 Barth: Peate
being Ouerseer of ye poore
Distributed of ye widing mony
to ye poore this parish ye

sum of one pound fiufteme
shillings for Thirtti fiue wedings

Weeding mony distrubuted since March 28/1692
Rob: Mason being Ouerseer ye poor and others sinse

to Jerimy Mapels att 3 tims $i ow. 00,15, 03.: OO
to Thomas Eare att 5 tims before ye 14 feb. (G2 2 GO 2°05 200
to phillap boden ... ue eA ae OOM tO 3.00
to him more aos Bae he ae Ee OOn swe $100
to Tho: Eare more ah a BA «aoe OO? OF +00
to Edw: Rousston... ot: oe ea tratoo s-O2": 00
to Tho: Eare more Bf see aa we 100° OR 200
to Phillap Boden ... sige ee aa ceo Of +. 00
Geo: Walker EP i a x 6. (6G, 2 OF = 00
Will: Jacson Ey oh owe a aoe SS Oa”: ae
Sara: Spur ee ae ea ae som (eles teyenm: Yolo"
her more... ie i as ee ion) uO. nO: Joe
Phillap boden more she aa na sas 00; 2107) SRaS

108 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

Tho, Hare: more)-.- th ae: Bas ay OOGR OL OO
Phillape boden more aoe ee wy i 00% Of peom
Phillipe boden more ie bid ls ise /GOK2) GRMEEOS
Sara Spure more... Uy fal 7 ot: eG: eeamesaG
Phillipe boden more 6 We ie 7 OOS Vette Mets
Tho Eare more... wg hee we s+<) OO SSSOgmenaS
Phillipe boden more Ea oe as 26.2 004 * Cla Oo

OL = GONCo

Pre, ess oweths 7... fuc«s Aa

Bengamen Walker sun of Geo. Walk . . departted this life May
ye 12"/1695

Amy Bridges Spinster departted this life May ye 13" 1695/.

William Hanford and Elizabeth Waldrum were Maried May ye
6 1695/

Elezabeth Cooke the wife of Will Coo . . departed this life Jun
19: 1695/

Elezabeth Vallence ye doughter of Edw: Vallence departed this
life ye 27 day of July 1695/

Ann Roper ye first borne of Jo" Roper and Mary his wif weire
borne August ye 15 1695 and buried ye 17 day of ye same
month/

Phillip* the first borne basterd of Mary Spur was borne Septemb.
10 1695 Phillip Dreacod is suposed to bee his father
Rob: the sun of Rob: Needam and Grace his wife were borne

August ye 19. 1695.

Michill the sun of Tho: Wheatly and Mary his wife weare borne
Septemb. 29: 1695

Rich: Clower and Ann Whellwrigh . . weire maried Nob. 14 —
1695

* « Phillip Spurr to Sam!. Shepherdson 30 Nov’ 1703. Parish Indenture,
Mason, plasterer and tiler.” ‘‘ Sessions Order Phillip Dreacott Child born 10
Sept. 1695.” (Parish Chest.)

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Will Dracod* ye sun of Geo Dracod and Hanna his wife weire
borne Octob: rr: 95

Edw ye second sun of Samuell Hancock and Ann his wife were
borne febury 22. . .

Ann. ye wife of Rich. Dawson and Daughter of John Sheperson
departtedt . . . life March ye 4. 1695 and was bur...
the 5 day of ye same month.

Mary ye Doughter of Will Winrow and Susan . . _ his wif
was borne March 25 day 1696
Will Dracod* departed this life 1696
ae = tae POUR L Ear ye. iS Bacon]
his wife were borne April 27 [07]
Ann the Doughter of Geo. Walkerand . . . ._ his wife were

borne April 27: 1696
Will. ye sone of Will. Hanford and Eliz: his wife were borne
Aprile ye 29: 1696
Hanna the Doughter of Edw. Steeuens and Ann his wife were
borne July 28: 1696
The sun of John Roper and Mary his wife were
borne Septemb ye 20: 96
Jane Clower ye widow of Will: Clower departed this life October
ye 4: 1696
the sun of Edw Valens and Elez: his wife were
borne Nouember 12: 1696
the sun of Rich Clower and his_ wife
were borrne Nouember 28: 96
The sun of Rich Portter and Sarah his wife were
borne Nouemb. 29° 96
The sun of Geo, Dreacod borne 96
A basterd Child keepte by Tho: Oxley supposed
to be Tho: Twelues of Dunington in ye County Lester
departted this life Decemb. ye 3: 96
Mary ye wife of John Smith departted this life March 15 — 1696

* In 1696 there are entries in the Parish Registers of Heanor relating to
children of “George and Hannah Draycott of Loscoe,” one of them being an
entry of the burial of their son William, on Feb. 14th (1696 new style) ; and in
1697 to achild of ‘‘George and Hannah Draycott of Stanly grange.”—See
Journal, vol, xx. p. 19.

ITO TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

Sarah Milns ye wife of Joseph Milns departed this life July ye
12 — 1097

Rich: Haruey departted this life July ye 26 — 1697

Jo" Smith and Sarah Cooke were maried Jun 24 — 1697

Joseph Milns and Ann Turton Maried August 24: 1697

Will: Wright and Lidiay his wife were Maried

The sun of Joseph Row and Mary his wife weire

borne Jan: ye 12: 1697

Jams Hoges and weare Maried Nouemb. ye 21 —
1697

Ralph Talor Junier and weire Maried March 28 —
1698

ye third . ancock and Ann his

wife weire borne Aprile ye 22 1698

Margeritt Hancock the doughter of John Hancock departted
this life June ye 14 1698

Ann Haslam departed this life July ye 18 169

John ye son of Edw Steeuens and Ann his wife weire borne
Septemb. ye 18 — 1698

Will Jackson departted this life July 28 1698

John ye first borne son of Will: Wright and Lidiay his wife
weire borne Octob. ye 8: 1698

Mary ye wife of Tho. Wheatly departed this life Nouemb. ye 22
— 1698

the doughter of Will: Winrow and Susana [? y]
his wife were borne Nouemb. 25: 98
Grace Needam departed this life March ye 18: 1608.
A child of a strange woman weire borne att Stanley Grange this
yeare 98
The fore s* Child departed this life ye foure s* yeare
John ye sunn of John Roper and Mary his wife weire borne ye

DOMOMGCEE ect OOS
ye of Geo Dreacod and Hannah his
wife weare borne 98

Jane Shaw ye wife of Wili: Shaw departted this life May ye
ninth 1699

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Joseph Roper and Mary Phips weire Maried April : 13 — 1699

_ Jane ye wife of William Hardey depearted this life August Ye 227;
1699
Ralph the sun of Rich * Porter and Sarah his wife weire borne

Septemb. the 15: 1699

Hanah ye doughter of Will. Hanford and Eliz: his wife weire
borne August 27: 99

Mary the doughter of Edw: Vallence and Eliz: his wife weire
borne Octob. 17 :

Hen: Frith departed this life Octob. 2 [? 6]

Joseph ye sun of Jo* Milns deperted th . . . . July ye
14: 1699
pts Yeo dy fe shea, hy 4 is. wit -weire ‘borne
January ye

Will Hardey and weare maried

[Jo?] hn Routher departed this life february 29: 1699
Rich* the son of Rich: Clower and Ann his wife were borne
feburary ye 20: 1699
Rob. Needam and Grace his wife were borne
1699

Mich: the sun of Samuell Hancock and Ann his wife weire
borne Aprill ye 28: 1700

Henre the son of Edw: Vallence departed this life in May.

Joseph Roper ye first Son of Joseph Roper And his wife Mary
was born February the 24: 1700 (This entry is written in
a different hand and with a different ink.)
meee SOM es. . eereCl One... os 3. son and
Cat . . . . wife were borne aprill ye 6 ea ic

Tho [?] Roper the 2 Sun of Jo* Roper and Mary his wife were
borne April the 8. 1702

Ralph Taler the first borne Sun of Ralph Taler were borne y
19 daye of [Aprill ?] 1702.

the doughter of Edw: Vallence were born. may. 4.
1702

* This son Richard was « weaver in 1733 (Parish Chest).

