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VOL. IV.
THE HUNDRED OF MORLESTON AND LITCHURCH :
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THIS WORK is (WITH PERMISSION) DEDICATED,
IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
THE LOAN OF THE GLYNN MSS. PERTAINING TO THIS COUNTY,
AND AS AN UNWORTHY TRIBUTE TO
HIS UNFLINCHING INTEGRITY
AS A CHURCHMAN AND A STATESMAN,
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INTRODUCTION.
| HIS fourth volume, which concludes the work, contains
an account of all the old Churches and Chapels
within the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch,
and also a good deal of supplementary matter relative to the
Churches treated of in the previous volumes, especially in the
first and second. Yielding to the advice of several, whose
judgment was of much value, I have supplied lists of the
Clergy and Patrons of the different Benefices in East and
North Derbyshire, which had previously been omitted. The
local value of these lists has been already mentioned in the
introduction to the third volume ; but the student of national
history may also find them worthy of attention, as showing
the different epochs, when, from different reasons, considerable
changes were effected in the ranks of the clergy.
To one of these epochs it is worth while to very briefly
draw attention — the year 1348-9, when the whole of Europe
was devastated by that terrible mortality, the Black Death.
The pestilence first appeared in the seaports of Dorsetshire on
August 1st, 1348, and travelled, slowly but surely, westward
and northward. It lay comparatively dormant during the
winter, but by May, 1349, it had reached Derbyshire, and for
the next four months raged with fury throughout the king-
dom. Hecker calculates the loss to Europe at large as twenty-
five millions. Nowhere was the plague more fatal than in
England ; a single burial-ground, consecrated for the purpose,
now the site of the Charter-house, received 50,000 corpses,
arranged in layers, in large pits. It has generally been
assumed that the rather vague statement of the old chroniclers,
as to the deaths in England, are considerably exaggerated,
Vlll DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
but the Episcopal Registers at Lichfield afford undeniable
evidence of the appalling character of the visitation. The
total number of Derbyshire benefices, whose incumbents had
to be presented to the Bishop was, at that time, 108. The
average number of institutions per annum to those benefices,
through vacancies caused by death or resignation, was, during
that century, seven. In 1346 they numbered four, in 1347,
only two, and in 1348 eight ; but in 1349 the number leapt
to sixty-three, and in the following year (many of the vacant
benefices not being filled up till then) they numbered forty-
one !
Seventy-seven beneficed priests of Derbyshire died in that
one dread period, and twenty-two more resigned. Of the three
vicars of Derby Churches, that required Episcopal Institution,
two (S. Peter's and S. Michael's) died at their posts, whilst
the vicar of S. Werburgh's resigned his cure. The chantry
priest of Our Lady, at S. Peter's Church, also perished. The
two rectors of Eckington both died, and of the three rectors
who then shared the rectory of Darley, two died and one
resigned. The rectories of Lang with and Mugginton, and the
vicarages of Barlborough, Bolsover, Horsley, Longford, Sutton-
on-the-Hill, and Wellington, were twice emptied by the plague,
and three successive vicars of Pentrich all fell in the same
fatal year. Nor were the regular clergy more fortunate, for
the Abbots of Beauchief, Dale, and Darley, the Prior of Gresley,
the Prior of the Dominicans at Derby, and the Prioress of
King's Mead, were all victims ; and if death thus seized upon
the superiors, it is not likely that the ordinary canons, monks,
or nuns, fared any better.
After making all due allowance for the pleasant reflection
that the mortality among the priests possibly exceeded that
of other classes, owing to their faithfulness in administering
the last consolations of the Church, and thus pre-eminently
exposing themselves to contagion, it must be allowed that
the death-rate was gigantic. Unless the Diocese of Coventry
and Lichfield was a striking exception to the general condi-
tion of the country, the documentary evidence of its registers
goes far to prove the correctness of the old chroniclers. The
evidence that we have also given, in the account of Crich,
INTRODUCTION. IX
of the ravages of this plague of 1349, at Wakebridge, in a
single household — one of the most wealthy and healthily
situated in the county — taken in connection with the death
of the superior clergy, is also some proof of the hastiness of
the conclusion that assigns the Black Death almost exclusively
to the poorer classes. *
The awful shock thus given to the nation, and to Europe
at large, by the Black Death, paralysed for a time every art and
industry. The science of church architecture, then about at its
height, was some years in recovering from the blow. In some
cases, as with the grand church of S. Nicholas, Yarmouth,
where a splendid pair of western towers were being erected,
the work was stopped and never resumed. In other instances
the piety of wealthy survivors caused them to give much
of their substance to the fabrics or endowments of the church,
as was the case with the three Derbyshire families of Wake-
bridge, Chesterfield, and Chaddesden. The recollection of this
great plague often helps to explain the break that the careful
eye not unfrequently notes in church buildings of the fourteenth
century, and accounts for the long period over which the
works extended. We believe this to be the secret of the long
stretch of years that elapsed before the noble church of
Tideswell was completed in that century ; and it also affords
the clue to much other work interrupted, or suddenly under-
taken, in several other fabrics of the county.
The serious, but far less deadly, visitations of 1361-2,
and 1369, styled in the old charters, the Second and Third
Plagues, may also be traced in the Institutions. Much inci-
dental information as to the different outbreaks of the plague
in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries will also be found
in this volume, in the account of the registers of the different
parish churches of the town of Derby.
The King's name will often be noted in the list of patrons
given in this and the third volumes. It should be remem-
bered, that not only was the King patron of all benefices
pertaining to tenants who held direct from the Crown, during
* On the great change brought about in the Church of England by the Black
Death, see Hook's Archbishops of Canterbury, vol. iv., chap. 12 ; on the equally great
social and political changes, see Professor Eogers* History of Agriculture and Prices
in England, vol. i. passim ; on the general subject, see Hecker's Epidemics of the
Middle A gen, translated by Dr. Babiugton.
X DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
the time that the heirs might be in their minority, but that
the right of patronage in many cases devolved upon the Crown
in virtue of lapse. A lapse (by the canon law styled Devo-
lution) is the transferring elsewhere of patronage, when the
patron fails to present within six months. The patronage, in
the first instance lapses to the Ordinary or Bishop, then,
after another six months to the Metropolitan, and finally, after
another like interval, to the King. If the Archbishop fails
to present in the second six months, the last resort for filling
up the benefice, in the rest of the Western Church, is the
Pope ; but in England this claim of the Bishop of Rome was
never recognised, and the supreme authority was always
vested in our Kings. The Crown likewise always presented
if the Ordinary died after a lapse had happened, and also to
all episcopal benefices during the vacancy of the See.
Another matter in connection with these lists, worth a
moment's attention, is the way in which they show that the
various monastic establishments were aware of the fate coming
upon them before the storm burst, and how they were able
to realise something, or, at all events, cheat the Crown for a
time of its plunder, by selling or devising the next presen-
tation to their advowsons. In no case do they appear to have
been able to sell the advowson itself, but in almost every
case of monastic patronage, it will be noted that the presen-
tation following the dissolution of those establishments was
made by one or more persons who had obtained the right
by arrangement with the then defunct abbey or priory.
Through the courtesy of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield,
with the kind help of the Right Reverend Bishop Hobhouse,
I have gone through the various Registers or Act Books of
the Chapter, and also inspected a large number of charters
and documents relative to their peculiar jurisdiction of the
Peak, embracing the whole of the old parishes of Bakewell,
Tideswell, and Hope, certain rights in Chapel- en-le -Frith, and
the extra-parochial district of Peak Forest, and also (by
special arrangement with the Dean of Lincoln) the rectory of
Kniveton. There are a great number of documents pertaining
to the long-fought struggle between the Chapter and Lenton
Priory as to the tithes on the Peverel demesnes, but there
INTRODUCTION. XI
seems to be nothing of importance under that head in addi-
tion to what I have already summarised under Chapel-en-le-
Frith, Tideswell, and Fairfield, in the second volume. The
supplement, however, will be found to contain a large amount
of fresh information, relative to the Peak district, from other
charters, and from the Act Books.
The earliest of these Act Books is now at the Bodleian
(Ashm. MSS. 794), and was probably removed by that not
too scrupulous antiquary, Elias Ashmole, who was a native
of Lichfield. There is a transcript of the greater portion of
it in the valuable Salt Library, Stafford. It extends from
1321 to 1356 ; after the latter date fifty-eight leaves are
unfortunately lost, and then come some entries of the year
1369.
The next volume is the first one in the possession of the
Chapter, and is entitled Primus Liber Acta Capitularia. It
extends from 1384 to 1438, and seems to be complete and in
good condition.
Then there is a considerable gap, and the next volume
can scarcely be considered an Act book, but partakes more
of the character of a note and account book, kept by Thomas
Godsalve, the chapter clerk. It extends from 1480 to 1510.
The fourth volume, endorsed as the third, or " le Black
Book," is from 1490 to 1523.
The succeeding volume follows immediately on its prede-
cessor, and goes down, but with considerable irregularity, to
1575. It is styled the fourth, or "Ye redd Booke." The
titles of " Black " and " Red," like that of the Magnum Regis-
trum Album (the early Chartulary of the Chapter described
in the introduction to my second volume) arc derived from
the colour of the respective bindings.
The fifth book (according to the number of those in the
possession of the Chapter) is not an Act Book, but chiefly
consists of a collection of charters and copies of leases. The
earliest document here transcribed is of the year 1537, and
the latest of 1621.
All those hitherto described have been of parchment, but
the sixth is a folio book of paper, about a fourth of which
Xll DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
is frayed away at the edges. It is an Act Book from 1628
to 1637, kept by Geoffrey Glasier, chapter clerk.
The seventh volume is also of paper, but in good condition.
It consists of an Act Book from 1660 to 1734, followed by
a detailed description of the proceedings at the election and
enthronement of a Bishop, and also by various Visitations of
the Vicars-Choral by the Dean up to 1774. These last are of
much interest as showing the eighteenth century Use of the
Cathedral in various particulars. One of the Visitation queries
put to the Vicars was, whether they were careful in " reve-
rently bowing to the Holy Table," at entering and leaving the
quire, or on crossing it, or on going to read the lessons ? The
Vicars replied that this reverent custom was " for the most
part observed."
The eighth volume consists of the Acts and Orders of the
Chapter from 1740 to 1795. Other volumes bring the Chapter
Acts down to the present day. All these records are of value
to the Derbyshire ecclesiologist, as herein are contained the
nominations to the different vicarages in the Chapter Peculiar,
which are never once named in the Episcopal Registers, as
well as much incidental information relative to those benefices,
and to the prebends of Sawley and Sandiacre.
Nor must I omit to mention the two large and important
volumes, termed Oliverian Surveys, that pertain to the
Chapter. Their nature is best explained by a full transcript
of the title: —
" A Survey of the Rectory of Bakewell and members, with the whole jurisdicon
of the same, of the Tythes of Wooll Lambes Graine, etc., with the Rights Members
and Appurtenances thereunto belonging or apperteining lying and being in the
County of Derby, parcell of the possession belonginge to the Cathedrall Church
of St. Chad in Leichfeild And to the late Deane and Chapter there, made and
taken in the moneth of Octob' 1649."
An analysis of these volumes is given in the Supplement,
under Bakewell.
It is a source of great regret that space has forbidden me
making fuller use of the treasury of information contained
in the Episcopal and Chapter Records, but I have the satis-
faction of feeling that I have, in this and the preceding
Introductions, pointed out the nature of their stores, and of
INTRODUCTION. Xlll
thinking that but few points of importance, relative to Derby-
shire, can have escaped my notice, however condensed may
be the form in which they are given. The way in which
the mediaeval Bishops exercised their most important func-
tions up and down their Diocese, instead of confining them
for the most part to their cathedrals, as is the general modern
custom, has often struck me. For instance, in the first half
of the fourteenth century, five Ordinations were held in the
church of All Saints', Derby, five in the prebendal church
of Sawley, and one each in the parish churches of Eckington,
Darley, Spondon, Elvaston, and Bakewell; the last instance
must have been by the special consent of the Chapter.
The other new sources of information, made use of in this
volume and its supplement, in addition to the Chapter MSS.,
are chiefly two-fold — the Pension Roll of 2 and 3 Philip and
Mary, and the Glynn MSS. The former is to be found in
the British Museum, Add. MSS. 8102, the skins relating to
Derbyshire being numbered 45 and 50 ; it gives the names
of all the suppressed chantry priests, etc., whose stipends had
been confiscated, and to whom pensions were at that time
granted from the Exchequer. It had been my intention to
give these particulars verbatim in the Appendix, but it after-
wards seemed better to give the substance of the information
under the respective parishes. That distinguished ecclesiolo-
gist, the late Sir Stephen Glynn, was in the habit of taking
full architectural notes of all the churches he visited through-
out his long life. The great majority of the churches of
England and Wales came under his diligent notice. His notes
on the Churches of Kent have been recently published as a
posthumous work. Mr. Gladstone most kindly placed his
notes on this county at my service. His courtesy I have
gratefully acknowledged in the dedication of this volume.
These Derbyshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynn, of which it
will be seen I have made free use, begin in 1832, and go
down to 1873 ; they include the whole of the old churches
of the county, with some five or six exceptions, and many
of the notices are of exceptional value, as the fabrics of
several have been since taken down or considerably over-
restored.
DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
In the place of the Pension Roll, there is given in the
Appendix a list of the destroyed or disused churches and
chapels of Derbyshire, which I have proof were in use in
mediaeval times. Their number actually exceeds one hundred.
That the case is understated I am convinced, for there can
be no doubt that there were more chapels in 'connection
with monastic granges, than the few of that class which are
enumerated. It should also be understood that no merely
domestic chapel or oratory is included in the list, but only
such as were used by tenantry or retainers (like those of
Haddon Hall, or Codnor Castle, which were even in possession
of baptismal rights), or that had a priest permanently attached
to them. If oratories for occasional private Masses, and for
family devotions had been included, such as were attached to
every manor house of the least importance, two or three
score of episcopal licenses for such oratories might have been
produced, on a diligent search among the Lichfield Registers ;
for in those days it was considered comely and reverent to
have a room set apart for daily devotion, the slovenly habit
of family prayers among the debris of the breakfast table not
being then invented. The very bountiful provision for the
spiritual necessities of her people, that was made by the
ancient Church of England in this country, is thus abundantly
proved. No large manor house, nor the smallest hamlet, was
then without its chapel ; and when the great difference of
population is taken into account, it will be found that even
the great and happy growth of the Church during the past
quarter of a century is very far from rivalling in church
accommodation the better periods of the mediaeval days.
To the repeated request, urged in different strains, but from
the same quarter, that descriptions of all the churches in
the county should be given, it must again be replied, that
such was never for a moment within the scope or intention
of the work. I started with the plainly expressed idea of
giving a sketch of the history and some account of the
architecture of all the old churches and chapels in Derbyshire,
and that has now been accomplished. I fully grant that it
is, in one sense, a matter of far higher importance than any-
thing herein undertaken, to know of the work of Church
INTRODUCTION. XV
Extension, from the handsome parochial church to the humble
mission chapel, now being done in our midst ; but all this
can be learnt in a few minutes by the expenditure of a shilling
on the Derbyshire Red Book or the Diocesan Calendar. More-
over, I do not profess to be a critic of modern architecture;
and though a few fabrics worthy of their purpose have been
erected in Derbyshire within the last few years, yet by far
the greater part of the ecclesiastical buildings of a later date
than Henry VII., instead of being constructed on the principle
of giving of our best to God, have partaken of the opposite
characteristics of extreme parsimony and outrageous taste. If
there are any to whom the description of such work is con-
genial, to them I willingly leave it.
The difficulty of condensing my materials has steadily in-
creased volume by volume, as the sources of information more
fully unfolded themselves. I have been compelled to break
my promise of giving some account of the Abbeys of Dale
and Darley in these pages. So much of importance can be
gathered as to their history, that it is hoped a monograph of
each may be prepared, notices of the smaller religious houses
of Derby being included in the latter. The history of Dale
Abbey, which Mr. Hope and myself have jointly undertaken,
is already in preparation. From some of the churches men-
tioned in this volume it was a pang to part company; so
interesting, at all events to the compiler, was the tale of their
fabrics and the monuments that they covered, and so un-
worthy does the space here afforded to them seem to be.
Especially was this the case with Morley, Crich, Sawley, and
All Saints'. Of the last-named it has been found necessary
to write a separate and far fuller account, in addition to
what is stated in these pages ; and this will very soon be
ready for the press. It is hoped that no one will grudge
the numerous pages bestowed upon a summary of the hitherto
overlooked Chartulary of the Chantries of Crich; it seemed
to me to be unique in the side-lights that it throws upon our
ecclesiastical and local history.
This county cannot for a moment pretend to vie with
Somersetshire in its towers, with Northamptonshire in its
spires, with Norfolk or Suffolk in the size or beauty of so
XVI DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
many of their churches, or with Kent in the number of its
brasses ; but this can, I believe, be fairly claimed for Derby-
shire, that no other part of the country of the same size has
anything like the same extensive variety of styles and ex-
cellent specimens of every period, both in the ecclesiastical
fabrics themselves, and in the monumental remains and other
details that they shelter. The following is a summary of their
more remarkable features, according to the different styles : —
SAXON PERIOD. — Crypt, chancel, and two nave piers (now
under the tower) at -Repton; chancel-arch of Marston Mont-
gomery, and of Sawley ; chancel-arch, and other details, of
Long Eaton, and of Stanton-by-Bridge ; windows, etc., of Cald-
well Chapel; font, at Wilne (very early); and churchyard crosses,
at Eyam, Bakewell, Hope, Blackwell, Spondon, and Tadding-
ton (very early), with considerable fragments at S. Alkmund's,
Derby, Darley, etc., etc.
NORMAN PERIOD. — The grand church at Melbourn ; tower
at Bradbourne ; considerable remains at Aston-on-Trent, Bake-
well, Hault Hucknall, Longford, Sandiacre, Whitwell, and
Youlgreave ; south doorways at Allestree and Breadsall ; fonts
at Ashover (lead), Church Broughton, Kirk Hallam, Mellor,
Somersall Herbert, Staveley, Tissington, Winster, and Youl-
greave, with a projecting holy water stoup ; and that exquisite
gem, Steetley Church.
EARLY ENGLISH PERIOD. — Towers of Breadsall and Ecking-
ton, and tower and spire of Ockbrook ; chancels of Ashbourn,
Dovebridge, Marston-on-Dove, and Weston-on-Trent ; chapel of
S. John Baptist, Belper ; ruins of Yeaveley Preceptory ; and
fonts of Ashbourn, Bradbourn, Bradley, and Norton.
DECORATED PERIOD. — Chancels of Bakewell, Dronfield, Nor-
bury, and Sandiacre ; tower and spire of Ashbourn ; churches
of Chesterfield, Mackworth, Tideswell, and Hathersage; good
windows and other details at Ashbourn, Bonsall, Chaddesden,
Crich, Ilkeston, S. Peter's, Derby, and Walton-on-Trent ; and
font at Bakewell.
PERPENDICULAR PERIOD. — Towers of All Saints', Derby (late),
Elvaston, Longford, Youlgreave, and North Winfield ; and the
roofs of Longstone and Repton.
No county can compare with Derbyshire in the abundance
INTRODUCTION. XV11
of early incised slabs, from the tenth century downwards.
They are found built into the walls of many of the churches,
especially in North and East Derbyshire. The best collections
are at Bakewell, Barley, and Chelmorton. Effigies incised on
slabs of the local alabaster found at Chellaston, are common
in the South Derbyshire churches, for the most part of the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. There are remarkable semi-
effigial monuments at Brampton, Kedleston, Hartington, and
Mack worth. Early stone effigies are found at Darley, Eggin-
ton, Ilkeston, Melbourn, Norbury, Newton Solney, Sawley,
Sudbury, Wingerworth, North Winfield, Youlgreave, etc. There
are some fine alabaster effigies at Ashbourn, Aston-on-Trent,
Cubley, Duffield, Kedleston, Longford, Newton Solney, Nor-
bury, and Radbourn. Owing to the prevalence of stone,
brasses are not common, but there is an excellent series at
Morley, and some good ones at Ashover, Dronfield, Etwall,
Hathersage, Mugginton, Norbury, Sawley, Staveley, Tideswell,
Walton-on-Trent, and Wilne.
The old stained glass at either Morley or Norbury is well
worth a pilgrimage, and there is also much interest about the
remains of glass at Egginton. The fourteenth century pulpit
at Mellor, carved out of the solid oak, is a unique relic.
The stone gospel lecterns against the chancel walls of Chad-
desden, Crich, Etwall, Mickleover, and Spondon, are of very
exceptional occurrence. The sedilia of Dronfield, Ilkeston,
Monyash, Sandiacre, and Whitwell, are all remarkably good
examples. The stone chancel screens of Ilkeston and Chel-
morton, and the stone parclose in Darley Church, are most
uncommon and noteworthy.
The most melancholy reflection caused by writing these
pages is the way in which the truth of the old proverb —
Tempus edax, homo edador, is exemplified. Much havoc was
doubtless made with stained glass, with monumental remains,
and general church fittings, in the sixteenth century ; yet
more havoc was done during the disordered times of the
great Civil War; but when we come to inquire of the
condition of Derbyshire monuments in 1662, as shown by the
notes of Ashmole, Dugdale, and St. Loe Kniveton, and of the
yet later accounts of Bassano, about 1710, it is obvious that
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the Georgian period, when the Church was at its lowest ebb
in intelligence and energy, was also the time that was far the
most fatal of any both to the fabrics themselves, and to
all that was comely or ancient within them. The Catholic
revival, too, has many sins of its own, in the eyes of the
arch geologist and of the reverent student of church history, to
answer for ; some of the Derbyshire " restorations " have been
terribly destructive of much that should have been held
sacred, and have swept away that history of religious art
which could previously be read, from century to century, in
the furrowed stones of their walls and buttresses. There is
much to be regretted in certain of the "restorations" that
have taken place even whilst this work has been in progress.
On one point I desire to enter a most earnest protest, viz.,
against the notion that any honour is paid to God, or respect
to the memory of those that He created in His own image, by
burying inscribed gravestones beneath many inches of concrete,
in order to stick therein the glossy tiles of recent manufacture.
The effacing, or removal (wherever it can be avoided), of the
memorials of the dead should in all cases be strongly resisted,
no matter what be the eminence of the architect that recom-
mends it. There are not many unrestored churches left in
the county, but there are some of much value and interest,
for whose fate we tremble. When a "restoration" (the term
is a necessity for lack of a better) is contemplated, let it be
recollected that all work — beyond the removal of galleries and
modern fittings, the opening out of flat plaster ceilings above
which good timber roofs often lie concealed, the scraping off
the accumulated layers of whitewash and paint, the letting in
of light through blocked-up windows, the allowing of feet to
pass through doorways closed in recent days by the mason
or bricklayer, and the making strong of really perishing parts
— all work beyond this is in great danger of destroying the
traces of the historic continuity of our Church, and of doing
a damage that can never be repaired. And in preserving the
traces of this historic continuity, let it not be thought that
any service is being rendered to history or religion by sweep-
ing clean out of the church all fittings of a post-Reformation
date. The sturdy Elizabethan benches (still remaining in
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several Derbyshire churches), the well-carved Jacobean pulpit,
or the altar rails of beaten iron of last century, should all be
preserved as memorials of their respective periods; in short,
everything that our forefathers gave to God's service that was
costly and good should be by us preserved, provided that it
does not mar the devout ritual ordered by the Common
Prayer, or in other respects interfere with the Church's due
proclaiming of her divine mission to the nineteenth century.
The reaction against over-restoration is now happily setting
in, but a word of caution is also necessary, lest that cry
should be adopted as the cloak of a lazy indifferentism, or be
used as an excuse for regarding the parish church as a local
museum, illustrative of byegone times, to be carefully dusted
and nothing more. Where much new work or any consider-
able extent of refitting seem absolutely necessary, it is best
to hasten slowly, and to do a little well, rather than to aim
at a speedy general effect. Thus, if one of our old grey
churches requires fresh seating, how much better to fill a
single aisle, or one bay of the nave, with sound and effectively
carved oak, and only repair the remainder, rather than to
accomplish the whole in glossy deal. The best materials and
the best art should surely be used in God's service, and not
reserved to feed our pride or minister to our comfort in
private dwellings. It would be invidious for me here to
name any special churches, but I have more than once
noticed how far better the work of redeeming the interior of
our churches, from that state of dirt and neglect that had
degraded some at least below the level of the very barns
upon the glebe, has been carried out where money has come
in slowly and at intervals, rather than where some munificent
patron has readily found the funds to enter upon a big
contract.
To C. S. Greaves, Esq., Q.C., to the Rev. Hugh A. Stowell,
and to Captain A. E. Lawson-Lowe, F.S.A., I am specially
indebted for their kindness in sending me lists of errata of
the previous volumes, which have been of the greatest service
in preparing the supplement. My friend, Mr. W. H. St. John
Hope, has been of much help to me in many ways connected
with this volume. The general courtesy that I have received
XX DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
from all to whom I have applied for help or information has
been most remarkable, and I desire once again to gratefully
acknowledge the aid that I have received from many of the
clergy. Not the least pleasant feature of this work, in a
personal sense, has been that it has led to the formation of
several valued friendships.
It is with genuine sorrow that I now write the last words;
I could almost wish they were the first, for I leave the task
with so much regret. And though more has now been
accomplished for the churches of Derbyshire than has yet
been done for the churches of any other shire, no one knows
the imperfections of these pages better than the writer, or is
more fully alive to several particulars wherein their plan
might have been improved. The lesson it has taught me
has been one of incalculable value, for, in writing the history
of the churches of Derbyshire, I have learnt to see how this
tiny fragment of Christendom is but a unit of the " One
Catholic and Apostolic Church," founded by her Divine Lord.
In contemplating with loving eyes and lingering looks these
substantial traces of the costly works of different generations
of our pious forefathers, let it not be forgotten that all the
wealth and beauty of the diverse arts that they consecrated
to the service of God in brightening His sanctuary, were thus
used in order
"to rouse the heart and lead the will
By a bright ladder to the worlds above ; "
and that if the admiration is merely confined to temples built
by hands, it will be of no avail at the last to plead —
DOMINE DILEXI DECORUM DOMUS TlLE.
CONTENTS.
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PACE
ASTON-UPON-TRENT ................................................ 3
BARROW-UPON-TRENT ............................................... 15
TWYFOBD ................................................................. 28
CRICH .................................................................... 33
WAKEBRIDGE .............................................................. 65
ALL SAINTS' .............................................................. 69
s. MARY'S-ON-THE-BRIDGE .............................. ........ ...... 102
QUARNDON ................................................ ................. 107
S. ALKMUND'S ..................................... . ..................... 113
LITTLE EATON ................................................ . .......... 127
S. MICHAEL'S .......................................................... 131
ALVASTON ................................................ .................. 137
S. PETER'S ........................................................... 145
BOULTON ............................................................... 156
NORMANTON ........ ........................................................ 161
OS1IASTON ................................................................ 163
S. WERBURGH'S .. ...... 171
XX11 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
EGGINTON 183
ELVASTON 195
OCKBROOK 206
KIRK HALLAM 211
MAPPERLEY 216
WEST HALLAM 219
HEANOR 233
HORSLEY 243
DENBY 248
ILKESTON 257
KIRK LANGLEY 267
MACKWORTH 283
ALLESTREE 293
MICKLEOVER 303
LITTLEOVER 309
FINDERN 312
POTLOCK ... 316
MORLEY 321
SMALLEY 348
PENTRICH 355
SANDIACRE 365
SAWLEY 378
LONG EATON 395
WILNE 398
BREASTON 406
RISLEY 409
STANTON-BY-DALE 415
WESTON-UPON-TRENT... . 423
CONTENTS. XXlil
WILLINGTON 435
SUPPLEMENT TO FIRST VOLUME 441
SUPPLEMENT TO SECOND VOLUME 490
SUPPLEMENT TO THIRD VOLUME 521
SUPPLEMENT TO FOURTH VOLUME 532
APPENDIX 537
INDEX OF PERSONS ...: 545
INDEX OF PLACES 561
GENERAL INDEX TO THE FOUR VOLUMES . . 564
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
S. PETER'S CHURCH, S.E (FRONTISPIECE).
DETAILS OF ASTON, AND LECTERN AT MICKLEOVER 8
CRICH CHURCH, S.E 32
S. MARY'S BRIDGE CHAPEL, OLD CHURCH OF S. ALKMUND, AND
PARTS OF TOMB, ALL SAINTS' 102
DETAILS OF SAXON CROSSES, S. ALKMUND'S 122
CHEST AND SLAB, S. PETER'S; SLAB, ALVASTON 154
BOULTON AND ALVASTON DETAILS; FONT CoVER, S. WERBURGH's 160
EGGINTON, EFFIGY; ILKESTON, EFFIGY, SCREEN, AND CAPITAL... 190
ELVASTON CHURCH, S.E 195
FONTS — KIRK HALLAM, SANDIACRE, ASTON, S, WERBURGH'S, AND
AT DERBY MUSEUM 214
DENBY CHURCH, s.w 248
SEDILIA OF ILKESTON AND KIRK HALLAM 262
MACKWORTH CHURCH, S.E 283
MORLEY. CENTRE LIGHT OF EAST WINDOW OF SOUTH AISLE ... 342
SANDIACRE CHANCEL, s 365
SANDIACBE, SEDILIA, PRIESTS' DOOR, AND TOMB 370
SAWLEY CHURCH, S.E 377
SAWLEY, CANON BOTHE'B TOMB 390
WILNE FONT 400
WESTON-UPON-TRENT CHURCH, S.E : 423
CHELMORTON FONT INSCRIPTION . 498
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|T the time of the Domesday Survey, Weston-on-Trent was
a royal manor, to which pertained the two lesser manors,
or herewicks, of Aston and Shardlow. Down to quite a
recent date, Aston is described as parcel of the superior manor
of Weston. The Domesday Survey makes mention of two
churches on the manor of Weston, and we have no doubt that the
churches of Weston and Aston are thereby signified. Weston,
cum memlris, had been held by Algar, Earl of Mercia, who died
in 1050, but it was forfeited to the crown through his rebellion.
It was held under the Conqueror by his nephew, Hugh, Earl
of Chester, the chief founder and benefactor of the Abbey of
S. Werburgh at Chester. Upon this Abbey Hugh conferred a
third of the manor of Weston ; and other grants of land in
Weston, Aston, Shardlow, and Great Wilne, were from time to
time made to the monks of Chester, by the Verdous and others,
who held of the crown under the Earls of Chester.* The
advowson of the rectory of Aston seems to have been also given to
the Abbey by Hugh, Earl of Chester; at all events it was in the
gift of the abbot as early as the reign of Henry I. Henry III.
granted to the monks a weekly market at Aston, within his manor
of Weston, and also a fair for three days at the feast of S. Peter, f
Edward I. granted them the important right of free warren over
the Derbyshire manors of Aston, Weston, Shardlow, Wilne, Morley,
and Smalley.j The Taxation Boll of 1291 gives the annual value
of Aston rectory at the large sum of £33 6s. 8d. In the year
* There are two chartularies of the Abbey of S. Werburgh extant, viz., numbers
1,965 and 2,062 of the Harl. MSS., and also some fragments and copies of charters in
number 2,073 of the same collection. They contain numerous references to the
property possessed by the Abbey at Aston, Weston, Morley, and in other parts of
Derbyshire.
t Chart. Rot., 41 Henry III., and Harl. MSS., 1,965, f. 8.
+ Harl. MSS. , 2,062, f. 14.
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1378, the abbey obtained tlie papal dispensation for the appropria-
tion of the benefices of Aston and Weston, with power of choosing
the vicars to supply the churches.* This appropriation of the
tithes was subsequently confirmed by two successive Bishops of
Coventry and Lichfield, Walter Shirland and Richard Scroope, as
well as by the Archbishop of Canterbury, as Metropolitan. f On
Lady Day, 1494, a jury reported that it was not to the prejudice
of the King to grant to the Abbey of S. Werburgh the appropria-
tion of the churches of Aston and Weston, the advowsons of which
were held in chief, as parcel of the foundation charters of the
Abbey ; the inquisition gives the annual value of Aston rectory as
forty marks. | On September 20th in the following year, the
Bishop of the diocese again gave his license for the appropriation
of these rectories when next vacant, the abbot convenanting to pay
a pension of 13s. 4d. to the Archdeacon of Derby, on the feast of
S. Michael, in the church of S. Peter's, Derby. §
It is, however, not a little remarkable to find, after all the
precautions taken to secure full ecclesiastical and civil license for
the appropriation of the revenues of Aston Church, that on the
vacancy occurring by the resignation of rector Henry de Coton
in 1403, the Abbey forfeited its claim, and allowed the
institution of another rector. The same thing also occurred in
respect to Weston, so that there never were vicars of either
of these benefices. The Abbey no doubt received valuable compen-
sation from those interested in the patronage for thus waiving
its claim, but of this we have not obtained any satisfactory
evidence.
During the time that Walter de Pinchbeck was abbot of S.
Werburgh's (1228-40), William de Verdon, junr., gave to Eoger,
chaplain in the church of Aston, certain lands within the town
and field of Aston, to be held on a rental of two shillings, which
was to be paid on Christmas-day, for sustaining the lamp of S.
Katharine in that Church. [| Mention is made elsewhere in the
* Pope Clement VII. granted this dispensation in the first year of the great schism.
He was the first of those who resided at Avignon, usually termed anti-popes. Our
historians have always represented that England, duiing the schism, gave its entire
support to Urban VI., and the Popes resident at Eome (see Hallam's Middle Ages,
vol. ii., p. 242 ; Reichel's See of Rome, p. 444; and Hook's Archbishops of Canterbury,
vol. iv., passim); hut we have come across several instances of powerful English
monasteries that recognised Clement VII. Had his dispensation been considered
invalid, it would not have been copied into these chartularies.
t Harl. MSS., 2,062, f. 5; 2,071, ff. 38-9.
J Inq. post. Mort.. 17 Ric. II., No. 63. This is really an Inq. ad quod Damnum, and
is wrongly classified at the Public Record Office.
§ Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol vi., f. 102.
!j Harl. MSS., 1,965, f. 10; 2,062, f. 7.
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chartularies of chaplains of Aston, as distinct from rectors or
parsons, so it would seern that there was a chantry priest or
chaplain permanently attached to this benefice, serving the altar
of S. Katharine, which probably stood in the south aisle. This
chantry does not obtain mention in the Chantry Roll of Edward
VI., as its endowments appear to have been held by the Abbey,
which had to provide the priest, and they would therefore have
been swallowed up in the dissolution of the monasteries.
The Valor Ecclesiastic us (27 Henry VIII.) gives the clear annual
value of this rectory as £29 15s., and of the temporalities held in
Aston, by the Abbey of S. Werburgh's, as £18 9s. 9Jd. The
Abbey also held lands at Shardlow worth £10 7s., and at Great
Wilne worth £6 7s. 8d. per annum, both in this parish. Special
mention is made of the 2s. that had to be paid out of the Aston
rents towards sustaining the lamp in the church.
On the dissolution of the monasteries, Henry VIII. granted the
Derbyshire possessions of the Abbey of S. Werburgh's, which
included the advowsons of the rectories of Aston, Weston, and
Morley, and the manors of Weston, Aston, Shardlow, Great
Wilue, Morley, and Smalley, to the new Bishop of Chester. But
another grant of Elizabeth transferred them to Henry Sacheverell,
and an additional grant of the first of James I. transferred them
to Charles Paget. The latter was attainted, and the advowson
of Aston and the rest of the property passed once more to the
crown, in the tenth of James I., 'who in the same year granted
it to Anthony Roper, and his wife, Maria, and then- heirs and
assigns.*
In 16-49, Robert Holden (who had previously purchased other
property here from the Hunts) bought the manor and advowsou of
Aston from the Ropers, and it has remained in- their hands up to
the present time. Robert Holden, who died in 1746, left an only
daughter and heiress, who married James Shuttleworth, but their
fourth son, Charles, on succeeding by bequest to this property,
took the name of Holden. -
The following is the inventory of church goods drawn up in
1552 :—
" Aston uppon Trent. Oct 5. Jo Bande Curate, j chalyce of sylver parcell
gylte with a patten — v vestments, j whyte bodkeu, j grene— iij albes— iij amyses
— toe corporassess with a case — ij coppes, j whyte badwen & j of rede sey — v
aulter clothes — v towells — iij bells on the stepull — ij handbells — j canope of whyte
clothe with a pyx of brasse — j crosse of masslen — j sanctus bell."
* Patent Eolls, 10 James I., part 23, No. 13.
G DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
The Parliamentary Commissioners of 1650 report : —
"Aston super Trent is a parsonage really worth one hundred and foure score
pounds per annum, noe Chappell apperteyning. Mr. Thomas Palmer is Incumbent
an able preacher and of good conversason."
The following list of rectors and patrons is chiefly compiled
from the Episcopal Begisters, and the returns of the First Fruits
Office :—
1304. John de Sandale; patron, the King.
1310. Henry de Derby, acolite ; patron, Abbot of Chester. On the resignation of
J. de S.
1312. Robert de Frodesham ; patron, Abbot of Chester.
1319. Henry de Walton; patron, Abbot of Chester. On the resignation of
E. de F.
1330. Thomas de Bonyngton; patron, Abbot of Chester. On the death of
H. de W.
1334. John de Herincton.
. William de Herincton.
. Richard de Okeley.
1336. John de Hertfordton. On the resignation of E. de O.
1349. John de Okeley. On the death of J. de H.
. Richard de Okeley.
1369. Henry de Coton, deacon. On the death of E. de O.
1403. Edward de Button. On the resignation of H. de C.
1454. Roger Bulkeley; patron, William de Bulkeley de Eyton (for this turn). On
the resignation of E. de S.
1461. Robert Sheppart; patron, Abbot of Chester. On the resignation of E. B.,
to whom a pension of 24s. was secured.
1480. Richard Shyrbourn. On the resignation of E. S., to whom a pension of
£10 was to be paid out of the fruits of the rectory for two years.
1499. Philip Agard ; patron, Abbot of Chester. On the death of E. S.
1517. Michael Sutton ; patron, Eichard Sutton and John Sutton, by concession of
the Abbot of Chester. On the death of P. A.
1520. Thomas Pyrton; patron, Abbot of Chester. On the death of M. S.
1547. John Whalhede; patron, Sir William Paget. On the death of J. P.
1552. John Whitby ; patron, Sir William Paget. On the death of J. W.
1557. Alexander Barloe ; patron, Sir William Paget. On the death of J. W.
1617. John Porter ; patron, Joanna Porter, widow, for this turn, on behalf of
Charles Paget, and Anthony Eoper and Maria his wife.
1636. Richard Clerke; patron, Henry Clarke. On the death of J. P.
(1650). Thomas Palmer. Ejected, 1662.*
1681. Edward Holden; patron, Samuel Holden.
1702. Thomas Holden; patron, Eobert Holden.
1729. John Rolleston; patron, Eobert Holden.
1770. John Augustine Pinch ; patrons, James Shuttleworth and his wife.
1774. Charles Edward Shuttleworth ; f patrons, Mary Shuttleworth, widow, and
others.
* " He had been formerly Minister of S. Lawrence Poultney Church in London,
from whence he remov'd to this Place : And he was remov'd from hence soon after the
Eestauration of King Charles, to make way for Mr. Clark a Prelatical Divine, who had
been Eject'd there many Years before. About July, 1663, he was imprisou'd in
Nottingham for Preaching in Conventicles." — Calamy's Ejected Ministers, vol. ii.,
p. 205.
t He obtained a dispensation to hold this rectory in conjunction with that of
Loughton, Leicester. Pegge's MSS. vol v.
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1796. Nathaniel Palmer Johnson;* patron, Charles Holden, Clerk.
1850. Francis Augustus Weekes; patron, Samuel Ashton, Prestwich. On the
death of N. P. J.
1865. James Richard Holden.
1867. John Ayton Whitaker.
1869. James Shuttleworth Holden.
The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, consists of
nave with side aisles, chancel with north aisle or chapel, north
and south porches, and west tower. Its dimensions are : — nave
25 ft. 2 in. by 12 ft. ; north aisle or chapel 57 ft. 8 in. by 12 ft.
9 in.; south aisle 33 ft. 5 in. by 15 ft. 6 in.; and chancel 35 ft. 5 in.
by 15 ft. 6 in. The lower stage of the tower is of late Norman
date, opening to the nave by a plain semi-circular arch, the imposts
of which are carved with the hollow-square ornament. On the north,
south, and west are Norman windows, having shafts in the jambs.
In the west wall of the tower is a modern round-headed doorway,
and over it a narrow two-light lancet window, quite plain, and
without any hood-mould, but the splay in the interior is rounded.
It seems to be a transition wiudow of the time of Henry II.
When Sir Stephen Grlyun visited this church, May 5th, 1866, he
noticed a small closed Norman window over the south arcade of
the nave, but it does not now remain.
The three arches that separate the nave from the south aisle,
supported on circular columns with octagonal capitals and on large
wedge-shaped responds, are of the Early English period. The
arcade between the nave and the north aisle is very similar, but
of rather later date. The two arches between the chancel and the
continuation of the north aisle are also Early English. To this
period, too, belongs the interesting font (Plate X.), which stands
at the west end of the church. It consists of a plain octagonal
bowl, supported by a cylindrical stem, and four detached shafts.
The diameter of the bowl is 27 inches, and it is 42 inches high.
The windows of the south aisle are good examples of the
Decorated style of the first half of the fourteenth century.
The three-light south window of this aisle, nearest the east end,
is remarkable for the ogee-headed canopies in the jambs, an
unusual feature, rarely found except in Cathedral or Abbey churches
(Plate II). Note the corbels of these two canopied niches, especially
the one nearest the west, which is evidently the base of a Jesse-
tree, or emblematical representation of the genealogy of Christ.
* There is a mural slab to the memory of this rector at the east end of the north
aisle. He died Oct. 25th, 1850, aged 86, having been rector of Aston for 54 years.
8 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
The stone carving shows the prostrate sleeping Jesse with the main
branches growing forth from him, and the leaves and branches of
the different generations would most likely be continued in fresco
up the sides of the niche. The niche itself would probably contain
a figure of our Lord, or of the Virgin and Infant. The arch leading
into the chancel is pointed, the mouldings carried down with octagonal
shafts. The three south windows of the chancel are long, curious,
transomed windows of two lights, and are of the time of Eichard
II., when the Decorated style was in the course of transition to
the Perpendicular.
To the Perpendicular period pertain the two-light square-headed
clerestory windows, also the windows of the north aisle (except the
west one, which is Decorated), and the upper stage of the tower
with its battlements and four pinnacles. The clerestory and
chancel are embattled, but not the aisles. The east chancel
window has Perpendicular tracery, but it is only coeval with the
modern memorial glass. The two porches are new. This church
has been most carefully restored within the last few years by the
late Mr. Holden. A gallery which was then removed had been put
up by the Trent and Mersey Navigation Company in 1788.
A small portion of black letter text, temp. Elizabeth, may be
noticed under the tower. There are some fine old massive benches
of oak of the same date in the nave. A few old encaustic tiles,
with an effective pattern of a floriated cross, were found during the
restoration. Those that now pave the sanctuary are a reproduction
of this pattern. The modern oak stalls of the chancel are well and
carefully carved, and as they are the work of a carpenter of the
village, it is pleasant to be able to give his name — George
Halliday.
On the south side of the chancel arch is a rood-loft door.
The square opening of a "low side window,"* now blocked up,
should be noticed on the south side of the chancel (Plate II).
The most ancient detail about the fabric, which serves as an in-
teresting link with the pre-Norman days, when our forefathers revered
the true faith on this same site, is the portion of the Saxon church-
yard or memorial cross, of a reticulated pattern, now built into the
west wall of the north aisle (Plate II). f In the pier to the north
*The subject of "low side windows" has been fully explained in Churches of
Derbyshire, vol. iii. , under Spondon and Bavenston ; see also the subsequent account
of Barrow Church in this volume.
t Compare Plate XII. of Churches of Derbyshire, vol. ii., where drawings are given
of the ancient crosses of Taddington, Eyam, Hope, and Bakewell.
DLATE.
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side of the chancel has been built the head of an incised cross,
which has at one time formed part of a sepulchral slab.
The principal monument in this church now stands against the
north wall of the north aisle. Its position used to be (as we learn
from several MSS., Bassano, Meynell, etc.) under the arch nearest
the west end between the chancel and the north chapel.* It
consists of an alabaster altar tomb on , which rest the effigies of a
man and his wife, hand in hand. The man wears a long thickly
plaited robe with hanging sleeves, and on his head is a round flat
cap of three folds. The hair is cut off short above the ears. His
wife wears a long mantle, and a small dog lies at her feet. The
gown, which is fastened with a large plain buckle, has tight-fitting
sleeves. Her head-dress is of the style sometimes termed "butterfly,"
having wide side cauls, elaborately interlaced, and a light veil over
the coiffure. The costume of these figures gives the date of the
monument to the reign of Henry VI. (1422-61). On the south side
of this tomb are three angels holding shields, bearing respectively :
(1) a chevron engrailed between three escallops, impaling ;
(2) a chevron engrailed between three escallops ; (3) a chevron
engrailed between three escallops, impaling vaire. On the west
end are two more angels holding between them a shield, bearing :
a chevron engrailed between three escallops, impaling a chevron
between three crescents. We find from Bassano's notes (1710),
that there were, on the side which is now against the wall, three
coats, viz. : the chevron and escallops, impaling vaire — a chevron
between three crescents — and the chevron and escallops. But
notwithstanding this heraldry, we cannot identify the tomb with any
precision ; though the consideration of the mural monument on
the wall above it will be an aid.
On this is inscribed : —
" Prope Sepeliuntur corpora Thomfe Hunt Generosi & Alicise uxoris ejus
Robert! Hunt filii et hseredis Thomse & Alicise una cum Catharina uxore Roberti
qui pro Sobole habuerunt Johannem Hunt generosu qui matrimonial! fcedore
conjunctus erat Annse filise Johan Kime genero' Netting' & iste Job. Hunt ista
insignia posuit in futuri temporis memoriam, H>25."
Above the slab are the following quartered arms, surmounted by
the crest of a bugle : — (1) arg-., a bugle, sab., on a chief, gu., three
mullets pierced of the field. (2) sab., a chevron engrailed, ermine,
between three escallops, arg. (3) arg., a chevron between three
* This north chapel, or continuation of the north aisle, would doubtless be used as
the chapel of Our Lady ; the altar of S. Katharine stood in the south aisle.
10 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
crescents, or* (4) ary., a greyhound courant, sab., collared, or. The
first of these quarterings is for Hunt, and the last for Holford,
co. Chester, but the second and third are doubtful. This quartered
coat is given with the Visitation pedigrees of Hunt, of Ashover,
but unfortunately the quarterings are not identified, nor do the
pedigrees go back early enough to show how they were obtained. t
The family of Hunt, of Ashover and Aston, is said to have
been settled at the former place as early as the reign of Henry
III., but the pedigrees only begin with John Hunt, who married
Margaret, daughter of John Cotes, towards the end of the fifteenth
century. Their eldest son, Christopher, married Dorothy, sister of
William Bassett, and died in 1540, seized of one capital messuage,
two cottages, and 260 acres of land at Aston. J His son and heir
Thomas (mentioned on the monument), married Alice, daughter
of Eobert Baiubridge, of Lockington, and Dorothy, daughter of
William Skevington, for his second wife. Eobert, son of Thomas
and Alice Hunt, married Catharine, daughter of Thomas Eathbone,
of Stone, co. Stafford, and their sou and heir, John, was aged
fourteen at the Visitation of 1611.
This John, who put up the monument to his parents and grand-
parents, also gave the present holy table. Eouud the edge is
carved Ex dono Johannis Hunte 1630 anno (Btatis 35, and the crest
of a bugle horn.
It has generally been said that Christopher Hunt was the first
of the family who had property at Aston, but the quarterings on
the mural munument, taken in conjunction with the heraldry of
the altar tomb, prove that a Hunt, earlier than any mentioned in
the pedigrees, must have married the heiress of the arms of the
2nd quarter (a chevron between three escallops), § the representative
* The coat, as given in Harl. MSS., should be az., a chevron, gu., between three
crescents, or. The quarterings on the monument have been carelessly repainted.
t Harl. MSS., 1,093, f. 116 ; 5,809, f. 61 ; and Egertou MSS., 996, f. 33.
J Meynell MSS.
§ These arms, tinctured as above, were borne by Farewell, of Somerset, and Farway,
of Devon, but, on referring to their pedigrees (Harl. MSS., 1,559, ff. 126b, 91b), we
cannot find any connection between them and Hunt, or indeed with Derbyshire in
any way. The following reply, in answer to a query of ours, appeared in Notes and
Queries, 5th S, x. p. 151 : — " The arms on the monument in the church of Aston-on-
Trent, and inquired for by Mr. Cox, are — 1, Hunt; 2, Chedder; 3, Stakepoule or
Barkerolles ; 4, Holford. The knightly family of Chedder, whose arms are given in
the second quarter, were of the county of Somerset, but they may have had property
at Aston. A co-heir of this family married Sir John Talbot, Viscount L'Isle, who
was killed with his father, the renowned Earl of Shrewsbury, at the battle of < Ihas-
tillon, in 1453. This marriage may perhaps assist to verify the arms. The tincture
of tbe third quarter cannot be correct. The chevron should be either argent or or.
Azure, a chevron arg. between 3 crescents or, is borne of Stakepoule, and az., a
chevron between 3 crescents or, by Barkerolles. There is a Derbyshire family,
Blackwall, whose arms have great affinity to those of Holford: Arg., a greyhound
courant, sable, collared, or ; or a chief indented, sable. 3 besauts. — G. D. T., Hudders-
field."
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of some family unknown, who were landowners in Aston, and to
whom the altar tomb pertains.
Against the south wall of the chancel is a brass, thus inscribed :
" Prope sepelitnr Johannes Porter artium Magister Theologus sincer' & quondam
rector hujus ecclesise dignissimus Vir Sapiens doctus plus hospitalis et amicis
charissimus qui placide in Domino expiravit Jan. 23 A° Dni 1636 A° setatis 46."
On the stone on which the holy table stands is inscribed : —
"Edwardus Houlden ob. Sept. die Junii A.D. 1653 set. 49.
Robertus Houlden ob. quart, die Nov. A.D. 1654 set. 25.
Robertas Houlden ob. quart, die Jan. A.D. 1659 set. 64.
Mary Houldeu ob. quart, die Jan. A.D. 1668 set. 23.
John Houldeu ob. quart, die Feb. A.D. 1739 set. 55.
Hannah Lathwell ob. Sept. die Feb. A.D. 1687 set. 72.
These inscriptions record six tablets laid beneath the floor at the time of the
Restoration of the churchA.D. 1867."
Though the restoration of this church seems for the most part
to have been carried out with exceptional carefulness, we cannot
but express our great regret that any memorial stones should have
been covered up. Fortunately these inscriptions are given in full
in Glover's Derbyshire, and we there find two other inscriptions
of some importance, which we looked for in vain, and which we
fear also disappeared at the restoration. One of these is a long
genealogical epitaph to Eobert Porter, Fellow of Ah1 Souls', Oxford,
and others of that family, erected by John Porter, rector of Aston,
in 1635. The other runs as follows : —
"Prope sepelitur corpus Johannis Sale fratris Willim Sale rectoris hujus
ecclesise qui extremum diem clausit quinto die mensis Julii A.D. 1572."*
There are also mural slabs to Eobert Holden, 1746 ; Mary
Shuttleworth, wife of Eev. C. Shuttleworth, 1777; Mary Shuttle-
worth, wife of James Shuttleworth, 1791 ; Elizabeth, wife of Eev.
Charles Holden, 1795 ; Eev. Charles Holden, 1821, his third wife,
1820, and their son, aged 13, 1817 ; Antonia Henrietta, second
daughter of Eev. C. Holden, 1849, and her husband, Colonel
Clowes, 1862.
A brass tablet within the sacrarium runs as follows : —
"To the glory of God, and in memory of Edward Shuttleworth, d. Sep. 8, 1855,
aged 18; Charles Shuttleworth, d. Aug. 6, 1872, aged 34; William Arthur
Shuttleworth, d. Jan. 18, 1856, aged 5 ; sons of Edward Anthony and Susan
Drummond Holden, of Aston Hall, this sanctuary was adorned A.D. 1873.
'Lord, Thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another.' — Ps. xl. 1."
There are two stained glass windows to the above-named Edward
Shuttleworth, 1855, and to two of his sisters, 1867 and 1869.
* With respect to the Sales, see the subsequent account of Weston Church.
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The tower contains a ring of four bells.
I. " John Taylor & Sons Founders Loughbrough 1847."
II. " Jhesus be our spede 1590," in Lombardic capitals, and with
the bell-mark of Henry Oldfitld.
III. " Jesus be our spede 1594," in Lombardic capitals. In
addition to the mark of Henry Oldfield, this bell has a very fine
stamp of the arms of Queen Elizabeth, with motto, supporters, etc.,
and the initials E. E.
IV. " All men that heare my mournful sound Eepent before you
lye in ground, 1661," and the mark of George Oldfield.
The registers only date back to the year 1667, and contain no
entries of special interest.
•Parroto.
HIS parish, usually distinguished as Barrow-upon-Trent,
comprises the hamlets or townships of Arleston, Sinfin,
and Stenson, and the parochial chapelry of Twyford.
At the time of the Domesday Survey the manor of Barrow
formed part of the estates of Ralph Fitzhubert, and it is recorded
that it possessed a priest and a church. One portion of the manor
was regarded as subordinate to the royal manor of Melbourn, and
as such formed part of the original endowment of the bishopric of
Carlisle, when it was founded in 1133 by Henry I. It remained
in the hands of that see till 1704, when, as parcel of the rectory
manor of Melbourn, it was enfranchised by Act of Parliament.*
But the manor proper of Barrow, including the church, was at an
early date in the family of Bakepuze. Probably it was in the
hands of Robert de Bakepuze, benefactor of Abingdon Abbey, soon
after the compilation of the Domesday Survey. In the time of
Henry II., Robert de Bakepuze gave the church of Barrow to the
Priory of S. John of Jerusalem, otherwise known as the Knights
Hospitallers. t John de Bakepuze, the son of Robert (and probably
great graudson of the original donor), in the year 1288, confirmed
the grant of the rectory of Barrow, stating that he did it for the
health of the souls of himself and his wife Cecilia, as well as for
the souls of his ancestors and posterity.;}: At the same time he
confirmed grants of laud in Barrow pertaining to the Brethren of
the Hospital.
* Quo Warranto and Hundred Bolls, temp. Edw. I. ; see also account of Melbourn
church in vol. iii.
t Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. ii., p. 547, where the mistake originated of making the
gift of B. de B., refer to the church of Barrow in Cheshire, instead of in Derbyshire.
For particulars relative to the connection of the family of Bakepuze with this county,
see Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., pp. 5, 6, 195.
I Liber Niger de Nedewood, 16 Edw. I., as quoted in Add. MSS., 6,666. f. 32. He
describes the rectory as " ecclesiam meam de Barowe <jue sita est in feodo meo super
Trent in com. Derb."
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In the year 1388, Brother Philip Tharne, Grand Prior of
England, drew np a full report of the income and possessions of
the Order in England. JBarrow was then esteemed one of the
smaller estates, termed camera, or chambers, that were under
independent management. The camera of Barrow was under a
bailiff, and its gross income (of which no less than £30 was
returned as the value of the rectory) was £36 2s. This, after
deducting £12 15s. 4d. for expenses and pensions, left a balance of
£23 6s. 8d. for the general treasury.*
At some date prior to 1433, the camera of Barrow was annexed
to the preceptory or bailiwick, of Yeaveley, which was henceforth
known by the joint title of Yeaveley and Barrow, until the
dissolution of the property of the Order temp. Henry VIII. Mass
was sung for the soul of Eopert de Bakepuze every Sunday within
the chapel of the preceptory at Yeaveley. f
In a chartulary relating to the lands of the Knights Hospitallers,
between the years 1503 and 1526, there are numerous references
to this joint preceptory.;}; In 1504, William Darel, preceptor of
Yeaveley and Barrow, leases all fruits, rents, appurtenances, tithes,
oblations, and advowsons pertaining to this preceptory, to Thomas
Babington, of Lea, for three years, at £26 2s. lid. per annum,
subject to the annual payment to the prior of Tutbury, of his
pension of £3, to the Bishop of Carlisle, of 13s. 4d., and to the
seneschal of the court of the said prior of 40s. pro feodo SIM. The
lessee was also to find a priest to celebrate in the preceptory
chapel at Yeaveley. In 1509, Brother John Babington, § preceptor
of Yeaveley and Barrow, leased the preceptory to Thomas Babing-
ton, of Lea, and to Anthony Babington, of Kingston (his son and
heir), for one year at £26 2s. lid., but for the second and third
years at £72. It was subject to the same payments, and to the
exercise of honourable hospitality within the preceptory.
The following interesting farm inventory was drawn up on the
entry of Thomas Babington into the estate :- —
" THTES BEE the parcells of catell and corne and of other Implementes to be left
by Thomas Babington or by his assignes at thende of his terrne within specified
* Porter's Knights of Malta, vol. i., cap. 9 ; Hospitallers in England, p. 109 (Camden
Society). See Appendix II. for details of the 1338 return.
f See our account of the preceptory of Yeaveley, Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii.,
pp. 279-283, and Appendices IX and XA.
I Cott. MSS., Claud. E. vi., ff. 5, 68, 68b, 156, 210, 263, and 277. There are other
extant chartularies of this Order (Cott. MSS., Nero E. vi., and Landsdowne MSS.,
200), but they afford no information with respect to Yeaveley and Barrow.
§ With respect to the Babingtons, especially of those here mentioned, see Churches
of Derbyshire, vol. i., under Lea, Dethick, and Ashover.
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or elles the price of the same. OF CATELL xij oxen price vjli. It. xij kye price
iiijli. It. a cowe geven by Willim Bentley to upholde seynt John's light price
vjs. viijd. It. a bull vjs. viijd. OP COBXE vj quartes of Whete price the qrt. vs.
It.vj qrts. of Eye price the qrt. iiijs. It. x qrts. of Pesen price the qrt. ijs. viijd.
It. Ixxx busshells of otes, ij stryke to the busshell, price the busshell 3d. 06.
PLOUGHEGERE viij yrone tymtes (?) price vs. iiijd. It. x owkes yroned iijs. iiijd. It.
ij Weynes and the Wheles xijs. It. ij harroes with yrones price ijs. It. ij plowghes
with eares of yron price xxd. It. ij cutters xvjd. It. ij shares xijd. It. ij muk
rakes iiijd. It. ij payre of clevys viijd. It. ij pryk forkes iiijd. Sm. totalis
xvijZi. vs. iiijd."
On April 24th, 1516, there is a renewal from Jolm Babington, as
preceptor, to his father, Thomas Babington, for two years at
£26 2s. lid., and for a third year at £72. In 1522 the same
preceptor grants this estate to Edward Ehoche (preceptor of
Templebrewer), and to Humphrey Babington (mother of John B.),
for two years at £26 2s. lid., and for the third year at £62. On
May 1st, 1526, Ambrose Leytou, who succeeded Sir John Babington
in this preceptory, leased it conjointly to Sir John (who had
meanwhile been promoted to the much more lucrative preceptory
of Dalby and Eothley), to Thomas Redeman, of London, gent., to
Anthony Viualde, merchant, and to Brother John Mabilsteyn, for
two years at £26 2s. lid., and for the third year at £90.
At the same date Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of England,
granted to Ralph Pemberton, yeoman of Barrow- on-Trent, a twenty-
nine years' lease of the rectory of Barrow with all its tithes, lands,
meadows, pastures, profits, and appurtenances, after the same manner
as it had lately been farmed by William Bothe. The rental was
fixed at £20, and it was further covenanted that if the preceptor,
Ambrose Ley ton, should at any time whilst he held that office,
build or repair the large room* on the west side of the Hall, that
Ralph Pemberton was to provide all the workmen, both smiths and
bricklayers, with food and drink at his own expense.
We believe that the preceptory house of^ the Hospitallers was
situated at Arleston in this parish, where there are extensive
foundations of ancient buildings. Here would be the residence of
the Bailiff of the camera of Barrow (where hospitality was exercised
before the estate was joined to that of Yeaveley), which seems
to have been subsequently occupied by the farmer of the rectory
manor. The substantial stone-built basement of a large hah1, some
75 feet by 21 feet, yet remains, apparently of fourteenth century
*"Cameram conclavem seu promptuarium," i.e., chamber, dining-hall, or store-
house, but we take these expressions to be synonymes for a large unfinished or
ruined building, on the west side of the Hall, which might be finished so as to be used
for any of these purposes. See Appendix III., where the agreement is given in full.
3
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workmanship, supported by buttresses, and this has at a subsequent
date been finished in brick, and converted into a farm-house. But
this latter work (though perhaps the earliest part of it may
be of late sixteenth century date) is subsequent to the
dissolution of the Order, and could not have been carried out
during the tenancy of Ralph Pemberton. There seems good
reason to suppose that this is the structure referred to in Ralph
Pemberton's lease, and which had either been left unfinished,
or allowed to fall into ruin.
Seeing that Pemberton's lease of the rectory of Barrow, and the
lease of the preceptory to Sir John Babington and three others are
dated on the same day, it is clear that the rectory was held
separately from the general estate of the preceptory ; it also
appears from other sources as if it had been farmed by the Bothes
for upwards of a century before the death of William Bothe in 1521.
After the Order was dissolved, part of the rectory manor was
transferred by the crown to the family of Beaumont ; but the
larger part was granted to Richard Harpur, Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas, and his descendant, Sir John Crewe, is at the
present time the impropriator or lay rector. The advowson of the
vicarage, which was for a time with the Beaumonts, has changed
hands, by sale, very repeatedly.
The following list of vicars of Barrow, is chiefly compiled from
the Episcopal Registers and the returns of the First Fruits
Office :—
. Roger Caldewell.
1313. John de Belton, rector of Crayke, Durham, exchanged benefices with R. C.,
vicar of Barrow; patron, Philip de Thame,* Grand Prior of England of the
Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
1349. William le Cok de Barrow; patron, Philip de Thame, Grand Prior.
1381. Richard Bars ; f patron, Robert de Hales, Grand Prior.
1434. John Clement ; patron, Robert Malloy, Grand Prior.
1439. William Eleyston; patron, Robert Malloy, Grand Prior.
1462. William Wolfett; patron, William Eleyston, the late vicar, acting for the
Grand Prior.
1470. William Brown ; patron, John Langstrother, Grand Prior. On the resigna-
tion of W. W.
1500. William Frankishe; patron, Thomas Newport, " receptor." £ On the death
of W. B.
* For a short account of the respective Grand Priors of England, who are patrons of
this vicarage, see Porter's Knights of Malta, vol. ii., pp. 283-5.
f Richard Bars was chaplain of S. Katharine's chantry, Melbourne. Churches of
Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 400.
I Sir Thomas Newport, a member of a distinguished Shropshire family, was
Receiver-General of England He was probably acting for the Grand Prior, during
a temporary absence. Sir Thomas, during the siege of Rhodes, 1522, persisted in
embarking from Dover in a violent storm, and was lost off the coast of Spain, with all
his forces.
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].j41. Thomas Wylson ; patrons, John Smythe de Wythcote, and Eobert Chaun-
trell de Sybbertofte, in place of the lately dissolved Order. On the death
of W. F.
1555. William Benryngton ; patrons, Michael Halsted and Hugo Halsted, yeomen.
On the death of T. W.
. Michael Sanington.
1560. John Hill; patron, Edward Beaumont. On the resignation of H. S.
1566. Thomas Robinson; patron, Edward Beaumont.
* * * *
1638. Gervase Wheeldon : patron, Francis Beaumont.
1657. Daniel Shelmerdine ; patrons, the parishioners.
1662. Roger Farmer; patron, Nicholas Wilmot.
1675. Robert Norman ; patron, Nicholas Wilmot.
1752. Edward Lilly ; patron, John Tempest Borrow.
1756. Walter Fletcher; patron, John Tempest Borrow. On the resignation of
W. F.
. John Hutchinson.
1803. Richard George Robinson ; patron, John Barrow, of Alvaston. On the
death of J. H.
1825. William Heacock ; patron, Lord Scarsdale. On the death of R. G. R.
1838. John Latham ; patron, John Latham. On the resignation of William
Heacock.
1855. Joseph Edwards ; patron, Ambrose Moore, of Upper Berkeley St. On the
resignation of J. L. A Resignation Bond was signed between this vicar and
the patron.
1870. J. H. Hughes ; patron, Ambrose Moore. On the resignation of J. E.
1873. George Arthur Smallwood; patron, Ambrose Moore. On the resignation
of J. H. H.
1876. D. C. Cochrane ; patrons, representatives of Wilson Moore. On the resig-
nation of G. A. S.
The Church Goods Commissioners of 6 Edward VI., made the
following report respecting Barrow : —
" Barro. Oct. 6. Thos. Wylson Vicar.
j chalys of sylver parcell gylt — iij vestments — iij albes j of sylke & the other ij of
chaungable cruell — iij alter cloythes — j coope of cruell — iij towells — ij corporaxis
with iij caysis~j orosse of copper — j cruyt of leyd —iij belles in y9 steple —
j byble with a boke of comonen (Holy Communion)."
The Parliamentary Survey of livings, in Lambeth Palace Library,
taken in 1650, gives the following particulars relative to this
parish : —
"Barrow is a viccaridge really worth thirteene pounds thirteene shillings and
foure pence per annum.
" Sir John Harpur upon his late Composison settled twentye pounds per annum
more forth of the Impropriate Rectorye of Barrowe. There is one chappell diuers
hambletts apperteyuing (vizt).
"Barrow itselfe in vicarall Tythes ffive pounds. Item the said Augmentasou
twentie pounds maye convenientlye be vnited to Swarkstone in the hundred of
Repton the church there being something inlarged.
"Item Twyford is an appertenanse and hath a chappell the vicarall tythes there
and in Stenson are worth six pounds thirteeue shillings and ffoure pence per
annum.
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" Item Sinfin and Arlestone two small hambletts apperteyning the vicarall tythes
•worth about ffortye shillings per annum may be joyiied wUl Twyford and the
chappell there made a parish church.
" Mr. Gervase Weildou is vicar a man of noe good repute."
Sir John Harpur was allowed by the Parliament to compound
for his estates in Derbyshire for the sum of £4583. On
January 10th, 1645, it was ordered that " Sir John Harpur, of
Swarkeston, do settle £110 per annum — £20 on the vicarage of
Barrow, £40 on the church of Ticknall, and £50 on the church of
Eepton, for which he is to be allowed £588, and so his fine of
£4583 be reduced to £4000."*
The church, which has the unusual dedication of S. Wilfred,t
consists of nave with side aisles, south porch, chancel, and tower
at the western end. There are no remains of the fabric of Norman
date. The dimensions are : — nave 44 ft. 5 in. by 18 ft. 5 in. ;
north aisle 43 ft. 3 in by 16 ft. ; south aisle 44 ft. 3 in. by 13 ft.
4 in. ; and chancel 20 ft. 8 in. by 17 ft. 7 in. The earliest work
is to be seen in the pillars supporting the three arches that
separate the nave from the north aisle. These pillars are of early
English date and have clustered banded shafts. The respond at
the west end has similar banded shafts. These shafts are broken
away in places, and the sounding board of the pulpit, when in its
old position, spoilt one of the capitals. That the church must have
been rebuilt much on its present plan about the beginning of the
reign of Henry III., is evident from the outer buttresses both of this
and the south aisle, which are of Early English character. Another
considerable " restoration " of the church took place in the first
half of the fourteenth century, when the Decorated style prevailed.
The north and west windows and plain pointed doorway of the
north aisle, and the lower stage of the tower, with its five-light
west window of intersecting mullions, seem to have been the work
of one period, circa 1300. The three arches, supported on octagon
pillars, that divide the south aisle from the nave, the three-light
east window of reticulated tracery, and the other windows of that
aisle, now destitute of tracery, together with the large south porch,
and the east window of the north aisle, are perhaps some twenty
or thirty years later. The chancel arch and the north chancel
door are also of Decorated date.
* Book of Sequestrations, Meynell MSS.
f There are 31 old dedications of English churches to S. TTilfred. Three of these,
Barrow, Egginton, and W. Hallam, are iu Derbyshire. S. Wilfred was Bishop of York
and Confessor 709.
BARROW. 2 1
In the Perpendicular period the tower was repaired throughout,
and the present upper stage with the belfry windows added. The
pinnacles aud battlements have been renewed after a very poor
fashion at a much later date. The chancel has a Perpendicular
three-light window on the south side, and a round-headed priest's
door, probably of this date, now blocked up. This door-way is
close to the present east end, but it is quite evident that the
chancel has originally been carried a bay further towards the east,
and has been thus docked off at a later period, probably in the
seventeenth century, for economical reasons relative to its repair.
The present east window is of a debased character, and quite an
eyesore to the church. At the same time that the chancel was
shortened, the clerestory windows (inserted in the Perpendicular
period) were most likely stripped of tracery and rnullions, and
reduced to their present plain proportions. The roofs of the nave
aud chancel are nearly flat, aud of modern date, those of the aisles
are plastered.
On the north side of the chancel is a small " two-side window,"
with a trefoil head, now blocked up. The hall and the chief part
of the village seem to have been always, as they now are, on the
north and not on the south side of the church, and we obtain
thereby a strong confirmation of the theory that these windows
were usually for the purpose of allowing the attendant at mass to
ring the sanctus bell outside, to warn the people of the time of the
elevation of the Host.*
Behind the north chancel pier is a low archway communicating
with the east end of the north aisle ; it may possibly have served
in some sense as a squint. Through this same pier, but looking
into the nave, is a loop-hole opening, only about a foot above the
floor. It is not in a position in which it could have been available
as a squint, and we can only conjecture that it is part of the
masonry of an older church, and that it was not intended to be
opened, as has been recently done by a too enthusiastic restorer.
At the east end of the south aisle is a genuine squint, giving a
view of the high altar, and near by is the doorway that formerly
led on to the rood loft. Against the south wall of this aisle is a
shallow sedile with a trefoil head, and also a small piscina. The
font, which stands at the west end of the north aisle, is of plain
octagon shape and probably of Perpendicular date. It is 40 in.
high, and 82 in. in diameter.
* Churches of Derbynhire, vol. iii., p. 418.
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In the tower are three bells, thus inscribed : —
I. " God save the church, 1613." Bell mark of George Oldfield.
II. " Ave Maria," in highly ornamented Lombardic capitals.
III. " Sancta Elena," in similar lettering to the second bell.
The east end of the north aisle pertained to the manors of
Arleston and Sinfin, and here, until about the commencement of
the present century, were memorials to at least six generations of
the ancient family of Bothe, of whom we shall have more to say
in the account of the church of Sawley. They were extensive
landowners in this parish.
Towards the end of the reign of Edward III., the Bothes were
seized of the manor of Siufin, which had previously pertained to
the Toukes. The manor of Arleston was conveyed to John Bothe
in 1426, whose descendant William Bothe, died seized of it in
1521 ; but this conveyance was probably only a recovery deed
from trustees, as we know from the monumental inscriptions that
it was in then* hands at an earlier date. This William and
several of his ancestors also held lands at Barrow, under the Prior
of S. John of Jerusalem.*
On an alabaster gravestone were the incised figures of a knight
and his lady, and round the margin this inscription : — \
"Hie jacent Johes Bothe mil. filius et heres Henrici BotheJ quondam domini
de Erleston et Margareta uxor ejus filia et heres de Thomas Petinore Knygtys (?)
Thorpe qui quidem Johes obiit quinto decimo die mensis Maij Anno Domini
MCCCCXIIII (?) Lra Dnicalis G. et p'dicta Margereta obiit sexto die Aprilis A.D.
MCCCCLXII (?)."
" On a wall in the same church : —
" Henry Bothe of Iretyes (?) sometyme of Erlaston ob. 8 Jul. fryday at none
A» 1446."§
" Upon part of an alibaster stone entering into ye Chancel is ye
portraiture of a man in armour cap a pie. In ye inscription is
John Bothe and ye yeare MCCCCLXXXIV " (Bassano). This we believe
* Meynell MSS. Fines 5 Hen. VI.
t This and the following inscriptions are given in the text after comparing the
church notes of 1662, in the Dodsworth MSS., vol. Ixxxii., p. 4?A, with those of
Bassano in 1710, and another version preserved in the Meyuell MSS.
I The incised slab to Isabella, daughter of John de Fimlern, and wife of Henry
Bothe, is still extant at Findern church. There is probably something wrong about
one or other of the dates of this inscription, most likely a figure has been misread,
and the death of John should be 1444, and not 1413. Sir Henry Bothe, of Arleston,
presented to the rectory of Norbury in 1424 ; his daughter Alice was the first wife of
Sir Nicholas Fitzherbert, tenth Lord of Norbury. Their impaled arms are still in a
window of that church, see Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 231, etc. Most likely
Sir Henry Bothe died in 1424, for in that year we find John Bothe (and Joan his first
wife) presenting to the rectory of Stretton-in-the-Fields, and again in 1437 ; Churches
of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 487.
§ Dodsworth MSS., probably a younger son of John of the last monument.
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to be the son and heir of the last named John. He had two
sons, William and Ealph, to hoth of whom there were monuments.
On a marble stone in the Arleston quire were the brass effigies
of William and Isabella Bothe, with this inscription : —
" Hie jacent Wm Bothe arm. filius et heres Johis Bothe quondam Domini de
Herleston et Isabella uxor ejus filia Kadi Poole de Radborue qui quidem Wm
obiit . . . die . . . 1521 Lra Dominicalis B. et ipsa Isabella obiit 12 Maij A° Iol4."*
On another stone adjoining : —
"Hie jacet Radus Bothe fratr' Wm Bothe de Erleston arm. qui quidem Radus
obiit 14 Sep. A.D. 1510."
" Close to ye north wall is a little raised tomb of Alibaster and
upon ye covering stone are ye faire portraitures of a man and
woman with hands elevated and at feet 5 children, but part of ye
stone here broken off. Upon ye stone is here circumscribed"
(Bassauo) : —
" Orate pro animabus Johis Bothe armig. et Johanne uxoris . sue quiquidem
Johes obiit 7 die Julij A° 1531. Quorum animabus propicietur Deus Ameu."
This John Bothe was son and heir of William and Isabella
Bothe. He was the last of the Bothes of this parish, for about
this time their manors of Arleston and Sinfin were transferred
to the Blounts, from whom they subsequently passed to tbe
Harpurs. There was also a tomb to Joyce, daughter of John
Bothe, having this inscription : —
" Hie jacet Jocosa Sherley uxor Thome Sherle ar : filia Johis Bothe de Erleston
ar : qui Jocosa ob. 12 July A° Dni 1523."f
" Towords the east end of ye lie in a large fair stone of
Alibaster appears ye head of a man his hair short and ye crown of
* It seems that William Bothe's first wife was Margaret Assheton. At all events on
May 21st, 1486, an episcopal dispensation was obtained for his marriage with the said
Margaret, who was related to him in the fourth degree of consanguinity. Lichfield
Registers, vol. xii.. f. 155.
His will, dated September 25th, 1520, leaves his body to be buried in the parish
church ''by my wyff, betwixt ray father and grandfather." He left 5 Ib. of wax and 7
torches to be burnt at his burial, 10s. to the church of Barrow, 10s. to the church of
Twyford, 10s. to All Saints', Derby, 10s. to the Friar Preachers of Derby, 10s. for
a treutal of masses, 10s. for the repair of Swarkeston Bridge, and 10s. for the
" roodegeld '' (i.e., Guild of the Rood) of Repton. Further: — "I bequeathe to John
Bothe who shall be my heir after me my Stuff in the Chappell that is to wit West-
ments chalis masseboke portuses and all that I have belonging to the said Chappell."
This chapel was clearly not in the parish church or it would have been thus described,
nor did it pertain to any private manor house of his own, in which case it would
have been cited as '• my chapel." We have no doubt that it was the chapel pertain-
ing to the camera or estate building of the Knights Hospitallers, at Arleston, which
(as we have already stated) was held by the Bothes under the Order. — Probate
Court, Lichfield.
t Thomas Shirley, second son of John Shirley, of Eatingtou and Shirley, succeeded
under his father's will, to a life interest in an estate called " The Fostery," in Hope-
dale in the Peak. There was no issue to his marriage with Joyce Bothe. Stemmata
Shirleiana, p. 41.
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his head shaven. On ye middle of ye stone is a cross in a Footing
of 4 greeces on ye one side of it is a chalice .... Upon ye south
side of ye Chancell within an ovall or round is a cross fleury."
In addition to all these monuments, Bassano also gives the
following details respecting heraldic glass that was then (1710), in
the windows of the north aisle : —
" In west window of north He.
1. Gules 2 Lyons or.
2. Gules 2 Lyons or a File of 5 poynts azure each charged with 3 bezants.
3. Gules a fess between 6 crosses botony or.
In north window of this He.
1. Quarterly gules and or in ye first Quarter sex de foyle.
2. Azure within an orle of Stars or a coat of pretence Quarterly gules and or.
3. Argent a fess gules between 3 eaglets displayed sable.
In another north window.
1. Gules a cross argent.
2. Or upon a fess gules 3 flowers de lis or.
3. Checkey or and azure.
In ye last window of ye Isle is twice ye armes of England, gules 3 Lyons passant
guardant.
Below or a frett gules, joynt of every frett charged with so many plates,
Neare to it in ye same range is gules 3 long fishes naiant among 8 crosslets
gobony argent.
Another partition in ye same range is sable a cinque foile within an orle of
mantlets argent."
We do not know the precise date when the utterly scandalous
destruction of all the monuments and glass named above took
place, but it was about the beginning of the present century.
They had almost all disappeared when Mr. Meynell was here in
1812, and Mr. Kawlins, on visiting the church in 1821, though
there were then two Bothe slabs remaining, says : — " there were
formerly several other fine alabaster memorials for the Bothes in
the north aisle, which the hands of violence have destroyed, either
by pounding them into mortar, or casting them aside in portions
to repair the parish roads."
Against the north wall of the north aisle is a monument bearing
the foUowing inscription : —
" Here lieth buried ye bodye of Elizabeth, the wife of Henrye Milward of
Sindfen, gent Shee had issue 5 sons and 5 daughters by her said husband she
deceased y6 27th day of September 1610 ye said Henrye deceased 25th of January
1615 and lyeth buried in S* Warburghs Clrurche in Darbye. To whose memories
John Milward of London their youngest childe hath erected these monuments.
A faithful, loving, cheerful wife, her husband's comfort she,
Elizabeth was ever found modest and wise to bee ;
Good housewife and good housekeeper, still helpful to the poor,
A neighbour kinde, by all approv'd, according to her store.
BARROW. 25
A matrone wisp, a mother deare, 52 yeares a wife,
A lover of God's word and church, during her mortal life :
And after 72 years pains, all greife and sickness past,
Her Saviour deare she now enjoys, in joy which aye shall last.
I. M."*
In the north east angle of the chancel is a raised tomb, having
this inscription : —
"Here lieth the bodie of William Sale, of Barrow, gentleman, sonne of Richard
Sale of Weston clarke, deceased the 17th of November 1065, setate sue 74."
He was the founder of the family of the Sales of Barrow,
who are still landowners in the parish. t
On the floor of the chancel is a slab to Cicely Beaumont, wife
of Kobert Beaumont, of Barrow, and daughter and co-heiress of Sir
Thomas Beaumont, of Gracedieu ; she died in 1695, aged 47 To
her husband, who died in 1726, there is another slab ; he married
Jane, widow of Francis Lowe, of Owlgreaves, for his second wife,
and thirdly Winifred, daughter of Francis Lowe.;}: This Kobert
Beaumont was fourth in direct descent from Edward Beaumont,
who settled at Barrow about the year 1550, having obtained a
grant from the crown of part of the lands that had pertained to
the Knights Hospitallers at Barrow. William Beaumont, son and
heir of Edward, died 33 Elizabeth ; he held two hundred acres of
land of the Queen, as of her manors of Greenwich. §
In the south wall of the south aisle is a rounded arched recess.
Within it is the alabaster effigy of a priest in Eucharistic vest-
ments, with the feet resting on a dog. The head rests on a
cushion, and has been supported by two small angels, but these, as
well as the hands and other parts, are now broken off. The date
of the recess is uncertain, but the effigy is of the fourteenth
century, and probably represents the ecclesiastic who then rebuilt
this aisle. Below the squint in the north-east angle of this aisle,
is a sepulchral recess of a later date, now empty, but apparently ' of
a period more nearly coeval with the effigy of the ecclesiastic than
that in which it is now resting.
Over the east window of the chancel may be noticed part of an
incised sepulchral slab of an early date.
The registers begin in 1657, at which date Daniel Shelmerdine
* See the account of S. Werburgh's church in this volume, also Churches of Derby-
shire, vol. ii., pp. 165-6, 633, and vol. iii., pp. 123-4.
t See the subsequent account of Westou Church.
J There is a good pedigree of Beaumont, of Gracedieu and Barrow, in Glover's
Derbyshire.
§ Meyueil MSS.
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was chosen by the parish as their minister. His entries do not
continue beyond February 3rd, 1658. The regular registration
begins in 1662. From the first volume we take the following
entries and interpolations : —
1662. Memd that Mr Roger Farmer, Minister of Congerston in Leicestershire, was
made Minister of Barrow-super-Trent, in Derbyshire.
1666. Mr Robert Norman, Curate to Old Mr Sam. Bold, of Mickleover, married
Eliz. Hegge, December 12.
1675. Mr Roger Farmer resigned Barrow, July 27. I, Robert Norman, was
presented to Barrow-cum-Twyford.
1678. Maria filia Danielis Shelmenliue de Finderne Sepulta fuit decimo secnudo
Octobris.
1683. Memd that the great frost begun in November, and lasted about 13 weeks,
ending in February.
1693. Hugh Latimer Peregrinus de Congerston (who was drown'd in the Trent and
found by Pickering's house at Barrow), sepult. May 1.
1699. Gulielmus Drable (a stranger and a poor man coming from Hulland Ward in
Derbyshire being foimd suddenly dead on Sunday morning March 26th was
buried in Twyford Churchyard Monday 27 after Mr Charles Adderley
Coroner had sate uppon him (he was found dead on Stenson Green).
Jacobus Hurd de Stenson Bachalauraus qui in Aqua Trenti irnmersus die
Veneris vigesinio tertio sepultus fuit Sancti Johannis Baptis die Mr Charles
Adderley Coroner sate upon him in Twyford Church, June 24.
Memd Mr Daniel Shelmardine was borne at Matlock in Derbyshire and was
baptised Anno Dom. 1639. He was chosen by the Parish of Barrow to be their
minister in Cromwell's time being then about twenty years old [a word or two
here are doubtful]. The said Mr S. came to Barrow about March 25, 1657, and
staid till Bartholomew 1662 and then put out.
Danie] Shelmerdine also formerly minister of Barrow-sup-Trent dyed at Findern
in the Parish of Mickleovor on Sunday night (October 22, 1699) about sun-setting
and was buried in Finderne Church by Mr Ward then minister of Mickleover
(who preached his fu;nerall Sermon on Tuesday 24 following. His text was upon
1 Cor. 15, 35).
Mr Moore (then living at Derby) a Nonconformist minister preached another
funerall Sermon the same night by candle-light in the meeting House at Findern
upon ye same occasion. His text John 5, 28, 29.
Memd that one Mr Pike a nonconformist minister (then living at Burton-on-
Trent in Staffordshire) preached another funerall sermon in the meeting house of
Findern aforesaid upon the same occasion on Sunday November 5 following. His
text was 2 Tim. 4, 6, 7, 8.
Memd that a Sunday or two after v8 sd MT Pike one Mr Woodhouse then living
at Diseworth Grange preached upon the same occasion, whose text was in Luke
23, 27, 28.«
* Daniel Shelmerdine was the son of Thomas Shelmerdine, minister of Crich, and
subsequently of Matlock. Dr. Calamy says that he was born at Crich on New Year's
Day, 1636 or 1637. He was educated at Repton and Christ's College, Cambridge.
He was ordained by the Classical Presbytery of Wirksworth (of which his father was
often Moderator), on May 20, 1657, and was first chaplain in the family of Colonel
Grevis, of Moseley, Worcestershire. Thence he went to Barrow-cum-Twyford, which
he held till 1662. Afterwards he rented a farm at Twyford for seventeen years. He
was several times imprisoned and suffered much for nonconformity. " When the
Liberty was settled by Law, he Preach'd at Derby and several other Places Occasion-
ally ; not dareing to hide his Lord's Talent in a Napkin. A valuable Man and a
useful Preacher." Calamy's Ejected Ministers, vol. ii., p. 166, Wirksworth Classis
MSS. Mr. Robert Moore, who preached one of the funeral sermons, was ejected from
BARROW. 27
1701. Sept. 20. Eobert Steevenson of Draicott in y« county of Darby died suddenly
in Barrow field next to Swarkston field he had a Son-in-law with him
whom he had sent before to Swarkston with his waggon and six poor
horses or mares (going towards the ferry) loaden with cheese ; he was
buried in Barrow churchyard Saturday 20th, but dyed Thursday 18th before,
I having a Paper under Mr Charles Adderley's hand of Derby Coroner to
bury him. Quod vide. He sickened in Potluck lane as he came from
Uttoxeter by Twyford and so towards Swarkston.
1705. Apr. 6. Quidam Gulielmus Smith Peregrinus veniens e Parochia de Utoxeter
suspendit seipsum apud Twyford : sepultus autem erat in loco vulgo appel-
late Hailstones.
1711. Memd. That his grace the Duke of Newcastle, whose seat was at Welbeck
Abbey in Nottinghamshire, was flung of his horse on Friday July 6, 1711,
as he was hunting the fox, and dyed on Sunday morning following, at 3 of
the clock in the 56 year of his age, and was carried up to London about 13
of August immediately following, to stand among the Kings and Queens
and the rest of the Nobles in Westminster Abbey.
1712. Elizabetha Norman de Sinfin Parochia de Barrow-sup-Trentum Uxor Roberti
Norman Vicarii de Barrow prsedicta mortua est die Solis per duodecimam
horam apud noctem ejusdem diei vel eo circiter deciino sexto Novembris,
sepulta autem fuit die Mercurii decimoque nono Novembris in cemeteris de
Twyford per Dominum Thomas Buxtouium (tune ministrum de Chellaston).
To end her days on the Lord's day
She thought it was the best
And now I hope to heaven she's gone
To everlasting rest.
Home Home she always said she'd go
This was her constant ditty
She knew full well that here below
She'd no continuing city.
Her husband friends and house she chang'd
(In this world ne'er to see)
For God and Christ in Heaven with Saints
For evermore to Bee.
or otherwise thus
To live eternally.
Joyn'd we was in Marriage
the llth of December (viz 1666)
Disjoyn'd we was by Death again
the sixteenth of November (viz 1712)
And all the time betwixt us both
A child we had but one
Mary by name who's gone to God
And I am left alone.
or otherwise thus
And she to her is gone.
R. NORM AN.
1714, July 6. Mr. Rt Norman and Mrs Rebecca Sales married.