I12 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

Joseph the 5 Sun of Samul Hancock and Ann his
wife were born July the 19 1702

Hana Osborn the wife of Joseph osbo . . . departed this

life July the 7. 1702
The wright honouerabl Anshontell Gra Esq" departed this
_ life July 8 i702 (The previous entry has been erased,
but only differed from this in that the surname was omitted

and afterwards written above the line “ Graye.’’)
Isak Haruey and Ann Truman were mared Octobr the 1702
Richerd Sheperson and prudence his wi . . were mared
nouember 4 1702
Ann Cook the ferst born doute . . of Willam Cook and Ann
his wife were born august the 9 1702 [Cook—the
second word of the entry—is written above a deleted word
somewhat like Winfield].
Catherine Smith wife of Will Smith departed this life nouember
ye. 15. 1702

Smith doughter of John Smith departed this life

nouembr ye 21—1702

Rich Bouthers departed this life febru . . . the the 6™ 170%

Ann Hawood departed this life feb 22

Rich Potter [? Portter] and Catherine Elson we. . . mared
Jenuary the 1: 1702

Sarah Vallans ye Daughter of Edward . . . . was born

ye 4 day of February in ye year 1715

Sarah Sheperson ye daughter of Richard Sheperson was born ye
14 day of June 1707

Joseph Hucker the [Sun] of John and Elizebth Huker His Wif
Was born agust the 27 in the year 1710

Samul Portter Sun of Rich Portter and Catherine his wife were
born in September . 1705

John Binge of Chaddesden and Ann Taler were mareyed at Dal
Abby by Mr fletcher of Sponndo. . . June: 29: 1713

[The above entries succeeding that of Joseph Roper, son

of Joseph and Mary, are on a leaf near the end of the book

TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY. 113

and which has been misplaced in re-binding. The last five
entries are on the back of the leaf, with great spaces between
them].
1703
[Roubotam ?] Son of George [Roubotam ?] .
borne Maye the 2°
Steeuen Farmer Son of Will Farmer were borne June the 1°
Catherine Steeuens wife of Jo* Steeuens departed this life
Octobr 15
Elizabath Porter dauter of Rich Porter and Catherine his wife
bere born Septem the 1ro™ day
Amy Wright douter of Will Wright and Lidea his wife were born
> the 2°4 daye of decem - 1704
[The figure 4 in the ‘ 24
tions. ]
Henery Wrigh the son of William Wright and Lidea his wife
was born Jenuwary y® 10: 1748

”

and 1704, are later inser-

for the year — 1704

Elizabath Hancock douter of Samul Hancock and Ann his wif
were borne Maye 22 * 1704—

Elizabath Cook douter of Will™ Cook and Ann his wife were
born on the 6™ daye of Septembr in the year aboue sd

George Walker and Sarah [?]eiden were mareed in Maye

Ann Backon wife of Will Backon departed this life feburarey 11‘

Will Smith son of John Smith was babtsed february the
3° daye—

Elizabeth Roper douter of Jo Roper was born the 20" daye
of iuly 1704 [pore]

Rob Needam had a child born this year 1705
Susanna Wagstaf departed this life April the 9™ daye
Aless Wright wido deperted this life April ye [30?] daye—
George Smith and Mary his wife were marred
april the 14—
9

IT14 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

John Walker forst born Son of George Walker and Sarah his wife
were born april the 26

Elizabath Steeuens douter of Edwerd born maye 10”

George Smith Son of the abousaid George were born feb ye 5":
and died the 15

Ralph Taler Son of ralph and Ann his wife we . . born the:
19™ daye of feb— John Vallenc . . Son of Edw
Vallence were born august 18™

fo

Rich Needam sener . . . ._ this lif between Lady day and
the forst day of August. ;

Will Wright Son of Will Wright and Lidea his wif wer born the
5" daye of Jun in the year aboue s?

Samul Hancock the sixth Son of Samul and Ann his wif wer
born the 22 daye of Augest in the yer aboe

On the 28 day of Augest 1706 at Edw: Vallences — hous ther
were born a femal basterd Child of the bodey of one
Catherin Taler of Ashbey dale S ouch bond to Save dal
from damag is giuen by M* Barker of Bortton and M°
Smith 5

Ann Baker departed this lif on the 20™ daye of decem 1706

Joseph Grundy the son of Tho* Grundy and Elisabeth his wife
born the 21™ day of Jenuary 1707

Mary Grundy the Daughter of Tho* Grundy and Elizabeth his
Wife was born the 4th day of July 1712

Elisabath Portter doughter of Rich Portter and Cathoryes (?) his
wif wer born — Septem 2° 1703

Jo: Portter ther Son wer born the 7. of decem 1707

Rich. ther Son wer born Jung 1711

Ralph: Portter Sener of Dal departed this lif Jan*” 1 1711

Lidea Wright doughter of Will™ and Lidea his Wif departed this
Lif nouem 25. 1711
ae [shir?] . . de

«tae aoa WVinighpane
[ayz) eo, 1772

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Edw. Vallence [senior ?] departted this lif feb. 21. 1711

Hanah Bakon doughter of Will wer born march .12. 1711

Ralph Taler: Sener. departted this lif. may. 8. 1711

Prudence Sheperson doughter of : Richard wer born may * 30.
1711

Edw. Bridgges Sener departted this Lif feb 12° 1711/

Mary Cook: Doughter of Will Cook wer born of Ann his Wife
Jun. 15. 1712

John Milnes: Son of Jo* Milnes wer born * march « 1 day * 1711

Jo?: Milnes.* and Ann his Wiff and Ann ther doughter al
depertted this lif on a Lorde’s day « miserably ina Col pit
fun the: 15.7) 1712

Géorg Walker Sener depertted this Lil. Septem. 16. 1712

Lettis Wright wido Relix of John Wright departted this life
nouem. 19. 1715

[Here follow two entries which have been erased. One

refers to the birth of Mary, daughter of Will Cook, in June,
and the other to that of Henry, son of William and Lidea
Wright, in Feb. 1714. Both of them are entered above. |

Henery Cooke the son of Willam Cook was born desember the:
31 1714

Willam Walker the son of georg walker was born Februwary
we-23's E712

Sarah Walker the doughter of georg walker was born september
fhe 257 T71O

Sarah the wife of Robart dowman departed this Lif April the
ae 17'S

Mary Cormickel the daughter of John Cormickel was born the
21 of Jenewary in the year 1714 or 15

[About an inch has been cut off the bottom of this leaf,
on which it is clear there was at least one entry].
departed 3 VIS
the son of Ric
Bue y= Ae ee econ

* ** Sessions Order for Jos? Milnes and his Wife. Orderd to Dale Abby.”
No date. (Parish Chest).

116 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

Thomas oxley departed this Life May the 3: 1716

Mary the wife of John Roper departed this life may the 6: 1716

Ann Cormickel the daughter of John Cormickel was born august
the 19: 1716

John Roper and mary the widdow of george smith was marryed
July the g: 1716

Henery Clark departed this life June the 27: 1716

George walker departed this life the 22 of July: 1716

John Roper Juner and Ann dethick was marryed september the
17: 1716

Ann the wife of edward stephen departed this life september
the 19: 1716

Richard porter departed this life october the 10: 1716

Robart dowman departed this life october the 10: 1716

Mary porter departed this life nouember the 19: 1716

Banjamen walker the first son of John walker was born the 14
day of desember 1716

Edward bridges Juner departed this life desember the 22: 1716

Mary Mapples the daughter of Jeremiah Mapples Juner was born
the 4 of Jenewary 1716

Thomas wheatly departed this life februwary the 20: 1716/17

prudence sheperson the wife of Richard sheperson departed this
life may the 8: 1717

Ann haruey the wife of Isaac haruey departed this life may the
72 S727

Richard mariot departed this life may the 26: 1717

Cathrine wilkins the daughter of thomas wilkins was born the
25 of April 1717

Ann Roper the daughter of John Roper sener was born the 26
of June 1717
Grae fatness Ory born
August in the year 1717

John Ear the first son of John ear Juner was born the 17 day of
August In the year 1717

Ann Cook the wife of william Cook departed This life october
the 17 In the year 1717

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Elizabeth Grundey the daughter of Thomas grundey was born
the 19 day of October In the year 1717

Sarah Roper the first daughter of John Roper was born the 26
of october In the year L709

Edward Stephen and Cathrine the widdow of Richard porter
was married the 16 day of desember In the year 1717
[“‘ desember” has been substituted for ‘“‘Nouember ” by the
writer of the entry].

Richard Sheppersen and Elizabeth Vallens were married
Feb 11 1717/8

Thos. Clark and Elizabeth Winson were married desember
31 1717/8 [** desember 31’ is a correction—the original

“being “sober 31.”]

Jos" & Mary y° first son & daughter of Will™ Walker & Elizabeth
his wife departed ys Life (sic) were born Feb: 6: 1717/8 &
dyed one one (sé) on ye 12" ye other on y° 13 day of y¢
same Month. [The words underlined have been erased. ]

Ann walker the daughter of Joseph walker and Cathrine his wife
was born the 27 of March In the year 1715

Ann walker the daughter of Joseph walker and Cathrine his
wife departed this life May the 27—1716

mary wright the daughter of Joseph wright was born y® 25 of
des 1717 [This entry is inserted in a cramped style towards
the side of the page.]

Will Newton the first born son of John Newton and Sarah his
wife was born the 8 day of february 1717/18

John Cormickles y* son of John Cormikles and his wif Eliz was
born ye 20 day of May in year 1718. [The wife’s name,
Eliz., has been inserted over the erased name Ann,—by the
same hand.]

Brigges and of his wife Elizabeth w . - . born the
first day of march 1717/18

william winrow the first son of of John winrow and of his wife
Ann was born the 2 day of June in the year 1718

118 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

Mary Twellfs the first daughter of Tho Twellfs and of his wife
Sarah was born the 18 day of July 1718

John Clark the son of Tho Clark and Elizabeth his wife was born
the 4 day of desember in the year 1718

William Smith departed this Life the 31 of desember 1718

Hannah walker the daughter of will” walker and Elizabeth his
wife was born the ro day of Jenuary in the year 1718/19

Ann walker the daughter of Joseph walker and Cathrine his wife
was born the 29 of Jeneuary 1718/19

James Lacey and Sarah Jonson was Maryed the 30 day of March
in the year 1719

John wheatley the first son of Micael wheatley and hannah his
wife was born the 21 of May 1719 and departed this life In
August the 19 day 1719

Thomas porter the first son of tho porter and his wife Mary was
born the 26 of October in the year 1719

Mary Jackson departed this life June the 10 day 1719

Edward Brigges the first son of John brigges and his wife
Elizabeth was born the 5 day of July 1719
. ohn Newton and his wife Sara . . . . born the 12
day of Jenewary 1733

Ann winrow the first daughter of John winrowe an his wife Ann
was born the 16 day of Jenewary 1735

Sarah Mariot the first daughter of Richard mariot and his wife
mary was born the 16 day of Jenewary in the year 1735

sarah Mapples the second daughter of Jerimiah mappes was born
the 20 day of Jenewary in the year 1779

Ann Twellfs the second daughter of Thomas Twelfs and sarah
his wife was born the 16 day of februwary in the year 1736

John Jankison departed this life March the 25 in the year 1720

John smith departed this lif April the 19 in the year 1720

Edward stephen departed this life June the 27 in the year 1720

Frances Grundy the wife of Richard Grundy departed this lif July
the 13 In the year 1720

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Joane wheatley widdow departed this life october the 23 in the
year 1720

John Lacey the first son of James Lacey and his wife sarah his
wife (séc) was born the 2 day of Nouember 1720

Elizabeth Cormickels the daughter of John Cormickels and his
wife Elizabeth was born the 25 of Nouember 1720

John minles departed this Life Nouember the 25 1720

Edward Vallence the first son of Ed Vallence and Easter his wif
was born the 5 day of desember in the year 1720

ry the 5" 1720-21
William Stevens first born son of Matthew Stevens and Elisabeth
his Wife was borne January ye 25 1729

John Moore and Sarah Redgate was Marryed February ye 20"

20
737

William Carter of Stanton and Ann Taylor of Spoondon was
Marryed February ye 2 3-1732

William wheatley the son of Micael wheatley and Hanah his wife
was born ye to day of march 1734

Sarah Roubottom ye wife of George Roubottom departed This
Life March ye 21 1724

Georg Roubottom departed this life Apprill ye 15: 1722
[Here follows half a page blank.]
- +.» Roper the daughter of Joh . . Roper Juner and his
wife Ann was Born ye 28 day of March 1721

Joseph Walker the son of Joseph Walker and Catharine his Wife
was born August ye 13—1721

Robert Roper son of John Roper Sen‘. and Mary his Wife was
born Sep” ye gt 1721

120 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

Hannah Roper Daughter of Ann Roper Widdow departed this
life Sep” ye 11 1721. Aged 47 years

Mary Wagstaff* Widdow departed this life Oct" ye 13" 1721

Elizabeth Brigges y* Davghter of John Briggs and his Wife
Elizabeth was born y* 28 day of Desember in y* year 1721

John Winrow ye son of John Winrow and his Wife Ann Was
born ye 16 day of Jenevary in ye year 1721

D Richard Porter ye son of Thomas Porter was born ye 29 day
of Jenvary in ye year 1721

Edward Hancock Departed this life ye 12 day of march in ye
year 1721

william sheepy departed this life Apprill y° 13: 1722

Mary peat the daughter of Richard peat departed this life et
ep 0 oma 87 eer

Ann Roper widdow departed this life Apprill ye 20: 1722
ye Last : ac CAE

Samwell shepersont aeaaias this Life June ye 20—1722

. Samuell Hancock y* son of Sarah Hancock Departed ye 11 of
July Aged 9 Weeks 1[72 . . .?]

Ann Shepardson Departed this July ye 16 1722

Prewdence Shepardson y* Daughter of Richard Shepardson
Departed this Life August y® 11 1722

Ellin Mapples y* Daughter Jeremey Mapples born y* y® 2 day of
September 1722

* Removal order. ‘‘ From Dale to Ockbrook Mary Wagstaff 1 Nov.
1701.” (Parish Chest.)
+ Mason, plasterer and tiler. (Parish Chest.)

]

TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY. 121

John Walker Departed this Life September y* 12 1722

Richand Carmickels y* son of John Carmickels was borne October
ye 16 1722

John [h ?] aslenton and sarah dickison was Married The 30 day
of may in the year 1732

Ruth Hardey* the Daughter of Dauid Hardey was born the 15 day
of March in the year 1723

James Lacey the Son of James Lacey was born the 26 of June in
the year: 1725

Samuell poter departed this Life June the 23 1726
Wright was born the 26 of desember 1722

Mary madkin the wife of william departed This Life Jenewary the
14 1722

Judah Oxley departed this life februwary the 26 in the year afore
said

Robart Roper the son of John Roper departed This Life the 8
day of March 1722

Ann Winrow the daughter of John winrow Departed this life
march the 27 in the year 1723

John Burrowes the son of Robert borrowes and his wife Sarah
was born ye 31 of March in the year 1723 .

Jeremiah Mapples departed this life April ye 12: 1723

(“Mary Jonson the daughter” has been written here and
erased. |

Mary Lacey the daughter of James Lacey and his wife Sarah was
born y° 5 day of may In the year 1723

* Mary Rowbottom was apprenticed to David Hardy 25 JanY 1722
Parish Indenture. ‘‘ Huswifery.’’ (Parish Chest.)

122 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

Martha Roper the daughter of John Roper was born the to day
of July in the 1723

William Walker the son of W Will: Walker was born the 23 of
July in the year 1723

Ann stephen the daughter of matthew stephen was born the 3
day of August 1723

William Hardey departed This Life september 15: 1723
[The two pages following contain no entries. ]

Sar[ah ?] Newton . . . . of John newton depar|[ted ?] this
life the 30 of september

John Vallance* the son of Edward uallan[ce] Was born y® 27 of
desember 1723

Mary Mariot the daughter of Richard Mariot Was borne the 19
day of March in the year 1724

George walker the son of Joseph was born ye 6 day of April in
ye year 1724

Mark Cormicklest the son John Cormickles was born ye 19 day
of June—1724

Joshua Grundy the son of Thomas grundy was born ye 16 day of
July—1724

Sarah Porter ye daughter of Thomas porter was born y* 28 of

August—1724

Susanna winrow the daughter of John winrow was born y* 3 day
of september—1724

Ann walker widdow departed this life the 30 day of september—
1724

* Indenture of ‘‘ Jno Vallance to Charles Draycott 12 Ap! 1733 F.W.K.”
‘* Not a parish concern.” (Parish Chest.)