July 12. Mr. Robt Norman buried.
the living of Brampton in 1662. He also suffered imprisonment for his views, and was
" once indited for not reading the Book, when it was not yet come down. He was
afterwards one of the Pastors of the Congregation in Derby, where he dy'd in June
1704." Mr. Woodhouse died in 1700, pastor of a considerable congregation in London.
A note in a later hand, m the registers, says that Mr. Pike was born at Clebury, in
Shropshire, and died at Burton.
28 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
CJapeto uf
j)F the ecclesiastical history of Twyford, as independent of
that of Barrow, hardly anything can be gleaned. It
appears to have been from the earliest date a parochial
chapelry of Barrow, with rights of baptism and burial attached to
it, but the priest who served there was merely a chaplain or
curate appointed by the vicar of Barrow, to whom he had to
render all oblations, etc. It had 110 independent endowment
attached to it. After the ^Reformation it came to be regarded in a
certain light as possessing beneficiary rights of its own, and
institutions were made in the title of Barrow-cum-Twyford, and
occasionally even of Twyford-cum-Barrow; but the two benefices
have always been held in conjunction.
The church or chapel, which is dedicated to S. Andrew, consists
of a nave 38 ft. 10 in. by 20 ft., a chancel 20 ft. 3 in. by 15 ft.,
and a small tower and spire at the west end. Between the nave
and chancel is a bold Norman arch, of the reign of Henry I.,
ornamented with the chevron moulding, and in good preservation.
The lower stage of the tower has three widely-splayed lancet
windows, and is a good sample of early English work of the
beginning of the 13th century, though the west light is spoilt by
the insertion of a modern doorway.
The church is of the Decorated period, temp. Edward II. It has
a plain pointed priest's doorway, a two-light square-headed window,
and a good three-light pointed window on the south side. The
three-light east window has quatrefoils in the upper tracery. On
the north side is a two -light square-headed window of debased
date.
The upper stage of the tower has four square-headed bell-
chamber windows, which are clearly of the same date as the south
chancel windows. The short octagon spire is also of this period.
TWYFORD. 29
The nave is of brick, faced with stone, lighted with round-
headed windows, and ceiled with plaster. It resembles the style
of work at Trusley church, and seems to be of the reign of Anne
or George I.
There used to be a plain old Norman font in this church, but it
now possesses one of the most miserable examples of a modern
stonemason's art that it has ever been our fate to see. In large
letters on the base is prominently inscribed : — " C. Bennett, Work-
sop, Fecit D.D.D."
When Bassano visited this church (1710) he noted two alabaster
stones, from which the inscription was worn off, and also, near to
the north wall, an old alabaster slab with " the portraiture of a
man in armour cap-a-pie and coat of male," and the following
remnant of an inscription : — " .... militis . . . armi/jeri . . . dei
menxis . . . anno dni M° Ve xxxii et . . . . animalus ppicietur Deus
Amen." The Rawlins MSS., of a century later, also speak of the
effigy of a man in armour of the year 1533, but we looked in vain
for any remnant of this or other alabaster slabs.
Bound the margin of a large slate slab, now against the north
wall of the chancel, is the following inscription : —
" Hie jacet corpus Georgii filij secundi Ricardi Harpur de Littleover militia qui
obijt decimo sexto die Novembris Anno Domini 1658 ^tatis suaa 64."
On a smah1 brass plate in the centre of this slab, it is recorded
that : —
"Here also lieth Anna his wife the daughter of Sir Edward Vernon of Sudbury
Knt. who departed this life the 15th of January 1C88 aged 68."
Against the same side of the chancel is a mural monument,
having in the upper part these impaled arms : — Arg., a lion
rampant within a bordure engrailed, sab. (Harpur), and, sab. , on a
chevron between three talbots' heads erased, arg., as many fleurs-
de-lis of the first. Above the arms is the Harpur crest of a boar.
The inscription is now illegible. It commemorated George Harpur,
son of the last-named Harpur, who died in 1672, and his wife
Catharine, daughter of Edward Wardour, who died in 1669.
There used also to be a monument at Twyford to John, son of
George Harpur, who died in 1671.
The adjacent manors of Twyford and Stenson were held by the
Curzons as early as the reign of Henry I.,* but in the reign of
Henry II. they were conveyed by John Curzon, of Croxall, to
* Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 171, etc.
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John Crewcher and Alice his wife.* Thence they passed to the
Finderns. Thomas Findern dying seized of them in 1558, the
estate passed to his sister and heiress, Jane, who conveyed it?
inter alia, to her husband, Eichard Harpur, whose monument we
have already described under Swarkestoii Church. Their second
son was Sir Richard Harpur, of Littleover,t whose second son,
George, inherited the Twyford property, and here resided. For
lack of heirs it afterwards reverted to the senior branch of the
family.
A brass against the south wall of the chancel says that the
Bristowe vault is under the communion rails. There is a memorial
of Samuel Bristowe, 1761.
There are three bells in the tower.
I. " Paule," in Lombardic capitals, and the founder's mark
attributed to Richard Mellor.
II. " Jhesus be our spede, 1611," in Lombardic capitals, and the
founder's mark of Henry Oldfield.
III. " In mi beginning God be mi spede," in Lombardic capitals,
and the same founder's mark as the first bell.
In June, 1821, the spire was struck by lightning and much
damaged, necessitating the rebuilding of a considerable portion.
At the same time the churches of Coleorton and Staunton Harold
were greatly injured.^
* Lysons' Derbyshire, p. .46.
t .See our subsequent account of Littleover Church.
J Bigsby's History of Repton, p. 298.
|0 church is mentioned at Crich iu the Domesday Survey.
Crick was at that time one of the nineteen Derbyshire
manors held by Ealph Fitzhubert, whose principal
residence was on this manor.* To him succeeded his son, Ealph
Fitzralph, first Baron of Crich, who in the time of Henry I.
gave certain lands in Hartshorn to the Knights Hospitallers. t
His son, Hubert Fitzralph, was a great benefactor to Darley
Abbey, and in the year 1175 confirmed his church of Crich to that
establishment. But it seems to have been previously given to the
Abbey by Ealph Fitzralph, for the church of Crich is mentioned
by Eobert de Ferrers as part of his gift to the canons at the time
when he removed them from Derby and founded the Abbey of
Darley, which was early in the reign of Henry II., for Eobert de
Ferrers died in 1162. There is some contradiction between the
different charters as to the actual donor of the church, of Crich,
but it is most probable that the Ferrers for a time exercised some
nearly nominal control over Crich manor as chief lords, and that
the donation required their consent. j Considerable lands and
woods pertaining to the manor of Crich were also bestowed upon
the abbey by Hubert Fitzralph and his father. In the year 1175
a dispute arose between Albinus, first abbot of Darley, and Hubert,
respecting the manor and church of Crich, and lands at Pentricli,
Eipley, Okerthorpe, and Chilwell. The dispute chiefly turned on
the claim of the abbot to the pannage and agistment of swine
throughout the whole of the woods of Crich. The matter was
* He was the eldest son of Hubert de Eya, and was hung in the civil wars, in the
year 1140, by a partisan of the Empress Maud. Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i., p. 109;
Matt, of Westminster (ed. 1601), p. 243.
f Dugdale's Momisticon, vol. ii., p. 527.
I Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. ii., p. 231, and vol. iii., p. 60. See also the important
chartularies of Darley Abbey, now in the Brit. Museum (Cotton and Cole MSS.),
described in Churches of Derbyshire, vol. i., p. 321.
4
34 DERBYSHIRE CHl/RCHES.
referred to the determination of Roger, Bishop of Worcester, and
Robert, Prior of Kenilworth, and the decision was chiefly in favour
of Hubert.1"
Hubert Fitzralph, Baron of Crich and Lord of Scarcliffe and
Palterton, died about the year 1225. By his first wife, Edelina,
he left two daughters, his co-heiresses, the eldest of whom, Juliana,
was married to Anker de Frecheville, t but he dying before his
father-in-law, Crich passed to his son, Ralph de Frecheville. One
of the Darley chartularies contains a deed of this Ralph, confirming
the church of Crich to the abbey.J His son, Anker de Frecheville,
who married the heiress of Musard, and thus became baron of
Staveley as well as of Crich, died in 1268. § His son, Ralph de
Frecheville, in the year 1324, alienated the manor of Crich to
Roger Beler and his heirs, who died seized of it in the following
year, leaving an heir, Roger, aged seven years. | Sir Roger Beler
died in 1380, and his fourth wife, who survived him eleven years,
held Crich as part of her dowry ; thence it passed to Sir Robert
de Swillington, who had married Margaret, daughter and co-heiress
of Sir Roger Beler by his second wife. It afterwards passed by
inheritance to Ralph, Lord Cromwell, who in the reign of Henry
VI. sold the reversion to John Talbot, second Earl of Shrewsbury.
On the death of Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, in 1616, the manor
was divided between his three daughters and co-heiresses, the
Countesses of Pembroke, Kent, and Arundel.** The manor has
since become much divided, and has been the subject of prolonged
and frequent litigation.
During the episcopate of Alexander Stavenby (1224-1240), a
vicarage was formally ordained at Crich, and endowed with the
tithes of lambs and wool, and the usual oblations. In the year
1278 a composition was entered into between the abbot of Darley
and William de Draycote, vicar of Crich, by which the latter under-
took to rest content with the former ordination of the vicarage,
and certain additions made at the time of his presentation to the
* Cole MSS., vol. xxi., f. 171. On the same page occurs a grant of a portion of the
manor of Crich to Darley Abbey by Geoffrey de Constantine. He married the sister
of Hubert Fitzralph. This grant is confirmed by Walter, Bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield, 1149-61.
f Nichols' Collectanea, vol. iv., p. 1; but Nichols is wrong in the date of the death
of Hubert.
{ Cole MSS., vol. xxi., f. 177. See also Harl. MSS. 5809, f. 35 b.
§ Inq. post Mort.. 53 Hen. III., No. 20. See the account of Staveley, Churches of
Derbyshire, vol. i., pp. 345-364.
II Eot. Fin., S. Mich., 18 Edw. II. ; Inq. post Mort., 19 Edw. II., No. 98.
** See Blore's South Winfield and the accompanying pedigrees ; also Glover's
DerbysJiire.
CRICH. 35
vicarage, viz. — a provision in case of illness — the whole tithes of
the lands and tenements that used to pertain to Peter de Wake-
bridge, which Bricius, formerly vicar of Crich, obtained by consent
of the abbey of Darley — and forty shillings of rent paid annually
by the abbey.*
The taxation roll of Pope Nicholas (1291) gives the annual value
of this church at £6 13s. 4d., and a rental of the temporalities of
Darley Abbey, within the archdeaconry of Derby, taken about the
same time, states that the monks held sixty acres of land at
Crich, valued at twenty shillings per annum, and also assessed
rents to the annual value of twelve shillings. t
The manor of Wakebridge in this parish belonged at an early
period to*, a family who took their name from the place. Peter,
son of Ealph de Wakebridge, married, in the reign of John,
Emma, sister of Hubert Fitzralph, lord of Crich. j Their great-
grandson, Peter de Wakebridge, was knight of the shire in several
parliaments of Edward III., and died in 1349. He had a large
family, and left Sir William de Wakebridge his heir. Neither Sir
William nor his brothers had any issue, and his sister, Cecilia, the
wife of Sir John de la Pole, became his heir. Peter de la Pole,'
son of Sir John and Cecilia, was the ancestor of the Poles of
Kadbourn, but his younger brother, Ealph de la Pole, became lord
of Wakebridge. His posterity continued there till the death of
John Pole in 1724, when it passed, in default of heirs male, to his
great nephew, Garalt Morphy, and Wakebridge was soon afterwards
sold to Mr. Nightingale, of Lea.
Sir William de Wakebridge, of Wakebridge, was knight both of
this shire and Nottingham in several parliaments between 26 and
86 Edward III. He is said to have been a valiant warrior in the
French wars, but is better known as the munificent founder of two
chantries in his parish church. Much information respecting these
chantries, as well as other particulars relative to the parish church}
can be gleaned from an interesting chartulary still extant, which
affords a far fuller insight into the property and working of these
chantries than is the case with any other parochial chantry with
whose history we are conversant. It is curious that this MS. has
* Cott. MSS., Titus, C. ix.. f. 47 b.
t Ibid., f. 41. The total annual value of the temporalities of the abbey, within the
archdeaconry, is given as £72 19s. 3d.
I A pedigree of Wakebridge in Glover's Derbyshire makes Emma daughter of
Hubert, but this could not be, otherwise she would have been a co-heiress, and
conveyed part of the manor of Crich to Wakebridge.
36 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
hitherto altogether escaped the notice of our county historians.*
The volume commences with the writs and inquisitions of Edward
III., done into English : —
" Edwarde the thirde Kinge of Englande directed his writte unto th eschetor of
Darbyeshere to make inquisition to knowe whether he were any thiuge damnified
yf he dyd graunte to Wylliam Wakebrugge lycence to geave unto a chapelayue
to singe for the sowle of his predecessors at Chriche fowre messuages, thre
cotages, one tofte, seven plowe lande, and sixtene shyUiuges of rent -wth
th appurtenance in Chriche, Whetecrofte, Holeways, Alvaleye, and the Lees by
Cromforde, and fortye shyllinges issueinge out of his landes at Hassoppe, Harston,
Wakebrugge, Tannesleye and Tyversall to have and to holde for ever, and to
make inquisition wether he has sufficient landes besides this to be swore
Sessions and Assises.
" Ihon Walleis th eschetor dyd retorne his inquisition taken bye the veredicte
of twelve men wyche dyd present that hit was not prejudiciall unto the Kinge
nor unto anye other that the sayde Wakebrugge sholde geave unto the chapel-
aynes fowre messuages, thre cotages, one tofte, and seven plowe lande, and
syxtene shillinges of rent wth th appurtenances in Chriche, Whetcrofte, Holeways,
Alvaleye and the Lee by Cromforde, wythe lycence for to geave the same
chapelayene at Haslop, Harston, Wakebrugge, Tausleye and Tyversaill and theye
save that the sayde fowre messuages, thre cotages, seven plowe land, and sixtene
shyllinges rent are holden of Rauffe Lee, that is to saye everye messuage by the
service of toe shillinges, everye cotage and tofte by the service of six pence, and
everye plow land by the service of ijs six pence by the yere, the w°he Rauffe
dothe holde the same of Roger Beler by the service of the fowerthe part of a
knight fee and farther theye present that he hath sufficyent of freholde to be
sworen in sessions and assises videlicet x11 of lande by the yere in Criche, &c.
"Whereupon the Kinge confirmed his graunt savinge unto the chiffe lordes
theyre right &c.
" An other writte unto the schetor.
" The same Kinge directed a wryt unto theschetor to enquire by the othe of
twelve good and laufull men of the same counteye of Darbye what damage hit
were to him or unto other yf he dyd graunt to Wylliam de Wake that he maye
geave fowre messuages thre cotages fyve toftes thre plowe lande, fowre and xxu
shyllinges of rent wth th appurtenances in Chriche, Whetcrofte, Plastowe, Furche-
leye, Alveleye, Holewayes, Tannesleye, Dethecke, and the Lee by Dethecke to a
certayne chappelayne to praye for the sowles of dyvers his predecessors, &c.
" Bye vertwe of wch writte th eschetor made his inquisition in the wch he dothe
retorne that hit is no losse or prejudice unto the Kinge or to anye other yf he
do geave the same land and farther makethe in his retorne that toe messuages,
thre cotages, toe plowe land, and twelve shillinges of rent are holden of Roger
Beler payenge one payre of gloves for all services, the wcb Roger doth holde hit
of the Kinge by homage and fealtee. Lyckewise they do saye that to messuages,
fyve toftes, and one plow land, and twelve shyllinges of rent are holden of Roger
of Wynfeld, the wyche Roger dothe hold them of Roger Beler by homage and
fealtee and the fowertenthe parte of a Knightes fee. Wche Roger dothe holde hit
of the King in capite as parcell of the Manere of Chryche. Lykewise they saye
that the sayd Wylliam hath land in Chriche to the valewe of x*1 over all
chardges, &c.
* Harl. MSS. 3669. It is a thin volume of 101 folios— ff. 2*-4* copies of writ of
Edw. III., done into English in a later hand — ff 1-6, calendar of saints' days, etc. —
ff. 7-92, the chartulary proper — ff. 93-98, a second calendar, with obituary and other
notices — ff. 99-101, rentals. A tolerable full abstract of its contents will he found at
the beginning of vol. 6669 of the Add. MSS.
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" Whereupon the Kinge confirmed his grauiit saviuge unto the chiffe lordes his
right, &c.
" Hit is to be knowen that all the tenements in the afforesayde dedes, contayned
or retorned by the inquisition are not holden of the fforesayde lordes ueyther by
BO muche rent as by the inquisition is supposed and this was done by the
counsell or the founder that the tenements shold seeine to be of lesse value then
they were and therefore the Kinges fine was lesse, but these w011 here after euswe
are the rentes of the Chauntrye graunted bye the founder.
" Imprimis one halpeuye was reserved to the Heyeres of Hugh Gurneye for the
mansion in Chriche as hit dothe appeare by the dede. Item one halfepenye was
reserved to the heyres of Heugh de Loudeforth for the same as hit doth appere
bye the deede, wch rent is not nowe to be payed for that, neyther of the
grauntours hathe anye Heyres. Lykewyse fyve shyllinges are to be payed to the
prior of Felley for the tenement wch was Thomas Eyres of Chriche, and thre
shyllinges and fowre pence are dewe to the same prior for the tenement wch the
sayde Thomas dyd hold in furtesleye and six pence are dewe to the chyrch of
Chriche for the tenements in Chriche bye the grauut of Adam Eyre. Lykewise
one penye is dewe to the Heyres of Wylliam Keuerdsaye lord of the Lee for one
tenement wche is in the handes of Simon Whetcrofte. Lykewyse one halfepenye
is dew to the light in the Churche of Chriche for all other tenements in Whet-
crofte wch were Alexander Lees. Lykewyse a payre of gylden spores or six pence
in moneye are dew to the lord of Chriche for to plow lande at Stricthorne, wyche
were Henrye Codinton. Lykewyse one aple is dewe to Richard Clarcke for one
mesuage and toe acres of lande the wch Ihon of Chestershire dyd purchase of
Alexander de Lee. Lykewise one halfepeuye is dewe to Wm of Kenardsaye for
three acres of laud the w°he the sayde Ihon of Chestershire dyd purchase of
Thomas de Ferarius. And one halfepenye is to be payed to the light of Saiiict
lohn of Dethecke for one plot of land in the Lee w°h is called Hannefelde.
Lykewise one pounde of cumine is dew to the lord of Chriche and the grindiuge
of a eleven busshelles of come is dew to the chapellaynes in the Lee for that
halfe part of the milne wch were Thomas Ferrars. Lykewyse to shylliuges are
dewe to the heyres of Alexander Lee except a releas may be had, and that is to
be sought of lohn of Dethecke and the grinding of an eleven bushell is dew to
the chappelaynes of the Lee for that halfe of the milues wch were Alexander
Lees, and one penye halfepeuye is dew to the lord of Tutburye, for the enlarginge
of the damme of the lower Mylne of the Lee. Lykewyse six shillinges are to be
payed to the prior of Felleye for one plowe land in Clattercotes. Lykewyse one
halfepeuye is dew to Richard Clarke for all the tenementes the wych Peter of
Wakebrugge the father of the founder dyd purchase of Godfraye Holewayes
chapelayne in Alveleye, and the w°h the same Godfraye dyd purchase of Alexander
Lee."
The first of these chantries was founded in 1350, and dedicated
conjointly to SS. Nicholas, Katharine, Margaret, and Mary Magdalen,
though it was more usually known by the names of the first two
of these saints. The founder paid a fine of ten marks to the king
for licence to alienate the lands before specified.* It was ordered
that mass should be daily celebrated for the souls of the founder
and his two wives Joan and Elizabeth, his grandfather Nicholas
de Wakebridge, and his wife Juliana, their son Nicholas, and their
daughters Sarah, Joan, and Amicia (uncle and aunts of the founder),
* Rot. Orig. 24 Edw. III. rot. 41.
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his father and' mother, Peter and Joan de Wakebridge, their children,
Eobert, Nicholas, Peter, John (chaplain), and Matilda (brothers
and sisters of the founder), William Cosyne, his wife Eleanor, and
their children, John, Cecilia, and Alice, John de la Pole, and
Cecilia his wife (sister of the founder), Henry de Codyngton,
Margaret his wife, and their parents, Roger de Chesterfield, clerk,
Henry Nicholas, Geoffrey de Chaddesden, Nicholas de Tyssyngton,
and William de Balidon (vicar of Crich), Eoger Beler, Margaret
his wife, and Alice Beler (daughter of Thomas Beler, and niece of
Roger), Cecilia Wyn, and Ralph Frescheville and his heirs. The
chaplain was to assist the vicar of Crich on double festivals, on
Sundays, and on the feasts of SS. Katharine and Margaret, si cum
nota ubi legitnr 'jubuiit que singuli quod residebu/it.' Further
instructions provided that the chaplain was to hold no other cure ;
that he was to provide a wax taper for use in the chancel ; that
on the feast of S. Katharine full service of the dead was to be
said, and on the morrow 5d. was to be offered; also on the same
day the chaplain was to distribute 10s. or its value to the poor of
Crich ; that the right of presentation to this chantry was to be
vested in the founder for his life, and -then, in default of heirs male,
in his sister Cecilia ; that after a month's vacancy, the presentation
should rest with the abbot of Darley, and after a further lapse of
fifteen days, in the bishop of the diocese ; that within fifteen days
of his presentation, the chaplain, in the presence of the lord of
the manor of Wakebridge, of the vicar of Crich, and of two other
honest parishioners, should make an inventory of the goods of the
chantry, which are to be left in as good or better condition ; that 40s.
in money was to be handed to each successive chaplain on his
entering upon the duties of the chantry ; that on the anniversary
of the death of the founder, two wax tapers should burn at his
sepulchre in the chapel of SS. Nicholas and Katharine, tain in
viijilia ad placebo et diriye quam in crastino ad missam ; and that the
chaplain should daily say the full service of the dead and the
commendation of souls, double festivals being excepted.
It was not until 1357 that the episcopal license for the appoint-
ment of this chantry was obtained, when Richard Davy, described
as a chaplain of Stony Stanton, was instituted as the first chantry
priest. The founder's ordinance is recited at length in the Act Book
of Roger de Norbury, and some additional particulars can be gleaned
therefrom which are not given in the chartulary.* We find that
* Lichfield Episcopal Eegisters, vol. iii., ff. 48a to 51b.
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this chantry was situated in the north aisle of the church, which
was entirely rebuilt by Sir William de Wakebridge, and that the
altar in that aisle had previously been simply dedicated in honour
of S. Nicholas. The order for the observance of S. Katharine's day is
given in greater detail; Henry de Codyugtou, and his wife, together
with the brothers, sisters, and friends of the founder, were enjoined
to attend mass on that day, and on the vigil of the feast to offer
two wax tapers at his tomb in the chantry, and five pence in
honour of the five wounds of Jesus Christ, and the five joys of the
Blessed Virgin. With respect to the distribution of 10s. to the
poor on S. Katharine's day, there is the following curious entry, on a
later page of the chartulary : —
" Neghbo™ I let you understand y* as yia day as you know of old custom ye
chantre prest of Sanct Nycholas and Sanct Kathrine y8 bond to dystribute x« in
penys or penys-wurthe so y' any persons coming have jd in sylver of
sylver wherfor I desyre (you) when masse y* done to tary and receive yor dole
and to pray for y* founder "Wyliam Wake (bridge). I desyre your young folkes and
al other to tary w'in y* churche and you shal all be fynde gyff you do not. I
desyre you to hold me excusyd for (? or) forsothe you shall go w*out any dole."
In the year 1368, William de Wakebridge also obtained the
episcopal licence of Bishop Robert Stretton, to found a chantry at
the altar of the Blessed Virgin, within the parish church of Crich,
in honore Domini nostri Jhesu Christi et beatissime Virginia Marie
matris sue et omnium Sanctorum.
The Mary altar is described as having been formerly dedicated
/to 8. Stephen. The composition deed of this chantry, after
reciting the permission of the Abbot of Darley, of William de
Weston, vicar of Crich, of the parishioners, and of all others
interested therein, appoints Richard Whiteman as perpetual chap-
lain.
The endowment was to consist of £Q of rents to be paid
annually by the Prior of Thurgarton, together with other lands and
tenements specified in a deed held by Richard Whiteman. It was
ordained that the chaplain should be a secular priest — that he was
in his daily mass to make mention of the founder and Elizabeth,
his wife ; of Roger de Chesterfield, clerk ; and of John de la Pole
and Cecilia, his wife, whilst they lived, and afterwards to pray for
their souls, and also for the souls of Nicholas de Wakebridge and
Juliana, his wife; of Peter de Wakebridge and Joan, his wife; of
Robert, Nicholas, and Peter, their sons ; of Joan, wife of William
de Wakebridge ; and of Joan and Margaret, daughters of Peter —
that the vicar of Crich, or the parochial chaplain, was to assist
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the chaplain, both wearing surplices, at matins, mass, and vespers,
en double festivals, on Sundays, and on the feasts of SS. Nicholas,
Katharine, Margaret, and Mary Magdalen— that he should daily,
both on festivals and ordinary days, say his service and the office
of the dead, in conjunction with the chaplain of S. Katharine,
either in the church or churchyard— that he should daily, the
greater and double feasts being excepted, say the full service of the
dead and the commendation of souls — that on Wednesdays and
Fridays he should say the seven penitential psalms with litany,
except in the week of Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost — that he
should continuously reside at the chantry-house, in the same way as
if he were a vicar, wearing the canonical dress and tonsure — that
whenever he said or sung mass (sine nota vel cum not a), in the
lutroit, before the commencement of mass, a Pater Noster and Ave
Maria should be recited by those present— that he should daily,
after matins and the " hours," say the psalm De profundis, with
the usual versicles, in the hearing of the bystanders — that ou the
conclusion of the versicles, he should say " Anima Willelmi et ainme
omnium fidelium defimctorum per Dei miserecordiani in pace requiescant"
and the same words after mass and compline, and after his daily
grace at table— that mass should be said at a convenient hour, so
that the parishioners and others should be able to hear it — that a
bell should be rung to give warning of the service— that the chap-
lain should not hold any other benefice or undertake any other
permanent duty — that on the death or resignation of the chaplain,
the chantry should be served by the chaplain of the altar of SS.
Nicholas and Katharine, who should receive the income and
discharge the expenses of the vacant chantry, and return full
accounts thereof to the future chaplain immediately on his appoint-
ment— that 110 woman, de qua suspicio aliqua possit oriri, should live
in the chantry house — that on the anniversary of the founder's
death mass should be said for his soul, and for the souls of those
mentioned above — that every chaplain, within five clays of his
obtaining possession of this chantry, shah1 draw up, in the presence
of the chaplain of SS. Nicholas and Katharine, and the vicar,
an inventory of the number, condition, and value of the books,
chalices, jewels, vestments, ornaments, utensils, and all other goods
pertaining to the chantry, which he shall keep in as good or better
condition as he found them — that there should be three copies of
such inventory, one to be kept by the chaplain of S. Mary, one
for the chaplain of SS. Nicholas and Katharine, and one for the
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vicar — that no chaplain should use for his own purpose, or will
away, any of the books, etc., or other goods pertaining to the
chantry — that the chaplain, immediately on his institution, shall
swear on the Gospels to look diligently after the best intei-ests of
the chantry — that he shall be instituted and inducted personally,
and not by proxy — that on the vigil of the Annunciation he should,
in conjunction with the chaplain of SS. Nicholas and Katharine,
sing placebo et diriije for the souls of Eoger Beler, senior, and Alice,
his wife ; for Roger Beler, junior, and Margaret and Elizabeth, his
wives ; for Reginald de Grey, of Sliirland, and Matilda, his wife ;
and for the souls of all their ancestors and heirs — that on the next
day, mass was to be sung at the high altar for the souls of the
aforesaid — that, in conjunction with the chaplain of SS. Nicholas
and Katharine, placebo et diriye should be sung on the Saturday
before the Nativity of S. John Baptist, and on the next day mass
(with intention for the Queen) to be sung for the souls of Roger
de Chesterfield ; of Richard, his brother ;* of Henry, Nicholas, and
Geoffrey de Chaddesden ;t of Richard de Tissyngton ; of Robert de
Derby ; and John Mykbrother, of Eyam ; my most special and
confidential friends — that the same service should be sung at the
high altar, by the two chaplains on the vigil and feast of S.
Michael, for the souls of William de Weston, vicar of Crich ; of
William de Balliden, formerly vicar;, of Richard Davy and Richard
Whitman, chaplains ; and for the souls of all the parishioners of
Crich, who were then dead, or who should here afterwards die —
that all the aforesaid services and prayers, should be also for the
souls of John de Annesley and Anna, his wife ; of Robert de
Annesley, rector of Rotyngtone ; of John Belewe and Isabella, his
wife ; of John Belewe, his son, and Alice, his wife ; and of Cecilia
Wyu and Robert Attehall, servants of W. de W., the founder — that
these nameSj with those mentioned before, should be inscribed on a
tablet, which should be placed on the super-altar, there for ever to
face the celebrant — that on a vacancy in the chantry through death
or other natural causes, William, the founder, during his life should
present, and after his death his legitimate heirs — in default of heirs,
the advowson should pass to his sister Cecilia, and her heirs male,
and in default, to the Abbot and Convent of Dale — that if the
* Roger and Richard de Chesterfield, chaplains, were the joint founders of the
chautry of S. Michael, in the parish church of Chesterfield. See Churches of
Derbyshire, vol. i., pp. 161, 162, 168.
t With respect to the three Chaddesdens, see Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii. ,
p. 30 1, etc.
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founder and his heirs should neglect to appoint, and the Abbot of
Dale also after five days' notice, then the patronage should go for
that turn to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield — that this ordina-
tion of the chantry, lest the foundation thereof might be forgotten,
should be read distinctly in the vulgar tongue to the parishioners
of Crich, in the church or churchyard, on the Sunday next before
the feast of the Assumption, before the commencement of high
mass — and that one copy of this ordination should be kept by the
chaplain, another by the lord of the manor of Wakebridge, and a
third by the Abbot of Dale.
The calendar bound up with this chartulary specifies the following
obits : —
Jan. ix kal. John de Wakebridge (uncle of the founder), 1344.
March iiij kal. William de Wakebridge (the founder), 1369.
April x kal. Juliana de Wakebridge (grandmother of the founder), 1318.
May xv kal. Nicholas de Wakebridge (brother of the founder), 1349.
J\me v kal. " Elizabet de Aslaccon sororis uxoris Willelmi de Wakebridge," 1349.
July xvij kal. Robert de Wakebridge, vicar of Crich (brother of the founder), 1349.
x kal. William de Sybthorpe, 1349.
August nones. Peter de Wakebridge, and Joan, his daughter (father and sister of
the founder), 1349.
iij ides. Joan, the wife of "William de Wakebridge (the founder), and
Margaret, his sister, 1349.
xviij kal. John de Wakebridge, chaplain (brother of the founder), 1349.
Sept. vij ides. Nicholas, son of Nicholas de Wakebridge (uncle of the founder),
1300.
xij kal. Peter, son of Peter de Wakebridge (brother of the founder), 1347.
Oct. xvi kal. Matilda de Wakebridge (sister of the founder), 1343.
xiij kal. Nicholas de Wakebridge (grandfather of the founder), 1315.
Nov. ij nones. Eoger de Chesterfield, i367.
v ides. Cecilia Wyn, 1368.
A glance at this obituary is sufficient to draw the attention of
the reader to the remarkable number of deaths in the year 13i9,
and those who have read the introduction to this volume will
recollect that it was the time of that fearful visitation of the plague,
usually termed the Black Death. Of its terrible character we can
form some idea, when we consider the extent of its ravages in a
single household — a household the most wealthy of the neigh-
bourhood, and situated in as healthy and uncrowded a spot as any
that could be found on all the fair hill sides of Derbyshire. Within
three months Sir William de Wakebridge lost his father, his wife,
three brothers, two sisters, and a sister-in-law. Sir William, on
succeeding to the Wakebridge estate, through this sad list of
fatalities, appears to have abandoned the profession of arms, and
to have devoted a very large share of his wealth to the service of
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God in his own neighbourhood. The Great Plague had the effect
of thoroughly unstringing the consciences of many of the survivors,
and a lamentable outbreak of profligacy was the result. But the
dire judgments of God had a contrary effect on many others, who
were led by His grace to a newness of life ; and hence as a
practical outcome of their change of habit, we find about this
period a marked revival in the works of His Church, such as the
rebuilding of fabrics and the ordination of chantries. An unworthy
and superstitious fear may have actuated some minds in this
abandonment of private wealth, but a genuine change of heart was
wrought in others, and it seems reasonable to class Sir William
de Wakebridge in the latter category. There is a great difference
between the foundation charters of the chantries of Sir William
and many others of this date that we have perused, viz., that
these are not of the selfish class (so to speak) that merely pro-
vided masses for the souls of the founder and his relatives, but
the whole tone of the charters (of which we have only been able
to find space for meagre abstracts) bespeaks a real interest in the
souls of the neighbourhood, and an earnest desire that the Holy
Sacrifice and other services should be attended by the people at
large. Nor was the generosity of Sir William in church work
merely aroused into momentary action by the shock of the deadly
visitor to Wakebridge manor house in 1319; for we find that he
was engaged in a further alienation of his property in 1368, only
the year before his death, and he also at some intermediate date
built a private chapel at his manor house, which he adorned in a
most costly manner, and furnished it with a chaplain. He was
also the joint founder of a Nottinghamshire chantry in 1363, and
gave to the parish church of Crich some most costly .vestments.
Moreover, if a man is to be judged by his friends, Sir William
must have been a pious Catholic, for we find him on terms of the
closest and most confidential friendship with such old Derbyshire
worthies as the Chesterfields and the Chaddesdens.
Nor have we yet finished with this most interesting chartulary,
which seems to us to be unique in the side-lights that it throws
upon our ecclesiastical and local history. The candid student of
fourteenth century life is forced to admit — much as he may admire
the deep piety and self-abasement of no inconsiderable portion of
the nation, and much as he may appreciate the exuberant skill of
the artificers in wood and glass and stone, who were content to
lay the glories of their art at the threshold of the Church — that
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this enviable catholicity of tone was sadly intermingled with much
that savoured of baseness and superstition. Here, on the same
pages of the Calendar that record the deaths of the Wakebridge
family, and of the munificent founder of the chantries, with a
touching brevity, the hand of some chantry priest has inserted
numerous entries that not only breathe a most mundane desire
after bodily health, but are persistent in their warnings of the
luck, good or bad, attaching to particular days and seasons. If
he had contented himself with entering a receipt for the cure of
the " stone, strangury, and colyke,"* we should not have quarrelled
with him except as to his bad taste in the selection of a common-
place book ; but it is really too bad when we find month after
month of the Calendar interspersed with general directions for
dietary and blood-letting, regulated by a superstitious regard for
certain seasons. Thus we are informed — that if anyone lets blood
on April llth in the left arm, he will not lose his eyesight for
that year, but if he lets blood on the 3rd he will be saved for
that year from headache and extasim Anylice Swymes — that four
days of May are very dangerous, viz., the 7th, 15th, 16th, and
20th — that if blood is let on the 7th of the Kalends of August,
the patient will die on the third day after — that no one who is
bled on September 17th need fear having paralysis, dropsy, or
epilepsy for that year — that if anyone strike either man or beast
on March 26th, July 25th, or December 8th, he will assuredly die
on the third day after, et hoc probatum est, etc., etc.
Sir William de Wakebridge does not appear to have been able
to alienate much of his own manor of Wakebridge to religious
use ; and the lands wherewith he endowed the chantries situated
at Crich, Wheatcroft, Holloway, Tansley, Fritchley, Dethick, Lea,
Ashover, etc., were purchased by him of their owners for that
purpose. We therefore find that a considerable portion of this
chartulary consists of the licenses of Sir Roger Beler and his son
Roger, of Geoffrey Dethick and his son John, of William de
Kynardsley, of Richard de Clerk, and of Roger de Wynfeld, to
alienate their lands for this object.
There are also various rentals of the chantry of SS. Nicholas
* " For y* stone, strangury and colyke. Take malues, violet, mercury, make of yche
j handfull, percele, maydoii here, tho thistyll, of yche half a handfulle, of lyquerice j
quartron, seth all yis in iiij quartes of ale tyl ye half be coiisumet, yen streyii it thro
a clothe and gyf hym vj spoiifulle of y* licor to drynck in ye morowe cold and at
nyght lew warme w* half a sponfull of ye powdr y* folows — Take careaway, fenelsede,
spyknard, anneys, cinamon, galyugale, of yche di uiice, grouuselsede j unce, lycorys
j uiice . . . ye wyeght of alle."
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and Katharine, giving the value of some of the lands, and names
of the tenants, during the respective chaplaincies of Richard Davy
and William Woderowe, and a list of debts owing to the chantry
on the death of Henry Coke. It appears that there was an annual
payment of the chaplain of 14s. 4d. to the Prior of Felley, in
recognition of lands held of that priory at Fritchley and Clatter-
cotes, which had been granted to those monks by Ivo de Heriz.
Much of the endowment of the small priory of Felley, in Notting-
hamshire, came from the Derbyshire parishes of Crich, Ashover,
Morton, and Tibshelf.* The neighbouring church of Annesley
was given to Felley priory, at an early date, by Ralph de Aunesley,
and in the Crich Chartulary is a long document recording the
consent of John, Archbishop of York, to the foundation by Sir
William de Wakebridge and Robert de Annesley, rector of Rotyntone,
of a chantry at the altar of the Blessed Virgin within the church
of Annesley.t It is dated January 7th, 1363.
During the chaplaincy of Henry Coke, the chantry house per-
taining to SS. Nicholas and Katharine was repaired, the stone for
the purpose being carried there from Winfield at a cost of 3d.J
In the year of the founding of the second chantry (1368), an
indenture was made between Sir William de Wakebridge and
Richard Davy, the chaplain of the first chantry, by which Richard
and his successors became possessed of the -following altar furniture,
vestments, etc. : — one super-altar, one " haire,"§ one altar-cloth,
and two autependia, one autependium with frontal for the super-
altar, another worn antependium with frontal, and one new one,
two corporals with cases, one missal, one chalice, one vestment for
double festivals, one for Sundays, and one old and worn for ordinary
use, one antependium of " Syndone," one portifer, two old towels for
ablutions, one painting over the altar, two pax-breads, two cruets,
one chantry register, one vestment entirely of blue Samite, with
two tunicles and a cope of the same. The property at the same
time handed over to Richard Whiteman, of the second chantry,
included : — one super altar, one " haire," three altar-cloths, and two
frontals, four towels, three tapestry antependia, one corporal, one
new case for the corporal, one good missal, one chalice, one new
* Stevens' Addition to tfie Monasticon, vol. ii., pp. 131-3.
t Harl. MSS., 3669, ff. 83-5.
} As these details are of some interest, we have reproduced them verbatim. See
Appendix No. IV.
§ This is probably for " ara," which was the name used not only for a portable
altar stone, but also for the super-altar, or ledge for the crucifix, candlesticks, &c.
46 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
vestment for doubles, one for Sundays, and one for ordinary use,
one pax-bread, and two cruets.
The Valor Ecclesiasticus (27 Henry VIII.) gives the annual value
of the chantry of SS. Nicholas and Katharine, accruing from
mansion, messuages, and lands, at £12 19s. 10d., and also annual
pensions to the value of £1 7s. 3d., but deductions for chief rents to
divers persons brought the clear income down to £13 4s. 4d. The
chantry of Our Lady had a clear income of £6 3s. 4d. The
following is the account given in the Chantry Boll, temp. Edward
VI:-
"Cruche. The Chauntrye of SS. Nycholas & Kateryns founded by Wm "Wake-
brygge somtym lord there, mayntanynge of God's service and socoure of pore
folks A° xxiiij0 Edward III. xijtt. iiijs. iiijd., clere xiiZi. iijs., besyds xvjs. vjd.
rents resoluts, xls. receyoyd of the late monastery of Thurgarton. Jo. Maryott
Chauntry prest, the residen letten by him to Fraunceys Pole Esq. & German Pole
Esq.* for the terme of xxj yeres payenge to him yerely xli. xvjs. jd. by indenture
xviij Oct. A° xxxvj0 Regis. It hath a mancyon prised att iiijs. iiijd. by yere.
Stocke lixs. iiij.
" The Chauntrye of our Ladye founded by the same, to the same entente & that
a priste everye Sundaye & dubble feste shoulde assiste the Vycar there at masse,
mattyns, and evensong, & to pray for his soul, etc. by foundaceyon A° xlij° Edw.
III., vjZi. iijs. iiijcZ. with vj payd out of the late monastre of Thurgartou & iijs.
iiij<£. for his mancyon house. Bob. Swinstoo Chauntry priste. Stocke Iviijs.'
Towards the end of the Crich chartulary is this entry : —
" An Inventory of ye goodes of ye Chauntree of Sact Nycholas and Sact Kateryn
in Criche receved by me Sr John Mariott, xxj° die Julii anno dui 1524.
" In primis a chalice leadyd in the bothum. Item oone old maser| withe the
armes off the founder. Item iiij sylver spones of ye whiche three are brokene.
Item ij rookesj of cooles and a litile wodd about ye house in styd of fourty
shillynges y* I ought to have hadd at myne entre yf there had rernaynyd so
moche. Item oone masse booke. Item oone old wrytyn portuus.§ Item iij old
vestymentes and oone very old casula (chasuble) yl is tome. Item oone old brokene
cruett. Item ij old auter clothes. Item oone hangyng before ye autre. Item
three corperaxes w4 cases. Item oone furnes. Item iij leades (? leaden basons)
sett in a forme. Item oone old wrytyne procession, all which ye said Sr John
hathe delyveryd to John Beamount esquyer dwellyng at gracedew monastory
beynge y6 Kynges visitor vj Edward vjth."||
The following lists of the chaplains and patrons of these
chantries, are compiled from the Lichfield Eegisters : —
* There is an original memorandum (Add. MSS., 6,668, f. 717), from John Marriott,
to Francis Pole, of the Dale, and to German Pole, of Wakebridge, dated 23rd Jan. 33
Henry VIII., promising that if he release the goodwill of the chautry to any man,
it shall be to them.
t A maser, or mazer, was a broad standing cup or drinking bowl of maple or walnut
wood.
I Bookes of cooles =reeks of coals. Beek=rick or pile.
§ I.e., a portesse, or breviary.
|| In Add. MSS., 6,668, f. 719, there is an original copy of this inventory on a slip
of parchment 7 inches by 4.
CRICH. 47
CHANTRY OF SS. NICHOLAS AND KATHARINE.
1357. Richard Davy ; patron, William de Wakebridge. According to the Chartu-
lary, Davy was inducted June 18th, 1356.
1370. William le Blount; patron, John de la Pole. On the death of R. D.
. Henry Coke.
1429, June 28th. Adam Webster, vicar of Hartington, exchanged his benefice for
this chantry with H. C.
, Nov. 4th. This exchange reversed ! Henry Coke coming back to the
chantry, and A. W. returning to Hartington.
. James Hyton.
1441. John Duffeld; patron; Peter de la Pole. On the resignation of J. H.
1459. William Woderowe ; patron, Justice Ralph Pole. On the death of J. D.
1490. Edmund Pole, sub-deacon ; patron, Ralph Pole. On the death of W. W.
1535. John Marriott. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
CHANTRY OF OUR LADY.
1368. Richard Whiteman ; patron, William de Wakebridge.
1370. John de Duffield: patron William de Wakebridge.
1376. John Loscowe; patron, John de la Pole.
. John Ilkesdon.
1390. John Heth ; patron, Cecilia de la Pole. On the resignation of J. I.
1403. Richard Yvenot; patron, Cecilia, relict of John Pole.
1436. John Assheley ; patron, Edward de la Pole. On the death of B. T.
. Thomas Cowper.
1491. John Fox; patron, Ralph Pole. On the death of T. C.
1515. Robert Swynscowe ; patron, John Pole. On the death of J. F.
The Crich Chartulary also contains records of several matters
that affect the parish rather than the chantries, and some of them,
being of earlier date than their foundation, must have been copied
from documents previously in possession of the vicar.
During the metropolitan visitation of that strict disciplinarian,
Archbishop Peckham, in 1280, he was called upon to settle a
dispute between the parishioners of Crich and the abbot of Darley,
as rector. The archbishop appears to have visited Crich personally,
and then he appointed Simon de Baliden* and E. de Suham,
canons of Lichfield, as his commissioners in the dispute. Their
decision was — that the abbot should find some one whose duty it
should be to ring the parish bells of the church of Crich, and to
bring water and fire there as often as required — that he should
provide ropes for the bells — that he should relieve the necessitous
and indigent hi the parish — and that he should also provide at his
own expense for the serving of the chantry within the chapel of
S. Thomas the Martyr, situated in the churchyard at Crich, on
three days of the week. In the same year it was also agreed, on
* Simon de BaUden was Vicar-General of the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield in
1274. Howard's Lichfield, p. 184.
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appeal to the archbishop, that the abbot should in perpetuity hold
himself bound to provide an image of the Blessed Virgin to
stand in the chancel, and all other things necessary for the
chancel, except the chalice and missal, which the parish were to
find. The parishioners claimed that the monks of Darley ought
also to do all that was necessary for the sustentation and repair
of the nave, seeing how much property they held in the parish.*
But the decision on this point was that the abbey was only to be
responsible for that portion of the general burdens of the nave
and of providing the Holy Bread + that corresponded with the
extent of their lands, mansions, and other possessions within the
limits of the parish.
The parishioners of Crich set apart 5 acres 3£ roods of arable
land, out of the common fields of Tansley,| to provide for a lamp
to be always burning before the image of the Virgin in the
chancel. There were also several other small individual endow-
ments for the same purpose.
An indenture made in 1368 between Roger Beler, William de
Wakebridge, Henry de Codyntone, Roger Kybbulle, jun., Henry de
Merlache, Adam del Hulle, Thomas de Biggynges, Henry Clerke,
Robert Burgulone, Henry de Plastowe, Simon de Whetcrofte, Adam
Couper, Peter Couper, John Hayward and Richard Bateman de
Wyssintone, John, son of Robert de Tannesley, Adam Haselbache,
and many other parishioners of Crich, of the one part, and
William de Weston, vicar of Crich, of the other part, provides
that all the ornaments and vestments that have been furnished
individually or collectively for the use of the clergy, chaplains, and
others ministering in the church of Crich, between the years 1349
and 1868, shall be placed in the custody of William de Weston,
the vicar, and his successors, to be held by them for the use of
the parish, and not to be privately appropriated or sold by them
or by the abbots of Darley. The articles are thus specified : — One
vestment de viridi Camacw with two tunicles and one cope of the
* In addition to the lands and tithes already mentioned, Darley Abbey also held
the whole of the manor of Wistauton (now called Wessington), in this parish, which
was granted to them by Ealph Fitz Odo and Geoffrey de Constantino. The monks
had a chapel attached to their grange of Wistanton, but we have not been able to
glean anything respecting its site or history.
f The Holy, or Blessed Bread must not be confounded with the Host of the Mass.
In the early Church, at the end of Mass, the loaves offered by the faithful, which had
not been consecrated, were blessed by the celebrant, and distributed as a sign of
brotherly communion. Hence arose the custom, still continued in both the Roman
and Greek branches of the Church Catholic, of distributing blessed bread to the
general body of the congregation on the great festivals.
I As the names of these fields at Tausley, and their tenants, are of some interest,
we have given them in full in Appendix No. V.
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same, value £10* — one good cope, value 10 marks, which Eoger
de Chesterfield, clerk, gave to William de Wakebridge and the
other parishioners of Crich, to serve as a remembrance of him—
one chalice, value 8 marks — one missal, value 100 shillings — one
antiphonar, f value 60 shillings — and one great psalter, which
William de Balidene, formerly vicar, gave to William de Wake-
bridge and the parishioners as a remembrance, and who did many
other good works for the church of Crich— as well as other
chalices, books, vestments, tunicles, copes, surplices, and other
ornaments.
The Crich Chartulary also contains (and this shall be our last
reference to it) a copy of an encyclical letter of Simon Islip,|
Archbishop of Canterbury, of the year 1362, relative to the observ-
ance of Holy-days, which was probably ordered to be read in all
parish churches. It is of considerable interest as affording an
insight into the habits of the time, but as it is not in any way
specially local, we must abstain from giving more than a brief
abstract. The archbishop complains that not only was the custom
prevalent of transacting ordinary business on Saints' days, but also
of indulging in abominable and blasphemous practices, so that what
was intended to serve as a storing up of devotion, had become the
occasion of an outbreak of dissoluteness — that the festivals were
kept rather by the crowding of revellers to the taverns than of
communicants to the churches — that the ear was greeted more
with the sounds of drunken jestings than of penitent prayers — and
that, in fine, the whole purport of God in hallowing the Sabbath,
and of the Church in setting apart other days for pious observances,
had by the multitude been completely perverted. He therefore
enjoins, throughout the whole of his province of Canterbury, that
every Sunday shall be observed, beginning with the vesper hour of
the previous Saturday, and not sooner, lest they should seem to be
participators in Jewish professions — that they should also observe
the feasts of SS. Stephen, John, Innocents, Thomas the Martyr,
Circumcision, Epiphany, Purification, Easter with three days fol-
lowing, Mark, Philip and James, Invention of the Cross, Ascension,
* If we reflect that the then value of money must be multiplied by at least 20 to
get the present value, we can form some idea of the exceptional costliness and
splendour of the vestments that were used to God's honour in the parish church of
Crich in mediaeval days. " Camaca " was the name of a cloth, made of silk and
interwoven with other precious stuff.
f The antiphonar contained the music for the hours, anthems, hymns, and psalms,
noted in plain chant.
I Simon Islip was connected with this county. He held the prebendary of
Saudiacre from 1347 to 1350.
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50 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Pentecost with three days following, Corpus Christi, Nativity of
S. John Baptist, Peter and Paul, Translation of S. Thomas
the Martyr, Mary Magdalen, James, Assumption, Bartholomew,
Lawrence, Nativity of B. V. M., Exaltation of the Cross, Matthew,
Michael, Luke, Simon, Jude, All Saints, Andrew, Nicholas, Concep-
tion, Thomas the Apostle, and the dedication of parish churches,
and of saints in whose honour they are dedicated — that on all
these days the parishioners shall he admonished and induced not
only to attend Mass, but also the full complement of the services
— that the relics of the saints should he carried ad opera ruralia
according to custom — and that any foremen of operatives or
labourers who suffer the usual work to be carried out on these
days, shah1 be visited with the censures of the Church.
The inventory of church goods, taken in the reign of Edward
VI., has the following, relative to this church : —
" Cryche. Oct. 6. Rich. Banks clerke.
" iiij bells in the steple — j chalys of sylver with paten — ij cruetts of pewter —
iij vestments whereof j of blew sylke and the other of blewe chamblet j of redde
wostyd— ij tables clothe— ij hangings before the table — j coope of old sylke —
j corperas with two cases — ij crosses j of tynne j of brasse — j hand bell — ij
candlestycks of pewter — j byble with the paraphracs — j coffer with iij lockes and
iij keyes. There was ij chalyces belongyng to the chauntrez there wch Jo
Beamonte Esq., hadde."
The Valor Ecclesiasticus gives the clear value of the vicarage
at £6 10s. lOd. It was then endowed with Easter offerings,
oblations, tithes of hay, lambs, wool, pigs, geese, flax, and hemp,
and with the annual pension from Wakebridge in lieu of tithes.
The following is the statement made by the Parliamentary Com-
missioners of 1650 : —
" Crich is a vicarige really worth tenne pounds per annum noe Chappell
appirteyning. Tansley is a hamblitt appirteyning and thre myles distant and
fitt to be united to Matlocke in the hundred of Wirksworth it lying nearer to
Matlocke the profitts are about ffortye shillings per annum.
" Wessington grange, Leas, and Lindwaye lane are Members butt remote and
fitt to be united to Trinitye Chappell in the hundred of Scarsdale."
" £200 raised by the parish of Crich and several gentlemen in
that neighbourhood, and £200 more advanced by the Trustees of
Queen Anne's bounty, were laid out in lands at Plaistow Green,
within the parish of Crich aforesaid, for augmenting the church
living there, towards the latter end of 1746. By mistake the
lands, &c., are said to be in Wheatcroft."*
The vicars of Crich were, of course, appointed by the Abbots of
* Add. MSS. 6705, f. 12.
CRICH. 51
Darley up to the time of the dissolution of the monasteries, but
after that date there was much confusion with respect to the
patronage of the advowson, in connection with which there were
several lawsuits of interminable length. The claims were so
conflicting that the successive Bishops of Lichfield declined to
exercise their right to collate, and the presentation consequently
lapsed to the Crown. There is not a single presentation to Crick
entered in the episcopal registers of the seventeenth century, nor
is there one of the eighteenth century, until 1793. At the end
of last century the right of presentation was claimed by Sir
Wolstan Dixie, and also by Sir Edward "Wilmot, both claiming
through the heiresses of John Claye, who is alleged to have obtained
it hi the time of Elizabeth, from Anthony Babington, who certainly
held the great tithes of Crich through grant from the Crown.*
Eventually the Dixie family made good their claim to the advowson,
but after two presentations sold it to trustees.
The pre-reformation part of the following list of vicars is taken
from the Episcopal registers, and the remainder chiefly from the
returns of the First Fruits Office, and the parish register : —
. Bricius.
1278. William de Draycote.
1298. John de Whalleye.
1313. William de Baliden. On the resignation of J. de W,
1340. Richard de RadeclifF, rector of Nuthall, exchanged benefices with W. de B.,
vicar of Crich.
1348. Robert de Wakebridge, vicar of S. Mary's, Nottingham, exchanged benefices
with E. de R., vicar of Crich.
1349. William de Baliden. On the death of R. de W.
. Radus de Findern. On the resignation of W. de B.
1345. Roger de Walton, rector of Whittington, exchanged benefices with R. de F.,
vicar of Crich.
1356. William de Weston. On the death of R. de W.
1393. John Whitlessey. Collated of the Bishop.
. John Bagworth. On the resignation of J. W.
1397. William Bacon. On the resignation of J. B.
. Thomas Hoppeley.
1402. John Osmond. On the death of T. H.
. William Garton, rector of Bulwell, exchanged benefices with J. O., vicar of
Crich.
. Peter Trusbut.
1418. Hugo Penyale. On the resignation of P. T.
1441. James Hyton, late chantry priest. On the resignation of H. P.
1451. John Fesand. On the resignation of J. H.
. James Romsore.
1505. Richard Repyngdon. On the death of J. R.
(1535.) William Richardson. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
* See an elaborate statement of this claim by Mr. Reynolds, the local antiquary,
given in full in Glover's Derbyshire, vol. 2, p. 321-3.
52 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1542. Richard Bankys ; patrons, Robert and Thomas Bradshaw, for this turn, by
virtue of an agreement with the Abbot of the lately dissolved monastery of
Darley. On the death of W. R.
».*«•*.*
1629. Thomas Shelmardine ; patron, John Eley, gen.
. Joseph Topham. Parish Registers. Probably he followed T. S. on his
I ejection in 1662.
. Thomas England, died Feb. 7th, 1730.
1731. John Walker; patron, the King, through lapse of time.
1775. John Mason ; patron, the King.
1793. Samuel Davenport ; patron, the King, by reason of lunacy. On the death of
J. M.
1801. Thomas Cornthwaite ; patron, the King. On the death of S. D.
1838. Thomas Carson ; patron, Sir W. W. Dixie. On the resignation of T. C.
1849. G. W. Lewis; patron, Sir W. W. Dixie. On the resignation of T. C.
1855. William Chawner ; patrons, Edward Radford, Henry Anne Norman, Rev.
M. Holmes, John Garton, and William Wathey. On the resignation of
G. W. L.
1875. William Acraman; patrons, Rev. Melville Holmes, clerk, Henry Anne
Norman, gentleman, and Thomas Bellamy Dale, manufacturer. On the
resignation of W. C.
The church of Crich, which is dedicated to S. Mary,* consists
of nave, side aisles, and south porch, chancel, with north vestry,
and tower and spire at the west end. The nave and aisles are
each 50ft. long, and their united width is 46ft. The chancel is
39 ft. by 18 ft. Of the church that seems to have been first
erected here by Kalph FitzRalph in the reign of Stephen (1135-54),
there are considerable remains. The nave is separated from the
aisles on each side by three plain and round Norman arches,
supported on circular columns having square capitals. The arcade
on the south is a few years later in style than that on the north,
showing that the body of the church originally consisted only of
nave and north aisle. At the west end of the south aisle is the
Norman font, which is 37 inches high and 27 inches in diameter.
It is circular and of massive appearance, and surrounded with a
coarsely executed moulding of the cable pattern. At the restoration
of this church in 1861, the font was rather too freely re-chiselled.
The church does not appear to have been touched in the Early
* There is no doubt whatever as to the real dedication of this church being to S.
Mary, for it is repeatedly mentioned by name both in the Crich chartulary and in
different chartularies of Darley Abbey. It is also thus given in Bacon's Liber Regis,
and in the county histories of Pilkington, Davies, and Glover. It was not until the
issue of that utterly misleading work (so far as ecclesiology is concerned), Kelly's
Post Office Directory, in 1855, that an alleged dedication to S. Michael was published,
but since that date numerous directories aud the yearly edition of the Derbyshire Red
Book persist in assigning it to S. Michael. The wakes, it is true, are held at Michael-
mas, but, as has been already pointed out several times in these pages, wakes at Lady
Day or Michaelmas are no guide. Moreover, the feast-day, on whatever day it may
occur, though it can fairly be claimed as corroborative evidence, is no proof in itself
of the dedication ; for that day was usually the anniversary of the consecration of the
church, and it frequently happened that a church was not consecrated on the day of
the Saint to whom it was dedicated.
53
English period, but at the time of the Decorated style, which
extended over the greater part of the fourteenth century, it was
thoroughly renovated, and rebuilt. The chancel, vestry, tower, spire,
and exterior walls of the aisles are of that epoch, though of slightly
differing dates. The windows in the south aisle show that it was
rebuilt about 1300-20. The chancel is of good character through-
out, especially the east and south windows. It has a priest's door
on the south, and opposite to it is a doorway opening into a vestry,
the external wall-plate of which shows it to have been of the same
date, though much altered subsequently. At the time when the
chancel was built, circa 1350, it would seem that the nave was
lengthened and the two narrow pointed arches at the east end of
the nave arcades inserted. The tower, which has a moulded
parapet, with an effective band of wavy lines closely resembling that
at Chesterfield, is of much the same date, as well as the spire,*
which is octagonal with two tiers of lights. The north aisle was
also evidently rebuilt about this date, viz., at the time when Sir
William de Wakebridge founded the chantry of SS. Nicholas and
Katharine in that aisle, so that probably the example set by him
caused the Abbey of Darley and the parish generally to re-model
the rest of the fabric. There is a curiously carved stone, of Norman
pattern, utilised in the capital of the narrow arch near the east
end of the north aisle, which is placed upside down. Below it
may also be noticed a portion of the head of an early incised
sepulchral cross. In the north wall is a doorway, now blocked
up. The weather moulding of the high pitch roof of the Decorated
period may be noticed on the west side of the tower.
The present roof of the nave is nearly flat, and was added when
the walls over the nave arcades were raised so as to admit of the
three-light square-headed clerestory windows. This alteration was of
the" Perpendicular period. The porch has a plain Perpendicular
doorway, and square-headed windows of two lights. The west
window of the south aisle is also of that period. The chancel
roof is supported on the old stone corbel-heads, small but good,
of the original Decorated design, five on each side.
At the east end of the south aisle is a piscina, with a trefoil
arch. The piscina drain for the high altar is in the sill of the
* We may here notice, as a useful warning to others, how much the effect of this
spire has been recently spoiled by repointing it with white mortar, which has given
it a patchy and semi -new appearance that will last for a generation. The simple and
costless expedient of mixing a little wood-ash or other colouring ingredient with the
lime should always be adopted in repointing old stone work.
54 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
south chancel window, but it has no niche over it. Oil the same
side are three sedilia of equal elevation, with trefoiled arches.
In the north chancel wall is a recess, now closed with an oak
door, and used as a cupboard or ahnery. It is, however, evident
that this recess has originally been a sloping aperture or squint,
going right through the wall into the vestry, so as to give the
sacristan or occupant an opportunity of seeing the high altar.
Over this aperture is fixed a large projecting stone, which from the
angle at which it is fixed, and the ledge on the lower side, has
evidently been intended for a gospel lectern, of which we have
already noticed several in Derbyshire churches, though they are of
the rarest occurrence elsewhere. The visitor will probably be told,
as we have been, that this aperture was used for confessions, and
that on the ledge the Father Confessor rested his book of instruc-
tions whilst listening to the penitent within the vestry !
The parapets of the aisles are plainly moulded, but those of the
nave over the clerestory windows are embattled. In the parapet
on the east gable of the nave is a sanctus bell-cote.
On the west wall of the tower is a well-moulded ogee-headed
niche of rather large proportions. There is a tradition at Crich
that the figure of the Blessed Virgin, which once occupied this
niche, was removed to S. Mary's church at Nottingham.* There
is generally some basis for every tradition, and it may possibly
have some connection with the exchange of benefices between the
vicars of Crich and Nottingham in the fourteenth century, that
has been already recorded.
In the north wall of the north aisle is a sepulchral recess of
ogee form, trefoiled, and with continuous mouldings. There can be
no doubt whatever that this recess was constructed for the founder
of the chantry in this aisle ; but that does not of itself prove that
the effigy now there is the founder, as effigies in course of time
were often placed within recesses for which they had not been
originally intended. The effigy now there is not a precise fit, but
then this was seldom the case, as monuments, except of the
roughest type, were usually constructed by skilled workmen at a
distance, and afterwards forwarded to be placed in their proper
position. This effigy is the figure of a man, dressed in a long
gown reaching to the ankles, closely buttoned from the neck to the
waist, bare-headed, with long hair and beard, the hands joined over
* This tradition first reached us through a letter in the Derbyshire Times, dated
Crich Carr, August 8th, 1871, and signed " W. H."
CRICH. 55
the breast, and the feet resting on a dog. Two small angels have
supported the man's head, hut that on the left is broken off.
That on the right holds a Katharine wheel to the ear of the effigy.
In all probability the other, when perfect, had an emblem of 8.
Nicholas, to whom this chantry was jointly dedicated. This figure
has always been supposed, until recent years, to represent Sir
William de Wakebridge. It is thus spoken of by Bassano (1710),
who adduces as proof the close contiguity of two alabaster slabs
bearing the arms of Wakebridge, but which have since disappeared.
Lately it has been claimed by the representatives of the Bellairs
family as the effigy of Sir Koger Beler, lord of the manor of Crich,
and one of the itinerant justices. But the proof that has been
adduced in support of this claim is very meagre. It is said that
the costume is that of a judge, and not of one who has been
specially described as a valiant knight.* But the fact is, that
the dress is that of an ordinary civilian of the day, and not that
of a judge ; and what is more likely than that Sir William de
Wakebridge, who abandoned the pursuit of arms from the time of
his entering on his estate up to his death, a period of twenty-three
years, and who gave himself up to good works, should be thus
depicted. Moreover, it cannot be proved that Sir Roger Beler was
ever resident at Crich, whilst Sir William lived on his manor close
to the parish church. . Certainly Sir Roger Beler would never be
buried in the founder's tomb of the Wakebridge chantry, and it is
only on the supposition that the effigy has been moved there, that
a word can be said in favor of the Beler theory. But then
Bassano, and after him, Reynolds, describe this tomb as guarded
by iron bars and palisades, which were fixed into the tomb itself
and into the walls with lead, and which then seemed in themselves
very ancient. It is not credible that such an outrage on the
memory of the great benefactor of Crich would have been permitted
so long ago, as to place in his tomb the effigy of another.
Moreover, the evidence of the Katharine wheel is almost sufficient
of itself to connect the effigy with the founder of the chautry. On
the whole, we can only conclude by saying that we know of no
* The following is the passage from which this description of Sir William is taken ;
it is from Wyrley's True Use of Arms, 1592, and is worth quoting in explanation of
the Wakebridge coat : — " Another sort there be not much more skilful, who if they
see any Armorie straight enter into the comparison of the fairies thereof : and foul and
false it is, if metall be upon metall alone, or colour upon colour : And yet I could wish
we should never have more dishonorable men nor woorse soldiers than have so borne
their Armorie : for to admit that worthy Godfrey, etc., etc of our owne Sir
Eichard Sandbach of Saudbach in Cheshire, Sir William Wakbirge of Wakbirge in
Darbyshire, two valiant knights, yet both bare colour upon colour."
56 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
other uninscribed monument in England whose identity can be
proved by more weighty cii-cumstantial evidence, than can be
adduced with regard to this effigy of Sir William de Wakebridge,
and we should have thought it superfluous to have written thus
much in its favour, had • it not been for the repeated attempts to
establish the Beler theory.* A legend, still current in Crich, says
that this figure is to the memory of the man who built the church,
who fell when he was in the act of putting the top stone to the
spire, and in falling crushed his dog that was on the ground
below. Hence a monument was erected to him with his dog at his
feet ! But it is worth observing that even in this tale the connection
between the effigy and the founder of the fabric of the church is
retained, and it may very possibly preserve the fact, that Sir
William de Wakebridge was a considerable benefactor to other parts
of the building besides the north aisle.
On the death of Sir William in 1372, his sister and heiress,
Cecilia, brought Wakebridge to Sir John Pole. The second son of
that match, Ealph, inherited this estate, the elder settling at
Radbourn. Thomas Pole, lord of Wakebridge in the reign of Edward
VI., was son and heir of Ealph, and Thomas was succeeded by his
son and heir, Ealph Pole, who married for his first wife, Beatrice,
the eldest of the six daughters of John Babington, of Dethick,t and
for his second wife, Anne, daughter of Philip Leche, of Chatsworth.
On the floor of the north aisle, near to Sir William's effigy, is an
alabaster stone, on which a small part of the marginal inscription
still remains, quite sufficient to prove it to be the memorial of
Ralph Pole and his wife, or wives : — .... Watebrige et Beatrix
Jilia Johis Babyngton uxor fj.'
Thomas, the eldest son of Ealph Pole by his first wife/ died
without issue, and was succeeded by his brother, John Pole, who
by his first wife, Agnes, daughter of Thomas Bagshawe, of Eidge,
left issue, German Pole, who inherited the Wakebridge estate on the
death of his father in 1537. German Pole first married his distant
relative, Jane, daughter of German Pole, of Eadbourn, by whom
he had one daughter, Katharine, who died unmarried ; his second
wife, was Margaret, daughter of Edward Ferrers. His widow
afterwards married John Claye, of Crich.
An altar tomb to the memory of German Pole and his second
wife, used to stand at the east end of the north aisle. The upper
* A recent visitor went so far as to scribble in pencil the name of Sir Roger Beler
and the date of his death on the moulding of the arch,
f Niohols' Collectanea, vol. viii., p. 325.
CRICH. 57
slab was dismounted when the church was repewed about the
end of last century, and was then laid on the floor in the same
position. At the 1861 restoration, it was, with questionable pro-
priety, moved to the chancel, and is now fixed against the north
wall close to the east end. Upon it are depicted the figures of a
man in civilian costume and a woman, both wearing ruffs. The
man's feet rest on an eagle, those of the woman on a unicorn.
The inscription at the base of the figures is in Roman capitals,
but is much effaced, and parts are altogether missing. We are,
however, able to give a restored copy of the inscription from
notes of this church taken by J. Eeynolds, of Plaistow, April 25th,
1758, collecting them with the previous ones of Bassano : — *
" Hie Situs est corpus Germain Poole dominus de Watebirge in comitatu
Darbie armigeri qui ab hoc seculo transmigravit xxvi Aprilis Anno a Virginis
partu 1588, dux it que uxorem Margaretain filiam Edwardi filii Johannis Ferrers
de Tamworth militis. Postea renupta predicta Margareta fait Johanni Claye
generoso et utrique steris erat 1392."
Steris is a contraction for sterilis, and 1392 is an obvious slip
for 1592.
On the stone are two shields, Pole quartering Wakebridge and
Ferrers. The Poles of Wakebridge did not become extinct owing
to German Pole's failure of issue, for his father, John Pole, had
by his second wife, a son, George Pole, of Spinkhill, in right of
his wife, heiress of Hazlehurst, of that place. The male lines of
Pole, through Francis and George, sons of George Pole, did not
become extinct till 1724 and 1750, respectively.
Below this slab, in the north-east corner of the chancel, is a
raised or altar tomb of alabaster, on which are incised the figures
of a man and his wife. In the middle of the tomb, across the
centre of the figures, is a quaint inscription, parts of which are
now wholly illegible,! but which we are able to give from the
previously named sources : —
" Heere lieth John Clay gentleman and Mary whom he first did wive.
With her he lived near eight years space in which God gave them children five.
Daughter to William Caltoii Esquir who was unto that kinge of fame
Henrie the eight chief cock matcher and servante of his hawkes by name.
And as she had a former match, Charnell of Swarkston in Lestershire,
So she deceast this Clay did take the widow of German Poole, Esquire.
* Add. MSS , 6,101, is a folio of church notes entirely written by Mr. Eeynolds, to
which we have several times referred in these pages. His account of Crich was pub-
lished nearly in extenso in Nichols' Collectanea, vol. i., pp 42-51. There are also
some further notes on this church, by Eeynolds, in Add. MSS , 6,666, f. 585.
t Eeynolds says : — " The tomb is so much worn with boys climbing upon it,
whilst the churchwardens suffered one Joseph Mather, a lame ignorant person, to
teach school in the chancel (which infamous practice was continued till about 1732),
that most of the writing is obliterated."
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Daughter of Edward who was son to Sir Johu Ferrers of Tamworth, Knight.
Shee lies entombed in this Church with him to whom she first was plight.
And now this Claye is closed in Claye, the fairest flesh doth fade like grass.
He had on sister who unto Stuffyn of Shirbrook married was.
For deathe doth give an end to all and now this clay shall reste herein.
All claye to claye shall com at last by deathe the due reward of synne.
Thou deathe, his deathe, thy deathe is he whose soule doth live with Criste for
aye.
The stinge of death can no one flee, the greatest monarchs are but claye."
On the south side of the top of the tomb : —
" Vivo tibi, moriorque tibi, tibi Christe, resurgam,
Christe, prohendo tuam justitiamque fide.
Hinc abeat mortis terror, tibi vivo, Redemptor,
Hors mihi jam lucrum est ; Tu, pie Christe, salus.
Laus Deo."
On the south-east corner of the tonib :—
"Iste Johannes obiit mortem .... meusis Maii anno 1632 et ista Maria obiit
mortem 31 mensis Augusti anno 1583."
Between the legs of the portrait of the man : —
" Hoc lutum Deo figulo. Eom. ix."
Nearer the east end, between his feet : —
" Condita erat hsec tumba anno 1603."
On the top stone are three escutcheons : (1) Claye («>'{j., a
chevron engrailed between three trefoils slipped, sab ), (2) Claye
impaling Calton (sab., a saltire engrailed between four cross cross-
lets, or) and Ferrers (vaire), and (3) Calton alone. On the south
side of the tomb are three panels with the three daughters,
Susanna, Mary, and Penelope, kneeling. Behind Susanna and
Mary are drawn impaled shields, the dexter half left blank, showing
they were unmarried in 1603, but behind Penelope is a shield of
Brailsford (on a bend three cinquefoils pierced)* impaling Claye,
and on the cushion on which she kneels : —
" Nupta erat Thome Brelsford de Senor, g'n'so."
At the west end of the tomb are portraits in relief of the two
sons, William and Theophilus, also kueeliug. By each of them is
written : —
" Mortuus est,"
and under the cushions : —
" Isti filii obierant in juventute sua."f
The Visitation pedigrees of Claye begin with one John Claye, of
Crich and Chapel-en-le-Frith, who married a daughter of Lathbury.
* The proper arms of Brailsford are : or, a cinquefoil, sab.
•f Theophilus Claye was buried 2 March, 1590 ; Thomas Brailsford and Penelope
Claye were married 6 August, 1C01. Parish Register.
CRICH. 59
His son, Eobert Claye, married Emma, daughter of Simon Wood,
of Burton, Notts. They had two children, John, of this monument,
and his sister, Elizabeth, also mentioned in the inscription. The
daughters, Susanna and Mary, commemorated on the tomb, married
respectively Eobert Clarke, of Mansfield, and Timothy Pusey, of
Selstou.* Elizabeth, youngest of the three daughters, and co-heir
of Timothy Pusey, married William Willoughby, and their daughter,
Mary Willoughby, married Beaumont Dixie ; hence arose the pre-
viously mentioned claim of Sir Wolston Dixie to the advowson of
Crich vicarage, and also the claim of Sir Edward Wilmot, as
having purchased from Dixie.
This tomb of John Claye has always been in the chancel and
on the north side, though it used to stand close to the chancel
screen, and the present west end was to the east. He had a right
to this situation, having purchased the great tithes of Crich from
Anthony Babington in 1584.
Against the north wall of the chancel is fixed a board, with the
following lines painted on it in black letter ; this board used to
be fastened to the upper part of the rude screen on the chancel
side : —
" Soules they are made of Heavenly Spirit :
From whence they come ye heavens inherite
Did know that bodyes made of Claye :
Death will devoure by night or daye
Tett is he as hee was I saye :
He living and dead remainth Claye.
His verye name that nature gave :
Is nowe as shal be in his Grave
Tymes doth teache, experience tryes :
That claye to duste the winde up dryes.
Then this a wonder coumpt we must :
That want of winde should make claye dust."t
In the south-east angle of the chancel is an altar tomb of
alabaster, on which is the incised effigy of a man La plate armour.
Bound the margin is : —
•Harl. MSS. 1093, f. 121; 5809, f. 47; Egerton MSS. 996, f. 42. In the Egertou
MSS. the issue of John Claye by his first wife, Maria, widow of Nicholas Charuell, is
by a mistake transposed to the credit of his second wife, Margaret.
•( " 6 March 1778. A ceiled bedstead formerly belonging to John Claye of Crich in
Co. Derby, gent, was exposed to sale this day at John Ludlams, in Shirland. On the
middle pannel of the head thereof was inlaid in wood of proper colours his arms and
crest. The arms being Or, a chevron ingrailed, between three trefoils slipt, Sable.
Crest, on a wreath— a pr of wings conjoined and elevated (which by some Heralds is
called a Vole). And on that on the dexter side is his arms impaling a Saltire between
4 cross crossletts. Sinister. His arms again impaling Varey, Argt. and Sable.
Being the respective coats of his 2 wives." Add. MSS., 6,705, f. 23. This is a small
4to MS., in Reynolds' clear autograph.
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" Hie jacet Godfridus Beresford gen' os* dudu' familiaris s'vic's Georgii honoran-
dissimi Comitis Salop ac filius et heres appare's Adini Beresford de Fenny bentley.
Qui obiit vicesimo nono die mensis Nove' bri A° dni Mill0 d° xiij."
On the stone is a nearly effaced coat that has borne Beresford
and Hassall quarterly. Aden Beresford was the eldest son of
Thomas Beresford and Agnes Hassall. By his wife, Elizabeth,
daughter of Eoger Eyre, of Holme, he had Godfrey of this
monument, and George, who succeeded him on his brother dying
childless.*
On the floor of the centre aisle of the nave is a brass plate,
bearing this inscription in black letter : —
" Here under this stone the Bodies do lye
Of Robert Marshall and Margaret his wyfe.
Whiche in this town lyved quietlye
Above fyfty yearis withowt debate or stryfe.
x children they hade betwix theym in their lyfe
iij of theym doghters and sonnes were sevyn
God graunt all theyr soules reste & joy in Hevyn."
There is no date, but the style of lettering seems to be of the
third quarter of the fifteenth century.
In the same aisle is another small brass plate, with the following
in Eoman capitals : —
" John Kirkeland, Yeaoman,
buried heare,
Whose ansesrs and hee
Lived in Weatcrost above five hundred yeare,
Till gentle death did end their dayes,
Yet wee will give our God the praies.
1652."
The family of Kirkland is said to have originally come from
Cumberland. They were certainly in Derbyshire as early as the
reign of Henry III. John Kirkland, by his will dated 22 July,
1650, devised unto Godfrey Clarke, of Somersall, his " dear and
nearest kinsman," all his lands, etc., in Wheatcroft, Plaistow, Crich,
"Winfield, Morewood, Hognaston, and elsewhere, reserving a rent
charge of 40s. a year, out of his capital messuage at Wheatcroft,
for the poor of Crich. t
Upon a very small brass plate affixed to the north wall of the
chancel, with an infant wrapped in grave clothes at the base, is
inscribed : —
* See the account of the Beresfords under Fenny Bentley church, Churclies of
Derbyshire, vol. ii., pp. 463-9 ; also Harl. MSS., 5,809, f. 7 ; and 1,093, f. 49.
t Reliquary, vol. xiii., pp. 219-223.
CRICH. 6 1
" Noe sooner bloomed but blasted
Yet to revive with Thine
At the refreshing, Ephraim Shelmerdine.
March 1° 1637."
This was an infant son of Thomas Shelmerdine, the Presbyterian,
who held this living during the Commonwealth, but removed to
Matlock rectory in 1656, whence he was ejected in 1662.* His son,
Daniel, as we have already seen, held the living of Barrow-ou-
Trent.
In Eeynolds' notes (1758) occurs the following notice of a monu-
ment that has now quite disappeared : — " About the middle of this
chantry (being as now it . is in the alley going down the north
aisle) is a small grey marble stone, whereon is fixed two brass
plates, one of which has the portrait of a man in a long loose
garment drawn upon it, but the head is now taken away ; and the
other has the following inscription in antique letters, but without
date : —
' Presbiter hie clausus Wodrof requiesco Will'm's
Qui cantarie custos vocor istius ante.
Ecce q'd esca paror pro o'mibus atque cadaver
Ut sum quisquis erit, nil manet, omne perit,
Corpus mane meum licet hie cub carne putrescat,
Attamen ora deum spiritus loca alma cupescat,
Cui des introitum deus ad tua regna refund!
Visurum salvatorem, michi spes erit ista.' "f
William Woderowe, Wodrof, or Woodruffe, was instituted to the
chantry of SS. Nicholas and Katharine in 1459, and died 1490.
In the outer north wall of this aisle, near the west end, is a
sepulchral arched recess, with bold foliation. In Bassano's time
(1710) upon the lid of the coffined receptacle within it was incised
a chalice. We have little doubt that this was designed for and
occupied by the first priest of the chantry — Eichard Davy, who
died in 1370. In the eighteenth century this receptacle was coolly
reappropriated for the remains of one of the vicars of Crich, the
coffin lid reversed, and inscribed with the name of Thomas England,
who died Feb. 7th, 1730.
* Thomas Shelmerdine was of Lancashire birth and educated at Christ College,
Cambridge. " He was a diligent Preacher at Criche clivers years ; where he was
encompassed with many good old Puritans, that liv'd in that Parish and about it,
who streugthen'd his Hands much in his Work. He was a Man very cheerful in
Converse. A kind Husband to an Holy but very Melancholy Wife. From Crich he
remov'd to Matlock .... He remov'd thence when he was Silenc'd to a dwelling at
Wirksworth, where he did not long survive " Calamy's Ejected Ministers, vol. ii.,
p. 166. He was frequently Moderator of the Presbyterian Classis at Wirksworth, as
we learn from their MS. minute book.
f This is copied verbatim from Reynolds ; there are obviously several mistakes in
his transcription.
62 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Bassano also mentions that there was then a north porch, as
well as one on the south side.
In Wry ley's copy (1592) of the Visitation of 1569 occur the
following notes respecting Crich, and the glass then extant in the
windows, the monuments, etc. : — *
"Crech in the high peake, the tenure of that noble familie of Musard,
Hasculphus Musard the 20 of the conqueroure did hould Creche and Staveley in
the countie of Darbie, whoe had yssue Bitchard Musard Baron of Staveley, whoe
had yssue Hasculphus Musard Baron of Staveley, whoe had yssue Rauffe, whoe
had yssue Raffe (6 R : 1), who had yssue A[micia] M. married to [Anker]
Fretsvyle whoe held Crech and Staveley in his wyves richt. It now is in the
possession of the Earles of Srewesburie, and as it wear an appendix to their
honor of winkfeild, it enioyeth once in the year a fayer and som priviliges, it is
now the habitacion of John Cleay Gentleman, my verie good frend and kinsman.
It is seated on a hill, fertile and well stored both for wood and cole near the
ryver Darwen. In the church thes Armes."
1. Party per pale, gu. and sab., a lion rampant, arg. (Beler).
2. Am., two chevrons, or. (Fitz Ealph).f
3. England, with a label of three points, each charged with two
fleurs-de-lis.
4. Bary of six, arg. and az. (Grey of Codnor).
5. Do. do. a label of three points, gu.
6. Arg., a fesse, gu., between six lozenges, sab. (Wakebridge).
7. Az., a fesse, gu., between six lozenges, sab. (The more usual
coat of Wakebridge).
8. Az., a bend between six escallops, arg. (Frecheville).
9. Arg., a chevron between three crescents, gu. (Pole).
10. Quarterly, Pole and Wakebridge.
11. Pole and Wakebridge impaling Erm., on a chief, gu., three
bezants (Okeover).J
12. Pole and Wakebridge impaling Babington.
13. Pole and Wakebridge impaling Ferrers.
"These three escochions (speaking of the three last) belonged to the younger
famelie of the Poles, who married the daughter and heyr of Wakburge, of the
mannor of Wakeburge in the parrishe, build by Sir William Wakeburge, one of
the Justices of the Banche,§ and was a great benefactor to the Church of Creech
as by his Armes soe often sett up in the Church. He also builded a fyne chapell
at Wakeburg, garnishing with! orgayne and other costly devises."
Wyrley also makes mention of memorial windows and of a tomb
*Harl. MSS.,6592, f. 88.
t In Nichols' Collectanea these arms are here assigned to Fitz Ralph. They are
those usually given to Musard, but it is there stated (vol. i., p. 51) that no early
instance has yet been met with of the right of Musard to those arms.
J John Pole, of Hartiugton, who died 1524, married Jane, daughter of Humphrey
Okeover.
§ So that if the effigy is in legal costume, it may still be claimed for Sir William de
Wakebridge.
CRICH. 63
to John Clay and his two wives, which was an earlier one than
that now extant in the chancel : —
" Tow fayr monimentes in the glasse wroughte in their vestiraentes with the
Armes of Fretsvile, wrytten under thus — ' Gervase .... is Aneure .... pri et
Dur Armedel' .... Also on a monument: — ' Hie jacent corpora Johanis Clay
et Maries primes uxoris quondam uxor Nicholai Charnels de Suarston, et Marias
qua relictce Germani Pole de Wakburge, filia Edwardi Ferrers de Tamworth.'"
Some notes taken ahout 1780 show that the only coats then
remaining were No. 7 in the middle window of the north aisle,
No. 2 in the east window of the south aisle, and No 8 in the east
chancel window. No. 2 is the solitary coat now remaining, but
there are a few fragments of old glass in the tracery of the fourth
chancel window, a small crowned head being distinguishable.
In the time of Bassano and also of Eeynolds, there were some
remains of a parclose or screen, shutting off the east end of the
north aisle. The rood screen, of Perpendicular date, across the
chancel arch, was ruthlessly turned out, together with some well
carved spandrels of the roof, at the injudicious "restoration" of
1861. Fortunately the Eev. W. Hope, vicar of S. Peter's, Derby,
caught sight of this fine screen in a timber merchant's yard, and
rescued it from demolition, and most happily set it up as a screen
across the chancel arch of S. Peter's, where it may now be seen.
In the vestry is a beam, removed from the old roof, on which are
recorded the names of : —
" Thomas Shelmerdine, minister, 1640.
John Haslam )
John Smith | Churchwardens."
There is also in the vestry an old oak seat, handsomely carved,
and of the Perpendicular period. The ends, of considerable
elevation, terminate in " poppy-heads," on both sides of which are
carved human faces. Unless we are wrongly informed, one if not
more of these fine old church seats found their way to the house
at Chase Cliff, during the "restoration." If this is the case, we
venture to hope that they may be restored to God's House.
There is a ring of fine bells in the tower : —
I. "John Dod, John Feepound C: Wardens, MDCCXXI."
II. "Feare God honor the King, 1671," and the bell mark of
George Oldfield.
III. " I. Saxton, G. Silvester, Churchwardens. I. Goddard,
Minister, 1771."
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IV. " Hec Campana sacra fiat Trinitate beata, 1616," in Lom-
bardic capitals, highly decorated.*
V. "All men that heare my mornfull sound
Repent before you lye in ground. 1626."
There is also above these a small bell, that goes by the name
of the parson's bell There is no inscription or date upon it, and
it may possibly be the old sanctus bell that used to hang over the
east gable of the nave.
From some further notes of Eeynolds, we learn that the 3rd
bell (or, as he says, the 4th), which was broken and sent to
Eotherham to be recast, on Saturday, March 30th, 1771, formerly
bore " Jesus be oure spede B. E. B. W.," the founder's mark of
Henry Oldfield, and the date 1583 circumscribed within a small
circle. He also states, in a note dated 1770, that there were only
four bells in the steeple up to 1721, when the first one was cast.f
The same antiquary tells us, in another place, that : —
" The weathercock upon Crich Church Spire was bought of one Birds of
Mansfield in the year 1692 by John Beardah sen1 and Thomas Booner, church-
wardens. It cost 28 shillings and 12 shillings guilding, so that it lay the parish
in 40 shillings. A.D. 1769, this weathercock was taken down and fresh gilt by
David Woodhouse and George Bacon junr, churchwardens. The steeple and spire
were also pointed at the same time. The old custom at Crich church of ringing
the sermon bell after chiming all the bells was disused in 1769, and the method
of ringing the sermon bell first, then chiming all the bells, and lastly ringing
the small bell called the Ting-Tang (which last had been dumb, viz. had no
clapper in it for 70 years) was introduced. At the time were John Walker, vicar,
Joseph Goddard, curate, and the above named Woodhouse and Bacon, church-
wardens. The inside of the church was whitewashed at the same time."J
Some further notes relative to this church, included in the
Wolley MSS., and taken about the beginning of the century,
mention that " the pillars continue to be hung with garlands in
honor of young maidens who died unmarried, "§ so that Crich may
be added to the list of those Derbyshire churches where this
interesting custom used to prevail. ||
In the letters from the incumbents in 1831,"* on which the
Parliamentary Eeturn as to parochial registers is based, we find
that the communication from Crich states that the earliest register,
* For illustrations of the lettering, etc., of this bell, see the Reliquary, vol. xiii.,
p. 231.
t Add. MSS., 6,670, ff. 411, 412.
I Add. MSS., 6,707, f. 18.
§ Add. MSS. 6668, f. 449.
|j On the subject of Funeral Garlands, see the accounts of the churches of South
Winfield, Ashford, and Matlock, in vols. i. and ii. of Churches of Derbyshire.