+ °*Mark Curmickels to Jn®. Stevens 13 June 1732 Overseer farmer.”
(Parish Chest. )

= oe

TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY. 123

Elizabeth Grundy the wife of Thomas Grundy departed this life
Nouember ye 12. 1724

William Cook departed this life Desember ye 10 — 1724

Richard Grundy Senier Departed this life December ye 22 1724
[Jos ?]eph Spur of Baldock
this Parrish Dépdiea this “life om Drownd
AGE tually att Darby January the 22 — 1724

Mary -Borrows the davghter of Thomas Borowes was borne the
6 day of Feb” in the year 1725

Ann Mappels the davghter of Jeremy Mappels Was borne the
16 of Feb’ in the year 1725

Elizabeth Hewood the davghter of Joseph Hewood was born the
28 of Feb: in the year 1725

Lucy Clower ye wife of William clower departed this Life July
Foor” 2725
Edward Hancock and Sarah Hancock was marryed ye 23 of

July — 1725

William Hardey and Ann Bifield was Marryed ye 16 day of
september In ye year 1725

Joseph sanders and Mary Potts was Marryed ye 1g day of
september in The year 1725

John Wright and Elizabeth Hancock was Marryed ye 29 of
september in The year 1725

Joseph Rowe and Mary Johnson was marryed ye 14 day of
October in ye year of our Lord 1725

Hannah Wheatley ye wife of Michael Wheatley departed this
life Nouember the 22—1725

124 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY,

Mary Cartwright ye Daughter of William Cartwright was born ye
11™ day of March in ye year 1723

Henery Vallance the son of John Vallance was born ye 29 of
Desember in ye year 1725

James Lacey ye son of James Lacey was born ye 27 of July in
ye year — 1725

Cathrine walker ye Daughter of Joseph walker was born ye: 15:
day of March in ye year 1722

Robart Shaw* departed this life May ye 6 in ye year 1726
Samuell the son of John Wright and Elizabeth his wife was born
ye 25 of September in ye year 1726

Thomas Rowbottum departed this Life october ye 16, 1726
William Clower and Sarah Truman was Maried ye 30 day of
Nouember 1726

Vriah Cormckles ye son of John Cormickles and his wife Eliz
was born ye 17 of september in ye year 1726
[‘‘ Eliz” is written above ‘“ Ann” erased.]

Henery Vallance ye son of John Vallance Departed this Life
Desember ye 28 1726

Robert Vallanst ye son of Edward Vallans and his wife Aéter
was born ye 8 day of Jenewary in ye year 1722

Ann Twells ye Daughter of Thomas Twells and his wife Sarah
was born the 17" of Februwary 172£

Rebeckah Wright ye Daughte of Joseph Wright and Rebeckah
his wife was born the 1o™ day of June in ye year 1727

William Eaton Departed this Life June ye 26: —1772

* Removal order. ‘‘From Dale Abby to Algreavs in the Parish of
Heanor, Robt. Shaw, 13 Oct. 1699.” Sessions order ‘‘ for Robt. Shaw and
his wife—ordered to Shipley.”’ No date. Notices for trial about him Oct.
2oth, 1699. ‘‘ Certificate ” from Shipley, 12 Jan. 1699.—(Parish Chest.)

+ Inventory—‘‘ Robt. Vallance to Richd. Clower 28 March 1733 Weaver.
Not a parish concern.” —(Parish Chest.)

TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISIER OF DALE ABBEY. 125

William Hardey ye first son of William and his wife Ann was
born ye 2° day of July in ye year 1727

Sarah Wright ye Daughter of Mary wright was born ye 9" day
of August in ye year 1727

Tabitha Hardey Departed this Life August ye 31: 1727

Samuell Wheatley the son of Michel
wheatl

his wife [A space has been cut out here. |

William Rowbottom ye son of William Rowbottom was born
september 11 1727

Elizabeth porter ye Daughter of Thomas porter was born ye first
of Nouember 1727

Sarah Cormickles ye Daughter of John Cormickles was born ye
17 day of Octobr 1728

Susanah Mariot the Daughter of Mary Mariot was born ye 5"
day of february 1727
the 10 61727

Grace Borrows widdow Departed this .
« « eptember ye 13° 1727

— ichard Moriot Departed this Life septem . . ye23 1727

Sarah Lacey the Daughter of James Lac . . was born ye
4" day of October 1727

And Sarah ye wife of James Lacey Depar . . . this Life
October ye 6: 1727

Hannah the wife of Richard peat depar . . . this Life
October ye 9" 1727

Sarah Mariot widdow departed this Life October ye 15" 1727

126 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

Richard Warin and Ann Cook was Maried the Last day of
October 1727

Sarah ye Daughter of Mary Wright depa . . this Life ye 6
day of Desember 1727

Hannah ye wife of William Bakon Departed this Life Desember
ye 11" 1727

Rebeckah Wright ye daughter of Joseph w{right] Departed this
Life Desember ye 12—1727

Ann the wife of Samuell Hancock and [A . . ?] the wife of
John Langhton Departed ths L . . both on ye rr™
day of January 172%

Stephen Hewood ye son of Joseph Hewood was born ye 25 of
January 1727
Mary Roper ye wife of Thomas Roper departed . . . life

feb ye 7

Mary ye wife of John Vallance Depar . . this Life ye 6™ day
of february 1728

Mary the wife of Thomas porter Departe . . . this Life february

ye 15" 1724

Joseph Cockin of Mackworth and M . .. ._ shaw of Dale
Abby was Maryed the 27". of february 1727
th Cormickles y* Daughter of John . . ._ ickles
was born ye 17 day of October 172 . . . (sec) [The
words underlined have been erased. ]
Richard Ann walker ye daughter o . . . walker departed
thistifess) \ > ob yannary,

John and mary son and daughter of tho Roper and mary his wife
was baptized January 29 the same day departed John smith
the son of henery Smith

TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY. 127

[Here follows some writing which was evidently by way of
practice :—
Time and Tide stays for no Man
Death is most sertain but
Nor knows when]
William Cartwrigh and Cathrine Sheperson was Maryed May ye
20: 1729 x
[Below this were written five lines and one word, but they
have been effectually deleted. |
Richard Clower and Elizabeth the wife of Richard sheperson
Departed this Life both on the 3 day of March: 1727
Cathrine Janckison alis Johnson departed this Life October ye
22: 1728
Sarah Warin ye Daughter of Richard Warin and Ann his wife
was born ye 24 of December 172. .
Sarah Wright ye Daughter of Joseph Wright and Rebeckah his
wife was born ye 26 of December 1728
Elisabeth Stephen ye Daughter of John Stephen And Mary his
wife was born ye 21 of febuary 172%
John Burrows the Son of Thomas burrows And Sarah his wife
Departed this Life March The 9" 1728
Richard peat ye Son of Richard peat and Hannah his wife
departed this Life March the 16: 1728
Samuell Robisson of Marton and Darothy Wilkins of Dale Abby
was Married April ye 9: 1729
William Grundy ye son of Thomas Grundy and Sarah his Second
wife was born ye 6 day of September 1729
Sarah Rowbottom ye Daughter of William Rowbottom and Ellin
his wife was born ye 16 day of September: 1729
Thomas Wilkins Departed this Life September The 17: 1729
Lydia Wright ye wife of William wright departed this life Nou™ ye

BSL 720
[This entry is cramped in towards the side of the page.]
Sarah ye Second wife of Edward Vall . . . Departed this life

September ye 19: 1727
Daniel kennelley Departed this Life Nouember ye 21: 1729

128 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EARLIEST REGISTER OF DALE ABBEY.

John Cormickels Departed this life December ye 2: 1729
[The following page is blank.]

William Walker departed this Life december . . . 26: 1739

William More departed this life January ye 29: 173%

William Wright ye Second Son of John wright and Elisabeth his
wife was born ye 8 day of feb” : 1739

Richard Clower ye first Son of Richard Clower and Sarah his wife
was born ye 11 day of feb: 1739

Isaac Haruey Departed this life feb: y° 15 : 1732

Elisabeth ye daughter of Tho: porter departed this life feb: ye

19: 17382
Izabel ye Daughter of Mary Wilkins departed this Life March ye
20% 1730

Tho: porter departed this life April ye 8 (sée) [This entry has

been erased—see below. |

John ye Son of Michel Wheatley and Catherin his wife was born
ye same day

Tho: porter departed this life April y° 8: 1730

John Haruey ye Son of Richard haruey was born ye 11: of April
1730

Tabiatha ye daughter of William Hardy and his Wife Ann was
born ye 22 day of April 1730

Edward Winrow ye son of John Winrow and his wife Ann was
born ye 27 of April 1730

Dauid Hardy ye 1 Son of Dauid Hardy and his wife Elisabe . . .
Was bor ye 1o day of Nouenber 1730

Christopher ouldknow and Elizabeth Roper was marreed may the
27 1730

John Stephen ye first Son of John Stephen And Mary his wife
was born ye 20 day of feb: 1733

Susanah Mariot ye daughter of Mary Mariot Departed this life
April ye 28 1731

129

Snider.