** Add. MSS , 9,355.
CUICH. 65
from 1617 to 1640, is " totally useless and illegible." Though this
is far too sweeping a statement, still it must be owned that the
volume is much damaged, badly written, and in a few places quite
illegible. There are defects in the subsequent registers from June
7th, 1708, to March 20th, 1712, and again from March 4th, 1768,
to September loth, 1764. Eeynolds' notes (1757) make mention
of an earlier register book than the one beginning in 1617, and it
was our good fortune, in the summer of 1877, to be instrumental
in its recovery, after an absence from the parish of about a
century. Mr. Hoveden, a gentleman resident at Croydon, purchased
at a London auction, in a lot of old papers, a portion of a
parochial register. It is a quarto paper book, extending from 1564 to
1593, with several leaves missing at the commencement, and no
name of parish or minister by which to identify. The cover is of
parchment, and has been part of an old Breviary. Suspecting it
to be of Derbyshire origin, Mr. Hoveden placed it in our hands
for identification, and the following entries, inter alia, convincing
us that it pertained to Crich, the owner was good enough, in the
true antiquarian spirit, to restore it to the parish chest : —
" Marmeduke Babington sepultus fuit decimo septo Januarii, 1587."
" Germanus Poole de Wakebridge sepultus fuit vicessimo sexto die Aprilis,
1588."
" Theophilus Claye sepiiltus fuit secundo die Marcii, 1590."
" Petrus Poole sepultus fuit vicessimo die Septembris, 1590."
In the previous account of Crich we have chronicled the fact
that Sir William de Wakebridge built a chapel at his manor house
at WAKEBRIDGE, garnished with an " orgayne and other costly
devises." We are also able to give an inventory of the goods of
this chapel, as given in the Crich Chartulary, under date 1368 : —
"Memorandum de ornamentis capelle de Wakebrugge. In primis j haire, Et
ij alterclothez cum frontellis bonis, Et j tapeta ad pendeudum ante altare, Et
ij peria de Ridel* cum apparat', Et ij vestimenta festivales, Et j vestimeiitum
feriale, Et j calix, Et j missale, Et alind missale vetus, Et j portiforium, Et
j psalterium, Et iij coporalia cum cases, Et j tabula depicta, Et j portiforium
quo dominus utitur, Et j mauuale de usu Lincolnie."f
* The Eidels (Fr. rideaux) were the curtains which fenced in the back and sides of
the altar.
t The " use " or ritual of Lincoln seems to have generally prevailed in the diocese
of Coventry and Lichfield. There were five distinct uses in England — York, Lincoln,
Hereford, Bangor, and Salisbury. That of Lincoln prevailed also in many parts of
Scotland. The Sarum use was prescribed for the whole province of Canterbury in
1541, hence arose the general adoption of red for altar cloths, as red was the ordinary
colour of the Salisbury rite.
6
66 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
On the purchase of this estate by Peter Nightingale in 1771, the
fine old mansion, that had heen for so many centuries the seat of
the families of Wakehridge and Pole, was pulled down. The
chapel, which was a detached building, but had long been dese-
crated for farm purposes, did not then share the fate of the hall.
A writer of the year 1818, says : — " The east window still remains
in the end of a barn, at the back of the house, which is the only
discernible indication of the chapel."* Some thirty years ago, the
remains of this chapel were still further modernised, and the
window mentioned by Mr. Moore, taken out, and removed to the
grounds of Mr. Nightingale's residence at Lea. That portion of
the large barn which now stands on the site of the chapel, has no
trace of antiquity, or any ecclesiastical feature about it. The
extensive foundations of the old manor house, can be traced under
the sward, behind the present farm-house. In the kitchen of the
house is an old oak door, handsomely panelled with the linen-fold
pattern. This is apparently the only relic of the departed grandeur
of Wakebridge.
N.B. — Since the previous sheet passed through the press, we
have found an institution to Crich vicarage in the Lichfield
registers, under the year 1629. Owing probably to it being spelt
" Croich," it had escaped our previous notice. It is the institution
of Thomas Shelmerdine, on the death of Edwin Woolley, and John
Claye was then patron. This modifies the statements previously
made, with respect to the patronage, in one or two particulars.
* Moore's Picturesque Excursions, p. 70.
II Sainfs.
<I>uflrn5oiu
IJEFORE we particularise with respect to the different
churches of Derby, it will be necessary to make one or
two introductory remarks as to the number and names
of those churches. In the reign of Edward the Confessor, Derby
must have been an important centre of the Anglo-Saxon Church.
There were then within the borough, as we learn from the
Domesday Survey, no less than six churches. Two of these, which
were on the royal demesne, were of a colleg'iate character, the one
served by seven clerks, who held two carucates of land in (Little)
Chester, and the other by six clerks, who held nine oxgangs of
land in Cornun (Quarndou) and Detton.* The four other churches
were held respectively by Tochi, Leuric, Brun, and Coin.
At the time of the compilation of the Domesday Survey (1086),
these four, churches were the property of Geoffrey Alselin, Ralph
Fitzherbert, Norman de Lincolia, and Edric, the son of Coin. It
was also there recorded that — " Osmer, the priest, has one oxgang
of laud with sac and soc ; and Godwin, the priest, in like manner,
one oxgaug of land."
The next mention of a Derby church occurs in connection with
the abbey of Burton. A bull of Pope Lucius III., dated 1185,
confirming grants to that abbey, makes mention of the gift by
William the Conqueror of the church of S. Mary in Derby, with
two mills, and land in that town. The chronicle of the Burton
* We believe the prefix of the " D " to this place-name to be an error of the
Norman scribe, and that it is intended for Eaton, i.e. Little Eaton. At all events,
lands at Little Eaton, that had pertained to the royal demesnes, were attached to one
of the Derby churches early in the twelfth century, and it would be strange if all
reference to them, was omitted from the Survey.
70 DKEBYSIIIKE CHURCHES.
monks enables us to say that this gift was made prior to the year
1085, for it took place when Leuricus, who died in that year, was
abhot. The property is therein described as the church of S.
Mary in Derby, with its appurtenances, viz. the sites of two mills,
one called Cope-castlemyln, with an island of the same name, and
the other Schirismylne, cum ceteris terris. The abbey also at the
same time received twelve acres of meadow, cum ceteris consitetudinihns
in Walwikstrete (Wardwick), in compensation for other lands that
the king took of the abbey.*
The six Derby churches mentioned in the Domesday Survey
were (we have no doubt) All Saints, S. Alkmund, S. Mary, S.
Werburgh, S. Peter, and S. Michael. The notion, favoured by
several Derby writers, that All Saints' was formerly known as S.
Mary's, seems to us untenable, and certainly has no documentary
evidence to uphold it. On the other hand, we know that All
Saints' was thus styled as early as the reign of Henry I. The
churches of S. James or S. Helen have also been suggested to
make up the complement of six, but, as we hope to hereafter show,
when writing of the monastic establishments of Derby, neither of
these conventual churches were then founded. Of the church of
S. Mary we know but little, beyond the fact of its gift to Burton.
It seems to have speedily fallen to decay, probably because of the
insufficiency of its endowments. At all events, neither Burton Abbey,
nor apparently any other body, possessed it in the thirteenth century.
The third chapter of the old chronicle of Dale Abbey says (writing
of a time about the beginning of the twelfth century) : — ' ' There
was a baker in Derby in the street which is called S. Mary. At
that period S. Mary's was a large parish in Derby, and had under
its authority the church of Heanor, and also a chapel."t William
I. had included in his grant of the church of S. Mary to Burton
certain lands at Heauor, and hence arose the subsidiary position of
the church at Heanor to that at Derby. Beyond this somewhat
vague reference, we can glean nothing respecting S. Mary's. Pro-
bably it stood at the opposite end of S. Mary's Gate to All Saints'.
The parish seems to have been absorbed into that of All Saints'
and S. Alkmuud's, as we judge from the fact that the dean
of Lincoln owned the Castle and Shire mills of Derby in the
thirteenth century. Richard Robynson, by will dated October 17th,
1518, bequeaths — "to oure lady stondyng in the chapell in sent
* Diifrdale'fl Monasticon, vol. i., p. 271-2.
t Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. ii., p. 617.
ALL SAINTS. 71
Mary gate xij to by her a kerchief," i.e., a veil to deck the image
of the Virgin.* He was of the parish of All Hallows, aud buried
in that church. Possibly "the chapell in sent Mary gate" was
the remains of, or at all events on the site of the old church of
S. Mary.
The church of All Saints, or All Hallows, was certainly one of
the two collegiate churches of Derby in the time of Edward the
Confessor, probably the one with seven clerks attached to it. This
church was given by Henry I., together with that of Wirksworth,
sometime between 1100 and 1113, to God and the church of S.
Mary at Lincoln, to be held in Piwbemlam, together with all the
adjacent rights. The charter expresses that the churches should
be held in the same honourable and quiet way that prevailed
in the time of Edward the Confessor and of William I., but
this does not seem to imply that they had formerly pertained to
Lincom.f
We have not been able to ascertain with precision, either from
the Lincoln muniments or elsewhere, the exact nature of the
control originally exercised over All Saints' by the cathedral church
of Lincoln, but it seems that the chapter of that city appointed
the dean of All Saints', and that the sub-dean and the remaining
six prebends, instead of being co-opted by their own chapter,
according to canon law, were also appointed directly by the dean
and chapter of Lincoln. We have, too, good reasons for thinking
that the position of dean was practically- in abeyance, from the
fourteenth century downwards, the office being held by the dean of
Lincoln. At all events, we have failed to find any mention of a
dean later than the middle of the thirteenth century, and various
subsequent conventions were concluded in the name of and under
the signature of the sub-dean.
Hugo, the founder of Darley Abbey, between 1161 and 1170, is
described in the charter as " Dean of Derby," and there can be no
doubt that this means that he was at the head of the collegiate
clergy of All Saints'. The Chartulary of the abbey also makes
* Probate Office, Lichfield, Wills 1516 Io26, f. 19.
t Lincoln Chapter MSS., liegistrum Antiquissium, f. 6a — this is the charter given
in Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. iii., p. 264 ; also Decani Chartularium, f. 48, etc., etc.
Some of the earliest entries relative to this church amongst the Lincoln MSS.
describe it as All Saints, though others are content to name it as the church of Derby
being, no doubt, the one of fir.st importance.
72 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
mention of deans of the name of Henry and Robert, who appear
to Lave succeeded Hugo in the next century.*
In 1252 a dispute arose between the Canons of All Saints' and
the abbey of Darley, relative to tithes, and it was referred "to the
Pope. Innocent IV., following the usual precedent, issued a bull,
dated at Milan on the 4th of the Nones of September, in the 9th
year of his consecration, appointing Giles, archdeacon of Berkshire,
to act as arbitrator. The archdeacon, having summoned the repre-
sentatives and witnesses of both parties before him, gave his
decision in the cathedral of S. Frideswide, at Oxford, on the day
following the feast of S. John-at-the-Latin-Gate, 1253. The
Canons claimed, in the name of the churches of All Saints and
S. Alkmund, that the abbey should be compelled to pay tithes to
them, of all their demesne and other lands, of hay, of the profits
of the mills and fisheries, and of all other titheable articles within
the limits of the two parishes. They stated that the boundaries
of the parishes of All Saints and S. Alkmund were conterminous
with the royal demesne, that the abbey of Darley was erected and
lands bestowed upon it within those limits, and that they specially
claimed tithes of the cultivated land called Abbotsflat, between
Derby and the abbey on the west side of the Derwent, and of the
tilled land within the field of [Little] Chester on the other side of
the Derwent, similarly termed Abbotsflat, and also of all that part
of the pasture of King's Mead that pertained to them. The
Canons further protested that the monks of Darley obtruded them-
selves into their churches, where they celebrated Mass, heard
confessions, enjoined penances, performed the rites of sepulture,
and administered blessed bread, holy water, the Eucharist, and
extreme unction, not only to their own servants, but to certain
others. The archdeacon, associating with himself in his judgment
the prior of Frideswide and John the Constable, decided very con-
clusively against the abbey, ordering the monks to make an annual
payment of not less than one or more than two marks to the
* Cott. MSS. Titus, c. ix., ff. 55b, 56, 56b, etc., etc. The Chartulary makes inci-
dental meution of Henry, the son of Dean Hugo ; of Peter and Walter, the sons of
Dean Henry ; and of Robert, Peter, and Matilda, children of Dean Robert. Whether
tliis offspring of church dignitaries were born in wedlock or not is not stated, but we
conclude that they were legally begotten, owing to the distinct way in which their
paternity is recognised in these monastic charters. It seems probable that these
deans merely entered the minor sacerdotal orders in order to qualify themselves in
some measure for the holding of preferment, but did not actually pass into the
priesthood. There are various Canons of this period dealing with these abuses, and
laying down that only those who serve in priests' orders should for the future be
admitted to the office of prior or dean.
ALL SAINTS. 73
canons in recompense for the loss they had sustained, and a
further annual sum of twenty shillings to cover the cost of the
suit.* From this document we learn that S. Alkmund's was the
other collegiate church of the Domesday Survey, and that it was
by this time united to All Saints'.
The Patent Eolls, 53 Henry III., afford a proof of the dean
of Lincoln being regarded as dean, or at all events as the persona
of All Saints', even at that early date, for the Boll describes him
as: — " Decanus Lincoln', Persona hujus Ecclesia pro se & canonicis
ejusdem libere capelle."
In the year 1269, the conjoint value of the canonries of All
Saints' was returned at sixty marks." The Taxation Roll of Pope
Nicholas IV. (1291), gives the annual value of the prebendal
church of All Saints at £25 6s. 8d., and in addition the dean of
Lincoln is credited with lands and rents at Little Chester, Little
Eaton, and Quai-ndon, to the annual value of £17 14s. 8d. An
account of the Lincoln chapter property in this county, taken in
1329, when Anthony Beck was dean, gives the united annual value
of their property in Little Eaton, Quarndon, and Little Chester,
including a water-mill and a quarry at the first named place, at
£30 7s. Id.J In the year 1344, the same dean made good his
claim to free warren and other manorial rights over these three
estates, which had been granted to his predecessor, Philip de
Willoughby, who was dean from 1289 to 1305. § The way in
which the chapter of Lincoln lost their rights of free warren over
these and other Derbyshire manors, is not a little curious. The
deau had, in his manorial court, punished offenders against the
statute whereby the price of bread and beer was fixed (51 Henry
III.) by fines, whereas the proper punishment for the court to
inflict was either by pillory or turnbrell.|| The imposing of
fines was held to be an infringement of the royal courts, and the
dean consequently forfeited his rights of free warren, etc., to ^he
crown.**
Little Chester, Little Eaton, and Quarudou, were thus undoubt-
* Cott. MSS., Titus, c. ix., f. 75b.
t Pegge's MSS., vol. v.
I Pegge's MSS., vol. iii., f. 196— frflm a Eoll penes Franc. Ferrand Foljambe.
S Placita de Quo Warranto, p. 161.
]| By the tumbrell in this place is meant the cucking-stool, which was not confined
to the punishment of scolds, as is often stated. " The tumbrell was a punishment
anciently inflicted upon Brewers and Bakers transgressing the laws, who were there-
upon in such a stool immerged over head and ears in stercore, some stinking water."
— Cowell's Interpreter, sub voce.
** Pat, Rot... 8 Eic. II., 2nd part, rnemb. 36.
74 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
edly held by the dean of Lincoln as part of the emoluments
attaching to the prebeiidal church of All Saints, and on looking
back to the Domesday Book, it would appear that this was the
united property of the two churches on the royal demesne — All
Saints' and S. Alkmund's, which must have coalesced as early as
the reign of Henry III. S. Alkmund's, to which parish Little
Eaton pertains, seems to have been granted to the canons as a
tributary church, and served by them, possessing no distinctive rights
of its own. The evidence of the Hundred Eolls, circa 1276, is
conclusive as to the coalition of the two. It is therein stated that
there were in Derby, in the time of Edward the Confessor, two
churches on the King's demesne, the one having seven clerks and
lands in Little Chester, and the other having six clerks and lands
in Quarndon and Eyton (Little Eaton), and that the dean of
Lincoln then held these manors, and gave seven prebends to the
two churches.*
In the reign of Edward I., there was considerable dispute relative
to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction over All Saints'. In the sixth
year of that reign, it was decided that the church of All Saints
was a free chapel of the King, exempt from all ordinary jurisdiction,
and immediately subject to the Pope. It was specially stated to
be exempt from all jurisdiction of the archdeacon, t A few years
later the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield tried to enforce
episcopal control over the Church, asserting that he and his
predecessors had always exercised it.
He was summoned to the court of the King at Winchester, for
contempt both of the royal authority and of the see of S. Peter.
The dean of Lincoln, who appeared in defence of the royal rights,
contended that the church had been, from time immemorial, free
from all ordinary jurisdiction, that when any prebend was vacant
he (the dean) instituted to it, that he held visitations there, and
was the ordinary for the correcting of abuses. The jury found
that the Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield (instancing Alexander
Stavenby, 1224-1240) had always had certain jurisdiction within
All Saints', as for example the holding of ordinations, the taking
of synodals, and the exercising discipline over the chaplains, clergy,
and parishioners — but that the dean, of Lincoln had the power
of collating the prebendaries and instituting whomsoever he wished
without any presentation to the Bishop. ;{;
* Rot. Huudredorum, 4 Edw I., Com. Derb., No. 3, 2nd part.
t Pat. Rot., 6 Edw. I , meiiib. 17.
; Placita 13 and 14 Edw. III. rneiulj. 4. See Appendix, No. VI.
ALL SAINTS. 75
This decision with respect to the "Free Chapel"* of All Saints
seems to have heen carefully carried out. There is not a single
institution to All Saints', or to the subject church of S. Alkmuud,
to be found in the episcopal registers at Lichfield, but there are
several instances on record of the Bishops exercising other jurisdic-
tion. In 1301, good Bishop Langton held an ordination in the
church of All Saints, at which a large number of candidates were
admitted to the various grades of the sacerdotal office. t Several
other ordinations were subsequently held in the same building by
the Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield.
The Valor Ecclesiasticus (27 Henry VIII.), gives the clear yearly
value of this Collegiate church at £38 14s. The following are
the particulars : —
Verus valor Eccl'ie Collegiat' Om'i' S'tor' Derb' & Prebendar' ib'm.
£ s. d
Oblacoes debit' ad festum Pashe valent coib' amiis ... vj o o
Decime Agno' & lani valent coib' annis ..... x o
Decime Granor' et feni valent coibus annis ----- xviij o o
Oblacoes ad quatuor anni termiuos vocat' offryug days valent
coib' annis ...-.-.-.- xxvj viij
Decime Canabi lini porcellor' et auc' ...... xxo
Pr'bend de Subdeac1 in Parva Cestrie ------ iij vj viij
D'ns Will'mus Browne p'bend' ibm ------ xlo
D'ns Nicolaus Smytb p'bend' ibm - xiiij iii.
D'ns Thomas Lyllylow p'bend' --..... iij o o
D'ns Will'mus Cokland p'bend' ------- xiiij iiij
Magist' Liderlaud p'beud" ---..-.. xiiij iiij
Dom Eicus West p'bend' xlv viij
Et iude resolut' p' prox' & siuag' xviiji/.
S'ma clara valor' sup' diet' - - £xxxviij xiiij o
X'rna inde Ixxvij v
The sub-dean of All Saints' also received an annual payment of
£11 from Darley Abbey, according to an agreement made in the
previous century, between Eoger Newton, abbot, and John Lowe,
sub-dean. From the Darley Chartulary we find that this payment
was a composition for the tithes of grain on lands within the
parishes of All Saints and S. Alkmund, held by the abbey.
The following is the entry in the Chantry Boll, temp. Edward
VI., respecting this collegiate church and the chantries thereto
pertaining : —
* Tbe expression " Free Chapel," usually meant that the church thus designated
stood on the royal demesne, and was therefore free from ordinary jurisdiction. But
in process of time, the term continued to be applied to several churches and chapels,
that had rc.vorU-d to episcopal control and were in no sense "peculiars."
t Churches uf Derbyshire, vol. ii., p 8.
76 DKKHYSHIKK CHUKCHKS.
'• COLLEGE OB PAHSONAGE of All Hallowes in Derbie heyug the Kyngs fire
chapell collegiated there and founded by his progenitors. John Makeworth, dc.-uie
of Liucolue made an ordinance A° Dom. M. iiijc xxxij. that the rnyiiysters shulde
daylye praye for the prosperous estate of the Kyng xxxviij/i. xiijs. clere value
xl/i. ix. jd. to iij Prystes called Curates xvj/i. eyther of them cvjs. viijd to ij
Prystes deacons iiijZi. and j clerke deacon to eyther xxvijs. viijd. for wine waxe
breade and other charges in the quyre Ixs. and the residue xvijZt. ix*. for the
lyvying of the Deane and vj prebeudaryes. It is a parishe churche where there
is xvc houselynge people of whose sowles the sub-dean hath care and charge. It
hath a mancyou comenly called the Colledge or Parsonage and is charged in the
rental at xiijs. iiij^. The jewels plate ornaments etc. be suche as have been
ordeyned by the parishioners and mayntayued by the same to serve the Cure
there.
" THE CHANTRYE OF OUR LADY, founded by the deane of Lincolue liijs. iiijd.
Clere value ciijs. vj.* Thos. Rayner chauutry Pryst. Stock Ijs. ijd.
"THE SERVICE founded by Will. Shore for a pryst at S. Nycholas Alter
iiijli. ij<£. Stock lijs. vjd.
" The TRYNYTYE GUYLDE ordeyned by the Baylyffs and Burgesses of the
Borowe for a pryst to saye Masse att the Trynyte alter at v of the clock in the
mornyng and to pray for the lyves and sowles of all the brothers and systers of
the guylde, and that all persons travaylynge by the daye and all other inhabitants
myght have masse. Clere viijW. xjs. ijd. Stock Ixixs. iiijcZ."
The college was dissolved in the 2nd year of Edward VI., aud
its estates sold to Thomas Smith and Henry Newsam for the sum
of £346 13s. 4d. The rental of the collegiate house is given as
10s., and mention is also made of the rental of Is. 8d. for a
meadow in the town of Derby "in campo called Wardefeld." This
latter item is an additional proof of the endowments of the old
church of S. Mary having come into the hands of the canons of
All Saints', for a meadow by the Ward wick formed, as we have
already seen, part of the estate given with that church to the
abbey of Burton by the Conqueror. By far the greater part of the
property of the college, indeed the whole of the prebendal farms,
were situated in Little Chester. The farm of the prebendary,
lately held by Magister Eamsey, clerk, was then valued at 13s. 4d.,
those of Magister Elien and William Tailor at a like sum respec-
tively, that pertaining to Richard Weste at 46s. 8d., that of John
Wilkes at 40s., that of Thomas Smythe at 60s., and that pre-
bendary called " le Subdeans prebend or Stone prebend," 66s. 8d.
Other rents pertaining to the sub-dean, also at Little Chester, were
valued at 46s. 8d. The lead, bells, and advowson were to be
excepted from this purchase. At the same time, the tithes of
grain of the town of Derby that had belonged to the abbey of
Darley by agreement with All Saints', were sold to Eobert Carre
* The Valor Ecclesiasticus values this chantry at 4 marks per annum. Henry
Pott was then chantry priest. It is described as possessed of a mansion and other
ruinous houses.
ALL SAINTS. 77
and John Almonde for £200, being at the rate of 20 years'
purchase. Both these sums were pocketed by Edward VI., or
rather by his advisers, who seem to have made no provision
whatever for the spiritual needs of Derby, and the numerous
officiating priests were suddenly stripped of their stipends, without
any compensation.*
We find, however, a few years later, that Queen Mary provided
pensions for the dispossessed prebendaries, almost exactly corres-
ponding to their previous stipends. Robert Thacker, the late
sub-dean, received £6 13s. 4d., and the ex-prebendaries, William
Tailor 14s., George Glynne 14s. 4d., Richard (?) Wilkes 40s., and
Thomas S my the 60s. Roger Bartilmew, late chantry priest of the
Trinity Guild, also received 66s. 8d., and Lawrence Sponer, late
priest of the chantry of Our Lady, £5.t
In the first year of her reign Queen Mary did somewhat to
repair the mischief done to the parishes of All Saints and S.
Alkmund, that had formerly been served by the canons. So far
as All Saints' was concerned, she granted the farms of the sub-
deans or Stone-house prebend, two of the small prebends, and
other alienated property, together with certain premises that had
belonged to S. Mary's chantry and to the Trinity Guild, to the
Derby Corporation, on condition that the Bailiffs and Burgesses
should find two priests to officiate at All Saints', and that two
vicarages should be for them instituted in the said church, each
endowed with a house and an annuity of 17 6s. 8d. The clause
relative to this appointment runs as follows : —
" And further we will for ourselves and our heirs and successors ordain and
grant that in the church of All Saints there shall be two perpetual vicars, to be
instituted and endowed, who shall have perpetual succession, and be instead of
rectors there, and maintain hospitality there, and have cure of souls of the
parishioners there, and do and execute all other things which are known to
belong to the office of rector or vicar."}
Iii 1502 a dispute arose between one William Buckley and the
Town of Derby, respecting certain property in the parishes of All
Saints, S. Alkmund, S. Michael, and S. Werburgh, which
Queen Elizabeth had granted him by letters patent. These grants
were contested, for they were one and all claimed as lands or
tenements used by the churchwardens for the repairs of their
* Augmentation Office Miscellaneous Books, vol. Ixvii., ff. 72 & 90.
t Add. MSS. 8,102, f. 49b. This is the interesting Pension Roll, '2 and 3 Philip and
Mary, which we give in extenso in the Appendix.
J The whole of this long grant of Queen Mary to the Corporation, consisting of 67
clauses, is given in Simpson's Derbyshire, pp. 67-Ts.
78 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
respective churches. The Court of Exchequer appointed John
Harpur, Francis Fitzherbert, Henry Duporte, Lawrence Wright,
and Robert Newton to act as arbitrators, and some interesting
evidence was produced before them. Amongst the witnesses, on
behalf of the Bailiffs and Burgesses, were Robert Stringer, gentle-
man, aged 60 — William Both am, woollen-draper, who had been
twice churchwarden of All Saints' — John Scattergood, husbandman,
of Little Chester, who had been four times churchwarden of S.
Alkmund's, aged 65 — John Stafford, shoemaker, who had been
churchwarden of S. Werburgh's forty years ago, aged 72 — and
Richard Doughty, aged 77. The last named deposed that "he
doth verie well remember that about primo or secundo Edwarde
the sixt there was a Commission directed to Mr Beaumont then
Mr of the Rolls of the Highe Courte of Chauncerie as to what
lands, tenements, etc., belonged to the King by the Statute made
for dissolving of Colleges, hospitalls, free chappells, and chanteries."
He further stated that all the churchwardens and sidesmen of
Derby were sworn to present all such property before the com-
mission, and that the commissioners urged him and his fellows to
find the property now in question for the King. But he then
proved before the commission, by the testimony of ancient men,
that it had been long used simply for the repair of the respective
fabrics. Eventually the arbitrators decided most thoroughly against
the rapacity of the Crown. They made an award that the fee
farm of two cottages, seven gardens, and fourteen acres of land in
Derby, formerly pertaining to the prebends of All Saints', should
pass within three years from Queen Elizabeth to the Town of
Derby ; and that the title to the tithes of certain church lands in
Derby, and to the chapel on the bridge, granted by letters patent
to William Buckley, was not a good title, seeing that they had
been enjoyed by the town for the space of six or seven score
years. The rest of the award, as it affected the other parishes,
was of the same character.*
Most of the church lands here mentioned, as well as much of
those granted by Queen Mary, were subsequently sold by the parish
of All Saints from time to time, whenever any unusually heavy
expense for the repair of the fabric fell upon them.
The Parliamentary Commissioners of 1650 say of All Saints'
that it ''is a donation, fourteenc tlnrteene foure granted by Queene
* From the original depositions (in a damaged and imperfect condition) now in the
pariah chest of All Saints'.
ALL SAINTS. 79
Marye and payed by the Corporation for the maynteyning of two
vicars." But we have failed to obtain any proof that the Corpora-
tion ever did maintain two vicars. They did, however, appoint
one minister or perpetual curate, giving him apparently the stipend
intended for two, and showing themselves for a long time most
jealous of any recognition of episcopal claims to institution. The
parish, out of the rates, provided in addition " a reader," whose
duty it was to say the daily morning and evening prayers com-
manded by the Church, and it was not until the year 1732 that
this wholesome practice was abandoned. When the Corporation
Reform Act became law (1835), it was no longer possible for
Corporations to retain property in advowsons, and All Saints'
was sold to the Simeon trustees.
The following is a list of the post-Reformation incumbents of
All Saints', chiefly taken from the parochial registers : —
1664. John Houghton.
1576. Charles Wood.
1592. Edward Bennett.
1609. Richard Kilbie.
1617. John Chappell.
1621. Gervase Hall.
1632. Edward WiUimot, D.D.
1643. Joseph Swetnam. Ejected for nonconformity.*
1662. John Boylston, D.D.
1671. Samuel Willes ; prebendary of Bobenhull, Lichfield, 1682 ; died 1685.
1690 (?). Walter Horton.
1708 (?). Samuel Sturges.
1719 (?). Michael Hutchinson, D.D. ;f prebendary of Dasset-Parva, Lichfield, 1703 ;
rector of Cheadle, Stafford; also vicar of Packington, Leicester, where he
was buried in 1730.
1728. William Chambers.
. Joshua Winter.
1774. Charles Hope. On the presentation of the Mayor and Burgesses. I Charles
Hope was in the same year also instituted to the vicarage of S. Michael's,
and S. Werburgh's.
1798. Charles Stead Hope; patrons, the Mayor and Burgesses. "Licensed to
perform the office of chaplain, presbiter, and minister of the Free Chapel
or parish Church of All Saints. "§
* " He was not formally put out by the Act of Uniformity, and yet really he was.
For foreseeing the commencement of that Act on Bartholomew-Day, he thought good
to make a mixtly voluntary Secession sometime before its taking Place, and so was
not, and yet was expelled by it. He was a Man very well qualify'd to fill so August a
Place as Alhallows in Derby. A very able Preacher; and great Master of Language."
— Ejected Ministers, vol. ii., p. 164-5.
f We are not sure of the precise date of the institution of Dr. Hutchinson and his
two predecessors ; the dates given are the earliest mentions of the names that we can
find in the registers or parish books. Dr. Hutchinson resigned the living of Lilling-
tou-Dayuell in 1725, so it is probable that this was the year that he came to Derby.
I This was the first institution or licence to All Saints', made by the Bishop. See
Episcopal Registers, vol. xxiii., p. 65.
§ Episcopal Registers, vol. xxvii. , p. 34.
80 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1841 . Edward Lillingston ; patrons, the Simeon trustees.
1848. David Anderson; patrons, the Simeon trustees.
1849. Edward Walwyn Foley ; patrons, the Simeon trustees.
1872. Sholto D. C. Douglas; patrons, the Simeon trustees.
The church consists of a remarkably fine tower of the late
Perpendicular style, and a modern classical body, built in 1723-5,
and forming a parallelogram, with an interior area of 122 ft. by
75 ft. That which Huttou wrote of Derby and the tower of All
Saints', nearly a hundred years ago, is still true : — " The stranger,
who wanders through Derby in quest of objects worthy of remark,
will find some defects, and more beauties : but when he arrives
at All Saints', he arrives at the chief excellence — the pride of the
place. It stands as a prince among subjects ; a giant among
dwarfs. Viewed at any distance, or in any attitude, the associated
ideas of taste, grandeur, and beauty fascinate the mind ; the eye is
captivated, and continually returns to its object, but never tires.
Some pride, more sense, and still more judgement must have
combined in our forefathers in the construction of this noble tower ;
they wrought, and we enjoy the credit of their labour."* Tho
tower is 174 feet high, exclusive of the pinnacles, which with
their vanes measure 36 feet from the roof. It is about 50 feet
square at the base and 40 feet square at the top. Notwithstanding
its great altitude (considerably surpassing S. Mary's, Tauuton,
Magdalen College, Oxford, and other towers of the same class),
it was originally intended to have been surmounted by a spire,
or rather perhaps by a lantern, like that at Boston. At least so
we gather from an inspection of the bell-chamber, or upper
storey of the tower, the roof of which is partially vaulted
in a massive manner with eight rows of bold moulding protruding
from the walls, leaving an octagonal opening in the centre, and
having four squinches or small arches in the angles. The body
of the tower is divided into three stages of nearly equal height,
by two bands or fascia beautifully moulded, the lower with octagon,
and the upper with quatrefoil tracery. The battlements, and
buttresses, and other parts of the tower, are also richly panelled
with tracery.
An inscription upon a fascia on the south side of the lower stage
of the tower, gives the words : footing -ffSitn anil ^Satt&tttg.
This inscription was restored when the tower was repaired in
1845, but the same words, in older orthography, also occur on
* Button's History of Derby, p 146-7.
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the north side. Tradition says that the tower, up to that height,
was huilt at the expense of the youth of both sexes. This notion
has usually been ridiculed, and the supposition that the inscription
is the beginning of a quotation from Psalm cxlviii. generally
accepted. But it is impossible that the latter surmise can be
correct, or why should the same words appear on two sides ?
Moreover, the inscription is perfect in itself, for the west window
interferes with any continuation on that side of the tower, and
the body of the church does the same on the east. On the whole,
we see no reason to doubt the truth of this tradition, and it is
some confirmation to find that the bachelors of the town subse-
quently subscribed to provide one of the bells.
Various conflicting statements have been made with respect to
the exact age of this grand tower, some assigning it to as late a
date as the reign of Queen Mary ; but the truth is that the
process of building, like BO many of the best masterpieces of
Gothic art, was a slow one, and that its erection extended over a
considerable period. Fortunately we are able to give some interest-
ing documentary evidence, hitherto unknown and unpublished, on
this very point. From the first volume of the churchwardens'
minute books* (which actually begin in the year 1466), we gather
that the works of the tower were in progress in the second year
of Henry VIII. (1510-11):—
" And the said John Newton John Elistone and Christopher Thakkar church-
wardens are discharged of y* saide xijs. In so moche they be charged w' anoy'
boke of the comptes of the Werkes of the Steple that yere And all thynges
charged in the saide accoinpte and accompted of the werkes of the steple that
yere And all thynges allowed and to be allowed. The sayde Comptantes were
fonde in supplusage xviijs. vd. Thys Accompte was made the xiiij day of Aprill
the thyrd yere of Kyng Henry the viij."
The next entry relative to the tower or steeple, occurs some ten
years later : —
"Anno Dui M° DXX°.
Md y* sr George bodon p'ste have payed to William baroe and thos
oxle to the bildyng of ye steple, Bog" mor' and thos Walkar the ballyves, xij<i.
Md y* sr George bodon p'ste have payed In the yeare of or lorde
jtoxxiij to John david to the byldyng of alhaloes steple - - - . xij<Z.
Also payed by the said sr George bouden the year of or lorde aroxxiiij
to the churchwardens to ye byldyng of the steple - - - - - xijd.
And In the yere of or lorde MDXXV payed sr George bouden p'ste to
the churchwardyns John Sborariot oy' to ye bildyg of y* steple - - . - xii<2.
* The churchwardens' accounts and the minute books of All Saints', together with
numerous other papers in the parish chest, are of such exceptional and voluminous
interest, that it was found to be quite impossible to do more than give some brief
extracts from them in this work. They will, however, be thoroughly analysed and
annotated in a monograph on this church, now in course of preparation.
7
82 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
And In the yere of or lorde MDXXVJ the iijd day of February Syr George
bouden p'ste payed to the churchwardyns Thomas Parre, Roberts
farynton, and oder to y6 bildyng of the Steple by the hands of the pson
of alhaloes ....------.---' xijcZ.
We Roger Hawe and Edward Coke w'od' churchwardens have
Item Rec' by the hands of Thos tulenson of Chaleston executor to sr George
Boedon of y6 saide Chaleston xs. Jid. in parte of paymente for hys bequeth Wiche
ys xls. gyffen by hys last will to the steple of All sauctes in derby."
From the accounts of the year 1527, it appears that Kobert
Liversage, dyer, of S. Peter's parish, who two years after founded
an important charity, was also a munificent benefactor to the
steeple of All Hallows : —
Anno dni M° quingen0 xxvij0
PAYMETES As FOLOETH payed to John Otes fremason fonde of charite by
Roberte lyv'sege of Sancte petr parishe Diar to y" byldyng of Alhaloes steple In
the yer' of or lorde above saide,
In pms payed to the said mason the next hole weke aftr passion
sonday for hys wages - - - -.- - - - - - iijs. iiijd!.
It' to the saide mason ye weke aftr palme sonday ----- xx<£.
It' payed to the saide maso' the weke aftr low sonday - - - - ijs. xd.
It' payed to the saide John Otes maso' ye thridde weke aft1 pasche
for hys wages ----------- iijs. iiijd.
It' payed to the saide mason y6 forth weke aft* pasche for hys wages iijs. iiijd.
It'm payed to y6 saide John Otes mason the fyfte weke aftr pasche
for hys wages ....-.----- iijs. Hijd.
Itm' payed to the saide John in crosse weke for hys wages - - - iijs. iiijd.
It' payed to saide John Otes for hys wages the weke aftr thascencion
day iijs. iiijd.
Itm' petecost weke ........ xxd.
It' payed to the saide mason the weke aft1 trinite sonday - - - iijs. iiijd.
It' payed to ye saide maso' the weke aftr corps Xti day - . - ijs. x<£.
It' payed to the fore saide maso' for hys wages the weke aftr the
feste of pet1" and paule .._...--- iijs. iiij<i.
It" payed to the fore saide John Otes for hys wages the weke aftr
Relike sonday --..--...-- iijs. iiijd.
It' payed to the saide maso' for hys wages in Sancte James weke - xxd!.
It' payed to the saide John Otes the mason for the weke next aft1"
James day iijs. iiijd.
It' payed to the saide maso' the weke before or lady day assupcon for
hys wages --_.-__.__-. iijs. iiijd.
It' payed to the sayed mason by ye hade of mast, pson in or lady day
assupcon weke for hys wages -------- iijs. iiijd.
It' payed to_ the saide mason for hys wages the next weke aftr or lady
day assupcon by the haude of the saide mr pson - iijs. iiijd.
Itm' payed to the saide mason the weke aftr sancte bartolmewe Day
by the hands of thos warde -------- iijs. iiijd.
Sma - - - Ivijs. iiijd.
It' payed to the saide mason by the hands of thos Warde the satrday
or lady Ae' nativite --. ....... iijs. iiijd.
It' payed to the saide mason by the sayde thos Warde the Satrday in
feste of exaltacon of y« holy cros in ye name and for ye saide
Robert Lyversege iijs. iiijd.
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Itm' to the sayde John Otes fremason for hys wages the Saturday
Sancte Mathewe day by the haude of thos "Warde - iijs. iiij^.
Itm' payed to ye saide mason for hys wages the safday michaelmas
even by the hands of the pson of Alhaloes iijs. iiijd.
Itm' payed to ye saide mason the safday aftr Michaelmas day by y6
hands of ye said pson --------- . iijs. iiij^.
It' payed to the saide maso' for hys wages the safday Sancte Edwarde
eve kyng and confessor by ye hands of thos Warde - iijs. iiij<2.
Itm' payed to the said maso' the safday aft1 Sancte Luke day for
hys wages by the hands of the saide thos ----- iijs. iiij^.
It' payed to the saide mason the safday before alholowe day for hys
wages by the hands of they thos ........ iijs. iiijd.
Sm xxvjs. viijd.
Sm to li3 solut' pro diet' Roberto Lyv'sege iiijZi. iiijs.
Eeceyved of the saide Eoberte lyv'sege the Wedynsday nexte befor' palme
sonday the xx yer' of kynge henry the viij by the hands of mr ballyve warde
And Raufe ley the saide mr lyv'sege p'ste xxijs. viijd. And delyvered to the
churchwardyns Elsie symson John steade John sowtar and Willm yates to the
byldyng of the alhaloes steple.
Also receyved by the saide churchwardyns of the said church of All Saints
upon sancte Anne day next aff the saide date xxvjs. viijd. for the saide Robert
lyv'sege to the byldyng of y« saide steple.
The nolle Sm gySen to the saide steple by the saide Robert lyv'sege
vli. xiijs. iiijd.
Under the year 1532, occur the following entries, which we have
no doubt relate to efforts made in other parts of Derbyshire
towards obtaining funds for the completion of the tower : —
" The Aell of Chaddesdyn.
Made by Thos. parker, thos. Hornby, whose sm mounted to xxvM. viijs. vjd.
thereof spendeth there i necessary expences xxxiiijs. xd.
The Aell at BrayUsford.
Made by Edmund Tomer, Ric. plesley, whoos sm mownteth to xjfo'. iiis. iiijd.
The sm spended there xiiijs. vd.
The Aell made at Worsworth.
Made by Xfor Thakkar, Wyllm Seybmg, whoos sm mowntith Spended of this
same sm for necessarys xxviijs. ijd."
The Church-Ale of our ancestors was an important method of
raising funds for church expenses. In some parishes it was the
habit to resort to one or more of these entertainments every year
(as we shall see in our subsequent account of Ockbrook), but it was
also usual to bring them into operation when certain extraordinary
funds were required for church repair. Two men were chosen by
the parish to act as wardens and masters of the feast. It was
their duty to collect malt for brewing, corn for baking, and any-
thing for the purpose of the entertainment that they could persuade
the householders to furnish. "When the ale was brewed and the
cakes baked, arrangements were made to provide mystery-plays,
84 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
morris-dancing, cudgel-playing, shooting at the butts, and other
such like sports that pertained to mediaeval fairs. All the comes-
tibles, and especially the ale, were sold at good prices ; charges
were made for the sports, and contributions invited from the
country gentlemen and others who might visit the fair-ground from
curiosity or good-will. Thus handsome sums were often realised
for the object specified, as was the case with the " Aell of
Chaddesdyn." The church- ale would, no doubt, be sometimes abused
for purposes of dissipation, but it hardly becomes us to wax
indignant with it as an unworthy method of raising funds, when
we of the nineteenth century are not ashamed to resort to the
church-bazaar, with its refreshment bar, and divers forms of
amusement. It is peculiarly interesting to find that church-ales
for the purpose of building the tower of All Saints' were held in
different parts of the county (of which the three given above
are probably only instances that occurred in one year and
were accidentally inserted in the minute book), for it shows that
this church was considered to be the concern of more than the
mere parish or borough. Being of imposing size, most richly
furnished with all the ornaments of worship, served by a large
coUege of priests and chantry chaplains, and chosen by the Bishop
for ordinations and other important functions, it is not surprising
to learn the collegiate church of All Hallows was regarded some-
what in the light of a minster for all Derbyshire.
The height of this tower has rendered the lofty pinnacles
unusually susceptible to strain and decay. They were entirely
renewed in 1715 at an expense of £55, and again in 1823 at an
expense of £118 19s. 6d. The smaller intermediate pinnacles were
renewed in 1858, and as we write (August, 1878) the large south-
east pinnacle is in course of reconstruction. The tower itself
underwent substantial, and on the whole careful, repair and
restoration in 1845, at a cost of £1,113 15s. The tower contains
a fine ring of ten bells, of which the tenor is the only one of
mediaeval date.
I. " God save his Church. Fra. Thacker, J. Ragg, 1678," and
the initials " W. N." for William Newcombe, a Leicester bell-
founder.
II. "God save his church, 1687, F. Thackar, G. Saracole."
III. "Let Darby bee ever happy. Nat Prime, Tho. Chapman,
Wardens, 1693."
IV. "Coelum remuneret benefactoribus meis."
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V. " Batchelers Bell, 1620," and the founder's mark of George
Oldfield.
VI. " Hec campana sacra fiat Triuitata beata, 1607." On the
waist these initials :— "I. B. E. P. H. 0. H. B. G. B. T. W."
VII. " Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomine tuo da gloriarn,
E. W. I. S., 1629, Wardens, G. B."
VIII "God save the Church, 1632."
IX. " Glory be to God on high, 1655," and the founder's mark
of George Oldfield.
X. "Hec campana sacra fiat Trinitate beata."
The old church of All Saints was peculiarly rich in church
ornaments, as will be gathered from the following verbatim inven-
tory, which, so far as parish churches are concerned, is unique
both for its early date and its fulness : — *
LlBEB COPOTUS PTINE
CAPELLE REGIE COLLEGIA
STOB IN DEBBEIA.
Memorand, that In the yr of or Lorde M cccclxvj introed' George Styholme to
be clerke In the saide collegiate chapelle of All Saints Then beyiuge churche
wardens Henry cartewright and John Mabley wiche saide John and Henry
delyvered to the saide George to Kepe the ornaments And joeles of the saide
collegiate chapell or churche with all charges to the belongynge duryng all the
tyme of his clerkeshype As here aft1 foloethe.
BOKES
INPBIMIS ij missals or masbokes, one gospelar, viij Antiphonars, ij manuelles,
iiij processionars, one Collector, iij greles, ij ordinales one gudde the oder of
smalle valore.
JOCALIA
Imprimis iij chaleses, one of them ye sylver and gylte, two censars of sylver, one
sylver shippe, ij lytel sylver spones, one pixe of sylver and gylte, Another lesse
pixe of sylver and gylte, hengyngs on the hyghe altar that mr Heughe Wil-
loughby Esquiar boghte, iiij candilstykks of lattyn, one lesse pere, thoder (the
other) more, one g of lattyn, ij cristamatories of lattyn, one
thoder more. ITEM iiij crosses, one of sylver and gylte, Another of tymbur and
plate thrydde of lattyn and sylver, The forthe .... plated sylver and
gylte sette with stones lente tyme. ITEM one shryne of tyn and
one gylte, And one payre of organes another small payre of orgones.
OBNAMENTA IBIDE.
INPRIMIS A grene sute of Vestementes that Mr Mydylton of london gaffe, A
chesabull, ij tyuacles, iij Albes, iij Amysses with stoles and fananxes thereunto,
one Eede Cope to the same sute. ITEM A red sute next to the beste, A
chesabull, ij albes, iij amyses, ij tenacles with stoles and faunauxes to the ....
Eede purpull sewte with iij albes iij Ameses ij tynaculs and fanancs to
them of blak sarsenett yt parson bayns gaff, and ij tyuacles. Item an
* We give this inventory just as it stands, reserving our notes for the monograph
on this church. Another inventory of the year 1483, considerably fuller than its
predecessor, and several of a later date, will also theu be given. The dotted lines in
the text imply places where the edges of the book have been torn away.
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olde Rede sute with iij albes iij amyses a chesabull ij tenacles with stoles and
fanancs to them, and another chesable of Rede yt the syng The masse in, and
a chesabull of grene yoloe sylke.
COPES.
ITEM a blak cope of wulsted with braunches of golde opon hytt, ITEM one grene
cope with lyons of golde brotherde. Item one Redde cope, And another Rede
cope for worke dayes, And one Rede purpulle cope.
ITEM one veyle for lente, And one SepultP" clothe, with one crisonne cloth wroght
with ye nylde to henge att the hoele of ye saide sepulf clothe.
COEPOEAX CASES.
ITEM a corporax case of blak velvette yt Richard Day wyffe gaffe.
Alsoe anoyther corporax case of clothe of golde that longley wyffe gaffe. Item a
corporax case of Rede damask and blew, Anoyther of blak satten, Anoyther of
Rede sylke.
PELOES.
INPEIMIS ij peloes of clothe golde for the hye altar, Item one piloe of Rede under
the gospelar, and Anoyther Rede piloe, and other ij piloes for weddyngs.
ITEM a banare clothe of sylke havyng opon hyt the Image of the assupcion of
or lady that mr John Newton gaffe.
CKOSSE STAVES.
ITEM one crosse staffe of tymbur stiched with pocok feders and golde leddur
Item another crosse staffe poynted and layde with silver in the one parte thereof
yt the sade mr John Newton gaffe.
ITEM one crosse of sylver and gylte waying Ixxx unces and iij qrters the pryce
thereof xxijM. that was boghte when Adam prynce and Richerde Standeley were
churchwardyns, wich was in ye yere of or Lorde Mcccclxix.
ITEM one grette pare candestykks of la in the chaunsell boghte in Robert
Somer and thomas Knolles dayes ye .... of the iiij .... ij of viij.
Item another payre of smaller candelstikks standyng in the saide quere.
ITEM ij cushens of cowched worke that mr William Wulsette gaffe.
THE HYE ALTAB.
ITEM to the hye altar belongeth viij altar clothes, ij frontels one of velvette,
Anoyther off wulstyde, ij towels of twyll, And iij of playn Irishe clothe, Item ij
paynted clothes att the hye altar ende, Item ij clothes before the hye altar one
of blew and yeloe, Another of Rede, Another with ye iiij evangelists of yt, and
another with the beste of damaske worke.
Item paynted clothes hengynge above the stalls in the quere, one of stories of ye
newe lawe, and another of storyse of the olde lawe.
Item a super altare that thomas Sharpuls gaffe.
Item one Resurrecton.
MEMOBANDUM that in the yere of or lorde Meccclxvj that lawrece Luchurche
candelighter and thomas leys sonne made ye accopte to the saide Henry carte-
wrighte and John Makley churchwardens of the joels and ornaments that they
had in kepyng and were charged with as hereafter foloeth
IXPBIMIS xj altar clothes, xj towells of twill, Item vj towells of playn, iij shets,
and one cloth to the fonte, Item one Red cov' lede, ITEM all the clothes yt cover
or hylle the Images in lente, Item a grete clothe that coverethe the Rode, Item
one blewe clothe that hengs before Sancte Caterne tabull, item iij pelose to the
same off blak sylke brotherde, Another of purpull sylke, the thrydde of
whyte clothe samplar warke. ITEM one altar clothe to the same altar made with
flow's and braunches of golde opon hytt, and another paynted clothe yt serves for
worke dayes.
ITEM to the trinite alter yr a stened cloth with flowers opon yt, and another
paynted clothe for worke dayes, and one frontelle yt hengs under the trinite.
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ITEM to the passyon altar belongeth a newe started clothe with flowers, and an
old paynted clothe for worke dayes.
ITEM vj bannar clothes, ij pendants or straymers, and vj shaffetes or banar polles
to them.
IN WAXE.
INPEIMIS Ix serges* more or lesse.
SEPULCUR SEKGBS.
IXPRIMIS one sepulcur serge upholden by John Hardyng, and after npholden and
kepte by Eichard Stayngar.
ITEM another in the berying of William Cowper and after delyverde to conay
barger by the churchewardens, and after hym to Edmunde Bavlynson.
ITEM in the holding of John Hoghton and after delyverde by the churchewardyns
to John Newton.
ITEM another sepulf serge in the kepying of Boberte Weste delyverde to thorns
bradshae, And after hym to Eicherde hatfelde by Adam prikprowde and Eicherd
Standelay churchwardyns, Or else hadde or wolde Elise stable that weddet thorns
bradshawe wyffe take yt away after decesse to Sancte Warbur church When he
dwelled at thabbe barnes.
ITEM another sepulf serge in the holdynge of John Wodcok that nowe Eicherde
day kepeth.
ITEM another sepultr serge in the holdynge of John day that now Edmunde dey
kepeth.
ITEM another in the holdyng of Eoberte Shore that nowe Edmuude dey sus-
tenothe.
ITEM another sepulf serge in the holdyng of Eoberte Mundy, And after in the
sustenyng or upholdyng of Eicherde Mownforde.
AND LYKEWYSE of oder sepult1' serges sustened of charite by oder of the parishe
whose names shulde lykewyse be hed expressed botte that some wyked creature
hath bytte the lefe furthe of the olde boke.
ITEM payed for washynge of all clothes to the alteres to thos laurence wyffe, xijd.
Almost the whole of the ornaments and vestments of the church
would doubtless he confiscated to the crown in the time of Edward
VI., as coming within the statute for the suppression of colleges,
etc., but in the second year of Queen Elizabeth, 1559-60, we find
that the church possessed inter alia, " a brasse crosse — an holy
water can of brase — a Cowpe of blak Vellyvet — and 1 fyne Vest-
ment." In the following year, in addition to the above, mention
is also made of a suit of vestments of black velvet. In 1563-4,
an albe and an amice, a cope of black velvet, three surplices, and
a cope of blue chamlet. These copes are mentioned repeatedly in
subsequent inventories, and an albe is emunerated year by year
up to 1576.f
From the various pre-Keformation entries, we find that the old
* Serges, i.e. large tapers.
t Those interested in the " Vestment Controversy," will find herein a remarkable
corroboration of the common sense view of the question, viz., that vestments were
certainly not prohibited but understood to be sanctioned by the " Ornaments Eubric,"
yet that in course of time their use gradually died out in almost all churches, owing
to the ascendancy of a puritan spirit, and the great cost necessary for their mainten-
ance. It will be noted that vestments were used in All Saints' for more than a
decade after the alleged '' Advertisements " of Privy Council fame.
88 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
church used to possess, in addition to the the high altar, altars
to Our Lady, to Our Lady of Pity, to the Holy Trinity, to the
Holy Eood, and to SS. Catharine, Nicholas, George, Clement,
Edmund, and John the Baptist. The churchwardens' accounts of
a later date, make mention of the bailiffs' seat used by the recorder,
of the beadswomen's seat in the chancel, of the judges' pew, of the
batchelors' pew, of " a longe seat for maides," of the service seat,
of a pew for the parson's wife, of the reading desk, and of the
pulpit with an hour-glass. It had a chancel door, north door,
south door, great west door, and consistory door. There were
three aisles of equal length, extending as chancel chapels on each
side of the central quire. There was a south porch, with a sundial
over it, and pinnacles both on the porch and on the body of the
church. The churchyard was planted with trees and had large
iron gates, but was also traversed by a public paved causeway,
access to which was gained by a turn-stile at each end.
Some notes taken by Elias Ashmole in this church, on August
9th, 1662,* make mention of (in addition to monuments now
extant) the following inscription on an alabaster stone at the
entrance into the chancel : —
" Beader if thou desirous be to know whose Corps I cover
A Merchant borne in this Towne, to God, Church, Poore was lover
The tyme wch here on Earth he spent was three score years and five
Nyne Children God unto him lent, dead six, and three alive
He liv'd belov'd, and lov'd to live in gentle sort and fashion
An humble minde God did him give to hate vaine ostentacon
Reader farewell desire I can thee to be such a one
In lyfe and death to God and man as this Paule Ballidon.
He died the 15th day of Aug: A° dni. 1636.
William, John, Nathaniell, Andrew, Paule, Edward, Jane, Mary, Paule."
Another alabaster stone, between the south aisle and the chancel,
bore : —
" Heere lyeth the body of Edward Beaumont gent, sometyme Coroner of the
County of Derby who had two wifes, the first called Eliz : by whome he had
yssue two Sons yet living, the second called Alice sometyme wife of Humfry
Sutton, w011 Alice caused this Monument to be made, the said Edward deceased
the 17th day of Octob : in the year of or Lord God 1581 and the said, Alice
deceased the day of 15 ..."
Within the arch at the foot of this stone, was a raised tomb of
alabaster to Eichard Fletcher, thrice bailiff of Derby, who died
January 13th, 1606. On the left hand of the east window of the
south aisle were the kneeling effigies of a man and woman in
* Ashm. MSS., 854, Bodleian Library ; also see Dugdale's Visitation of 1662-3, at
the College of Arms.
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alabaster, but without any inscription. On the wall above
the figures was the following quartered coat : — (1) or, a lion
rampant double-queued, vert, (2) arg., a chevron between three
bugles, sab., (3) arg., a chevron between three crosses patee, sab.,
(4) or, a chief, gu., and the crest of a demi-lion double-queued,
vert, within a ducal crown. Also another crest or badge near by,
described as "3 anuletts ennected or." These were the arms,
quarterings, and crests of Button ; viz., Button, Bassett, Morton,
and Worsley.* Over the heads of the man and woman were three
coats, representing Sutton impaling [1] or, a chief, gu., over all a
bend engrailed, sab., (Bridge), [2] vaire, on a chief, gu,, an escallop
between two mullets, or (Barnard), and [3] or, a lion rampant, sab.,
within a bordure of the second (Burnell). Below them were the
same three impaled coats, as well as three additional impalements
of Sutton, viz. : [1] or, three heads of garlick, proper (Needham),
[2] or, two bendlets, sab., (Eadcliff), and [3] quarterly per fesse
indented, or and az., a bend, gu. (Blundeville).
Foulk Sutton, second son of Sutton, of Sutton in Cheshire,
settled at Over-Haddon in this county, 16 Henry -VI. He married
Bridget, daughter of Alexander Kadcliffe. Their son, Eichard,
married the daughter of Eichard Needham, and had by her Alan
Sutton, who took to wife Alice, daughter of Bridge, of Bridgehall,
co. Cheshire. They had one son, Thomas, who married Agnes,
daughter of Eichard Barnard, of London, by whom he had two
sons, George Sutton, of Over-Haddon, and Thomas Sutton, of
King's Mead, Derby. Thomas Sutton, of King's Mead, who was
84 years old at the Visitation of 1611, married Constance, daugh-
ter of William Burnell, by Constance, daughter of Edward Blunde-
ville. t The interesting Sutton monument in this church, now
alas ! no more, was clearly to the memory of Thomas Sutton, of
King's Mead, and Constance, his wife, as is shown by the
heraldry.
The gallery at the west end of the church was inscribed : —
" This frame and seates was erected and garnished at the only
proper cost and charge of Thomas Sutton, of Kings Meade neere
* " It was agreed at a Chapter holden the 23 of October 1566 A° D Elizabeth®
Reginse That it shalbe at the Choyce of| Thomas Sutton of Overhaddon in Com.
Derb Esq to beare for his Crest theyre lions within the Crowne as being descended
from Sutton of Sutton nigh Maxfield or els on a torse Argent & Azure 3 annuletts
ennected gould. Dat. 26 Novembr A° 4 E. 6."— Visitation of Derby, 1611, C. 4, f. 5,
College of Arms.
t Visitation of Derbii, 1611, CoUege of Arms; Harl. MSS., 1537, f. 85b; Egerton
MSS., 996, f. 7b.
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Derby Esqr An0 Dm 1614." * There was also another gallery, in
the north aisle, which bore : — " Mr Paul Ballidon of this Towne
of Derby Merchant gave this Loft in the yeare of or Lord God
1636."
Bassano's church notes, taken in 1710, also give a large number
of seventeenth century inscriptions, of more or less importance,
which have since disappeared.
At a parish meeting, held November 2nd, 1713, it was —
" Ordered that the Churchwardens of this parish doe waite upon Mr Mayor of
this Borough and desire him to acquaint the Comon Councell of this Borrough
that All Sts Chancell wch they ought to repare is much out of repare And All Sts
Church is much oute of repare and ought to be repared by the parishe therefore
desire him to lett us know whether the Corporacon will Joyue wth the parishe to
obtaine a Briefe from the Queene for repare of both Church and Chancell."
An entry of July 9th, 1714, certifies that the desired Brief had
been obtained. The Brief only realised some £500 ; but before this
sum could be utilised for repairs, the idea was started of pulling
down the whole of the old fabric, and building a new church.
It may here be remarked that we possess no accurate plan or
information respecting the body of the old church. If a painting
of the time of Charles lit can be trusted, there were two high
pitched gables at the east end, pertaining to the central -chancel
and to the continuation of the south aisle, or quire of S. Catharine.
The former seems to be lighted by a wide seven-light Perpendi-
cular window, with a debased square-headed window of four lights
over it, and the latter by a good Decorated window of six lights.
The north aisle is hid from view ; it apparently did not then
possess a gable of its own, but had only a lean-to roof.
Dr. Hutchinson — a grandson of Bishop Hacket, and Canon of
Lichfield — who had been recently elected by the Corporation as
minister of All Saints', threw himself with ardour into the rebuild-
ing scheme. In 1719, negotiations were entered into with Mr.
Smith, a builder, of Warwick, for taking down the old church and
building a new one ; but the conservative instincts of the majority
of the parishioners and of the Corporation prevailed, and Dr.
Hutchinson and his party repeatedly failed, after various endea-
vours, to secure the acceptance of their proposal. The Doctor seems
* Bassano adds to this inscription — " and beautifyed in ye yeare 1(598."
f We have not seen the original, which is described by Glover as being in the pos-
session of Mr. Harwood, of St. Peter's Street, but Mr. Meynell has a large water-
colour copy of it. A small engraving from this painting was given as the frontispiece
to Wilkius' Walk through Derby, 1827.
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to have been of an imperious and hasty temper, and, irritated with
opposition, most unfortunately determined to take the law into
his own hands. On the night of February 18th, 1723, the Doctor
admitted into the church a large body of workmen, who, by the
break of day, had demolished the interior fittings, thrown over the
roofs, and were expeditiously at work in levelling the fabric itself.
Thus did the impetuosity of a single will succeed within a few
hours in irretrievably wrecking the outcome of centuries of pious
toil. An apparently hasty vote of a sparsely attended vestry had
been secured to give a colour of legality to the proceedings, but it
was in direct opposition to the decision of the Corporation, who
were custodians of the fabric of the chancel, which, with its two
side quires, seems to have rivalled the nave in its dimensions.
The town, when they found their chancel levelled with the
ground, wisely determined to condone the rashness of the act, and
to make the best of their misfortune.
The Doctor, on his part, having by stratagem obtained his
way, could afford to be magnanimous, and took upon himself the
responsibility of finding the money for the new church. He had
circulars printed, with a copperplate engraving of the proposed
building, which were forwarded to all the principal persons of the
kingdom. He also gave himself up with unwearied assiduity to the
personal collection of subscriptions. The subscribers included men
of such diverse celebrity as Sir Eobert Walpole and Sir Isaac
Newton. But all his exertions only produced a little over £3,000,
including a grant of £210 from the Corporation. This, in addition
to the Brief money, left a deficit of several hundred pounds, and
the Doctor decided to obtain this money by selling forty of the
principal seats. But the church had hitherto been unappropriated
and free to all the parishioners, and this proposition was strenu-
ously resisted. At last, after great heat had been engendered, a
compromise was arrived at, by which it was agreed to sell by
auction eight double seats in the best part of the church. The
sale realised .£475 13s. Od. The difference of opinion on this point
between Dr. Hutchinson and the Corporation (supported by the
majority of the parishioners) led to many unseemly disputes, in
which the former showed to considerable disadvantage. At last, the
Doctor definitely and in writing resigned his living, but, on the
Corporation electing a successor (Rev. W. Chambers), withdrew his
resignation. The affair culminated on Sunday, April 16fch, 1727,
92 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
when the Mayor (acting on legal advice), attended by the Alder-
men in their fur gowns, preceded by the mace-bearer, and in all
the paraphernalia of his office, attended service at All Saints', and
directed Mr. Chambers to preach — refusing the pulpit to the Rev.
H. Cantrell, the vicar of S. Alkmund's, whom Dr. Hutchinson
had appointed to officiate during his absence. The Mayor was
summoned in the Ecclesiastical Courts for brawling ; Dr. Hutchiu-
son was served with notice of ejectment from his living; the Cor-
poration withheld his stipend ; fierce party pamphlets were dis-
seminated on one side and the other ; and the whole town seems
to have been set by the ears by this unseemly contest. At
last, in 1728, the matter was settled by Dr. Hutchinson fulfilling
his repeatedly-made engagement to resign, and the town had
peace.*
The new church was opened November 25th, 1725. The design
was furnished by Mr. Gibbs — the architect of S. Martin's, London,
and of the Radcliffe Library, Oxford — for which he was paid £25,
and the builder was Mr. Smith, of Warwick. The circular-headed
windows are large and handsome of their sort, and the roof is
supported by five columns on each side. When first the new
building was erected, the fine arch into the tower and the west
window were visible, but in 1732 they were, unhappily, blocked up
by a large west gallery, which still remains. The most charac-
teristic feature of the church was the beautifully-wrought iron
screen-work, which divided off the east end of the building into
three parts — that in the centre for the chancel proper ; that on
the north side for the vestry and corporation purposes ; and that
on the south for the Cavendish chapel. This was the work of an
artist named Bake well, who received £181 from Dr. Hutchinson's
fund, as well as some JE15 as the balance of his account from
subsequent payments made out of the rates. The parish also paid
him £50 for the western gates to the churchyard. t
* In our Subsequent publication, The Chronicles of All Saints', we hope to give
many particulars relative to this dispute, as much light will thereby be thrown on
the social and ecclesiastical customs of Derby at that period. Hitherto, our Derby
historians have followed Hutton in pitying Dr. Hutchinson for the envious rancour
shewn him. But we are confident that if any one was to impartially go through the
parish papers to which we have had access, and read the pamphlets on one side and
the other, his opinion would, on the whole, coincide with our own, viz., that the
Doctor was by far the most to blame for his thoroughly disingenuous treatment of
the Corporation from first to last. We have to thank Mr. Godfrey Meyiiell for the
loan of copies of the now almost unique pamphlets bearing on this strife.
t These gates were, we are sorry to say, removed during the recent alterations, and
sold by auction.
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In 1873 the church was entirely re-seated, re-painted, and other-
wise " beautified." The alterations included the huilding of a com-
modious vestry at the east end of the church, and the utilising for
seats of the two sides of the chancel. But this plan unfortunately
involved the disturbance and loss of much of Bakewell's excellent
ironwork,* and the rendering ridiculous of the elaborate Cavendish
monument. A little more ingenuity might have avoided both these
blunders and spared the original design of the church, as well
as its most remarkable monument, with no sacrifice of sitting
accommodation.
The altar, which consisted of a large slab of Derbyshire marble
supported on an iron framework, was removed, and an oak table, t
which stood in the vestry, and which in all probability had served
as the Communion Table of the previous church in post-Reformation
days, put in its place. We should not have been disposed to
quarrel with this reversion to the old Table, had not the marble
slab, from which the Holy Eucharist had been administered to
Derby churchmen for upwards of 150 years, been prominently
affixed to the wall by the north-east door, and, with almost
inconceivably bad taste and lack of reverence, incised in large
Roman characters with the following inscription : —
"This slab, supported on ornamental ironwork, was for .many years used
instead of a communion table, but was removed when the present table was
found in the church and restored to its original use.
SHOLTO D. C. DOUGLAS, Vicar.
GEOKGE HAYWOOD,
tJEORGE HAYWOOD, \
WALTEB KANDALL, J Churchwardens, A.D. 1873.
' Wishing a godly unity to be observed in all our diocese, and for that the form
of a table may more move and turn the simple from the old superstitious opinions
of the popish mass, and to the right use of the Lord's Supper. We exhort the
curates, churchwardens, and questmen here present to erect and set up the Lord's
board after the form of an honest table decently covered.' — Bishop Eidley's
injunction, A.D. 1550, in his visitation of the Diocese of London.
" As to the illegality of stone altars instead of moveable tables of wood, see
Falkiier v. Litchfield."
* Considerable opposition was made to the interfence with the ironwork by several
of the most influential parishioners. An opposition to the grant of Faculty was
entered in the Consistory Court, Lichfield, but eventually a compromise was come to,
by which it was agreed that ;' the side railings and gates" of the Devonshire chapel
and vestry should be placed on the north and south sides of " the Communion space."
This agreement has not been carried out. The railings were thus placed, but the gates
have been sold or otherwise disposed of; moreover, the old gates of the chancel
itself have been illegally removed, and now lie with a lot of exposed human remains
and other debris in the the town vault. Other parts of the ironwork are also missing.
t The Churchwardens' accounts for 1620 have an entry which most likely gives us
the cost of this table — " Paid for a Communion Table and painting the feete thereof
±'1 5s. Gd."
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With respect to this inscription (apart from the question of
taste), it may be remarked — that it is rather singular to quote
from the injunction of a Bishop of another see, that which could
only apply to his own diocese — that it is still more singular to
affix the words of a Bishop's injunction to the walls of a church
that was to so considerable an extent extra-episcopal — that the word
"honest" at that time meant nothing more or less than decent or
comely — that the Church of England has used the words " table "
and " altar " as synonymous terms both before and since the
Eeformation* — that the material of which the Holy Table must be
made is nowhere prescribed by any binding authority — and finally
that the table of iron and marble placed in the chancel in 1725
was as absolutely and undeniably legal as the table of wood now
in use.f
Some opposition being made to the removal of the altar, a
faculty was obtained after the event, dated May 23rd, 1873, con-
firming the change, and other alterations, but we do not find any
faculty for affixing the old slab to the wall or graving it with the
inscription that we have just quoted. In the body of this faculty
we find that the Consistory Court of Lichfield were gravely assured
by the applicants that the old church of All Saints " was burnt
down in or about the year 1722 !" Whence the vicar and church-
wardens obtained this startling information we are at a loss to
conceive.
The same faculty obtained a confirmation for the removal of
the pulpit and reading desk to that most thoroughly unsuitable
position, the centre of the middle aisle, so as to block out all view
of the Holy Table from many of the congregation. We notice it,
because misleading statements are made in the faculty as to the
former position of the pulpit. It is true that the pulpit, when the
church was rebxiilt, was originally placed in the middle aisle, but
it only remained there for a year, for in 1726 the parish resolved
to remove it " to ye South Pillar next to it." The old pulpit,
though of good oak, was discarded during the recent alterations,
and sold by auction. It was rescued out of a second-hand dealer's
* The previously quoted fifteenth century inventory of this very church uses the
expressions " altar" and "table," in consecutive lines, as applied to that portion of
church furniture on which the Holy Eucharist was celebrated in the quire of S.
Katharine.
f We should not speak thus positively unless we had high diocesan authority in
support of our assertion. With respect to the consecration of an altar at Foremark
by Bishop Hacket, in 1662, the slab of which consists of grey marble, see Churches
of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 445.
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shop, and is now, we are glad to say, utilised, with certain
necessary alterations, in the parish church of Pleasley.
The font, at the west end of the church, is of octagon shape
and debased design. It is 45 inches high, and 28 inches in
diameter. We suppose it to be the one supplied to the old church
in 1662 : — " Item to Elias Grice for makinge the font per agrement
£3-11-8."
The destruction of monuments at the time of the rebuilding of
the church was simply shameful. Not only were many of con-
siderable antiquity and interest destroyed, but even some which
had been erected to persons of distinction within a few years of
the pulling down of the old fabric. An ignorant and bigoted poem
on All Saints', by John Edwards, published in 1805, is good
enough to attribute the lack of ancient " foolish epitaphs " to a
much earlier period : —
" Here with purifying wand,
The Angel of the Reformation stood,
And swept them, to oblivion."
But the angel of destruction was busier in the eighteenth than
in the sixteenth century.
The oldest monument is a large incised slab of alabaster,
against the north wall, representing a priest standing under a
richly adorned canopy, habited in albe, surplice, canonical almuce,
his right hand upraised and holding in his left hand a chalice.
Bound the edge of the slab is this inscription : —
" Subtus me jacet Johannes Law quondam Canonicus Ecclesie Colegiate
Omniu Scor Derbe ac subdecanus ejusdem qui obiit anno Dni Millimo
ccccmo cuj aie ppicietur Deus Amen."
This was evidently cut during the lifetime of the sub -dean, and
the spaces left for the exact date of his death were never filled in.
John Law was living in 1440, when he was present at the
concluding of an agreement between S. Michael's and the chapelry
of Alvaston, to which we shall subsequently allude. Over his head
are two fillets, bearing this legend : —
"Dne Jsu Xte fili dei miserere mei."
The stone was repaired in 1854, and now bears at the base
this additional inscription : —
" Eestitutum cura et impensis T. 0. Bateman A.D. MDCCCLIV."
Bassano (1710) says: — "In the east end of the north aisle is
96 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
a tombe all of wood erected 4 feet high. On it is the full propor-
tion of a man in Priests orders in full canonical robes, supposed
to be an Abbot of Darley, a dog at his feet collared and looking
mournfully up at his master. Upon ye side of ye tomb cut on ye
wood are ye effigies of 13 monks in praying posture and under
ym cut on wood lyeth a man on his left side and wrapped up in
his winding sheet with a cross patee on his left breast." This
monument was not actually destroyed in 1723-5, but it was divided
up into its component parts. The wooden effigy, and also the
cadaver, or shrouded figure below it, found refuge in the " town
vault," below the north side of the church. Here, alas, they still
remain. A century and a half of damp and neglect has eaten away
and much defaced both effigy and cadaver, and within the last three
years the head of the former, which was in a fair state of pre-
servation, has been dragged off and abstracted. The effigy, which
is 5 ft. 10 in. long by 2 ft. wide, is clad in albe, surplice, canonical
almuce, and over all a processional cope — a most interesting and
exceptional combination of vestments. (Plate IV.) We earnestly
hope that the worm-eaten remains of this effigy will not be suffered
to go to complete decay. The effigy is not, of course, to an Abbot
of Darley, but pertains to a fifteenth century canon of All Saints',
probably another sub-dean. When Mr. Eawlins was here, in 1831,
he noted the side of this tomb with the thirteen monks (which he
considered to be S. Paul and the twelve apostles) underneath the
east window against the wall. Tradition, he tells us, ascribed it
to the apex of the arch over the south porch door of the old
church, but he did not agree with this surmise, but thought it the
upper part of a door-case leading into a confessional ! This piece
_of carving, in good condition, now forms part of the panelling in
front of the consistory seat on the north side of the church.
(Plate IV.) On a panel of this seat is inscribed : —
" The old Church was begun to be taken down Feb ye 18th 172f. The first
Sermon was preached in the new Church Novem the 21st 1725 by y* Rev. Dr.
Hutchinson."
Against the east wall, by the north-east door, are three brass
plates fixed in oak frames. The epitaphs on them are as follows :
"Hoc lapide marmoreo tegitur Corpus Joh'is Walton Sacra Theol : Baccal:
quondam archi'ni Derbien : prebend : p'bendae : de Wellington in eccle'a Cathi :
Lick : et Rectoris Ecclesiar : de Breadsall & Gedling : qui testamento suo dedit
C 1 ad augendum hujus eccl'ias ministri stipeudium Et xxl. ad emendum duos
inauratos crateras in usum Ballinor : hujus burgi Derb : atque c 1 mutuo dandas
ee a 4'or in 4'or aimos in perpetuum x hujus burgi artificib : iuopia laborantib : ac
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xx 1. code modo dandas ee mutuo 4'or egenis artificib : Dunelmi habitautib : et
Lxxx 1. in uberiorem sustentationem pauperura in villis de Breadsall & Gedling
prsedictis. Obiit 1°' die Junii A"' D'ni 1603. ^Etatis suas 57."
"Hereby lyeth the body of Jane late wife of the said Jo: Walton. She gave
by will c 1. for releefe of Schollers in St. John's Coll : Cambridge : 40 1 for
Benefit of the Schoolm'r of Derby : 40 1 for releefe of Poore in Derby : 20 1. to
be lent to four tradsmen in Durham Gratis : 20 1. for releefe of Almswomen in
Lichfeld : 20 1. for releefe of Poor in Chesterfield, & 20 1. for releefe of Poore and
repayre of the Church of St. Alkmud in Derby. In which p'rsh she dyed the
xxii of Januarie 1605, beinge 80 yeares of age."
"Loe Richard Kilby lieth here
Which lately was our ministere.
To th' poore he ever was a frend,
And gave them all hee had at's end.
This towne must twenty shillings pay
To them for him ech Good Friday.
God graunt all Pastors his good mind
Thatt they may leave good deeds behind.
Hee dyed the xxi st of October, 1617."
When the church was taken down these plates were stolen.
They were recovered by Mr. Cantrell, vicar of S. Alkmund's, and
restored to the church on condition of the churchwardens "fixing
them on strong frames of wood in the new church."
Against the south wall is the fine mural monument to the cele-
brated Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury — better known as "Bess
of Hardwick" — erected during her lifetime, and liberally endowed
for its perpetual repair. In a recess in the lower part is her
effigy, arrayed in the costly full dress of the times, with a coronet
on her head, and her hands joined in prayer. Beneath is the fol-
lowing inscription: —
"P. M. Elizabetha Johannis Hardwicke de Hardwicke in agro Derbi : Armi-
geri filiae, fratrique Johanni tandem cohoeredi, primo Roberto Barley de Barley in
dicto com: Derb : armig: nuptae, postea Will'o Cavendish de Chatsworth equ : aur:
(thesaurario cameras regibus Henrico VIII. Edvardo VI. ac Maries reginae, quibus
etiam fuit a secretioribus consiliis.) Deinde Will'o St, Low militi regii satellitij
Capitaneo. Ac ultimo prsenobili Georgia Comiti Salopiae desponsatae. Per quern
Will'm Cavendish prolem solummodo habuit, filios tres, scilp Henricum Cavendish
de Tutbury in agro Staff : arinig : (Qui Qraciam dicti Georgii Comitis Salopice
filiarn in uxorem duxit,) sine prole legitima defunctum ; Will'm, in baronem
Cavendish de Hardwicke, uecnon in Comite Devonie perserenissimu nuper rege
Jacobum evectum. Et Carolum Cavendish de Welbek Eq : Aur: patrem honora-
tissimi Will'i Cavendish de Balneo militis, Bar: Ogle jure matemo, et in Vicecom:
Mansfeild, Comitem, Marchioue, ac Ducem de Novo Castro super Tinam, et
Comite de Ogle merito creati ; totidemque filios, scil't Francescam Henrico Pier-
repont JEq: aurato ; Elizabetham Carolo Stuarto Lenoxias Comiti; & Mariain
Gilberto Comiti Salopice enuptas, Hasc inclitissima Elizabetha Salopiaa Comitissa
.ZEdium de Chatsworth, Hardwick, & Oldcotes magnificentia clarissimarum fabri-
catrix. Vitam hanc transitoriam XIII. die mensis Februarij Anno ab incarna-
tione D'ni M D C VII. ac circa annum ^Etatis sum Lxxxvij finivit, et gloriosaui
expectans resurrectionem subtus jacet tumulata."
8
98 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
The arms on the monument are — Hard wick impaling Leeke,*
and a twelve- quartered coat of Talbot impaling Hardwick quarter-
ing Leigh.
In the centre of the Cavendish chapel, in the south-east angle
of the church, used to stand, before the recent restoration, a large
monument, twelve feet high, to the memory of William, Earl of
Devonshire, who died in 1628, and Christian, his countess, the
only daughter of Lord Bruce of Kinlop. It is thus described by
Simpson : — " Each side of this monument is open, and in the
middle, under a dome, are whole-length figures, in white marble,
of the Earl and his Lady, standing upright. The angles on the
outside are ornamented with busts of their four children ; William,
the eldest, successor to the Earl ; Charles, Lieutenant-General of
Horse in the civil wars ; Henry, who died young ; and Anne,
married to Eobert, Lord Eich, son and heir to Robert, Earl of
Warwick." These figures and busts now stand in a row against
the south wall, and present anything but a graceful appearance.
On the plinth is inscribed : —
" The interior of this Church was restored in the year of our Lord
MDCCCLXXVI and in order to provide additional space for the increased popu-
lation of the parish it became necessary to remove the large monument erected
to William 2nd Earl of Devonshire who died June 20tb, 1628, whose remains rest
in the vault below. The figures above this slab are those of William, 2nd Earl of
Devonshire and Christian his Countess ; with busts of their sons William,
Charles, and Henry, and Anne their daughter, which formed part of the monu-
ment removed."
Against the same wall are monuments to William Pousonby,
Earl of Bessborough, 1792 ; to Caroline, Countess of Bessborough,
1760 : and on the opposite side of the church are monuments to
William Allestry, Recorder of Derby, 1655 ; to Richard Crowshawe,
a great benefactor to the parish, 1631 ; and to Thomas Chambers,
1726.t
The first volume of the registers begins in the year 1558 and
ends in 1711. It is a long narrow folio of parchment in fair
condition, and copied from an older register (not now extant) up
to September, 1598.
On the leaf opposite the initial page is written, but in a hand
.at least fifty years later than the event : —
* John Hardwick, the father of the countess, married Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas Leeke. See Churches of Derbyshire, vol. i. p. 246.
t Space only permits to name two or three of the more remarkable monuments.
There are many other monuments of some interest, both of the seventeenth and eigh-
teenth centuries. Every inscription in this church will be given verbatim in our
monograph on All Saints'.
ALL SAINTS. 99
A Poore Blinde Woman called Joane Waste of this parish a Marter Burned
in Windmill pitt I8t of Augst 1556.*
1562. May, June, July, August, September, October, and all thinges concerning
this booke are wantinge in the old booke.
1564. John Houghton, Clarke, entered to the Cure and Pastorall charge of the
parish of All Sts iu Darby the 9th day of July Ann. Do. 1564.
1570. The true coppie of this Booke from the xxvth day of March 1567 unto the
first day of July Anno Do. 1570 was exhibited in the Lord Bishops
Visitacion houlden in the parishe Churche of All Sts in Derby the first of
July Anno Do. 1570. f
1576. Charles Woode minister entred to the cure and pastorall charge of the
parishe of All Sts in Darby the xxth day of January Anno Do. 1576.
1577. From November Ann. Do. 1577 till January Ann. Do. 1579 the Register is
wantinge : so y4 some part of 1577 is wantinge and all 1578 and 1579 till
January in default of Mr Woode the minister of All Sts in Darby.
1580. All the next of Ann. Do. 1581 is not in the old Register ; and some partt of
Ann. Do. 1581 is wantinge in default of Mr Wood then minister of All Sts
in Derby.
1583. Sep. Wilms Beynbrigge unus ex numero fratru Darbie, May 5.J
1592. Edwarde Bennett minister and preacher of gods woorde was admitted to the
Cure and pastorall charge of the parishe of All Sts in Darby by the
Common consentt and assentt of the whole governmentt of the Towne the
28th day of June Ann. Do. 1592.
Sep. 31 Ricus films Wilmi Sowter sep. 31 die ex peste. The Plauge
began in Darby in the house of William Sowter bootcher, in the parishe of
All Sts in Darby, Robertt Woode Ironmonger & Eobertt Brookhouse ye
Tanner beinge then bayliffes and so continued in the Towne the space of
12 moneths at y« least as by the Eegister may appeare.§
1593. Oct. 29. About this tyme the plauge of pestilence, by the great mercy and
goodness of almighty god, stayed past all expectacion of man, for it ceased
upon a sodayne at what time it was dispersed in every corner of this whole
parishe, there was not two houses together free from it, and yet the Lord
had the augell stey as in David's tyme, his name be blessed for ytt.
Edward Bennett, minister.
1598. Sept. 27. .This whole booke was written over out of the old regester booke
by Edward Bennett minister of All Sts in Darby the 40 yeare of the rayne
* Hutton describes Windmill pit as being " near the Turnpike, upon the Burton
road, about a mile from the church." For a detailed and apparently accurate account
of this martyrdom, see Glover's Derbyshire, vol. ii., p. 61)4.
t Like entries occur, mentioning Episcopal Visitations in this church, in June,
1573, June, 1576, May. 1589, June, 1592, November, 1594, and September, 1597.,
I Henry Woorden and William Bradshawe, who died in 1592, and Ralph Bentley,
in 1593, are entered in a similar way. We are inclined to think that the term is
equivalent to burgess.
§ The plague was very destructive in the house where it first broke out. Alice, wife
of William Sowter, died of the plague on November 25th; Edward and Maria, his
children, on the 29th ; his son, Johu, on December 5th ; and the father himself on
December 8th. There are 255 entries of death from the plague in this parish, from
September 31st, 1592, to October 29th, 1593. The registers of S. Alkmund's record 91
. deaths from the plague during this year, those of S. Michael 21, and those of SS Peter
and Werburgh, though not specifying the plague, have 50 and 57 entries of death for
1593, the average of adjacent years being only five. In 1637, there are nine deaths from
plague entered in S. Alkmund's registers, and 59 in those of All Saints'. The regis-
ters of S. Peter also record 16 deaths from the same cause in 1586, and 63 in 1645. In
the latter year, we are told that "the plague was in Derby and the assizes kept in
Fryer's close." But Hutton is clearly wrong in giving a graphic account of the con-
dition of Derby during the plague in 1665, which he says visited this town at the same
time that it devastated London. The death-rate for that year did not exceed the
average. His account probably applies to 1593, which seems to have been by far the
most severe that was felt in Derby, next to the general visitation of the Black Death
in 1349.
100 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
of Queeiie Elizabeth Ann. Do. 1598 by vertue of a Camion concluded in a
parliraentt hould in that yeare.
1601. Elizabetha Parkinson pauper dimersas in flumine Darwini, sep. 30 die
februarii.
1609. Eichard Kilbie, minister and Preache of Gods worde, was admitted to 1he
Cure and pastorale charge of the parish of All Sts in Dearbie, by the
common consent and assent of the whole government of the towne the
29th of Sep.
16 !0. I see no reason why a register for English people should be written in
latine. Ric Kilby. minister of All hallowes in Derby.
Feb. 5. Buryed William Norman wch was drowned god knoweth howe,
o god be mercifull unto us sinners that we maie feare thee, and be allwaies
prepared to die well, Amen.
March 9. Buryed one Peter Manser who being a servant to Mr Grieslie
an esqiiire of Staffordshier was here slaine in an ungodlie fight being
wounded in the back.*
1614. July 8. Buried Elizabeth Langley who strangled herself.
1620. Jan. 14. Sep. Mr Robert Wood Quater Balivus Derbie.t
1632. June 15. At this tyme Mr Hall left this place & D"1 Williamot was elected
minister of All Sts in his stid.
1636. Aug. 15th. Sep. George Hillman King Charlls his baker whoe Came wth his
Matie one his progresse to this towne, and dyed heare of a spotted fever.
1637. June 26. Sep. Henry Stawman supposed the first of the Plague. J
1638. June 31. Bap. Robert son of Mr Edward Willimott D* in Divinity & of
Dorothy his wif, daughter to Sr George Greasley Knight Barronett.
Feb. 7. Sep. Mr Henry Mellor first maior of Darby.
Memd 1638. Derby made a maior towne, Mr Henry Mellor ye first maior
died in his maiTty, and Mr John Hope chosen to be maior till Michaelmas
1640.
1641. Oct. This month begun y8 Rebellion in Irelande, y8 Papists making head
against y8 Kinges Loyall subjects, wch Rebellion was fild wth most Bar-
barouse & cruell deeds.
1642. The 22 of this August errectum fait Notinghamias Vexillum Regale. Matt.
xii. 25.
Oct. Bat. at Kinton (Edgehill) 23 day.
Nov. Bat. Branford (Brentford) 12 day.
Jan. Bat. at Swarston Bridge 5 day.
Ashbie ye 17.
Feb. 11. Sep. William Parker, souldier under Cap: Sanders.
March. The 20th day y6 Hon: Lord Brooke slaine at ye Siege against
Lichfield Close, it was yelded up y8 5th day. Y8 19 day the battell at
Stafford, E. of Northampton was slaine.
1643. April. The 8 day Prince Rupert Beseiged y6 Close at Lichfield wch close
was valiently mentained till ye 21 & ye took free quarter & with great
honor marcht away.
June 4. The body of Lord Erie of Northampton formerly slayne at
Stafford was now buried in the familie vault belonging to the Houble house
of the Lord Cavendish Erie of Devon, in wch there now lyeth Elizab.
Countess Shreusbi and William Erie of Devon.
* " So violent a quarrel took place between the electioneering parties of Sir Philip
Stanhope and Sir George Gresley, of two ancient families in the neighbourhood, that
the assizes were held at Ashbourn." Button's Derbyshire, p. 227.
t Robert Wood was one of the bailiffs of Derby in 1584, ] 592, in 1600, and again in
1607.
t Fifty-nine deaths from the plague are entered during this visitation, the last
being on the 18th of the following January.
ALL SAINTS. 101
I'i44. April 2. Sep. Catherine Gower killed wth a pistoll bullet, shot through the
head by a accedeiit.
1*353. \[emd that according to an act of Parliament bearinge date the 24th day of
August, 1653 George Blagreave the yotuiger was Elected Register of the
parish of All Sfcs in Derby before Thomas Youle Maior of the burrough of
Derby and Justice of peace there. Thomas Yoole, maior.
1674. Feb. 17. Interred CorrnelT Charles Caudish.
Feb. 18. Interred Oulde Christiana the Countes of Devonshire.
1676. Jan. 26. Sep. George Blagrave Cl.irk of All Saints.
1700. May 19. Sep* The Right Honble The Lord Henry Cavendish 2d Son of ye
most Noble William Duke of Deavoushire Dyed y* 10 of this month.
May 19. Sep* Interred the Lady Mary his Daughter the same day, who
Dyed April! ye 1st, 1693, and had been buried at London ye time before and
aged 3 weekes.
June 13. John Ault an apprentis Murdered by his master Gabriel Mansffield.
1707. Sept. 5. The Illustrious Prince William Duke and Earl of Devon, Marquis
of Hartington, Baron Cavendish of Hardwick, Lord Lieutenant and Gustos
Rotulorum of the County of Derby, Chief Justice in Eyre over all the
forrosts on the North side Trent, one of her Majesty's Privy Counsellors,
and Lord High Steward of her Majesty's household and Knight of the
Noble order of the Garter and Lord High Steward of the town of Derby
dyed at his house in London Aug. xviii MDCCVII anno ^Etatis LXVII ineunte.
He was bury'd in his Vault in All Hillovvds Church in Derby Sept. 5th, by
tho Reverend Mr Walter Hortou Minister of that Church.
The last three pages of the register book contain the deaths of
the inmates of the Devonshire Alrnhouses, entered separately, in
order to secure the appointment by the town to every third
vacancy, the other vacancies being filled up by the heirs of the
founder — the Countess of Shrewsbury.1"
The collegiate house, in which the Canons of All Saints' resided,
was situated close to the church, on its north side. The modern
house on that site is still designated " The College."
* The statutes of these almshouses, founded in 1599, for eight poor men and four
poor women, are given in full in Simpson's Derby, pp. 48S-511. The inmates were
ordered to resort to daily morning and evening prayer witliin the church of All Saints.
102 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
of
HE ancient chapel of S. Mary-on-the-Bridge is one of the
most valuable relics of old Derby. An interesting
St-"H!il history of the bridge of S. Mary might be compiled,
but that would be foreign to our purpose. Suffice it here to say,
that we know there was a bridge rebuilt or repaired on or about
this site in the reign of John, which may probably have dated
back to the time when the Anglo-Saxons finally expelled the
marauding Danes from the borough of Derby. The Eoman
bridge, leading to Little Chester, was higher up the river.
The pious custom of having chapels erected on bridges, or
forming component parts of the structure, seems to have generally
prevailed with all bridges of importance. The building of bridges
was regarded as a peculiarly religious work, and the founder some-
times left his body to be interred in the bridge-chapel, and
endowed a priest to there sing masses for his soul. Peter de
Colechurch who began the first London bridge of stone in 1176,
dying in 1205, was buried in the chapel of S, Thomas-on-the-
Bridge.* One of the most remarkable examples of these structures,
was on the bridge at Droitwich, where the roadway actually
passed through the chapel and separated the priest from his
congregation. t Several instances of English bridge-chapels, in a
more or less dilapidated condition, yet remain, but a considerable
number have disappeared during the improvements of the present
century. We have already drawn attention to the old chapel
formerly on Swarkeston bridge.^ S. Mary's Bridge — by which access
was gained from Nottingham and the south into the town of
Derby, through whose streets lay one of the most important
* Annals of Waverley, p, 168; Chronicles of London Bridge, p. 65, etc.
t Nash's Worcestershire, vol. i., p. 329.
J Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 471.
S. MAKY-ON-THE-BRIDGE. 103
thoroughfares from London to the north — must in medieval days
have been of considerable importance. It is pleasant to think of
the busy burgesses or men-at-arms turning aside into the chapel
of Our Lady for a brief silent prayer, before crossing the Derwent
and plunging into the forests that stretched out before them on
the other side of the river.*
Hutton, writing in 1791, speaks of this chapel as being ''per-
fectly in the Saxon style," and adds : — " It stands upon the verge
of the river ; forms part of the bridge, with which it is inter-
woven, as if erected with it ; and was in my time converted into
little dwellings." t At that time "Saxon" was used to express
what we now know to be Norman architecture/ and possibly, though
not at all probably, Hutton may have seen within the chapel, be-
fore its conversion into dwellings, some arches or other traces of
Norman work that may have pertained to the reign of John. The
old bridge of S. Mary was begun to be taken down, and the present
one built ten yards higher up the stream, in the year 1789. From
the long account given of this bridge by Hutton (into which we
must not wander), from several shorter but earlier accounts, and
from the remains of the bridge on which the chapel stands, toge-
ther with the foundations of the old piers that are exposed when
the river is very low, we are inclined to think that the bridge then
taken down pertained in the main to the 14th century. But we
advance this opinion with some diffidence. If this is the case, it
is hardly likely that any of the masonry of the chapel itself is
older than that date. One of the timbers of the high-pitched roof,
now underdrawn, is beautifully moulded with a running pattern
(Plate IV.) having a strong resemblance to the band of moulding
below the parapets of the towers of Chesterfield, Crich, and Deuby,
and is, undoubtedly, of the Decorated style. The four light east
window — which is about the only old ecclesiastical feature now
remaining — is, however of later date, being of the Perpendicular
style, and probably not earlier than the time of Edward IV. It is
divided by a transom into two parts ; the upper sections have had
cinquefoil heads, now broken away into trefoils ; and the lower are
trefoiled. The inner area of the chapel is about 45 ft. by 15 ft.
* That this is no fanciful picture can be testified by those who have watched the
unobtrusive piety of the frequenters of similar chapels in the Catholic countries ofthe
continent. May we be excused for expressing a strong hope that this chapel, restored
once more to sacred purposes, may soon be left open (instead of being jealously
locked), so that wayfarers and the frequenters of the markets may at all events have
the chance of a few moments of uninterrupted prayer ?
t Button's Histnrij of Derby, p. 183.
104 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
The present boarded floor is nearly three feet above the original
level.
The earliest record that we have seen of this chapel is an In-
ventory of great interest, drawn up in 1488 by the churchwardens
of All Saints', which is a proof that it was then considered to per-
tain to that parish, and not to St. Alkmund's. This Inventory
makes it quite clear that the chapel had a special priest of its own
and regular service.
OUBE LADY OF THE BEYGE
. And the saide John and thos oxle the same tyme made accompt to the saide
Auditors of all juels and ornamentes beyinge att the mary of brigge that be in
the custody of John Shenton Armett and hys wyffe — Syr John Dale then there
pste.
Inprm one cote of crymyson velvett endented with golde that my lady Gray
gaffe, and opon hytt ys Ixvj penyes ij gilte peuies, one gylte ob (farthing), ij
penese of ijd, one grotte, An' Be of silver, ij shelles of sylver, one herte of silver,
a mound of silver, one broche of copur and gylte, ij shafts of silver, one cristall
stone inclosed in silver.
Also one cote of blewe velvett y* my lady chamburlayne gaffe, Thereupon ys a
crowen of sylver and gylte that John boroes gaffe. Itm' A grette broche of silver
and gylte with a stonne in hytt. Also one casse of Redde satten with buttons
of silver and gilte. Itm Ix penes iij gylt penes, one peny of ijd, one crosse of
sylver. Itm' a casse of velvett, one broche, and one peny of hytt, and a crystall
stonne.
Itm' one Garment yl my lady longforth gaff of blewe velvett and Rede And
one yt ys a crucifix of silver and gylte with a rynge of golde that maistres
bonynton gaffe, Also a rynge of silver and gilte, another of copr, vj steyd a iiijd
and vj halfepens, iij grotes, iij pens of ijd, vi flewes of silver and gilte, Itm' x
Curall bedes with ij silver Gawdyse.
Itm' one Cote to or lorde of Crymysyn velvett furred with many ver' y* my
lady longforth gaff, Opon hytt ys a shylde of sylver with v bende pens, Itm' xj
pens, and v gylte pens, a peny of ijd, Itm' one payr of bedes of silver gaudied
with chorall yt oxle wyff gaff, Itm' one stone closed in silver with one cros of
silver, one broch of silver, ij other broches of silver and gilte with one colar of
blak perle with xvij belles of silver and gylte.
ITM one payre of bedes of corall gaudede, havynge gaudeses of silver and gilte
with iiij rynges and ij not fixed of silver and gilte with a cristall stone sett in
silver and a stone of corall that Richard Baker (" Sale" erased) wyfe gaffe.
Itm' another payre of bedes of Corall with gaudese of silver and gylte with
one golde rynge and ij rengs of silver and gilte with ij crucifixes of sylver and
gylte that richard Sale wyfe gaffe.
Itm' one payre of bedes of corall gaudede with sylver yt Richard Colyar wyffe
gaffe.
Itm' one payre of bedes of blak jette.
Itm' one payre of bedes of corall with a crose stone with xxv gaudies of silver
with a tufte sett with perles y* Rogr Justice wyfe gaffe.
Itm' one gylte gyrdel yfc maistres entwysel gaffe.
Itm' one purpulle gyrdel yl Edmnde dey wyfe gaffe.
Itm' one blewe gyrdell hernest with vij studdes on hytt y* John Hyll wyffe
gaffe.
ITE one whyte vestemente of damaske with all thynges that lougeth to yt and
ij corporaxes of Rede velvett.
S. MARY -ON-THE- BRIDGE. 105
It' v alt* clothes ij of them of twille. It' v towells one of them of twylle, and
ij pax bredes.
Itm' iiij frontels one of blewe say with sterres on hytt y* Sr James Blounte
Knyght gaffe.
ITEM in the chapelle ys ij masbokes, j sawtr, one chalice of silver and gylte,
ij cruettes, one coper, ij cushens of tapstre warke that Alesone Sonkye gaff, one
pyloe of corall, ij cappes to or lorde, one blewe velvett with one peyre of bedes
gaudede with perle with iij stones of corall and one peny of hytt, Itm' another
of blak with crowned of ytt and one flower of silver and gylte, Itm' ij
candelstikkes of latten and xix tapurs of wax.
The chapel seems to have been desecrated and divine service
abandoned at the time of the Eeformation, but the building and
its appurtenances were transferred to the town of Derby. They
used the rents in the repairs of the churches whose advowsons
had been given to them by Queen Mary. Queen Elizabeth, how-
ever, treating the property as confiscated to the Crown, granted
it by letters patent to one William Buckley, and it formed part
of the disputed property about which a Special Commission sat at
Derby in 1592, as already narrated. Before that commission
Richard Stringer, gentleman, aged threescore, deposed : —
" That he hath knowen the Chappell of the Brigge mentioned in the interroga-
tion and the howse orchard and yarde therto adjoyninge to have bene letten
duringe all the tyme of his remembrance by the Chamberlens of the said Towne
wth the consent of the Bailiffes and Burgesses of the Towne of Derbie And the
said Chamberlens of the said Towne have during the said tyme received the said
Eente due for the same to the use of the Burgesses of the said Towne of Derbie."
In another part of these papers it is described as " The chappie
of the Bridge wth all edifisyse gardens etc. in the occupation of
Ellis Bradshaw to the colledge or free chappie belounginge." The
Commissioners decided that it had been proved that the chapel on
the bridge and its appurtenances had, inter alia, belonged to the
Bailiffs and Burgesses of the town for six or seven score years last
passed, and that therefore the letters patent to William Buckley
were of no effect.* The Commissioners considerably ante-dated the
time at which the chapel, etc., came into the hands of the town,
for they had nothing to do with it until after the dissolution of the
College of All Saints in the time of Edward VI.
The bridge of S. Mary would undoubtedly in the old days have
a gatehouse for the purposes of defence, as well as for the levying
of tolls and other town dues, and it seems to us that this stood at
the left-hand side of the chapel on leaving the town, with one
side built into or formed by the chapel itself. It would be on this
gatehouse, if not on the actual chapel, that the heads and quarters
* Old papers in the chest at All Saints'.
106 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
of the priests who were martyred at Derby, July 25th, 1588, were
impaled, and whence they were shortly afterwards piously stolen
for burial by " two resolute Catholic gentlemen." *
After S. Bartholomew's day, 1662, the Presbyterians of Derby
were not a little harassed and persecuted, but Bishop Hacket at
length, according to Hutton,f sanctioned their assembling for wor-
ship in this old chapel. But they did not long avail themselves of
this permission, for in the reign of James II. they housed them-
selves in a wide yard on the east side of Irongate. Towards the
end of last century, as we have already seen, the chapel was con-
verted into small dwellings. Subsequently it was used as a car-
penter's shop. Most of the woodwork for the new church of
S. Michael's was herein constructed in the year 1857. Within the
last few years an effort was happily made by a few Churchmen J
to recover it for the use 'of the Church, and eventually, on Sep-
tember 17th, 1873, the Bishop's license was obtained for a renewal
of services within its walls. It is simply but appropriately fur-
nished, and is served by the clergy of S. Alknaund's.
We have not met with any view of this building earlier than a
sketch taken by Mr. Meynell in 1812, when it was in almost pre-
cisely the condition represented on Plate IV.
* Churches of Derbyshire, vol ii., p. 251.
f Button's History of Derby, p. 168.
J At the instigation of the Rev. W. Beresford, of S. Chad's, Stafford, then curate at
S. Alkmund's.
QUARNDON. 107
C^apeto of (Etuarntrou,
jjHE chapel of Quarndon pertained to the parish of All
Saints'. The manor of Quarndon, as we have already
seen, was at an early date in the hands of the Dean and
Chapter of Lincoln, as patrons of the collegiate church of All
Saints. That there was a chapel here in the Norman period, we
know from the old fabric. It was doubtless served by a chaplain
appointed by the college, or else by one of the canons themselves.
The earliest documentary proof of the existence of this chapel
that we have seen, is contained in the Inventory of Church Goods
drawn up in the reign of Edward VI. : —
"Querndon, Oct. 6. ij bells in the steple — j chales of sylver parcel! gilte — ij
vestments wherof j of whyte fustyan the other paned with fustyan and crule — ij
surplesses — j hand bell — j cruet of tyn — j crosse of wodd covered with laten."
In 1555, when Queen Mary made her large grant to the Bailiffs
and Burgessses of Derby of church lands, etc., that had been
confiscated by Edward VI., " all tythes of corn, hay, wool, and
lambs, and all other tythes whatsoever in Quarndon, in the tenure
of Eichard Cotton, Esq.," were handed over to the town.*
From the old parish books of All Saints' we find that it was the
custom, for a long period, to select a churchwarden for Quarndon
at the Easter vestry meeting of the mother church. The first
entry to that effect occurs in 1617, and the custom seems to have
prevailed for exactly a century — at least, we have found no entry
of that description later than 1717.
There were various disputes between Quarndon and the mother
church about the proportion due from the chapelry for the repairs
of All Saints'. In 1620 it was decided that Quarndon was to pay
* Vide 10th section of the grant. — Simpson's History of Derby, p. 68.
108 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
one-tenth of the annual assessment. The following entries in the
churchwarden's accounts for that year relate to this dispute : — •
s. d.
Paid for 4 processes and serving 3 on them of Quarndon and in Sute ... 6
Paid for a quart of Sack given to the arbitrators twixt us and Quarn ... 1 2
In 1637 it was necessary to effect considerable repairs in the
chancel of the old church of All Saints, when a further dispute
arose between the churchwardens and certain inhabitants of Quarn-
don as to their liability. The matter was referred to the arbitration
of William Allestry and Eichard Brandreth, who gave in their
award on April 10th. The churchwardens had already expended
£8 6s. 8d., and the arbitrators say: —
" We do order that the said John Walker, Richard Smyth (and other inhabi-
tants of Quarndon) shall forthwith pay the one halfe thereof to the said John
Lowe and Abell Toplisse (churchwardens of All Saints), in regarde that wee
conceive that the tythes of Quandon are of equall value to all the tythes, and
other ecclesiastical dutyes ariseiuge within Derby, that belonge to the rectory of
All Saints, saveinge the mortuaries or other dutyes that shall arise or become
payable for burialls within the said Chancell. And for the avoydeinge of all
further trebles for anythinge that is past, we do order that the owners of the
tythes within Quarndon shall not be questioned for the payment of any thinge
concerninge the reparasons of the said Chancell for the tyrne past, but that for
the tyme to come they shall ever be at the one halfe of the charges to be
expended about the same. And the Churchwarden of Quarndon shall be ac-
quainted and made privey to the disbursements about the same, if hee please.
And we do further order that they the said Inhabitants of Quarndon shall from
the tyme of the date hereof be allowed unto them, and shall be lawfull for them
to take to themselves the moyetye of all such sumes of money as shall be
hereafter payed or due to be payed for any buryall within the said Chancell in
regard they are to be at the one half of the expences about the repayre thereof,
but shall for anythinge before that tyme paid for any buryalls there no thinge
shall be allowed unto them." *
The Parliamentary Commissioners, of 1650, say : — " Quarne is a
chappel apperteyning (to All Saints) two myles distant and maye
conveniently be united to Kedlestone it lying neare. Mr Joseph
Swettnam officiates." The post-Beforination services at Quarndon
chapel seem to have been of the most meagre and fitful description.
In 1697, " as the Spaw was frequented," the Bishop forwarded a
letter to the clergy of Derby and the district, directing that there
should be service every Sunday during the summer months. It
was arranged that the duty should be shared between sixteen
different clergymen. Their names were : — " Messrs. Horton, Walker,
Osburn, Bold, Wilton, Pool of Brailsford, Pool of Mugginton,
* Documents in parish chest, All Saints'.
QUARNDON. 109
Cuuliffe, Ward of Over, Hawford, Greaterix of Hallam, Paploe,
Ward of Eatlbourne, Cautrell, Blackwell, and Horsington." *
Mr. Adrian Mundy, who died 23rd April, 1677, and was church-
warden at the time of his death, left, inter alia, £3 a year " to be
employed towards the living of a minister to read divine service at
the chapel," providing that the money was to be divided among
the poor if there should be no minister.t
Sir John Curzon, of Kedleston, by will dated 10th May, 1725,
endowed a school, and left the master, whom he stated lie would
have in orders, £10 per annum to read prayers and to preach in
Quarndon chapel, j
In 1793 an augmentation of £200 fell by lot to Quarndon from
Queen Anne's Bounty, but the Governors naturally declined to
confirm the grant unless the curate would agree to do duty once
every Sunday. Mr. Manlove, vicar of S. Alkmund's, who then
held this curacy, declined to accede to this stipulation, and the
augmentation passed to another benefice. Mr. Cantrell, his prede-
cessor in the vicarage of S. Alkmund's, had also held the cure of
Quarndon. § Mr. Cantrell, in 1736, purchased some laud in the
parish of Markfield, Leicestershire, for the endowment of this cure,
for the sum of £400. Half of this money was procured from Mrs.
Wills, a friend of his first wife's, and the other half was advanced
from Queen Anne's Bounty. From the time of this purchase up
to 1772, Quarndou baptisms were entered in the S. Alkmund
registers. In the latter year a separate register book was pur-
chased for Quarndon, which from the time of its endowment in
1736 had come to be regarded as a distinct parish. The marriage
register begins in 1755. There were no burials at Quarndon till
1821, when the churchyard was consecrated.
At the end of a Terrier of 1751 is the following inventory : —
" A True and Perfect Note of all and singular the Goods Books Ornaments
and Utensils belonging to the Parish and Parish Church of Quarne in the County
of Derby and Diocese of Lichfleld and Coventry. Inprimis one Pewter Flaggon —
Item One Chalice with a Cover of Pewter — One Salver of Pewter — One Plate of
* Pegge's MSS., vol. v., f. 163.
f Charity Commissioners' Reports (1827), vol. xvii., p. 137. One branch of the
Muiidy family had for a long period an estate and mansion at Quarndon. In default
of male issue, it passed by marriage to Musters, of Colwick. The old hall stood close
to the churchyard on the south side. There was much stained heraldic glass in the
windows. It was pulled down by Lord Scarsdale in 1812, and the glass takeii to
Kedleston.— Meyiiell MSS.
{ Charity Commissioners' Eeports, vol. xvii., p. 2ft7.
§ For these and other particulars, taken from the parish registers of Quarudon we
de-ire to express our indebtedness to the Hon. W. M. Jervis.
110 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Pewter — One Linnen Cloth for the Communion Table and one Napkin — One
large Bason of Pewter to be set upon the Font Stone at Baptisms — One Red
Velvet Pulpit Cushion curiously wrought and one old Cushion — One Holland
Surplice — Two Common Prayer Books — One large Bible of the last Translation —
One Chest — Two Boles (? Bowls) with their Frames."
The old church or chapel of Qnarndon, dedicated, like its suc-
cessor, to S. Paul,* was taken down in 1874-5, a new church
having been previously erected in quite another part of the village,
at a cost of £4,000. The chapel underwent considerable repairs in
1790. From a south-east view and a description taken by Mr.
Eawlins in 1824, as well as from another view and account taken
a little earlier by Mr. Meynell, we find that it then consisted of a
parallelogram, 44 ft. 7 in. by 15 ft. It had a small square tower
at the west end, not disengaged from the rest of the building, but
risiug out of the roof of the west gable. This tower was surmounted
by a short four-sided spire, covered with lead. There was a good
Norman south doorway, and two projecting heads of a corbel- table
of that date. There was a small pointed priest's door blocked up,
and the buttresses at the angle of the east end were clearly of
Early English character. The east window was a two-light de-
based one with a square head, and there were three other windows
of like style in the south wall. Mr. Eawlins says : — " Over the
altar is a niche, most probably to place the statue of the Virgin or
tutelar saint in, but neither is seen at the present day." From
Mr. Meynell' s account, we learn that this niche was on the north
side of the altar.
About 1835 the church was considerably enlarged. A bell tower
was added at the west end about the same time. This tower,
picturesquely mantled in ivy, is all that was left standing when
the building was taken down. The south Norman doorway, which
afforded proof of the careful provision of the church for the
spiritual needs of a small hamlet like Quarndon at least as early
as the reign of Henry I., though in fairly good condition, was
most unfortunately then destroyed. It should certainly have been
left standing, or removed to the new church.
* The Liber Regis, and other authorities, are silent as to the dedication of this
chapel, but there is an undisputed tradition that it was dedicated to S. Paul. We
learn from the present vicar, Rev. W. G. Nourse, and also from Mr. C. Hampshire,
whose family have been long resident at Quarndon, that there was an inscription
mentioning this dedication in the old belfry. The wakes, however, are regulated by
All Saints' day.
EUununb'i.
jLKMUND was the son of Alcred, king of Northumbria. In
774, when a mere youth, he was obliged to fly with his
father from the hands of his rebellious subjects, who con-
tracted a league with the Danes. For twenty years the father and
son lived among the Picts, when his people, growing tired of the
tyranny of the Northmen, were anxious to recall their former sove-
reign. Alkmund put himself at the head of this party, and won
several battles. How he lost his life is a matter of dispute among
his chroniclers. By some it is stated that he was put to death by
Ardulph, the reigning prince, in 800, by others that he was killed
in the battle of Kempsford in that year ; but it seems more pro-
bable that he was treacherously slain by the Danes in 819.* Be
this as it may, he soon earned the honours of saint and martyr.
Fuller sneers at his claim to sanctity, and his sneers have been
quoted and amplified by several subsequent writers ; but when we
find so much uncertainty about even the mode of his death, we
may surely give our Anglo-Saxon ancestors and the Catholic Church
of those days some credit for being acquainted with details of his
sanctity that justified them in his canonisation, but which have not
come down to our days. It is not as if he had been canonised,
and then shortly afterwards dropped into oblivion, as was some-
times the case with these early saints ; for he was evidently most
highly esteemed by the pious of his countrymen, and his shrine
remained .in peculiar honour up to the time of the Reformation.
S. Alkmund was buried at Lilleshall, in Shropshire, where a
church was either built over his relics, or else his body was placed
in a church that previously existed. But not long afterwards,
* See Histories of John of Gla<;tonbury and Matthew of Westminster, etc., etc.; also
Acta Sanctorum, Heuscheinus, Mart. vol. iii., p. 47.
Ill DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
through fear of an incursion of the Danes, his remains were hastily
removed, and translated to Derby, where he was honoured on
March 19th (the day of his translation) with great devotion as
patron saint of the town. Alban Butler tells us that an old MS.
sermon preached in S. Alkmund's Church at Derby, about the year
1140, gives a particular history of this translation of his relics to
Derby, where his shrine became famous for miracles and for the
resort of pilgrims.* Situated close by the side of one of the most
important and frequented routes between the north and south of
the kingdom, the fame of S. Alkmund's shrine appears to have been
retained in all its^freshness up to the time of the Reformation.
Mr. Cantrell, the vicar of S. Alkmund's, writing to Dr. Pegge on
this subject in 1760, says : — " Fuller in his ' Worthies ' reports of
miracles here — I add that it has been commonly said here that the
north countrymen inquire for this tomb, and rest their packs upon
it."t A well, a short distance to the north of the church, is still
known by the name of " S. Alkmund's well." The ancient custom
of dressing this well with flowers was revived in 1870, and is now
annually observed, the clergy and choir of S. Alkmund's meeting
at the church and walking there in procession. { The street leading
down to S. Mary's Bridge past S. Alkmund's formed, until quite a
recent date, the northern boundary of the town. The well is
beyond this — outside the walls of the old borough. It is said that
when the pious company bearing the relics of S. Alkmund reached
the outskirts of the town, they laid down their precious burden by
the side of this well, whilst they treated with the townspeople for
their safe admission within the walls. From that time the waters
* The following is the account given by Butler of the character and death of S.
Alkmund (Lives of the Saints, vol. ii., p. 370) : — " During his temporal prosperity, the
greater he was in power so much the more meek and humble was he in his heart, and
so much the more affable to others. He was poor amidst riches, because he knew no
greater pleasure than to strip himself for the relief of the distressed. Being driven
from his kingdom, together with his father, by rebellious subjects in league with
Danish plunderers, he lived among the Picts above twenty years in banishment;
learning more heartily to despise earthly vanities, and making it his whole study to
serve the King of kings. His subjects groaniug under the yoke of an unsupportable
tyranny, took up arms against their oppressors, and induced the royal prince, upon
motives of compassion for their disti'ess and a holy zeal for religion, to put himself at
their head. Several battles were prosperously fought ; but at length the pious prince
was murdered by the contrivance of King Bardulf, the usurper, as Matthew of West-
minster, Simeon of Durham, and Florence of Worcester say." We have made every
effort to trace the MS. book of sermons from which this learned hagiologist quoted,
and have met with much courtesy in our applications in several quarters. It is not
in any of the Eoman Catholic libraries in this country, and the only remaining chance
seems to be at the Public Library, Douay. It was at Douay that the Lives of the
Saints was written.
t Pegge's MSS., vol. iii. Mr. Cantrell speaks of having found two bodies — a man
and woman — under a tombstone closely adjoining the east chancel wall, but wisely
adds, that the body of S. Alkmund would be within the walls.
J It is rather unfortunate that Whiten n Tuesday has been chosen for the renewal of
this observance. It would surely be better to revert to the historical day — March 19th.
s. ALKMUND'S. 115
of the well were blessed with special curative powers., and the well
itself has been ever since known by the name of S. Alkmund.
Long after the Eeformation, a belief in the special virtues of this
water lingered in the minds of even well-educated people — a belief
not altogether exploded at the present day. Mr. Cantrell, in the
letter just quoted, records how the late vicar of S. Werburgh's
(Rev. William Lockett), being in a low consumption, constantly
drank water of S. Alkmund's well, and recovered his health.
The well (font) of S. Alkmund is mentioned in a fourteenth
century charter, between the abbey of Darley and the hospital of
S. Helen, wherein it is described as lying between the well of S.
Helen and a meadow pertaining to one William Greene.*
The townsfolk, when they knew that the relics of S. Alkmund
were outside their walls, received the same with joy, and the church
that still bears his name was erected over the shrine.t It stood
upon the royal demesne, and in the time of Edward the Confessor
was served by a colfege of six priests, who were endowed with nine
oxgangs of land in Little Eaton and Quarndou. These lands, as
we have already shown, subsequently came into the hands of the
Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, as the patrons of the College of
All Saints, and the parish church became, as it were, appropriated
to or amalgamated with that collegiate establishment, and would
be served by the canons of All Saints'. The statement originally
started by Hutton, and copied by ah1 subsequent writers on Derby,
that S. Alkmund's was appropriated to Darley Abbey, is without
any foundation.
S. Alkmund's, as included in the college of All Saints, was
stript of every fraction of endowment in the time of Edward VI.
Queen Mary, when she made her magnificent grant to the bailiffs
and burgesses of Derby, in 1555, gave them the advowson of
S. Alkmuud's, arid stipulated that they should provide the vicar
with a mansion house and a yearly stipend of £7 6s. 8d.J The
* Cott. MSS., Titus C. ix., f, 77.
f The following are the eight English churches dedicated to this saint: — Derby,
Duffield, Shrewsbury, Ateham and Whitchurch (Shropshire), and Bliburgh (Lincoln).
Aymestrey (Hereford), is conjointly dedicated to SS. John and Alkmund ; and Worm-
bridge (Shropshire) to SS. Mary and Alkmund.
J The great ingenuity of this grant of Queen Mary to the town of Derby, which
resembles several similar ones in other parts of the country, is worth noting. The
Queen probably forsaw the reversion of the national religion to that which prevailed
in the time of her predecessor. Had she simply re-established the canons of All
Saints' and given them back their own lands, they would again have lost all, but by
grants of lands that had pertained to colleges and religious houses, to bodies of free
burgesses, subject to the finding of certain priests, she interested the middle class in
the retention of these grants and secured at all events some share of the plunder to the
church.
116 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
endowment was found to be insufficient, and the services at S.
Alkmund were -very fitful. Woolley, writing in the reign of Anne,
says " it had no constant preaching in it of late," and Hutton adds
that "in the reign of George I. divine service was performed but
once a quarter." Though nominally a vicarage, it seems not to
have been regarded in that light, and was often served by the
same minister as All Saints'. In 1712, the living was materially
augmented. The story of this benefaction is thus told by satirical
Hutton : — " An old batchelor of the name of Goodwin, of an
ancient family in Derby, possessed an estate of £60 a year. ' How
will you dispose of your fortune?' says Mr. Cantril, minister of
S. Alkmund's. ' I am at a loss,' replied Goodwin, ' for I have no
near relations.' Here, my dear Eeader, was a fine opening for
Cantril to increase his income, and for Goodwin to save his soul
by giving that property to pious uses which he could keep no
longer. Eloquence is seldom wanting to promote our interest.
' My church,' says the parson, ' stands desolate, instead of being
a place of regular worship, it is only a nursery for owls and bats.
No act of charity can surpass that of promoting religion.' ' Then
I will give £10 per annum to S. Alkmuud's at my death,'
says Goodwin, 'and the residue at the death of my nephew;'
which last happened about the year 1734."* This estate, which
has very largely increased in value, is situate at Plumley and
Mosborough, in the parish of Eckington. The deed of endow-
ment of Samuel Goodwin was forwarded to the Bishop by the
mayor and burgesses, with a prayer that he would create S.
Alkmund's a vicarage, and nominating Henry Cantrell as vicar.
The Bishop by letters dated March 5th, 1712, constituted S.
Alkmund's a vicarage and instituted Mr. CantreU.f Up to that
date, the church, like that of All Saints', had been extra-episcopal.
The advowson remained with the Corporation till the Municipal
Reform Act of 1835, when all such benefices were sold ; S. Alk-
mund's was purchased by Mr. Jedediah Strutt, who subsequently
gave it the vicar. On May 24th, 1877, the living was sold at
public auction in London, when it was purchased by the Simeon
Trustees. |
The following list of post-Reformation vicars or ministers is
compiled from the parish registers : —
* Button's History of Derby, pp. 138-9.
+ Episcopal Registers, vol. xvii.
J For certain peculiar circumstances attending this sale of the cure of souls, see
Purchase in the Church (Simpkiu, Marshall, and Co.), pp. 187-190.
s. ALKMUND'S. 117
1539. John Bath, buried June 24th.
1540. Thomas Ragge, buried February 19th.
1541. Nicholas Jones, buried April 10th.
1551. William Elton, buried September 25th.
1556. " Sepultus est Johannes Mariotte pastor hujus Ecclesice post quam sese
laqueo videlicit funiculo minim* campanae suspeuderat vitamque miseriine
finierat Junii 14. Deus dat aliis meliorem gratias mensuram. Nota, fregit
campanam corporis gravitate et casu."*
1560. Roger Bartholomew, buried May 29th.
1560. Dns Moore, appointed this year.
1586. Thomas Swetnam. On the resignation of Moore. He was appointed
"suffragio et permissu Balivorum tune existeutium Burgessorum totius
deuique parochise."
1605. John Hollingham.
162 . Henry Coke. He was deposed in 1645.
1658. "Isaac Selden, clerke, came to Derby on Saturday the 14th day of August
Ano Dni 1658, and by mutual consent was selected and chosen Minister of
the Parish Churches of St. Alkmund and St. Michael's in Derby."
1712. Henry Cantrell. The first parson of S. Alkmund's instituted by the
Bishop, f
1773. Thomas Manlove. On the death of H. C.
1802. Charles Stead Hope. On the death of T. M.
1841. Edward Henry Abney ; patron, Jedediah Strutt.
* This John Marriott, of so miserable an end, was the dispossessed priest of the
wealthy chantry of SS. Nicholas and Catharine at Crich ; see our previous account
of that church.
f The following interesting letter from Rev. Henry Cantrell, respecting the endow-
ment and presentation has been kindly put into our hands by Mr. Wallis from his
private MSS. It is endorsed — " My own Letter to my Father ab1 S* Alk." Addressed —
To Mr. Cantrell at his House upon Nun Green in Derby — These.
London May ye 8th 1711.
" Honour'd Father and Mother
" In my last I told you I should give an account of my interview with my Ld Keeper.
The Reverend The Dean introduced me to his Lordship, who receiv'd me (upon The
Dean's recommendation) wth abundance of civility, and has declar'd me The Vicar of
S1 Alkmuuds, and given all imaginable assurance that the presentation shall be
transmitted to me upon Mr. Goodwin's endowment.
" The reason why it is not now put into my hands is, because should I now receive it
as a donative, I must be obliged, after th' endowment, to take out another presentation
as a Vicarage. This is so plainly irade appear to me y* I am very well satisfy 'd. All
yt remains, therefore, is yl my good friend Mr. Goodwin should settle what he intends,
and ye sooner the better — for my Ld tells me y* as soon as he hears it is done, all shall
be connrm'd here.
" The Dean designs to write to Mr. Goodwin to give him account what progress is
made in this affair and w* great approbation his pious design meets with. I have by
the advice of The Dean wrote a letter to Dr. Goodwin Archdeacon of Derby, request-
ing him to acquaint The Bishop with the intended endowment, y* He may give notice
to his officers to have all Instruments ready at Derby at the Visitation ; Sunday next
I am to preach for The Dean and then I design to set out for home.
" I am very glad y* I came to town, for otherwise this business had, in all probability,
been as far from being settled as ever; but I must say The Dean and Mr. Willes (a)
have been at a vast deal of trouble about it which was occasioned by the great opposi-
tion L. C. J. P. (b) made ; but he is now in a better mind, and has promised The
Dean he will not offer to hinder it any longer.
" Pray present my respects to Mr. Goodwin, and Mr. Parker (c), and the rest of my
good friends and accept ye same
from yr dutiful Son
Hen : Cantrell."
(a) Mr. Willes, son of the late minister of All Saints', the Rev. Samuel Willes. There is n
monument to his memory in this church.
(b) L. C. J. P. — Lord Chief Justice Parker, afterwards Earl of Macclesfield, who rssided in Bridge
Gate near the bridge foot.
(c) Benjamin Parker married Lucy, dau. of Rev. S. Willes. She died 6y6 in the ilst year of her
age.
118 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
In 1841 it was most unfortunately resolved to pull down the
venerable old church, and to build a new one on the site. At first
it was intended to retain at all events the lower part of the old
tower, but it was found to be too insecure to support new work.
The last service in the old building was on the evening of January
1st, 1844, when a " Grand selection of sacred music by the Derby
Choral Society " was performed, admission sixpence. The work of
demolition commenced immediately afterwards. On February 20th
of that year the Committee resolved that the west face of the tower
of the new church should project 10 ft. 6 in. beyond the exterior
projection of the buttresses of the old tower, and that the increased
length be appropriated for a chancel. By this lengthening of the
church the principal view of the beautiful tower of S. Mary's — the
Eoman Catholic church erected a few years before, and one of the
most successful efforts of Pugin — was effectually concealed ; and it
is creditable to the good sense and taste of Derby that this unne-
cessary obstruction of a real work of art, though unfortunately
carried out, met with much opposition.*
The first stone of the present building was laid on May 6th.
The new church was erected at a cost of about £7000, exclusive of
the spire, which cost another £700.
We have been able to get together various particulars relative to
the old building from different sources. It consisted of a nave, with
side aisles and south porch; a chancel; and a tower at the west
end, not disengaged from the building, but open to the aisles and
nave by three pointed arches. The dimensions, as taken by Mr.
Eawlins in 1826, were : — Nave, 63 ft. 7 in. by 17 ft. ; south aisle,
63 ft. 7 in. by 12 ft. 9 in. ; north aisle, the same length by 10 ft.
8 in. ; and chancel, 34 ft. 3 in. by 12 ft. 4 in. From woodcuts in the
works of Hutton and Glover, and from drawings made by Messrs.
Meynell and Eawlins, we find that the external characteristics of
the building were almost entirely of the Perpendicular period.
The nave, aisles, and tower had all embattled parapets. The tower
had double belfry windows on each side. The three pointed
windows of the south aisle and the east chancel window were
filled with Perpendicular tracery ; and the square-headed east
window of the south aisle, of the south side of the chancel, and
the clerestory windows were of the same style. The embattled
* The present Lord Belper, then member for Derby, was a warm opponent of this
change of plan — which was rightly or wrongly regarded as a piece of Protestant
spite — and withdrew his subscription of i'2(JO, dividing it between the Derby In-
firmary and the Derby British Schools.
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porch seems also to have been of that date. Hutton's view (1798)
shows a crocketed pinnacle on the apex of the porch, and two
crosses on the respective gables of the nave and chancel. Eawlins'
sketch (1826) shows a large niche over the porch doorway, and also
a doorway through one of the lights of the south aisle window
nearest the east, access to which was gained by a flight of three
steps: this probably was the approach to a south gallery. The nave,
according to Mr. Eawlins, was separated from the aisles on each
side by three pointed arches supported on " circular columns with
capitals of the Doric order." From this description it seems pos-
sible that the pillars were Norman, and the rounded arches subse-
quently replaced by pointed ones. Another account tells us that
there were several Norman details about the church, especially in
the chancel.*
But the brief account given of this church by Sir Stephen
Glynn, circa 1830, is clearly the most correct. We reproduce it
verbatim from his MSS. : —
" This church is principally Bectilinear, and consists of a west tower, a nave
with side aisles, and a chancel. The tower is embattled, with double belfry win-
dows, and stands engaged with the aisles ; it has also on each side a square-
headed window ranging with those of the clerestory. The nave, aisles, and south
porch are all embattled, and the buttresses on the north side surmounted by pin-
nacles. The chancel is finely mantled with ivy. The nave is divided from each
aisle by three pointed arches, with circular piers having square capitals, appa-
rently modern. The tower opens to the nave and to the side aisles by three good
pointed arches with mouldings carried all down. The windows of the aisles and
of the chancel are late Rectilinear, those of the clerestory square-headed. The
chancel arch springs from octagonal shafts resting on heads. In the chancel,
south of the altar, are two mutilated stalls of Norman work, the shaft having a
good sculptured capital and square base. There is an organ in the west gallery,
and at the east end of the south aisle a rich alabaster tomb with arabesque cor-
nice and sculptured figures. The font is an octagon, with panneliug."
At the time of the Herald's Visitation, in 1611,t the arms of
Mackworth (per pale, indented, sab. and erm., a chevron, gu, fretty,
or) appeared twice in the windows. There was also a monument,
on which were the arms of Lister (erm., on a fesse, sab., three
mullets, <m/.) impaling ary., a bend, sab., and the following
inscription : —
" Anthony Lister gentleman, and Alice his wife, they had issue Henry Lister,
which Anthony died the 30 day of November 1592, and Alice his wife who died
A° Dni 1600, and left 4 souues and 4 daughters, viz* Anthony, Henry, Richard,
William, Alice, Elizabeth, Ellen, Mary."
* Bagshaw's Gazetteer of Derbyshire, p. 54.
t Harl. MSS. 148(5 f. 10 58uy, f. 12 ; 1098, f. 7b.
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Alice, the wife of Anthony, was the daughter of William Trub-
shawe, of Thurvaston, and the impaled arms given above are not
those of that family. The coat was borne by at least a dozen dif-
ferent families. John Lister, the father of Anthony, married the
heiress of Meysham, of Little Eaton, and it may betoken that
marriage. The family of Lister held lands at Little Eaton at an
early date. There are eight generations given in the Visitation
pedigree of 1611, concluding with John, son and heir of Anthony,
son of Anthony of the monument, then aged 9.* The monument
of Lister has quite disappeared.
Mr. Cantrell, writing in 1760, says, " there was painted glass in
the windows, which has been taken away by the glasiers," and
specifies "a woman veiled in the belfry," and "in the east window
over the altar a beautiful head with a mitre upon it." He
describes roses as being represented in various parts of the building,
in stone over the belfry window and on the font, and in wood on
the old seat doors and on the roof of the nave, where they were
gilded and picked out with white, " which perhaps may signify that
the roof at least was laid on in the time of the contest for the
Crown between the houses of York and Lancaster." It certainly
seems as if the church had been rebuilt throughout in the time of
Henry VII. He also adds : — ' ' I cannot omit to mention that
when the old seats were taken away and new ones erected, soon
after my induction (1713), several old pieces of money were found
in the dust, with the effigy of a king, and, as I remember, in
Saxon characters." Cantrell further noticed the altar tomb to
John Bullock, of Parley Abbey, which then stood in the quire f at
the east end of the south aisle. This family was a younger
branch of the Bullocks of Unston. After the dissolution of the
abbey, the site was granted to Sir William West, who built himself
a residence out of the conventual buildings. His son sold it to
John Bullock in 1574, and the Bullocks resided there for about
eighty years. This tomb now stands at the west end of the south
aisle of the new church. On it rests the effigy in alabaster of a
man in a long gown with a book in his left hand. The head is
* Harl. MSS. 5,809, f . 4b ; 1,486, f . 3b. Of the children mentioned on the monument,
Anthony married Elena, eldest daughter of Edmund Parker, of Little Eaton; Henry
married the daughter of Kempe, second officer of the King's Bench, and resided at
Hathersage ; Eichard resided at Sheffield ; and the three daughters, Alice, Eliza-
beth, and Mary, married respectively Wydmerpole, of Wydmerpole, Notts. ; Brian
Dawson, of King's Newton ; and William Leigh, of Egginton.
t From this expression it would seem that the east end of this aisle was divided
from the rest of the church by a screen or parclose.
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a good deal attenuated. On two panels in front of the tomb was
formerly a long inscription in gold letters, but it was illegible even
in Bassano's time (1710). John Bullock, according to the register,
was buried October 13th, 1607. On the north end of the tomb
are the arms of Bullock (Erm., a chief, gu., a label of five points,
or) impaling a fesse engrailed between six cross crosslets, and the
crest, a sheaf of battleaxes encircled by a mural crown. Bassano
noted near to this tomb an alabaster stone, not now extant, on
which was inscribed : —
" ' Here lyeth Elizabeth, late wife of John Bullock, of Darley, Esq., which
Elizabeth dyed the llth day of August 1582. She had issue 3 sons and '6
daughters, 2 of which daughters dyed before her, and lye here by their uncle :
Elizabeth was daughter of William Pireson, of London, and Anne his wife,
daughter of William Carkerke, Gent : William and Anne had issue 5 sons and 3
daughters. Anne after married Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, Knight, and had issue
by him one son.' Upon the face of the stone is a verse of God's word. Job. ix.
19. And under it ' Vincet (?) post funera virtus.' "
The rest of the tombs, which chiefly occupy the west ends of the
aisles of the new clmrch, are of comparatively modern date and of
no special interest.
In the vestry, on the south side of the chancel, is the following
inscription, which used to be in the middle aisle opposite the
pulpit : —
"Whereas for near fifty years Divine Service hath been seldom performed in
this parish church for want of a sufficient maintenance to support a resideing
Minister, the evil consequences whereof Mr. Samuel Goodwin of this parish,
piously considering hath procured the Church to be made a Vicaridge and
endowed it with an estate in the parish of Eckington in this county upward of
the annual sum of fourty pounds, and also with a house in the parish of St.
Werburgh. This is therefore set up with the concurring voice of the Parishioners
to be an eternal monument of their gratitude, and to inform posterity hereof, that
his memory may be always blessed among 'em as we pray he may for ever be in
the kingdom, of heaven MDCCXII."
The old font, with the usual lack of taste and reverence, was
removed from the church when demolished, and has ever since
served as an ornamental vase in the vicarage garden. It is of
rather small size, and octagon shape, three sides of which are in
very good preservation. From the arches sculptured on its sides,
and from the general mouldings, we take it to be of fourteenth
century date.*
But by far the most interesting details that were brought to
light during the work of demolition, were several stones, built into
* The He.liquary, vol. xi., p. 109, gives a wood-cut of this font. The Tudor roses
on this font, mentioned by Mr. Cautrell, have been by error omitted by the engraver,
and small lancets inserted.
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the window -jambs, doorways, etc., which undoubtedly pertained to
the original Saxon church. (Plate V.) One of these seems to be
the lower limb of a finial or gable cross ; it is a massive stone of
sexagon shape, and each side (excepting one that has been
subsequently dressed smooth) has a knot-work pattern sculptured
upon it (fig. rt). Two other pieces have pertained to a church-yard
cross, much after the fashion of the one now standing at Hope ;*
it must have been quite twelve feet above the ground, and an
exceptionally fine cross when perfect (figs, b and c). The largest
piece is 86 in. long, and tapers on the wide side from 16 in. to
13 in., and on the narrow sides from 13 in. to 10 in. The
ornaments of these fragments consist exclusively of various inter-
laced patterns and chimerical animals. These stones are at the
Derby Museum. A piece of another cross, on one side of which
were two figures, perhaps intended for the Annunciation, and on
the other a Virgin and Child, was cut in two, and the parts
built into the new porch. The Virgin holds a most singular
instrument in her right hand, of which we can give no explana-
tion (fig. d). The two most interesting and unique stones seem to
have been lost, but there is a cast of one of them in the Museum,
and drawings were given in an early number of the Journal of
the Archaeological Association,^ the more remarkable of which is
reproduced on our plate (fig. e). These conical capitals, about a
foot square, must have pertained to some small arch, or probably
arched recess, and it is by no means improbable that they may
have formed a sort of canopied niche at the back of the high
altar, upon which would most likely rest the movable shrine
encasing the relics of S. Alkmuud. The cross on the side of one
of the capitals should be compared with one on a slab at Alvaston
(Plate VI.) Another cast of a missing stone is part of a third
cross of freer pattern (fig. /). These stones are all of a coarse
reddish gritstone.
In the churchyard, by the vestry door, is another interesting
memorial of the old church, which was found in the foundation of
the chancel. It is a massive tapering stone, 6 ft. G in. long, by
27 in. at the head, and 17 in. at the foot, and 10 in. thick. The
upper surface is smooth, but both sides are carved with a plain
arcade of Norman arches. Its date seems to be of the early Nor-
man period, temp. William I. or II. Both the ends are plain ; so
* See Churches of Derbyshire, vol. ii., plate XII.
t Vol. ii., p. 87.
PLATE v
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that it probably fitted into a low sepulchral arch within the wall,
and formed the substantial lid of a stone coffin, in which rested
the remains of a founder, or rather of a rebuilder of the original
Saxon Church. This stone has been erroneously spoken of as
" the shrine of S. Alkmund ;" but this is an obvious misnomer,
for not only is it some two centuries later in date than the time
when S. Alkmund's relics were brought to Derby, but the shrine
of a saint, properly speaking, was a portable coffer containing his
relics, which at certain times was carried in procession. It is,
however, just possible that the shrine may have been placed on
this stone, within a recess, when the church was rebuilt in the
Norman epoch. But it is much more likely that the bones of
S. Alkmund would be placed, if buried, immediately beneath the
high altar ; or, if in a portable shrine, within a coffer immediately
over or resting on that altar ; for it should be remembered that
this church was originally built for the safe custody of his relics,
and did not subsequently become possessed of them.
From an old Parish Book of S. Alkmuud's, extending from 1698
to 1783, some interesting details relative to the structure and sur-
rounding of the church and parish can be gleaned.
In 1712 "the Vicar with some persons did perambulate the
Liberties of Little Eaton without consent of the Churchwardens ;"
so that it was resolved that this should not be regarded as a pre-
cedent, and that hereafter they will not be liable for any charge
unless previous consent has been given at a regular parish meeting.
In 1719 it was resolved that "when the Parson and Churchwar-
dens have a mind to goe the Perambulation," they should only
have 5s. to spend at Darley Hill, provided they went every year,
but 15s. if they went only once in three years.*
At a parish meeting, held March 7th, 1738, it was ordered that
a letter should be written to the Bishop, representing " that ye
Trees lately planted by Mr. Cantrell in ye Churchyard very much
darken ye Church and straiten ye Burying Ground, and y* ye other
trees are got so large y* Books build in them and are a great
nuisance to ye inhabitants in ye Churchyard and ye people y* pass
through it being a great thorofair wcb ye sd Mr. Cantrell will not
suffer to be remidied and threatens the Churchwardens if they
* Cantrell, writing to Dr. Pegge about Darley Abbey, in 1760, says : — " Tradition
speaks of a church to S. Mary near the Abbey, but outside, long since demolished, but
some of the ruins were visible in my recollection. At every perambulation it was
the custom to read a gospel and sing a psalm at this spot, as in this very year in
Eogation week." Pegge's MSS., vol. iii.
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presume to meddle." An order of the Chancellor's Court at Lich-
field, dated December 1st, 1741, directed that three elm trees on
the west side of the church, four on the south, and two on the
east should be " lopped cult and crop'd " in such a manner as to
prevent them being rookeries ; and that the twenty lime trees on
the south side, planted a few years ago by Mr. Cantrell, should be
taken up with as little damage as may be, and " delivered to the
Vicar if he would have them, and otherwise to apply them to any
parochial use."
Mr. Cantrell, during his long occupancy of this vicarage, seems
to have been remarkably litigious. We know from other sources
with what warmth and lack of judgment he threw himself into the
quarrel between Dr. Hutchinson and the Corporation, and this
book bears witness that he was for ever at loggerheads with his
parishioners, about every conceivable detail of parochial and minis-
terial rights, such as the choice of parish clerk, the election of
churchwardens, the distribution of the offertory money, and the
appropriation of seats.
From a minute of the year 1710, about keeping the leads and
windows in repair, it appears that one part of the church, which
was excepted from the general agreement, was known as "Darley
Quire." This must have been at the east end of the south aisle.
In 1729 one Thomas Hall, of Longford, agreed, in consideration
of £6 10s. and the old clock, to make " an absolute good and
substantial Clock and Iron Frame as good as can or need to be
made to go 28 hours and to sett the Two Fingers to go Eight,"
etc. There is an entry in 1721 appointing a committee to assist
the churchwardens about " buildinge and finishing the steeple," but
this can only refer to some repairs, perhaps of an extensive
character ; for the tower or steeple, at the time of its demolition,
undoubtedly pertained to the Perpendicular period.
The present tower contains a ring of eight bells, thus lettered :—
I. and II. " C. & G. Mears, founders, London, 1846. This bell
was added by voluntary subscription on the rebuilding of the
Parish Church A.D. 1846. The following were the building Com-
mittee, The Eev. Edward Henry Abney B.A. Vicar, Henry Cox,
John Harrison, John Whitehurst, James Thomason, John Johnson,
John Gamble, William Smith ; George Bridgart, William Stevenson,
Churchwardens."
III. " C. & G. Mears, founders, London. The old Parish Church
was taken down A.D. 1844, and rebuilt by voluntary subscription
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A.D. 1846. The Eev. Edw. Heiiry Abuey B.A. Vicar, John Gamble,
Joseph Walker, Churchwardens."
IV. " God save oure Church," and the bell-mark of Henry
Oldfield.
V. "Eccho dulcis sonans jam voco jarnque veni 1588. Eecast
1846 by C. & G. Mears, London."
VI. " Ut tuba sic resono ad templa venite pii 1586," and the
bell-mark of Henry Oidfield.
VII. "All glori be to God on high, 1624."
VIII. "J. Taylor & Co., Bell founders, Loughborough, 1872.
Eecast 1872. Edward Henry Abney B.A. Vicar, Walter G. Cope-
stake, Frank Campion, Churchwardens."
The inscription on the last bell used to be — ' ' Triuitate sacra
fiat hec campana beata."
The registers of S. Alkmund's begin in 1538 ; the oldest volume
is a neat parchment book extending from that date to 1751, but
the real date of the book is 1598, the entries prior to that date
having been copied from an older one. Ninety-one persons died
of the plague in this parish, between February 2nd, 1592, and
October 4th, 1 593, and there were nine deaths from the same
cause in 1637.* Several entries occur shortly after the Eeforma-
tion, in which the interred person is described as "Presbiter."
They were probably dispossessed chantry priests, or monks of some
of the dissolved abbeys and priories. One of them, Thomas Har-
rison, who died in 1558, will be found in the roll of Philip and
Mary (Appendix I.) as a pensioned monk of Darley. The following
are some of the more interesting excerpts : — t
1597. Concessit fato Johannes Wooddiwisse servnlus pv8B_CestrisB, non sepultus,
quia laqueo seipsu suspendit. Deus dat aliis meliore gratia, Apr. 3.
1601. An account of the fall of S. Werburgh's tower ; see the description of that
church.
1620. A certayne prisoner brought into ye-gaole and guarded .... comming over
the Mary bridge leapte over into the water and drowde himselfe and was
buried by the highwayside close at the foote of the bridge, June 28.
1624. Mense Augusti Campanarium J Sanct' Alkmundi denuo reconditum est, et
Campana quarta refusta. Henrico Coke ministro, Thoma Burne et Samuel
Storer CEconomis, Roberto Caddow et Josepho Eeeve operariis et fiuitum
est opus integrum decimo quarto die ejusdem meusis Augusti 1624, quo die
Rex Jacobus una cum Carolo Principe villam Derbeyam in progressu
iutraverunt et duos noctes in eadem villa . . . tantes.
* See previous notes on All Saints' registers.
t The readers who desire to know more of these registers should refer to the able
and exhaustive articles thereon, from the pen of Rev. W. Beresford, in vols. x., xi.,
and xii. of the Reliquary. We desire here to express our obligations to Mr. Beresford
for much information that he has kindly placed at our disposal.
I I.e. the belfry or bell chamber, not the tower.
126 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1632. 19 March. Whereas Katherine y6 wife of Nathanael Bate of Little Chester,
within ye parish of St Alkmund's, Derby, being great with child and (by
reason of her health) infirm and weak, and therefore not able to feed upon
fish meats without apparent damage (as I am credibly informed) I doe
therefore by these presents permit (so farr forth as by the statutes of the
kingdom I may) unto y6 said K. B. to provide for herself and to feed upon
such flesh meates, as by the said statute are licensed, in this case during
all ye time of her sicknesse and noe longer. In Witnesse whereof I have
hereunto set my hand — H. Coke, Minister and Preacher of the Word of God
in the parish of St Alkmund's aforesaid. Test. Thomse Nash.*
679. Bur. Margaret James, who drowned herself in Darley mill close, and was
found floating upon ye water y* same day with her undercoat tyed about
her hammes. God give others better grace.
1721. Aug. 30. Bur. Jane Cressop, who was killed by the Coloquintida, or Bitter
Apple, which she had taken to procure an abortion. God give others better
grace.
1740. Dec. 27. Bap. by hypothetical Baptism, George Willincote, a convert from
schism.
* On the following day. a similar license was granted to John Bullock, of Darley
Abbey, being " somethinge diseased " as '' certified by y8 judgement of a learned
Phisitiau." T. Nash was one of the churchwardens.
LITTLE EATON. 127
of UtttU
jHEEE was an old chapel at Little Eaton dedicated to
S. Paul. The Parliamentary Commissioners, of 1650,
say : — " Little Eaton is a member [of S. Allan uud's] two
myles distant, fitt to be united to Birdsall, an augmentason of the
Deaues farme in Chester, Eaton, and Quarne sequestered from
John Bullocke granted by the Lords and Commons, worth three
score pounds per annum for the maintenance of these two last
mencioned Churches untill further order."
A terrier of S. Alkmund's, of the year 1735, in the handwriting
of the vicar, Mr. Cantrell, says : — " There is a chapel at Little
Eaton in this parish; the church [? chancel] part is in good repair,
but the other in a decaying condition. From the fair font now
standing in it, and from other considerable circumstances, it
appears to have been a considerable place, but it is now profaned,
as also is the chapel-yard, and converted to a private use, and
now in the possession of Simon Degge Esq., or his under tenant."
The existence of a font proves that the chapel had baptismal rights
attached to it at an early date, but it does not appear to have
possessed any rights of sepulture until the building of the new
church.
Writing in 1760, Mr. Cantrell again mentions the chapel as being
in a ruinous condition. For a long time it was actually used as
a blacksmith's shop, but in 1791 it was taken down, and a new
chapel, on a small scale, built in its place. Mr. Eawlins (1821)
gives its dimensions as 35 ft. 10 in. by 19 ft. 11 in. The only
128 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
entrance was under a gallery at the west end. " At the east end
is placed the altar in a circular recess." Mr. Rawlins' drawing
shows two circular-headed windows on the south side, a shallow
apse at the end, and a wooden bell-turret on the west gable. This
chapel was enlarged in 1837, but the present building, a rather
feeble imitation of the Norman style, consisting of nave, aisles,
chancel, and west tower, though on a small scale, was built in
1851. There is a single bell, bearing the date 1791, but no other
lettering or ornament.
. iBfrfarl's.
SElfcagfon.
10
jS.
MICHAEL'S church belonged to Tochi in the time of
Edward the Confessor, and to Geoffrey Alselin at the
time of the Domesday Survey (1086).* But shortly
afterwards it passed into the hands of William Fitzralph, Senes-
chal of Normandy, who is described as then being of Alvaston,
and he bestowed it on the abbey of Darley .t This grant, which
originally consisted only of the advowson of the church, was con-
firmed by Eobert, the son of the donor ; by Walter Durdent,
Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1149-61) ; and by several later
charters, both royal and episcopal. J We do not know the precise
date when S. Michael's was constituted a vicarage, and the great
tithes appropriated to the monks ; but it must have been not
long after the original gift, for we find that there was a vicar in
the year 1170. At that time Hugo, Dean of Derby (of whom we
have already spoken under " All Saints' ") sold for the sum of
three marks to William de Wilne, vicar of S. Michael's, for his
own use and for the use of all successive vicars, one toft or mes-
suage, with its appurtenances, situated in the angle of the church-
yard on the east side, between the land that formerly belonged to
Harno and the land of John Ferrers. §
The taxation roll of Pope Nicholas IV. (1291) gives the annual
value of the church or rectory of S. Michael, together with the
* That S. Michael's was the church of Tochi, and subsequently of Geoffrey Alselin,
we have no doubt, as the latter proprietor was also lord, inter alia, of Alvaston. For
a further account of Alselin, see our description of Elvaston church.
t Darley Chartulary, Cott. MSS. Titus, C. ix., f. 148. Thoroton and "Wolley are
wrong in supposing that William Fitzralph was the son of Ealph Fitzherbert, and
brother of Ealph Fitzralph (donor of the church of Crich to the abbey) ; see Nichols'
Collectanea, vol. iv., p. 9.
J Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. iii., p. 61 ; Darlev Chartulary, f. 155b, et passim.
§ Darley Chartulary, f. 67.
132 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
chapelry of Alvaston, at ,£10 13s. 4d., but makes no mention of
the value of the vicarage.
Owing to the gift of the church of Elvaston, together with various
lands in Alvaston and elsewhere, to the priory of Shelford, by a
descendant of Geoffrey Alseliu, the priors were frequently in col-
lision with the abbots of Darley as to their mutual rights. At one
time they not only laid claim to the church or chapel of Alvaston,
but also to the church of 8. Michael, Derby ; and it was not until
the time of prior Alexander, who died in 1849, that Shelford
finally and formally renounced all claim to S. Michael's.*
Various other documents pertaining to the connection of this
church with Alvaston are given in our account of that chapelry.
The Valor Ecclesiasticus (27 Henry VIII.) gives the total annual
value of the vicarage at the small sum of £± 14s. lid. We
cannot tell the exact value of the rectory of S. Michael's at that
date, as the return only gives the joint total of the rectories of
S. Peter's, S. Michael's, and Shirley, which amounted to the annual
sum of £17 16s. Od.
On the dissolution of Darley Abbey the advowson of S. Michael
passed to the crown. Queen Mary bestowed it on the bailiffs and
burgesses of the town of Derby, together with some of the despoiled
tithes pertaining to the parish.t They presented once to the
vicarage, but soon afterwards, from some cause which we cannot
explain, the advowson reverted to the crown.
The Parliamentary Commissioners of 1650 thus report of this
parish : —
" Item Michaells is a viccaridge really worth eight pounds per annum.
Alvastone is a member and hath a chappell apperteyning two myles distant
(vizt). Michaells itselfe ffive pounds per annum and Alvaston payes the said
Viccar of Michaells three pounds per annum vpon a composison made by the
abbatt of Derlye.
" Michaells is fitt to be disused and vnited to the parish of All Saints,
Alvastone is really worth in vicarall Tythes besides the three pounds paid to
Michaells six pounds thirteene shillings and ffoure pence per annum and fitt to
be vnited to Elvastone."
The following list of Vicars is chiefly taken from the Episcopal
Registers : as the patron, in each case up to its dissolution, was
the abbot of Darley, it was thought unnecessary to repeat the
name : —
1170. William de Winl' (? Wilne). Darley Chartulary.
1253. John Blundus. Darley Chartulary.
1313. John de Lely.
* Darley Chartulary, f. 80
t Patent Boll, 1 Mary, pt. 1*0, meinb. 1.
s. MICHAEL'S. 133
1342. Roger Silcok de Potlok. Collated by the Bishop, by leave of the abbot of
Darley.
1349. William de Clifton; on the death of E. S.
. William de Heanor; on the resignation of W. de C.
1368. Francis "de Wylne; on the death of W. de H.
1380. John Bradewell, rector of Cotgrave; exchanged benefices with F. de W.,
vicar of S. Michael's.
1422.*John Lowe.
1430. Gilbert Boturworth; on the resignation of J. L.
. John More.
1438. Robert Godelyng ; on the death of J. M.
. Nicholas Chalisworth.
1487. John Lenton; on the death of N. C.
1491. Roger Arnold ; * on the death of J. L.
1492. Thomas Kendall; on the death of E. A.
. Robert Johnson; on the resignation of T. K.
1529. Laurence Hourabyn ; on the death of E. J.
1530. Nicholas f Bartimlew ; on the resignation of L. H. Eeiustituted in 1536,
on the presentation of the King.
1543. Thomas Myln ; patron, Eoger Byrde de Yolgreave, by arrangement between
him and the lately dissolved abbey. On the death of N. B.
1563. Richard Buntinge ; patrons, Eichard Ward, and William Bainbrygge,
bailiffs, and the burgesses of Derby. On the death of T. M.
. Joseph Booth. "
1613. George Dale.
1619. Henry Coke.
1620. Thomas Duxbury I ; patron, the King.
1660. Isaac jSelden.
1662. Nathaniel Macham, " per sigillum magnum."
1685. Francis Ward; on the deafh of N. M.
1689. James Walker.
1710. John Bradbury.
1719. Henry Burton.
1722. William Lockett.
1752. John Seale.
1774. Charles Hope; on the death of J. S.
1799. Nicholas Bayley.
1816. John Garton Howard.
1847. R. M. Hope ; on the resignation of J. Q-. H.
1856. J. Erskine Clarke ; on the resignation of E. M. H.
1867. W. J. M. Ellison; on the resignation of J. E. C.
1876. T. Howard Twist; on the resignation of W. J. M. E. Patron, the Bishop
of Lichfleld.§
It is worth noting that this church was used by the congrega-
tion of All Saints' when their own church was re-building in 1723-5.
It was ordered that all the services should be continued ; that All
Saints' bells should be rung at the usual time, but that the people
* In the margin of the registers this institution is referred to S. Peter's, but in the
institution itself it is rightly associated with S. Michael. Episcopal Eegisters, vol.
xiii., f. 121.
t The name in the Valor Ecclesiasticus is given as " Richard Bartylmewe."
J Spelt " Ducksburie " in the parish registers.
§ The patronage was transferred, by exchange, from the Lord Chancellor to the
Bishop, in 1873.
134 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
should worship in S. Michael's. The services at Derby's minster
church, exclusive of Sunday, were, even then, daily morning prayer,
and hoth matins and evensong on saints' days, and on every day
in the week preceding the celebration of Holy Communion.
The old church of S. Michael consisted of nave, side aisles,
south porch, chancel, and west tower. From the cuts given by
Hutton, Simpson, and Glover, as well as from the sketches and
descriptions of Mr. Eawlins, Mr. Meynell, and Sir Stephen Glynn,
we can describe it with sufficient accuracy. There are also in the
vestry of the new church three photographs of the old building,
and a water-colour drawing of the interior. The dimensions of the
nave were 22 ft. 6 in. by 16 ft. 4 in. ; of the north aisle, 36 ft.
10 in. by 12 ft. 6 in. ; of the south aisle, 33 ft. 4 in. by 12 ft. 10 in.;
and of the chancel, 22 ft. 6 in. by 17 ft. 4 in. These are from the
measurements of Mr. Rawliiis, who adds — writing in 1826: — "The
space occupied by the base of the tower appears to form part of
the church, and when you stand near the reading-desk, from the
circumstance of the arches which support it being open ou every
side, they have an agreeable effect, being all of the pointed order,
as is likewise the one on each side, although of a larger span,
separating the nave from the two aisles."
There was a carved oak screen of Perpendicular date across the
chancel arch, and some more traceried carving had been utilised in
the reading-desk. Mr. Rawlins, who detected a confessional in
everything he could not explain, says : — "Behind the pulpit is a
small circular arch, cut through the wall, as if intended to form
an entrance into a kind of confessional." If the pulpit was then
on the south side of the church, this was probably a doorway
that led on to the rood-loft. The doorway and staircase leading up
to it from the south aisle were exposed in demolishing the church.
The font was of comparatively modern date, and described as
" consisting of a fluted shaft, on which is a circular vase." * Sir
Stephen Glynn's notes of 1833 mention that the roof was panelled
in wood. The church, both externally and internally, was almost
exclusively of the Perpendicular period, about the time of Henry
VII. The tower and aisles were embattled. The clerestory win-
dows— two on each side— were of three lights, and much resembled
those of S. Peter's. The windows of the aisles were square-headed
examples of Perpendicular work. The porch was of debased
* " Bapt. Elizabeth the Douter of Mr. Samuell Cooper the first in the new font,
July (he 8th, 1728." -Parish Register.
s. MICHAEL'S. 135
design, and so were the windows of the chancel. The chancel
had a high-pitched roof, and the gable over the east window was
covered with overlapping planks of timber.
On August 17th, 1856, a considerable portion of the chancel
fell — an accident which was thus described in the next issue of
the Derby Mercury : —
" Between five and ten minutes to 12 o'clock on Sunday morning last, shortly
before the conclusion of the sermon, the gable end of the chancel of S. Michael's
church, Derby, gave way, and the casing fell with a heavy crash into the church-
yard. The fall of the material shook the fabric of the church, and, as might be
expected, spread consternation through those assembled within its walls. The
service was prematurely concluded, and the congregation, in a state of great terror
and alarm, hurried out of the sacred edifice. Fortunately no accident was sus-
tained. Service has been since suspended, and some little time, it it supposed,
will elapse before it is resumed."
It was eventually decided to build a new church on the same
site and of much the same proportions. On the south-east pier
of the tower is a brass plate, thus inscribed : —
" To the glory of God and for the souls of men this Church was rebuilt on the
site of the ancient parish church of unknown antiquity, the chancel of which fell
during divine service on Aug. 17th, 1856.
" The foundation stone beneath this brass was laid by T. W. Evans, Esq., M.P.,
on April 16th, 1857, and the church was reopened by the Et. Eev. the Lord
Bishop of Lichfield on April 18th, 1858.
J. Erskine Clarke, Vicar.
Thomas Branton, 1
B. Hemmingway, S Churchwardens.
Committee
S. Brookes J. Holmes
S. Cropper H. M. Holmes
W. Cubley J. F. King
M. Eggleston H. Lougdon
E. Thompson.
H. I. Stevens, architect."
Neither the present church nor its predecessor contained any
monument of age or interest. Bassano looked into the church in
1710, and all he had to say was: — "Here is nothing in y8 church
save only ye charities hung up in 3 frames."
There were three bells in this church. The two smaller ones,
being broken, were recast by George Oldfield, in 1765, at an
expense of <£9 5s. Od. There is now only one, inscribed : —
"Eev. N. Bayley, Vicar. W. Berkin, D. Walker, Wardens. 1809. Thomas
Mears & Son of London, fecit."
two of them having been sold when the church was rebuilt.
136 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
The earliest register book is a small, thin parchment volume,
very well kept and in good condition, beginning November 9th,
1559. There are no entries between 1586 and 1593, There are
twenty-one entries of death from the plague * between May and
August, 1593, but nothing else worthy of special record.
The church possesses some remarkably fine and massive Euchar-
istic plate, consisting of a large flagon, chalice, and paten. They
all bear the arms of Parker, and this inscription : — " The gift of
Francis Parker, of St. Michael's parish in Derby, 1765."
* See note on All Saints' registers.
ALVASTON. 137
jjHE gift to Darley Abbey of the church of S. Michael,
by William Fitzralph, included the chapel of Alvasto
Geoffrey Alselin held the manor of Alvaston, as well as
Elvaston, etc., at the time of the Domesday Survey, but by some
means it soon afterwards passed to Fitzralph. His daughter,
Edelina, was the first wife of Hubert Fitzralph, Baron of Crich,*
and brought to her husband the manor of Alvaston. Their
daughter and heiress, Juliana, married Anker de Frecheville,t and
the earliest extended information pertaining to Alvaston church or
chapel, that we have met with, relates to Anker de Frecheville,
their grandson. The Frechevilles appear to have laid claim to
the advowson, and in 1257 an agreement was entered into,
between Walter de Walton, abbot of Darley, and Anker de Freche-
ville, by which the latter consents to recognise the church of
Alvaston tl tanquam capelV perdnentem ad matricem Ec>-lesiam suam
Sci Michael Derb'," and the abbot gives Anker 15 marks for freely
giving up his claim. J
In 1262 a memorandum was drawn up between the abbot of
Darley and the prior of Shelford, respecting the tithes of Elvaston
and Alvaston, the former as rectors of Alvaston, and the latter
as rectors of Elvastou. The point at issue was with respect to
a field called Mulnefield, which seems to have been partly in
the parish of Elvaston and partly in that of S. Michael's. It
is described as being on the east of the way called Nunnedik,
leading from the town of Alvaston to the mill of Burchmulne.
The matter was referred to the arbitration of John de Weston, and
William, rector of the church of S. Michael, Nottingham, who
delivered their decision in the church of All Saints, Derby, on
* See the previous account of Crich.
t Nichols' Collectanea, vol. i.. p. i, etc.
I Darley Chartulary, Cole MSS., vol. xxi., p. 179.
138 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
S. Matthew's day, 1262. The judgment was to the effect that the
priory (subject to a penalty of ten marks) was to have the tithes,
but on condition of paying annually 12J. to the abbey on the feast
of S. Michael.*
The following agreement was entered into in 1279, between the
abbey of Darley and the parishioners of the chapelry of Alvaston,
relative to the re-building or repair of the chancel, and the finding
of books and ornaments for the chancel altar, and also concern-
ing a meadow, called Prestesmedue (priest's meadow), which the
parishioners asserted had been given to the chapel for keeping a
lamp burning. The case having been argued before John Peck-
ham, Archbishop of Canterbury, it was decided that half of the
cost of the repairs or re-building that might be requisite from
time to time in the fabric, as well as of providing books, a chalice,
and proper vestments for the altar of the chancel, should be borne
by the abbey, and half by the parishioners — that the priest's
meadow, then in possession of the abbey, should remain with them
but only on the condition that the abbot should pay yearly for
the lamps of the chapel, two shillings on the feast of S. Michael —
and that, with respect to the five marks and a half already handed
over by the abbey to the parishioners for the repair of the chancel,
whatever has not been thus spent should be returned to the abbot,
and the parish were to expend a like sum whenever repairs were
necessary, before calling on the abbey for any further money .f
The monks of Darley in 1440 petitioned William Heyworth,
Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, to unite the chapelry of Alvas-
ton to the parish church, on the grounds that the inhabitants of
Alvaston were not so numerous as to require two priests, that the
distance to the mother church was not inconveniently great, and
that S. Michael's was so poor that the profits were not sufficient
for the due support of a vicar. A commission was accordingly
issued, on September 16th, to Gregory Newporte, rector of Hanbury,
to inquire into and settle the matter as the Bishop's commissary.
His decision was to the effect that the inhabitants of Alvaston
should thenceforth attend divine service at S. Michael's, and receive
the Sacraments at the hands of the vicar, and that the abbey and
vicar should be exonerated from finding a chaplain or chaplains to
serve at the chapel of Alvaston. This sentence was published in
the church of S. Peter, Derby, on December 16th, 1440, in the
* Darley Chartulary, Cott. MSS., Titus, C. ix., f. 80.
t Ibid., f. 91.
ALVASTON. 139
presence of John Lawe, canon and sub dean of All Saints' ; John
Ryggeway, vicar of S. Peter's ; and John Yvo, chantry priest of
Chaddesden. *
In course of time the inhabitants of Alvaston appear to have
become dissatisfied with the arrangement by which they were
deprived of their chaplain — no doubt through the inconvenience of
attending a church three miles distant. Various disputes arising
out of this state of affairs between the abbot and the parishioners,
the matter was in 1499 again referred to the Bishop of the diocese
(then John Arundel), who on the 10th of March affixed his official
seal to the following agreement : — That the abbot should have, as
heretofore, the tithes of corn in Alvaston ; that there should be
perpetually a chaplain in the chapel of Alvaston, sustained by the
lesser tithes and oblations of that place ; that he should serve the
cure and administer the Sacraments under the vicar of S. Michael,
by whom he was to be appointed on the nomination of the
parishioners ; that if the parishioners neglected to nominate within
three weeks of the death or removal of the last chaplain, the
nomination should pass to the vicar ; that all the lesser tithes
were to be collected by the inhabitants for the chaplain, except the
tithes of hay which were to go to the abbot ; that the vicar of
S. Michael's, as compensation, was to receive annually £3 of the
inhabitants of Alvaston ; and that the inhabitants were to attend
S. Michael's once a year — viz., on the Feast of Beliques. Heavy
penalties were provided to ensure the fulfilment of the last two
clauses.
The Valor Ecclesiasticus (27 Henry VIII.) gives the annual clear
value of the curacy at £4 4s. Od., being derived from a mansion,
Easter dues, and the tithes of lambs, wool, flax, pigs, and geese.
The Chantry Roll, 1 and 2 Edward IV., has the following entry
pertaining to Alvaston : —
" S* MYGHELL'S DEBBIE. The Service of James Tylleslye clerke in the Chappell
of Alvaston presented appointed and lymyted att the will and pleasure of the
Church masters and inhabitants. There dothe mynystre all maner of Sacraments
and Sacramentalls. The Pryste hathe towards hys lyvyng all maner of tythes
and duties belongynge to the Chappell except tythe corne and haye w°b belonge
to the Vicar there iiijZi. iiijs. clere iiijZi. iiijs. James Tylleslye preste. It hathe
bene called the parishe churche tyme owte of remembraunce whereunto resortyth
iiijxx howselynge people. Chalys plate Jewells or ornaments butt suche as the
iuhabitauntss did by and fynde."
* Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. xv., f. 58. There is a full translation of this
and the next quoted document in vol. iii. of the Reliquary, from the pen of Rev. B.
Poole, incumbent of Alvaston and Boulton. We desire to express pur grateful
acknowledgments to that gentleman for kindly furnishing us with much information.
140 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
The ^Commissioners for Church Goods, 6 Edward IV., thus
report : —
" Alvaston, Oct. 5. Sir Thos. Pegge curat. j chalece parcell gylte of sylver —
ij bells in the frame — ij vestments, j of blew sylke and j of twylle — ij albes — ij
amysses — j hand bell — ij alter clotthe— j crosse of wood coveryd with brasse —
j towell — j coope of twylle — j sacryng bell — j crewett of puter — j old eurples —
j corporas with a case."
1499-down wards the inhabitants have appointed their own
minister, and the cure has generally been held together with that
of the closely-adjacent chapel of Boulton, in S. Peter's parish.
The two townships intersect one another in a most intricate
manner. The oldest register book, commencing in 1614, is
described as the joint register of Alvaston and Boulton. The fol-
lowing list of the curates or incumbents of Alvaston is chiefly
taken from these registers : —
Thomas Hyechynson. Valor Ecclesiasticus, 1535.
James Tylleslye, 1548.
Thomas Pegge, 1553.
John Edmunds, commenced the register 1614, buried 1639.
Thomas Pallfreman, mentioned in 1663.
T. V. Grongnet, mentioned in 1698.
Hugh Broome£" came hither Easter, 1702."
Charles Williamott, mentioned 1715.
William Lockett, " came hither March 29th, 1716," resigned October 16th, 1722.
Thomas Shipton, "came hither at Michaelmas,* 1722," died in 1774.
Joseph Smith, "licensed to Alvaston, Boulton, and Osmaston, 29th of July,
1774."
William Spencer, 1809, on the death of J. S.
Edward Poole, 1843, on the death of W. S.f
That there was a church or chapel here in the Saxon times,
with burial rights attached to it, is proved by the remarkable
sepulchral slab (Plate VII., fig. 2) found under the foundations of
the old tower, and which has within the present year (1878) been
happily placed within the shelter of the porch, after many years'
exposure to the weather in the churchyard. We have never yet
met with a similar pattern on a sepulchral slab, or found one
depicted in works such as those of Cutts or Boutell. It should be
compared with the cross on the side of the conical Saxon capital
of old S. Alkmund's (Plate V.). Its design seems to have been
taken from a jewelled processional cross. Another slab, having an
* This is the first incumbent of Alvaston whose name we have met with in the
Episcopal Registers.
f On the death of Mr. Spencer (who was also vicar of Dronfield), there were two
nominations for the Bishop's licence, viz. Mr. Poole on the nomination of the parish-
ioners generally, and Mr. Highmore on the nomination of freeholders only. The
matter was referred to arbitration, and the decision given in favour of the former.
ALVASTON. 141
incised cross, but with a circular bead and of no unusual pattern,
was found at the same time. It is of twelfth-century date, and
has also now been fixed against the inner wall of the porch.
The present church— which consists of nave, side aisles, chancel,
and west tower — was built, in the Perpendicular style, on the site
of the old building in the year 1856, at a cost of about £2,200.
At the east end of the north aisle is a plate thus inscribed : —
" The foundation stone of this new parish church of Alvaston was laid in faith
and hope A.D. 1855. The head stone was brought forth in love and praise June
25th, 1856.
Building Committee :
Edward Poole, Incumbent.
Charles Holbrooke
Richard Henshaw
James Osborne, James Hollingworth.
Chronicles xxix. 9.'
j Church Wardens.
Against the east wall of the south aisle is an alabaster slab,
bearing the following inscription : —
" Here beneath lieth buried the body of Eaphe Newham late of Alvaston
yeoman who had in lawfull marriage two wives, Margaret the daughter of John
Hill of Alvaston, by the which Margery hee had issue foure sonnes, and shee died
the 27 of August 1579. Also hee had Margret the daughter of Raphe Bencroft of
Chellerston, by whom hee had issue five sonnes and nine daughters, and the said
Raphe died the 17 of October 1617."
In the chancel are eighteenth century monuments to the Alles-
trees and Borrows. Over the altar is a remarkably good specimen
of beaten-iron work (Plate VI.), supposed by competent judges to
be the handiwork of the celebrated artificer, Huntingdon Shaw ;
but we are inclined to give the credit to a Derby craftsman, Bake-
well, who executed the iron work at All Saints'. It consists of the
figure of an angel with a trumpet — probably intended for the
Archangel Michael — surrounded by scroll work, and the verse,
" Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill
towards men," inscribed below. This reredos of iron work was
given to the church by one Charles Benskin, of Alvaston, about
the beginning of last century, as well as an altar cloth of fine
crimson velvet, with heavy bullion fringe, still in use. He contri-
buted munificently towards the augmentation of the curacies of
Alvaston, Boulton, and Osmaston, and he was also a benefactor to
S. Werburgh's Church, Derby — as we afterwards note — and lies
buried under a weighty uninscribed tomb close to the west side of
the tower. We find, from the registers, that he was buried on
April 17th, 1739.
In the south chancel wall is a small piscina in an ogee-shaped
142 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
recess, and having an octagon drain. It is of fourteenth century
date. On the opposite side of the chancel is a vestry, wherein is
a cupboard made of the oak of the pulpit and other panels of
the former church. On it is inscribed : — "Hugh Broome Cura* Ano.
Do. 1703," and in another place, " C.B. R.N. C.W. 1714."
The tower contains two bells : —
I. "God save his Church, 1662," and the bell-mark of George
Oldfield. Diameter at mouth, twenty-eight inches,
II. " In honore beate Marie," a mediaeval bell, with inscription
in Lombardic capitals. Diameter, thirty-two inches.
Having now made mention of all the details removed to the
present building from the old church, it remains for us to say a
few words respecting the fabric of its predecessor ; and this we
are enabled to do with some accuracy, from the drawings and
descriptions of Mr. Rawlins and Mr. Meynell. It consisted of a
nave and chancel whose united area was 65 ft. 5 in. by 16 ft., a
south porch, and a tower at the east end. This tower, Mr. Mey-
nell, writing about 1812, says had been then erected about forty
years; its predecessor is supposed to have suffered much injury
from either a severe storm or from a shock of earthquake. The
roofs of both nave and chancel were fiat and unembattled. There
were three square-headed Perpendicular windows in the south nave
wall, pointing to a general restoration of the building when
regular service was resumed here in 1499. The side windows and
priest's door of the chancel were of a plain debased character.
The three-light east window was of an exceptionally chaste design,
pertaining to the Decorated period, about the middle of the four-
teenth century. The beautiful tracery of this window, in a fairly
perfect condition, was re-erected in the grounds of a house not far
from the church. We give a drawing of it on Plate VI.*
The dedication of this church has generally been considered to
be unknown. But the same dedication as the mother church (S.
Michael) is given in Ecton's 'lliesaurus (1742), and this is repeated
by Mr. Eawlins, whom we have always found to be scrupulously
accurate in this particular. We have therefore no hesitation in
assigning it to S. Michael.
The registers, which relate jointly to Alvaston and Boulton,
begin in 1614.
* For the drawings of several details of the churches of Alvaston and Boulton, we
are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Jobson, chtirchwarden of Alvaston. It was at that
gentleman's expense that the ancient slabs were recently removed for preservation to
the porch.
TQonnanfon,
|HE church of S. Peter, Derby, in the time of Edward
the Confessor, pertained to one Leuric, and at the time
of the compilation of the Domesday Survey (1086) it
was in the hands of Ealph FitzHubert.* Eobert, Earl Ferrers,
one of the chief benefactors of the abbey of Darley, gave the
church of S. Peter to that abbey in the reign of Stephen, accord-
ing to one charter ; but this was probably only as feudal lord, and
not as the immediate donor, t In the first year of Henry II., an
inquisition was held at Derby before a mixed jury of clergy and
laity, who decided that the church of S. Peter had been founded
and built on the patrimony of Hugh, dean of Derby (i.e., of All
Saints'), and that to him pertained the advowson of the church.|
This Hugh — probably a descendant of Ealph FitzHubert — was the
donor of the site of Darley abbey, in fact its chief founder, and
before this date he had conveyed the advowson to the abbey. The
charter detailing this gift having been accidentally burnt, a new deed
was made out, and the grant confirmed in the names of three of the
burgesses of the town — John de Londiniis, Peter Ingram, and John
de la Cornere, who were descendants of Dean Hugh. § The grant
was also confirmed by Walter Durdent, who held the see of
Coventry and Lichfield from 1149 to 1161.
The gift of this church seemed, almost from the outset, to imply
more than placing the advowson in the hands of the monks, for
* Ealph Fitzhubert held the manor of Boulton in this parish, so that we have little
or no hesitation in identifying his Derby church with S. Peter's.
t Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. i., p. 231.
t Chartulary of Darley Abbey, Cotfc. MSS., Titus C. ix., f. 56. See Appendix
No. VII.
§ Ibid, f. 16b.
11
146 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
as early as the time of Henry II. there was a vicar of S. Peter's.
The vicar was endowed with the usual small tithes, such as lambs,
wool, hay, etc., and was also entitled to receive all the altar fees
and offerings ; but for the latter privilege he was to pay annually
to the abbey the sum of three marks, an arrangement which
received the episcopal sanction of Bishops Geoffrey (1198-1215)
and William (1215-24).* As Derby increased in population, the
offerings and fees at S. Peter's became of more value, and the
abbey procured the episcopal consent to an alteration of this
arrangement, by which the abbot was to receive five instead of
three marks annually. It was stated that this sum was to be paid
without fail, and that no plea of poverty arising from war or the
barrenness of the land would be admitted as an excuse. The
abbot, on his side, pledged himself to pay all the episcopal and
synodical dues as rector, and to provide a pension for any vicar
who might be disabled from sickness or any personal infirmity.t
Robert de Hylton, who was vicar of S. Peter's circa 1270, gave
a mediety of a toft and buildings in Walle Street, Derby, to the
abbey of Darley ; and we find that the property was subsequently
held on the tenure of paying 6d. annually to the sacristan of
Darley Abbey, and the like sum annually towards the maintenance
of a lamp before the high altar of S. Peter 's.J
The Valor of Pope Nicholas (1291) estimated the total annual
revenues of this church at £13 6s. 8d. The clear annual value
of the vicarage in the time of Henry VIII. was £8.
The monks of Darley, foreseeing their speedy dissolution, sold
the next presentation to S. Peter's vicarage, to Peter Marten, of
Stapelford. His executors were allowed to present in 1552 ; but it
was then resumed by the crown, and granted by letters patent to
the Babingtons. But on the accession of Queen Mary, the advow-
son of S. Peter's was included in her munificent grant to the
Bailiffs and Burgesses of the town of Derby. Queen Elizabeth
seems to have set aside this grant of Queen Mary ; and on the
forfeiture of the Babington estates in 1588, through a charge of
high treason, the advowson was granted by the crown to Sir
Francis Beaumont, of Gracedieu, justice of the Common Pleas.