The asterisk (*) indicates a recurrence on the pace.

eee

Persons.

Adams and Steuer mar., 104

Adcock and Millaiton mar., 100

Addison and Mabbat mar., 103

Aslington and Dickison mar., 121

Agard, Mr., 13

Agnes, S., 36

Ainsworth and Simms mar., 102

Alan, Will., 49

Albiniaco, Phil. de, 28

Aldwerk, Hen. de, his lands at Birch-
over, 49

Alfreton, Will. fil Rog., 85

. Allcock and Simms mar., ro1

Allen and Wage mar., 101

Alsebrook and Bowler mar., 100

Altus (Hogh, Heugh, or High), Rob.,
68

Arme and Freeson mar., 101
Armishaw and Copestake mar., 100
Arthur, Prince, 13

Arragon, Princess of, 13
Ash and Play mar., 100
Asle and Bloor mar., 97
Atteford, Rob., 58

Atteyate, 64

Aulby and Shelton mar., 96
Ault and Renald mar., 100
Avenel, Avice, 5

Azer, son of Nigel, 6

Bacon family, 113, 115

Bagard, Jno., 62, 86

Bailey and Choice mar., 97

Baker, 114

Bankrast and Garland mar., 104
Io

A.

B.

Places and Subjects.

Adstock, Bucks., 4, 6, 9

Agricultural terms (uld), 82

Alderman of the Guild of Baslow, 62

Ale-taster, 85

Allport, 72; Mill, 2

‘* Angell,” 342,

Anne, St., with B.V.M. pourtrayed
in glass, 32

Annunciation, The, 36

Appleby, 9

Arms, The Royal, 35

Ashbourne, Standard Bushel of Brass
there, Notes on, by W. R. Hol-
land, 46

Assault with a sword, etc., 70

Astleyfege, 54

Avenell of Haddon fam., 3; Early
deed of, 3

Ayleston, Leicester, 18

Bakewell Charters, 27; Church, 15,
16; Domesday, Acct. of, 1; Lord-
ship of, 1, 2

Baldock, between West Hallam and
Dale Abbey, 123

130

PERSONS.

Bankroft and Jackson mar., 100

Baptist, St. John, Figure of, 34

Barker, Mr., his Bond, 114

Barker and Roust mar., 98

Barrett (Rev.), 105 ; of Sandiacre, 105

Bartholomew, St., 33

Basset Family, 4; Magota, 63

Bath, Bishop of, 28

Baxter and Moore mar., 104

Baxter and Simpton mar., 99

Beardsley and Row mar., 100

Bele, Will., 72, 76

Beley, Will. de, 67

Bentley, Will. de, 74, 75

Bergen, Ric., 73

Beaumaner or Bomar, Rog., 72, 73”

Binge and Taylor mar., 112

Blithe, Will. le, 63

Blood and Dickin mar., 100

Blund, Rog., 61

Boler, Alice, 66; wife of Will., 77;
Geoffry le, 63, 64, 66, 71; Hugh le,
68, 73; Rob. de, 62; Will le, 70

Bond, Ric., 77

Bonsall and Smith mar., 97

Borous (? Burrows) and Harrison
mar., I00

Bosan, Walt., 75

Bosbos and Sison mar., 98

Bosonson, Walt., 86

Boterhales, Jno., 57; Nich., 59;

Roger, 62, 65, 72, 86, 87; Will.
de, 52, 55, 76

Boure, Thurstan del, of Tideswell,
89, 7. ; Roger, 89

Bradbury and Peet mar., 101

Bradshagh, Alex. de, 87

Brammer and Aldy mar., 96

Brammer, Mary, mar., 99

Bray, Will. de, 7

Briche, Jno. le, 73

Bridges family, 106, 108, 115, 116,
Tl75 01S

Brigges, 120

Briggs family, 94, etc.

Bromhale, Matt. de, 7

Brookfield and Mecock mar., 99

Brook and Worthington mar., 97

Brough, John del, 88

Brughe, John le, 63

Brun, Ralph, 53, 54, 58

Burgh, Will. de, 76

Burgon, Rog., 89

Burgoyne and Cock mar., 102

Burrier and Ball mar. 104

Burton and Brightman mar., 99

INDEX.

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Baslow, Derbys., 7, 513; Court Rolls
of, by Rev. Chas. Kerry, 52

Baslow Barre, 60; Church Guild of,
71; Grange, 77; Green, 71; Rental
of, cemp. Ed. II., 55

Begeley, 59

Belvoir Archives, I, 26

Birchover, Terrier of lands
(A.D. 1413), 49

Birchover Syche, 49

Blade (of corn) names for the different
stages, $3 72.

Bubbenhull (Bubnell) 54, 60, 78, 87

Bubbenhall, 63; Bridge, 78

Bondage Tenure of Harlaston, 81 ;
Tenants, 85

Bonepenny, 57 etc., 75

Borrowash, 43

Boterhales, 53, 61, 88

Bouthers, 112

Bramber Hill, 49; Field, 50

Brass Bushel of Ashbourne,
on, 46; Plate of, 48

Brasses, Monumental, 12

Briseclif, 59

Brodemedow, $2

Bromley, 54

Bronleie, 53*

Bubnell (Bobenhull), 7, 51

Buttes at the Boles, 54

there,

Notes

INDEX.

C.

PERSONS.

Cademan, Will, 58

Calvour, Calvore, Cecily d. Will., 69,
70, 71, 78; Emma de, 65; KEmmota
de, 74; John de, 54, 55, 58; Will.
de, 52, 55, 69, 70, 71

Camville, Will. de, Lord of Clifton, 9

Care and Taylor mar., 99

Carrington, Will. Alex., 1

Carter and Bowler mar., 101

Carter of Stanton and Taylor of
Spondon mar., 119

Cartwright and Shepherson, 127

Cast’ John de, 60

Chaplain, Philip, 79

Chapman, Benedict, 88; John, 75

Chelon, Rob., 73

Chester, Prior of, 8; Ranulph, Earl
of, 2

Chiel, Will., 72

Chinley, Will. ‘de, 85

Chynley, Will., 63

Clarke, Will. le, 62

Clarke, 72, 116, 118

Clarke and Bacon mar., 100

Clarke and Sleepers mar., 103

Clarke and Winson mar., 117

Close and Gent mar., 97

Clower and Wheelwright, 108

Clower family, 109, 111

Coates and Newton mar., 68

Cocks and Barley mar., 98

Coffin, Sir Will., 14

Columbell and Harris, 104

Colyn, Rog., 67, 72; Will., 73

Cook and Wheatley mar., 101

Cook family, 108, 112, 113, 115,* 116

Cope ‘‘ Squire,” 44

Cormichaels family, 115, 116, 117, 119

Coterell, N., 74

Coupland, Hen. de, 66, 68, 73, 86

Couston, John de, 69

Crich, John de, 69, 86, 89

Criple and Noden mar., 101

Croft Rob. de la, 68

Crouder, Ric. le, 59, 66

Crynne (? Erynne), John of, 75

Curburg or Corburgh, John fil Rob.,

74
Cuydy, Jno., 78; Rob., 62; Steph.,
63, 74, 76,* 77, 79,* 88

PLACES AND SUBJECTS,

Cadbury, North Somerset, 16

Calais, 12

Caldwell, the, 50

Care-Sunday, IOI

Chatsworth, 61

Chine Edge, 58

Church, the Rights of, 61

Clarkenwell, 18, 56

Clifton, 10

Clifton Camville, 10

Coalpit, deaths in, 115

Colepytt, the, 49

Conkesbury, 3

Corburgh (Quordburgh, etc.), 76, 79,*
88 ; Moor 73

Cornmill, 63

Corpshurst Wood, 58

Corshurst Wood, 54, 58

Cross of Stone on Chine Edge, 54, 58

**Crucem Lapideam,” 54, 58

Crucifixion depicted in the East
Window of Haddon Chapel, 34, 37

132 INDEX.

PERSONS.