Sir Henry Beaumont, son and heir of Sir Francis, dying in 1605,
his principal estates, including this advowson, passed to his post-
« Ibid, ft. 155, 155b.
t Ibid, f. 156.
{ Ibid, f . 83b.
s. PETER'S. 147
humous daughter, Barbara, who married (1) Sir John Harpur, by
which alliance there was no issue, and (2) Sir Wolstau Dixie. :;:
When the living became vacant on the death of John Bay lie in
1628, the town of Derby claimed the right to present under Queen
Mary's charter. The claim was resisted, though not successfully ;
but at the time of the Eestoration, the Dixie family obtained undis-
puted possession of it, and continued to present until the present
century, when the living was sold to trustees.
In the time of the 'Commonwealth the living was considerably
augmented. The following is the report of the Parliamentary
Commissioners of 1650: — " Peeters is a vicca ridge really worth
fortye pounds per annum, and an augmentacou of eight and thirtye
pounds per annum forth of the said Rectory of Glossop,f and the
tytlie haye of Litchurch sequestred from the Earle of Newcastle
worth twelve pound per annum, divers chappels apperteyning."
The following list of vicars is chiefly compiled from the Lich-
field registers and the returns of the First Fruits Office : — -
1155. circa, Ralph. Barley Chartulary.
1245. circa, Peter. Barley Chartulary.
1270. circa, Robert de Hylton. Barley Chartulary.
1305. Robert de Alsop.
. Thomas
1349. William de Clifton ; on the death of T. W. de C. resigned S. Michael's to
accept this preferment.
1357. John de Norton. On the death of W. de C.
. Richard de Crumleye.
1360. William de Burton. On the resignation of R. de C.
. John Duffleld.
1433. John Ryggeway. On the resignation of J. B.
1475. John Loughborow. On the death of J. R.
1489. Richard Dermeyne. On the death of J. L. Collated by the Bishop.
1497. Nicholas Kay. On the resignation of R. B., to whom a pension of four
marks was assigned under the episcopal seal.
1528. William Collier ; patron, Ralph "Whitened, for this turn, by leave of the
abbot of Barley. On the death of N. K.
1552. William Stanbanke ; patrons, John Martell alias Marten, and Richard
Marten, executors? of Peter Marten, of Stapelforth, by arrangement with
the lately dissolved abbey. On the death of W. C.
1572. Elizeus Byrfoote ; patron, Balph Mynars, for this turn, by the concession
of John Babiugton. On the death of W. S.
* A schedule of the property of this infant heiress, taken when only seven months
and five days old, specifies, inter alia, the manor of Cottons or Cotton in Normantoii
township, also Normantoii Grange, that had pertained to Barley Abbey, all the tythes
of corn and hay in Normanton, and the advowson of the church of S. Peter's, valued
conjointly at the yearly sum of =£17 19s. 2d. From the original schedule, kindly lent
to me, by the Rev. W. Hope, the present vicar.
t Churches of Derbyshire, vol. ii., p. 200. The Committee of plundered ministers
ordered that, out of the sequestered impropriate tithes of G-lossop, i'70 should be
paid to the minister of All Saints' ; ±'30 to S. Werburgh's ; £38 to S. Peter's ; £50 to
Chesterfield; £40 to Mellor; i'50 to Hayfield; ±'50 to Brassington ; £40 to Stony
Middleton ; and 1'30 to Ockbrook.
148 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1582. William Stanton. Buried 1596, Parish Registers.
1596. Robert Mason ;* patron, Sir Francis Beaumont, of Gracedieu.
1608. John Baylie ; patrons, the trustees of Barbara, daughter of Sir Henry
Beaumont.
1628. John Wyersdale. On the death of J. B.; patrons, the bailiffs and bur-
gesses of Derby.
1648. Robert Gee.f Parish Registers.
. Walter Taylor.
1656. Luke Cranwell ;J patrons, the mayor and burgesses of Derby. On the
death of W. T.
1662. Thomas AUestree ; patron, Beaumont Dixie. On the ejection of L. C.
1664. William Osborne ; patron, Beaumont Dixie. On the resignation of T. A.
1712. James Orton; patron, Sir Wolston Dixie. On the death of W. O.
1715. Henry Greene; patron, Sir Wolston Dixie. On the death of J. O.
1749. Henry Offley Wright ; patron, Sir Wolston Dixie. On the death of H. G.
1773. Beaumont Dixie ; patron, Willoughby Dixie.
* The following is a verbatim copy of a letter from this vicar relative to the dispute
pertaining to the presentation : —
" To my very loving freude
M1 Thomas Levinge at his
house in Derby give these
" Good Fr.
" I received your Ire by this bearer, for answere whereonto these may signify,
that I was sometyme vicare of S* Peters, I was presented thereonto by Francis Beau-
mont of Gracedieu one of ye justices of the Comon pleas, and was Instituted there
two and thirty yeare agoe, as it will appeare by my instruments, w°h I am not willing
to let go out of my hand, because I know not what inconvenience may follow thereof.
This is all I can say for my certeine knowledge and will ever be ready to avow : And
so wth my best wishes to you leave you to God's blessing and rest.
Your loving frend
" Drayton, May ye 8th, 1629. Eobert Mason."
t " Robertus Gee in Artibus magister Inductus fuit in vicar' Petri Darbieus*
November 15, 1648, per Mr. Swetnam and Mr. Bakewell. By the presentation of the
Hall of Darbie aforesaid. Mr. John Parker, Aldermane, and Mr. Domage beinge
present and manie other parishioners and neighbours." Parish Registers.
} The original presentation of Luke Cranwell is preserved at Lambeth Palace
Library (MSS. 944, f. 22). It is a small parchment document. 12 in. by 9, and runs as
follows : — " To the Commission for approving of Public Preachers to all other person
or persons whatsoever that have or shall have sufficient power and authority in this
behalf Greeting, Wee the Mayor and Buigesses of the Burrow of Derby in the county
of Derby, the sure and undoubted Patrons of the vicarage of S* Peters in Derby, now
voyd by the death of Walter Taylor the last incumbent thereof, and to our Present-
ation of full right belonging, Doe by these presents present Luke Cranwell Clerke Mr
of Artes to the sayd vicarage desireing that the said Luke Cranwell may be admitted
to and set in the vicarage of S* Peters in Derby aforesaid and inducted in all the
rights members and appurtenances thereof and that you doe perfect and execute all
the Articles and things necessary and requisite to bee done in the premises. In
Witness whereof we the said Mayor and Burgesses have put to the Common Scale of
the said Burrow the first day of July in the year of our Lord 1656.
(Signed) Tho. Sleigh, Mayor
Roger Allestry."
The following is Calamy's account of this vicar : — " A knowing, couragious, zealous,
and upright Man. He was not very ready in Elocution ; but very Scriptural, Solid
and Substantial in all his Discourses. His Sermons when look'd over by Writers, or
thought over by Understanding Hearers, were found to be full of Divinity. He had
some competent Skill in Physick before he was Sileuc'd. When he was no longer
suffer'd to exercise his Ministry publicly, he resolv'd to try what he could do in the
other Faculty. He betook himself to serve bodies, and he grew very Judicious and
Skilful, Famous and Successful. Hereby he maintiau'd himself and his Family very
comfortably, kept good Hospitality ; and he did as readily help his Bretheren, and
the Poor among his Neighbours, without any Desire or Expectation of Fees, as he did
the Rich and greatest. He had a working Head. He understood well what he read,
and found out some Magistrals of his own, some happy and effectual Medicines. He
was a chearful Man and to appearance very strong, but when he began to decline, he
ran down speedily. That he might be out of reach of the Oxford Act, he went to
Kegworth in Leicestershire where he dyed, Nov. 11, 1683; on the Lord's Day." —
Ejected Ministers, vol. ii., p. 165.
s. PETER'S. 149
1786. Thomas Wright; patron, Willoughby Dixie.
1788. Richard Rowland Ward; patron, Willoughby Dixie. On the resignation
of T. W.
1834. Charles Wright; patrons, Henry Wright, Thomas Wright, said Charles
Wright, Francis Wright, and Samuel Wright. On the death of R. R. W.
1847. William Hope; patron, Rev. Charles Wright. On the resignation of C. W'
In the year 1338 the sanction of the Bishop and of the Abbot
of Darley was obtained for the founding of a chantry in this
church, at the altar of the Blessed Virgin. The founders were
John de Crich, of Derby, priest, Walter de Shardlow, John de
Shardlow, Simon de Nottingham, Jordan le Walker, William de
Nottingham, and Adam de Leicester — all of them being parish-
ioners of S. Peter's. The first named was the principal founder,
and the immediate object of the endowment was to provide for the
saying of daily mass for the soul of Geoffrey de Crich, of Derby,
who is described as a chief promoter of works of charity in that
town, and whom we believe to have been the father of John de
Crich. The vicar of S. Peter's for the time being was to be the
guardian (custosj of the chantry, and to have not only the power
of nominating a chaplain on a vacancy occurring by death or resig-
nation, but also of removing the chaplain and substituting another,
for any breach of decorum or lack of attention to his duties. If a
vacancy occurred, and the vicar neglected to nominate within a
month, the presentation passed to the Abbot of Darley ; and if he,
too, neglected to present within a like period, the Bishop was to
collate to the vacancy.* On April 12th, 1339, the royal license
was obtained by John de Crich for endowing this chantry with two
messuages, twenty-two acres of arable land, sevenpence in rents,
two parts of another messuage, and half an acre of meadow,
situate in Derby, Normauton, Alvaston, and Litchurch. For the
letters patent, licensing the alienation of this property, John de
Crich paid a fee of thirty shillings .t The chantry was not defi-
nitely established until 1342, when John de Crich himself was
collated first chaplain. The following list of -chaplains, extracted
from, the Episcopal Registers, shows that they were always insti-
tuted by the Bishop in the 14th century ; but this custom, as we
find no later institutions, seems to have afterwards died out.
1342. John de Crich. Collated by the Bishop. The chantry is described as in
the custody of Robert, vicar of S. Peter's.
1349. Walter Feelde; patron, Thomas, vicar of S. Peter's. On the death of
J. de C.
* Cotton MSS., Titus C. ix., f. 108b.
t Pat. Rot., 13 Edw. III., ft, 1, memb 22.
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1356. Henry Spencer. Collated by the Bishop through lapse of time.
1358. Thomas Tichebroke; patron, J. de N., vicar of S. Peter's. Ou the
resignation of H. S.
1379. Henry Withy; patron, Laurence, abbot of Darley.
1382. Richard de Crich. On the resignation of H. W.
— . William de Brenaston, vicar of Crich, exchanged his benefice for this
chantry with R. de C.
. H. Wether.
1391. John Foucher : patron, W. de B., vicar. On the death of H. W.
1398. William de Charnes. Collated by the Bishop through lapse of time.
The following is the statement in the Chantry Eoll, temp.
Edward III., respecting this chantry : —
ST. PETER'S DERBY founded by J. Cruche Pryste Walter Shardelowe Simon de
Nottingham and Ade de Leycester for a pryst to say Masse daylye iiij li. Clere
vj li vj s. Gregorye HawxWell Chauntry pryst. Stock iiij s. vj. d.
The pension roll of Queen Mary assigns an annuity of 48s. 8d.
to Gregory Hawkswell.* His name was therein given as George,
but this was an error, as we shall subsequently find, from his
autograph on the walls of Morley Church. Part of the property
of this chantry was sold by the crown, 6 Edward VI., to Thomas
Cecill and John Bell, part to Edward Pease and James Wilson,
aud part to the Burgesses of Derby.
In the year 1348 another chantry was founded in this church, in
honour of S. Nicholas, by Adam de Shardlow. The Episcopal
Eegisters give us the name of John Hower as the first chaplain.
He was instituted in 1348, on the presentation of Adam de
Shardlow. The only other reference that we have found to this
chantry at Lichfield is under the year 1479, when Ealph Pole, of
Eadbourn, presents a chaplain, whose name is illegible. The fol-
lowing is the entry in the Chantry Eoll : —
THE CHANTRY OF ST. NYCHOLAS founded by Adam Shardlowe by lycence of
K. Edwarde ... 6 July Ao Regni xxo. for a pryste to synge masse daylee at
S Nycholas alter xl s. Clere liiij s iiij d. Gamys Cheryholme chauntry pryst.
xxxix s iij d is claymed by German Pole, Esq. The incumbent hathe all neces-
saryes of the parisshe churche.
James Cherryholme obtained a pension of 53s. 4d. from the exche-
quer in the time of Queen Mary.
Eobert Liversage, a charitable and wealthy dyer of this parish —
whose name has been already mentioned as a prominent benefactor
of the tower of All Saints' — by deed dated November 3rd, 21
* Add. MSS., 8102, f. 49b. See appendix I. In a deed relative to some property
pertaining to All Saints' church, dated 4th March, 7 Edw. VI., Gregory Hawkswell is
mentioned as residing in a house in Bag Lane. There is a notion current in Derby
that Bag Lane is a name of modern devising, and that the street used to be called
Castle Gate. This is a complete error. We have met with the name Bag Lane in
charters, circa 1150.
s. PETER' 8. 151
Henry VIII., granted various tenements in Derby to William
Collier, vicar of the parish, and seven others, as trustees, after the
death of himself and his wife, to the intent that the rents should
be given to his priest, Ealph Ley, and his successors, for saying
daily mass, in a chapel within the parish church, for the souls of
the said Robert and Alice his wife ; and further, that on every
Friday thirteen poor men or women present at the mass should
each receive a silver penny. Tradition has it that the chapel per-
taining to Robert Liversage, shut off by a parclose or screen, was
at the east end of the nave on the north side, immediately in front
of the pulpit. The present vicar, Rev. W. Hope, tells us that he
has talked with those who recollected the "hearse" of Robert
Liversage standing within the parclose. This would probably be
the framework over the tomb, in which the funeral tapers would be
fixed. A portion of this parclose was discovered under the floor of
the pews when they were removed in 1859.
The church of S. Peter consists of nave and aisles, chancel,
north vestry, and tower at the west end. The following is the
area, according to Mr. Rawlins' measurements : — Nave, 37 ft. 5 in.
by 20 ft. 6 in. ; north aisle, 86 ft. by 16 ft. 3 in. ; south aisle,
52 ft. 10 in. by 19 ft. ; and chancel, 38 ft. 6 in. by 22 ft. 11 in.
The greater length of the south aisle arises from the fact that the
tower is engaged on that side, and used to open into the aisle by
a lofty arch now closed.
The earliest work about the church is the Norman capitals to
the octagonal responds of the aisle arcades, on each side of the
chancel arch, and also the circular respond at the west end of the
south aisle. The nave is divided from each aisle by three pointed
arches, supported by circular columns on the north side, and by
octagon ones on the south. These arcades, as well as the windows
of the two aisles, are of 14th century date. The tracery of the
south- aisle windows is of a remarkable geometrical design, but that
of the north aisle is of a freer and apparently later character.
Probably the altar of Our Lady was in the south aisle, and that
of S. Nicholas in the north aisle ; but it may be well here to
remark, that although the dates seem very nearly to correspond
with the style, it is not necessary to suppose that the foundation
of chantries at altars in the aisles always implied the rebuilding
of those aisles. The south doorway is a good sample of Decorated
work. It has at different times, in its history been screened
by two successive porches, as is shown by the weather-Hues in
152 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
the masonry. But it has no porch now, nor did a porch form
part of the original design. Several drawings that we have
seen of this church early in the present century show a porch
that looks to be of Queen Anne date. This was removed in
1865. The south windows and general features of the chancel
are also of the Decorated period. Considerable alterations were
made in the fabric during the Perpendicular period, apparently
about the time of Henry VII. The high-pitch roofs were lowered,
the walls over the nave arcades raised, and clerestory windows of
three lights inserted, the chancel arch widened, the east end of the
chancel apparently curtailed of a bay and an east window of five
lights erected,* and the tower, with double bell-chamber windows,
rebuilt. The lower stage of the tower seems to be of earlier date;
at all events the fine lofty archway into the nave, with good con-
tinuous mouldings, is of the Decorated style. The nave and
chancel have embattled parapets. Below the clerestory parapets
are some remarkable gurgoyles. The three on the south side
represent, respectively — an eagle holding a cat, a lion and child, a
bear and key. On the apex of the chancel gable is a shield
charged with the crossed keys of S. Peter.
The tower is said to have suffered from a shock of earthquake
about the year 1811, and a crack that can still be seen below the
south clerestory window nearest the tower is attributed to the same
cause.f In 1817, the tower was underpinned, and the lower part
of the west wall renewed in a substantial but unsightly fashion.
The chancel was restored in 1852, when the pews and large impro-
priator's gallery were removed, and the old roof timbers exposed
by the removal of the flat plaster ceiling. The south chancel
window nearest to the east, then blocked up, was filled with Per-
pendicular tracery to correspond with that in the east window.
The nave and aisles underwent a careful and judicious restoration
in 1859 under Mr. Street. The unsightly galleries J that blocked
up the interior of the church were at that time removed.
In 1865, an organ-chamber was made at the east end of the
north aisle, the south porch removed, and the interesting two-
* The tracery of this window closely resembles that of the east windows of the
churches of Duffield and Breadsall.
t This would he the same earth-quake or tornado that damaged the tower of Kirk
Ireton church ; see Churches of Derbyshire, vol. ii., p. 500.
J A faculty granted to Isaac Borrow by the Consistory Court, Lichfield, dated July
6th, 1714, gives him permission to erect a gallery, 20 ft. long by 16 broad, over the
south entrance to the church. The faculty recites that Isaac Burrow "armiger,
iucola, et paterfamilias " within the parish, although he had built an august and
magnificent mansion in the parish, had not a single seat within the church. To
obtain the faculty he paid five pounds towards the parish expenses.
s. PETER'S. 153
storied vestry on the north of the chancel was to a considerable
extent rebuilt. A remarkable squint, from the upper vestry to
the high altar, was at that time uncovered, and is still open.
A small piscina on the south side of the chancel is so close to
the east wall that it confirms the theory of a bay of the chancel
having been removed — probably for the purpose of widening
the street. There is another piscina, with a trefoil niche, in
the south wall of the south aisle. On each side of the east
window of both aisles are the obvious places whence projecting
corbels have been broken off, and the same thing may be remarked
on the respond by the pulpit. Some portions of fresco painting
were exposed at the east end of the north aisle in 1859, of which
certain faint traces still remain. There are also some traces of
colour on several of the capitals of the columns, and also some
faintly-marked scrollwork on the jambs of the east window of the
south aisle. A stone coffin, containing a complete skeleton, was
found only a few inches below the floor, between the two pillars
of the north arcade.
The effective chancel screen of Perpendicular date, that found
here a sanctuary after it was discarded from the parish church of
Crich, has been already mentioned ; but there is another piece of
woodwork that should not escape notice. We allude to the remark-
ably fine carving of an old 14th century chest, now standing on
the north side of the chancel, and utilised for vestments (Plate
VII.) It is undoubtedly of Flemish workmanship. Similar ones
may be seen at Brancepeth, Durham ; at Wath, near Kipon ; at
Wroot, and at Haconby,* Lincolnshire. The poor-box affixed to
the south-west respond is also of old Flemish work, but was a
recent giftNto the church. The tie-beams of the nave roof give
the different dates at which it was repaired, though one at least
of them pertained to the original Perpendicular roof. On the beam
nearest the west is cut, " T. W. E. C. 1646 ;" and on the one
nearest the east, " W. 0. Vic. 1672. T. M. I. W. CH. W. T. M."
An embattled line on the west gable of the chancel shows below
the present roof, and its presence there is rather puzzling. Our
conjecture is that the roof of the chancel involving this altera-
tion was lowered some little time before the pitch of the nave
roof was changed.
Various incised sepulchral slabs were utilised in the 14th century
* The chest in Haconby church is most remarkably similar in all its details. In
Shaw's Furniture is a drawing of 'this chest, where it is described as circa 1350, or
rather earlier.
154 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
for the rebuilding of the walls. One fragment, with a circular
head, may be noted over the pulpit ; another in the north aisle,
over the arcade ; and several in the south wall of the south aisle.
They seem to be of the 12th century. At the east end of the
south aisle is a piece of a massive coffin-lid, ornamented with a
cross in relief, which is of Early English date. A slab of unusual
design, which appears to pertain to early in the 13th century, is
given on Plate VII. It is built into the south wall, near the floor
level.
Against the west wall of the south aisle are two fragments of
alabaster slabs. One of these bears the lower half of a female
figure, and the following portion of a marginal inscription : —
" erne et filia Johis Fowcher * que obiit «t-.r die mensis
NovemV in Vigilia Sci Andrie anno dni M°CCCC "
The other fragment shows the foot of a man in the centre, with
boy's feet to his left, and the following remnant of an inscrip-
tion : — " . . . . ni MCCCCCIV0 et Elena obi it iiii° ilie Fcbr'
anno dni M . . . •" There is also a shield charged with three
stirrups (?)t and the words "... ppicietur deus" by it.
Several 17th century monuments — the inscriptions of which were
taken by Bassano in 1710, and have been reproduced in Simpson's
Derby — have long since disappeared. On a brass plate against the
east wall of the .south aisle is this inscription : —
"Elizabeth Wilcocks sometyme servant unto the right worshipful Sr John
Stanhope of Elvaston in the County of Derby, Knight, did, by her last will and
testament, give unto the poore of the several parishes of Ashwell in the County
of Rutland, of Alvaston in the said County of Derby, and of S* Peter's in the
towne of Derby, one messuage or tenement with the appurtenances situate and
being nigh S* Peters bridge end in Derby aforesaid, Now or late in the tenure or
occupation of one Anthony Spicer. The rents and profltts thereof yearly to be
distributed amongst the poore of the said parishes upon the feast day of S*
Thomas the Apostle, by the Executors during their lives, and after their decease
by the Parsons or Vicars and Churchwardens of the said parishes for the tyme
being for ever, in manner and fome following (viz*). To the poore of the parish
of Ashwell aforesaid, one half of the yearly profltts of the said messuage or tene-
ment to be equally divided into two parts, and one part thereof to the poore of
the said parishe of Elvaston, and the other part thereof to the poore of the said
parish of S* Peters. She dyed the 12th day of July Anno Dui 1648.
I. C. ) C H : War.
T. W. / 1652."
* The family of Foucher were at an early date considerable landowners at Osmastin,
in this parish, as will be subsequently noted. They were extinct at the time of the
Heraldic Visitations, temp. Elizabeth, so that we have no accurate pedigrees. One of
the family was chaplain to the chantry of Our Lady in this church, as has been
already seen, from 1391 to 1398. A lady of the family, Joan Foucher, was instituted
prioress of the convent of S. Mary's, Derby, in 1334. — Lichfield Episcopal Registers.
t The Giffard arms were— az.. three stirrups with leathers, or. Their connection
with this county is shown in Churches of Derbyshire, vol, iii., p. 92, etc.
PLATE VI.
s. PETER'S. 155
The tower contains a ring of five bells : —
I. "Jesus be our speed - John Daye T. H. 1636."
II. "God save our King, 1636."
III. "Jos : Taberer & Hen. Every Ch- Wardens," the founder's
mark of Abraham Eudhall, and the date " 1738."
IV. " Gloria Deo in excelsis. William Duffield, Thomas Skinner,
CWTH., 1636."
V. "•! to the Church the living call,
& to the grave do summon all, 1769."
The oldest register begins in March, 1558. Down to the year
1591 it is a transcript of an older one, made by the hand of
Kobert Mason, vicar. There are three considerable blanks within
these years — viz., from July, 1558, to August, 1560 ; from Feb-
ruary, 1570, to April, 1572 ; and from September, 1576, to July,
1582. There is also a gap of five months in the year 1605.
There are several entries relative to deaths from the Plague at
different periods, but these we have already enumerated in a note
to All Saints' registers. In the years 1658-60 the burials of many
"prisoners" are entered — e.y., "1658, October 23, Henry Lummas,
prisoner of Bagshaw in Chappell parish;" and "1660, September 6,
Gervise Price a prisoner of the towne of Tickill in Yorkshire."
Those acquainted with Hutton's entertaining History of Derby, will
recollect his story of one Noah Bullock, who called his three sons
Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and built an ark on the Derwent, where
he resided, and for a long time carried on, with the aid of his
sons, the unpatriarchal occupation of a coiner of false money. From
S. Peter's registers we find that his sons were actually baptised by
these names, being respectively christened in the years 1670, 1672,
and 1681. Noah Bullock was married to Anna Clarke in 1667,
and, in addition to the three sons already mentioned, they had
also a son Benjamin, and five daughters — Anna, Eebecca, Jephtha,
Maria, and Elizabeth. Noah, having escaped the halter through
the clemency of Sir Simon Degge, died a natural death in 1687.
The chalice of the Eucharistic plate is thus inscribed : —
" The silver of this chalice given by Elizabeth Willughby 1666 was remodelled
in the year of grace 1857 in honour of God and for use of the Church of St
Peter's Derby. "W. Hope, M.A. Vicar, Eobert Russell, William Cantrell, Church-
wardens."
The paten and flagon were at the same time recast from the old
silver ones, given by Thomas Swinerton in the year 1686.
156 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
of Boulton.
[HE manor of Boulton, within the parish of S. Peter,
belonged, at the time of the Domesday Survey, to Kalph
Fitzhubert. Shortly afterwards it seems to have passed
to the family of Sacheverell. Eents to the value of twelve shil-
lings per annum were given to the chapel of Boulton, as early as
the reign of Henry II., by Kobert de Sacheverell. This gift was
confirmed, in the reign of King John, by Oliver de Sacheverell,
grandson of Eobert. Further lands were given to the chapel by
the same family, in the early part of the reign of Henry III.,
which grants were confirmed by Sir Patrick de Sacheverell, son of
Oliver, in 1250. Sir Eobert de Sacheverell, son of Sir Patrick by
Joan, daughter of Eobert de Vavasour, not only claimed to present
to a vacancy in the chaplaincy — which occurred in 1271 — but al^o
contended that Boulton was an independent church. In this claim
he was resisted by the Abbot of Darley, as rector of S. Peter's.
A writ was issued to Sir Hugh de Babiugtou, sheriff of Derby
and Nottingham, enjoining him to empanel a jury of twelve free-
men acquainted with the district to try the case. The cause was
heard on the Wednesday following the feast of the Assumption,
when it was agreed that Sir Eobert de Sacheverell, in consideration
of twenty marks paid to him by the abbot, should recognise the
chapel of Boultou as in the parish of S. Peter, and therefore per-
taining to the abbey of Darley. Sir Eobert was to nominate a
suitable priest, who was to be admitted to the chaplaincy by the
abbot. The chaplain was to have for his support the messuage,
the three bovates of land, the nine sellifms of land, and the twelve
shillings in rents — all within the town and territory of Boulton —
BOULTON. 157
which the ancestors of Sir Eobert had bestowed upon the chapel.
It was also agreed that the chaplain was to have the small tithes,
in the same way as Eobert, the lately-deceased chaplain, who had
been presented by Geoffrey Barri, the guardian of Patrick de
Sacheverell.
On the feast of S. Michael, in the same year, a further agree-
ment as to details was drawn up between the parties, when it
was settled that the chaplain was to be subject to the mother
church of S. Peter ; that he was to be removable by the abbot, if
neglecting his duty ; that the abbot was to pay one mark annually
to the chaplain — half at the feast of the Purification, and half at
the feast of S. James ; that the tithes and preventions of the
house and family of Eobert de Sacheverell and his heirs, together
with all oblations, were to go to the chaplain ; that the tithes of
corn were to be received by the abbot, but that the lesser tithes
pertained to the vicar of S. Peter's. This agreement was again
finally confirmed by Sacheverell and the abbot at Easter, 1280.*
The Chantry Eoll of the first year of Edward VI. says : —
" The Chappell in BOUGHTON founded by Eoberte Zachaverell to mynyster
Sacraments and Sacramentalls ijs. viijd. clere xlvijs. viijd. besyds iiijs. to the
Kyng. Sir Humfreye Shelley Curate. It is distante from the Parishe Churche
ij miles. A mancyon praised at vs. by yere. Stock lijs. vijd."
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., give the
following inventory of this chapel : —
" Oct. 5th Humfraye Shelley curat. i chalice parcell gylte of sylver — ij belles
in the steple — j coope of twylle— j vestemeiit of dun sylke with j albe — iij aulter
clothes — j towell — j handbell— j corporas with j case— j surples."
Iii the year 1550 the crown alienated the chaplain's house at
Boulton, together with the whole of the endowments given by the
Sacheverells to the chapel, and granted them to Thomas Eeve and
George Cotton,t though it was clearly a great stretch of the statute
that could bring these endowments under the head of " super-
stitious us.es," or of chantries proper, as there does not appear to
have been any stipulation as to masses attached to these bequests.
From the time that Edward VI. stripped Boulton of its endow-
• Darley Chartulary, Cott. MSS., Titus C. ix., ff. 40b, 94b, 95, 100. The first settle-
ment of tiie Sacheverells in this county seems to have been at Boulton, and then at
Hopewell. It was not till the reign of Edward IV. that they obtained Morley, by
marriage with the heiress of Statham; see the pedigree (chiefly taken from Thoroton)
in Fox's History of Morley Church. Ralph Sacheverell died seized of the manor of
Boulton, 4 Hen. VII. ; William Sacheverell, who died 5 Philip & Mary, held 36 acres
here of the crown ; and Henry Sacheverell, in the reign of Elizabeth, also held lands
in Boulton. Meynell MSS.
t Patent Bolls, 3 Edw. VI., pt. 4, memb. 9.
158 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
merits, it seems to have been jointly served together with Alvaston
by one minister. In 1650, the Parliamentary Commissioners thus
report : —
"Bolton a chappell reputed a member of Peters but hath beene long united
to Alvastone, the vicarall tythes worth five pounds per annum and fitt wth
Alvastone to be united to Elvastone."
It does not, however, seem that the alienation of the glebe
land — which passed from Eeeve and Cotton to the family of
Burdett — remained unresisted ; for in 1684 it was found that
Joseph Cope, clerk, had been for seven years chaplain of Boulton ;
and that the messuage, land, and tithes were of the yearly value
of £15 and upwards ; and that the small tithes arising in Boulton,
and belonging to the chapel (? to the vicar of S. Peter's), were of
the yearly value of £3; and that Sir F. Bui'dett had for ten years
received the rent and profits of the same messuage, lands, and
tithes ; and that Joseph Cope had for seven years taken all the
small tithes due within Boulton ; and that Sir F. Burdett should
pay to the said Joseph Cope £105, upon the 5th of October then
next, in the chapel of Boulton. for the profits for seven years.*
Boulton technically became a benefice in 1730 by augmentation
from Queen Anne's Bounty, which made the then curate a per-
petual curate.
The dedication of this church or chapel has not been hitherto
known, but we have found it more than once described in the Darley
Chartulary as the chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The church
now consists of nave, north aisle, south porch, and chancel, having
been recently enlarged. Mr. Rawlins' notes, taken in 1824, give
the dimensions of the nave as 34 ft. by 18 ft. 10 in., and of the
chancel 21 ft. 3 in. by 13 ft. 4 in. In 1840 the church was
extended some twelve feet to the west, repewed, and generally
repaired at a cost of £483 8s. lOd. In 1871 it was again enlarged
and restored by the addition of a north aisle, a north chancel
vestry, and the substitution of a comely bell-turret on the west
gable for the mean wooden box that was placed there in 1841.
Previous to the latter date, as we find from a drawing of Mr.
Meynell's, there was a diminutive four-sided slated spire on the
west gable. The various alterations of this last restoration cost
£1083 13s. 4d.
The south doorway, within the porch, is of Norman date. It
* From papers kindly lent mo hy Rev. E. Poole, vicar of Boulton and Alvaston.
BOULTON. 159
has a square doorcase aud rounded tympanum over it. The
moulding above the tympanum is of the chevron pattern, and on
the hood-mould is a lozenge pattern. The jambs have shafts and
capitals. Up to the time of the recent restoration the chancel
arch was also Norman, and ornamented with a double chevron
moulding ; but this has now been taken down, and the "best stones
re-used in constructing the doorway into the north vestry. Sir
Stephen Glynn's notes, taken May 5th, 1866, say that "one
window on the north of the nave is a small Norman one." This
deeply-splayed light, with an opening 20 in. by 6 in., has been
moved to the vestry. He also noticed a lancet window with a
trefoil head in the north wall of the chancel, near to the east end.
This used to be known by the name of the "Devil's Window."
It was supposed to be placed at such an angle of the building
as to admit the earliest rays of the rising sun, whereby the evil
spirits would be expelled from the church. The two sides of this
window were parted in 1871. and, a centre mullion being inserted, it
now serves as a two-light window in the north wall of the vestry.
This window was of Early English date, and to that time undoubt-
edly belong the two shallow buttresses at the angles of the
chancel. The two-light pointed east window, with a quatrefoil in
the apex, is of Decorated design, circa 1300. The top of this
window is cut off in the interior by a flat plaster ceiling. The
date of this roof, as well as of the two square-headed south windows,
divided by a plain central mullion, is probably given on a stone
built into the chancel gable, which bears — "W. R. I. W. C. W.
1706."
The south wall of the nave was rebuilt in 1871 ; the windows
are of Perpendicular design. The porch, which is of fourteenth
century or Decorated date, has a doorway with cinquefoil folia-
tions. Its side windows are worth noting, as the upper part
of their interior splay is finished off in an unusual way.
Mr. Eawlins (1820) mentions, on the floor of the chancel, " an
alabaster slab, the effigy whereon was that of a priest now entirely
worn away from frequent passing over it, except the part from
the head to the waist." He also noticed, within the altar rails,
on another alabaster slab, " the faint remains of an Ecclesiastic
and his wife (?)." This alabaster, then wholly illegible, was used
in 1871 for the construction of a pulpit, the wood of the former
one being utilised for a vestry cupboard. Before the last altera-
tions there was a rounded founder's recess under one of the south
160 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
windows of the nave. If we look at the step to the altar, in front
of the rails, we shall find that it is in part composed of a long
narrow stone, six and a half feet long, i.e., just the length of the
old recess, on which there has heen at one time incised a cross,
some of the base of which still remains. This stone was in all
possibility moved here from its original position within the recess
in 1706, and is most likely the memorial of the Sacheverell who
originally founded this chapel.
During the alterations of 1840, several old encaustic tiles were
found. These are now in the pavement near the pulpit. One of
them has the monogram M, another is an alphabet tile, two of
them have heads like those of Edward I. and Eleanor, and on
another are two keys in saltire. This last one we believe to be
a hitherto unique pattern, see Plate VI. ; it doubtless came from
the tile kiln at Dale Abbey, for numerous tiles of the other
patterns have been found there during the autumn excavations
of 1878.
There is now a modern font. Eawlins speaks of it being
" circular and plain," probably the original Norman one. A
movable Norman stoup was recently rescued from an adjacent
farmyard, and now rests in the porch. It is of peculiar shape,
being embraced by four ribs (Plate VI.), and is much like the
old font recently replaced in the church of Darley Dale.
Of the two bells, one is altogether uninscribed and unmarked ;
on the other is—" J. Taylor & Co Loughborough 1870." The
diameter of both of them is 19£ inches.
The registers, kept in common with those of Alvaston, begin
in 1614.
On the back of the royal arms, recently removed from the
church, was written: — "These Arms were painted by John Rother-
ham of Derby in the 61st year of his age, 1793."
NORM ANTON. 161
Cljapelrg of Normanton.
I HAT there was a chapel here in early Norman days, cannot
be doubted, from the remains of work of that date in
the old fabric ; but the earliest historical mention that
we liave found of it occurs in the year 1288, when the abbot of
Davley, as rector of S. Peter's, had a dispute with the parishioners
of the chapel of Normanton respecting the repairs, etc., of the
building. It was settled, by an award of the Archdeacon of Derby-
shire, that the abbot was to repair the chancel, and to sustain all
the ornaments, except one missal, one chalice, and two vestments
for festivals, which were to be provided by the parishioners.* It
seems that the parishioners had hoped to succeed in compelling
the abbey to also repair the nave ; for they were large landowners
here, having had the manor of Normanton granted to them by the
crown in 1234.f The manor was granted to the Babingtons by
Henry VIII., on the dissolution of the abbey.
The Parliamentary Commissioners of 1650 say: —
" Normanton is another chappell apperteyning to Peters the profitts thereof
is accompted for in the first mencioned fortye pounds and both Osmaston and
Normanton lye neare to Peters are fitt to continue (?) and both chappells
disused."
The old chapel consisted of nave and chancel, with a low tower
surmounted by a broach spire at the west end. Mr. Eawlins, who
was here in 1820, gives the dimensions of the nave at 30 ft. 4 in.
by 17 ft. 1 in., and the chancel at 16 ft. 10 in. by 15 ft. 6 in.
The chancel was divided from the nave by a low Norman arch.
The chancel itself, excepting the lower courses of the walls, was
of modern brick. A corbel-table of Norman date, with quaintly-
carved heads, ran the entire length of the nave on each side. On
the south side of the church was a pointed doorway of 14th
* Cott. MSS., Titus C. ix., f. 101.
t Rot. Chart. 19 Henry III., pt. 1, memb. 1.
12
162 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
century date ; but the dripstone over it was of Norman zig-zag
moulding, which had clearly been used up again when the older
doorway was destroyed. Close to this doorway was built-in a
singularly-carved stone that had been the tympanum of the Norman
doorway. The centre figure of the sculpture is our Lord on the
cross ; but the other figures, which were much worn when the old
church was taken down, are now almost wholly defaced.* This
tympanum was preserved by being built into the outer south wall
of the new tower. It would have been much better if an inner
wall had been selected. In the west wall of the tower was a lancet
window, widely splayed inside. This window and the buttresses at
the angles showed that the tower was of Early English character.
The tower was only twenty feet high ; but it had evidently been
lowered at the time when the xigly broach spire — rising another
twenty feet, and composed of brick and stucco — was added.
The brickwork of the spire and the chancel was probably part of
the beautifying effected here in the last century. A slate tablet
against the old chancel arch informed its readers that — " This
Church was Beautified in the year of our Lord 1749. John Wil-
kinson, Churchwarden." On the north side of the nave was a
two-light window of Decorated date.
Owing to its limited size, the old church was taken down; the
work of demolition commencing on May 27th, 1861. The new
building consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, tower, and spire.
It is dedicated, like its predecessor, to S. Giles. It is now an
independent vicarage, in the gift of trustees.
The font, which pertained to the old fabric, is of plain octagon
design, 29 in. in diameter and 45 in. high. We believe it to be
of early 14th century date — certainly not of any older period. The
single bell is thus inscribed : —
"W. D. Knight, Samuel Pegg, George Stenson, C.W., 1712.
J. Osbrn Vic. D. H."
On the silver paten and chalice of the Eucharistic plate are the
arms and quarterings of Harpur, and this inscription : — " The gift
of the Lady Barbera Harpur, 1645." This lady — widow of Sir
Henry Harpur, of Calke — was by her first marriage the wife of
Sir Henry Beaumont. The connection of the Beaumonts with
Normanton has/ already been mentioned in our account of the
mother church.
* There is a pood woodcut of this tympanum in vol. ii. of the Reliquary, where
there is an excellent and well-illustrated article on Normanton chapel, written by Mr.
Jewitt. just at the time when the old fabric was being destroyed.
OSMASTON. 163
of
the time of the Domesday Survey, the manor of Osmaston
was held by Henry de Ferrers. His grandson, Kobert de
Ferrers — one of the chief founders of Darley Abbey —
gave to that establishment, in the reign of Henry II., lands at
Osmaston then valued at a rental of six shillings,* and also the
oratory at Osmaston, with its cemetery.f Osmaston was, from an
early date, held of the Ferrers by the family of Dun or Dunne,
whose chief residence was at Breadsall.J Robert de Dun, lord of
Breadsall, circa 1155, for the health of his soul and the souls of
his wife and heirs, gave to the abbey of Darley all right that he
had as patron of the chapel of Osmaston, upon condition of the
abbot paying yearly, at Michaelmas, two shillings to the church of
Breadsall. He undertook to defend them in their right to the
chapel against all comers. § It would appear from this that the
Dunnes were the first founders of the chapel of Osmaston, which
had hitherto been of the nature of a private chapel, as we judge
from the use of the word oratorium. It also had had the excep-
tional privilege of rites of sepulture attached to it, which were
probably, however, limited to the family of the owner of the manor
and his immediate servants.
Walter Durdent, who held the bishopric of Coventry and Lich-
field from 1149 to 1161, confirmed the grant of the chapel of
* " Sex solidatce terra." It is more usual to understand a solidata of land as
meaning twelve acres, and not a piece fetching a shilling rental ; but, from com-
paring various passages in old charters, we are inclined to adopt the latter meaning —
moreover, so far as Osmaston is concerned, we know that the abbey did not hold 72
acres there ; a return, circa 1275, of their temporalities mentions 14 acres at
Osmaston. See Cowel's Interpreter, sub voce " Farding Deal."
f Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. ii., p. 231.
£ With respect to the family of Dunne, see Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 53.
§ Darley Chartulary, Cott. MSS., Titus C. ix., f. 137.
164 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Osmaston to the abbey, saving one mark to be paid to the mother
church of S. Peter. *
Another charter, undated, but about the year 1245, records the
appointment by Peter, vicar of S. Peter's, with the full consent and
at the wish of Walter, abbot of Darley, of William Grernon to
the chapel of Osmaston, with all its appurtenances. It was to be
held of him and of the mother church by rendering annually to
the vicar one mark — half payable at Easter and half at Michaelmas.
William Gernon was also to pay annually to the mother church,
for the use of a house at Osmaston, one penny, at the stated times,
for waxshot ;t he was to halve the first mortuary with S. Peter's,
and also to render to the vicar the whole of the customary offer-
ings of the parishioners of the chapelry.*
In 1288, a dispute arose between the inhabitants of Osmaston
and the abbot of Darley respecting the repair of the chapel and
the sustentation of its ornaments. It was referred to the arch-
deacon of Derby, and settled on the same terms as already detailed
in our previous description of Boulton.
The Black Death, or plague, to which we have more than once
referred in the introduction, etc., of this volume, seems to have been
specially intense within the parish of S. Peter. In June, 1349,
when the plague was at its height, the episcopal license of Roger
Northbury was obtained for opening the graveyard at Osmaston,
which had hitherto been regulated by a most singular custom, to
all the inhabitants of the chapelry. It is stated in the preamble
to the license, that the chapel had been used by the inhabitants
from ancient times for the Sacraments and sacrarnentals ; that the
bodies of single persons fa conju;/ali d/»niculo solutorum) were buried
in the cemetery attached to the chapel, but that the bodies of
householders or married persons were carried for burial to the
mother church of S. Peter. This carrying of the bodies to Derby
had been often attended with inconvenience and danger, owing to
delays caused by inundations and other unexpected impediments ;
but now, in these days, when a most fatal plague was raging
throughout the parish, the corpses were so numerous that they
were scarcely able to bury them. The Bishop, therefore, gave his
license to use the cemetery henceforth corporibus tarn conjiujatoruin
quam solutorum.^
* Darley Chartulary, f. 157.
t Waxshot (ceragium) was an old payment for providing candleR for the church ; it
was usually paid on three several occasions in each year.
t Ibid, f .' 40. See appendix No. VIII.
S Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. xiii., f. 71.
OSMASTON. 1 65
In the year 1357, Robert Foucher (Fulger or Fulcher) founded a
chautry, at the altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary, within the chapel
of S. James,* at Osmaston.t He endowed it with certain lands
and tenements in Osniaston and Normanton ; and the inquisition
giving permission for this alienation states that the founder retained
other lands in Osmastou, as well as in Duffield and in Cotton,
the latter a sub-manor of Normanton.! For the royal license- for
this grant Foucher paid six marks. § This chantry, chiefly founded
for saying Mass for the souls of the founder's family, did not
entail a second priest at Osmaston, but was held by the curate or
chaplain. The following is a list of the chantry priests, so far as
they are mentioned in the episcopal institutions at Lichfield : —
1357. William de Tykenhal; patron, Robert Foucher.
1390. John Foucher ; patron, Helen Foucher de Osmaston.
1392. Thomas Lamley; patron, Helen Foucher de Osmaston. On the resignation
of J. F.
* * « * «
. William Tyknal.
1500. James Basford (alias Beresford) ; patron, Thomas Bradshaw. On the death
of W. T.
(1535). Richard Robynson. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
1544. James Powker ; patron, the King. On the death of B. R.
One branch of the family of Bradshaw, of Bradshaw, married
the heiress of Foucher in the 15th century, and thus became
possessed of the family estate at Osmaston, as well as at Wiudley
and Charnpeyne Park, in Duffield parish.] This accounts for the
presentation by Thomas Bradshaw to Osmaston chantry in 1500.
The Valor Ecclesiasticus (27 Henry VIII.) gives the clear annual
value of the chantry house and glebe, together with the Easter
offerings and tithes of lambs, wool, flax, hemp, pigs, and geese, at
£3 Os. 8d.
The following is from the Chantry Eoll, 1 Edward VI. : —
" Chapelry of OSMASTON founded by Rob. Folger for a pryste to say Masse v
dayes in the weke at the alter of our Blessed Ladye Ixs. viijd. clerc xxxixs. vijs.
rents resolute to the duchye of Laucastre. The Incumbent Jamys Parker taketh
upp the small tythes wch belongethe to the Vicar of St. Peter's. It is distaunte
from the parisshe churche j myle & a halfe. In it is mynistred all Sacraments
and Sacramentalls ; there ben iiijxx houselynge people belougynge to the hamlette.
The ornaments they borowe of other towns."
* The dedication of this church or chapel has usually been stated as All Saints ;
but there is no doubt whatever, from various entries in the Lichfield Registers, that
the true dedication is S. James. See Episcopal Registers, vol. xiii., f. 219, etc., etc.
f Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. v., ff. 58b, 59 ; and vol. iii., f. 144a.
I Inq. post Mort., 30 Edw. III., pt. 2, No. 24.
§ Rot. Orig., 30 Edw. III., memb. 28.
|| Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 222.
166 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Oil the dissolution of the chantries, the crown sold the endow-
ments of this chantry to Edward Pease and James Wilson, who
also obtained, as we have already seen, numerous similar grants
throughout the country.*
The Church Goods Commissioners (6 Edward VI.) thus reported
of the goods of this chapel : —
" Osmaston juxta Derby. Oct. 10. Jas. Poker curat.
ij belles in the steple — ij handbelles — j sacryieg bell — j chalice of sylver with a
patten— iij vestiments of blew wolsted, j of yelow sylke & j of wyte twylle —
coope of dune sylke — j albe with a amysse — j surples— iij aulter clothes — iij
towells. "
The Parliamentary Commissioners of 1650 say : —
" Osmastone is a chappell and member of Peters the vicarall Tythes worth six
pounds thirteene shillings and fourepence per annum, the curate hath received
the profitts and served the cure. Mr. Potter scandalous."
The cure has been augmented both from Queen Anne's Bounty
and by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and is now an independent
vicarage, in the gift of Sir Eobert Wilmot-Horton.
The little church of S. James, now (1878) undergoing a judicious
restoration, is a picturesque building, in a well-planted and carefully-
kept graveyard. "At this Osmaston, near Derby, we will turn and
linger awhile, glad that the gradual out- stretching of the town still
leaves the domain so beautiful ; and we will seek its little church
and bowery churchyard — one of the most attractive yet retired of
all the sacred nooks we know. What a fitting shade is formed by
these firs and yews ! What an antiquated little temple, smothered
in verdure, with its tiny bell-turret just peeping out ! " f- The
restoration will, happily, not deprive it of its picturesque and
interesting character, as it only includes the removal of the
unsightly fittings, the opening- out of the roof, and the substitution
of a comely bell-turret on the west gable for a comparatively
modern wooden box. It consists only of a nave and chancel ; Mr.
Kawlins, who was here in 1825, giving the dimensions of the
former at 30 ft. by 19 ft. 10 in., and of the latter at 20 ft. 6 in.
by 13 ft. 4 in. But it has at one time had a small south aisle,
separated from the nave by two pointed arches, as can be seen
from the outer wall. The restoration will leave these arches filled
up as they now are, but will show the centre column supporting
the arches in the inner waU. The date of this work we should
naturally assign to about the middle of the fourteenth century ; so
* Particulars for Grants, 3 Edw. VI.
+ Spencer Hall's Days in Derbyshire, p. 244. Plate XXII., vol. ii. of Sketches of
the Facsimile Society, is a good drawing of the unrestored church.
OSMASTON. 167
that we liave little or no doubt that this aisle was built by Robert
Fulcher to provide the side altar of Our Lady, about the time of
his founding the chantry. The present south doorway is evidently
the old doorway of the south wall, and was set back to its present
position when the aisle was taken down.
The fabric seems to have been restored or rebuilt throughout in
the first half of the fourteenth century. The wall-plate and but-
tress at the north-east angle of -the chancel are of Decorated
character. Some of the timbers of the old roof, said to be of
chestnut wood, are of the same period. The three-light east
window of the chancel is of late Perpendicular character. The
other windows are of debased design. Some time in last century,
a recess was thrown out for a manorial pew, on the north side
of the chancel, and the north wall of the nave seems to have
been rebuilt about the same time.
Notwithstanding the early days at which this chapel had rights
of sepulture, there are no old monuments now extant. Against the
north wah1 of the chancel is a monument thus inscribed : —
" Sacrum Memoriae Nicholai Wilmot Milit : Servientis ad legem & Dorotheas
ux : ejus fil. Hen Harpur Barronet : prole inter eos habueruut numerosa
reliquerunt tantu Roberta -nupt : Eliz : fil : et cohaared : Ed: Eardley deJEardley
Armig: Nicholau 1° nupt^ Eliz: Chaloiier denuo_Eliz : Revel Dorothea nupt :
Fran : Revel arm Barbara Will : Bainbrigg armig : et Eliz : Tho : Charnell
arinig : obierunt viz : p'dict : Nicholaus 28° Decemb : 1682 aetatis suse 72 Dorothea
22° Jan : 1682 aetat. suss 65."
Sir Nicholas Wilrnot, Knt., of Osmaston, serjeant-at-law, was the
second son of Robert Wilmot, of Chaddesden, by the heiress of
Shrigley. There are also monuments to Sir Robert Wilmot, of
Osmaston, the first baronet, who died in 1772; Sir Robert Wilmot,
second baronet, 1834 ; Elizabeth, daughter of the first baronet,
1852 ; Mary Ann, relict of the second baronet, 1862 ; and Charles
Foley Wilmot, 1852.
Against the west wall is a stone to Rev. Thomas Shipton, fifty
years minister of Osmaston, who died in 1774, aged 83. There is
also a memorial to the Rev. S. Pearson, minister of Osmaston,
who died in 1811, aged 65 ; but his remains are at Croxall, by his
brother, Rev. J. B. Pearson, vicar of that parish.
A most interesting relic of the chapel originally built here by
the Dunnes has disappeared during the present generation. In
Lysons' MS. notes, taken about 1815, is given a sketch of the
Osmaston font, which he describes as being very large, circular, and
much defaced. It was ornamented with Norman arcade work, not
interlaced, and above this was a kind of continuous scroll moulding.
168 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
It must have been of early Norman date, not later than the reign
of Henry I. The present font is of plain octagon design.
The restoration now (October, 1878) in progress has brought to
light a recess on the north side of the chaucel, 3 ft. 4 in. long
by 2 ft. high, built up with brick. It is only eight inches deep,
which seems rather too shallow for an almery. Bound it were
evident traces of wall-painting in red, but too faint to decipher.
The workmen have also found a stone ornamented with the
Norman chevron moulding. On the north side of the east window
is a projecting stone corbel.
The single bell, which has a diameter of 27£ inches, is thus
inscribed : — " Sir Robt Wilmot Bart Patron : Pearson Minister,
W. Parker Churchwarden. T. Hears & Son of London fecit,
1808."
The registers only begin in 1780.
jjHERE can be no doubt that S. Werburgk's was one of
the six Derby churches mentioned by the Domesday Book
as extant in the time of Edward the Confessor, and again
in the reign of William I. ; but whether to identify it with the
church owned at the former period by Brun, and afterwards by
Norman de Lincolnia — or with the one by Coin, and afterwards
by his son Edric, does not now seem possible. The church of
S. Werburgh was one of those given by Robert de Ferrers to the
newly-founded abbey of Darley, in the reign of Stephen ; * but
Lysons, Glover, etc., are wrong in supposing that it remained
appropriated to that abbey. The abbot of Darley, soon after the
foundation of his own house, obtained both episcopal and regal
sanction (temp. Henry II.) to found a small priory of Benedictine
nuns on the King's Mead, at Derby. This priory, dedicated to the
Blessed Virgin, and usually known as the monastery of S. Mary
de Pratis (of which we shall have more to say on another occa-
sion), was transferred to the church of S. Werburgh during the
episcopate of Richard Peche, 1161-1183. The abbot of Darley
exercised special and unusual rights over the priory of nuns,
which led to various disputes, until at last Bishop Roger Weseharn
(who held the see of Coventry and Lichfield from 1245 to 1258)
declared the complete independence of the priory, and , sanctioned
the prioress, Sybil, in the free holding of various property, including
the church of S. Werburgh.t We do not know the precise time
at which a vicarage was ordained and the tithes were appropriated ;
but it must have been some time prior to 1 278, for in that year
mention is made of Walter de Marketon, vicar of S. Werburgh's.J
* Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. iii., p. 61.
t Darley Chartulary, Cott. MSS., Titus C. ix., f. 78.
I Ibid, f. 52.
172 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
In November, 1322, the church of S. Werburgh was polluted by
a sanguinary quarrel. Of its details we know nothing ; but Hugh
Meynell, of Langley, was adjudged by the Bishop to have shed
violently blood within the church, and the Archdeacon of Derby
was enjoined to first try suasion to bring him to repentance.*
The archdeacon's suasion probably sufficed, as we find no further
entry in the episcopal Act Book. This bringing to repentance
would, most likely, involve the payment of a good round sum, as
the church, according to canon law, would require "reconciliation,"
and the offender would, naturally, be mulcted for the fees of this
episcopal function, and this in addition to personal chastisement, t
The prioress of the nuns of King's Mead regularly presented to
the vicarage of S. Werburgh when vacancies occurred. The Vnl<>r
Ecclesiasticus (27 Henry VIII.) gives the clear annual value of the
vicarage at £o 12s. 8d. Its emoluments were derived from a
house, Easter dues, offerings at four fixed dates termed " offryng
days," and tithes of lambs, wool, hay, etc. The rectory at the
same time was only valued at £2 6s. 8d. per annum ; but the
priory also received 12s. rent from Robert Thacker, the vicar, for
a messuage and garden that he held of them. On the dissolution
of the monasteries, the advowson of the vicarage reverted to the
crown, and it remained in the gift of the Lord Chancellor until
1873, when it was, by exchange, vested in the Bishop of the
Diocese.
The Parliamentary Commissioners of 1650 say of this benefice: —
" Item Warburge is a viccaridge really worth eighteeiie pounds per annum an
augmentason of thirtye ponnds per annum forth of the Impropriate Rectory of
Burnastone sequestred from Sir Edward Moseley and twenty pounds per annum
allso forth of the impropriate Rectory of Glossop sequestred from Alathea
Countess of Arundell for her recusancye. Mr. Thomas Bakewell viccar an able
and pious man."
This is further explained by the following minute of the "Com-
mittee for Plundered Ministers :" —
* Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. iii , f. lib.
t See the subsequent account of Hope church in the addenda to this volume ; also
Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 580. A curious instance occurs in the Durham
Registers of about this date, 1315. showing the grave light in which any blood shed
about a church, even when accidental, was regarded. The Scots making a raid over
the border came to the village of Houghton, when one John Sayer, to escape them,
fled to the church and climbed to the top of the tower. Incautiously looking over the
battlements, he fell to the ground. He was instantly killed, and the blood escaping
from his nostrils, flowed under the west door into the church. The rector immediately
suspended all divine offices in the church and sent information to the Bishop. Nor
was service allowed to be resumed until the Bishop had sent his Commissary to hold
an inquisition, when it was definitely proved that the presence of blood in the church
was purely accidental and not occasioned by any violence. — Registrum Palatinum
Dunelmense, Ricardo de Kellawe Episcopo, f. 145.
s. WKRBURGH'S. 173
" Jane 3, 1646.
By vertue of an order of both houses of parliament of the second of May last,
It is ordered that the yearly sum of £30 out of the tythes of the impropriate
rectory of Etwall. in the county of Derby, which arise and grow within the
towns of Barracoate and Burnaston, and the premises and limits thereof,
be paid and allowed to and for more ease of the maintenance of the minister
of the church of St. Warburgh, in the town of Derby, the present maintenance
being but twenty marks per annum, and the sequestrators of the premises are
required to pay the same accordingly at such times and seasons of the year as
the same are payable."
The following list of vicars is chiefly taken from the Lichfield
registers and the returns of the First Fruits Office : —
1278. Walter de Marketon. Darley Chartulaiy.
1312. Walter de London.
1318. Thomas de Stokes. On the death of W. de L.
1327. John de Derby.
1328. Simon de Wasdutton. On the resignation of J. de D. Collated by 'the
Bishop.
1329. John Dormer.* On the resignation of Simon de Northbrough, alias
Wasdutton.
1333. Richard de Barwe. On the resignation of J. D.
1338. Robert de Haneyate. On the resignation E. de B.
1339. John de Berdeleye.t
1349. Henry de Longeley. On the resignation of J. de B.
1369. John de Holand. On the death of H. de L.
1396. John Flamstede.
. Ralph Stanley.
1423. William Duffield. On the resignation of R. S.
1425. Nicholas Barton. On the resignation of W. D.
. William Parkeston.
1438. John Cowper. On the resignation of W. P.
1439. William Smyth. On the resignation of J. C.
1440. Thomas Lancaster. On the resignation of W. S.
1443. John Wythale. On the resignation of T. L.
* On May 25th, 1332, this vicar of S. Werburgh's received the Bishop's commission
to act as a general confessor or "penancer," as he was then termed, "pro officio
Penitentiaries." Other similar commissions were at the same time granted to two
priests in the archdeaconry of Salop and to one in the archdeaconry of Cheshire.
All the clergy and laity of Derbyshire might confess to the penitentiary " exceptis
casis ex judiciarii putestate descendentibus necnon corruptoribus monialium et
corruptis eisdem illis etiam qui perjurium in assisis et in inquiaitionibus juratis
in foro seculare incurrerint." Episcopal Registers, vol. iii., f. 30b. These graver
cases would be reserved for the Bishop himself, or even for the Pope. It seems
that this appointment of special penitentiaries did not interfere with confessions
of private sins to any licenced priest, and the priests of almost every important
parish were licenced for that purpose ; but it related more especially to the imposing
of penances, after a regulated canonical system, for public or more serious offences.
In short these official penancers, one or two in each archdeaconry, acted as epis-
copal commissaries and gave absolution and imposed penances in those cases reserved
by the canon for the Bishop. It would also appear as if this appointment had some
special reference to three sets of English canons ( Archbishop Langton's, 1222, Otho the
Legate's, 1237, and Archbishop Reynolds', 13'2*2), empowering Bishops to appoint con-
fessors for the diocesan clergy, in case they were reluctant to resort to the rural deans,
who were the usual confessors of the priests.
f This institution is recorded in the Act Book of Bishop Roger Northbury (vol. iii.,
f. 59b), and not in the regular book of institutions. It is followed by a challenge to
a claimant of the vicarage to appear before the Bishop and support his claim. Heuce
probably the entry in the Act Book. The rival claimant did not put in an appearance,
so the institution of John de Berdeleye held good.
174 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1447. Thomas Monyasshe. On the resignation of J. W.
. John Stanford.
1517. John Hodgekynson. On the death of J. S.
1518 Ralph Edmundson. On the death of J. H.
1530. Robert Thacker. On the resignation of B. B.
1544. Thomas Parker; patron, the King. On the resignation of R. T.
1608. Richard Johnson. " Richard Johnson, late vicar of St Warbnrge was
buried the 20 day of Julie 1629 who had beene vicar 21 yeares or there-
abouts."— Parish Registers.
1629. Daniel Eyre; patron, the King.
(1650). Thomas Bakewell. Parl. Com. Report.
1657. Samuel Beresford.* " Mr. Samuel Beiesforde came to be minister of this
parish up the 21 of May 1657." — Parish Registers.
1662. Nathaniel Macham; patron, the King.
1689. James Walker.
1710. John Bradbury. On the death of J. W.
1722. William Lockett.t
1751. John Seale. On the death of W. L.
1774. Charles Hope. On the death of J. S.
1799. Frederick Hotham.
1809. Edward Unwin.
1847. W. F. Wilkinson. On the death of E; U.
1871. Thomas Berry. On the resignation of W. F. W.
A chantry was founded at the altar of Our Lady in this church,
in the year 1359, by Sir John Chandos and others. It was
endowed with eight acres of land, tenements, etc., situate in
Derby.:}: We find from the Valor Ecclesiastic us that the chaplain
of this chantry received a yearly pension of 3s. from the abbey of
Darley. The following is the account given in the Chantry Boll: —
" S. WAKBUBGHE.— The Chauntrye of our Ladye founded by Ser Jo. Shaunders
knyght, Peter Prentys Henrye Eggyngton and Otho Ashe of Derby by special
lycence of K. Edward III. dat. A° regn. xxxij for j pryste to synge mass daylye
at the alter of our Ladye and to praye for the Kynge and all cristian sowles
iiijli. Clerc cxiijs. iiijd. Ser Robert Bywater Chauntry Pryste. To the parisshe
belongethe cclx howselynge people."
On the dissolution of the chantries this property went to the
crown ; but Queen Mary granted the various lands, cottages, etc.,
that had pertained to the chantry of S. Mary, within the church
* " He was a good Scholar, a fine Preacher, a curious Orator, and a very Holy
Man. He was very warm against the Sectaries, but was not at a great distance from
the Church. After his Ejectment, he went frequently (if not constantly) to Church
during his stay in Derby; which was till the Five Mile Act took Place; and persuaded
his Friends to do so too. He was against both Superstition and Separation. The
former made him a Nonconformist; and the latter caus'd him to attend on the publick
Assemblies." — Ejected Ministers, vol. ii., p. 166.
t Hutton records of " the wiser Lockett," that in the exciting times of 1715 when
Derby and especially the clergy were hotly Jacobean ; when Sturges of All Saints'
openly prayed for King James; when Harris of S. Peter's had to be called to order
by the magistrates ; and when Cantrel of S. Alkmund's drank James' health upon
his knees, that " the wiser Lockett rather chose to amuse himself with mowing
his grass-plat, than meddling with politics." — History of Derby, p. 245.
{ Inq. post. Mort., 32 Edw. III., pt. 2., No. 34. This is really an Inquisitio ad
quod damnum, and is wrongly classified.
s. WERBURGH'S. 175
of S. Werburgh, to the Bailiffs and Burgesses of Derby. Robert
Bywater, the ex-chantry priest, was also awarded a pension of £6
in the reign of Queen Mary.*
There are only ten dedications in honour of S. Werburgh, and
the churches are all supposed to be of Saxon foundation, as the
Normans did all they could to discredit any special veneration of
the saints of the conquered race. It is interesting to find that
three of these dedications — Derby, Blackwell, and Spondon — pertain
to this county. The remainder are at Kingsley (Stafford), Hoo
(Kent), the Cathedral at Chester, Warburton (Cheshire), Bristol,
Wenbury (Devon), and Treveglos (Cornwall). S. Werburgh was
the daughter of Wulphere, king of Mercia, and when young,
consecrated herself to a holy life in the monastery of Ely. On
Ethelred, brother to Wulphere, succeeding to the throne in 675,
he recalled his niece from Ely, and entrusted her with the care of
forming nunneries in Mercia. Within a short time, assisted by his
munificence, she founded religious houses at Trentharn and Han-
bury, in Staffordshire, and at Wedon, in Northamptonshire, of all
of which she was superioress at the same time. She died at
Trentham, February 3rd, 699, but was buried at Hanbury. Some
two centuries afterwards, when the Danes were pillaging Eepton,
her relics were removed from Hanbury, only a few miles distant,
and translated to Chester, of which city she came to be considered
the patroness, as S. Alkmund was of Derby.
Of the old fabric of this church we know little or nothing. It
stood close to the west side of Markeaton brook. On January
20th, 1601, a violent gale from the west caused the overthrow of
the steeple, which in its fall did great damage to the chancel and
part of the body of the church. . The word " steeple " was used
for either a spire, or a tower surmounted by a spire ; and tradition
has it that the tower of S. Werburgh's was crowned with a tall and
graceful spire. This tradition is confirmed by the use of the word
"pyramis" in the Latin note on this subject in the parish registers
of S. Alkmund's. The entry is as follows : —
" Vigessimo die hujus mensis Januarii devicta erat Pyramis S*1 Warburg!
Darb hora secuda a meridio, vi scilicet cujusdam procellse a zephiro ortse, quo
casu cecidit Cancellu et pars Ecclesiss ad maguu parochise detrimental, nuilu
tamen interfecit homine una ne bestia quidem. Oh profuuditas divitiarum et
sapientiae et scientise dei, cujus juditia nemo scrutator, et cujus semitas fuit
super vestigabiles. Bom. 11. 33."
* Add. MSS., 8,102, f. 49b.
176 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Hutton, and all subsequent writers on Derby, have attributed
the fall of the steeple to a flood that undermined the foundations ;
but it is impossible that a contemporary account, entered in a
register, could be anything but accurate. It is, however, very
possible that the action of the water may have rendered the tower
more susceptible to the effects of the gale. To gain firmer ground,
it was decided to rebuild the tower on the south-east side of the
church, where it now stands. This work was not finished till 1608.
It is obvious that the lower stage of the tower consists of the old
materials, which must have been carefully re-erected. This part of
the tower is of Perpendicular style, and was probably first built in
the second half of the fifteenth century. The upper stage, with its
double bell- chamber windows, is of the poor character that might
be expected of the date when it was built.
Owing to its nearness to that unmanageable stream, the Mark-
eaton brook, the church of S. Werburgh seems to have constantly
suffered from floods. The following is an entry from an old book
of Churchwardens' Accounts : —
" July the 19th 1673, being Sabbath day at night, there was a great Floud.
The water was two Foot high in the middle ally it weare masured so that
it came into Cheasts and wett all the writinge. Such a Flood was not known in
our agge before. Isaac Jackson and William Jerom, Churchwardens."*
On November 5th, 1698, another great flood occurred, and the
brook rising "ran into the churchyard, and getting into the ground,
hollow and loose by the graves, occasioned some of the pillars that
supported the body of the Church to give way." t The consequence
was that the whole body of the church and the chancel collapsed.
The day of the catastrophe caused a paltry rhymester, one John
Pegge, to produce this couplet : —
"Fifth of November, Gun -powder Plot,
The Church is fall'n ; and why not ? "
" This wicked distich," says Hutton, " without measure, harmony,
or thought (for John was never able to think), which ought to
have been treated with a smile, raised the clamour of the Estab-
lishment against the Dissenters, for John was one of that body."J
On November 25th, James Walker, the vicar, wrote a letter to
* Quoted in the Reliquary, vol. i., p. 552, where it is stated that this book is in the
possession of Mr. Llewellyim Jewitfc. It is much to be hoped that it will be restored
to the parish chest, to which it undoubtedly belongs. For a further account of the
flood of 1(J73 and the damage it did to the town, see Simpson's Derby, p. 111.
t Wolley's MS. History of Derby, circa 1710, in the College of Arms.
J Button's History of Derby, p. 142.
s. WEKBURGH'S. 177
Bishop Lloyd, stating that a flood had " demolished '' the
church on the night of November 4th and 5th, doing damage
to the amount of £1,000, and praying his lordship's direc-
tions how to make collections for the rebuilding. The Bishop
replied, advocating voluntary contributions, and giving £20 as
his donation. *
The body of the church was rebuilt "after the Tuscan order,"
with a dome in the centre, and a chancel was added, after the
same style. A stone in the south wall in the gallery, states
that the rebuilding was accomplished in 1699. An elaborate
tasteless reredos of plaster was put in the chancel in 1708, the
chief ornament of which is Queen Anne's arms.
In 1730, Mr. George Eichardson built a west gallery to accom-
modate the organ. In 1778, a north gallery was erected; and in
1788, the population of the parish had so increased, that it was
decided to extend continuous galleries round the three sides of the
nave, the deficiency of light expected to be thereby caused being
supplied by glazing the dome.t
Considerable damage was once more done to this church by a
flood, on December 9th, 1740, "when ye water made so great a
Breach in the pavement throughout ye Church y* it had to be
newpaved." J
Again, the great flood of April 1st, 1842 (when the water was
six feet deep in some of the principal streets), undermined the
floor and filled the vaults of S. Werburgh's, necessitating the
opening of many of them, and the reflooring of a large portion
of the nave.
When Elias Ashmole visited this church, August 8th, 1662, he
noted " a monum* set in the North wall about the Midle of the
ChauceU," thus inscribed : —
" Here (in the middle of the Quire) lyeth buried the body of Henry Milward
late of Syndfern Geii : who depted this Lyfe the 25th day of Jan1? 1615, the 79
yeare of his age, he had by his wife Elizabth daughter of Georg* Hygham of
Adlyngton in Cheshire Gen : ten Children 5 sons and 6 daughters, & having
lived lovingly together 52 yeares she deceased the 27tb of Sep1*1 1610 & lyeth
buried in the Churche of Barrow upon Trent, to whose memory in filial duty
John Milward their youngest child hath erected this Monument
* Pegge's MSS., vol. v.
t This information is from a pamphlet of nearly one hundred pages, written by Mr.
Henry Mozley, one of the churchwardens in 1830-1, when there was considerable dis-
pute about the re-allotting of pews.
J Pegge's MSS., vol. v.
13
178 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Though never rich, richly did Mflward live,
With lib'ral haiid to lend, to spend, to give,
Whose need requir'd according to his portion
* * *
To God devout and to the Church inclin'd,
Hurtful to none, helpful to all, and kind,
Especially to neighbors, friends, and kindred
And father-like his children dear he tender'd.
Skrat, good housekeeper, constant to his word,
Milde peacemaker, so blessed of the Lord,
A child of God, he reigns in heaven for ever,
From labour free, from care, from fear, from fever."*
On the slab were the arms of Milward (Erm., on a fesse, >/n.,
three plates) impaling Higham (chequy, arg. and az., on a chief,
git,., a lion passant guartlant, or.) Henry Milward, of Sinfin, was
the third son of William Milward, of Eaton Dovedale, by Catharine,
daughter of John Fleetwood, of Colwich. The above inscription is
given, from Bassano's notes (circa 1710), both in Simpson and
Glover, as if then extant ; but the MS. notes of Mr. Rawlins,
taken in 1826, mentions that it was not then to be found. It
seems to have been placed on the floor of the chancel when it was
rebuilt, and it most likely disappeared after the repaviug of the
church in 1740.
A handsome mural monument against the south chancel wall,
which used to be against the north wall in the days both of
Ashmole and of Bassano, bears the following inscription : —
" Memoriae sacrum Gervasii Sleigh de Ash, Arm. qui duxit Elizabethan! filiam
Johannis Chomley Gen. ex qua suscepit Samuelem, Gervasium, & Hugonem ; post
quam autem cum ilia aunos xxxv ab inito conjugio pie & feliciter vixisset,
placide in Dom : obdorruivit vij Junii Anno Salutis MDCXXVI. ^tatis suae LXVI.
Gervasius Sleigh )
Is re gavisus lege '
Qui qua sunt legis, prastat, procurat, & urget
Is re gavisus lege proculdubio est.
Talis erat noster Gervasius, integer ipse,
Justiciss locuples, ac elemosynas,
Talis erat noster, procnrans omnia justa.
Sive foris obiit munia, sive Domini,
Talis erat, cunctos urgens ad justa patranda,
Sumptibus, exemplis, consiliis, precibus ;
His tamen hand fisus quies siquis fidere possit,
Exclamat moriens ; O miserere Deus.
Qui legis haec, legem serva, te servet Jesus,
Si re gavisus lege cluere velis."
•Bodleian Library, Ashm. MSS., 851. The rhyming part of the epitaph is not
given by Ashmole, but is here taken from Bassano's notes. See the epitaph to the
wife of Henry Milward, supra, p. 24 ; for information respecting this family, see
Chwches of Derbyshire, vol. ii., pp. 165-6, 633; and vol. iii., pp. 123-4.
s. WERBURGH'S. 179
Above the inscription is a quartered coat — 1st and 4th Sleigh (gu.,
a chevron between three owls, or), 2nd Arderne (iju., three cross
crosslets fitchee and a chief, or), and 3rd Kyley (or, a fesse
between three crosses patee fitchee, sab.) Below are the arms of
Sleigh impaling Cholmondeley (iju., in chief two helmets, arg., in
base a garb, or). An explanation of the lineage of Sleigh,
accounting for the above quarterings, and some account of the
family, have already been given in these pages.* In addition to
this mural monument, Ashmole also mentions an alabaster slab,
then on the floor in the centre of the chancel, thus simply
inscribed : —
" Heere lyeth the Bodies of Gervase Sleigh of Ash Esqr who depted this lyfe
the 7 of July (?) A° dni 1626, & of Eliz : his wife depted this lyfe the 20th of
July A° dni 1633."
This latter slab cannot now be found.
In 1850, the present west portico was added to the church, the
entrance having previously been on the south side. At the same
time, a north chancel aisle was added, which now serves as an
organ chamber, and this necessitated the moving of the Sleigh
monument, mentioned above.
Very considerable improvements were effected in the church in
the year 1873-4, when it was reseated throughout, the chancel
fitted with quire stalls, and the organ removed from the west end
to the chancel aisle. The alabaster of the new pulpit formed part
of an illegible monumental slab then found under the pavement of
the north aisle. The small brass lectern is well worth notice,
and is of unique design. The actual support for the book rests
on a well-executed pelican vulniug itself, with its four young ones
(Plate X.), and on the base are the words: — "The gift of Charl68
Beuskin of Derby, 1711." The pelican used to rest immediately
upon this base, and formed part of an elaborate font-cover, sus-
pended from the roof by a pulley. It had long been disused, and
the present vicar, Eev. T. Berry, conceived the happy idea of
utilising it as a lectern, which was accomplished by inserting a
tall pillar of the same metal between the bird and the base. The
beautifully wrought framework of beaten iron, which used to
surround the pelican, now rests on the stove in the north-west
angle of the church. The brass chandelier of twelve lights in the
chancel, and one of twenty-one lights in the west portico, are from
the same benefactor. On the latter is inscribed : — " This and the
* Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., pp. 329-30.
180 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
brainch in y" cliansell was the gift of Mr. Charles Benskyn, of
Derby, 1708." Of this gentleman's gifts to Alvaston church, where
he was buried, we have already spoken. Nor did Mr. Benskin
merely con fine his generosity to church monuments: he augmented
the cures of Alvaston, Boulton, and Osmaston, and, with respect to
S. Werburgh's, he provided " an additional stipend for reading
prayers in the week day."* The reigns of the first two Georges
are generally regarded, and very rightly so, as including the
darkest times of the Church's history in England ; but in Derby,
at all events, the Church's injunctions as to daily prayers were
complied with in at least two of her five churches.
Over the door leading to the tower stairs is cut — " G. Pycrofte,
clark, 1703." The tower contains a ring of eight bells, thus
inscribed : —
L, II., III., IV. V., and VIII. "C. & G. Hears, Founders,
London, 1848.
" Thomas Crump. Esqr. Church
Henry Darby, Esqr. j Wardens."
VI. " My roaringe sounde doth warning geve
That men cannot heare always lyve. 1605."
The bell-mark is that of Henry Oldfield.
VII. "Ihs See Warbqro T.G. W.T." Henry Oldfield's mark,
surmounted by a crown.
The earliest register is a small parchment volume, in poor con-
dition and badly kept. It begins in 1588 and ends in 1642.
There is a leaf missing between 1586 and 1587. The second
volume extends from 1652 to 1721.
" Memorandum that According to an Act of Parliament beringe date the 21 of
August 1653 that Thomas Inkershel of Darbie was chosen Register for the
Parish of Warboro And approved of and swore before mee
J. W. Dalton
Samull Sparman
"William Tabror present
Churchwardens."
In the third volume occurs an entry which imparts considerable
value and interest to its page — viz., the marriage of Dr. Johnson : —
" July 9, 1735. Mar' Samu Johnson of ye parish S. Marys in Lichfleld and
Elizh Porter of y« parish of S. Phillip in Burmingham."
* Woolley's MSS. History. There is no trace now left of this benefaction.
jlgninfon.
€lgginfon.
HE manor of Egginton, at the time of the Domesday
Survey, was held by Geoffrey Alselin, and it is recorded
that it then possessed a priest and a church. The heiress
of his descendant, Kalph Alselin, married Thomas Bardulf, of
Wormigay, conveying Egginton and his other estates to that
family. William Bardulf held the fee of this manor in the reign
of Henry III.* The manor was held under the Bardolfs in
moieties by Amalric de Gasci and William Fitzralph. The latter,
who was the son of Ealph Fitz-Geremund, was seneschal of Nor-
niaudy, and founder of the abbey of Dale. Fitzralph's moiety
passed to Geoffrey de Musters, who had married his daughter
Avice.t The rectory of Egginton was divided with the manor
into two moieties ; so that there were two rectors at the same
time, and not merely alternate presentations. Early in the reign of
Henry III., the two medieties of the rectory were respectively
conveyed to the newly-founded abbey of Dale by Amalric de Gasci
and Geoffrey de Musters.]:
None of the tithes of Egginton were then appropriated to Dale;
but for upwards of a hundred years the abbot continued to present
to the rectory. We have failed to find out how it was that the
abbey parted with the presentation ; but it eventually returned to
the owners of the manor ; the last presentation by the abbot
taking place in the year 1344. Perhaps it was the result of a
lawsuit ; for the lords of the manor clearly laid claim to the
* Testa de Nevill, pp. 4, 8, and lib.
t Another daughter of William Fitzralph, of Alvaston, Edelina, was the first wife
of Hubert Fitzralph, of Crich. See the previous account of Crich and Nichols'
Collectanea, vol. iv., pp. 1 and 9. A third daughter, Matilda, was the wife of
Geoffrey de Salicosa-Mara.
I Dale Chartulary, Cott. MSS., Vesp. E. xxvi., f. 169b. See appendix No. IX.
184 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
advowson — though they do not appear to have gained it — as
early as 1253. In that year (1253) a composition was entered
into between Sir John Chandos and his wife, Margaret, and Sir
William Stafford and his wife, Ermentrude, respecting the right
to the patronage of the churches of Eadbourn and Egginton, by
which it was agreed that Chandos should take the former, and
Stafford the latter.* But we are missing a link or two in the
very intricate history of the patronage of this rectory, and must
step back.
Soon after the gift of the double rectory of Egginton to Dale
by Gasci and Musters, we find, from various entries in their char-
tulary, that the manor — or, at all events, the greater part of it —
came into the hands of William de Grendon, nephew of William
Fitzralph. His wife, Ermentrude, gave it, after her husband's
death, as dower to her daughter Margaret, on her marriage with
Kobert Wakelin. Wakelin left this estate, together with those of
Mugginton and Eadbourn — including in each instance the advowson
of the rectories — to his two daughters and heiresses, Margaret and
Ermentrude, who became the wives, as we have already seen, of
Chandos and Stafford.t Chandos disposed of . his share of Eggin-
ton to Stafford. Sir Eobert, son of Sir William and Ermentrude
Stafford, left five daughters, co-heiresses, amongst whom a partition
of the Stafford property was made in the reign of Edward II.
Ermentrude became the wife of Sir Eobert Toke ; Elizabeth, of
William Tymmore ; Eeyne, of Thomas Eolleston ; Ida, of Thomas
de Stanton ; and Agnes, of John de Walton.
A close comparison of numerous deeds J relative to the Chandos
and Stafford properties at Egginton, Mugginton, and Eadbourn,
taken in connection with various Inquisitions, proves that the manor
and part of the advowson of the first of these was divided into
four parts between four of the heiresses of Stafford, Sir Eobert
and Ermentrude de Toke being excluded. And now comes in a
very singular, and we believe unique, arrangement respecting this
rectory. The last presentation to the half rectory made by the
abbot of Dale, took place, as we have already stated, in 1344.
In the following year, Bishop Norbury, apparently on the bare
episcopal authority, appropriated the half rectory (that is hah0 the
* Add. MSS.,6,671, f. 125.
t Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., sub Mugginton and Eadbourn, where tins
intricate genealogy is more fully set forth.
J Abstracts and transcripts of a large number of deeds are given in Add. MSS.,
6,671, 6,672, aud 6,695.
EGGINTON. 185
great tithes) of Egginton to the abbot of Dale and his twenty-four
monks. The Bishop states that he was chiefly induced to do this
in order that the monks might the better exercise hospitality, for
numbers flocked to the abbey every day for food on account of
its considerable distance from towns.* This gift, which did not
involve any patronage, was confirmed to the abbey by Bishop
Burghill in 1400,f and is entered as pertaining to them in the
Valor Ecclesiastics of Henry VIII. John de Tymmore presented
to Egginton rectory in 1343 ; and after the other mediety of the
rectory fell to the abbot two years later, the quadripartite division
of the advowson simply meant that there were four different turns
to the half rectory as it fell vacant, the other half being absorbed
by Dale.
In 1359, Isabel, daughter of Thomas de Stanton, granted her
fourth part of the manor and advowson of Egginton to Sir John
Chandos, and this moiety descended to the Poles. A year or two
later we find Walton's share granted to Twyford and Morton in
trust, and it thence passed to the Bothes, and subsequently to the
Popes and to the Blounts.
The patronage seems for two centuries to have run on pretty
steadily in its fourfold turns — Pole, Eolleston, Bothe, and the
descendants of Tymmore. The last of these changed hands,
through lack of male heirs, repeatedly, till we find, in 1541, a
presentation by Humphrey Babington. It is thus to be accounted
for : — Alice, heiress of Tymmore, married John Heronville ; Joan,
lieu-ess of Heronville, living 1435, married William Leventhorpe ;
Joan, heiress of Leventhorpe, living 1441, married Henry Beau-
mont ; Eleanor, third and youngest daughter and co-heir of John
Beaumont (grandson of Henry) married Humphrey Babington,
fifth son of Thomas Babington, of Dethick, and ancestor of the
line of Babingtons of Eothley Temple.^
In 1587, Queen Elizabeth granted a considerable parcel of the
possessions of Anthony Babington, forfeited by attainder, to her
favourite, Sir Walter Raleigh. Amongst the Derbyshire property
is enumerated a fourth turn of presentation to the church of
Egginton. § This statement has caused us on several occasions no
small trouble in order to try and find out how Anthony Babington,
* Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. iii., f. 147b.
t Ibid, vol. vii., f. 180.
J Shaw's Staffordshire, vol. i., p. 63, 375.
§ Add. MSS., 6,697, f. 444-59.
186 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
of Dethick, the conspirator, could possibly have obtained this share.
We believe, however, that the above descent to his relative, Hum-
phrey, had nothing to do with the matter, but that this share
of the rectory was really the old half share pertaining to Dale
abbey, and granted to Babington after its dissolution. If this
is the case, it is wrongly described, and ought not properly to
have carried any right of presentation with it, after having been
so long in abeyance.
About this time, a fresh claimant to a share in the patronage of
this much divided living, comes on the scene. The ancient family
of Lathbury had from an early period held the subordinate manor
of Heath-houses, afterwards termed Hargate, in this parish, as well
as considerable lands in Egginton proper. In 1324, Margaret,
widow of Ealph Lathbury, died seized of the manor of Heath-
houses ; of lands in Ambaston, Chaddesden, and Mercaston ; as
well as of a messuage, forty acres of arable land, six acres of
meadow, £6 6s. Od. in rentals, and a fourth part of a water-mill
in Egginton ; and her son Ealph died seized of much the same
property two years later.* In the beginning of the sixteenth
century, Anne, daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Lathbury,
married Robert Leigh, descended from a younger son of the Leighs
of Adlington, Cheshire .f From this time, so far as we can
unravel the very twisted history of this benefice, the turns in the
presentation were five in number. Meanwhile the Leighs purchased
two other of the shares in the manor and rectory ; the Poles also
purchased another share of the rectory ; so that the presentation
then stood, Leigh three turns and Pole two. On the death of Sir
Henry Leigh, in the reign of James I., his estate at Egginton
passed to his daughter and co-heir Anne, who married Simon
Every, of Chard, Somerset, created a baronet 1641.
It is not surprising to find that there have been at least two
long lawsuits in connection with the intricacy of the presentation
to this rectory. One was being waged in 1631, which resulted in
the king presenting to a vacancy that meanwhile occurred, and
another prolonged one took place on the presentation of Sir Thomas
Pope Blount (claiming through Walton) in 1712. $
*Inq. post. Mort., 17 Edw. II., No. 55; 19 Edw. II., No. 28. For a pedigree of
Lathbury, of Egginton, beginning about 1400, see Nichol's Leicestershire, vol. vi.,
p. 577.
+ Harl. MSS., 1,093, f. 54.
J Those curious in this matter will find a great deal of original correspondence,
relative to this latter most involved dispute, in Add. MSS., 6,671, ff. 47 to 218.
JEGGINTON. 187
The matter now stands thus : — the patronage is in five parts ;
two turns belonging to Sir Henry F. Every, two to E. S. C. Pole,
and one to Joseph Leigh.
After this long explanation, the following list of rectors and
patrons, compiled from the Lichfield Eegisters, the Parish Kegis-
ters, and the returns of the First Fruits Office, will, we hope,
be tolerably intelligible ; but it should be added that the list is
evidently not quite perfect in the fourteenth and fifteenth cen-
turies : —
1317. John de Sutton; patron, abbot of Dale.
1339. John del Horeston, acolite ; patron, abbot of Dale. On the death of
J. de S.
1343. John de Tymmore ; patron, John de Tymmore, sen.
. Geoffrey de Chaddesden.
1344. Nicholas de Kersington, rector of Long Whatton, exchanges benefices
with G. de C., rector of a mediety of Egginton ; patron, abbot of Dale.
1345. Simon de Brancyngham, rector of Carsington, exchanges benefices with
N. de K., rector of a mediety of Egginton.
1349. Richard de Makkeley; patron, Ealph de Eolleston. On the death of
John de Tymmore.
1358. Roger de Makkeley ; patron, John de Eolleston. On the resignation
of Eichard de M.
1362. William Vessey ; patrons, Eobert de Twyford and Eobert de Morton. On
the death of E. de "W.
1398. John Hulme; patron, Henry de Barton.*
1431. Richard Brassyngton ; patron, William Eolston de Eolston.
1443. Ralph Forde; patron, Peter de la Pole. On the death of E. B.
1491. Thomas Rolston; patrons, Ealph Pole de Eadburne, and Thomas Babing-
ton. On the death of E. F.
1499. Richard Smethley; patron, William Bothe. On the death of T. E.
. George Heyth.
1512. Roger Needham; patron, Thomas Eolleston. On the death of Q-. H.
. George Pole.
1530. Richard Smythe ; patron, Edmund Smythe. i- On the resignation of G. P.
1541. William Babington; patrons, Humphrey Babington, and Eleanor his wife,
one of the daughters and coheirs of John Beaumont. On the death of E. S.
1582. Walter Bickles. Parish Eegisters.\
1589. Simon Presse; patron, German Pole.
1597. Walter Kynnersley. Parish Registers.
* We did not note this ourselves at Lichfield, but have taken it from a very in-
complete list of rectors given in Add. MS3., 6,672, f. 49, and we suspect there is a
mistake in the transcribing of the patron's name. If correctly given, he probably
presented as a trustee.
t A Caveat was entered in the Bishop's register, dated 12th Feb., 1524, against any
admission to the church of Egginton, except on the presentation of Edmund Smythe
and William Smyth, of Barrow, as the next presentation had been assigned to them
by John Bothe. Lichfield Eegisters, vol. xiii. & xiv., f. 41.
J Said to have been presented by John Eolleston, but of this there is some doubt.
From the way in which the sixteenth century rectors apparently overlap, judging from
the entries of their deaths in the registers, it would almost seem as if there were two
rectors for the last half of that century. If this is the case, it would arise from the
possession of the Dale abbey half of the rectory being supposed to confer a right to
nominate a second rector.
188 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
. William Whittington.
1616. George Leigh; patron, Sir Henry Leigh. On the death of W. W.
1631. Joseph Leigh; patron, the King. On the death of G. L.
1642. Peter Yates. On the death of J. L.
1680. John Beardsley ; patron, German Pole. On the death of P. Y.
1712. William Woodcock; patron, Sir Thomas Pope Blount " pleno jure, ut
dicitui " On the death of J. B.
1732. Thomas Phillips ; patron, Sir Simon Every. On the death of W. W.
1747. Simon Every; patron, Eev. Sir Simon Every. On the death of T. P.
1758. John Hepworth; patron, German Pole. On the death of S. E.
1795. Edward Pole; patron, Sacheverell Pole. On the death of J. H.
1824. John Leigh; patron, Sir Oswald Mosley. On the death of E. P.
1856. Rowland Mosley; patron, Sir Henry F. Every. On the death of J. L.
The Taxation Eoll of Pope Nicholas IV. (1291) gives the annual
value of this rectory at £14 13s. 4d. ; the half was valued at
£8 2s. 8d. when the Valor Ecclesiasticus was taken, 27 Henry
VIII. The exact value of the half pertaining to Dale cannot be
given, as it was classified with the rectory of Hkeston, and only
the total of the two mentioned.
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., drew up the
following inventory : —
"Eggyngton, Oct. 5. Will Babyngton parson.
j chales of sylver with a paten parcell gilt — j pyx of laten — j canape — j crosse
of copper & gilte — ij candelstycks of brasse — j holly water pan of brasse— j bell
in the steple the other ij were sold for the repayrynge of the Munck's brydge, iij
oold coopes — vij vestments — iij aulter clothes — ij albes — iij towells & j corporas -
j lytle hand bell — j lytle sacryng bell — ij crewetta of pewter — ij syrplesses — ij
bells were sold in the ijnd yere of the kyngs reign to the reparynge of the
Monks brydge* wch is so farre in decay that the township is not able to amend
the same."
The Parliamentary Commissioners, of 1650, merely say of this
henefice that it is " a parsonage really worth three score pounds
per annum noe chappell apperteyning Mr. Peter Yates Incumbent."
The notes of an Heraldic Visitation of this church, September
13th, 1611,t describe five coats of arms as then extant in the
windows, all of which have now disappeared.
1. Or, on a chevron, git., five plates (Stafford).
2. Paly of six, arg. and az., on a canton, of the second, a
martlet, or (Lathbury).
3. Arg., three mullets, sub. (Hammencourt).
4. Lathbury impaling Mackworth.
* Monks' Bridge, which still retains that name, is about a mile to the west of
the church. It crosses the Dove, connecting Derbyshire and Staffordshire. It
was probably one of the good works of the monks of Tutbury.
t Harl. MSB., 1,093, f. 53b.
EGGINTON. 189
5. Lathbury impaling a/v/., a chevron, gu., between three bundles
of rushes (?) vert.*
6. Az., three stirrups, or (Gifford).
The pedigrees of Lathbury, etc., are too imperfect to enable us to
identify the alliances of shields 4 and 5.
Though the heraldic glass has all gone, there are still some very
interesting remains of old stained glass in the chancel. In the
east window are four small figures under canopies. One represents
Our Lord on the Cross ; another, the First Person of the Trinity
in the act of blessing; and the side ones are probably intended for
the Blessed Virgin and S. John. The border chiefly consists of
castles, or on azure field, and fleurs-de-lis. There are also several
old quarries of set patterns. The south window of the chancel,
nearest to the nave, has two figures : one is a man kneeling, clad
in a blue robe, with a rosary in his hands and a dagger in his
belt, and having on a scroll the words, "Miserere mei d'ne ;" the
other seems intended for a bishop or abbot, but the head is gone;
a chalice and the lower part of a pastoral staff are in his hands.
The border to this glass is of a crown-and-lozenge pattern. This
latter glass, or at all events the figures, we believe to be not earlier
than the conclusion of the fifteenth century ; but the glass of the
east window is, we think, of the first half of the fourteenth
century — i.e., of the Decorated period, and contemporary with the
stone work of the window.
The church, which is dedicated to S. Wilfred, consists of chancel,
with modern north vestry, nave, aisles, and low west tower. Mr.
Rawlins, who visited this church in 1822, gives the following
dimensions: — Nave, 34 ft. 7 in. by 24 ft. 1 in.; north aisle,
33 ft. 9 in. by 15 ft. 4 in. ; south aisle, 32 ft. 10 in. by 13 ft. 1 in.;
chancel, 35 ft. 3 in. by 16 ft. 7 in. There is apparently no trace
left in the fabric of the old Norman church that doubtless stood
on this site. The oldest work seems to be circa 1290-1300, when
the church seems to have been rebuilt nearly throughout. To that
date pertains the chancel, with its large east window, the tracery
of which is divided into five lancets without any foliations ; the
four two-light windows in the side walls ; and the south priest's
door. The arcades of the nave are dissimilar in style and date.
That on the north side we take to be of the same date as the
* Arg., a chevron, sab., between three bundles of laths, vert, were the arras of
the old London Company of Woodmongers. This is the nearest coat we have been
able to find in Papworth. etc.
190 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
chancel — viz., at the beginning of the Decorated period. The
arcade is of three bays, and is supported by circular columns with
plainly- moulded capitals. The west window of the north aisle is
a fine widely-splayed lancet window with a trefoil head. It is a
mistake to suppose that such windows must of necessity be of
Early English date. We believe it to be coeval with the rest of
the aisle. The east window of this aisle was originally lighted
in a similar way ; but a three-light Perpendicular window, circa
1400, was subsequently inserted, most likely to afford space for the
display of memorial glass. Over this window is the upper part of
the old lancet, now much overgrown with ivy ; but in a photograph
of the church, taken several years ago, its character is plainly
to be seen. One of the north windows of this aisle is of two
lights, without foils, and exactly resembles the side chancel
windows. There was another window of the same style in this
wall ; but it has recently given way to a new one, at the time
when the blocked-up north door was being re-opened. During that
work a toad was disclosed embedded in the masonry. It lived for
a short time after its discovery.*
The south aisle we are inclined to date circa 1320. The arches
that separate this aisle from the nave are supported on columns
formed of four clustered shafts, and the responds at each end are
rounded. The south doorway is a good specimen of Decorated
work, with continuous mouldings ; but the windows in the south
are late debased ones, of square form, with four and three lights.
The east window is original, having three lights of plain inter-
secting tracery.
Over the south arcade are three two-light clerestory windows of
a late date; but they are now closed, owing to the roof of the
south aisle having been carried up, in comparatively modern times,
in a continuous slope with the nave roof. Over the north arcade
it is interesting to note two very small square clerestory windows,
in one of which the quatrefoil foliations still remain. These are
undoubtedly the original windows of the Decorated church. Cleres-
tory windows of that date are most rarely met with in the midland
district. In the timbers of the roofs may be noted some moulded
beams that seem to be of Decorated date, and in the north aisle
are three pieces of well-carved work pertaining to the Perpendicular
period.
. * For another instance of an ecclesiastical toad in this county, see Churches of
Derbyshire, vol. i., p. 425.
EGGLNTON. 191
The tower is late in the Perpendicular style, with debased battle-
ments and pinnacles. There is no west door, but a pointed three-
light window exists. On a stone high up in the outer wall of the
north aisle is carved — "1593, B.S., W.K.," which probably gives
the date of the battlements of the north aisle and of other work
done to the roofs at that time.
In the south wall of the chancel is a good sedile with a trefoil
head, and having over it a hood mould terminating in a bishop's
and a priest's head. There is a small corresponding piscina niche
close to it. In the opposite wall is the pointed recess of an
almery, in the sides of which may be noticed the grooves for a
shelf. On the right hand of the east window is a plain bracket.
In the south wall of the chancel, close to its west end, is a "low-
side window"* with a square opening. By the east window of the
south aisle there is also a projecting corbel head, carved to
resemble a knight in his coif-de-mailles. The font is modern. It
may also be well to notice in the chancel an oak chair, thus
inscribed — " 1686 T.M.," and a Holy Family, after Murillo, copied
by Henderson, and " presented to this church by Joseph Leigh,
Esqr., of Belmont, Cheshire, A.D. 1833."
In the south wall of the south aisle are two low recesses with
continuous mouldings. One is unoccupied, but in the other is the
defaced stone effigy of a woman, holding a heart in her hands.
(Plate VIII.) These recesses must have been built here for the
co-founders of this aisle — possibly for those who rebuilt not only
the aisle, but the chancel and most of the church. It seems very
reasonable to suppose that this is the effigy of Elizabeth, co-heiress
of Stafford, and wife of William Tymmore. She died before her
husband, and he was buried in Staffordshire.
On the floor, within the altar rails, are stones to the memory of
Francis Every, 1690; Sir Henry Every, second baronet, 1700, and
his wife, 1706 ; Eev. Simon Every, 1758 ; Alexander Beardsley,
1687; Mary, wife of John Beardsley, rector, 1709; and Kev. John
Hepworth, rector, 1799.
Against the north wall of the chancel is a monument to Sir
Simon Every, first baronet, who married Anne, daughter and
co-heiress of Sir Henry Leigh ; and to Sir Henry Every, second
baronet, who married Vere, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir
* On the interesting subject of "low-side windows," see Churches of Derbyshire,
vol. iii., under Croxall, Spondon, and Raveiiston. The old hall of Egginton, and
probably therefore the chief part of the village, was near to the church on the south
side, thus confirming the " sanctus-bell " theory.
192 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Henry Herbert — " Dame Vere erects this, 1701 ;" a monument to
Eev. Thomas Phillips, rector (1747) and his family ; and several
to the Mosleys.
On the south wall is a monument to Rev. Joseph Leigh, rector,
1856. On the floor are stones to the memory of Sir Henry
Every, sixth baronet, 1755; to his brother, Eev. Sir John Every,
seventh baronet, 1799 ; and to Martha, wife of Sir John Every,
fourth baronet, 1729.
At the east end of the south aisle are slate slabs against the
wall to Penelope, wife of Sir Henry Every, ninth baronet, 1812 ;
Eev. Sir Simon Every, fifth baronet, 1753 ; and Dame Frances
Every, wife of sixth baronet, 1754.
The tower contains three bells : —
I. "I was recast again to sing
By friends to country church & king.
Thomas Hedderley founder Nottingham 1778."
IL " Ihc. Ave Maria gracia plena Dominus tecum." In beautiful
Lombardic capitals of the same character as those at Breaston and
Marston-on-Dove. This must have been the bell spared, when its
fellows were sold for the repairing of Monks' Bridge.
III. "I sweetly toling men do call
To taste of meats that feeds the soole, 1615."
The bell mark of Henry Oldfield.
The registers, which are in a good state of preservation, begin
in 1561 ; but down to the year 1598 it is a copy of an
older book. The first entry is : —
1561. Margerie Leighe was baptized the xi dale Auguste yeare aforesaid.
A quarto black-letter copy of Erasmus' Paraphrase, in fair con-
dition, is kept in the vestry.
Eltaaston.
<H>rhbroo[;.
| HE three hamlets of Elvaston, Ambaston, and Thurlston,
which conjointly form the parish of Elvaston, were held,
when the Domesday- Survey was taken, by Geoffrey
Alselin or Hanselyn. At that time there was a church and a
priest on the manor. Large possessions were made over to
Geoffrey by the Conqueror; his principal residence being at Shel-
ford, in Nottinghamshire. From him descended Ealph Hanselyn,
who played an important part in the baronial wars of the time of
Stephen. Ealph Hanselyn was the founder of the Augustine
Priory of Shelford, and amongst the considerable endowments that
he bestowed upon it was the advowson of his church at Elvaston.*
This gift did not remain undisputed ; for William Fitz-Ralph,
seneschal of Normandy, and founder of Dale Abbey, held much
laud in Elvaston proper, and in the other subordinate manors
within the parish; so much so, that for a time the alternate
presentation to the rectory was held to be in his hands, and he
presented in the reign of John. One of his daughters, Edelina,
married Hubert Fitz-Ralph, of Crich. Their daughter and heiress,
Juliana, married Anker de Frecheville ; and Amicia, widow of
Anker de Frecheville (grandson of the last-named Anker) laid
claim to the advowson of Elvaston as a descendant of William
Fitz-Ralph, and summoned the prior of Shelford to the King's
Bench in the year 1276 ; but she was not able to substantiate her
claim .f In the first instance the priory merely presented to the
rectory, which was valued in 1291, under Pope Nicholas' Taxation
Roll, at £20 per annum ; but within a very few years the great
* Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. iii., p. 65; Abbrev, Placit., 14 Edw. II., Hot. 150.
| Nichols' Collectanea, vol. iv., p. 26.
196 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
tithes were appropriated to the monks, and a vicarage ordained,
for the Lichfield Eegisters give a presentation to the vicarage as
early as 1298.*
The Valor Ecclesiasticus (27 Henry VIII.) gives the clear annual
value of the vicarage at £5 8s. 9d., the vicar paying 17s. 3d.
yearly to the priory. The tithes of grain, together with the profits
of the chapelry of Ockbrook and the tithe of a grange and a mill
at Ockbrook, held by the abbot of Dale, brought to the monks a
revenue of .£23.
After the dissolution of the monasteries, Henry VIII. granted,
in 1539, the manor of Shelford and almost the whole of the
possessions of the late priory to Sir Michael Stanhope. By this
grant he became possessed of the impropriate rectories of five
Nottinghamshire churches, of two in Lincolnshire, and of Elvaston,
with the parochial chapelries of Ockbrook, in Derbyshire, together
with the advowsons of the respective vicarages, t The Parlia-
mentary Commissioners of 1650 say of Elvaston, that it is "a
viccaridge really worth twenty pounds per annum, the place desti-
tute att present." The great tithes and presentation to the vicarage
still remain in the hands of the Stanhopes (Earls of Harrington).
The following list of the vicars of Elvaston and their respective
patrons is compiled from the Episcopal Registers and the returns
of the Augmentation Office. As the prior of Shelford was always
the patron in pre-Reformation days, it has not been thought
necessary to reiterate that fact.
1298. Frater Godmannus, canon of Shelford.
1311. Hugo de Suwelle. On the resignation of F. Q-.
1330. Richard de Leicester, canon of Shelford. On the death of H. de S.
1363. William de Kinalton. On the resignation of E. de L.
1365. Thomas de Byrton. On the resignation of W. de K.
1391. Robert de Shelford. On the resignation of T. de B.
. Robert Fyssher.
1417. William Derby. On the resignation of E. F.
1436. John Barton. On the resignation of W. D.
1437. William Derby. On the death of J. B.
1442. John Benyngton. On the death of W. D.
. Richard Starkey.
1467. William Lyverpull. On the resignation of R. S. Collated by the Bishop.
1496. John Thorley. On the death of W. L.
1500. Thomas Porte. On the death of J. T.
. Nicholas Holmes.
1658. John Haywood ; patron, Anne Stanhope de Shelford, widow. On the
resignation of N. H.
_ * Unfortunately there is no Chartulary of Shelford extant, so that we are unable to
give the precise date or any particulars relative to the ordination of the vicarage,
t Collins' Peerage, vol. ii., p. 201.
ELVASTON. 197
1564. Richard Cloes ; patron, Anne Stanhope.
. Gervaise Hall.
1621. Robert Townson ; patron, Sir John Stanhope. On the resignation of G. H.
1625. Thomas Hudson; patron, Sir John Stanhope.
1635. John Houlkes ; patron, Sir John Stanhope.
. John Clayton.
1673. Arthur Francis ; patron, John Stanhope. On the death of J. C.
1691. John Brentnall ; patron, John Stanhope.
1695. Thomas Cantrell; patron, Alexander Stanhope. On the resignation of J. B.
1699. Anthony Blaekwell; patron, Alexander Stanhope. On the death of T. C.
1723. Thomas Blunt ; patron, Thomas Stanhope.
1734. John Lowe ; patron, Charles Stanhope.
1768. John Swain ; patron, William, first Earl of Harrington. On the death of
J. L.
1790. John Crauford ; patron, Earl of Harrington.
1806. John Swain; patron, Earl of Harrington. On the death of J. C.
1842. Frederick Nathaniel Hignmore ; patron, Earl of Harrington. On the
death of J. S.
1874. Alexander Robert Goldie; patron, Earl of Harrington. On the death
of F. N. H.
The Inventory of Church Goods, taken at the beginning of the
reigu of Edward VI., has the following entry relative to this
parish : —
" ELVASTON — Ser Nycolas Holmes Vycar.
"j chalys of sylver parcel! guylt with j paten — iiij bells in the steple — j hand
bell — j sacryng bell — iiij vestments wherof j of blew velvet, j of whyt velvet, j of
red damaske, j of grene saye — iiij albes — iiij ameses — ij copes of blew saten, j of
whyte fustyon — xj alter clothes — iiij towells — ij candelstycks of brasse — ij hang-
ing clothes — ij cruetts — j holy water stocke of brasse — j corporas with the case.
"We had ij chapells within or parishe, j at Thorlston, the other at Ambaston,
which had nothing saving ij bells of the which j the inhabitants of Ambaston
have sold the price iij*. iiij^. & the other in the hands of Ellys Bokson &
Will Boghyn. Ser Thos. Wyndson knyght one of the iuhabytanns of the lordship
hath taken the said chapells to his own proper nse."
Of the two chapels of Thurlston and Ambaston there are no
remains, nor even any tradition as to their site. The feast day at
Ambaston is said to be "the second Sunday after the 12th of
September." The Windsors purchased the manor of Ockbrook,
and other lands in this parish, of Sir Thomas Seymour early in
the sixteenth century, but Frederick Lord Windsor resold them in
1583.* There was a grange (i.e., a monastic farm) both at
Ambaston and Thurlston, and these chapels would undoubtedly be
for the use of the monks and their tenants on their respective
estates, and not of the nature of chapels of ease to the parish
church. The parish church was, as we have seen, appropriated to
Shelford priory, but these two granges were the property of
* Lysons' Derbyshire, p. 225.
198 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Derbyshire abbeys. In 1379, a large endowment of lands, con-
sisting of fifteen messuages, 240 acres of arable land, four acres
of meadow, one rood of pasture, and 20s. in rents, situate on the
manors of Elvaston, Thurlston, and Ambaston, was conferred upon
the abbey of Darley by Sir Thomas Franceys and others.* And
in 1391, we find that the abbey was seized of five messuages, one
hundred acres of arable land, and thirteen acres of meadow, in
Elvaston, Thurlston, and Ambaston.f In the reign of Henry VI ,
the abbeys of Darley and Dale are each mentioned as owning one
knight's fee within the parish, of Elvaston. J The lands of these
two establishments overlapped in the different townships, and
neither Thurlston nor Ambaston exclusively pertained to one or
the other, but it seems that the monks of Dale had a grange at
the latter place, § and those of Darley at the former.
The church, which is dedicated to S. Bartholomew, consists of
nave, south aisle and porch, chancel, and lofty western tower.
There is also a shallow north transept — a memorial chapel of the
Stanhopes. Of the church that was standing here at the time of
the Domesday Survey there are now no apparent remains. The
earliest work of the present fabric is of the Early English period
of the commencement of the thirteenth century. To that date
belong the tall lancet window at the west end of the south aisle,
and the three small lancet windows (now blocked up) on the north
side of the chancel. The string course of this chancel wall is also
Early English.
To the Decorated date, circa 1300, pertain the two three-light
windows, with intersecting mullions, in the south wall of the aisle;
the chancel arch; and the arcade of three pointed arches, sup-
ported on octagon pillars, between the nave and the aisle. The
south porch seems also to belong to this period : it is evident that
it was originally roofed with stone slabs.
The church underwent extensive repairs, and a general restoration,
towards the end of the fifteenth century, when the Perpendicular
style was in vogue. To this period belong the three clerestory
south windows, the east window of the south aisle, all the windows
of the north side of the nave, the tower, the roof of the nave, and
• Inq. post Mort., 3 Hie. II., No. 127. See also Darley Chartulary, Cott. MSS.,
Titus C. ix., ft. 92-4. With respect to an arrangement between the abbey of Darley
and the priory of Shelford respecting the tithes due to the latter as rectors of
Elvaston, see the same Chartulary, f. 30.
•f Inq. post Mort., 15 Hie. II., No. 86.
J Inq. post Mort., 10 Hen. VI., No. 30.
§ There is much more about Ambaston than about Thurlston in the Dale Chartu-
lary.— Cott. MSS., vesp. E. xxvi. For Dale possessions in this parish, see ff. 8-19.
ELVASTON. 199
the chancel screen and remains of stall work. One of the south
chancel windows is also of this date ; hut the other south window
and the priest's door are insertions of a later and more debased
style. The arches of the south clerestory windows (see Plate IX),
as well as those in the north wall of the nave, are remarkable for
having their sides nearly straight.
We are, fortunately, able to assign the precise date to these
extensive alterations. Walter Bloiint, first Lord Mountjoy, by will
dated July 8th, 1474, ordained that the parish church, and chancel
of Our Lady, at Elvaston, should be made up and finished com-
pletely out of his own proper goods, and a third bell called a tenor
be bought for the same church; and also that a convenient tomb
should be set in that church over his wife Eleue/;: The heiress
of the Hanselyn family brought the manor of Elvaston to the
Bardolphs, who held itf until the reign of Henry VI., when it
passed to Sir Thomas Blount,}: the father of the first Lord
Mountjoy. It remained in their family till about the middle of
the sixteenth century, when it was purchased by the Stanhopes.
Helen, the wife of Lord Mountjoy, was the daughter of Sir John
Byron, of Clayton, Lancashire. There is now no trace of her
tomb. It was probably swept away, together with other memorials
of the Blounts, by the Stanhopes, in the alterations they subse-
quently made, in order to find room for their own monuments.
The tower is a fine example of the Perpendicular work of that
date. The ogee-shaped hood-moulds over the double belfry windows,
and the expanding lines of indented moulding that proceed upwards
to the parapets, give a peculiar effect to the upper stage. There is
a ring of four bells, thus inscribed : —
I. " Sit nomen Domine benedictum. Gloria in excelsis Deo,
Amen, Amen. Gloria Deo os meum annunciabit laudem tuam.
IHS. John Taylor and Son Founders Loughbro 1847."
II. "Jhesus be our Speed, 1595." The mark of Henry Oldfield.
III. "John Taylor and Son Founders Loughbro late of Oxford
St. Neots and Buckland Brewer Devon."
IV. The Lombardic initials E. D. and G. F. each repeated three
times, also the initials K. I., and the date 1564.
In order to provide a receptacle for the large monument of Sir
* Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i., p. 520. For further particulars relative to this will,
and of the estates of which he was seized, see Churches of Derbyshire, vol. ii., pp.
7, 196 ; also Stowe's Survey, bk. iii., p. 133.
t Testa de Nevil ; Iiiq. post Mort., 3 Edw. III., No. 66; 9 Eic. II., No. 11 ; 13 Hie.
II., No. 6; etc.
| Inq. post Mort., 19 Hen. VI., No. 30.
200 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
John Stanhope, who died in 1634, the bay of the north wall of
the nave nearest the chancel was taken down, and a transept
18 ft. by 9 ft. built out from the main building. It is lighted by a
large square-headed transomed window, and the clerestory window
above it is of a similarly debased style. It may here be remarked
that we have reasons for thinking that this church had a north as
well as a south aisle previous to its rebuilding in 1474.
The condition of the pews and the general state of the interior
of the church are anything but creditable to those concerned — a
large chimneyed stove standing in the centre of an open space
directly in front of the chancel screen — but there are several good
monuments to the Stanhopes, and some interesting old wood work.
The slightly-gabled roof of the nave is in fairly good condition,
and has some well-carved bosses. Its date is evidently that of
the tower and the rest of the Perpendicular alterations. Four
of the tie-beams are of later date, and were probably inserted
when the north Stanhope chapel was added ; but the old carved
spandrels have been used up below them. On one of the spandrels
is a shield charged with a castle, and supported by two animals,
apparently talbots. At the west end is a badge that we could only
see indistinctly, but which appeared to be the stump of a tree
erased and a fetterlock. The chancel roof is modern. The east
end of the south aisle —which serves as the Stanhope pew, and
has some inner carving of seventeenth century date, is screened off
by a traceried parclose of the Perpendicular period. This would
be "the chancel of Our Lady"* referred to in the will of Lord
Mountjoy ; for the altar to the Blessed Virgin would naturally
stand in the side aisle, and not in the chancel proper. Here would
be the site of the tomb of the Lady Helen, and we have no doubt
that this parclose was erected by the executors of Lord Mountjoy.
There is also a fine screen separating the nave from the chancel
proper, and this, though probably of the fifteenth century, we take
to be of earlier date than the repairs ordered by Lord Mountjoy.
There are some good details of carving on both sides, though
perhaps there is the greater finish on the east side. The chancel
was evidently treated as a regular quire ; the jambs of the doorway
of the screen being prolonged into the sides of stalls facing the
* It is a mistake to think that the term chancel, " cancellum," in mediaeval phrase-
ology, was invariably applied to the most eastern part of the church or choir. It was
often used for the east ends of the aisles, especially when they were separated by a
scrcpii (cancellus) from the rest of the church. Thus in an order for the repair of
the chapel in the tower, an. 1240, mention is made of the '' cancellum Beatae Maria
in ecclesia Sancti Petri et caricelluin beati Petri in eadem ecclesia."
ELVASTON. 201
east, having boldly-carved animals as fiiiials or poppy-heads — on
one side an antelope, on the other a chained lion. From this we
may gather that the chancel would he fitted round with stalls for
special quire services — an unusual arrangement for an ordinary
vicarage church, especially when we are not aware of there being
any chantry priests attached to it. Probably the monks from the
granges of Ambaston and Thurlston occasionally, or on festivals,
took part in the services of the parish church.
The font, at the west end of the church, has an octagon base,
but a rounded top. It is 30 in. in diameter, and stands 40 in.
high. We believe it to be of Decorated date. In one of the
north windows of the nave is a piece of old glass, consisting of the
lower half of a lion rampant. The rails in front of the altar are
of wrought iron of seventeenth century date.
On the north side of the chancel, blocking up the Early English
lancets, is the costly and elaborate monument to Sir John Stanhope
(who died in 1610) and his second wife. The recumbent effigies,
in marble, of the knight and his lady, under a canopy, are finished
with the greatest precision of detail in all that affects features, or
dress, or armour. As an instance of this fidelity to detail, the
visitor should notice the pin with which the lady's hood is fastened
back. Over the figures is the following inscription, now somewhat
illegible : —
"Heare lyeth ye bodyes of Sr John Stanhope K* Sonn and heire of Sr Thomas
Stanhope of Shellforde in ye Countie of Nottingham Kl & by Margreat one of y«
daughters and coheirs of Sr John Port of Etwall in y* countie of Darby K.' and
He was first marryed to Cordall daughter & one of ye coheirs of Richard
Allington by whom he had issue only Sr Phillip Stanhope K* Secondly he
married Catherine ye daughter of Thomas Trentham of Roseter in y8 countie of
Stafford by whom he had issue vii sons and viii daughters viz Sr John Stanhope
E>, Tho : Willi : Tho : Michael, Francis, John Posthumus ; Cordelia, Anne, Jane,
Katarine, Dorothis, Elizabeth, Jane, Margeret, he ended y8 lyeff y8 last of
January 1610 being of y* age of 52 yeares.
T« Lady Catherine Stanhope his last wiefe in testimony of her love at hir one
coste and chardges erected this monument."
Over the canopy is a six -quartered coat: —
1 and 6. Quarterly, Erm. and gu. (Stanhope).
2. Vert, three wolves passant, or (Maulovel).
3. Sab., a bend between six cross crosslets, arg. (Longvilliers).
4. -dry., three saltires, sab. (Lexinton).
Az. , a fesse engrailed between three pigeons, each having in the
beak a cross formee fitchee, or. (Port).
The Stanhopes, who were originally of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
obtained extensive estates in Nottinghamshire in the fourteenth
202 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
century, by the marriage of Sir John Stanhope with Elizabeth,
daughter and heiress of Stephen Maulovel, who by his mother,
Elizabeth, was cousin and heir to Sir John Longvilliers. Sir John
Longvilliers was grandson and heir to Thomas Longvilliers (baron
of Edward III.) by his wife Berta, daughter and co-heiress of
Robert Markham, son and heir of Richard Markham by Isabel his
wife, sister and heiress of Richard de Lexinton, lord of Tuxford.
Sir Michael Stanhope, the seventh in direct descent from the
abovenamed Sir John, was the first to reside at Elvaston, as parcel
of the estate of the dissolved monastery of Shelf ord. His eldest
son, Sir Thomas Stanhope, married Margaret, daughter and
co-heiress of Sir John Port, of Etwall and Cubley,* and was
buried at Shelford. The monument we are now considering is
that of his son and heir, Sir John Stanhope, who was knighted by
King James on his first coming into England.
On the lower part of the monument is the quartered coat of
Stanhope, Maulovel, Longvilliers, and Lexinton, impaling the quar-
terings of Sir John's second wife : —
1. Arg., three griffins' heads erased, sab., beaked, <JH. (Trentham).
2. Arg., on a chief, or, a hawk, sab. (Hoord).
3. Gu., a bend fusilly, or, within a bordure engrailed, of the
second (Marshall).
4. Arg., six billets, az., fretty, three in fesse and as many in
pale (Hurst). t
Sir Philip Stanhope, the only issue of Sir John's first marriage,
was created Baron Stanhope of Shelford in 1616, and Earl of
Chesterfield in 1628. From him descend the Earls of Chesterfield.
Of the seven sons of the second marriage all died young, except
William (who left three sons, who all died childless), and John, the
eldest son and heir. Sir John Stanhope, of Elvaston, was knighted
in 1607; elected Knight of the Shire for Derbyshire in 18 James I.,
and also in the first parliament of Charles I. ; he also served for
the borough of Leicester in the parliament of the third year of
that reign. He was Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1629, and died in
1638. For the reception of his monument, the chapel on the north
side of the nave, which we have already described, was erected.
His marriages and issue are detailed in the long Latin inscrip-
tion : —
* Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., pp. 92, 167.
t The right of Trentham to these three quartering will be explained on referring
to the Trentham pedigree, Harl. MSS., 1,077, f. 15b, and 1,173, f. 14b.
ELVASTON. 203
" Qui Nobilissimo Stemmate non frustra oriundus,
Tantam farailiae propriis Virtutibus coluit Nobilitatem :
Ingenii Solertia Affectuum temperans motus :
Mentis robore Spectatissimus.
Qui Publicis Muneribus in Comitatu Derbiensi functus,
Prudenter consoluit Honori, Integritate inconcussa,
Fidelem Regi, et strennuam Patrise, Senatui ascitus
Navavit operam.
Cujus Patrocinium defensi, Hospitalitatem refecti,
Muuificientiam donati sensemnt Pauperes. Cujus
Amicitiam, et Consuetudinem gratissimam
Nobiliorum Optimi coluere.
Johannes Stanhope, Eques Auratus,
Sui apud omnes relicto Desiderio,
Perplacide secundum Christi Redemptoris
Adventum expectans requiescit.
Obiit Anno Domini 1638 : astatis suse.
Ex priore Conjuge Olivia, Filia et Harede
Edvardi Berrisford, de Berrisford In Comitatu
Staffordise, unicam habuit Natam : quse
Carolo Cottono Armigero nupsit, et ex Conjuge
Maria, Filia Johannis Radcliffe de Oatsal, in
Comitatu Lancastrise Militis (quam superstitem
Reliquit) Septem Filios, et tres Filias suscepit. Ex
Quibus duos Filios et Filiam, Johannem, Thomam, et
Franciscam, infantes amisit, Vivis adhuc
Johanne, Cromwello, Radclyffo, Byrono,
Alexandro, Elizabetha, et Anna.
Hoc Viro Charissimo Amoris Monumentum
Maria Foemina selectissima, eademque Conpix
Masstissima, consecravit,
Hoc Proavi Monumentum qualicunque temporis injuria in Fragmenta
Dissipatum, restituit Carolus Stanhope Anno Domini 1731."
The effigy of Sir John Stanhope, in white marble, is represented
in a half-recumbent position. This tomb, which was grievously
mutilated during the Commonwealth, was restored, as is stated in
the inscription, by Charles Stanhope, great-grandson of Sir John.
It is protected by stout iron railings ; but the effigy now lacks the
sword and part of the nose, owing, apparently, to the insufficient
character of the repairs. Of the conduct of the Parliamentarians
at Elvaston we possess two accounts : —
" He (Sir John Gell) pursued his malice to Sir John Stanhope with such
barbarism after his death, that, pretending to search for arms and plate, he
came into the church, and defaced the monument that cost six hundred pounds,
breaking of the nose and other parts of it ; he digged up a garden of flowers, the
only delight of his widow, upon the same pretence ; and thus woo'd that widow
who was, by all the world, believed to be the most affectionate and prudent of
woman-kind; deluded by his hypocrisies, consented to marry him, and found that
was the utmost point to which he could carry his revenge, his future carriage
making it apparent, that he sought her for nothing else but to destroy the glory
of her husband and his house."*
* Life of Colonel Hutchinson, p. 107.
204 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
"At Elvaston in Derbyshire, about this time (January 1612), Sir John Gell's
Souldiers (after the Plunder of the Lady Stanhope's House) demolished a Costly
Monument, newly made for Sir John Stanhope ; entred the Vault, wherein many
of his Ancestors lay Interred ; and Triumphing over the Dead, thrust their
Swords into the Coffins."*
The four sons of John Stanhope, of Elvaston, grandson of Sir
John Stanhope of this monument, were — John, who died young ;
Thomas, who succeeded to the estates, but died without issue in
1780; Charles, who succeeded his brother, but also died issueless ;
and William, the heir of his brother Charles, who was created Earl
of Harrington in 1729.
Against the north wall of the nave is a monument to Charles,
third Earl of Harrington, 1829. The basement of the tower is
separated from the church by a carved oak screen, on which is
inscribed: — "Voluntary memorial to Charles, fourth Earl of Har-
rington, born A.D. 1779, died March 3d, 1851." The east window
of the chancel is filled witli Munich glass to the memory of Jane,
Countess of Harrington, 1854. On the south side of the chancel
is a beautifully-executed recumbent figure, by Westmacott, of
Algernon Russell Gayleard Stanhope, who died in 1847, aged nine
years. Within the Stanhope pew, at the east end of the south
aisle, is the marble effigy of Leicester Fitzgerald Charles, fifth Earl
of Harrington, who died in 1862. Against the north chanoel wall
is a large brass of Seymour Sydney Hyde, sixth Earl of
Harrington, in academicals. He died in 1866. before attaining
his majority.
An ornamental stone tablet, with the date "1821" at the top,
against the north wall of the nave, has the following inscription : —
"William Piggen Cittizen and Plaisterer of London dyed the Vth Day of lune
A° 1621 who by will gave 2501' to buy lands. And the profitts thereof yearely
to be distributed amongst the poore of the three townes belonging to this parish
of Elvason by the churchwardens & some of his nearest kindred here inhabiting
& x11 more hee gave as a stocke forever & the yearely profltts thereof to remaine
to the disposers of the said poores mony to be spent on a drincking att the
distributing thereof ; withall wch mony there is a howse & land boughte in divers
feoffees names scituate in the towne and parish of Spoonedon in this couutye
of Darbye."
To this inscription is added one stating that this estate was sold
in 1821, and the money laid out in the purchase of another estate
at Cossington, in Leicestershire.
On the south side of the chancel arch, on a brass plate is a
joint bequest to the poor of Askwell, Elvaston, and S. Peter's,
* Dugdale's Late Troubles in England, p. 559.
ELVASTON. 205
Derby, by "Elizabeth Wilcocks, sometyme servant uiito the right
worshipful Sir John Stanhope, of Elvaston," dated 1648. It is a
facsimile of the plate already given in our account of S. Peter's
Church.
When Mr. Eeynolds visited this church, August 23rd, 1773, he
noticed a large paver of alabaster at the entrance to the chantry
in the north aisle, and several smaller ones ; but the inscriptions
were all illegible. In the south chancel window was the letter
« rp » Qn a iozenge> of the basement of the tower he then
wrote : — " The Eingers stand to ring upon a chamber floor, and
upon the ground floor under it is much dirt and rubbish and frag-
ments of broken Images and other ornaments of Alabaster, said to
be the reliques of the 1st monument to S11 John Stanhope Knt.
before mentd, which being gone to decay, the present one was
erected in 1731, as the inscription testifies." *
The registers begin with the year 1662, and are fairly perfect
from that date downwards. They do not contain any entries of
special interest.
• Add. MSS., 6,071, ff. 50-55.
206 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
of
|CKBROOK, though separated by the river Derwent from
Elvaston, was only a chapelry of the latter until post-
Keformation times. Its tithes were appropriated to the
monastery of Shelford, and the appointment of the chaplain was
in the hands of the vicar of Elvaston. The chancel was kept
in repair and the ornaments supplied by the priory ; but the
inhabitants had to keep the nave in repair, and also to contribute
to the repair of the parish church of Elvaston.
Dodsworth's MSS. contain the following record: —
" The inhabitants of Elvaston and Ockbrook were formerly required by mutual
agreement to brew four ales, and every ale of one quarter of malt, and at their
own costs and charges, betwixt this and the feast of St John the Baptist next
coming. And every inhabitant of Ockbrook shall be at the several ales, and every
husband and wife were to pay twopence, every cottager one penny, and all the
inhabitants of the said towns of Elvaston, Thurlaston, and Ambaston, shall brew
eight Ales betwixt this and the feast of St John the Baptist, at which ales, and
every one of them, the inhabitants shall come and pay as before rehearsed, who,
if he be away at one ale to pay the t'oder ale for both, or else to send his
money. And the inhabitants of Ockbrook shall carry all manner of tymber, being
in the Dale wood now felled, that the said priest (?) chyrch of the said towns of
Elvaston, Thurlaston, and Ambaston shall occupy to the use of the said church."*
The Commissioners who drew up the inventory of Church Goods,
6 Edward VI., thus report of Ockbrook : —
" Okbroke, Oct. 5. Wm Remyngton Curett.
j chalys with a patten of sylver parcell gylt — ij bells in the steppell — ij hand
bells — j sacryng bell — j sants bell — ij vestments j of whytt furyng & tother
furyng in Apys — ij albes — j ames — j corporas checte (chequy) — j coope of say rede
& blew — ij awter clothes — ij towelles— j surples — j canabey — j pyx of lateu — ij
cruetts of putter — j crosse of wod covered with laten."
Ockbrook was probably considered a separate vicarage soon after
the dissolution of the monasteries ; but the earliest date at which
we have found any record of the vicarage is in 1620, when an
institution occurs in the episcopal registers. t The following list
* Bodleian Library, Dodsworth's MSS., vol. cxlviii., p. 97, as quoted in Glover's
Derbyshire, vol. i., p. 262. For an explanation of these "Church Ales" see the
previous account of All Saints', Derby.
f Lichfield Episcopal Registers., vol. xvi., f . 13. This benefice is erroneously termed
by Lysous, p. 225, " a donative curacy," as is sufficiently disproved by the fact of
institutions being made from this date downwards by the Bishop.
OCKBROOK. 207
of vicars is taken from those registers, supplemented by the returns
of the Augmentation Office : —
. Roger Blith.
1620. John Wright; patron, Lord Philip Stanhope. On the deprivation of R. B.
1630. Thomas Medeley; patron, Lord Philip Stanhope. On the death of J. W.
1650. The Parliamentary Returns of this year say that — " Okbroke is a viccaridge
really worth twenty marks per annum a small parish fitt to be united to
Spondon it lying neare. Mr. William Bennett vicar, of scandalous life."
1694. Stephen Gronginett; patron, the Bishop, by lapse of time.
1733. John Nathaniel Bate; patron, Bache Thornhill.
1734. William Greaves ; patron, Bache Thornhill.
1765. Joseph Collier; patron, Dame Mary Lake. On the death of W. G.
1807. William Pares; patron, Thomas Pares. On the death of J. C.
1810. George Metcalfe; patron, Thomas Pares. On the death of W. P.
1816. Samuel Hey; patron, Thomas Pares. On the resignation of G. M.
1852. Melville Home Scott; patron, Thomas Pares. On the death of S. H.
1872. George Wood Henry Taylor; patron, Thomas H. Pares. On the resig-
nation of M. H. S.
1875. John Wilson; patron, Thomas H. Pares. On the resignation of G. W. H. T.
1877. Lewis Lewis; patron, Thomas H. Pares. On the death of J. W.
The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, consists of a wide
nave, chancel, and tower surmounted by a low spire at the west
end. That there was a chapel here in the twelfth century,
possessing rights of baptism, is proved by the old Norman font,
which is now standing in the porch, a new font having been
placed in the church in 1878, to the memory of the late vicar.
It is 28 in. in diameter, and stands 24 in. high. It is circular,
and carved with interlacing arcade work, after the fashion of the
one at Somersall Herbert.* The drain is at one side, instead of
being in the centre.
The small tower, under which is the chief entrance to the church
as now constructed, is an interesting example of the transition
from the Norman style to the Early English, temp. Henry II.
The broached octagon spire is of later date — probably of the time
of Edward I.
The large square chancel, with a brick vestry on the north side,
and the family pew of Hopwell Hall over it, bears the year
"MDCCCIII" above the east window, and is of the detestable style
that might be expected from that date. A tablet at the west end
of the nave states that the church was enlarged in 1835, when 218
additional sittings were gained; so we conclude that this is the date
of the present debased nave. A view of this church, drawn about
1825 by Mr. Meynell, shows a south porch to the nave between
two two-light square-headed windows of Perpendicular date. There
was also a two-light pointed Decorated window nearer the chancel.
* Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., Plate XVII.
208 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
There is a handsomely-carved screen of dark oak, separating the
chancel from the nave, and there are quire stalls of the same style
and date — circa 1500. The screen has heen, unfortunately, turned
the wrong way; so that the hest of the carving faces the east.
This woodwork was brought from Wigston's Hospital, in Leicester,
about 1810, by Mr. Pares.
In the east window of the chancel is some old sixteenth century
glass, representing the four Evangelists and their emblems, which
was also brought here from the same hospital.* The glass was then
restored after a poor fashion, the modern parts being discernible at
a glance. In Mr. Meynell's notes on this church, he describes a
figure of S. Peter in the upper part of the south chancel window;
"but the head was broken at the funeral of Mr. Pares." "In a
compartment below, King Hanun ordering the beards to be shaved
and the skirts to be cut off. Another is Elisha talking to the
great man. In a circle below is Our Saviour bearing the Cross.
In another the battle of the Amalekites. In two squares below,
Solomon's Judgment, and Balaam and his ass." This glass from
the south window has all disappeared during the last few years.
Against the north wall of the nave is a monument to Rev. Henry
Swindell — who died 29th May, 1801, aged 74 — with a medallion
portrait. The epitaph states : —
" So lowly He, neat Benefice declin'd,
A gen'ral Friend no Slave to human kind,
Whilst his pure Soul on Anchor Hope reclin'd."
Against the south wall is a tablet to Eev. Samuel Hey, in
memory of his forty-three years' ministry. He died in 1852,
aged 72.
There are three bells in the tower, thus inscribed : —
I. " Jhesus be our spede." The bell-mark of Henry Oldfield.
II. "God save the King, 1664." The bell-mark of George
Oldfield.
III. "God save his Church, 1653." The bell-mark of George
Oldfield.
The registers begin 'in the year 1642. They are irregular from
1652 to 1669.
* For a long account of Wigston's Hospital, see Nichols' Leicestershire, vol. i., pp.
471-504. He describes the four Evangelists as being in the west window of the
chapel in 1790, and further states that in the east window there were originally the
twelve apostles, several being then left. Mention is also made of the stalls and
screen of oak. But in 1807 the whole chapel was " repaired," after a disgraceful
fashion, when the east and west windows were blocked up, and the fine old carving
discarded. It was at this time that the good taste of Mr. Pares secured the best of
the glass and wood work so barbarously ejected.
allam.
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Kirk
HE manor of Kirk Hallam, at the time of the Domesday
Survey, pertained to Ealph de Buron. No church is
mentioned as being then extant, but one must have been
founded shortly afterwards. In the reign of Henry II. it was
held by Sir Peter de Sandiacre, and then successively by his son
and grandson, Sir Kichard, and Sir John. Early in the reign of
Henry III., soon after the definite foundation of Dale Abbey, Sir
Richard de Sandiacre bestowed upon that monastery the whole
right of patronage of the church of Kirk Hallam, as well as grants
of lands and tenements. The gift was confirmed by his son, John,
who at the same time confirmed, as chief lord, the various bene-
factions of lands at Kirk Hallam, made by Ealph de Hallam,
Robert de Strelley, and Walter de Morley.*
William Grey, one of the younger sons of Sir Henry Grey, of
Turroc and Codnor, married the heiress of Sandiacre, circa 1260,
and hence this branch of the powerful family of Grey became lords,
of Kirk Hallam and Saudiacre. Subsequently, by marriage with
the heiress of Harestan, Sutton Scarsdale also came to the
Greys, f John Grey died 4 Henry IV. seized of the manors of
Sutton Scarsdale, Sandiacre, and Kirk Hallam, of which last
Emeliua, his wife, was joint tenant, and left Isabella, wife of John
Walsh, and Alice, wife of John Leeke, his daughters and heirs.J
* Dale Chartulary, Cott. MSS., Vesp. E. xxvi., ff. 48b, 49. See appendix No. X.
The charters relative to Kirk Hallarn exteud from f. 43 to f. 59. The De Saiidiacres
were also large doiiors of lands on the manor from which they took their name,
ff. 84-94.
f Churches of Derbyshire, vol. i., p. 367.
I luq. post. Mort., 4 Hen. IV., No. I.
212 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Sir John Leeke, great grandson of the last-named Leeke, suffered
a common recovery of these three manors, Easter term, 5 Henry
VIII.*
Though the original gift of the church of Kirk Hallatn to the
monastery of Dale, was only the advowson of the rectory, it seems
that they speedily ohtaiued leave to appropriate the great tithes
and ordain a vicarage. We know that it was a vicarage in 1298.
There is no mention of this church in Pope Nicholas' Taxation
Roll, 1291, and it seems fair to assume that the Premonstratensian
canons, then special favourites at Rome, had procured its exemp-
tion from papal tenths and first fruits. The appropriated rectory
of Kirk Hallam was valued by the Valor Ecclesiasticus (27 Henry
VIII.) at the annual income of £5 19s. lid., out of which 5s.
was due to divers persons, and 40s. to the vicar of Kirk Hallam.
To this rectory, according to the Valor, was attached the cure of
the chapel of S. Margaret within the monastery of Dale. We
are inclined to think that this was the large fifteenth century
chapel, on the east of the north transept of the conventual
church, the ground plan and altar of which have just (October,
1878) been exposed. Probably one particular canon received the
emoluments of this rectory, and on him devolved the saying of
mass at S. Margaret's altar.
After the dissolution of the monasteries, Henry VIII. granted
the rectorial tithes to Sir Francis Leeke, who already held the
manor, and also the advowson of the vicarage. The rectory was
only then of the small value of £2 13s. 4d., out of which he
was bound to furnish a pension to the vicar of 40s., and also
to discharge the procurations and synodals, estimated at 7s. 6d.,
so that the clear annual value to Sir F. Leeke was only 5s. lOd.
The following is the return of the Church Goods Commissioners,
6 Edward VI. :—
" Kirkhalome. Eoger Page clerke.
j chalys of silver parcell guylt — j corporas clothe — iij bells in the steple — j
crosse of laten — ij cruetts of pewter — iiij vestments whei-eof j of whyte chamlett,
j of grene cruel, j of grene sylke, j of pyde [i.e. pied, motley] crule — j coope of
grene crule — j payre of censors of laten — ij albes — ij alter clothes — j towell."
The Parliamentary Commissioners, of 1650, report of this place
that it "is a viccaridge worth eight pounds per annum a small
parish and near to Ilkestone may be couveuientlye united to
Ilkestone. Mapperley is a member and lyes remote and maye be
united to West Hallam."
* Add. MSS., 6,671 f. 449.
KIRK HALLAM. 213
The large estates of the Leeke family were sold after the death
of Nicholas Leeke, Earl of Scarsdale, in 1736. Since then the
manor and advowson of the vicarage have been in the hands of
the Newdigates. '
In 1779, a suit was instituted by the impropriate rector of Kirk
Hallam, respecting the tithes of Mapperley. It was referred to
arbitration, and it was decided that all predial tithes in Map-
perley, except hay, pertained to the impropriator ; but that the
tithe hay, or a modus of 17s. 6d., belonged to the vicar. *
The following list of vicars is chiefly taken from the Episcopal
Kegisters at Lichfield. Neither these registers nor the returns of
the First Fruits Office give any institutions (that we could find)
between 1569 and 1801 — which we imagine to have arisen from
this vicarage being almost invariably held during that period with
that of Ilkeston.
1298. Simon de Radeford, canon of Dale.
1317. Henry de Nottingham.
1322. Thomas de Kylborn, cauon of Dale. On the resignation of Thomas (?) de
Nottingham.
1327. Robert de Roycestre, canon of Dale. On the death of T. de K.
1329. Geoffrey de Bysegge, canon of Dale. On the death of B. de E.
1335. Henry de Cruch, canon of Dale. On the resignation of G. de B.
1349. Richard de Bernesley. On the death of H. de C.
1353. William de London. On the death of E. de B.
lb,39. Walter de Wynkeborn.
1354. Hugo de Claypole. On the death of W. de L.
1380. Robert de Sallowe, canon of Dale. On the resignation of W. de W.
1418. John Stanley.
1428. Robert Alastre, canon of Dale. On the death of J. S.
1442. Richard Nottingham, canon of Dale. On the death of E. A.
1458. John Monyasshe, canon of Dale. On the resignation of E. N.
1535. Roger Page. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
1569. Richard Scyrdan (?) ; patron, Sir Francis Leeke. On the death of E. P.
* » * * #
. George Allen.
1801. Thomas Wilkinson ; patron, Francis Newdigate, of Wootton. On the death
of G-. A.
1841. Pelly Parker; patron, Francis Newdigate. On the death of T. W.
1849. Charles John Newdigate ; patron, Francis Newdigate. On the resignation
of P. P.
1856. Alfred Newdigate ; patron, Francis Newdigate. On the resignation of
C. J. N.
1875. Albert Eubule Evans; patron, Francis W. Newdigate.1 On the resignation
of A. N.
The ancient fabric has undergone several alterations during
the past century. In 1778, a petition was presented to Quarter
Sessions, asking for a Brief to obtain funds for its repair. It is
* Wood's Exchequer Decrees, vol. iv., p. 321.
214 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
therein stated that the "parish church is a very ancient structure
and greatly decayed, and notwithstanding the Inhabitants have,
from time to time, laid out several considerable sums of money in
repairing and supporting the same, yet it is still ruinous, inso-
much as to make it necessary either to take down and rebuild the
said church, or to repair it in such a manner that the parishioners
may with safety assemble therein for the publick worship of
Almighty God." William Harrison, " an able and experienced
architect," estimated the cost of taking the church down and
rebuilding it, at £1,028. Fortunately, although the Brief was
obtained, it did not realise nearly enough for a new church ; and
the money was expended in substantially repairing the old fabric,
and in repaving and re-seating it throughout. The pews were
painted white. The church was well restored by Eev. C. J.
Newdigate, soon after his presentation to the vicarage, when the
present comely porch was added, the roofs repaired, the chancel
arch put up, and the whole of the unsightly fittings of the last
century replaced with suitable wood-work.
The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a small building, consisting
only of chancel nave, and low embattled tower at the west. The
following are the dimensions given by Mr. Kawlins, who visited
this church in 1818: — nave, 44 ft. 6 in. by 22 ft. 1 in.; chancel,
26 ft. 8 in. by 18 ft. 1 in. On each side of the south entrance
is built in a piece of Norman beak-head moulding, which has
formed part of an old chancel arch.
The font seems to be the only other relic of the first church
built upon this site. It is a good example of Norman work of the
reign of either Henry I. or Stephen. It is 26^ in. in diameter,
and is 22 in. high ; the outer circumference is ornamented with
an interlaced arcade, and at the base of each arch is an unusual
circular device (Plate X). The font rests on a base of Early
English mouldings. The east chancel window is a three-light one
of Decorated design ; the tracery is new, but the framework of the
window old. There are two square-headed two-light windows of
Perpendicular date on the south side of the chancel, and three
similar ones on the south side of the nave. The two on the north
side of the nave are modern. The tower is a plain example of
late Perpendicular work. There is no west doorway, but a square-
headed two-light window exists.
About eight feet from the floor, on each side of the east window
of the chancel, is a bracket in good condition. In the south chancel
PLATE x
KIRK HALLAM. 215
wall, but at a very low level, are three shallow sedilia recesses ;
and beyond them is a piscina, remarkable, if not unique, for the
diminutive niches on each side of it — probably intended for the
cruets (Plate XII.)
In the chancel are monuments to Francis Newdigate, of Notting-
ham, 1764, and to Francis Stead, of the same place, 1763.
On a brass plate, at the west end of the nave, is inscribed : —
" As here I am so let me lie,
Till Christ shall come and call to me
Rise up and stand before my face
That I and you may now embrace.
Which that I hope and long to see
My dearest Lord who dy'd for me,
And at his coming hope to have
A joyful rising from the Grave.
Which God of his infinite Good
ness of mercy grant to me. Amen.
Patrick Eice, aged 72.
1766."
Mr. Eawlins says: — "When I visited this church on September
3d 1818, the clerk's name was James Eice. He informed me
that he was great-grandson to the above Patrick Eice, who had
had the said epitaph prepared two years before he died, having
obtained it in the course of his excursions from his village. He
also told me that this he had from his own father, who said that
his grandsire had his coffin made at the same time, and that it
always stood behind his bed. It was lined with flannel, and he
used to keep his better-day's clothes in it."
When Bassano visited this church, in 1710, he noted in one
of the south windows, the arms of Burdett (az., two bars, or),
and also the same coat varied with three mullets in chief.
In the churchyard, near to the east wall of the chancel, stands
an upright gravestone to the memory of Samuel Cleater, who died
May 1st, 1811, aged 65. The two-lined epitaph has such a
remarkably sturdy ring about it, that it deserves to be rescued
from oblivion :—
"True to his King, his Country was his glory,
When Bony won, he said it was a story."
The tower contains three bells, thus inscribed : —
I. "Jesus," in Lombardic capital letters, and on the waist the
initials H. D.
II. " God save the King, 1666.'' The bell-mark of George
Oldfield.
216 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
III. Four Lorabardic letters S, alternating with four crosses.
We have noted similar bells at Ashbourn, Calke, and Kniveton.
The registers only begin in the year 1700.
Alexander Stavenby, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1224-40,
sanctioned an arrangement between the abbot of Dale, as patron
and rector of Kirk Hallam, and Hugh de Strelley and Matilda,
his wife, by which the latter were permitted to establish a chapel
within the enclosure (intra septa) of their mansion at MAPPEKLEY,
in which Mass might be celebrated, when they or either of them
were present, by a chaplain supported at their charge ; which
chaplain should do fealty to the vicar of Kirk Hallam. No
marriages were to be allowed in the chapel, nor should any
other of the parishioners attend, except the family of Hugh
and Matilda, unless with the consent of the vicar.*
A distinct church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was built at
Mapperley in 1851. The township was separated from Kirk
Hallam, and formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1870. The
vicarage is in the patronage of Colonel Newdigate.
* Cott. MSS., Vesp. E. xxvi., f. 47b.
fallen!*
j|EST HALLAM was one of the fifty-four lordships conferred
upon Gilbert de Gant, son of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders,
by his uncle, William the Conqueror. It subsequently
carne to be regarded as an appendage of the manor of Newark,
Notts., which was given to the bishopric of Lincoln in the reign
of Henry I. In short, up to the abolition of feudal tenures in
the seventeenth century, the lords of the manor of West Hallam
always rendered service to the Bishop of Lincoln.* Towards the
close of the twelfth century, we find that the manor was held of
the Bishop'Jby the family of Cromwell, of Cromwell, Notts. Ealph
de Cromwell, in the reign of Henry III., had the right of free
warren conferred upon him over his lordships of Cromwell and
West Hallam — • a right which his grandson Ealph successfully
defended in the reign of Edward I.
There is no mention of a church here at the time of the
Domesday Survey, and it appears most probable that one was first
erected here by the De Cromwells. At all events they held the
advowson of the rectory from the earliest time of any historic
mention of the church. We find Sir Ralph de Cromwell patron
in the reign of Edward II., and his son, of the same name, who
married Avicia, daughter of Sir Eoger Beler, in the reign of
Edward III. Their son, Ealph, Lord Cromwell, died April 27th,
1399, seized of the manor and advowson of West Hallam.+ His
wife Matilda, daughter and heiress of John Bernake, and Lady
* Rot. Chart., 41 Hen. III., memb. 3. Quo Warranto Rolls, Edw. I. Ralph de
Cromwell is described, in the reign of Hen. III., as holding West Hallam, by the
service of a fifth part of a knight's fee, of the Bishop of LJncoln. Testa de Nevill,
pp. 4, 8b, 12b.
t Inq. post. Mort., 22 Ric II., No. 13.
220 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
of Tattesliall, held this property in dower, aud died April 10th,
1419, seized of the advowsou of the rectory, and of three parts of
the manor.* Her son Ralph had died in her lifetime ; hut her
grandson, Ralph Lord Cromwell, then aged 26, succeeded to the
estate. He died without issue in 1455. His sister and heiress,
Matilda, had married Sir Richard Stanhope; and their son having
died young, this estate passed to their daughter Joan, who had
married Sir Humphrey Bourchier, Lord Cromwell, in right of his
wife.f On the death of Sir Humphrey Bourchier, and of her
second husband, Robert Ratcliff (who also took the title of Lord
Cromwell), without issue, the manor and advowson were purchased
by Thomas Powtrell, a younger son of the ancient family of
Powtrells, of Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire ; he held them of the
Bishop of Lincoln, as of his castle of Newark. J He was succeeded
by his son and heir, John Powtrell, who by Margaret, daughter and
co-heiress of John Strelley, had issue Thomas, his heir ; Nicholas,
justice of the Common Bench ; and William, in holy orders, who
was presented by his father to the rectory of West Hallam in
1538. For their adherence to the Roman Catholic faith, the
Powtrells suffered grievously, both from repeated fines and
imprisonment, in the reign of Elizabeth, and these persecutions
continued at intervals so long as the family were extant. The
Hall at West Hallam hecame a famous hiding place of the persecu-
ted priests, in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.§ It more than
once afforded shelter to Father Campion when on his journeys.
John Powtrell died in 1545, and his sou Thomas had issue Walter,
who married Cassandra Shirley. Walter Powtrell's heir was
his son John, and John was succeeded by his eldest son Henry,
who died in 1666. Though technically possessed of the advowson
of West Hallam during this period, they could not. as Roman
Catholics, present, and we find that the University of Cambridge
presented in 1638. ^f In 1668, the greater laxity of the times
seems to have permitted Anne, relict of Henry Powtrell, to
present ; and this is the more curious, as she was a staunch
* Inq. Post Mort., 7 Hen. V., No. 72.
t See pedigree in Blore's South Winfield. p. 36.
J Meynell MSS.
§ " Item at Mr. Powtrell's house called Westhallam iiij miles beyond Darby, lieth
one Richard Shovell an old Priest, and saith Mass there continually." List of
Recusant in Public Record Office — Dom. State Papers, Q. Eliz. vol. 251, No. 14.
*[ By 3 James I., cap. 5, sect. 13 (confirmed by several later statutes), the church
patronage of Roman Catholics is placed in the hands of Oxford University for one
half of England and Wales, and of Cambridge University for the other half. Derby-
shire falls to the share of Cambridge,
WEST HALLAM. 221
adherent of her faith, and the daxighter of Sir Henry Hunloke,
himself a Roman Catholic baronet. After her death, in 1669,
the family mansion was occupied by William Powtrell and his
wife Anne, widow of William Peke. William and John Powtrell
were the sons of Robert, a younger brother of Henry Powtrell.
The waves of that cruel sham, the Titus Gates Plot, spread
even to this quiet village. On the night of March 16th, 1680,
Father George Busby, a relative of Mrs. Powtrell's, was seized
at their house at West Hallam, and condemned at the Derby
assizes to be hung, drawn, and quartered, for the simple crime
of being a Roman priest. After a long imprisonment, the
sentence was commuted to one of banishment. Father William
Bentney, an old priest aged 73, who had been forty-two years
upon the mission, was apprehended in Leicestershire about the
same time. Evidence being given of his having celebrated Mass
at West Hallam Hall by some apostate Roman Catholics, he also
was condemned to death. The capital sentence was respited, but
after being alternately confined in the gaols of Derby and Leices-
ter, he at last died of gaol fever at the latter town, in the year
1692.
Henry and Anne Powtrell had seven daughters, but no son; and
Henry, by his will, left the West Hallam estate and advowson to
the Hunlokes, providing his nephews John and William had no
male issue. They died childless in 1683 and 1687 respectively. The
Hunlokes, in order to evade the statute whereby the University of
Cambridge would have presented, repeatedly sold the next presen-
tation, and hence the multiplicity of patrons. Eventually, both
the manor and advowson were purchased by Francis Newdigate, in
1821, in whose family they now remain.
The following list of rectors and patrons is chiefly compiled from
the Diocesan Registers and the returns of the First Fruits Office : —
1322. Henry, son of William Orseny ; patron, Eobert de Sallowe,* by permission
of Ralph, son of Sir Ralph de Cromwell, the true patron.
1331. Thomas de Westhallam; patron, Sir Ralph de Cromwell. On the resigna-
tion of H. O.
. John de Halum.
1374. Henry de Kirkeby Lackthorpe ; patron, Ralph de Cromwell. On the
resignation of J. de H.
* Robert de Sallow held one messuage, 40 acres of arable land, and 4 acres of
meadow of the abbot of Dale, within the parish of Kirk Hallam, as well as other
property at Sandiacre, Stanton, Breaston, Risley, Spondon, and Locko. He died
in, 1336. Inq. post Mort., 9 Edw. III., No. 32. Roger de Norbury, Bishop of
Coventry and Lichfield 1322-59, visited this Chiirch to settle a dispute as to the
patronage, between the parishioners and Simon de Cestria Pegge's MSS. vol. v.,
f. 190.
222 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
• ,>?
1387. William Hikelyng, rector of a mediety of Thetilthorpe, exchanged bene-
fices with H. de K., rector of West Hallam ; patron, Ralph de Cromwell.
1393. William Besant ; patron, Ralph de Cromwell.
1396. Richard Lay de Burton Overay ; patron, Kalph de Cromwell, lord of
Tatteshall.
. John Lay.
1432. Richard Halum; patrons, Thomas Chaworth, kt., John Welcham, cler.,
and Norman Babiugton, armg. (as trustees) On the resignation of J. L.
1468. Richard Halum, juiir; patron, Sir Humphrey Bourgchier, lord Cromwell.
On the resignation of R. H.
1473. John Offeryngton ; patrons, the trustees of the late Ralph Cromwell. On
the death of R. H.
. John Cowper.
1483. Robert Aleyn ; patron, Thomas Powtrell. On the resignation of J. C.
(1535). Richard Bank. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
1538. William Powtrell; patron, John Powtrell. On the resignation of R. B.
(1552). John Haughton. Church Goods Commissioners.
(1630). Henry Holmes. Parish Registers.
1631. Edward Miller; patron, the King, during the minority of Henry Powtrell,
his ward.
1638. John Scargill; patrons, Richard Earl Holland and the Masters and Scholars
of the University of Cambridge.
1663. Robert Home ; patron, John Flamstead, of Little Hallam, executor of
Edward Willoughby, of Cossall." On the death of J. S.
1668. Henry Greatorex; patron, Anna, relict of Henry Powtrell. On the death
of R. H.
1716. Daniel Greatorex; patron, George Mower de Woodseats. On the death of
H. G.
1724. Anthony Raworth ; patrons, Rev. George Cockayne and Mary his wife,
and William Gilbert, yeoman. On the death of D. G.
1736. William Clarke ; patrons, Henry Bourne, M.D., and Godfrey Webster, gent.
On the death of A. R.
1788. Thomas Clarke; patron, Sir T. G. Skipwith. On the death of W. C.
1804. John Morewood; patron, Clement Kynnersley, of Sutton Hall. On the
death of T. C.
1828. Pelly Parker; patron, Francis Newdigate. On the death of J. M.
1849. Charles John Newdigate ; patron, Francis Newdigate. On the resignation
of P. P.
1876. John Adams; patron, Francis W. Newdigate. On the death of C. J. N.
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edw. VI., thus report of
West Hallam: —
"West Halem. Sept. 17. Jo. Haughton clerke.
" j chalesse with the paten off sylver & gylte — ij crosses, j of coper & gylte with
the staffe, the other off brasse ungylt — j pyx of coper uugylte — j canapye for the
same — iij Copes — vij vestments — v albes & amysses with stoles and phaiiellsf — iiij
corpraxes — iiij altare clothes — iiij stoolls in the steple — iij great bells & j lytle
bell — j clocke goyug of j of the bells — ij hand bells — a lectorue of coper — j byble —
the Paraphrases of Erasmus upon the Gospells & also upon the Epistles — the
booke of Comen prayer & mynystracyon of the Sacraments."
The Parliamentary Eeport, of 1650, simply says of this benefice,
that it " is parsonage really worth . fiftye pounds per annum, Mr.
John Scargill, Incumbent"
* Edward Willoughby had probably bought the next presentation of the Powtrells.
t Fanons, or maniples.
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The church, which is dedicated to S. Wilfred, consists of nave
and aisles, north porch, chancel with north chapel, and west tower.
These are the dimensions given by Mr. Eawlins : — Nave, 37 ft. 9 in.
by 17 ft. 8 in.; north aisle, 40 ft. 3 in. by 10 ft. 2 in. ; south
aisle, 39 ft. 2 in. by 9 ft. 7 in. ; chancel, 30 ft. 11 in. by 16 ft. 11 in.
In 1855 the fabric underwent a considerable restoration, and it now
has the pleasant appearance of a well-used and exceptionally cared-
for church. The restoration, both of the exterior and interior, was
extensive ; but when we look at the late, debased, and untraceried
windows of the aisles, as shown in the drawings (circa 1820) of
Messrs. Meynell and Eawlins, it could only be a mock seutimen-
talism that would affect to regret the alteration. Previously, too,
the edifice contained high-backed pews, whitewashed walls, flat
plaster ceilings, and all their accompanying incongruities. The
nave is separated from the aisles by arcades of three arches on
each side. They are supported on octagon pillars, with plainly-
moulded capitals ; but those on the north side are of earlier date.
The north arcade approximates to the Early English style, and
cannot, we think, be later than 1275 ; but the opposite arcade is
distinctly Decorated, and seems to be circa 1320. The chancel
arch corresponds with the work of the earlier arcade. The
square-headed windows of the aisles are new, and so also is the
north porch. The hood-mould of the south door is old, and of
Decorated date. There are three clerestory windows of two lights
on each side, which have at some time in the "churchwarden era"
been deprived of the tracery that they undoubtedly possessed when
first erected in the Perpendicular period. The north aisle is con-
tinued eastwards so as to form a chapel to the chancel, into which
it opens b}7 a Decorated archway resting on corbels. In the south-
east angle of this chapel is a small piscina niche. This part of
the church is now occupied by the organ. The chancel has much
new work about it ; but one of the two-light square-headed
windows on the south side is of Decorated date, and so are the
buttresses at its east end. The tracery of the pointed east window
is new, but the hood-mould and terminals are original. The two-
light north chancel window, with cinquefoil heads, is of Perpen-
dicular date, and exactly corresponds with the architecture of the
tower and its deeply-recessed west window of three lights. The
Powtrells, on becoming possessed of the manor and advowson,
seem to have rebuilt the tower and otherwise repaired the fabric of
the church.
224 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
The font, which stands at the west end of the south aisle, is of
massive octagon shape, rising from a square base, with the angles
chamfered off like a broach spire. It is 30 in. in diameter and
43 in. high. We believe it to be of fourteenth century date.
Mr. Eeynolds, who visited this church in 1821, says: — "The
windows have some few remains of painted glass, sufficient to
enable us to conjecture that what was originally placed herein was
very fine and good." In the middle clerestory window on the
north side is the head and upper half of a bearded, bare-headed
man, having in his left hand a book, and over his right shoulder
a curiously-shaped club. Over the figure is the mutilated legend —
" Sanctam Ecclesiam Catholicam Sanctorum Communionem." This is
the figure of S. James the Less, martyred A.D. 62 by a blow from
a fuller's bat. No doubt the twelve lights of the clerestory
windows were originally filled with the figures of the twelve
apostles, with different clauses of the Apostles' Creed appropriated
to each.* Two of the small figures under canopies, in one of the
south windows of the chancel, are old, and were here noted by Mr.
Meynell in 1815. From the same gentleman's notes we learn that
there were then no arms in the windows; so that the coats in the
north chancel window, t if old, as one or two appear to be, must
have been moved here from the old Hall. The interesting quarries
of yellow-stain in this same window, representing birds in quaint
attitudes, also appear to be ancient glass ; but it is said to have
been placed in the east chancel window when the Hall was pulled
down, and then moved here in 1855, to make way for a new
stained-glass design.
Bassano's MS. Church Notes (1710) mention two figures then
extant in the north chancel window, and under them the inscrip-
tion : — " Orate pro anima Roberti Alyn quondam Rectoris hujus Ecch
qui istam fenestram fieri fecit." This gives us the exact date of
this window, and consequently, from its similarity of style, of the
tower.
On the floor of the chancel is an alabaster slab incised with a
figure in plate armour, and the following inscription round the
margin : — " Hie jacet Thomas (Powtrell armiger quondam Dns istius
ville et) patron1 hujus ecclice qui obbiit xxiiii die Augusti A° Dni
M°CCCC°LXXXIIII cuj'aie ppicietur Deus amen."
* On the appropriation of the various clauses of the Creed to the respective
Apostles, see Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 245.
t These coats are : — Cotton, Strelley, Powtrell and Strelley quarterly impaling
Bassett, Powtrell impaling Cotton, Powtrell impaling Strelley, and Newdigate.
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The part in brackets is now, unfortunately, worn away : it is
supplied from the notes of Bassano and Meynell. This slab used
to stand on a raised altar-tomb in the north-east angle of
the chancel, within the altar rails. On the slab are the arms
of Powtrell (arc/., a fesse between three cinquefoils, yu.), and also
of Powtrell impaling Cotton (az., an eagle displayed, ary.). Thomas
Powtrell married Katharine, daughter of John Cotton, of Eidware.
Their eldest son and heir was John Powtrell, who married
Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of John Strelley. In the east
window (as noted by Bassano) there used to be the impaled
arms of Powtrell and Strelley (paly of six, arg. and az.}. Thomas,
their eldest son, married (1) Dorothy, daughter and co-heiress
of William Bassett, by whom he had two daughters, and (2)
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Walter Kodney, of Stoke Rodney,
Somerset, by whom he had Walter, Gervase, and Maria. This
Thomas Powtrell died in 1558. On the chancel floor is a large
stone, 7 ft. 2 in. by 4 ft., from which the brasses have been
torn. There are the matrices of three shields at the top, of
an inscription in a parallelogram at the base, and of a man
in civilian dress between two women in the centre. We have
no doubt that this was the monument of Thomas PowtreU
and his two wives. There is also, on another stone, the matrix
of a brass ribbon inscription.
Against the north chancel wall is a costly raised monument,
under a canopy. Upon it rest the effigies of a man and his wife,
with their hands elevated in prayer ; the woman in the usual
Elizabethan costume, with a French cap and falling lappet, and the
man in late plate armour. Over the figures is this inscription : —
"Here lie the Bodies of Walter Powtrell Esq Lord of this Towne and Patro
of this Church, and Cassandra his wife daughter of Frauncis Shirley of Staunton
in ye Countie of Leicester Esq, by whom he had Issue 3 sonns and 4 daughters,
wch Walter died 16 dale of Septemb' An0 1598."
At the head of the tomb are the quartered arms of Powtrell
and Strelley, and a twelve-quartered coat of Shirley — viz., Shirley,
Waldeshelf, Milo Earl of Hereford, Meredeth, Bassett of Brailsford,
Brailsford, Twyford, Staunton, and EccleshaLL* At the foot of the
tomb is Powtrell quartered with Strelley impaling Shirley (paly of
six, arg. and az., a canton, erm.) This shield is flanked by the
* For an explanation of the right of Shirley to these quarterings, see Stemmata
Shirleiana, passim. In the same volume (p. 259) is an interesting letter from
Cassandra Powtrell, who survived her husband, to her nephew, George Shirley,
of Staunton, about assuring the West Hallam estate to her son. Another of her
nephews, Ealph Shirley, was buried at West Hallam, Dec. 19th, 1623. Parish
Registers.
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226 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
crests of Powtrell and Shirley, which are, respectively, a hedgehog,
gu., chained and quilled, or ; and, on a wreath, the bust of a
Saracen, side-faced and couped, proper, wreathed about the temples,
or and az. In front of the tomb are representations of the
children, with their shields over their heads. One of the daughters
is represented in grave-clothes, as deceased at the date of the
erection of the monument; two of the sons are in armour, and
one in a gown.
1. Thomas, the eldest son, baptized July 7th, 1578, married
Eleanor, daughter of Sir Thomas Manners. His impaled arms
are over his head. He died without issue. 2. John, bap-
tized July 80th, 1580, died in his youth. 3. John, baptized
February 14th, 1588, married Maria, daughter of Edward
Stanford. His impaled shield is left blank on the monument.
4. Francisca, died in her youth. 5. Eleanor, baptized Janu-
ary 21st, 1572. 6. Dorothy, baptized October 13th, 1574,
married George Peckham. The impaled coat of Peckham (arc/.,
a chevron between three cross crosslets fitchee, sab.) and Pow-
trell is over her head. 7. Jane, baptized November 4th, 1576.*
There are also slabs on the chancel floor to the memory of
Henry Powtrell, 1666 ; and his wife, Anne Powtrell, 1669 ; to
Eobert Powtrell and Frances his wife, 1662, 1674; and to John
Stanford, 1667.
In the chancel chapel is a mural monument to Elizabeth, wife
of Eev. Henry Greatorex, 1697.
The slab to Eev. John Scargill, the munificent founder of the
West Hallam Free School, who died January 14th, 1669, is
covered by the quire stalls on the south side of the chancel. It
bears the following inscription : —
"Here lieth the body of John
Scargill Gent. Rector of this
Church. He died a Batchelor
January 17, 1662.
He built a Schoole here for
XII children poore
VI of this Towne and VI of
IH Towne s more
To whom he gave besides
Their learning fee
IXd a weeke to each boy
Paid to bee.
Aged 74."
* For the general pedigree of Powtrell, see Harl. MSS. 1,093 f. 60, 5,809, f. 45 ; and
Egerton MSS., 996, f, 39; also Dugdale's Visitation of Derbyshire, 1662-4, p. 39,
College of Arms. The dates of baptisms given above are taken from the Parish
Registers.
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The west window of the south aisle is a modern insertion to
his memory. The stone over his grave was disturbed in a strange
way about a century ago, as is shown by the following entry in
the registers : —
1787. Eevd Mr Wm. Clark, Eector of this Parish, buried in the Chancel of this
Church under the Revd Mr Jn° ScargilTs Tombstone Oct. 23.
At the west end of the church is an inscription to Eev. William
Darbyshire, who died in 16S4. He was curate at Stanley chapel.
His name is on one of the bells of that chapel, with the date
1661.*
The tower contains a ring of six bells, thus inscribed: —
I. "Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1876. Bless ye the
Lord all ye His hosts. In memory of the Rev. Charles John
Newdigate. Given by the congregation A.D. 1876."
II. " Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1876. Gloria in
excelsis Deo. In memoriam Caroli Johannis Newdigate, A.D. 1876,
fratrum et sororis donum."
III. This bell bears the monogram " Ihc," a cross fleury, a
fleur-de-lis stamp, and the initials " G, R. H." surmounted by a
crown.
IV. "God save His Church, 1743, Tho Hedderley, founder."
V. " God save the Church, 1618." Bell-mark of Henry
Oldfield.
VI. "Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1876. Laudate
nornen Domini. In memoriam Caroli Johannis Newdigate, A.D.
1876, fratrum et sororis donum."
There is a further inscription in the body of the church, against
the tower wall, relative to the three memorial bells to the Rev.
C. J. Newdigate.
The earliest decipherable date in the first register book is of the
year 1539. It is a small book, of parchment, badly kept, and
extending to 1692. There are a good many early Powtrell entries,
to which we have already referred. Under the year 1637 is this
entry : —
Feb. 17. Thomas Higgins servus domine Faux sepultus.
The Lady Faux, or rather Vaux, here mentioned was the Hon.
Anne Vaux, daughter of William, third Lord Vaux of Harrowden,
and a great friend of the Powtrells. She was an energetic, fearless
woman, and had undergone imprisonment in the Tower and
* Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 312.
228 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
much persecution for adherence to the Eoman Catholic faith. Her
residence at Stanley Grange (which she seems to have held on
lease from the Powtrells) was a school for young Komanists,
the sons of noblemen and gentlemen. It was dispersed in 1635,
a Privy Council warrant being issued to certain pursuivants "to
seize upon all such books, papers, and Massing stuff as you shall
find in the house of Mrs. Vaux, called Stanley Grange ....
and there if you shall find any Jesuit or other suspected person to
apprehend him or them, and cause them to be brought up hither
to be examined by us, as also all such children as you shall find
there."*
From the subsequent registers we make the following extracts : —
1698, April 13. Katharine the wife of Tho. Smith als Cutler was found felo de se
by y* Coroners inquest & interred in ye crosse ways near ye wind mill on y9
same day.
1712. Robt Cop Chirurgeon found drowned in the Park Mill Brook January the
11th and allowed to be buried Jan. 16th. by Mr. Arthur Dakin Coroner.
1745. Old Sarah Baldack of Dale Parish aged 103 buried Apr. 22.
1747. Joseph Mottershaw, John Owen, and Charles Bennet all three killed by
falling in a Pitt and all buried in one grave June 7th.
1815. Revd. Thomas Bloodworth, clergyman of the Roniish Faith or Church,
buried Jan. 31st aged 56 years.
The following extracts from some notes of the late Eev. C. J.
Newdigate, kindly lent to us by the present rector, are of some
interest: — "The original manor house was a moated residence
situated in what is now the Fox Holes plantation. This planta-
tion was made about 1823 or 1824, at which time it was a rough
spot, in which some of the hewn stones of the ancient building
still remained ; the moat may still be distinctly traced. From this
circumstance the place was for many years called ' the Mot.'
"It appears that a Hall House was afterwards built on West
Hallam hill, westward of the church, of the character of which no
record remains. This house was subsequently taken down and a
Farm House, with a Eomish Chapel attached, built out of the old
* Domestic State Papers, Charles I., vol. ccxciv., No. 74 ; also ccxcix., No. 36.
Though staunchly Anglican, we are glad of this opportunity of doing our little to
justify the character of this apparently most estimable and shamefully abused
lady. After much reading of the original papers of this period at the Public Record
Office, we are at a loss whether to feel the most indignation at the treatment of her and
her friends, or at the groundless and maliciously falsified insinuations made against
her and the martyred Father Garnett by subsequent Protestant advocates. Those
who may be interested in the prominent part taken by the lady of Stanley Grange and
her sister in the religious movements of those times, are referred to Morris' Condition
of the Catholics under James I., and to the different series of Foley's very interest-
ing and accurate Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus.
WEST HALLAM. 229
materials. After standing for about 60 years this House was
removed about A.D. 1833, and the site with the garden was added
to the Churchyard, and consecrated by John Lonsdale, Bishop of
Lichfield. At this time some ancient stained glass, originally
belonging to the Hall House (but afterwards removed to the
Eomish Chapel) was placed in the east window of the Parish
Church."
The finding of an ancient font, buried in a pile of rubbish at
the back of the Free Library buildings, in the Wardwick, Derby,
caused us quite unexpectedly to light upon another incident con-
nected with the flickering of the Eoman faith in this parish. An
inquiry made in the Derby Mercury (September, 1878) brought us
the following information. When Rev. Thomas Bloodworth, the
priest of the Hunloke tenantry, was dying, in 1815, he expressed
great anxiety respecting an old font — so much so, that it was
actually brought into his bedroom. Rumour suggests that this
font was used at West Hallam Hall, by Father Campion and
other of the seminary and mission priests who there found
refuge, for the secret and conditional baptism of the Roman
Catholics of the district. After his death it passed into the
custody of Robert Wilmot, Esq., of Chaddesden. He, in his turn,
handed it over to the custody of Rev. W. Hope, vicar of S.
Peter's, Derby ; and Mr. Hope thought it best to deposit it at
the Derby Museum, whence it was ejected as an unknown piece of
lumber when the old buildings were taken down. It is said to
have been the font of the old chapel at Mapperley, in Kirk
Hallam parish, to which we have already alluded. Might it not be
a reverential and comely act to once more replace it within conse-
crated walls? and what more suitable place could be found for
this ancient relic than the Church of the Holy Trinity, at
Mapperley? The font, which is destitute of all base, is of
eccentric if not unique design, the bowl being hollowed in a
cruciform shape (Plate X.) It is 30 in. long by 25 in. broad, and
11 in. deep.
| HE manor of Heanor, as parcel of that of Codiior, was
held, at the time of the Domesday Survey, by Warner,
under William Peverel. It at that time possessed a
church ; and this church of Heanor was in the eleventh century
given to Burton Abbey, being to a certain extent subsidiary (as has
been already explained) to the ancient church of S. Mary, in Derby.
On the lapse of the royal grant of these churches to the abbey, in
a manner that has not hitherto been ascertained, the church of
Heanor would seem to have reverted to the crown, and to have
been afterwards granted to the Greys of Codnor by King John.
Sir Henry Grey, or de Grey, of Turroc, in Essex, married Isolda,
one of the nieces and co-heiresses of Kobert Bardolf, and thus
inherited lands in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. But it seems
that the lordships of Heanor and Codnor came to Sir Henry by
direct grant from the crown in 1211, having formed part of the
honour of Peverel, which had reverted to the crown by escheat.
Sir Henry and Isolda Grey had six sons, the progenitors of the
noble and wide-spreading family of that name. The eldest son,
Sir Richard Grey, held the Codnor estates, where he died in 1255.
His son John, Lord Grey of Codnor, died in 1271, seized of the
manors of Codnor (including Heanor), Shirland, Normanton,
Beeley and Hazelbache in the Peak, and the advowson of the
rectory of Heanor.* Pedigrees of a distinguished family like that
of Grey are easily accessible ; so that it is unnecessary to specify
the different generations, who respectively held the advowson.
Henry, Lord Grey of Codnor, the last of that branch of the
* Inq. post Mort., 56 Henry III. (an unnumbered miscellaneous bundle).
234 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
family, appropriated the great tithes of Heanor church to the
neighbouring abbey of Dale, in the year 1473, and hence they also
held the advowson of the vicarage. The royal license was obtained
for this alienation, on condition of the holders of the tithe per-
petually sustaining a vicar, and also providing for the necessities
of the poor of the parish.* On the threatening of the dissolution
of the monasteries, Dale, like so many of its compeers, hastened
to realise all that it could, and sold the next presentation to
Nicholas Powtrell f and John Malyn. A presentation by their
nominee was made in 1547 ; but the vicarage then reverted to
the crown, with whom it subsequently remained until quite recent
years, when it was bought by trustees.
The following list of rectors and vicars is chiefly compiled
from the Lichfield Eegisters and the returns of the First Fruits
Office :—
RECTOKS.
1298. Eudo de Derby ; patron, Sir Henry de Grey. This rector was reinstituted,
under the same patron, in 1300, probably on account of some informality.
1304. Roger de Shutton ; patron, Sir Henry de Grey.
1320. John de Shiringham ; patron, Sir Richard de Grey de Codnor. On the
death of R. de S. Instituted 3 Kal. July, and obtained dispensation for
absence for study till the feast of S. Margaret the Virgin. J
1346. Gilbert de Grey ; patron, Richard de Wylloughby, he having together with
Robert de Rempston joint power of presentation for this turn from Sir
John Grey de Codnor. On the death of J. de S.
1348. Nicholas de Grey; patron, Sir John de Grey de Codnor. On the resigna-
tion of G. de G.
1349. Roger Sausemen ; patron, Sir John de Grey de Codnor. On the death of
N. de G.
. R. Newton.
1370. Ralph de Barton ; patron, Sir John de Grey de Codnor. On the death of
R. N.
1385. Roger de Cherlton ; patron, John, Lord de Grey de Codnor. Ou the death
of R. de B.
1434. William Thrumpton; patron, Henry, Lord de Grey.
1435. William Wethurby, rector of Morley, exchanges benefices with "W. T.,
rector of Heanor.
1440. John Fowler; patron, Henry, Lord de Grey. On the resignation of W. W.
* Pat. Rot., 14 Edw. IV., pt. 2, memb. 10. The transference, owing to legal neces-
sities for the avoidance of Mortmain statutes, was not made direct to the abbey, but
in the first place to John, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, William, Lord Hastings,
Sir Thomas Stanley, William, abbot of Rufford, Sir Thomas Burgh. Sir William
Stanley, James Stanley, clerk, William Babington, Ralph Sacheverell, Henry Sta-
tham, John Stanton, Richard Malerya, and William Orell, clerk — and they, as trus-
tees, transferred the rectory to the abbot of Dale.
t See the previous account of West Hallam.
J There is also an entry relative to this institution in Bishop Norbury's Act Book,
from which it appears that John de Shiringhaia was not at that time even in any of
the minor orders. He was ordained deacon at Lichfield, on Easter Eve, 1321. On
15 Kal. November, 1322, he obtained a further dispensation for non-residence for the
purpose of study.
HEANOR. 235
VlCAES.