Dale, Agnes del, 72

Dally and Carter mar., 102

Dawson and Finney mar., 98.
Dawson, John, 73 ; Nicholas, 62, 63
Dawson and Shepherdson, mar., 109
Dennis and Harvey mar., 101 ~
Dent and Hood mar., 97

Derby, Earl of, 17; Prior of 8
Dereham, Dav., 79

Derley, Ric. de, 66, 67, 74, 81
Devonshire, Duke of, 40.

Deweller, John, 72

Dexter and Annable mar., Io
Dexter and Pemberton mar., 97
Dimoke or Dymoke, Sir Robert, 14
Dome, Elias del., 86

Dounes, Rog. de, 8.

Dowman and Kerey mar., 103
Dowman and Patrick mar., 104
Dowman family, 115, 116

Draycott, George and Han., 109, 110

Driver, Margaret, 87

Dudley and Goodwin, mar., 104
Dunes, Rob. de, 9

Dunnage and Bost mar., 102
Durham, Bp. of, 28

Dylson, John de, 72

Ear, John, born, 116

Eare and Oreb mar., 109

Eaton and Branson mar., 97
Edensoure, Jno. de, 63, 64, 68, 74
Egleston and Corner mar., 102
Elvaston, Jno., 80

Eliot, Rob., 66, 68, 85 ; Will, 60, 63,

67,* 72, 74, 76, 80, 88
Ellott, Jno., 72; Will, 75
England and Bailey, 97

Eyre (‘aire ’’?) and Woodward mar.,

99

Barmernyo., 002

Ffalowe, W., 62

Fauconberg, E. de, 28

Feld, Dame Susannah, 70
Ferrers, Hen. de, 2; Family, 3
Fetherston and Gibbins mar., 98.
Ffroe, Will. del, 63

Ffryth, Will. de, 62

Fithel, Will., 67

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Dale Abbey Marriage Fees given to
the poor, 106, 107, 108; Interment
Fees, 95; Register, Transcript of
the oldest, by Rev. Rich. Jowett
Burton, curate, 91, etc.

Dedelone, 73

Depedale, 54, 72

Depedale, cly f 52, 60, 79

Derbys. Regiment, an account of their
behaviour in 1745 (an old squib), 40

Dieu la Cresse Abbey, 8

Driving unsteadily, 86

Dunnington Leicesters, 109

Dylfeld, 69, 76

Eyam, 80

Fleshboard or Butcher’s Stall, 79
Footpath, a, stopped, 73
Forester, Sergeanty of, 8
Fulling Mill, 63, 76
Froggote, Froggate,
Fryggecote, 54, 61

Frogcote,

2

:
.

INDEX.

PERSONS.

Fletcher and Rollin mar., 100
Fletcher, Rev. Mr., of Spondon, 112

Flote, John, 59; Peter, 59, 60;
Ric. 60

Ffoliambe, Alan, 69, 72, 76; God-
frey, 77, 80

Follocock and Turton mar., 98

Foulk and Bacon mar., 96

Fox, Rev. W. of Stanton-by-Dale, 91

Fox, Jno. le, 68; Rid. le, 49, 56

Franceys, Gilb., 9, 55, 59,* 82

Franks and Francis, mar., 98

Fremon, Ralph le, 67, 72

Frith, H., 111

Froggote, Rob. le, 56; and Avice his
wife, 56

Gad and Wheatley mar., 102

Gaskin and Ward mar., 104

Gekin, W., 76

Geoffry, Hugh fil., 67

George, Saint, depicted on glass in
Haddon Chapel, 33

George (II.), the King, 43

Gernon, Sir Will., Lord of Bakewell, 9

Gilbert of Loco, 94

Glabour, Matilda, of Haddon, 72

Golder and Hooley mar., 101

Gonryg, Hugh, 72

Goodale and Hewett mar., 99

Granby, Marquis of, 45

Greatrax, Rev., 93, 94

Green and Simpson mar., 104

Grendon, Rob. de, 9

Gregory and Hough mar., 99

Gregory, Will., 60

Grik, Tho. de la. 88

Gryseclif, R. de, 55

Gryndilford, Ric. de, 73

Grundy family, 93, etc., 114, 117, 118,
122, 123, 127

Grymbold, Jno., 62*, 63, 86; Ralph
de, 87

Gurton, 94

Guy, Count of Burgundy, 5

Habheson, Ric., 63 ; Tho , 63

Hache, Will. del, 58, 61

Haddon, John de, 67, 73; Geofiry
de, 68, 72

133

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

G.

Gascony, 10, II

Gattescroft, 54

Gernons, 27

Goseholm, 83

Gotescroft, 61

Green at Baslow, 53, 55, 58

Greenhyll, 49

Griseclosefeld, 54

Gristleyfeld, 69, 76

Gryseclif, 53

Guild of the B. V. Maury of Baslow,
62,032,070

ee

Haberjamb and Broomilow mar., 103 |

134 INDEX.

PERSONS,

Ilakemon, Geof. del, 61 |
Hall and Sherwood mar., 99 .
Hallam and Fletcher mar., 103

Hallam (‘* Allam”) and Clay mar., |

99

Hancock and Cowle mar., 105

Hancock, 109, 110, III, I12, 113,
104, i205

Hand and Smith mar., 100

Hanford and Waldrum mar., 198

Hanley and Fish mar., 98

Hardy and Blood mar., 96

Hanson and Orm mar., 104

Hardy, 111, 121

Hardy and Bifield mar., 123

Harenc, Walkelin, 6

Harleston, John de, 88

Harrison and Brunt mar., 102

Harrison and Dickson mar., 99

Hart and Wallbach, 49

Harvy, Nich., 85 ; Richd., clerk, 106

Harvy and Trueman mar., 112

Harvey and Woodward mar., 104

Harvey, 110, 116

Haslem, Ann, 110

Hastings, Sir Francis, 16

Hawe, Will. del, 53

Hayward, Rob., 58

Haywood, Jno., 106; Ann, I12

Heathcote and Lakin mar., 99

Hel (Hill), Ric. de la, 67

Hele, Thom. de, 72*; Will. de, 75

Helena, Empress, 36

Helland and Newham mar., 104

Helot, Will., 73

Henry, fil Alan, 58; Hen. fil, 57;
Nich., 66

Herleston, John de, 88

Hert, Jno., 72, 73

Herthull, Adam de, 9

Hervy, Nich., 74, 75

Hervynne (? Erin), John of, 76

Herynne (Erin), John of, 87

Hethcote, Rob. de, 64, 67, 69, 71, 72 |

High or Heugh, see ‘‘ Altus,” Rob., |
68

Hodges, Jas., mar., 110

Hoke, Will. le, 68

Holland, W. R., Article on the Brass
Measure at Ashbourne, 46

Hooe and Longmans mar., 97

Horne, Rev. Rob. of West Hallam, |

93
Horseley, Millicent de, 85, 86, 88
Hostil, Hostelar, Henry le, 66, 68, 72
Hucker family, 112

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Iladdon Hall, the Manor and Lords
of, by W. A. Carrington, 1; Courts
held there, 72, 73; Outer walls
strengthened, 5; Chapel of S.
Nicholas, 12, #., 19; Inventories,
19-25; Muniments, 26; Painted
Glass in the Chapel, an account of,
by Rev. Chas. Kerry, 30

Haddon Over, 3

Hair seive, 79,

Hakewood, Hakkedwode, 77-89

Hallflattes, 50

Halleplace, 78

Harleston, Herleston, etc., 5, 8, 9,*
71, 82; Bondage Tenure of, 81;
Furniture there, 11

Haslewood, 41

Hawks and Eyries, 8

Held, le, 68

Helleker (Hill-car), 68

Herlaston, 10, 18

Hodnet, 12

Hoggefeld, 75

Holme in Birchover, 49

Holmes, The, in Derby, 42

Holweyrede, 70

Holy Land, The, 10

Horseleye, 70

Housewifery apprentice, 121

Hyllrow, 50

Ilynechose, 73

— Ts =

INDEX.

PERSONS.