1475. William Tykhull ; patron, abbot of Dale.
1477. John Middleton. On the resignation of W. T.
1485. Richard Nottingham, canon of Dale. On the resignation of J. M.
1491. William Cutt. On the resignation of R. N.
. Oliver Pyggen. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
1547. Richard Arnolds; patron, Robert Cooke de Little Hallam, for this turn
by virtue of an arrangement between Nicholas Powtrell and John Malyii
and the lately dissolved abbey of Dale. On the death of O. P.
1565. Laurence Brookes; patron, the Queen. On the death of R. A.
1604-1617. William Ashby. Parish Registers. "I married Mr. Ashbie Vicar of
Heanor by a license, Oct 3d, 1614." Morley Parish Registers.
1633. Josias Hawksworth ; patron the King.
(1650). Samuel Wright.* Parliamentary Commission.
1664. James Rathborne. Parish Registers.
1669. George Westwood. Parish Registers.
1698. Samuel Lees; patron, the King.
1737. William Clarke; patron, the King.
1774. William Gould. Parish Registers. Killed in 1788 by a kick from his horse
at Eastwood, on his return from hunting.
1788. John Thompson ; patron, the King.
1821. Richard Whinfield; patron, the King. On the death of J. T.
1866. Frederick Corfieldjt patrons, Francis Wright, of Osmaston, and other
trustees. On the death of R. W.
The church of Heanor was valued at <£26 13s. 4d. per annum
in 1291, when Pope Nicholas IV.'s Taxation Roll was drawn up.
The Valor Ecclesiasticus (27 Henry VIII.) estimates it at a like
amount. But out of this revenue the abbey had to pay £9 to the
vicar of Heanor; three marks to the Bishop of Lichfield, the
chapter of Lichfield, and the prior of Coventry respectively, in
recognition of the episcopal sanction to the appropriation ; seven
shillings and sevenpence in archidiaconal fees ; and twenty shillings
as stipend to the dean J of Heanor. In addition to the £9 in
money, the vicar also had a house and croft, valued at ten shiUings
per annum.
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., thus report of
this church : —
* " A good Man and a very able Preacher. He liv'd in much Weakness for divers
Years after his being Eject'd. He could not Preach, as the rest of his more healthful
Brethren : But when he did, he Preach'd to very good purpose." — Calamy's Ejected
Ministers, vol. ii., p. 167.
•(• We are much indebted to the Rev. F. Corfleld for kindly supplying us with those
names in the above list to which the words Parish Registers are annexed, and also for
other information pertaining to this church. Mr. Corfield writes to us as follows : —
" Since 1868, the chancel, and the lands belonging to it, have been purchased and
made over to me, so that T am Hector. It was not possible to gazette the alteration,
for the Bishop of Oxford's Act, about that time, took away the power of the Ecclesi-
astical Commissioners, but I possess all the rights and the land of a Rector."
J The word is decano, but we are quite at a loss to know who the dean of Heanor
could have been ; on the whole it seems probable to suppose that it is in error for
diacano or deacon.
236 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
" Heynor. Ser Eychard Arnold Vycar.
" j chalyce parcell gylte j canape with a pyxe of latten — iiij bells in the steple
— ij haude bells — j sakering bell — iiij vestments — iiij albes — ij copes, j oyrede saye,
the other of rydd sylke — j corperas clothe & j case — iij aulter cloyes — ij towells —
ij cruytts of pueter — j crysmatorye — ij crosses of latten — j holy water stope of
brasse — j surplyce for the prest — j rotchet for the clerke."
The Parliamentary Commission, of 1650, says: —
" Heanor is a viccarage really worth twelve pounds per annum, no chappell
apperteyning. Codnor Castle and Codnor Parke, small things formerly distant
and lying wthin the Constablerye are fit to be united. Mr. Samuell Wright is
viccar, an able man."
This church was heraldically visited on August 20th, 1662, by
Sir William Dugdale and Elias Ashmole. From the notes of the
former, at the College of Arms, and of the latter (which in some
respects are rather fuller) at the Bodleian Library, we find that
there was a good deal of stained glass then extant in the windows.*
In the east chancel window were the arms of Grey (Barry of
six, arg. and az.}, and in the south chancel window those of
Strelleyt (Paly of six, arg. and az.}.
"In the uppermost south window are two armed knights standing
face to face and holding up these two Coates of Armes" — Grey,
and gu., a cross, or.:}: In the same window — Barry of six, arg. and
az., a bend compony, or and gu. — Grey of Sussex, York, and
Lincoln. In the next window westwards — Grey, and sab., a pile,
az., which is identified by Ashmole as pertaining to the old family
of Heynor.
In a south clerestory window, " a Knight in male kneeling
having these armes upon his Surcoate — gu., a fesse, arg., between
three winnowing baskets, barry of the second and az. — and before
him this Coate — Barry of six arg. and az., on a bend, gu., three
mullets, or." The latter is another bearing of Grey.§ There were
also three other varieties of the much-changing coat of Grey — viz.,
in another south clerestory window, the usual bars with a bend,
gu. ; and in a north window near the west, the usual coat, dif-
ferenced (1) with a label, or., and also (2) with a label of three
points, sab., on each three besants. ||
* Dugdale's Visitation, pp. 100, 10] ; Ashmole MSS., 854.
f The Strelleys held the manor of Shipley, in this parish, during the fourteenth and
two following centuries.
J This coat was borne by several families ; gu., a cross engrailed, or, is given by
Papworth as one of the bearings of Grey. Dugdale, however, gives the field of this
shield sab.
§ Harl. MSS., 1,392, and 1,459.
i| For further information relative to the arms of the Grey family, see Churches of
Derbyshire, vol. i. pp. 333-5.
HEANOR, 237
In the window near the pulpit, on the north side, the quartered
arms of Zouch (yu., ten besants, a canton, erm.) and Grey. On
the death of Henry, Lord Grey of Codnor, in 1496, the castle and
manor reverted to Sir John Zouch, son of Sir John Zouch, who
had married Elizabeth Grey, aunt to the last Henry, Lord Grey.
Dugdale mentions — in a belfry windoAV, sab., three covered cups,
arg., and below, "Orate pro anima Jacobi Coupland ;" also, in the
east window of the south aisle — " a Bishop with a Miter on his
head and a Crosier in his right hand, and before him kneeling a
man in armour, bare headed, with a close sur cote of the armes
of Grey. Betwixt which Bishop and the Knight is this Helnie
and Crest here represented." The sketch is in pencil — apparently
a bird with outstretched wings. Below, in the same window, the
arms of Grey twice repeated, and sab., a pile, az.
Ashmole also makes mention of a gallery at the west end of the
church, on which was inscribed — "This Loft was built at the sole
cost of John Clarke, of Codnor, gent., in 'the year 1633, who dyed
An0 Dni 1641, et Ano ^Etatis 88."
When Bassano visited this church, in 1710, there were only six
coats of arms left in the window : now there are none, and the
grand old family of Grey of Codnor are left without any record of
their long-continued ownership of both parish and church.
There is nothing left of the old church of Heanor, dedicated to
S. Michael,* except the fine west tower. By a much to be
regretted decision, the old fabric was cleared away some ten years
ago, as is recorded on a board within the tower : —
" This Church was restored in 1868.
Frederick Corfleld, Vicar.
George B. Gregory > ch Wardens.
Fletcher Draper )
Date of tower 1454.f
Probable date of old Church 12th century.
Wm Cowlishaw, Clerk."
The present church consists of a nave, side aisles, and chancel,
the style of which is rather a poor imitation of Perpendicular
* In the last edition of Kelly's Post Office Directory of Derbyshire, this church is
said to be dedicated to S. Lawrence, but we cannot find any ground for believing this.
It was certainly dedicated to S. Michael in the sixteenth century.— Pegge's MSS.,
Bacon's Liber Regis, etc. The Directory is wonderfully profuse in its errors about
Heanor ; we are told that the church " was formerly appropriated to Dale Abbey, and
was separated from it in 1473," also that " the register dates from the year 1513," when
no registers were extant !
f We have failed to learn on what authority this precise date is given. It seems
more probable that the tower would be rebuilt about 1473-4, when the church was
given to Dale Abbey.
238 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
work. The old fabric consisted of nave, south aisle, and chancel.
The dimensions were: — Nave, 58ft. by 12ft. 5 in.; south aisle,
52 ft. 10 in. by 10 ft. 9 in.; and chancel, 31 ft. 4 in. by 17 ft. 9 in.
From a south-west view of the church, taken by Mr. Rawlins in
1817, and from a north view of about the same date, from the
pencil of Mr. Meynell, as well as from their descriptions, we glean
several particulars about the old building. The large west window
was blocked up, and outer steps led- up to a doorway made through
one of the lower lights ; this, we suppose, communicated with the
singers' gallery at the west end. There was an arcade of four
pointed arches between the nave and the aisle. At the east end
of the aisle was the vault of the Mundys of Shipley. The font
was modern, and of the size of a small bason. There were three
windows on the north side of the nave — two without tracery, and
one of Decorated tracery — also a small pointed doorway. A wide
doorway to the chancel, on the same side, and two pointed windows,
but aU blocked up. The roof of the nave was flat, but that of
the chancel had a high pitch. On the west gable of the nave was
a sanctus bell-cote.
From these statements, and other information that we have else-
where gleaned, it does not seem possible to suppose that there
could have been anything about the old building, except, perhaps,
some trifling detail, of Norman character. Some of the work may
have been Early English ; but the church was certainly repaired
in the Decorated period, and also considerably re-modelled during
the Perpendicular style, at the time the tower was built. It
therefore foUows that the statement on the board in the tower,
about the old church being of the twelfth century, is rather mis-
leading, as twelfth century work, unless otherwise specified, is
generally understood to be Norman.
The tower is a lofty, good example of fifteenth century work.
It is embattled, but the pinnacles are of poor character and modern
date ; it has high double bell-chamber windows on each side.
One of the oldest monuments in the church is a brass plate,
now affixed to the tower wall, to the memory of John Clark, of
Codnor, who died in 1641. He married Mary, daughter of John
Kirkeland, of Wheatcroft, by whom he had one daughter, Ellen,
who was married to Gilbert Clarke, of Somersall. He was the
donor, as already mentioned, of the old west gaUery.
In the north aisle are mural tablets to "Prudence, daughter of
HEANOR. 2-39
Fran : Low, of Owgrave, and wife of Tho : Burton of Oldecarr,"
1679; and to William Parkes, of Knotcross, Ashover, 1628.
Watson, the principal artist engaged in the elaborate wood-
carvings at Chatsworth — to whom is due the credit of the work
usually assigned to Grinling Gibbons — was a native of Heanor. A
tablet to his memory, which used to be in the chancel, but is now
in the south aisle, bears the following inscription : —
"Watson is gone, whose skilful Art displayed
To the very life whatever Nature made ;
View but his wondrous works in Chatsworth Hall,
Which are so gazed at and admired of all,
You'll say 'tis pity he should hidden lie,
And nothing said to revive his memory,
My mournful friends, forbear your tears,
For I shall rise when Christ appears.
This Samuel Watson died 29th March, 1715, aged 53 years."
In the tower is a ring of five bells, thus inscribed : —
I. "The Churches praise I sound always, 1781. Tho8 Hedderly
of Nottingham fecit."
II "God save His Church, 1634."
III. A stamp bearing "Ihc," two cross stamps, and a founder's
mark that we have not seen on any other Derbyshire bell — three
small bells in a shield, and over the shield a crown.
IV. " Gloria in excelsis Deo, Ihc," and the founder's mark of
" G. H." above a fylfot cross.
V. " Tole the tune that dul evill is to such as livd amisse,
But sweete my sownd seems unto them that hope for
oifull blisse.
Deo Westwood. 1686."
This lettering is in Roman capitals close together, without any
break between the words, in two lines round the haunch, except
"oiful blisse" and the two following words, which are in a third
line. The words "Deo Westwood" are in Lombardic lettering.
The initial D must have been wrongly affixed to this bell, by a
careless workman, instead of G. ; it being evidently intended for
the name of George Westwood, vicar of Heanor, in 1669. The
couplet is also evidently confused. From a somewhat similar
couplet found in Hedderly's pocket-book,* it seems that "dul evill"
should read " dismal."
There were six bells in this tower in 1765. f In the registers,
* Reliquary, vol. xiii., p. 85.
f Cole MSS., vol. xxvi., p. 64.
240 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
under the year 1781, is a memorandum : " Little bell recast at
the cost of £14 14s. 4d. Old bell cast at £1 8s. Od. per hundred,
metal added at Is. 2d. per pound."
The registers date from the year 1559, and contain various
matters of local interest.
The Strelleys, in the fourteenth century, obtained episcopal sanc-
tion for the establishment of an oratory, or private chapel, attached
to then- manor of SHIPLEY, in this parish. In Wolley's MS. history
of the county, written about 1716, it is stated that there was " a
chapel of ease" at Shipley. No trace of it remains, nor can we
learn anything further respecting it.
There was a chapel attached to the extensive CASTLE OF CODNOE
in this parish. Some forty-five years ago, the font, a plain one, was
dug up on the site. It now stands in the garden of Mr. T. S.
Woolley, of Heanor, having been purchased by him from a farmer
of Codnor, who was using it as a pig-trough.
|HE mauor of Horsley was held by Ralph de Buron at the
time of the Domesday Survey. Here was the castle of
Horeston, or Horsley, the seat of his barony. No mention
is made of a church in the Domesday Book ; but one must have
soon after been erected here by the Buron s, for, in the reign of
Stephen, Hugh de Buron, with the consent of his sons Hugh and
Eoger, gave the advowson of the church of Horsley to the priory
of Lenton.* We do not know the exact date at which the great
tithes were appropriated to that monastery ; but it was apparently
between 1291 and 1304. At the former date, according to the
Taxation Boll of Pope Nicholas IV., the church (ecclesia), not the
vicarage, was valued at £26 13s. 4d. per annum; but at the latter
date we find that a vicar was instituted to Horsley on the presen-
tation of the prior of Lenton.
The Valor Ecclesiasticus (27 Henry VIII.) estimates the clear
annual value of the vicarage at £7 5s. 5d.
The following is the inventory drawn up by the Church Goods
Commissioners, 6 Edward VI. : —
" Horseley, Oct. 5. Thos. Dylke, Viccar.
" j chales parcell gylt with a paten — j canapye with a pyx of laten — ij crosses of
laten — j water ffatt of brasse in the chauncell — iiij bells in the steple & a lytell
bell with a clocke upon the greatest bell — ij sakerying bells — ij hande bells — iij
vestments — ij albes — iiij corporasses with iiij cases — j old coope — iiij aulter
clothes — vij towels — ij cruetts of puter — j byble & a boke of the Comen Prayers —
ij coffers & j crismatorye."
The Parliamentary Commissioners, of 1650, report: —
"Horsely is a viccaridge really worth thirteene pounds six shillings and eight-
pence per annum and thirtye pounds from the Committee for plundered ministers
paid forth of the Impropriate rectory there sequestred from the Earle of Chester-
feild."
* Stevens' Continuation to Dugdale, vol. ii., p. 19.
244 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
During the present century, the advowson of the vicarage, with
other property in the parish, has been purchased of the Stanhope
family by the Sitwells.
The following list of vicars of Horsley is chiefly compiled from
the Lichfield Eegisters and the returns of the First Fruits Office.
As the prior of Lenton was invariably the patron up to the disso-
lution of the monasteries — excepting a brief period in the fourteenth
century, when the crown administered, owing to a dispute as to the
election of prior — it has not been thought necessary to repeat that
fact.
1304. William le Malinere; patron, the prior of Lenton.
1309. Herbert Poucher.
1313. Henry Pouger.
1315. Herbert Pouger. On the resignation of his brother, Henry P.
1317. Henry de Halum. On the resignation of H. P.
1329. Roger de la Place de Ambaston. On the death of H. de H.
1342. Robert de Rodyngton; patron, the King, as holding Lenton Priory. On
the resignation of R. de la P.
1349. Richard de Broydtston; patron, the King. On the death of E. de R.
. Richard de Grey.
1363. William de Bromley, vicar of Sawley, exchanged benefices with B. de G.,
vicar of Heanor.
. John Gylot.
1418. Thomas Stacey. On the resignation of J. G.
1442. John Vyeare. On the resignation of T. S.
1457. Richard Ellys. On the death of J. V.
1464. John Byngeley. On the resignation of R. E.
1468. Henry Kent. On the death of J. B.
1486. Nicholas Wodishawe. On the death of H. K.
1500. Thomas Mason. On the death of N. W.
(1536). Thomas Browne. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
1537. Thomas Dylke. On the death of T. B.
1564. William Herdman; patron, Ellen Blumfylde de Horsley. On the resigna-
tion of T. D.
1565. Thomas Nicholson ; patron, Allan Bloundevile. On the resignation of
W. H.
1569. Nicholas Harvey; patrons, William (?) Blundeville and Hellen his wife.
On the resignation of T. N.
1572. Thomas Tunstall; patrons, Alan Blundville and Ellen his wife. On the
resignation of N. H.
(1599). Anthony Benett. Parish Eegisters; buried 6 Oct. of that year.
1600. Robert Time. Parish Registers.
1617. Robert Evatt; patron, Philip Lord Stanhope. Buried 19 Feb. 1643, haviug
been vicar 26 years and 6 months. Parish Registers.
1663. William Bayley. Parish Registers.
1701. William Taylour; patron, Earl of Chesterfield.
1715. Thomas Ward. Buried 3 March 1765, aged 78, having been vicar 50 years.
Parish Registers. On the resignation of W. T.*
1765. Richard Holmes. On the death of T. W.
1767. Joseph Goadard. On the death of R. H.
* Rev. W. Taylor resigned this vicarage as a Nonjuror in the year 1715. This is
the only instance of a Derbyshire Nonjuror with which we are acquainted.
HORSLEY. 245
1778. Samuel Davenport; patron, Earl of Chesterfield. On the resignation of
J. G.
1800. Joseph Milward; patron, Earl of Chesterfield. On the death of S. D.
1837. Samuel Fox; patron, E. D. Sitwell. On the death of J. M.
1870. Grammer Thompson ; patron, Kev. H- W. Sitwell. On the death of S. F.
The church, which is dedicated to S. Clement,* consists of nave,
aisles, south porch, chancel, and tower and spire at the west end.
It is finely placed on a commanding eminence. The following are
the dimensions of the area : — Nave, 46 ft. 1 in. by 21 ft. 2 in. ;
north aisle, 55 ft. 8 in. hy 13 ft. ; south aisle, 58 ft. 4 in. by 17 ft.
8 in. ; and chancel, 33 ft. 6 in. by 19 ft. 2 in.
The tower, surmounted by a broached spire, having two tiers of
projecting lights, reaching to an altitude of about 130 feet, is a
good composition of the Decorated period, about the middle
of the fourteenth century. It has two single trefoiled lights
in the west wall of the basement, and no doorway. At the
four corners of the tower, from which the spire rises, are the
emblems of the four Evangelists — the Lion, the Man, the Ox, and
the Eagle. The square- set buttresses are very massive. Agaiust
the east wall of the tower is the weathering-line of the gable
of the old high-pitched roof. Over the archway into the nave
is a doorway or window, now built up, which probably served
for the ringer to know when to sound the sauctus bell at the
'elevation of the Host. The arcade between the north aisle and
the nave is of three pointed arches supported on octagonal pillars.
It corresponds iu date with the tower and spire, as also does the
archway into the chancel. The south arcade is similar, but
supported on circular columns, and of rather earlier date.
Strictly speaking, this arcade is only a few years old, having been
completely rebuilt, as we shall shortly see ; but it was recon-
structed just after the former plan, and many of the same stones
were re- used.
* The wakes of Horsley are regulated by S. James' day, but those of Kilburn, a
township within the parish, by the feast of S. Clement. The story goes that the good
folk of Horsley and Kilburu used at one time to keep their wakes on the same day,
but that, owing to feuds and brawls, they were changed to different times. We will
not here repeat what we have several times said respecting the re-dedication of
churches, and a consequent confusion of patron saints ; but it may be well to again
state that the wakes by no means invariably corresponded with the feast day of the
saint to whom the church was dedicated. The initial service in a completed church
would usually be held on such a feast ; but some little time often elapsed in the
mediaeval times before a bishop was able to consecrate the building. Hence we find,
as mentioned in Archbishop Simon's encyclical letter (quoted under Crich), that the
dedication day, and the day of the saint to whom the church was dedicated, were
sometimes distinct festivals. We may therefore suppose that Horsley church was
dedicated to S. Clement, but that the consecration or dedication festival took place
on or about the day of S. James. Ecton's Thesaurus, published in 1742, gives the
dedication as S. Barnabas; but of this we have met with no confirmation, except iu
Pegge (MSS.), who, however, evidently copies from Ecton.
246 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
In the Perpendicular period, about 1450, the church underwent
an extensive alteration. The walls above the nave arcades were
raised, and particularly good clerestory windows inserted. These
windows are pointed and of two lights, and are set in pairs in
each bay, there thus being eight on each side. A small two-light
square-headed window was placed over the chancel arch. The
chancel itself was rebuilt, and lighted with Perpendicular windows ;
and the aisles were also lighted throughout with square-headed
traceried windows of that style. There is a good moulded wall
plate, carried round the south aisle from the chancel; but on the
north side this stops short with the first bay of the aisle. The
masonry of all but the east end of that aisle is plainly of a
different character, and is of the same date as the tower and
other work of the fourteenth century. It was probably found to
be too substantial to be worth renewing in the next century,
though they repierced its walls with Perpendicular windows to
harmonise with the rest of the church. The blocked-up pointed
doorway in the north chancel wall is of Decorated date. The
chancel, nave, and south aisle have battlements and pinnacles, but
the north aisle retains a plainly-moulded parapet. The south porch
is also embattled ; it has a small niche over the doorway, and a
weU-executed crucifix — strange to say, in fair preservation — on the
gable. On this side of the church are some remarkable and far-
protruding gurgoyles.*
The font is a large and fine example of the Perpendicular period.
It is of octagon shape, and boldly carved with roses and stiff
foliage. In diameter it is 38 in., and now stands 4 ft. 10 in. high,
but the base is new. Up to the time of the recent alterations, it
was thickly coated with yellow ochre. There are three sedilia of
equal height in the south wall of the chancel. The canopies have
cinquefoil heads, and are flanked with uncharged shields. There
is no piscina in the chancel, but a smah1 one may be seen at
the east end of the south aisle, and a double one at the same
end of the north aisle. It should be mentioned that these aisles
are each prolonged a single bay on a level with the chancel, into
which they open by side arches, supported on corbels, of Deco-
rated date. Mr. Eawlins also noted, in the pavement of the north
aisle, part of an alabaster slab, but covered by a pew ; and that
a portion of the south aisle, at the east end, was " divided by
* The most remarkable of these is engraved in Parker's Glossary, vol. ii., plate 64.
He gives the date as circa 1450.
HORSLKY. 247
a screen of rudely ornamented open work, which is used as a
Sunday school."
The church was restored — on the whole, most judiciously - in
1858-60, at a cost of £2,221. The top of the spire was then
renewed, new roofs were supplied throughout, and the whole of the
church reseated and repaved. " While the pillar nearest the west
end of the South Clerestory wall, and which had long seemed in
an insecure state, was being examined, it fell down, October 4th,
1858, bringing with it the whole of that side, and demolishing in
its descent the greater part of the old pews, and of a gallery that
ran along the length of the west end ; the arch under the steeple
being at that time bricked up." '•
The tower contains a ring of four bells, of which the tenor is
of exceptionally sweet tone. It is said in the parish that at the
time of the rebuilding of S. Alkrnund's, Derby, the then vicar was
disposed to seh1 the tenor to that church, and that negotiations
were entered into respecting it ; but the projected sale was
summarily checked on it coming to the ears of the churchwardens.
I. " Ihs be oure sped." Mark of Henry Oldfield.
II. "I sweetly toling men do call
To taste on meats that feeds the soule, 1620."
Mark of George Oldfield.
III. " God save our King, John Beardsley, 1660." Mark of
George Oldfield.
IV. "Ihc Gloria in excelsis Deo, Anno Dni 1603." The Heath -
cote mark, " G. H.," above a fylfot cross.
The registers begin in the year 1558. Down to 1599 they are a
transcript from an older book. There is a blank between 1643
and 1660. The first volume ends in 1707 ; many of the earlier
pages, subsequent to 1599, are in poor condition. There are no
interpolations. There is a tradition current in the parish that
Horsley has the honour of being the birthplace of Dick Turpin.
John Tyrpin was churchwarden in 1599, and the name continues
in the registers down to the present century. The unusual
Christian name of Pascha occurs within the year 1705.
* We quote this from the flyleaf of the Parish Registers, where a succinct account
of all the alterations made in 1858-60 has been carefully entered by the present vicar,
"for the benefit of posterity." This is an example that cannot be too highly praised,
and which is well worthy of imitation
248 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
of
||HE old parish of Horsley comprised not only the town-
ships of Horsley, Woodhouse, and Kilburn, but also the
parochial chapelry of Denby. The great tithe's of Denby
were appropriated to Lenton priory at the same time as those of
Horsley, and the vicar of Horsley was bound to see that divine
service was duly celebrated in the chapel of Denby. On the feast
of S. Clement, 1484, a covenant was entered into between Henry
Kent, vicar of Horsley, with the consent of Kichard, prior of
Lenton, and Lawrence Lowe, of Denby, to have a priest to say
daily Mass in the chapel of Denb}7. It was proved, and acknow-
ledged by Henry Kent, that the vicars of Horsley had previously,
from time immemorial, provided and paid a resident priest at
Denby, and an undertaking was given that the same should be
done for the future. But Lawrence Lowe, finding no resident
priest, had, in default, engaged Sir Christopher Bury, from
Michaelmas day last passed, for a year, at a stipend of seven
marks, to say the divine service daily. If the vicar paid these
seven marks, and continued to do so yearly, either to Sir
Christopher Bury or to some other suitable priest, then the bond
was to be void ; but otherwise, on failure thereof, the vicar bound
himself to pay a fine of £40 to Lawrence Lowe.*
The manor of Denby, at the time of the Domesday Survey,
belonged to Ralph de Buron, under which family it was held, in
the reign of Henry I., by Patrick Bossel. It remained with the
Eossels for upwards of three centuries, when it passed, by
marriage with the heiress, to Lawrence Lowe, serjeant-at-law, a
younger son of the Lowes, of La Lowe, in the parish of Great
Bud worth, Cheshire.
• Meynell MSS.; Add. MSS. 6,666, f. 208.
.11*.
DENBY. 249
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., 'thus report: —
" Denby. Oct. 5. Rich Heiths curate.
j chales of sylver — iij bells in the steple — j litle bell called a saunce bell — j
sacrying bell — j hande bell — iij vestments of \vyte and redd say — ij albes of sylke —
j cope, of saten sylke — ij corporasses with cases — j table clothe — iij towells — ij
cruetts of puter — ij surplesses for the prist— j rochett for the clerke — j crosse of
brasse gyldett — j byble — j boke called the comen Prayer."
Jane Mas sie, by will dated 1728, left £200 to meet a like sum
of £200 from Queen Anne's Bounty for the augmentation of the
living.* This augmentation being granted, changed Denby from a
simple cure to a perpetual curacy, and thereby initiated its inde-
pendence of Horsley. The benefice was subsequently increased by
a Parliamentary Grant, and it is now regarded -as a vicarage.
The church, or chapel, which is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin
Mary, consists of nave, aisles, south porch, chancel, and tower
and spire at the west end. The dimensions of the building,
according to Mr. Kawlins, are — Nave, 33 ft. 8 in. by 18 ft. 3 in. ;
north and south aisles, each 30 ft. 5 in. by 7 ft. 11 in.; and chancel,
27 ft. by 14 ft. 6 in. The nave is separated from the south aisle
by two rounded arches, springing from a circular central pier and
two semicircular responds. The capitals of the responds have a
narrow baud of the "nail-head" moulding, though that at the east
end has been nearly chipped away. The date of this arcade is
towards the end of the Norman style, not earlier than the reign of
Stephen. The opposite arcade was described by Mr. Eawlins, in
1825, as consisting of two arches, " cut out of the wall, like those
on each side of the reading desk and pulpit in Eepton church,
springing from a circular column, with a square capital rudely
sculptured and profusely whitewashed so as nearly to obliterate its
design." Mr. Eawlins was well acquainted with Eepton church,
having long been resident in that village ; and there seems no
reason to doubt, judging from this description, that this arcade was
of Saxon origin.f In 1838, this church was most disastrously and
barbarously treated, the north arcade being removed, the wall of
the north aisle being raised level with that of the nave, and the
north clerestory windows placed above those of the aisle. A
gallery was erected on the north side, supported by iron pillars
which run up to the roof; a west gallery was built to block up
the tower ; the massive old oak seats and benches removed ; the
ancient timbered roofs concealed by flat plaster ceilings ; old
* Charity Commissioners' Reports, vol. xvii., p. 161.
f Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 435, plate xix.
250 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
heraldic glass recklessly destroyed ; and, in short, a shameful
havoc made of an exceptionally interesting fabric.
The chancel is of good Decorated character, about the middle of
the fourteenth century. The four-light east window has a flam-
boyant character. There are two two-light pointed windows and a
narrow priest's door in the south wall, and one similar window in
the north wall. The east window of the north aisle is also of
this style. The remaining windows of the aisles are square-headed
Perpendicular lights, circa 1450, except a debased west window to
the south aisle ; that aisle having been extended a bay to the west,
so as to include one of the tower buttresses. There are three
three-light clerestory windows, of a late character, on the south
side ; the similar ones on the north side having been, as already
remarked, replaced immediately above the aisle windows. The
high-pitched, picturesque porch, having a stone roof, did not form
part of the original design, when the church was rebuilt in the
fourteenth century. It is not set quite straight with the Decorated
inner doorway: its date seems to be circa 1375. The inner walls
are panelled into two compartments. The tower and spire are
a fair sample of Decorated work, and, judging from the west
window, are tolerably early in that style. The general features
are well shown on Plate XL Note the large ogee-shaped, moulded
niche ; the crown, of the stair-turret ; and the wavy line of
moulding on the parapet, corresponding to that on the Decorated
towers of Chesterfield and Crich.
The ogee doorway to the tower stairway, from the inner base-
ment of the tower, is built up, and a stove-pipe thrust through it.
Access is now gained by a doorway in the outer north wall, which
was pierced in 1838. The present belfry floor is four feet below
the proper level, which is shown by the perfect stone corbels which
still project from all four walls. Part of the lintel of the south
single-light window to this belfry is formed of the head of an
incised sepulchral cross, which pertains to the eleventh or early in
the twelfth century.
In the south chancel wall are two sedilia of equal height, with
ogee crocketed canopies, and a corresponding piscina beyond. In
the north wall is an oblong almery recess. The Holy Table is of
seventeenth century date, with a locker or deep drawer below it.
In the projecting chancel pier at the east end of the north aisle is
a rather rudely cut small piscina, with a credence shelf, also cut
out of the stone, above it. Of the east end of this aisle Mr.
DENBY. 251
Rawlius gives the following quaint and rather unintelligible
account — an account which cannot be further explained, owing to
the Goths of 1838: — "Near to the reading desk and pulpit is the
family pew of the Lowe family, which, through a Tudor arch,
partly walled off, was once the entrance into a small confessional,
which supposition is good, as there appears to have been a wall
across this end of the north aisle from the nave ; and still more
strong is this my supposition, as there is herein a piscina nearly
perfect in a small recess. Over this arch is a little pointed
opening, it might have been for giving light to a room over this
confessional, once occupied by the Confessor, previous to the hour
of confessing, that he might be ready for the arrival of the
Penitent!"
Below the east window of the south aisle is a sort of paneUed
recess with a moulded border of stone. It is now thickly coated
with whitewash, but was probably originally painted in fresco with
an altar piece for the side altar of that aisle. It should be com-
pared with the similar stone panels at the east ends of the aisles
of Chaddesden church, where traces of the fresco still remain. *
The octagon font, under the west gallery, resembles the capital of
a pillar. From the mouldings we judge it to be of Decorated
date. The basin is unusually shallow ; it stands on a plain
octagon base, which is wider than the actual stem of the font.
When Mr. Bawlins was here (1825), he noted " a rudely carved
screen " between the nave and the chancel. At Bassano's visit, in
1710, there were the arms of Bossel in a south aisle window, and
of Greyt in the east window of the north aisle. On the roof of
the church, carved on the beams, .were (1) a plain cross, (2) a
cross engrailed, in each quarter a rose, (3) a buck couchant, (4)
three mullets on a fesse between as many crescents, and (5) a cross
formee. In one of the north clerestory windows, under a figure of
the Virgin, was the quartered coat of Cokayne and Harthill. Mr.
Meynell (1817) also observed against the south aisle wall an
* Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 309.
f "Richard Lord Grey, of Codnor, held a small manor at Denby, which he possessed
by the gift of William Rosel and William Berriack, representatives and co-heirs of
John de Deiiby ; this manor afterwards acquired the name of Park-Hall. Richard
Lord Grey procured, in 1344, a charter for a market at Denby on Thursdays, and a fair
for two days at the festival of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. From the Greys the
manor of Park-Hall passed to the Frechevilles, and was sold, about the beginning of
Henry VIII. 's reign, by Sir Peter Frecheville to Vincent Lowe, Esq., of Denby, who
settled it on his younger son. On the death of Francis Lowe, Esq., of Denby, without
issue, in 1563, Jasper Lowe, Esq., of Park-Hall, succeeded to the Denby estate, and
they have since continued to be united." — Lysons' Derbyshire, p. 188. From the
appearance of the Grey coat in this window, it would seem as if this north aisle had
formerly pertained to the Park-hall manor.
252 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
escutcheon of the Lowe quarterings impaling Cokayne and Harthill
quarterly. He further records this inscription on the gate of the
altar rails: — "Maid by mee Tho Gillott April the first day, 1686."
One and all of these details were swept away in 1838.
Vincent Lowe, of Denby, grandson of Lawrence Lowe, who died
about the year 1558, married Jane, elder daughter of Sir Thomas
Cokayne of Ashbourn.*
Against the north chancel wall is a large and costly monument
consisting of two canopies, in which kneel the full-sized effigies of
a man and woman, facing outwards. The former is represented
bareheaded and in plate armour; and the latter in French cap and
ruff, and with a triple chain round the neck. Each holds a book
in their clasped hands. In the background against the wall, and
almost concealed by the larger figures, are representations of a boy
and a girl ; and also of two other children, their heads covered
with a white veil or shroud, but otherwise dressed like the other
two. This is the only instance that we are aware of, of so
singular a method being used to signify the death of those repre-
sented. Below the two principal figures are spaces for inscriptions,
but these spaces are now blank. At the top of the monument is
the following quartered coat: — (1) sab., a hart trippant, anj. [Lowe
of Denby], (2) sab., three roses, gu. [Rossel], (3) sab., on a fesse
engrailed, between three crescents, gu., as many mullets, art/.
[Ashborne ?], and (4) or, three annulets, gu. [Mylton].f On
• See plate xxxiv., Reliquary, vol. xi., where there is an elaborate Lowe pedigree,
by Capt. A. E. Lawson Lowe, F. S.A. For the connection between the Lowes of Denby
and of Alderwasley, see the account of Wirksworth and Alderwasley in Churches of
Derbyshire, vol. ii.
f These arms have, at some " restoratipn," been repainted, and the tinctures are now
thoroughly confused. The arms, as given in St. George's Visitation of 1612, are —
Quarterly, 1, az., a buck trippant, arg.; 2, arg., three roses, gu., barbed, vert, and
seeded, or; 3, arg., on a fesse engrailed, between three crescents, gu., as many mul-
letts, or; and 4, az., three millstones, arg. The third of these coats is that of Ash-
borne, probably introduced by the marriage of a Rossel with an heiress of that family.
The millstones of the fourth coat have been altered to annulets on the monument; the
second wife of Lawrence Lowe was a co-heiress of Mylton. Captain Lowe, F.S.A.,
has kindly furnished us with the following note relative to the vexed question of the
early pedigree of this family : — "The Lowes of Denby claimed to be the elder branch
of the family. Thomas Lowe, the ancestor of the Alderwasley branch, being stated to
have been one of the younger sons of Lawrence Lowe, serjeant-at-law, who is said to
have acquired the manor of Denby by his marriage with the heiress of the Eossels.
But the statement that Thomas Lowe was the son of Lawrence Lowe is clearly dis-
proved by a charter, dated on the Monday after the feast of the Purification, 1472
(Additional MSS., 6,666, /. 110), whereby this Thomas Lowe mentions his brothers,
Lawrence Lowe and George Lowe, and likewise Humphrey, Ottiwell, and Brian, the
sons of the said Lawrence. Another charter, which is dated on the 8th of April, 14^>1
(Additional MSS., 6,666, /. 119), distinctly refers to Lawrence Lowe, ' learned in the
law,' as the brother of Thomas Lowe, of Alderwasley. That such was their relation-
ship can hardly be doubted, and there are grounds for believing that Thomas was the
elder brother; but it is a remarkable fact that the Lowes of Alderwasley certainly
quartered the arms of .Rossel, a,nd, indeed, to judge by a shield carved outside the old
chapel at Alderwasley, seem to have borne them at one time in place of their paternal
coat. Documentary evidence of the match between Lawrence Lowe and the heiress
DENBY. 253
the capital of the central pillar is the same quartered coat
impaliug quarterly 1 and 4, i/u., a lion rampant within a bordure
engrailed, sab. [Harpur], and 2 and 3, sab., a chevron and in chief
a lion passant-guardant, or [Brock].* On the capitals of the
side pillars are the crests of a wolf and a hoar, pertaining
respectively to Lowe and Harpur. From the armorial bearings
it is clear that this is the monument of Patrick, eldest son of
Jasper Lowe, who married Jane, daughter of Sir John Harpur, of
Swarkeston. Their two surviving children were — Vincent, who
married Anne, natural daughter of Henry Cavendish, of Tutbury;
and Isabella, who became the wife of Sir John Zouch, of Codnor
Castle. Patrick Lowe was born in 1562 ; but we do not know the
year either of his death or of that of his wife. He was the son
of Jasper Lowe, by Dorothy, daughter of William Sacheverell, of
Stantoii-by-Bridge, and grandson of the previously mentioned
Vincent Lowe, who died in 1558.
When Mr. Meynell was here there were wooden rails in front
of this monument, " erected at the proper cost of John Lowe
Esq., 1726." This John Lowe, fifth in descent from Patrick of the
monument, married Sydney, heiress of Richard Marriott, of Alscot.
He died in 1771, and there is a mural blab iu the chancel to his
memory. Another mural stone is to the memory of Richard Lowe,
of Locko Park, who succeeded his brother John, and died in 1785,
without leaving lawful issue, The estates then passed to his
cousin, William Drury, merchant, of Bread Street, London, who
assumed the additional arms and name of Lowe in 1790. He died
in 1827, aged 74, as is recorded on the slab to his memory
of Rossel seems to be wanting, yet most authorities appear to concur in the statement
that he was twice married, first to the heiress of Rossel, and subsequently to Alice,
daughter and co-heiress of William Mylton, of Gratton, and widow of Oliver de
Newton, of Newton, in Cheshire. In the pedigree of the family entered in the Visita-
tion of 1612, there is no mention of any marriage with the heiress of Rossel, and the
children of Lawrence Lowe are given as the issue of the above-named Alice. It is,
however, sufficiently obvious that she could not have been the mother of Humphrey,
the eldest son of Lawrence Lowe, for her first husband, Oliver de Newton (by whom
she had three children), died of the plague in London, in 1452, and was buried in the
church of St. Andrew, Holborn, and in 1462, Humphrey Lowe was married; for by
a charter dated in that year, he, together with Margaret his wife, united with Law-
rence Lowe, his father, in granting certain lands in the meadows of Clifton, to John
Cokayne and Thomas, his son. Janet, the daughter of Lawrence Lowe, must also
have been the issue of some former marriage, for she became the wife of Richard de
Newton, the eldest son of the above-named Alice, by her first husband. Notwith-
standing the fact that no marriage with the heiress of Rossel is recorded in the pedi-
gree entered in the Visitation of 1612, the Lowes were allowed to quarter the arms of
Rossel, and also those of Mylton, but that the latter quartering was improperly borne
is sufficiently evidenced."
* This coat is also wrongly tinctured. It seems to be intended for Brock, but the field
should be gules, and the chevron argent. Gilbert le Harpur, ancestor of Sir John
Harpur, of Swarkeston, married, in the reign of Henry III., A. vice, heiress of Robert
de Brock of Chesterton, "Warwick.
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against the south chancel wall. He left only one daughter and
heiress, Mary Anne, who became the wife of Robert Holden, of
Nuthall Temple. She died in 1840, and he in 1844, and were both
buried in this church, as is also recorded on the plain slabs to
their memory on the same side of the chancel. Their eldest son,
William Drury Holden, assumed the name and arms of Lowe, on
the death, in 1849, of his maternal grandmother, Anne, widow of
William Drury Lowe, of Locko Park.
In the tower is a ring of four bells, bearing the following
inscriptions :—
I. "God save His Church." The bell-mark attributed to Robert
Mellour, and the Lombardic capital letters, " H. D. '
II. "Ihc Nazarenus Rex Judeorum."
III. "Ihc. Gloria in excelsis Deo, 1604.'' The Heathcote mark
of '• G. H." above a fylfot cross.
IV. " Patricke Lowe Esquire, Anno Do. 1604." The mark of
Henry Oldfield. This is a richly-ornamented bell.
There are no registers extant earlier than the year 1725.
Ilfepgfoiu
|T the time of the Domesday Survey, the manor of Ilkeston
was partly held by Gilbert de G-and, and partly by thanes
immediately of the King. There is no record of a church
at that date. Gilbert de Gand, nephew of William the Conqueror,
in the reign of Henry I. gave the manor of Ilkeston to his
seneschal, Robert de Muskham. After four descents, the heiress of
Muskham married Sir Ealph de Gresley. Eustachia, daughter of
Sir Ealph, and eventually heiress of her brother Hugh, married
Nicholas de Cantelupe.* Nicholas was the fourth son of William
de Cantelupe, of Bowden and Harborough, Leicester. He was
living in 1275. t Nicholas de Cantelupe, of Ilkeston, was suc-
ceeded by his son William, who died in 1309 ;J and he, again, by
a son of the same name. An inquisition of 1321 states that
William held the manor and advowson of Ilkeston ; the latter
being of the annual value of twenty-one marks. § William de
Cantelupe was succeeded by his son Nicholas, the founder of
Beauvale Priory ; he died in 1355, leaving a son and heir
also named Nicholas. This Nicholas died without issue in 1372,
and was succeeded by his brother William, who also died issueless
in 1376, seized of both manor and advowson. |]
William, Lord Zouch of Harringworth, then inherited the estate,
his great-grandfather having been the son of Millicent, younger
sister and co-heir of George Cantelupe, granddaughter of William
* Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. i., pp. 962, 963.
t Quo Warranto and Hundred Bolls; Nichols' Leicestershire, vol. iii., p. 493;
Dugdale's Baronage ; Nichols' Collectanea, etc.
I Inq. post Mort., 2 Edward II., No. 51.
§ Inq. ad quod Damnum, 14 Edw. II., No. 131.
,| Inq. post Mort., 45 Edw. III., No. 13; 49 Edw. III., No. 28.
18
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de Cantelupe, eldest brother of the first-named Nicholas, who
settled at Ilkeston.
On the attainder of John, Lord Zouch, for complicity with
Eichard III., Ilkeston was granted by Henry VII, in 1485, to
Sir John Savage. It remained in that family until 1608, when it
was purchased of Sir Thomas Savage by Sir John Manners, whose
descendant, the Duke of Eutland, still holds it.
William, Lord Zouch, died in 1381, seized, inter alia, of the
advowson of Ilkeston church. * His son and heir, William, who
died in 1396,t was seized of the manor of Ilkeston, having
conferred the rectory in 1386 on the neighbouring abbey of Dale.|
The vicarage remained in the gift of the abbot of Dale until the
dissolution of the monasteries, when the advowson, together with
the appropriated tithes, were granted to Savage, and thence passed
by purchase to Manners.
The rectory was valued at £14 per annum in 1291. The Valor
Ecclesiasticus (24 Henry VIII.) gives the clear annual value of the
vicarage at £5 7s. 9d. ; the value of the rectory cannot be
accurately given, as it is stated collectively with the mediety of
Egginton, the two together averaging £19 6s. 8d. ; but only a
clear value — after deducting various charges to the Bishop and
Chapter of Lichfield, etc.— of £11 19s. Od.
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., drew up the
following inventory at this church : —
"Ilkeston. Oct. 5. Sir Wyll. Carter vicar & curatte.
j challes of sylver parcell gylt — iij corporas clothes — iij vestments— iij albes — j of
y* vestments of red velvet, y6 odder ij of sylke party collers — j cope of grene
sylke — j crosse of copper — iiij auter clothes — vj towels — iij of dyaper & iij of
lynen— ij towells wolle, & j broken — a sanctus bell— j house!! bell — ij holy water
fatts — ij cruetts — ij candlestykes of latten — a per of scensures — j canybe — j pyx of
coper — j bybeil & a boke of mynistration."
The following is the brief report of the Parliamentary Commis-
sion, of 1650 : — " Hkestone is a viccaridge really worth sixteene
pounds per annum. Mr. Fox is minister and scandalous."
The subjoined list of rectors and vicars is chiefly compiled from
the Lichfield Eegisters and the returns of the First Fruits Office: —
* Inq. post Mort., 5 Hie. II., No. 62.
t Inq. post Mort., 19 Ric. II., No. 52.
J Pat. Rot., 9 Ric. II., pt. 1, memb. 34. It was not granted direct to the abbey ; but,
in order to avoid the statutes of Mortmain, it was in the first instance transferred to
Hugo de Wyloughby, John Pole de Nuburgh, William de Sallowe de Stanton, Henry
Coton (rector of Aston), Richard (rector of Hanstort), and John de Halnm. These
trustees thereupon transferred it to the abbey. The patent is dated at York on July
21st.
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BECTOBS.
1315. William . . . ; leave of absence for sickness.
1322. William de Loseow; patron, Nicholas de Cantelupe. On the death of
William, the last rector.
1334. John de Kendale ; patron, Nicholas de Cantelupe. On the resignation of
W. de L.
1341. Thomas de Saxeby ; patron, Nicholas de Cantelupe. On the death of
J. de K.
1349. William de Broydeston; patron, Nicholas de Cantelupe. On the death of
T. de S.
1351. William de Lynton; patron, Nicholas de Cantelupe. On the resignation of
W. de B.
1375. Stephen de Cundale ; patron, William de Cantelupe. On the death of
W. de L.
VICARS.
1391. Hugo de Thurgarton, canon of Dale; patron, Abbot of Dale.
1402. John, son of Simon de Ilkeston. On the resignation of H. de T.
1418. Richard de Ilkeston.
1438. John Spencer.
1446. Robert Edmond. On the resignation of J. S.
. Richard Nottingham.
1497. Robert Brownlow. On the death of R. N.
1510. Robert Aston. On the death of B. B.
(1536). William Carter. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
. William Parker.
1568. John Wyttes; patron, Sir John Savage On the death of W. P.
. Thomas Howell.
1573. Richard Seyrdan(?); patron, Sir John Savage. On the resignation of T. H.
1629. Thomas Lowe; patron, Grace, Lady" Manners, widow.
1633. William Hope; patron, Grace, Lady Manners, widow.
(1650). Mr. Pox. Parliamentary Commission.
(1710). Humphrey Courtman. Bassano's MSS.
1736. Matthew Birch.
1748. George Allen; patron, the Duke of Rutland.
1802. Jervase Brown; collated by the Bishop through lapse of time. On the
death of G. A.
. George Searl Ebsworth.
1863. James Horsburgh; patron, the Duke of Rutland. On the resignation of
G. S. E.
1873. J. F. N. Eyre ; patron, the Duke of Rutland.
The church, which is dedicated to S. Mary, consists of a nave
with side aisles, a large chancel with north aisle or chapel, and a
tower at the west end. The dimensions of the area of the church,
according to Mr. Rawlins, who was here in 1825, are : — Nave,
43 ft. 5 in. by 19 ft. 10 in. ; north aisle, 44 ft. 10 in. by 14 ft. ;
south aisle, 42 ft. 6 in. by 13 ft. 3 in. ; and chancel, 46 ft. 3 in.
by 24 ft. 1 in.
The west end of this church used to be graced by a lofty tower,
surmounted by a lead-covered spire. Mr. Wolley, writing about
1716, says: — "The church has a spire steeple covered with lead,
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which suffered extremely in the Hurricane in the year 1714, and
in the chancel there is an old monument supposed to be a
Cantelupe. On the east side the liberty, on the High Eoad from
Wirksworth to Nottingham, stands a pair of gallows which the
Inhabitants are obliged to keep in repair, they say by that they
hold the privilege of Gaunt fee.:|: At the south-west end of the
town is a Eow of Alms Houses, but not endowed. There was
another chancel, but it is taken down and the monuments
lie bare in the churchyard." t In the year 1723, money was
collected by Brief for the rebuilding of the tower, the estimated
cost being £1,350. But the moneys came in slowly, and it was
not until 1731 that a new tower was built. From a sketch
of this church, taken by Mr. Meynell in 1814, we find that the
new tower was of the debased, incongruous style then affected.
It had round-headed bell-chamber windows, and a plain parapet
with pinnacles at the four angles. Its height was upwards of
seventy-five feet. The "other chancel" of which Mr. Wolley
speaks was the large north chapel or chancel aisle. Mr. Eawlius,
who was here in 1825, says : — " On the north side of the chancel
was originally an aisle, which a few years since gave way in the
foundations. The Duke of Rutland used to repair this aisle,
but room being wanted to enlarge the churchyard, it was never
restored." Instead of being " a few years," we know from Wolley's
MS. that this aisle had disappeared more than a century earlier;
but it is interesting to find that the repairs used to be in the
Manners family, which tends to prove that this chapel was erected
by the Cantelupes, probably to serve as a mortuary chapel, and
for a chantry altar for Masses for their souls. It has been con-
jectured that this beautiful addition to the chancel was made circa
1360, by Joan, relict and second wife of Nicholas de Cantelupe,
founder of Beauvale Priory. In 32 Edward HI., she "founded a
Chantry for five priests, in honour of St. Peter the Apostle, for
the health of the soul of the said Nicholas de Cantelupe, her
husband, ner own soul, and the souls of all the faithful deceased.":}:
The arcade of three arches, separating this chantry from the
* A passage in Farey's Survey of Derbyshire (vol. iii., p. 632), published in 1815,
explains this : — " The Lord of the Manor of Ilkeston maintains a Gallows (on which
I could not learn that anyone was ever hanged) near the Erewash River and county
bounds, on the East of the Town ; in order, as is said, that the Inhabitants of the
Manor may avail themselves of a Charter, of John of Gaunt, for paying only half of
the usual Tolls in any of the Markets or Fairs of the Kingdom."
f Wolley's MS. History of Derbyshire, circa 1716 ; at the College of Arms.
£ Glover's History of Ilkeston and Shipley : Derby, 1831. But we do not know
whence Glover got this information, and much doubt a foundation of five priests in
this church.
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chancel, was not destroyed, but simply walled up ; and a good
pointed doorway removed from the old outer wall, and inserted
in the new one. The capitals and columns of the arcade showed
on each side of the masonry. This arcade — re-opened and repaired
in 1855 — is of singular beauty; the capitals of the clustered piers
being moulded into elegant foliage, having characteristics of the
human face (Plate VIII).
The church underwent a thorough, and, in many respects, most
unfortunate " restoration " in 1855, when the outer walls of the
north and south nave aisles were taken down and rebuilt ; and
the tower, west end of the aisles, south chancel vestry, and north
chancel aisle built new, but on the old foundations. The tower,
beneath which is the principal entrance to the church, is a preten-
tious affair, but singularly poor and bald in all its details. A
glance at the carving of the capitals of the shafts in the jambs of
the west doorway is sufficient to prove the character of the work.
The vestry on the south of the chancel is said to be built on old
foundations; and Sir Stephen Glynn, who was here three years
before the restoration, remarks that " the priests' door south of
the chancel is set curiously sideways within a large exterior arch,
as presented externally." It would therefore appear that there was
also at one time a south chancel chapel. In a pamphlet, issued
when the restoration of the church was in contemplation, it is
said that there was originally a sacristy on the south side of the
chancel. But sacristies are hardly ever found on that side of the
chancel, and no such building would require a large archway
opening into it.
The lofty arcade of three arches that divides the nave from the
south aisle is specially interesting, being of the transition period
from Norman to Early English, about the time of Eichard I. The
pillars are circular, and the arches, which only just partake of any
pointed character, are ornamented with the chevron pattern and
an outer moulding of the nail-head device. The arcade between
the nave and the north aisle is supported on lofty octagonal
pillars with plainly-moulded capitals, and is of Decorated date, but
early in the style. The windows of both the aisles are also of
that style, circa 1300, but were rebuilt in 1855. The old patterns
were not very carefully followed. The spacious chancel is also of
good Transitional character, of the last quarter of the thirteenth
century; but the alterations of 1855 were here also apparently of
an unnecessarily extensive character.
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At the east end of the south aisle is a small piscina niche. In
the north wall of the north aisle, near the east end, is a shallow
sepulchral or founder's recess, quite plain. " The font," says Sir
Stephen Glynn, "has an octagonal plain bowl, upon a raised base
and kneeling step." From Mr. Meynell's drawing, we judge it to
have been coeval with the south nave arcade. In 1855, this font
disappeared, and we have not been able to trace what became of
it. The one now in use is a modern effort, with a good deal
of carving about it. The taste or reverence of those who would
substitute a new for an old font, however plain the workmanship
of the latter, is not to be envied.
Against the south chancel wall is a row of three sedilia, and a
double piscina. The good and noteworthy workmanship of these,
circa 1280-90, can be better learnt from Plate XII. than from any
verbal description.
There is a remarkable stone screen, dividing the chancel from
the nave, having five cinquefoiled, arched compartments, with
pierced quatrefoils in the spandrels, and grey marble shafts, of
circular form, with moulded capitals and bases, the whole resting
upon a stone wall (Plate VIII). The doorway occupies the centre
arch, and has its shafts rising from the ground. This screen has
been repaired at various times. The mouldings of the capitals and
bases of one or two of the columns, which are original, appear to
be of Early English character, but the general style of the work-
manship and the details of the tracery show that it is co-eval
with most of the chancel work, viz., at the beginning of the
Decorated period. It has been thought by some that the marble
shafts were not originally designed for the screen, but have been
removed from older window jambs ; but we see no reason for such
a supposition, which would be entirely contrary to the use of
medieval architects.
On the north side of the chancel is an altar tomb, bearing the
effigy of a knight, wearing a hood of mail (Plate VIII). His feet
rest on a lion, and he has prick spurs. The sword-belt is studded.
Only part of the sword is now left, and the small lion on which
the sword-point originally rested. On the left arm is a large
shield, bearing the arms of Cantelupe — a fesse vaire between three
fleurs-de-lis. The sides of the monument are panelled into a series
of trefoiled niches, in the spandrels of which are small, uncharged
shields. Nicholas de Cantelupe, first Lord of Ilkeston of that
name, died circa 1275-80, and his son William in 1307. This
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ILKESTON. 263
monumeiit pertains, we believe, to one or other of these knights ;
and from the general details and character of the work, we are
inclined to think that it is to Sir Nicholas. Previous to 1855,
this monument stood in the centre of the chancel, of which Sir
Nicholas was probably the founder. Mr. Meynell speaks of it
being " very perfect, excepting that it has be'en repeatedly white-
washed;" adding — "a short time since the bones were taken up;
they were near the surface in a sort of coffin made of several
stones, and the legs were crossed as upon the monument, but no
inscription could be found. The bones were very perfect, and the
teeth particularly sound and fresh. I had this account from the
clerk of the parish in 1814."*
The same gentleman gives a drawing of another raised tomb on
the north side of the altar, the upper slab of which was of
Purbeck marble, but the brasses had been taken from it. Sir
Stephen Glynn describes (in 1852) the sides of this tomb as being
of alabaster, and "having pierced arches, which are trefoiled and
hollow within — there are three arches on the sides and two at the
ends." This interesting tomb disappeared at the "restoration."
Mr. Meynell also makes mention of two brass plates to Francis
Gregge, gentleman, 1667, and to Eobert Gregge, gentleman, 1680.
"The church having undergone some alterations the above monu-
ments of the Gregge family are removed, but the brasses are in
the possession of the clerk." Where are they now? He further
mentions several more modern inscriptions that cannot now be
found, concluding with the remark — "These appear to be all the
inscriptions now remaining, but many are removed and lately
destroyed." The destruction of monuments in this church certainly
seems to have been peculiarly wanton, even for Derbyshire.
This church was visited heraldically on August 21st, 1662, by
Dugdale and Ashmole. The notes of the latter are as follow : —
" In the midle of the Chancell is a raised monumen* having
thereon a Knight lying at length cross leg'd in Male, & on the
left arme a Shield wth this Coat of Armes (a fesse vaire between
three fleur-de-lis). Under the uppermost arch on the north side of
the Chancel is a raised monum* having a large marble for the top
stone, whereon seems to have been ye Portraiture of a Clergyman
* This was not the first time of the unseemly disturbance of this knight's bones.
Bassano, writing in 1710, says : — " Under ye tomb is a stoue coffin with large white
bones in it, as appeared when opened by Isaac Gregory, ye present clerk of ye
church. A chale (jaw) bone taken out of ye coffin was so wide y* it sliped over y«
chale of a lusty full man. Test. Humphrey Courtman, Vicar."
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in his habitt,* but y° Brass is stolen away. In the East window
of the South Isle (1) gu., a fesse vaire, arv/.f and az., between
three fleur-de-lis, or, (2) arg., a cross, gu., and (3) az., three
crowns, or. In the window of the North Isle* arg., a saltire, gu.,
(2) chequy az., and or, a canton, erm. This Church seemes to
have been very ancient, all the Arches in the south side of the
body of the Church are semicircular, and the worke indented.
The Windowes and Pillars of the Chancell are of excellent neate
worke." J
Bassano visited the church in 1710, when only one of the coats
mentioned above remained in the window, and that has long since
disappeared. There was then a stone coffin against the recess
already noticed in the north wall of the north nave aisle ; and
Bassano also noticed lions carved on some of the seats in the
chancel.
In the vestry is an oak parish chest, the carving on which
shows that it dates from the Perpendicular period. On the Holy
Table are carved the words : — " Ex dono Thome Harrison, qui obiit
Octobris Anno Domini 1622."
The tower contains a ring of five bells : —
L "Prosperity to all my benefactors, 1732," and the bell-mark
of Abraham Kudhall, of Gloucester.
II. "God save His Church, 1660," and the bell-mark of George
Oldfield.
HI. "All glory bee to God on high, 1660," and the bell-mark
of George Oldfield.
IV. "Prosperity to this Parish, 1749," and the bell-mark of
Abraham Kudhall.
V. "Robert Skevington & Sam1 Taylor, Ch : Wardens, 1732,"
and the bell-mark of Abraham Eudhall.
The registers, according to the Parliamentary Eeturn, begin in
1586, but are defective between 1670 and 1679.
* Bodleian Library, Ashm. MSS., 854; also Dugdale's Visitation of Derbyshire,
1662-4 (in the College of Arms), f. 101.
t Dugdale gives the vaire or and an.
t Walter Cantelupe, brother of the first Sir Nicholas, was Bishop of Worcester
from 1237 to 1266. Bassano states that this tomb pertained, by tradition, to the
Cantelupes, and there was in his time a pastoral staff in brass still remaining.
Kirfe
jjHE manor of Langley was held, according to the Domes-
day Book, by Levenot, under Ealph Fitz-Hubert. There
is no record at that date of a church. The manor at an
early period was divided into two moieties, one of which became
known as Kirk or Church Langley, from having a church fabric on
the estate ; and the other as Meynell Langley, from the name of
the proprietor. At the beginning of the reign of Henry III.,
1218, Kirk Langley was held by one Nicholas. To him succeeded
his son, Eobert Fitz-Nicholas, who died in the last year of Henry
III.'s long reign. He died without issue, and the jury, at the
inquisition after his death, found that his nephew, Ealph Pipard,
then aged 28, the son of Ealph Fitz-Nicholas, was his heir. He
died seized of landed property at Thurvaston, Etwall, and Eggin-
ton, as well as of the manor of " Chirche Longley " and the
advowson of its church ; the rectory being valued by the jury at
twenty marks per annum.* Names at this period were changed
with much caprice, according to the residence of the individual.
It has generally been supposed that a Fitz-Nicholas sold this
manor to a Pipard ; but the inquisition that we have just quoted
shows that Ealph, the son of Ealph and nephew of Eobert Fitz-
Nicholas, inherited it by descent. It would seem that he had
assumed the name of Pipard from having resided, previously to
his becoming heir to his uncle, at Eotherfield-Pipard, in Oxford-
shire ; or possibly from having married an heiress of the Pipards,
who gave their name to that place ; for the Pipards are said to
have originally sprung from a hamlet of that name in Somerset-
* Inq. post. Mort., 1 Edw. L, No. 19.
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shire. Robert Fitz-Nicholas had also owned the manor of
Twyford,* in Buckinghamshire, which his nephew, Ealph Pipard,
also inherited, and of which he was seized at the time of his
death, in 1310.t Twyford, Bucks., was one of the most important
of their manors, and hence the heir of Ralph assumed that name
in preference to Pipard, and was known as John de Twyford.
The manor of Kirk Langley, together with the advowson of the
rectory, remained in the hands of the Twyford or de Twyford
family until the time of Henry VIII., when Henry Pole, of
Chesterfield, son of Peter Pole, of Heage, married Ursula, the
daughter and heiress of Thomas Twyford, who died in 1522.
Henry Pole was succeeded by his son, of the same name, who
died in 1558. He died without issue, and was succeeded by his
brother Augustine, whose son, German Pole, sold the manor of
Kirk Langley to the Bassets of Blore, then also lords of Meynell
Langley, and the two manors were for the most part subsequently
held together.^ William Basset married Judith, daughter of
Thomas Osten, and widow of William Boothby. On the death
of her second husband, she was married to Sir Richard Corbett,
of Morton Corbett, Shropshire. We find Lady Corbett presenting
to the rectory of Kirk Langley both in 1619 and in 1621. By
her second husband, William Basset, she had one daughter, first
married to Henry Howard, son of the Earl of Suffolk (by whom
she had a daughter, married to Sir John Harpur, of Swarkeston),
and secondly, to William, Earl and afterwards first Duke of
Newcastle. On the Restoration, the Earl of Newcastle presented
to this rectory. In the eighteenth century the advowson and next
presentation were repeatedly sold ; but during the present century
it has been in the gift of the Meynells of Meynell Langley.
The following list of rectors is chiefly compiled from the Lich-
field Registers and the returns of the First Fruits Office : —
. William de Henoure.
1340. Nicholas de Over; patron, Sir John de Twyford. On the death of W. de H.
1349. William de Curson ; patron, Robert de Twyford. On the death of N. de O.
1357. Hugo de Bolton ; patron, Robert de Twyford. On the resignation of
W. de C.
1391. William Mackworth; patron, Robert, son of Robert de Twyford.
(1411.) William Arrowsmythe.
. John Papenham.
1474. Eichard Rolston ; patron, Walter Twyford. On the death of J. P.
* Placita Quo Warranto, Com. Bucks, p. 87.
t Inq. post Mort., 3 Edw. II., No. 25.
I Meynell MSS Throughout this account of Kirk Langley church we are greatly
indebted to the valuable MSS. of the late Godfrey Meynell, Esq.
KIRK LANGLEY. 269
1496. Ralph Shepard ; patron, Thomas Twyford. On the resignation of R. R.
The new vicar pledges himself on the Gospels to give an annual pension of
four marks to his predecessor pro victu et vestitu.
1508. Robert Middulton ; patron, Thomas Twyford. On the death of R. S.
. John Rayne.
1518. Ralph Hygden ; patron, Thomas Twyford. On the resignation of J. R.
1553. Robert Prestwyche ; patron, Henry Pole, de Wytheoke, Leicester. On the
death of R. H.
1556. Ralph Wrigley ; patrons, Henry de Pole and Dorothy his wife. On the
deprivation of R. P.
1619. Thomas Godwin ; patron, Judith Corbett, widow. On the death of . .
1621. James Hulmes ; patron, Judith Corbett, widow. On the death of T. G.
1644. Francis AUsop. Buried February 22nd, 1656. Parish Registers.
1656. Robert Seddon.*
1662. Thomas Meynell ;f patron, William, Earl of Newcastle. On the ejection
of R. S.
1706. Charles Wilmot ; patrons, Robert Wilmot, and Robert Wilmot, junr. On
the death of T. M.
1724. William Daniel ; patron, Godfrey Meynell. On the death of C. W.
1747. John Bayley ; patron, Richard Bayley, for this turn.
1768. William Cant ; patron, John Marsh.
1789. Edward Pole ; patron, William Bayley Cant, a minor, by the advice and
approval of John Morse, his guardian. On the death of W. C.
1791. David Francis Curzon ; patron, William Bayley Cant.
1794. Edward SachevereU Wilmot ; patron, Edward SachevereU Wilmot.
1809. John Ward ; patron, Godfrey Meynell. On the death of E. S. W.
1820. Henry James Feilden ; patron, Godfrey Meynell. On the death of J. W
The Taxation Boll of 1291 valued this rectory at £12 per*
annum — a considerable increase on the valuation at the death of
Robert Fitz-Nicholas. The Valor Ecclesiasticus (27 Henry VIII.)
gives the clear annual value at £12 Is. 9d.
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., say: —
" Kyrkelangley. Oct. 1. Raulf Higdon parson.
"j chalys of sylver parcell guylt— j pyxe of pure metal — ij corporas with
cases — iij alter clothes — iiij chesables, whereof j of redde velvet old and worne, j
other of blewe silke of antyke worke, j other of tany sylke of same worke— j
other of whyte damaske — j albe with the armes whole — ij other albes old and
* Robert Seddon, M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge, was of Prestwich, Lanca-
shire. He was first minister at Gorton chapel, whence he proceeded to Kirk Langley.
" He was a Man of great Piety, Patience, and Meekness. . . . He was so far
concem'd in appearing for the King, at a day known in this County by Wldte-Fryday
(because one White was the Leading Man who appear'd at Derby for the King) that
he was forc'd to fly into Lancashire to Sir George Booth, who rose at the same time,
and was Threatn'd to be carried to London to be Try'd for his Life, but the King's
coming in prevented that. After his Ejectment, he was for many years in the Family
of Samuel Hallows, Esq., and when Liberty was granted Anno Primo Gulielmi et
Mui-ice, he Preach'd in his course with some other Ministers at Derby, being on other
Days imploy'd in Places Adjacent. In King Charles' time coming up to London, he
was taken up as he was preaching in Mr. Baxter's Pulpit : and notwithstanding that
he had before suffer'd Imprisonment from the Cromwelhans for seeking to bring in
the King, yet he was sent to Gaol, where he contiuu'd some time." Eventually he
returned to Lancashire, residing chiefly at Bolton. He died in 1695, aged 77.
Calamy's Ejected Ministers, vol. ii., p. 167.
t He was made Prebendary of Whittington and Baswich, Lichfield Cathedral, in
1676. Harwood's History of Lichfield, p. 254.
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torne — ij coopes, j of skarlet, j other of tany silke olde and torne — j serples — j
holy water stocke of brasse— j hand bell — ij bells in the steple — ij lytle candel-
stycks of brasse — ij lytle bells and j bell in the steple for the w°h iiij li. ys owing
to Ser Raulf Uygdon."
The following is the report of the Parliamentary Commissioners
of 1650 : — " Kirk Langley is a parsonage really worth three score
pounds per annum. Mr. Francis Alsop Incumbent able preacher
and of godly conversason. "
The church at Kirk Langley, which is dedicated to S. Michael,
consists of nave, north and south aisles, chancel, and tower at the
west end. Mr. Bawlins gives the following as its dimensions : —
Nave, 40 ft. 9 in. by 19 ft. 4 in. ; north aisle, 34 ft. 3 in. by
12 ft. 3 in. ; south aisle, 56 ft. 5 ,in. by 15 ft. 9 in. ; and
chancel, 37 ft. 10 in. by 17 ft. 2 in.
By far the greater part of the present fabric is of the Decorated
style, circa 1800-1320, when the church was evidently rebuilt
throughout. The nave is divided from the aisles by arcades, each
consisting of three rather low pointed arches, supported on octagon
pillars. The north wall of the north aisle is lighted by five two-
light pointed windows, plain intersecting tracery, without any
foliation. Up to 1839, the chief entrance was on the north side
of the church, where there was a porch, and one of these windows
now occupies its place. The east window of this aisle is of the
same character, but of three lights. There was a single lancet
window at the west end of this aisle, where there are some traces
still visible in the masonry of the previous aisle of the Early
English period. The chancel arch is pointed, on octagonal shafts.
On the north side of the chancel are two two-light windows like
those of the north aisle, and one of a single light ; also a priest's
doorway, and another small doorway, built up, near to the east
end.* The use of this latter doorway is somewhat puzzling ; we
conjecture that there has at some time been a small vestry on this
side of the chancel. The east window is of four principal lights,
with a quatrefoil in the apex of the gable. There are three
blocked-up two-light windows on the south side of the chancel,
which correspond to those in the north wall, but are shorter,
owing to their being placed over the sedilia. The three sedilia
are of good character, with trefoiled heads and clustered shafts.
There is a piscina beyond them. In the opposite wah1 is a square
* This doorway is filled up externally by a large stone to the memory of the Rev.
E. S. Wilmot, patron and rector of this church, who died in 1809.
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almery recess. One of the sedilia has been opened out so as to
form a doorway into a specially obtrusive and ill-placed vestry.
An inscription states that " This vestry was erected by Godfrey
Meynell A.D. MDCCCXXIV." * There is another two-light south
chancel window, which is now cut down and open, so as to com-
municate with the extended east end of the south aisle, where the
organ is placed. The archway at the west end of the church into
the tower, which rests on corbels, is also, like all the details
hitherto mentioned, of the Decorated period, and so, too, is the
two-light west window of the tower. The west doorway into the
tower is now the chief entrance into the church. The general
character of the tower is throughout Decorated; but the battle-
ments, which are moulded into panels, have probably been renewed
at a later date.
The windows of the south aisle are for the most part of a
debased character. The east end of this aisle was extended a bay
subsequently to the erection of the present 'chancel. The east
window is square -headed, of three lights, and has a transom
across it. Externally, over this window, is the hood-mould, with
head terminals, of an older window, circa 1850.
The chancel still retains, externally, its high pitch; but the
walls above the nave arcades were raised in the fifteenth century,
so as to permit of the flattened roof then in vogue. The square-
headed clerestory windows have been debased and deprived of
their tracery in the "Churchwarden era."
A tempest that raged with much severity in Derbyshire on June
20th, 1545, did considerable damage to the church and village of
Kirk Langley. A contemporary account, ascribing the mischief,
. as was then wont, to the direct interference of the devil, says : —
" And from thence he went to Langley, w** is lyke iiij myles from
Darby, & there he hath pullyd downe a great pte of the churche,
& rowled up the leade & lefte it lyeing, & so went to Syr Wyllam
Bassett's place in the same towne & all soe rente it, & so pullyd a
great parte of it downe wth his ... & the wood that growethe
abowte his place, & in his parke he pulled downe his pale, & dryve
out his deare, & pulled downe his woods, and some broken in the
mydds that was xvi or xx loode of wood of some one tre. And
* " At the request of the Clergyman and Vestry assembled, I built at my own
expense the Vestry." Meynell MSS. The degraded condition of ecclesiastical art at
that date is strikingly shown, when we find a gentleman of such undoubted ability
and so keenly interested in archaeology, as Mr. Meynell, the active agent in erecting
this unsightly excrescence.
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after that he went into the towne to Awstens house of Potts <fc
hath slayne his sonue and his ager, & perused all the hole towne,
that he hath left not past ij hole howsses in the same towne."*
At a vestry meeting held July 4th, 1839, it was decided to
renew the roof of the south aisle, to re-pew the whole of the
church, and to erect a gallery over the south aisle. This was
effected at a charge of £526 8s. 2d., £370 of which was raised
upon the rates. In addition to this, Mr. Meynell spent £46 14s. 6d.
on chancel repairs, including £20 for "stained glass and wire," and
£14 9s. Od. for lowering the east window two feet, so as to show
the upper tracery. Sad havoc was made with the ancient wood-
work of the church. The screen round the Meynell quire, at the
east end of the north aisle, which extended (as we find from Mr.
Eawlins' notes, taken in 1827) as far as the centre of the first
arch, was removed, and the best of the work used up as a reredos
at the back of the Holy Table. The cornice is of a flowing vine-
leaf and grape pattern ; the tracery in the panels is surmounted
by four-leafed and other conventional flowers. The whole is of
Perpendicular date. The screen round the Twyford quire was also
taken down, and some of it was used to make up the screen
across the chancel arch. But there were previously considerable
remains of the rood-screen ; and the present screen is evidently a
composite one, comprising work both of the Decorated and Per-
pendicular periods. In the south aisle were four substantial oak
benches, on which was the inscription : — " The parson made theise
seats, 1586." These and many other excellent oak fittings disap-
peared during the reseating. The arrangement of the pews that
was then adopted was most unseemly, and, fortunately, nearly
unique. The pulpit was removed from its old position by the
east respond of the south arcade, and placed at the west end of
the church, just in front of the tower arch. The pews were all
made to face the pulpit, the preacher being preferred to the
Sacrament, and the congregation consequently have to sit and
worship with their backs to the altar.
The old octagon font used to stand against the middle pillar of
the south arcade. It was removed in 1839, and thrown out of the
church ; but it was subsequently recovered, and now stands in the
vestry. Mr. Eawlins, writing before the alterations, tells us of the
singular use to which it was put : — " The font is modern, of
marble, and circular, to supply the place of the old font, which,
* Lysons' Derbyshire, p. 161.
KIRK LANGLEY. 273
having a cover upon it, fastened down, is now used as the poor-
box."
When the church was new-pewed, on removing the plaster on
the wall of the south aisle, there was discovered an ancient inscrip-
tion of the Creed, and, apparently, beneath it another inscription
still more ancient ; the former being in Eoman characters, and the
latter in Old English. Three different sorts of old Abbey tokens,
of bronze metal, were then found at the east end of this aisle,
near the Pole monument. A large number of old encaustic tiles
were also found under the pavement of the Meynell quire. There
were only two patterns, bearing respectively (according to Mr.
Meynell) the letters " Seb," surmounted by a crown, and " Mich."
These tiles were submitted to a meeting of the Archaeological
Institute, in 1847, when it was considered probable that the
lettering stood for — " Sauctus et beatus Michael," S. Michael
being the patron saint of the church. About fifty of these tiles
were placed under the altar in the chancel, where they still
remain. On carefully examining the lettering of the crowned tile,
it is obvious that the characters had been mis-read ; they are
" See " (not " Seb ") which is the usual abbreviation of Sancte.
There is a piscina at the east end of each of the aisles ; also
a "squint" from each aisle into the chancel; but these openings
are now blocked up. The squint from the Twyford quire is within
the doorway of the old staircase leading to the rood-loft.
At the east end of the south aisle, is a raised or altar tomb,
upon the surface of which are incised the effigies of a man and
his wife. The man is represented in late plate armour, and
bareheaded, and the woman in a French cap, long fur-lined
mantle, and gown with slashed sleeves. His head rests on a
helmet, and hers upon a cushion. Bound the margin is the
following inscription : —
Hie jacent Henncus Pole armg. huyus ecclesia patronus' et Dorothea
uxor ei qui guide Henric' obiit tertio die mensis februarii Ano Dni M°
do Iviij cuj' aie ppicietur Deus amen.
On the front of the tomb are three coats of arms : —
I. Quarterly of four, 1st, Pole quartering Chandos : 2nd, Twyford
quartering two coats that seem to be Shakerley and Lytton ;* 3rd,
Dethick ; 4th as 1st.
* We have spared no pains to arrive at the different alliances of the Twyfoi-d family,
but have not been able to meet with any reliable pedigree.
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274 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
II. The same quarterings that are in the last shield, impaling —
Fretty a fesse.
III. Pole quartering Chandos impaling Fretty a fesse.
Henry Pole, who married the heiress of Twyford, was the second
son of Peter Pole, of Heage and Chesterfield. Peter Pole was the
son of Henry Pole, of Heage, by his wife Alice, daughter and
co-heir of Eobert Dethick, of Dethick. Henry Pole was the
second son of Peter de la Pole, of Kadbourn, by Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir John Lawton, and eventually sole heiress of Sir
John Chandos.
It has hitherto been assumed that this monument was to the
memory of Henry Pole, who married the heiress of Twyford, but
the arms above are sufficient to disprove this ; Twyford is quar-
tered, not impaled. The twice impaled arms, fretty a fesse, might
pertain to different families according to the tinctures, but they
probably belong to the Leicestershire family of Flemmyng. This
must be the tomb of Henry, eldest son of Henry Pole, by the
heiress of Twyford. He died without issue, as did also his brothers
William, Peter, Eichard, and Anthony ; and the property passed,
as has been already stated, to another brother, Augustine, who
married Cicely, daughter of William Bowden, of Bowden. There
was also a sister, who became the wife of James Noel, of Hilcote,
Stafford, and several other children, who died in their infancy.
In the east window of this quire, there used to be a memorial
of Henry Pole, who married Ursula Twyford, and which must have
been put up some little time before he inherited the property, for
Thomas Twyford, as we shall presently see, did not die until 1522.
The following inscription was in this window about the middle of
the seventeenth century, and the whole of the glazing was doubt-
less of stained glass : —
Orate pro animabus Henrici Pole et Ursula uxoris ejus cum 10 Jiliis
et 3 filiabm et pro bono statu Henrici Pole qui nuper comant in de
(sic~) Rotheley qui istam fenestram fecerunt A° 1510.*
In this part of the church, which pertained to the old manor of
Kirk Langley, and which used to be known as " Twyford' s Quire,"
Bassano (writing in 1710) describes another alabaster slab, whereon
were inscribed the effigies of a man and woman. The man was in
plate armour, and below .the woman was the small figure of a
female child. Between their heads was the coat of Twyford, quar-
* Dodsworth's MSS., Bodleian Library; quoted in Reliquary, vol. xii., p. 220.
KIRK LANOLEY. 275
teriug, on a bend three martlets. Round the margin was this
inscription : —
Hie jaccnt Thomas Twyford armiff. et Anna vxor ejus qui quidem
Thomas obiit decimo octavo die Julii Ano Dni Milliino DXXII cujus
an line ppicietur Deus amen.
The child on this tomb would be the heiress who brought Lang-
ley to the Poles. This monument was most unfortunately removed
and destroyed about the beginning of this century, when Cornelius
Brough, who had purchased the manor house near the church,
claimed this quire and repaved it.
When Bassano was here this quire was enclosed with a screen
or parclose, and over the doorway entering into it were the arms
of Twyford (an/., two bars, sab., on a canton of the second a
cinquefoil, or) impaling ary., upon a bend, sab., three martlets of
the first.*
Against the north wall of the north aisle is an alabaster stone,
having on it the portraiture of a lady in the kennel-shaped head-
dress, and wearing a close-fitting dress confined round the waist
by a girdle with long pendent ends. The inscription round the
margin is much defaced. It is as follows, a word or two being
supplied from Bassano : —
Hie jucet Alicia Beresford vidua quondam uxor Thome Beresford de
Neuton Orange gevH qua quedatn Alicia obiii in tertio die Junii A.D.
MUesimo quinyentessimo widecimo ctif aie ppiciet' de' amen.
After Bassano's time, this monument was displaced and buried,
for Mr. Meynell speaks of discovering it " about a foot beneath
the earth, and partly under the slabs of two children of the
Meynell family." Thomas Beresford, of Newton Grange, was
the second son of Thomas Beresford, of Fenny Bentley, by
the heiress of Hassall. He married Margaret, daughter of Roger
Welgathorpe.f and must have married the lady of this monu-
ment for his second wife. The quire at the east end of this
aisle pertained to the manor of Meynell Langley, and was some-
times called " Meynell Quire," and sometimes " Basset Quire."
From the situation of this tomb, it seems reasonable to surmise
that the widow of Thomas Beresford was a member of the Bassett
family.
The manor of Meynell-Langley, in this parish, took its name
from the ancient family of that name, who held property here
* This coat might pertain to the families of Bileston, Bougheron, Boughton, Ditton,
or Hiiiton. Papworth's Armorials, p. 230.
t See tiie elaborate pedigree of Beresford by Mr. Sleigh, Reliquary, vol. ix., p. 177.
276 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
as early as the reign of Henry I. Eobert de Meignell, son of
Gilbert de Meignell, of Dalby, Leicestershire, was the first who
held the manor, probably by grant, of Ralph Fitzhubert. The
chief seat of Sir Hugh de Meignell, who died in 1252, was in this
parish.* The fifth in descent from Sir Hugh, was Ralph de
Meynell, who died in 1376,t seized, inter alia, of the manor of
Kirk Langley. He left four daughters, co -heiresses: — Joan, married
to (1) John Staunton, of Staunton Harold, and to (2) Sir Thomas
Clinton — Elizabeth, to William Crawshaw — Margaret, to John
Dethick — and Tho.masiue, to Reginald Dethick.:}: Margaret's share
was the manor of Meynell Langley, which she carried to her
husband. Sir John Dethick dying without male issue, the estate
devolved upon his only daughter, Margaret, who was married to
Ralph Bassett, of Blore. It remained with the Bassetts for six
generations, when, as has been already stated, it passed by mar-
riage to the Duke of Newcastle. In 1670 it was sold, owing to
the financial embarrassments of the Duke, consequent on the Civil
War. to Richard and Isaac Meynell, the sixth and seventh sons of
Godfrey Meynell, of Willington.§ The price of the estate, together
with part of the manor of Kirk Langley, but not the advowsou,
was £12,524 11s. 6d. It seems to have been purchased by Richard
in trust for his brother Isaac, who was a banker of the city of
London. Elizabeth, only daughter of Isaac Meynell, was married
to Hon. Robert Cecil, second son of the Earl of Salisbury. They
sold the estate to Godfrey Meynell, son of Rev. Thomas Meyuell,
rector of Kirk Langley, and ninth son of Godfrey Meynell, of
Willington. On the death of Godfrey Meynell, grandson of Rev.
Thomas Meynell, without issue in 1758, the estate was bequeathed
in severalties to no less than nine of the testator's cousins. One
of the legatees was Katharine, only child of Susanna (sister of
Godfrey Meynell, son of Rev. Thomas Meynell), who was married
to Walter Lord. Katharine Lord became the wife of Joseph Ward,
* Dugdale's Warwickshire, p. 798.
f Another account says that he died in 1389; but it is not of much consequence, as
the landed property, including Meynell Langley, was settled in dower on his mother,
Joan, who survived him, dying in 1398 (Inq. post Mort., 21 Bic. II., No. 40), so that
Kalph's daughter did not inherit until after their grandmother's death.
I Meynell MSS., passim. But there are a good many discrepancies in the various
Meynell pedigrees in the Harl. MSS. (6,128, 1,093, 5,809), etc. See Topographer and
Genealogist, vol. i., p. 357, etc. The account there given makes the name of Mar-
garet's husband Roger Dethick, and of Elizabeth's husband "William Aston, but the
statement in the text can be proved to be right by various Inquisitions.
§ The Meynells of Willington were descended from "William Meynell (a younger
brother of Ralph Meyuell, the father of the four co-heiresses), who died in 1409.
Godfrey Meynell, mentioned in the? text, was ninth in direct descent from William.
See pedigree ot the Meynells of Willington, Topographer and Qvntalogist, vol. i.
p. 493.
KIRK LANGLEY. 277
of Little Chester. Their only surviving child and heiress, Susanna,
was married to John Meynell, of Derby. This John Meynell was
directly descended from Francis Meynell, of Anslow, Stafford,
younger brother of Godfrey Meynell, of Willington, and uncle of
Kev. Thomas Meynell, rector of Kirk Langley, and of Isaac, who
purchased the estates of the Duke of Newcastle.
Godfrey Meynell (the antiquary to whom we are so much
indebted) was the eldest son of John Meynell, and we thus find
that he inherited through his mother one part of the ancient
family estates. Two other parts were subsequently conveyed to
him by purchase, and now the majority of the old property,
together with the advowson of the church, is once more vested in
the hands of the Meynells, in the person of Godfrey Franceys
Meynell, of Meynell Langley, High Sheriff for the county in 1875.
We have gone into the outline history of this ancient family at
greater length than usual, as we are not aware of any other
instance of the history of a manor (certainly it has no parallel 'in
this county) in which the estates have repeatedly reverted to dif-
ferent offshoots of the same family in so remarkable a manner.
In the chancel, in front of the altar rails, there used to be an
alabaster slab, on which was incised the effigy of a priest, in
Eucharistic vestments, having a book on the left side of his head,
and a chalice on the right. Mr. Meynell took a drawing of it
about 1825, from which we can gather that it was of fifteenth
or early sixteenth century date ; but he adds that the figure was
worn off by the feet of the Sunday-school children a few years
later. In 1839 the slab altogether disappeared. It may here be
noted that a day school was kept in the Twyford quire up to the
year 1750 !
In the chancel are numerous memorials to the Meyuells. The
oldest one is thus inscribed : —
"Here lieth the body of Godfrey Meynell late of Willington Esqr who married
Dorothy daughter of John Whitehall of Yeldersley gent, by whom he had 9
sonns and 3 daughters and departed this life the 21st of Aprill 1667 about the
77th yeere of his age."
Below, on the same slab, having been added to it in recent
years : —
"In memory of Eev. Thomas Meynell, Am. Prebendary of Lichfield, and 44
years Rector of this parish, youngest son of the above Godfrey Meyuell, he
married Katheriue, daughter of John Lane, Esqr of Bentley in the county of
Stafford, and died August xxii., MDCCVII., having had five children, viz., Godfrey,
Katherine, Dorothy, and Susanna, and Sarah who died an infant."
278 DERBYSHIRE CHUKCHKS.
There are also memorials to William, fourth son of Godfrey
Meynell, of Willington, 1669 — to Sarah, infant daughter of Eev.
T. Meynell, 1670 — to Dorothy, daughter of Godfrey Meynell, of
Willington, 1674; she was married to (1) James Dangerfield, to (2)
George Jessop, and to (8) John Hutton — to Godfrey Meynell, son
of Rev. T. Meynell, and patron of the church, 1705 — to Thomas
Meynell, eldest son of Godfrey Meynell, 1701 ; died in infancy —
to Catharine Meynell, second daughter of Godfrey Meynell, 1703 —
to Godfrey Meynell, son of Godfrey Meynell, 1758 — to John
Meynell, son of Francis Meynell, of Derby, and his two wives,
1802 — to Godfrey Meynell and his two wives, 1854 — to John
Meynell, of Tapton, eldest son of Godfrey Meynell, 1851 — and to
Lt. William Meynell, who fell at Guergivo, on the Danube, 1854.
There are also monuments to Eev. Charles Wilmot, rector, fifth
son of Eobert, eldest son of Sir Nicholas Wilmot, of Osmaston,
1724 — to Eev. William Cant, patron and rector, "an orthodox and
exemplary divine," 1789 — and to William Bayley Cant, only son of
Eev. W. Cant, 1800.