Hudson and Charlton mar., 99
Huklow, Will. de, 86

Hull, Ric. del, 72 ; Adam, 88; Will,

73
Hunte, Leggar le, 70; Roger, 75
Husband and Chapman mar., 99

Ingelric, Maud, dau. of, 2
Ingleby, Sir Will., 17

Jackson, 110, 118

Jackson and Wagstaff, mar., 102

Jackson and Ward, 104

Jakkeknave, Ralph, 79

James, S., the Great, 33

James, W., overseer of Dale Abbey,
107

James, Will and Mary, 96

James and Flamstead mar., 99

Jankinson, 118

Jeke, Will, 57

John Baptist, S., 34

John, Earl of Moreton, 2

Johnson and Weedcock mar., 100

Jollecock and Turton mar., 95

S. Jude, 33.

King and Darras mar., 104
King and Harrison mar., 102
‘ King of the Peak,’ 15

King and Walton mar., 98
Kirk and Robinson mar., 103
Knight and Well mar., 96
Knowles and Sylkington, 102
Knowth and Drawlit, 103
Knyte, Rob., 67

Kyte, Rob., 72

Labbott, Rob., 62

Lacy, I19, 121

Lacy and Johnson mar., 118
Lacy and White mar., 102
Lawsley and Loco mar., 96

135

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

I.
| Irtlingborough, Northants, 4

J.

Jakcrofte, 50

Ke

Kyrkeflatts, 50
Kyrke, by Costefeld, 50

L.

* Lagina,’ 867.
Lanstephen manor, 10
Lawsper, wha/, 70
Leicester Abbey, 3 ;

3; Parliament at, 12
Lenton Priory, 2

136 INDEX,

PERSONS.

Leche, Dionis fil Will., 64; Geoffry,
53, 56, 63, 66, 68, 74,* 80; Geoffry
hl Geof., 57 ; Giles, 64, 68; Matil-
da, 85;* Philip le, 54,* 56, 59,
60, 61; Ralph le, 62; Alderman
of Guild of Baslow, 63, 65, 66, 68,
69, 73, 76,* 85* ; Rob. le, 54, 56,
57, 61, 77%; Rob. fil Roger, 65,
69, 72, 743 Roger, 57, 69 ; Richard
Je5635070,. 71872507780 ke home til
Rob., 81; Will. le, 54, 59, 60, 61,
68, 70*, 76, 79, 81; Will. fil Rob.,
64", 65*, 70; Will. fil Geoffry, 56,

Lee and Huskinson mar., 98

Leeson, Rev., 94, 105

Legh, John fil Giles, 74;
de, 74

Lenton, Prior of, 8*

Leonard, St., 34

Leslie, Major J. H., 40

Leycester, Ric. de, 10

Lichfield, a Cannon of, 77

Limb and Smith mar., 104

Limebrenner, Adam, 85, 86, 89

Lindop and Thompson mar., 97

Lindop, John le, 68

Litton, Ric. de, 86

London, Wm., Bp. of, 28

Longford, Sir Ralph, 15

Loutham, Gilb. de, 7

Lowe, Capt., 41, 44

Ludlow, Benedicta, 12 ; Family Arms,
35, 373 Sir John, 12

Lupus, Earl of Chester, 5

Will,

Macham or Machon, Jno., 78
Machor, John, 66

Maldane, Jno. del, 63
Malecam, Jno. de, 62

Malthus, Jno. de, 62

Mamfield and Woven mar., 100

Manners, Ric., 15; Thom., Ist Earl |

of Rutland, 15

Mapples, 116, 118, 120

Mareschall, Will. le, 57

Margaret in the Lane, 66; Kob., her
son, 68

Mara, Rob. de, 6

Marriot, 116, 118

S. Mary (B.V.), 36

Mason, Agn. le, 58

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Longford, 15

Low and Middle Breek, 99
Ludlow Castle, 13
Lydyates, 77

Lyddzate, 50

| Macclesheld Forest, 8

Mansfield, 43
Meadow Place, 3

| Medewplekkes, 50

Medewe furlong, $0
Merpul or Marple, 7, 8, 11
Metebene, 82
Middleton, 3, 80
Midilton, 73, 75*
Mill-pond, labourers, 87
Mill-shroud, 80
Mill-stone, a hoop for, 80
Mill, waters for, 72
Monuments of the Vernons, 12, 15 ;
of the Stanleys, 18
Moor, The, 72

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OO ee eS

INDEX,

PERSONS.

Martel, Geof., 61

Maston and Ireland mar., 97

S. Matthew, Evangelist, 37

SS. Matthew and Matthias, 33

Maycer, Geof., 53 .

Medow, Steph. del, 86

Mee and Bradley mar., 97

Meeds and Churchit mar., 103

Meinewarin, Rob. de, 7; Kog., 8

Melbourn, Jno. de, Canon of Lich-
field, 77

Melemaker, Elias le, 56

Metham, Court of, 86 ; Thom.

82., 80

S. Michael and Dragon, 31

Millard and Sheldon mar., 10 3

Milner and Watson mar., 98

Milner, Jordan, 85; Thomas
Felicia ; Will. le, 62,* 63*

Milnes and Turton mar., I10

Milnes family, 110, 111, LS

Mitchell, Jno.. 79

Moore and Redgate mar., I19

Moore, Josiah mar.,-99

Moreland and Martin mar., 98

Morgill and Haywood mar. 96

Morley and Blacstone mar., 96

Morton, Tho., 17

Morris and Breren mar., 103

Mulver, Ric., 75

de,

and

ee)

N.

Needham family, 108, 110, 111, 113,
114

Nevil, Ralph de, Bp. of Chicester, 29

Newton, 117, 118

Nixon and Newton mar., 101

Noble and Harthill mar., 103

Nortbury, Tho. de, 7

North, James, 85; Jno., 62; Roger,
52, 53) 55; 61, 64,* 67, 68, 70, 73;
75; 76," 775.79

Note, John, 76; Rob., 63, 66

Nuers, Ric., 9

Oforpins, Jno., 62
Ogle, Rob., bailiff, 80

Oldershaw and Severn mar., 104
Oldknow and Roper mar., 128

Oliver and Sadler mar., 103 |
Orreby, Phil, 8

137

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Moor Hall, Bakewell,—a seat of the
Gernons, 27

Morton, 127

Mulnehull, 54

Mutland, 55.

*‘ Native,’ a son of the soil, not free,
but originally sold with it, 56*—
Holding of, 76*

Native, or Bondage-land, 82

Newcastle-under-Lyne, 17

Nickname, a, 79

Northampton, S, James’ Priory, 2

Ockbrook, 93
Offechere, 54
Oskelmedowe, 54
Overby, 54
Oxlese, 68
Oxley, 109, 116

138

PERSONS.

Osbourn, 112; Anne, 94; Will, 94
Osmunderlowe, Jno. de, 10
Ostiler, Hen., 76, 87

Ostyler (see Hosteler)

Parker and Bingham mar., 101

Parles, Walt. de, 7

Parys, Ralph de, chaplain, 10

S. Paul, figure of, 33

Peader and Smalledge, 104

Pearcy and Hodgkinson, 98

Peat, 120

Peate, Barthol, 107

Peele and Taylor, 1o1

Peet and Ball, 102

Pellipar Walkelin, 61

Pembrugge, Sr. Fulke, 11

Penyston, Jno. de, 62*

Perkin, Jno. and Mary, 81

Perkynson, Jno., 85

Perry and Wilson mar., 102

Pete, John and Mary, 79

Peverel family, 2 ; Estate, 2

Pight and Williams mar., 104

Pike, Sir Rob., 12

Pilleslec, Alex, 86; Will. de, 72

Pinpost and Webster mar., 103

Piweworth, Hugh de, 56

Plantagenet, Edmund E., of Lancas-
ter, 27

Plimmer and Revel mar., 103 (JMor- |

ton names).

Plimmer and Rivit, 102

Pole, Hen. le, 68

Poore, H., Bp. of Salisbury, 28

Pope, Will., 57, 62, 87,* 88; Jno.,
95, 74, 89

Porter family, 109, III, I12, 113,
116,* 117,* 118,* 119, 120, 122

Potter, 121

Potter and Elson mar., 112

Pras, Ralph, 57

Preem and Chambers mar., 103

Preston and Hayes mar., 102

Pye, Rob., 66

INDEX

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Painted Windows in Ifaddon Chapel,

30
Pegcrofleg, 61
Peugersleye, 69, 72
Pewgersleye, 76
Pichecote, Bucks, Advowson of, 9, 10
Pillesley tenants, 89
Pippegrenis, 54, 55
Pitalfus, 86
Polesworth Nunnery, near Tamworth,
8; Lamp for the chapter there, 9
Poor of Dale Abbey, 106, 107, 108
Porchester, 28
Presteffloke le, 60
Princes Chamber, Haddon, 13
Pygreve, 50

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Quarry rental, 69, 85, 89

Quit-claim, 61

Quordburgh, 62, 733 Querdburg,
63* ; Cordburgh, 73 ; Corburg, q.v.

INDEX, 139

R.

PERSONS, PLACES AND SUBJECTS,

Radcliff and Wright mar., 96 Retford, 45
Ragged, Hen., 87 Risley, 93
Rahenhald, Rob. fil, 7 Rouen, 12
Ralph, fil Isabel, 65; Tilla his wife, Routher, 111

68 Rouetorr or Rowtor (Rocks), 49
Randle, Earl of Chester, 7 Rowdole, 51
Redgate and Oldershaw, mar., 97 Rune/es (/eys), 58
Rees ap Griffith, 1 Rymeées (/eys), 55

Retahunt, Jno. and Marg., 74

Reyley, Ruley, etc., Joan, 65

Richard, Hen. fil, 59; Robert fil, 59

Robinson and Hooley mar., 98

Robinson and Wilkins mar., 127

Robey and Barnsby mar., 100

Robey and Prine mar., 98

Roger and Fletcher mar., 102

Roger, Will., fil, 63; Agnes fil, 65

Roper family, 106, 108, 109, 110,

IIT, 113, 116,* 117, 119, 120*

Roper and Dethic mar., 116

Roper and Phipps mar., 111

Roper and Smith mar., 116 |

Row or Roe, Jos. and Mary, I10 |
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Rowbottom, 113, 119,* 124, 125, 127

Rowe and Johnson mar., 125

Rush, Ric., 75

Russher, Rischer, Jno, fil Ric., 75, Sr ;
Ric. le, 65, 73, 77 |

Rutland, Earls of, 15

Ruyler, Stephen de, 70

Ryburg, Jno. de, 60

Ruyle, Ryele, Ryley, Ruley, 52, 54,
55,* 60, 65,* Diis, 68 ; Joan, 71;
John de, 75, 89; Margaret, 71;
Stephen, 70

S.

Sanders and Potts mar., 123 Sark, Island of, 6
Sanders and Walters mar., 97 | ‘Scold,’ a common, 88
Sarsen and Cresswell mar., 100 Scottefeldhalgh, 50
Scot, Rog., 68 | Shawcoppe, 49
Seldon, Rob. de, 65 _ Sherwood, 43
Senior, Geoff., 72 Shipbrook Castle, 5
Seynper, Nic., Xo Shovel or Shuffleboard, 22
Shatton, Tho. de, 85* ‘ Sisezam,’ 83 (a drink)
Shaw, 110, 193; Hawis del, 54; | Skeletons, 15

Adam del, 54, 56, 61 Sondhull, 82
Sheepy, 112 Spondon, 119
Sheladon, Jno. de, 63, 76 Stackpole Church, 11
Shepperson and Valens, 117 Stanley Grange, rogv
Shepperson, 109, 112,* 115, 116, 120% | Stanton, 119
Shirley, Rog. de, 86 Stanton by Haddon, 8

Shropshire, Ric. de, 87 Stonhall, 69

140

PERSONS.

Shuttleworth, A. J., of Hathersage
Hall, 40

Skynne, Jno. le, 70

Slater and Arnfield mar., 100

Smedley and Goose mar., IOI

Smerrill, Stephen, 64

Smith and Astis mar., 98

Smith and Chesterlen, 100

Smith and Chandler, 103

Smith and Cook mar., 110

Smith and Jones mar., 99

Smith and Soresby, 102

Smith family, 113,* 114, 118* ; John,

49

Somer, Geof., 67 ; Rob. 67

Songston, Nich. de, 69%

Sotheron, Hen., 79

Spakeman or Spakemon, Joan, 80;
Jno. 80; Will., 63, 66, 72, 74, 75;
77, 85

Spur, 108

Spur of Baldoak, 123

Stackpole, Sir Ric., 11

Stafford, W. de, 72

Stanley, Sir Tho., 14, 16, 17, 18

Stanedon, J. fil. Matt., 55

Steevens, 113, 114, 118,* 119; Ed-
ward and Ann, 109, 110, 116;
Jos. and Cath., 113

Steevens and Burrows mar., 96

Stephen, fil Will., 67

Stevenson and Humphrey, 99

Stokeport, Sir Rob., 73; or (Stoke-
port), Rob., 7; Simon, 7; Walt., 7

Stokis, Hugh de, 55

Stokesay, 12

Sulney, Sir Alured, 10

Swan, Jno., 85, 89; Ric., 63, 65, 68,

72, 87; Tho., 53, 56
Swifte and Wood mar., 104
Sykes and Knighter, 102
Symon de, Jno., 71 ; hos5).72

Tagler (? Tayler), Will., 58

Taillour of Cordburg or Querdburgh,
625 63,773

Taillow, H., 62* ; of Cordburgh, 74,
7 *

Talbot, John, Earl of Shrewsbury, 13

Talboys, Sir Gilbert, 15

Tasker, Will. le, 58

Taylor and Ratcliff mar., Tor

Taylor and Ralph mar., 101

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INDEX.

PLACES AND SUBJECTS.
Stouth le, 847
Strike Measure of Brass at Ashbourne,

Sudbury, Vernons of, 32
Swinfen, 6, 7

| Tamworth, 71

Tong, Salop, 11, 17 ; Church, 12
Tornshurst; Torhurst, 53; Tozes-
hurst, 54, 64

INDEX. 141

PERSONS. PLACES AND SUBJECTS.

Taylor family, 93, III, 114,” 115;
Rob. le, 66, 68

Thecker and Roberts mar., 99

Thoke, or Toke, Sir Rob. de, 9

Tite or Tice, 59

Toby and Windley mar., 101

Tom and Holinds mar., ror

Turnour, Tho., 68

Twelfths, 118*

Tybbotson, Ralph, 63

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Ugas, Jno., 64 Uffington, Lincolns, 16
Underwood and Cocer mar., IOI
Urins and Barker mar., 97

Vi.

Vallence family, 108, 109, 111,* 112, ; Vernon lege (meadow), 60
114”, 115, 118

Venables, Will. de, 8

Vere, Sir Rob., Earl of Oxford, 9

Vernon, Arms of, 35, 36, 38 ; Arthur,
a priest, 13; Benedicta, 36, 37;
Chapel at Tong, 13, 14; Dorothy,
15, 18; Estates, 5; of Farnham,
Surrey, 32; Sir George, ‘ King of
the Peak,’ 15; Matilda de, 55;
Richard de, 4, 32, 36, 373 Kic. fil
Ric., 52, 53, 54, 583 Ric. fil. Will,
55, 56; Sir Ric., Kt., 70; Robert
de, 9; of Sudbury, 13, 32 ; Tombs
of, 14, 15

W.
Wade, Gen., 42 Wardship, 70, 71

Waistowe, Jno. de, 73; Ralphde, 68; | Wessington, 7472
Walker family, 108, 109, 113, 114, | West Hallam, 93

TG, UIO, IL75 11S, 119 Whyttewallsyche, 50

Walker and Billedges mar., 100 Wibbersley, 7, 8, 11

Walker, George, 93, &c. Wimond Stones (see Wistan), 50
Walker and Waites mar., 102 Winchester Measure, The, 47
Waller and Rovers mar., 100 . Windows (painted) in Haddon
Walsh, Will., 72 Chapel, 30
Walton and Chamberlain, 98 Wiverton, Manners, farm of, 16

Wareyn, Walt., 75

Warren and Newton, 102

Warriner and Garner, 100

Wass and Bailey mar., 97

Wealthdale and Blackiall mar., 100

Webster, Jno., 75; Rob., 66; Will.
le, 62

Webster and Sheffield mar., 103

142 INDEX.

PERSONS. PLACES AND SUBJECTS. .

Wennesley, Tho., 11

Wheatley, 108, 110, 116, 118, 119”
Wheelhouse and Richardson mar., 102
Wheldon and Erringham mar., 99
Whith (? White), 94; Rob. le, 72
White and Helmsley mar., 101
Wilgres and Poyfer mar., 97
Wilkins, 116

Wilmeracre, Ric., 73

Wilson and Blood mar., ic2

Wincey and Day mar., 98

Winfield and Burch mar., 96
Winrow, 109, 110, 117, 118, 120, 122
S. Wistan, son of Wimund, 74n !

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