The following is a copy of a curious document of the year 1702,
relative to the manner of collecting tithes of hay in this parish : —
" The gathering of Hay Tithes was after this manner. After the Inhabitants
had cut the grass and tedded it, or cast it abroad, they cocked it up into rake
cocks, and sent for the titheman to come and take his tenth, who, beginning at
the" entrance of the meadow, counted ten, and pricked a bough or some other
mark of separation, and so up one row and down another till all the meadow was
tithed. And when the owner or his servants came to break his own hay, he
always left a space for the titheman to break the Rector's part, when the tithes
man managed it till it was taken away.
" In this state the tithe of corn and hay was gather'd all Mr. James Holmes
time, who died about the latter end of the year of Our Lord 1644. Mr. Francis
Alsopp succeeded Mr. Holmes in the Rectory (who was put in by the Sequestrators
in the time of the Civil War), and he kept a titheman and gathered his tithes, in
the same manner as Mr. Holmes his predecessor had done before him, all his
time, he died about the latter end of the year of Our Lord, 1655. Mr. Robert
Seddin succeeded Mr. Alsop in the Rectory who kept a titheman and gathered his
tithes in the same manner his predecessor had done before him, he was turned
out for Non-conformity at Bartholomew tide A°. dni. 1662.
" Mr. Thomas Meynell succeeded Mr. Seddin in the Rectory and gather'd his
tithes in the same manner as his predecessors had done before him until the
year of Our Lord 1675, as the said Mr. Meynell let the Rectory out to farm to
Robert Smittam, Inhabitant of this parish of Kirk Langley. *
The flagon and chalice of the Eucharistic plate was the gift of
Lady Francis Kniveton, of Bradley, in the seventeenth century.
* From a document quoted by Mr. Meynell, then (1830) in the possession of Mr.
James Brough.
KIRK LANGLEY. 279
She was also the donor of similar plate to the churches of Ash-
bourne, Bradley, Kniveton, Mugginton, Brailsford, and Osmaston,
much of which is now lost.* "The plate (i.e., paten)," says Mr.
Godfrey Meynell, writing in 1825, " about 16oz. 8dwt., I gave
as there was only a pewter one before. My mother gave the
Crimson Communion Tablecloth, the old one being bluet serge,
and very shabby."
There are three bells in the tower, thus inscribed : —
I. " God save His Church, Tho Doulfin Eic Parber Wardens,
1693."
II. "God save the Church, 1629."
III. " Hec campana sacra fiat Trinitate beata. E. H. T. T.
C. Wardens, 1679. T. M. Minister." We find from the registers
that the names of these two churchwardens were Thomas Taylor
and Eichard Hickling.
There has not been a clock in this tower within the memory of
man, but that there was one formerly is evident from the fact that
the clerk occupies a piece of land, near the Burrows, as a remu-
neration for the imaginary duty of winding it up !
There is no chapelry attached to this parish, but the old Hall of
MEYNELL-LANGLEY contained a chapel of some size. This Hall,
which was built about the time of Henry VIII. and inhabited by
Sir William Bassett — judging from the arms, etc., which used to bo
on the wainscot — was a large building covering three sides of a
square. The whole was taken down by Mr. Meynell in 1757,
except that part wherein was the state-room, lobby, and stairs
leading to the chapel. The chapel was 28 ft. by 20 ft., and "the
ceiling groined with oak in the Gothic way of roofing churches."
It had a large window of four lights in the gable looking to the
east. Adjoining to the chapel was a small apartment known by
the name of the priest's or chaplain's room. Several abbey-tokens,
resembling those discovered in the church, were found under the
floor of the chapel, when it was pulled down in 1834.
* Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., pp. 81, 49.
t May not this have been the old cover of the Lady altar, blue being the colour of
the Blessed Virgin ?
fOflrfttnoptl}.
|T the time of the Domesday Survey, Hugh, Earl of
Chester, held the manor of Markeaton, of which Mack-
worth and Allestree were then considered berewicks or
hamlets. There was at that time a priest and a church on the
manor, though it almost appears from the Survey as if the church
was then at Markeaton and not at Mackworth.* The two manors
have always been held together from a very early period. They
were held by Thomas, son of Eobert Touchet (under the Earl of
Chester), in the reign of Henry III., when he obtained a grant of
free warren over them, which was confirmed to his son Robert by
Edward I.f
But the chartulary of Darley Abbey affords us earlier proof of
the connection of this family with these manors, and of a church
which was undoubtedly situated at Mackworth. About the year
1200, Matthew Touchet was rector of Mackworth church, and in
1238, Simon Touchet was rector, on the presentation of Thomas
Touchet. In the latter year Simon Touchet — with the assent of
the patron (probably his father), of the patron's son Henry, and
of Bishop Alexander de Stavenby — granted to the abbot of Daiiey
tithes of Welleflat, Marledeflat, and Feliceflat, all within the parish
of Mackworth.J
Sir Eobert Touchet, temp. Edward I., was succeeded in his
estates, including the advowson of the church of Mackworth, by
* There is a distinct tradition and belief in the parish that there was an old church
at Markeaton, and a particular field is generally credited with the site.
t Chart. Rot., 36 Henry III. memb. 26; Placito de Quo Warranto, Edw. I.
£ Cott. MSS., Titus C. ix., f. 140. The abbey also held certain cultivated lands in
Mackworth. Markeaton, and Allestree, the gifts of the families of Touchet, Frances,
etc. See ff. 138-MOb.
284 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
his son Thomas, and Thomas by his son John. In the reign of
Eichard II., Sir John Touchet, by his marriage with Joan, daugh-
ter and co-heiress of James, Lord Audley, and by the decease
of her sister Margaret, became entitled to two parts of the barony
of Audley, and took the style of Lord Audley. His grandson,
James, Lord Audley, was attainted for rising in rebellion at the
head of the Cornish men, 12 Henry VII. It was about this time
that the rectory of Mackworth was appropriated to the abbey of
Darley. The abbey had to bind themselves to annual pensions of
6s. 8d. to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, of 7s. to the
dean and chapter of Lichfield, and of 2s. to the priory of Coven-
try, before the episcopal sanction was obtained. The abbey took
the whole of the tithes, but undertook to pay £9 per annum to
the vicar of Mackworth, and 3s. 4d. to the poor of the parish
on Christmas-day. The tithes of this parish were of considerable
value, being estimated at <£30 per annum in 1291, when the
taxation roll of Pope Nicholas IV. was drawn up. The vicar,
according to the Valor Ecclesiastics (27 Henry VIII.), had no
further income beyond the £9, except a manse valued at 8s. per
annum.
The abbot of Darley only enjoyed a single presentation to this
vicarage, when the dissolution of the monasteries intervened.
Foreseeing the storm, the abbey made what they could by selling
the next presentation to one William Ragge. The advowson of
the vicarage afterwards changed hands once or twice, but even-
tually it came to the Mundys, who were lords of the manor and
impropriators of the great tithes, and with them it has remained
for about three centuries.
The tithes did not come directly from the dissolved abbey
by grant to the Mundys, for the abbey, almost immediately before
its overthrow, adopting the same tactics as they did with the ad-
vowson, farmed the whole of the tithes of Mackworth, Markeaton,
and Allestree, on a lease of fifty-three years, to John Shepherd, at
the low annual rental of £10 per annum, but receiving doubtless
a heavy fine in ready money.* But this arrangement does not
seem to have been afterwards recognised by the crown, for the
tithes were soon afterwards in the hands of Ealph Gell, of Hopton,
a large farmer of ecclesiastical property. In 6 Edward VI., the
great tithes were granted to Sir Edward Bray, John Thornton,
and John Danby, coupled with a proviso to insure the annual
* Minifiters' Accounts, Darley Abbey, 31-32 Henry VIII., No. 126.
MACKWORTH. 285
payment of the £9 to the vicar.* Up to that date the Eeceiver
General of the revenues of the monastery had been responsible for
the stipend, according to a decree of the Court of Augmentations,
dated November 28th, 1541. t
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., made the
following inventory at this church : —
"Mackworth, Oct. 1. Thos. Gilbertt Curatt.
" j chalyce of sylver parcell gylt with a cover — ij great belles in the steple & a
lyttell belle in the churche — j hand bell & a lytell bell— iiij vestments, ij albes &
j surplece, whereof j of redd velvet, j of grene velvet, j of grene sylke, & j of
whyt sylke — j cross of tynne."
The Parliamentary Commission, of 1650, affords a proof of the
spiritual destitution of the parish during the Commonwealth : —
" Mackworth is a parsonage and viccaridge impropriate. Francis Mundy Esqr
is Impropriator receives the proffitts w°h are really worth two hundred and fiftye
pounds per annum and procures the cure supplyed as he can agree, destitute at
present."
The following list of rectors and vicars of Mackworth is chiefly
compiled from the Lichfield Registers and the returns of the First
Fruits Office : —
EECTOBS.
1200 circa. Matthew de Tuschet. Darley Chartulary.
1238. Simon de Tuschet; patron, Thomas de Tuschet. He was living in the
year 1285. Darley Chartulary.
1318. Edmund Touscher; patron, Sir Robert Toucher. He obtained leave of
absence for a year at the time of his institution. In the year 1331,
Edmund Touchet, in the presence of Bishop Roger de Norbury, who per-
sonally visited Mackworth to hear and settle the dispute, agreed to give up
all claim to tithes and other dues from a certain place within the parish,
qui vulgariter vocatur Hascowe, held by the abbot and canons of Darley.
The canons were able to produce documents showing their immunity from
tithes for this piece of land from time immemorial, and rector Edmund,
on behalf of himself and his successors, and with the consent of his
" venerable father," Sir Robert Touchet, lord of Mackworth, and patron of
the church, signed an agreement renouncing all such claims for the future.
—Titus C. ix., f. 145b.
1348. John, son of Walter de Folnitt; patron, Thomas Tocher, lord of Markeaton.
On the death of E. T.
1352. John de Ossewell ; patron, John Tocher.
1381. Thomas Touchet.J
1409. John Scot; patron, John Tochet. On the death of T. T.
1409. Thomas Holwell; patron, John Tochet. On the resignation of J. S.
* Pat. Rot., 6 Edw. VI., pt. 9, memb. 28.
t Augmentation Decrees, vol. iii , p. 219. A copy of this document, as well as of
those mentioned in the two preceding notes, were kindly shown to us by the Rev. W.
Gilder, the present vicar.
I Thomas Touchet, rector of Mackworth, in the year 1398, gave lands situate in
Derby, Aston, and Weston, to the Priory of King's Mead, Derby. Inq. post mort., 16
Ric. II., No. 134.
286 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1427. Richard Bernard; patron, James, Lord Audley, and Margaret, his wife.
On the death of T. H.
. Philip More.
1465. Edward Audley ; collated by the Bishop. On the death of P. M.
1466. Thomas Toolne; patron, James, Lord Audley, de Audley. On the resigna-
tion of E. A.
1471. H. Wryght; patron, James, Lord Audley. On the death of T. T.
. Edward Somer; patron, James, Lord Audley. On the death of H. \V.
VICARS.
1509. Edmund Lowe ; patron, the Ahbot of Darley.
1543. Robert Thacker; patron, Robert Ragge, owing to an arrangement between
the lately dissolved Abbey and William Ragge.
. William Pendleton.
1571. Eugo Cart ; patrons, John Wesby, and Katharine, his wife. On the resig-
nation of W. P.
1610. Edward Hinchclyffe. Buried 9th March, 1638. Parish Register.
1639. John Ravensdale. "1642, Mr. John Ravensdale went away." Parish
Register.
. James Hinchclyffe. Signs the registers in 1646. He also seems to have
temporarily served the cure between the ejection of Ogden and the institu-
tion of M. Hope.
1657. Samuel Ogden. Ejected 1662.*
1663. Mark Hope. "Ad presentationem Dni Regis per lapsum temporis aut
quocunque alio modo hac vice Patronis." f On the ejection of S. O.
1695. Jasper Horsington; patron, Francis Mundy. On the death of M. H.
1724. William Laughton; patron, Wrightson Mundy.
1731. John Pickering ; patron, Wrightson Mundy.
1791. William Pickering; patron, Francis Noel Clarke Mundy. On the death of
J. P.
1802. George Pickering; patron, Francis Noel Clarke Mundy. On the death of
W. P.
1858. William Gilder ; patron, William Mundy. On the death of G. P.
The Church, which is dedicated to All Saints, consists of
chancel, with modern north vestry and organ chamber ; nave, with
north and south aisles ; tower at the west end surmounted by a
spire, and large south porch with a parvise over it. The dimen-
sions of the area, according to Mr. Kawlins, are : — nave 43 ft. by
21 ft. 3 in. ; north aisle 27 ft. 6 in. by 12 ft. 7 in. ; south aisle
37 ft. 8 in. by 16 ft. ; and chancel 33 ft. 1 in. by 20 ft. 1 inch.
The present body of the church, with the tower and spire, dates
almost exclusively from the end of the Decorated period, circa
1370-80, when it was evidently rebuilt throughout. The chancel,
which is earlier work of the same period, is about half-a-century
older. It -is a particularly handsome specimen of the style. The
* He was ordained by the Wirksworth Presbytery in 1653, and served the chapels
of Buxton and Fairfield up to 1657, when he moved to Mackwortb. After his ejection
for nonconformity, he taught a private school in Derby; but in 1685 the master of the
Free School proceeded against him in the Court of Arches for teaching to the preju-
dice of the Free School, and won his cause. Sir John Gell, thereupon, gave him the
Free School of Wirksworth, and there he taught until his death in 1697. See a long
account of Samuel Ogden, in Culamy's Ejected Ministers, vol. ii., p. 197.
t Episcopal Registers, vol. xvii., f. 36.
MACKWORTH. 287
buttresses, placed at the right angles at the east end of the
building, are well worked, and crowned with crocketed pinnacles.
There are two two-light pointed windows in the south wall, and
also a priest's door, ornamented with the ball-flower moulding.
The same moulding runs round the exterior cornice of the chancel.
The east window is a beautiful example of four lights, having two
trefoils and a quatrefoil in the upper tracery.
The tracery of this window was renewed at a general restoration
of the church in 1851,* but it is a precise reproduction of the
tracery of its predecessor. Many other parts of the chancel were
then renewed, and the organ chamber and vestry on the north
side were added. At the same time a west gallery in the nave
was abolished, and the old pews removed.
The nave is separated from the aisles by three arches on each
side, supported by octagonal pillars and responds. There are three
small square-headed clerestory windows of two lights, on the north
side, but none on the south. The chancel arch issues from the
walls without corbels or capitals. There is no regular archway
into the tower from the nave, which is rather singular, but only a
large pointed doorway. There are two three-light square-headed
windows in the south wall of the south aisle, and similar ones in
a like position in the north aisle. In the western bay of the
north wall of the latter aisle is a blocked-up plain pointed door-
way. The west window of that aisle is a two-light pointed Deco-
rated window, with simple intersecting mullions. Its date is nearer
to the beginning than the end of the fourteenth century, and it
belongs to an older fabric than the rest of the body of the church.
The east and west windows of the south aisle were renewed
in the Perpendicular style of the latter half of the fifteenth cen-
tury, and are pointed ones of three principal lights. A good bold
wall-plate, something like that at Tideswell church, runs round the
north and south aisles, the south porch, and the tower, showing
they are all of the same date. The tower is somewhat remarkable.
It is divided into two stages by a string course ; it has no west
door, and the lower stage is very plain, except that just below the
string-course, on the west and north, are cross-bow loop holes, t
* The total expenditure on this restoration was ±'1,167 13s. 9id., and it was carried
out, considering the time in which it was done, with much care, and with less
destruction of old parts than might hare been expected.
f Cross-bow loop-holes are of rare occurrence in ecclesiastical architecture. They
may be noted in the battlements of the churches of Pickering and "Winteringliam,
Yorkshire, and Rushton, Northamptonshire ; also in the angular turrets of the tower
of Kettering, Northamptonshire ; but we do not remember any other instance of their
occurring in a similar position to those at Mackworth.
288 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
and another on the south side is now concealed by the clock.
The upper stage of the tower is lighted by large square-headed
windows of two lights, divided by a transom. The parapet is em-
battled, and from it springs an octagonal spire, lighted towards
the summit by four projecting windows.
Against the south wall of the chancel are three ascending sedilia,
and beyond them a piscina, all in trefoiled arches, with hood-
mouldings. At the east end of the south aisle is a piscina in a
small trefoiled niche, which was brought to light in the restora-
tion of 1851. At the east end of the north aisle, flanking the
archway into the organ chamber, but formerly on each side of the
east window, are two richly carved canopied niches of unequal
height. They are of the Perpendicular period, and the window
which was here before the restoration was also of that style, cor-
responding with the similar one in the south aisle. Against the
north wall is a curious arched recess — now occupied by a table
recounting the parish charities — and over it, at a considerable
elevation, is a projecting canopy, exhibiting two ogee-shaped
crocketed arches, with double feathering, surmounted by a small
battlement. This large canopied recess has given rise to a good
deal of antiquarian conjecture, but the old local name for it, as
mentioned in Sir Stephen Glynn's MSS. — the Abbot's Seat— seems
to us to undoubtedly afford the true solution. Not only was this
church appropriated to the abbey of Darley at a late date, but the
abbey possessed considerable landed property here almost from the
very time of its first foundation. Certain fields in the parish are
still known by the name of Abbot's Meadow. Probably one of the
abbots of the adjacent monastery helped to rebuild, or completely
rebuilt this aisle, and what more likely than that he should there
provide for himself and his successors an official seat of a perma-
nent character. A basin-font of comparatively modern date was
in use before the restoration of the church. For it is now sub-
stituted a good font of Caen stone, much resembling that of S.
Mary Magdalene's, Oxford. Some old oak carving, that seems to
have formerly formed part of an ancient screen, is now used to
wainscot the back of a seat within the porch.
In the south wall of the south aisle is a sepulchral arched
recess, having a continuous flowered moulding. Beneath it is an
alabaster slab, seven feet long by twenty-six inches broad, with
the sculptured head and tips of the hands of a priest, sunk in a
quatrefoiled circle. The rest of the slab is occupied by an incised
MACKWORTH. 289
cross, rising from a "calvary'' base. Round the margin is an
inscription, the greater part of which is completely worn away.
All that we can decipher is : — " .... in parte . . . australi . . .
qui obiit .... anno dni M : CCCC nono .... ppiciet: Deus amen.'"
This slab was found under the flooring at the east end of the
south aisle in 1850, but we have little doubt, from the inscription,
and from its fitting this recess, that it is now in its original
position, from which it had been carelessly ejected at some period
when the church was repewed. This recess is certainly that of a
founder or rebuilder, a fact that was probably chronicled on the
inscription when complete. We have little or no hesitation in
assigning this tomb to that member of the manorial family, to
whom allusion has already been made as a benefactor of the
priory of King's Mead — Thomas Touchet — who died in 1409, and
who held the rectory of Mackworth from 1381 until the time of
his death.
Against the east wall of the south aisle is a raised tomb of
brown veined alabaster, on which rests the rather clumsily sculp-
tured effigy of a man dressed in a long gown with hanging sleeves.
Bound the neck and wrists are ruffs, and the beard and hair are
worn short. On the margin of the tomb is inscribed, in Roman
characters,
" Here lyeth Edward Mundy Esquier. He dyed June ye 7, 1607, and Jane his wife,
daughter to William Burnell of Winkburne, Esquier, June y8 17, 1611."
Within a wreath, at the north end of the monument, are the
impaled arms of Mundy (Per pale, gu. and sab., on a cross en-
grailed, arg., five lozenges, purp. ; on a chief, or, three eagles'
legs erased a-la-quise, az.) and Burnell (arg., a lion rampant, sab.,
crowned, or).
In front of the monument are the small effigies of six sons and
two daughters. About the year 1516, John, Lord Audley, sold
the manors of Mackworth and Markeaton to John Mundy, a native
of Winchcombe, Bucks, but then a citizen of London. Sir John
Mundy was Lord Mayor of London in 1522, and died in 1538,
seized of Markeaton, Mackworth, Allestree, etc. His second wife
was Juliana, daughter and co-heiress of William Browne, of
London. On the wall above the monument are the arms, in ala-
baster, of Mundy quartering Browne, who bore — az., a chevron
between three escallops, or, sometimes given within a bordure, or.
Edward Mundy, of the monument, was the eldest son of Vincent
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290 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Mundy, son and heir of Sir John. Vincent was slain by his
fourth son, who bore his own name. The children of Edward
Mundy were (1) Francis, father of John Mundy, mentioned under
Allestree, who died in 1681 ; (2) Henry ; (3) John ; (4; Vincent ;
(5) William ; (6) Zaccheus or Zacchary ; (7) Constance, wife of
Adrian Farnham; and (8) Jane, wife of Thomas Lewis.*
There is now no old glass in this church (except a few flowered
quarries in the north aisle windows), but Mr. Eawlins, who visited
Mackworth in 1818, and again in 1825, thus speaks of the east
window: — "The great east window is very light, having some
grand tracery, much dilapidated towards the summit, but secured
by two cross iron bars, braced round the mullions with rings of
the same metal. In the compartments of this window are five
specimens of delicate painted glass. When I viewed them on
Sept. 23rd, 1818, they appeared, from the strong light cast upon
them, exquisitely beautiful." The centre subject, he adds, was
Abraham at his tent door, and the three angels ; and the others,
Israelites encompassing Jericho, Philip and the Eunuch, Spoiling
the Amalekites, and the Dedication of Solomon's Temple. This
window is now occupied with stained glass of the Four Evan-
gelists, to the memory of Francis Noel Clarke Mundy; and a very
effective and handsome reredos, chiefly composed of Derbyshire
alabaster and marble, has just been erected " In memory of
William Mundy, born 1801, died 1877." To the left hand, on this
reredos, are the arms of Mundy impaling Frampton (arg., a bend,
gu., cotised, sab.), and to the right Mundy impaling Cavendish. t
The east window of the south aisle is of modern stained glass,
and contains the various impalements of the direct line of the
Mundys, of Markeaton, from the commencement of their pedigree,
when John Mundy, temp. Edward I., married Isabel, daughter of
Eobinget Eyre, of Hope.
The parvise, or chamber over the porch, is gained by a circular
staircase within the wall in the north-west angle. This room
formerly had a fire-place and chimney in the south wall, which
were most needlessly and unfortunately done away with in 1851.
It no doubt served as a dormitory for one of the chaplains, or for
* From Mundy pedigree in Nichols' Leicestershire, vol. iv., pt. 2, p. 525. and Pegge's
MSS., Coll. of Arms.
t William Mundy married, in 1830, Harriet Georgiana, daughter of James
Frampton, Esq., of Moreton, Dorset ; Francis Noel Mundy, his son, married, in
1864, Emily Georgiana, daughter of the Hon. Richard Cavendish, of Thornton Hall,
Buckinghamshire.
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a sacristan, who would from thence be able to watch over the
valuables that adorned the side altars, through two cunningly con-
trived " squints," pierced in different directions through the
masonry. The one that commands the south altar terminates out-
wardly in a transverse or cross-bow loop-hole.
Over the doorway into the porch is a graved mural sundial, and
on the stones of the two diagonal buttresses are others. Above
the sundial over the doorway, may be noticed a connecting link
with the older church that stood either on this site, or else at
Markeaton. One of the square-cut stones bears on its face two
parallel lines, which once formed part of the stem of an early
incised sepulchral cross.
There are three bells hi the tower, thus inscribed : —
I. " God save the King, 1662 ; " and the bell-mark of George
Oldfield. Weight, 5 cwt. 2 qr.
II. " Jhesus be our speed, 1612;" and the bell-mark of Henry
Oldfield. Weight, 7 cwt.
III. " God save His Church, 1616 ; " and the bell-mark of
Henry Oldfield. Weight, 8 cwt. 2 qr.
The earliest registers are of the year 1611. "The Eegister
booke of Mackworthe bought by Xofer Bludworthe and John
Croshawe churchwardens A°. dni 1611 — iiij9." There is a curious
license for eating flesh in Lent, under the year 1618 : —
" Whereas the right wor*"11 Francis Mundy, of Markeaton, in the parish of
Mackworth and countie of Derbie Esq, for the avoidinge of the penalties and
dangers of the lawes and statutes made for restrainte of takinge fleshe in Lente,
and in consideracione yl he hath in his howse at dyett or table the right wor11
M" Dorothie Poole, gentlewoman, about the age iiij score yeres, who is verie
weake and sicklie, not able to goe or stand without helpe, hath desired me to
grante License to and for the said Dorothie Poole to eate flesh for and duringe
the tyme of her sicknesse, wch I have thought fittinge and in regarde of the
consideracioiies aforesaid to be most true, and doe herebie graunte Lycense unto
the said Dorothie Poole to eate fleshe for and duringe the tyme of her sickness,
according to the lawes and statutes of this realem in y* case made and provided,
and hereunto I have putt my hand the ixth daie of Februarie in the reigne of
Kinge James of England the xvjth and of Scotland the lijd An. Dni. 1618, by me
" Edward Hinchclyffe, clerk." *
* For other instances of post-Reformation licenses to eat meat in Lent, see Churches
of Derbyshire, vol. Hi., p. 363, and the previous account of S. Alkmund's in this
volume. Henry VIII. permitted the use of white meats by proclamation of 1543,
which continued in force until 1618, when James I., by proclamation, wholly forbade
meat in Lent, a proclamation which was repeated by him in 1625, and again by
Charles I. in 1627 and 1631. The dispensations granted by those holding parochial
cures were given under a statute of 5 Elizabeth, by virtue of which they could sell
licenses according to the rank of the applicants ! Is this statute repealed ?
292" DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Soon after the induction of John Ravensdale to the vicarage,
1639, the following interesting inventory of Church Goods was
inserted at the end of the first Register Book : —
The goods belonginge to the Parish Church of Mackworth.
1. A church bible of the last Translations.
2. A Common booke for the minister.
3. A Common booke for the Clark.
4. Jewells Apology against Hardinge.
5. Booke of the Canons. (In a later hand) Mr Rausdale tooke away.
6. A silver cup with a cover or plate to lay bread on.*
7. A pewter flaggon.
8. A Carpet of greene for the Communion Table.f
9. A table cloth for the Communion Table.
10. A Surplesse for the minister. (In a later hand) Taken away by Souldiers
and William Uclton (?) in warr tyme.
11. Divers towells for the seattes in the ChancelLJ (In a later hand) Taken
away in Alexander Beiietts and Tho. Lassells tyme.
12. This Register booke, consisting of 27 leaves.
Ita testantur John Ravensdale, Minister
William Jackson )
Thomas Parker I Churchwardens
and 12 others.
Appended to this inventory are the following additions : — ' ' A
ladder, a chest, a pulpit cushion, and a boxe to carry bread and
the cup and cover in at the Communion." The last entry is
certainly noteworthy, and almost looks as if there had been
reservation of the Blessed Sacrament for the sick, as in the
Church of Scotland at the present day.
In the vestry is a parish chest, bearing the date 1640. The
ironwork of the hinges and clamps is unusually well-nuished and
handsome.
* This plate is now in use. The hall-mark shows it to be of the year 1627-8.
f Probably this was the old altar frontal for ferial or ordinary use. The ferial
colour of the Use of Sarum was red, but there are good reasons for supposing, as has
been already stated under Crich, etc., that Derbyshire followed the Use of Lincoln.
£ This looks as if the sedilia were then in use. Probably the " towells " were
embroidered seat cloths of pre-Reformation date.
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etjapelrg of
|LLESTEEE, from its earliest foundation, seems to have
been a chapel of Mackworth, and the rectors of the
mother church were bound to find a chaplain for the
daily celebration at its altar.
The Church Goods Commissioners, temp. Edward VI., give the
following inventory for this chapel : —
" Alestre, Oct. 5. Tho. Harryson curate.
" j chalyce parcell gylte — iij bells of acorde in ye Stepull — j handebell — j sacryng
bell — j senser — j holy water bucket of brass — ij cruetts— iiij aulter clothes — ij
towells — ij vestments — j cope of sylke — iij corporis clothes & cases, j of red
velwet, ij of crule — j olde cope of sylke."
The Parliamentary Survey of Livings, 1650, says : —
"Allestree is a viccaridge and parsonage impropriate worth about three score"
pounds per annum the same Mr Francis Mundye is Impropriator receives the
prontts and procures the place supplyed. Mr Botham is curate insufficient and a
drunkard.
" Allestree is a small parish and. may conveniently be united to Aukmonds in
Derby it lyning neare."
The Commissioners were wrong in speaking of Allestree as a
vicarage and a district parish. It remained a parochial cbapelry
of Mackworth until recent years, when, under legislation of the
present reign, it secured its independence and was gazetted a
vicarage in 1868. When Mackworth was appropriated to Darley
Abbey, the tithes of Allestree also became the property of the
monastery, and they subsequently, like those of Mackworth, came
into the hands of the Mundys. Allestree was served either by the
vicar of Mackworth, or by a curate of his appointment.
On November 16th, 1682, an Inquisition was held at Derby,
before Eowland Okeover, Thomas Eudyard, Matthew Smyth, Henry
Lowe, Joseph Parker, and Gervas Eaynor, by virtue of a commis-
sion for the due execution of a statute of 34 Elizabeth, entitled,
294 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
" An Act to redresse the misimployment of Lands Goods and Stocks of
money heretofore given to Charitable Uses," when it was found that the
rents and profits of "certain closes or parcells of ground situate
lying and being in Marion als Marke Eaton feilde in the parish of
Mackworth, called Sawcy Hill, formerly lying open in the saide
feilde and now inclosed and divided into three closes," had, from
time immemorial, until about twenty-eight years ago, been employed
towards the repair of the parish church of Allestree, "called^ St.
Edmund's." This was proved, not only by the oaths of divers
credible witnesses, but by the production oi several leases between
the churchwardens and other inhabitants; the oldest being for a
moiety of the premises on a thirty years lease for 22d. yearly rent,
86 Henry VIII., between the wardens of S. Edmund's and one
Eichard Kindar; and the most recent one, 18 James I., for the
whole land at an annual rent of 33s. 4d. It was also stated on
oath that "one John Muudy late of Marke Eaton Esqr," in the
year 1654, " being then Lord of the Manor of Allestry aforesaid
and a powerfull man and takeiug advantage of the then rebellious
and distracted tymes, caused the then Tenant of the said Sawcy
Hill to Attorne Tennt to him, and since that tyme the said John
Mundy received the Bents of the said grounds and withheld the
same from the parish Church of Allestry till the tyme of his
death, which was on the nineteenth day of March then last, and
that after his death William Mundy Esqr, Son and Heire of the
said John Mundy, possessed himselfe of the said grounde and
withheld the same till he dyed, which was the two and twentieth
day of September last past, After whose death Francis Mundy
Esq1, Son and Heire of the said William Mundy, possessed himself
of the said Sawcy Hill," and still withheld it from the church of
S. Edmund's.
It was further proved by "ancient witnesses" that a cottage
and certain lands situate in Micklemeadow, Abbeyfield, Crosshill-
field, etc., etc., in Allestree, had also belonged to the church for its
repair from time immemorial. The wardens leased this property,
10 Charles I., to one Thomas Peate for twenty-one years, at a
rental of 40s., and at its expiration, in consideration -of a fine of
£20 laid out upon the church, renewed the same for life. Four
years later that lease expired, and then John Mundy got the then
tenant to " Attorne " to him the property, and it had been with-
held from the church ever since.
Evidence was also given on oath of the value of the lands whilst
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they were held by the Mundys, and that "John Mundy dyed pos-
sessed of a very great personal! estate, and that Gilbert Mundy of
Allestry gent1 and Edward Mundy gent1, Two of his younger
Sonnes, Adniinistred of a great part thereof to the value of above
Six Thousand pounds."
The Commissioners, after hearing all the evidence that could be
adduced by the Mundys, and after having adjourned their sitting
at the request of Sir Simon Degge, counsel for the defendants,
until January, met finally on May 5th, 1683, and decreed that
Francis Mundy should within one month yield up to the Church-
wardens of Allestree the whole of the lands in dispute, " from
henceforth forever hereafter to be imployed disbursed and layd
forth in repairs of the said parish Church of Allestry," and further
that Gilbert and Edward Mundy, as administrators of Jphn Mundy,
should within one month pay to the churchwardens £63 13s. 4d.,
for the rents received by John Mundy in his lifetime, and a further
sum of £7 for the costs of the suit.*
The church, which is dedicated to S. Edmund, and not to S.
Andrew, as has been several times asserted of late years, was con-
siderably rebuilt and enlarged in 1866-7, and now consists of nave,
north and south aisles, south porch, chancel with north chapel and
south vestry, and tower at the west end. Its dimensions, as taken
by Mr. Eawlius in 1825, were — nave, 33 ft. 7 in. by 19 ft. 3 in. ;
north aisle, 56 ft, by 9 ft. ; and chancel, 30 ft. 7 in. by 16 ft. 9 in.
When the church was rebuilt in 1865-6, a south aisle was added.
The only parts of the old fabric now remaining are the south
doorway, parts of the east wall of the chancel, and the tower.
From south views of the old church, taken by Messrs. Meynell and
Rawlins, as well as from an artistic south-west drawing taken just
before its demolition, f we find that the chancel had a priest's door
in the south wall, flanked by two two-light pointed windows of.
fourteenth century date. In the south wall of the nave was a
three-light window of the same style and date. The chancel had
a steep-pitch roof, but the walls of the nave had been raised in
the Perpendicular period, and three square-headed clerestory windows
inserted below the embattled parapet.
Sir Stephen Glynn, who visited Allestree May 6th, 1866, says : —
* From " A true Coppy examined by Jo: Hayne, Clerke to y« Commissioners," in
the parish chest at Mackworth. There is a modern copy of the same decree with the
parish papers at Allestree.
t Drawings of the Derby Facsimile Society, vol. i. The same volume also contains
a very good drawing of the Norman doorway, and another plate of the old font and
other details by Mr. Bailey.
296 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
" This church at the above date was dismantled, the nave in
course of rebuilding, but not far advanced. The tower remaining
entire, and the chancel partially so. On the south of the nave a
very fine Norman doorway is preserved; the outer moulding has a
kind of wheel ornament, another has bold beak-heads 011 a cylinder
— the inner shallow chevrons, and with one order of shafts. The
tower is plain and poor, of three stages, with meagre parapet and
four ugly pinnacles (now removed), no west window or door.
Good base mouldings, flattish buttresses. Belfry windows of two
unfoiled lights, except on the east, which is a single long trefoiled
light. In the stage below the belfry are plain slit openings. The
tower is enlarged at the west end of the north aisle, rising on
short pointed arches, the one opening to the nave on octagonal
corbels with bold male and female heads, fairly sculptured."
The corbel-heads, mentioned by Sir Stephen Glynn, were unfor-
tunately removed after his visit. The old south doorway is a
particularly good specimen of late Norman work. The carving of
the jambs is unique and specially noteworthy. It has been supposed
to represent the parable of the Sower, and the devil plucking the
seed out of the hearts of the hearers; but we scarcely think it will
bear any other interpretation than the caprice of the sculptor.
The tower is undoubtedly, in the main, of the Early English style
of the beginning of the thirteenth century.
The left hand side of the road leading to Mackworth, on the
verge of the village of Allestree, is flanked by a stone wall that
is obviously composed of previously well-cut masonry. Here we
noted a large stone, upon which are carved in relief three quatre-
foils in panels. Another stone is sciilptured with a free running
pattern. We believe that the first of these stones formed part
of the coping, and the other, part of the doorway jamb, of a
fourteenth century stone screen or septum (like that at Chelmor-
ton), which used to divide the chancel from the nave. Probably
it was turned out when the church was thoroughly re-pewed, etc.,
in 1637.
Some remains of black-letter texts in ornamental borders were
found on each side of the east chancel window. They were of
Elizabethan date. There was also some scroll work at the west
end of the nave. In the south chancel wall is a piscina with a
trefoiled head; the lower part has been renewed. In the north
wall of the church was found a well-designed incised cross, having
the floriated limbs of the head in a circle. It seems to be of
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Norman date, and is probably coeval with the south doorway. It
now rests under a founder's sepulchral arch in the north wall of
the chancel. Possibly this stone may have been originally over the
interment of the first builder of a church or chapel on this site,
but the plainly-moulded archway, beneath which it now rests, is of
much later date, and was constructed for the founder or rebuilder
of this church at the beginning of the fourteenth century. When
Bassano was here in 1710, he noted, under this arch, " an old
tomb of stone raised one foot high, and a little above centre of
arch, upon a stone appearing o'lt of ye wall, on a shield is a chev-
ron, and in ye uppermost part of south window of chancel in glass is
Ermine a chevron gules. Ye same are in north window of church,
and in another north window Argent a chevron between three
eagles displayed sable (Franceys of Allestree)." * The first of these
coats is that of Touchet, of Mackworth, and Bassano's description
makes it certain that the rebuilder of this church was one of that
family, as might be expected from their owning the subordinate
manor of Allestree.
The old font, which stood at the west end of the north aisle,
was a good and rather unusual specimen of fifteenth century work-
manship. Mr. Meynell took a drawing of it in 1814. It was of
octagon shape, and on each face was a six-leaved rose within a
quatrefoil ; the margin was embattled. It was in very fairly good
condition at the time of the rebuilding of the church, but was unfor-
tunately discarded for one of modern manufacture. The old font
was handed over to the clergyman of an adjacent parish, since
promoted to the Colonial Episcopate, in the expectation that it was
to be used in another church. On inquiry, we find that its new
possessor absolutely ordered its demolition, lest it should be used
" for any superstitious purposes ! " And thus ends the history of
this well- chiselled stone font, wherein for four centuries the Church
had dedicated the little ones of Allestree to God ; it fell a victim
to Puritanical ignorance. But possibly better so, than that it .
should have survived to meet with the painful desecration to which
so many old Derbyshire fonts have been exposed, as mentioned in
these pages.
* The wide-spread and wealthy family of Frances, of Derbyshire, is first met with
at Osmaston. The chief branches of the family were for many centuries at Ticken-
hall, Foremark, and Ingleby, see Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., pp. 459-63, 467-8,
etc. One of the rather conflicting pedigrees of this family at the College of Arms
styles Robert Franceys, temp. Edward III., as " de Allestree et de Formarke;" and
both William and Hugo Franceys, father and grandfather of Robert, are also styled
"de Allestree " in another pedigree (Harl. MSS.. 1,537, f. 3).
298 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHKS.
In the chancel are a large number of mural monuments, as well
as some slabs on the floor within the altar rails, to the Mundy
family: — John Muudy, 1681, aged 81, eldest son of Francis Mundy,
of Markeaton — Anne, youngest child of Sir Francis Coke, and wife
of John Mundy, by whom he had eleven children, 1615 (the date
now gone)— Adrian Mundy, of Quarndon, third son of Francis
Mundy, another grandson of Edward Mundy of the Mackworth
monument, 1677 * — William Mundy, sou and heir of John Mundy,
1682 ; but the date is now missing — Frances, wife of William and
mother of Francis Mundy, 1672 ; she was the daughter of Gilbert
Coke, second son of Sir Francis Coke, of Trusley — Mary, the wife
of Gilbert Mundy, of Allestree, 1695 ; Gilbert was High Sheriff of
Derbyshire in 1697, and one of the younger sons of John Mundy ;
from him is descended the Shipley branch of the family — Gilbert,
son of Gilbert Mundy, of Allestree, 1701—" Collonel Eobert Mundy,"
third son of Gilbert Mundy, Esq., of this town, 1708 — Wrightson
Charles Mundy, third son of Wrightson Muudy, 1755 — four children
of Francis Mundy and Sarah his wife, 1804-23 — Francis Muudy,
1837, and his wife Sarah, 1836..
Several of the Mundy memorials seem to have disappeared . of
late years. We failed to notice the following, which were described
in 1812 by Mr. Meynell :— Gilbert Mundy, of Allestree, 1709—
Wrightson Mundy, fourth son of Francis Mundy, 1750 — Wrightson
Mundy, 1762, and Ann his wife, 1759 — Betty, first wife of Francis
Noel Clarke Mundy, 1768 — Elizabeth, second wife of the same,
1807.
It is rather curious that the Mundys of Markeaton, after using
Mackworth church for interment for three generations, should have
then moved to the parochial chapel of Allestree.
In the north chancel chapel are several modern memorials to
the family of Evans, of Allestree Hall.
There are three bells in the tower, thus inscribed : —
I. " Mary : Sadler, Churchwarden. G. Hedderly fecit Nottm,
1790."
II. " God save His Church, 1711 "
III. " I to the Church the living call
& to the grave do summons all, 1781.
Joseph & Francis Sadler, Churchwardens. Tho8 Hedderly founder
Nottm." The weight of this bell is 8 cwt. 26 Ibs.
The registers of the parochial chapelry of Allestree begin in
* Nichols' pedigree gives the date of his death, iu error, as 1662.
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1596, and are in fair condition. In the early pages we find the
names of John Ridge and John Botham as curates. Jasper
Horsington is described as "curate of Allestree, vicar of Mackworth,
curate of Quarndon, and one of ye Friday Lecturers at All Saints
in Derby." In 1634 William Darby shire was curate. There are
very few entries between 1643 and 1651. Under the year 1685
occurs the following entry : —
"A copie of this register was taken to ye Visitation of y6 Archbishop of Can-
terbury held by Dr Lake Bishop of Bristol at All Sts Church in Derby y« 11th
day of September, Bishop Wood* being suspended. The Profits sequestred in
order to build ye Palace which ye Bishop neglected."
There is a volume of Churchwardens' Accounts, beginning in
1618, but having many gaps, and in a fragmentary condition. In
1618 the total sum laid out on the church was £1 16s. 7d., of
which 2s. 8d. was for " mending bel frame." The church seems to
have been repewed in 1637, when the total account was £15 13s. 4d.
1637. For boards and timber church repair ... .. ' ... ... i'9 0 o
,, At the Articleing about y* seats ... ... ... ... 4
„ At severall times upon the workmen in Ale ... ... •... 1 0
„ One load of bords out of Kedleston park ... ... .. 20
1643. For Glasinge the Church widdoes ... ... ... ... 12 0
1662. July 2d An assessment then granted for the settinge upp of the Kings Armes
and some necessary repayres about the Church.
* " Eesiding at Hackney, in Middlesex, in a mean house in which he was born,
Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, called him to repair to his diocese ; which man-
date the bishop disobeying, the archbishop suspended him, and imposed the building
of the present palace of Lichfield upon him, as a fine for the waste of the woods
belonging to the see." — Harwood's History of Lichfield, p. 156. Bishop Wood was
suspended by Archbishop Sancroft, on July 9th, 1684— pro absentia sua a sua Diocesi
neglectu officii sui et omnibus aliis criminibus contra eum allegatis et probalis (San-
croft's Register, Lambeth Library, f . 308). The history of this miserable man, both as
Dean of Lichfield and subsequently as Bishop, is almost incredible and most painful.
He has fairly been termed "an episcopal old heathen."— See Waters' Genealogical
Memoirs of Chester of Chicheley,
|T the time of the Domesday Survey (1086) the manor of
Mickleover, with its berewicks of Littleover, Findern, and
Potlock, was held by the Abbot of Burton. In the time
of Edward the Confessor it had been a royal manor, worth twenty-
five pounds, but it was then only estimated at ten pounds. Probably
this depreciation in value was caused by the havoc incidental on
the incursion of the Normans, especially as we find mention made
of the sites of two mills. No church or chapel is named in the
Domesday Book as then extant on the manor. Perhaps the
ecclesiastical buildings had shared the fate of the mills, or it may
be only one of the instances of omissions to note churches by the
Domesday scribes. At all events, we know that there were four
houses of God on this manor in the reign of William the Con-
queror ; for that monarch gave to the monks of Burton the town
of Mickleover, with its church ; the town of Littleover, with its
chapel ; the town of Findern, with its chapel ; and the town of
Potlock, with its chapeL*
From the taxation roll of Pope Nicholas IV. (1291), where
Mickleover is spoken of as an ecclesia, and not a vicarage, it
would appear that the tithes had not then been appropriated to
the monastery, but that the abbot had merely the presentation to
the rectory. At that date the rectory was valued at £16 13s. 4d.,
and the various temporalities of the manor at a total of
£19 17s. lOd. In the next century, we find the tithes appro-
priated, and a vicar nominated by the abbot, in whose hands
would doubtless be the appointment of chaplains for the three
chapelries.
* Dugdale's Monasticon vol. i. pp. 271, 272.
304 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
According to the Valor Ecdesiasticus (27 Henry VIII.) the rectory
of Mickleover cum membris was of the annual value of £8 13s. 4cl. ;
and the manor, according to one estimate, brought into the monas-
tery an annual total of £46 16s. 2d., and, according to another
estimate, the larger sum of £56 5s. Id. The vicarage, which
was endowed with the tithes of hay, pigs, geese, flax, hemp, lambs,
and wool, together with the Easter offerings, and certain of the
tithes of grain,* was estimated at the yearly value of £9 11s. 6d.
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., give the
following inventory of this church : —
" Mykylover. Oct. 5. Sir Nicholas Coton Vicar.
" j chalys of sylver with the patent — ij lytle bells in the steple — ij copes — iiij
vestments of sylke of dyverse colors — ij surples — ij albes — j amyses — j cross of
bras — ij alter clothes — ij towels — ij handbells — ij copes be off sylke (sarcenet)
& off dyverse."
The Parliamentary Commission of 1650, to inquire into the value
of benefices, thus reports of this parish : —
"Mickleworth is a viccaridge having two chappells apperteyuing, really worth
one hundred pounds per annum (vizt) Mickleover itselfe fiftye pounds, Littleover
twentye fowre pounds, and Finderne six and twentye pounds. M* William
Harcott is viccar, a man insufficient and scandalous. Finderne being two myles
distant may conveniently be united to Willington lying neare it."
On the dissolution of the monasteries, Henry VIII. granted the
manor of Mickleover, with its appurtenances, including the ap-
propriated tithes and the advowson of the vicarage, to his secre-
tary, Sir William Paget. Thomas, Lord Paget, sold the property
to Sir Thomas Gresham. It then devolved to Sir William Eeade,
Lady Gresham's son by a second husband. Sir William's daughter
and heiress married Sir Michael Stanhope, who had three daugh-
ters, his co-heiresses, between whom these estates were divided.
In 1648, Edward Wilmot purchased two of these shares (Little-
over and Findern), of whose descendant, Sir Eobert Wilmot, of
Chaddesden, they were purchased in 1801 by Edward Sacheverell
Chandos Pole. The remaining third (Mickleover) was sold in
1648 to Sir John Curzon, but was re-purchased of the Curzons by
Mr. Newton, who died in 1789. The ancestor of Mr. Newton,
Robert Newton, who died in 1619, had previously inherited the
manor-house of Mickleover by marriage with the heiress of William
Gilbert, to whom it had been sold by Sir Thomas Gresham. Mr.
* We find from subsequent documents, that the vicar of Mickleover was endowed
with one-third of the rectorial tithes (i.e., tithes of grain), a most exceptional arrange-
ment, making this benefice unusually wealthy for a vicarage.
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Newton did not, however, purchase the share of the impropriate
tithes and advowson of the Curzons,- so that Lord Scarsdale still
holds one turn in the presentation to the vicarage, and the Poles
the remaining two.
The following is as complete a list of the vicars as we have
been able to compile from the Episcopal Kegisters, and the returns
of the First Fruits Office. The abbots of Burton being always
patrons in pre-Beformation days, it has not been thought necessary
to repeat their names as patrons : —
1350. John le Parker. Collated by the Bishop.
1361. John Hardynge. On the death of J. le P.
. John de Weylonby.
1375. William de Rosteleston. On the death of John de W.
1375. John de Wylynton. W. de B., the previous vicar, died of the plague at a
time when it was raging in Derbyshire.
1389. Alan Leeke.
1400. John de Fyndern. On the resignation of Alan Leeke, to whom was
secured a pension out of the fruits of the vicarage.
1422. Thomas Crull.
1423. William Cook, rector of Crofte, Lincoln, exchanged benefices with T. C.,
vicar of Mickleover.
1428 William Hawton.
. John Turner.
1436. James Foljambe. On the resignation of J. T.
1438. Richard Somersale. On the resignation of J. F.
.... William Gadesby. On the death of B. S.
1440. Richard Roton. On the resignation of W. G.
1449. Thomas Sharpe. On the resignation of B. B.
. Richard Hethcote.
1489. Richard Wode. On the death of B. H.
1505. Christopher Chaveney. On the death of B. W.
1526. Nicholas Coton; patrons, Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, Bichard Coton, and
Bichard Clerke de Hamstall Bidware, by grant from the Abbey of Burton.
On the death of C. C.
1554. John Fenton ; patron, Bichard Barslowe, by arrangement with the dissolved
Abbey of Burton.
. Robert Bannecroft. Buried April, 1607. Parish Registers.
1650. William Harcott. Parliamentary Commission.
165-. Samuel Charles;* patron, Sir John Curzon.
1662. Samuel Bold; patron, Edward Wilmot. On the ejection of S. C.
1667. Thomas Hosier; patron, Edward Wilmot.
1669. Elizeus Farneworth ; patron, Bichavd Carrow, for this turn.
1691. John Ward ; patron, John Wilmot.
1740. Richard Wilmot; patron, Bobert Wilmot, for this turn.
* Samuel Charles was born at Chesterfield in 1633, and educated at Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge. He was ordained, after the Presbyterian manner, in 1655, and
first served the church at Kniveton. Then he resided in Sir John Gell's house at
Hopton, from whence he was promoted to Mickleover vicarage by Sir John Curzon.
After his ejection he chiefly lived at Hull, where he was much persecuted for his
nonconformity, once undergoing a term of six months' imprisonment. Calamy's
Ejected Ministers, vol. ii., pp. 182-7.
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1772. John Ward; patron, Richard Stanton Wilmot Sitwell, for this turn. On
the death of R. W.
1820. Frederick Emanuel Hippolyte Curzon ; patron, Sir Robert Wilmot, of
Chaddesden. On the death of J. W.
1872. Reginald Canning Bindley; patron, Lord Scarsdale. On the death of
F. E. H. C.
The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, consists of nave,
north and south aisles, south porch, chancel, with north vestry,
and tower at the west end. It underwent an extensive restoration
in 1858, and is justly described by Sir Stephen Glynn, who visited
it in 1864, as "a respectable church, fairly restored, and in good
order." A new porch was built, at the time of the restoration, in
place of a comparatively modern one of brick, the north aisle was
lengthened, a north vestry built, and other extensive repairs, both
internal and external, were then effected.
All the old features of this church are of the same date, viz., of
the Decorated style, circa 1310-30. Mr. Meynell mentions a tra-
dition that the older church was destroyed by fire, and this is
corroborated by the evident fact that the church was not in any
way "restored" about that date, but completely rebuilt. Unfor-
tunately our efforts to obtain a sight of the old chartulary of
Burton Abbey, which ought to be among the Anglesea muniments,
have been unavailing ; and it would be there, if anywhere, that we
might naturally expect to find evidence respecting such a catas-
trophe. In the south wall of the south aisle are a pair of two-
light pointed Decorated windows, without any foliation. In the
south wall of the chancel is a two-light window, and another of
three-lights of the same character. The priest's doorway is
circular headed, but is nevertheless of Decorated date. The
arrangement of the hood-mould over this doorway, which runs on
into the string course, is rather peculiar. At the south-east angle
of the chancel is a good rectangular buttress. On the north side
of the chancel is an old two light pointed window corresponding
with the others. The east window is of three lights and filled
with geometrical tracery; this window, as well as the windows of
the north aisle, and those at the east and west end of the south
aisle, were new in 1858.
A south-east drawing of this church, taken in 1820, by Mr.
Meynell, and one taken in 1825 by Mr. Eawlins, show us a single
steep-pitched lead-covered roof, covering both nave and aisles, with
a dormer window in the roof, which probably gave light to a
MICKLEOVER. 307
gallery. On the west wall of the tower was the weather-line of
the older high-pitched roof. There was a debased square-headed
window of three-lights in the south wall of the aisle, and the east
chancel window was a tall narrow pointed one of two lights. Mr.
Eawlins describes the entrance from the nave to the chancel as
being through a wooden arch, near to which were the remains of
a piscina.
The nave has on each side an arcade of four pointed arches,
three being uniform, and supported on octagonal pillars, but the
eastern ones narrow and springing at once from the wall. These
arcades were considerably restored in 1858, especially on the north
side. On the north side of the chancel is a stone lectern, sup-
ported by a corbel head, and just beyond it a large square
almery recess (Plate II.) Against the east wall, to the north
side of the window, is a finely moulded large bracket, supported
by a female head. Against the south wall is a piscina, having a
trefoiled arch, an octofoil drain, and a stone credence shelf, which
stretches across the outside of the moulding. The sill of the south
chancel window has been cut down for a sedilia bench. In the
vestry, over the chimney-piece, is a stone corbel, carved into a
female head, with the horned head-dress of the fifteenth century.
The archway into the tower is a narrow pointed one, springing
from corbels. The west window is of the same character and
date as the other old windows of the nave and chancel. The
tower is supported at the west by shallow rectangular buttresses,
which die down into the wall-plate. The whole of the tower is of
the Decorated period, though the embattlements and short pin-
nacles have doubtless been renewed at a later date.
The font is a modern one, its predecessor having been unfor-
tunately discarded. The old font may still be seen, in very fairly
good condition, in a cottage garden to the left of the entrance to
the churchyard. It is an octagon chalice- shaped font, of Decorated
date, 28 in. in diameter, and standing 32 in. above the garden
mould in which it is planted. It serves as a flower vase.
When Bassano was here in 1710, he noted on one of the beams
of the roof — "yules a cross floure or." It seems probable that this
was intended for the arms of the old family of Burnaston, of
Burnastou.
Dr. Pegge, circa 1775, says of this church — "there were inscrip-
tions on tombstones of ye Newton s in ye Chancel, but they are
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quite worne out by boys trampling and playing therein, school
being frequently taught there." *
There are now no old monuments within the church.
In the tower are three bells : —
I. "God save the Church, 1657," and the mark of George
Oldfield.
II. "John Campion C. W. Thomas Hedderley, Founder, 1742."
III. "Jhesus be our spede, 1591," and the mark of Henry
Oldfield.
The registers begin on May 3rd, 1607.
* Pegge's MSS., vol. v., f. 193.
LITTLEOVER. 309
Cfjapcto of Utttlcofoer.
I HE RE is no ecclesiastical history pertaining to this
ciiapelry of which we are aware, other than that which
has been already recorded under the mother church of
Mickleover.
The <Jhurch Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., say: —
" Lytall Ovar. Oct. 5. J. Stones prest & curate.
"j chales of sylver with the paten — ij lytill bells in the steple — j hand bell —
ij vestements — j surples — j of the vestments of black chamlett, & y* other of rede
crule and grene — j crosse of brasse — ij towells — ij aulter cloythes — j cope of rede
saye — j lytell sacrynge bell — j corporas — j cruett — j old torne vestment of rede
sylke."
The church, which is dedicated to S. Peter, consists of nave,
north aisle, chancel with north vestry, and bell turret on the west
gable. The dimensions of the ground plan are — nave 38 ft. 9 in.
by 16 ft. 3 in. ; north aisle 35 ft. 6 in. by 5 ft. ; and chancel
24 ft. 5 in. by 15 ft. 2 in.
In the west gable of the nave is a round-headed Norman door-
way, rather late in the style. It is now blocked up. The indented
capitals and the bases to the jamb shafts remain, but the shafts
themselves are missing. The font, which is a massive circular
one, is also of this period. It is 35 inches in diameter, and the
same iu height.
The chancel and nave windows are of the 14th century, and are
of much the same style and date as those of Mickleover. The
church seems to have been very thoroughly restored in the
Decorated period. There is a pointed priest's doorway in the south
chancel wall, and in the interior is a plain piscina niche. In
310 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1872 the north organ chamber and vestry were built, the chancel
floor tiled, quire stalls introduced, and an effective reredos placed
below the east window. The old bell-turret was a singularly ugly
square wooden erection, as we learn from the drawings of Messrs.
Meynell and Kawlins.
Against the north wall of the chancel is a costly monument to
Sir Richard Harpur and his lady. The knight is represented in
a long gown with hanging sleeves, and the lady in a ruff, black
dress, and hood. They are kneeling at a desk, on which are the
arms of Harpur (an/., a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed,
sab.) impaling Beresby (gu., on a bend, arg., three cross crosslets
fitchee, sab.) Below are three boys kneeling, an infant swathed in
its chrysom, and three girls also kneeling. On a panel is the
following inscription : —
"Richardus Harpur Miles justiciarius Pacis & Quorum ad annos triginta &
quinque Justiciariorum hujusce Comitatus dura vixit antiquissimus necnon ejusdem
vice prefectus ad annos quamplurimos. In uxorem duxit Maria filiam Thomse
Eeresby de Thribur in Comitatu Eborocensi armigeri, prolemque ex ea habuit
quator filias & tres fllias. Obiit Martii 16° A.D. 1635."
There is also on the monument the quartered coat of Harpur,
Findern, Brock, and "Wellington.*
Chief Justice Harpiir, whose monument we described at length
under Swarkeston church, had, by his wife Joan, sister and heiress
to Thomas Findern, of Findern, two sons, Sir John Harpur, of
Swarkeston, and Sir Eichard Harpur, of Littleover. The Harpur
property at Littleover came to them through Fiudern, and the Old
Hah1 of Littleover was built by the Chief Justice. The names of
the sons of Sir Eichard Harpur of the monument were Richard,
John, Henry, and Jasper, who all died without issue, except John,
who became rector of Moiiey, and of whom we shall have more to
say in our subsequent account of that church.
On a tomb in this church, which has long ago disappeared,
was this inscription, as read in 1662: —
"Hie jacet Ricus Sanson Ar: et Dorothea uxor ejus filia Radi Sacheverel de
Radcliffe Ar: qui Ricus obiit "f
Mary, another daughter of Ralph Sacheverell, by Joan, daughter
of Sir John Curzon, of Kedleston, was married to Thomas Findern,
* See Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 499, also previous account of the monu-
ment in the chancel of Denby church. This monument was repaired and repainted
in 1872, and, as is usually the case, some one has been employed who was ignorant of
heraldry, so that several of the tinctures axe wrong.
t Dodsworth's MSS., Bodleian Library, as quoted in Reliquary, vol. xii., p. 219.
LITTLEOVEK. 311
of Findern, and hence probably ensued the marriage of her sister
Dorothy with a gentleman of this neighbourhood.
In Bassano's Church Notes (1710) it is mentioned that there
was "upon ye verge of ye canopy of ye pulpit — 'The gift of
Kichard Harpur, Bachler.'" This would be the eldest son of Sir
Eichard of the monument. He died in 1676, and there used to
be a monument to his memory in the chancel.
In the bell turret is a single modern bell.
The registers date from the year 1680. Littleover is now an
ecclesiastical parish, and the benefice an independent vicarage.
312 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
of
|LL the early ecclesiastical history that we have been able
to glean of Findern — and it is but little — has been given
under the mother church of Mickleover. It is now, like
Littleover, an independent vicarage, having a distinct ecclesiastical
parish of its own.
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., give the
following rather full inventory of this chapel : —
"Fyndern, Oct. 5. Ambrose Bradshawe curate.
" j chalys of sylver parcell gylte wyth a cover — j vestyment of red russett —
j vestyment of serge imbroidired whyth sylke— j coope of redde russett — j serples
of flaxen clothe — iij alter clothez of flaxen — j corporis case of blacke velvett—
j corporas case of redde sarcenett— j canape of brass — ij candelstycks of maslen* —
ij flaxen towells — j hand bell — ij bells in ye steple — j lytyll sacryng bell — j pyxe
of maslen — j sensor of maslen — j crysmatonge of pewter — ij cruetts of pewter."
The interesting old chapel, which was dedicated to All Saints,
was completely swept away in 1862.1 Its successor consists
of a nave, chancel, and tower, surmounted by a spire, at the
west end. The dimensions of the old chapel, according to
the measurements taken by Mr. Eawlins in 1818, were — nave
50 ft. 5 in. by 17 ft. 9 in. ; and chancel 26 ft. 2 in. by
14 ft. 1 in. The building consisted of a nave and chancel,
and a square wooden bell turret over the west gable. There
was a porch on the south side of the nave, but this was
* Maselin, or maslin, was the name of a metal, the precise nature of which is rather
uncertain. It seems to have been chiefly tin.
f There is an excellent account of the old chapel by Mr. L. Jewitt in vol. iii. of the
Reliquary, illustrated with several woodcuts. To that article, and to the descriptions
and drawings of Messrs. Meynell and Eawlins, we are indebted for our account of the
old fabric.
FINDERN. 313
closed up aud used as a vestry, the only entrance being at the
west end. There was a plain round-headed priest's doorway on
the south side of the chancel, but that was also built up. Mr.
Meynell's drawing, taken about 1820, shows that the south side of
the nave was lighted by a three-light square-headed window of
debased date, and the chancel by a similar one of two lights, as
well as by a much smaller one, of the same character, to the right
of the priest's door. The three-light east window of the chancel
was also of corresponding style, the probable date being the middle
of the seventeenth century. A board within the chancel stated
that the building was "Beautifyed in the year of our Lord 1796."
The beautifying chiefly consisted in reseating the church, in making
the west doorway, with an ugly window over it, and in repairing
the north wall of the chancel with brick. In the old part of the
north chancel wall was a small single-light window with an
angular head, which must have been here when this chapel was
given by William the Conqueror to Burton Abbey, for it was of
Saxon date. At the west end was a Norman corbel-table, carved
on the face with an indented, and underneath with a billet mould-
ing, and supported by twelve corbel stones, all of which were
carved into masks and heads, except a remarkable one on which
were two figures with their arms " a-kimbo," and their legs con-
tinued on the under side of the stone.
In the north wall of the chancel a recessed founder's arch, of a
rude and early description, was found, when the old fabric was
being pulled down. It had been concealed by the 1796 pews, to
make way for which the effigy of the priest within the recess had
been most rudely mutilated. Bassano noted this in 1710 : — " In ye
north wall of ye chancell, under an arch is ye effigy of a priest,
which seems to be very antient." The remains of the effigy
showed, however, that it was not as old as the recess, for which
it had not been originally intended.
On the chancel floor was an alabaster slab, incised with the
effigy of a lady, but very much worn. Fortunately, however, the
greater part of the marginal inscription was still legible : —
" Hie jacet Isabella qudJa ux' Henrici de Bothe armigeri filia Johis de Fyndern
senior' (?) que obiit decimo octavo die mentis martii ppiciet' De' amen."
At the four corners of the inscription were the Evangelistic sym-
bols, and to the right of the figure a scroll bearing the words,
" Jesu mercy." There were also four shields on the slab. The
314 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
first bore Botlie (arg., three boars' heads erect and erased, sab.,
with a crescent for difference) impaling Findern (arg., a chevron
engrailed between three crosses formee fitchee, sab.), the second,
entirely defaced ; the third, Bothe impaling Fitzherbert, of Nor-
bury ; and the fourth, Bothe impaling a defaced coat.
The priest's effigy and the Botlie slab both, alas ! disappeared
in 1862.
The pedigrees of the ancient and important family of Findern,
of Findern, do not carry us back further than Kobert de Fyn-
derne, temp. Edward II.,* but we have incidental allusions to them
of an earlier date. Walter de Findern was one of the witnesses to
a charter relative to Eepton Priory early in the reign of Henry
III. ; t and Nicholas Findern was one of the eye-witnesses of a
remarkable meteor that startled the good people of Alvaston, on
September 18th, 1253, and which was thought of sufficient impor-
tance to be chronicled in the annals of Burton Abbey. J Isabella
seems to have been the daughter of John and Catherine Findern,
who were living in the reign of Henry IV. Her husband was
Henry Bothe, of Arleston, in the adjacent parish of Barrow-on-
Trent, and their daughter, Alice, was the first wife of Sir Nicholas
Fitzherbert, of Norbury.§ Henry Bothe died in 1446.||
Another interesting relic of the Norman church was the tym-
panum over the south doorway (not the north as stated in the
Reliquary). It is carved in a chequered pattern, and has a cross
formee in the centre. On each side is a quaintly-shaped human
figure. This stone is built into the interior wall of the north
aisle of the new church.
The font is of octagon shape and poorly moulded. It bears on
one face the year 1662, a date at which so many new fonts were
made to replace those destroyed by the Puritans.
The two bells in the new church are those which were removed
from its predecessor.
I. " Thomas Mears founder London, 1841."
II. "John Cooke : John Porter, 1704," and the initials D. H.,
for Daniel Hedderly.
This church possesses, in a small chalice and cover, the oldest
* Harl. MSS. 1092, f. 76, etc.
t Topographer, vol. ii , p. 254.
t Cott.'MSS., Vesp. B. III.,f. 41.
§ Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 235.
|| With respect to the Bothes, see the previous account of the church of Barrow-on-
Trent, and the subsequent one of the church of Sawley.
FINDERN. 315
Church Plate, with which we are acquainted, in the county. The
chalice is beautifully engraved with arabesque work. The paten
fits the top of the chalice as a cover, but has also a light stand
of its own. The hall-mark shows it to be of the year 1564-5,
ten years older than the Elizabethan chalice of Derwent chapel.
The earliest register book begins in 1558, and euds in 1779.
It has been carefully bound by the present vicar, but the ink is
much faded, and in many places it is wholly illegible. Down to
1600, it is a copy of an older book. This book was for some
time missing, but the conscience of the appropriator caused him
recently to return it anonymously by Her Majesty's mails.
316 DERBYSHIRE CHUiiCIIES.
of |iotlocfc.
|HE manor of Potlock, within the parish of Mickleover, also
possessed a chapel in early times, and we have already
recorded its gift by William the Conqueror to the abbey
of Burton. This manor was divided into two parts by the River
Trent, that on the further side, which was the larger mediety,
pertaining to Eepton Priory, and that on the north side being held
by the Finderns ; but both portions did service to the abbot of
Burton. 'When the former was granted to Eepton Priory in 1373,
the jury found that it was held of Burton Abbey on an annual
service of thirty-nine shillings.*
The chapel, which was dedicated to S. Leonard, stood close to
the old mansion house of the Finderns, whose principal seat was,
from the fourteenth century downwards, at Potlock, and not at
Findern itself, as has usually been supposed. This old hall was
pulled down about 1805, but nothing more than the foundations
of the chapel had been then apparent within the memory of man.
The field adjacent to the Trent, where the chapel used to be,
is still called " Chapel Close."
In 1327, John de Touke endowed a chaplain with one messuage,
fourteen acres of arable land, and 46s. 8d. out of the manor of
Potlock, to celebrate daily Mass within the chapel of S. Leonard,
for the souls of Eobert de Touke and Ermetrude his wife, and for
the souls of all his ancestors, and of all the faithful departed.
For license from the king for this alienation of property, the
founder of this chantry had to pay £5.t John de Touke at that
* Inq. ad quod dammnn, 46 Edw. III., 2nd part, No. 45. Both this and the next
quoted inquisition are wrongly classified at the Record Office under Inq. post Mort.
t Inq. ad quod damnum, 1 Edw. Ill , 2nd part, No. 101.
POTLOCK. 317
time held the northern mediety of the manor of Potlock of the
abbot of Burton, hy the annual service of ten shillings.
It had been thus held by the Toukes for several generations,
but John de Touke was a priest, and therefore died issueless. On
his death the manor was held by the Finderns. In the year 1413,
we find an entry in the episcopal registers of the institution of
William Jon son to this chantry, on the presentation of John
Findern. This institution was made on November 9th, but, on
December 12th of the same year, William Jonson was instituted
to the rectory of Brailsford, and Henry Fox, who had been
rector of Brailsford, was admitted to this chantry.*
We can learn nothing respecting the chapel in post-Reformation
days. It seems to have been one of those very numerous chapels
that were then desecrated. The chantry lands were probably con-
fiscated before the time of Edward VI., as there is no mention of
them in the Chantry Eoll.
* Lichfield Registers, vol. vii., f. 47.
[HE earliest historical mention of Morley is in Wulfric
Spott's endowment charter of the Abbey of Burton, in
the year 1002. A small portion of the manor was left
by him to that Abbey.* Morley formed part of the vast estates of
Henry de Ferrers when the Domesday Survey was compiled. In
the reign of Henry III., we find that the manors of Morley,
Smalley, and Kydsley, inter alia, were held in free alms of Hugh,
Earl of Chester, by the Abbot of Chester ; t and there seems but
little doubt that they were held by the abbey in the previous
century.
Though there is no mention of a church at Morley in the
Domesday Book, it seems probable, from circumstances that will
be afterwards mentioned, that there was one here at that date, and
that this is one of those instances wherein the return of a church,
which the commissioners were in no case bound to enter, was
omitted. Edmund de Morley, soon after the Conquest, is said to
have given the advowson of Morley church to his second son,
Walter de Morley ; and from one of the old chartularies of the
Abbey of Chester, it appears that the advowson was conferred
upon that monastery by Eobert, son of Walter de Morley, when
Robert de Hastings was abbot. ^ Robert de Hastings was
elected abbot m 1186, and deposed in 1194. § The same
chartulary also mentions a gift of lands at Morley from
William de Verdon ; |j that Richard de Morley, son of Henry de
* Thorpe's Diplomatarium Anglicum jffivi Saxonici, p. 547. Lysons is wrong in
saying that the manor of Morley was given to Burton, as it was merely the heriot-
land that was thus bequeathed. This term has been already explained, Churches of
Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 53.
f Testa de Nevill ; Dodsworth's Collections.
t Harl. MSS., 1,965, f. 13 ; Ajid. MSS., 6,675, f, 36b.
§ Dugdale's Monasticon (new edit.), vol. ii., p. 376.
I William de Verdon, iii the last half of the twelfth century, married Alice, daughter
of Kobert de Morley.
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322 DEKBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Morley, gave to the abbey full license to dig and take away marl
from bis marl pits at Morley, Smalley, and in Morley Park, the
final agreement respecting these pits being dated 1280 ; and that
Sibilla, relict of William Wilde, gave to the abbey her fourth part
of the manor of Smalley.* The canons held, too, the important
right of free warren throughout the parish, by grant from
Edward I.,t so that they were quite the lords paramount of
the district, the De Morleys of later times, and the Stathums
holding under them.
The church of Morley was valued, at the time of Pope Nicholas'
Taxation Eoll, 1291, at the yearly sum of £13 6s. 8d. ; and it was
declared to be of precisely the same clear annual value in the
Valor Ecclesiasticus of Henry VIII.
On the dissolution of the Abbey of S. Werburgh's, Chester, the
manors of Morley and Smalley, together with the advowson of
Morley rectory, were conferred upon Sir William Paget. Subse-
quently, on the forfeiture of the Paget estates, these manorial
rights and the advowson reverted to the crown, and were granted
by James L, in 1612, to Anthony Koper and his wife Maria. J
From thence the advowson passed to the Sacheverells, who had
inherited the property of the Stathums ; and on the manor being
divided into moieties, the patronage of the rectory was considered
to rest jointly in the different lords, and not turn by turn, as was
usually the case with the holders of manorial moieties.
The Church Goods Commissioners, temp. Edward VI., drew up
the following inventory of the possessions of Morley church : —
" Morley, Oct. 3. Sir Christ. North parson & curate.
"j chalys of sylver with a paten parcel gylt — a canopye with a pyx of laten —
j holy water ffatt of brasse— iij bells in ye steple — j lytle hand bell — j sacrvng bell
in ye chaunsell— ij cruetts of puter— ij copys of sylke, ye j of blew, y* other
chaungable— ij vestments y6 one blew damaske, ye other grene saten of Brugs
with albes and other necessaryes — j and ij olde vestments without albes— iij cor-
poraxes of cloth with cases to them— iij aulter clothes— iiij towells of clothe—
j lytle pyllow of cloth of gold — j surplesse for y6 pryest & j rochet for ye clarke
& a shete y* hanged afor ye Eode— j lytle bell taken off ye chauncell in value ijd—
a pax of wood and glasse."
The Parliamentary Survey of Livings, 1650, at Lambeth Library,
thus speaks of this parish : —
"Morley is a parsonage really worth foure score and five pounds per annum
and hath a chappell att Smawley apperteyning a myle distant. Mr John Harpur
Incumbent a man able and honest."
» Harl. MSS., 1,965, ff. 12, 13.
t Harl. MSS., 2,062 (which is another Chester Abbey Chartulary) f. 14.
t Patent Rolls, 10 James I., pt. 23, No. 13.
MORLEY. 323
The following list of rectors is chiefly compiled from the Lichfield
Episcopal Registers, and from the returns of the First Fruits Office.
We have not reiterated the fact of the Abbot of Chester being
patron at each institution, but it should be understood that that
was always the case up to the time of its dissolution, unless other-
wise mentioned.
1334. Robert de Heyford; patron, Abbey of S. Werburgh, Chester. A Commis-
sion issued to ascertain in whom the patronage was vested, which resulted
in favour of the Abbey of Chester.
1349. William dictus Lombe de Salop ; patron, Abbot of Chester. On the death
of E. de H.
1350. Roger de Saperton, rector of Fenny Compton, exchanged benefices with
W. L., rector of Morley.
1361. John de Snaythe, LL.D. A year's dispensation from residence for study.
1390. William Couper.
1393. John de Scheynton. On the resignation of W. C.
. Robert Balstone. On the resignation of J. de S.
1402. Thomas Derby. On the resignation of E. B.
.... Edmund Drury.
1430. William Weathurby, vicar of Marston, exchanged benefices with E. D.,
rector of Morley.
1435. William Thrumpton, rector of Heanor, exchanged benefices with W. W.,
rector of Morley.
1438. John Fletcher. On the resignation of W. T.
1467. Thomas Brodhurst; patron, Sir Thomas Stathum, for this turn, by leave of
the Abbot of Chester. On the death of J. F.
1471. William Tykhull; patron, Abbot of Chester. On the death of T. B.
1504. Milo Hudleston; patron, Peter Leigh. On the death of W. T.
1508. Bartholomew Tatton ; patron, Abbot of Chester.
1536. Christopher North ; patron, Thomas Byrmyngham, citizen of Lichfield, for
this turn, by leave of the Abbot of Chester. On the death of B. T. " Sr
Xfor North, clarke, was buried xx of Februerie, 1561." — Parish Registers.
He was probably ejected on the accession of Mary.
1553. John Stanton; patron, William Paget.
1559. William BUI; patron, William Paget. On the death of J. S.
(1591). James Walker. Buried April 22nd, 1603. Parish Registers.
1603. William Bennet. " Memd that William Bennett Eector of Morley departed
this life about five of the clocke in the morning the 21st day of October,
And was buried by Mr Hows Eector of Drecott in the county of Stafford
the 23d day of Octob1 Anno Domini 1647, And he was parson of Morley 44
yeares three moneths and odd dayes. (Signed) William Bennett Minister
of Wilne and Breaston." Parish Registers.
1647. John Harpur. On the death of W. B. He was episcopally instituted in
1662, on the presentation of Henry Sacheverell.
1690. William Wilson; patron, Francis Pierpoint. On the death of J. H. Some-
time Archdeacon of Coventry.
1741. Richard Wilmot; patrons, Jane Sacheverell and others. On the death of
W. W. He was also canon of Windsor, and vicar of Mickleover.
1772. Joseph Twemlow; patrons, Joyce Osborne, spinster, Hugh Bateman, junr.,
Edward Sacheverell Pole, John Newton, Isaac Liptrot, clerk, and Dorothy
Wilmot, widow, as lords of the manor of Morley. On the death of E. W.
1777. Robert Wilmot; patrons, lords of the manor of Morley.
324 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1804. Edward Willes ; patrons, Hugh Bateman and Edward Sacheverell Sitwell.
On the death of R. W.
1807. William Sitwell; patrons, Edward Sacheverell Sitwell, Sir Eobert Wilmot,
Bart., and Richard Bateman. On the resignation of E. W.
1844. Samuel Fox ; patron, John Wood Andrews, of Long Bennington, Lincoln-
shire. On the death of W. S.
1871. Arthur Alfred Wilmot. On the death of S. F.
1876. Henry Holden Bradshaw; patrons, John George Crompton and Meynell
Horton Miller Mundy, of Bath, as trustees of Robert Sacheverell Sitwell.
On the death of A. A. W.
The Church, which is dedicated to S. Matthew, consists of nave,
north and south aisles, which are continued eastwards as chancel
chapels, chancel, south porch, and tower, surmounted by a spire, at
the west end. Mr. Rawlins' measurements, taken in the year
1827, give the following as the dimensions of the area : — nave
39 ft. 2 in. by 15 ft. 7 in. ; north aisle and chapel 54 ft. 3 in.
by 18 ft. 6 in.; south aisle and chapel 54 ft. 3 hi. by 9 ft. 9 in.;
and chancel 28 ft. 3 in. by 16 ft. 9 in.
When the church was restored in 1850, it was found that the
Norman arcades of the nave, consisting of two semicircular arches
on each side, had been formed by cutting through the original
nave walls, which were of an earlier date.* This masonry must
have been of Saxon or very early Norman times, as the present
arcades are of the time of Stephen, or the beginning of the reign
of Henry II.
Departing from our usual plan in these church sketches, we
shall interweave the account of the architecture of the church with
that of some of the older monuments, inasmuch as they throw
special light on the dates of different parts of the fabric. The
early pedigree of the family who took their name from the manor
— the DC Morleys — is vague and confused. The fact that Richard
de Morley, mentioned in the Chester chartulary already quoted,
was the son of Henry de Morley, has not been hitherto known. t
He married Joan, daughter and heiress of Sir John De la Launde,
and had issue an only daughter, Lucy, who became the wife of
* History and Antiquities of Morley Church, p. 2. We desire to refer the reader
to this interesting posthumous work of the Rev. S. Fox, the late rector ; it is profusely
illustrated with drawings by Mr. Bailey.
f The pedigree at the end of Fox's Morley is highly conjectural; it makes Richard
the son of Hugo de Morley, and grandson of another Hugo, both of which generations
are distinct interpolations. The most correct seems to be that given in the Warwick-
shire Visitation, Harl. MSS. , 1,167. There is an elaborate pedigree of Peter le Neve's,
relative to the early lords of Morley, given in Add. MSS., 6,675, f. 366b,but we have
proved it to be so thoroughly wrong in one or two particulars, that we cannot venture
to quote it as any authority. But it would be worth careful consideration and analysis
if ever the history of the manor is fully written.
MORLEY. 325
Hugh Risley. Hugh aud Lucy Bisley had also an only daughter
and heiress, Lucy, who was married to William (? Roger) Massey.*
The issue of this match was also an only daughter and heiress,
Goditha, who brought Morley and other property to her husband,
Ralph Stathum.t
A Visitation of this church made August 6th, 1662, by Dugdale
and Ashmole.J describes in " the great Est window in y* Chan-
cell," the words "Hugo de Morley" and also "Johannes
Persona, de Mo ," in Lombardic capitals. Hugo de Risley,
on bis marriage with the heiress of De Morley, frequently assumed
the name of his wife, being in her right Lord of Morley under
the abbey of Chester. The inscription in the window shows that
the glass, and, in all probability, the fabric of the chancel, were
put up by him, or to his memory, assisted by the rector, John
, whose name cannot be supplied, as our list of rectors
does not begin till after his time. The three-light pointed window
of the chancel (now filled with modern stained glass as a Sitwell
memorial), the piscina, and other details, but more especially the
beautiful little south window of two-lights — which is now unglazed
and looks into the chapel of the extended south aisle — are all of
that style of the Decorated period that prevailed about the end of
the reign of Edward I. and the beginning of that of Edward II.
Up to the time of this extension and rebuilding of the chancel,
the fabric of the church would seem to have remained untouched,
as the Norman style left it, with nave, shallow side-aisles, and
small chancel
In the same window then remained four coats of arms : — (1)
az., a lion rampant, arg., Estafcren, an Irish family whose heiress
De la Launde had married; (2) or, a cinquefoil, yu., a bearing
sometimes used by a branch of the Vernon family; (3) barry of
six, ary. and az., the well-known coat of Grey ; and (4) or, two
lions passant, arg., a coat borne by Somery and two or three
other families.
* There is some doubt whether there were really these two Lucys, and whether
William (or Roger) Massey was not the second husband of Lucy, the relict of Hugh
Risley. We have not been able as yet to satisfactorily clear up this and one or two
other doubtful points in the pedigree, but we give that in the text which we believe
to be the most accurate.
f Letters Patent, of 1378, granting free warren to Ralph and Goditha Stathum over
their lands at Caldelowe and Snelston, describe- Goditha as consanguine et hered'
Joins de la Launde. — Pat. Rot., 51 Edw. III., memb. 7. In the reign of Richard II.,
the Lady Goditha obtained a grant of free warren in the townships of Morley, Smalley,
and Kydsley, which had previously belonged to the abbey of Chester. — Charter Roll,
21-3 Ric. II., No. 11.
I Ashm. MSS., 854, Bodleian; Dugdale's Derbyshire Visitation, 1662-4, Coll. of
Arms.
326 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
At the east end of the north aisle is a brass plate thns
inscribed : —
" Orate p'aia Radulphi de Stathum, quonda dni de Morley qui istam capellam
fieri fecit, & obiit xiij° die Junii A" dni Mill0 ccc° lxxx° et p'aia Godythe uxis
sue nup' dne de Morley pdict' que psentem Eccliam cum caropanili de_novo
construxit que obiit xvj° die Maii Anno dni millo cccc° xviij0 quar' aiar5 &
p' eisdem exorantibus ppiciet' deus arne."
Ralph Stathum was a Knight of the Shire for Derbyshire,
2 Richard II. He was of the ancient family of Stathum, of
Stathum, a hamlet in the parish of Limme, Cheshire. The arms
used by Stathum were really those of the family of Limme or
Lymme, and it is therefore probable that there was an early
alliance with an heiress of one branch of that family. But this
early genealogy is obscure.*
It cannot be precisely determined which was the chapel or aisle
built by Ralph Stathum, owing to the frequent removals of this
and other of the Morley brasses. Ashmole, 1662, describes this
plate as being " on a Graveston in the North Isle," so that in
default of earlier information, it must be taken that he took down
the Norman north aisle and rebuilt it. After his death in 1380,
the work was continued by his widow Goditha, who rebuilt the
tower and the south aisle, and probably re-roofed and otherwise
altered the nave, though retaining the old Norman arcades.
From another brass plate we learn two additional facts, viz.,
that the work was completed in 1403, and that Richard Stathum,
son of Ralph and Goditha, who died in 1891, was associated with
Goditha in her work. The letters of this inscription are in relief,
and a small portion has been broken off on the left side : —
" Orate p' ambus Godithe de _Stathum dne d' Morley . . . Eica^di filii sui qui
capanile istud & eccliam fieri fecert .... quibus tenent' Anno dni Millmo cccc°
tercio."
Of this plate, Mr. Fox remarks that it " was originally over the
south door, as a matrix corresponding with it still remains." Ash-
mole, 1662, describes it as '• lying neere the hault pace ascending
to the Altar."
The style of architecture of the tower, and of that which
remains of the older work of the aisles, is precisely what would
have been expected from the dates on these brasses, viz., that
which prevailed about the close of the Decorated and beginning of
the Perpendicular period. The side aisles then terminated in a
* Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. i., p. 438.
MOKLEY. 327
line with the commencement of the chancel. The sites of the old
side altars are shown by piscina niches, with crocketted hood-moulds
over them. The one in the north aisle is of rather earlier cha-
racter than its fellow, which is an additional proof that the chapel
of Ealph Stathum was there constructed ; and this is the more
likely, as it was the side of the church on which their manor
house stood. The pier that supports the north side of the chancel
arch was pierced, at this time, so as to form a hagioscope, by
which the high altar could be seen by any one serving the north
altar. This hagioscope is noteworthy for the elegant finish of
the aperture in the north aisle, the angle of the pier being
bevilled out so as to present a flat surface in which the squint is
cut, as though it were a narrow lancet light, with a tref oiled head-
This north aisle was enlarged and rebuilt in the sixteenth century,
as we shall presently see, but two of the windows of the former
aisle, now at its west end, were re-used. The windows of the
south aisle are square-headed, with square labels. Within the
porch is a Decorated doorway with plain mouldings and shafts.
The porch, which, as well as other parts of the church, is most
picturesquely mantled in creepers, is also Decorated work, but the
shafts and other details of the entrance seem older than the door-
way covered by the porch, and this ' lends confirmation to the
tradition that it was brought from Dale Abbey and here set up.
The tower is of incipient Perpendicular character ; * on the west
side is a plain doorway, over which is a square-headed single
window ; the belfry windows are pointed and of two lights ; the
parapets embattled, and at their south-west angle rises the higher
part pertaining to the stair-turret. The octagonal spire is lofty
and tapering, but it is not ribbed or pierced with lights.
Although the manor house so closely adjoined the church, we
find that it possessed a private chapel or oratory, and within two
years of the completion of the rebuilding of the church, namely in
1405, Goditha, the relict of Ealph de Stathum, obtained the
episcopal license for having Mass celebrated therein for the souls
of her husband and others of the family, t
Thomas Stathum, the only surviving son of Ealph and Goditha,J
married Elizabeth, daughter of Eobert Lumley. There is no brass
* We borrow this phrase and some other descriptions from the notes of Sir Stephen
Glynn, who visited this church circa 1840.
•f Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. vii., f. 157.
£ They had six other sons, Ealph, Richard, William. Nicholas, Piere, and Robert,
all of whom died without issue ; also three daughters — Goditha, married to Sir John
Poulteney ; Margaret, to Walter Bohuu, of Bucks ; and Agnes, to Thomas Hurt.
328 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
to his memory, and it lias hitherto been supposed that the church
lacked any memorial of him. But we have little douht that we
have found one in a mutilated stone slab, which was removed, in
1850, from under the seats on the north side of the nave, and
now forms part of the pavement under the tower, close to the
north wall. The slab has been cut in two longitudinally, and
only one half remains. After considerable difficulty, we were
able to decipher thus much of the black letter marginal inscrip-
tion : — " de Stathum quond* — cuj ..."
The son and heir of Thomas Stathum, was John, who married
Cecily Cornwall. His wife is described in the Warwickshire Visi-
tation as "hares Baroness de Burford." There are no less than
three brasses commemorative of this benefactor of the church,
The first is a simple plate, thus inscribed : —
" Orate p' aia Johis Stathum Armigeri, qu° dm dm isti' ville qui bene & nota-
bilit^ hanc eccle egit qui obiit vij° die Novembris Anno dni Millmo ccccliij0. Et
p'_aia Cecilie uxoris ejus que obiit xxv° die Aprilis A° dni M° cccc° xliiij0 qr°
aiabus ppiciet' de'."
The second is an elaborate brass, originally of several plates let
into a slab of Purbeck marble, which was evidently placed over
the bodies of John Stathum and his wife, and which comprises the
earliest portraiture in the church. John Stathum is represented
kneeling on his helmet, bare-headed, with the hair cropped close
above the ears,* hands uncovered and conjoined in prayer, the
armoured skirt divided into a number of small plates, and with
the other usual characteristics of the armour of the middle of the
15th century. His wife kneels opposite to him, clad in a loose
gown, falling in bold folds, and a slightly "horned" bead-dress, with
pendent veil. From each of their mouths is a label bearing :
" See Xpofore ora pro nobis — "
and between the labels is a figure of S. Christopher bearing the
infant Jesus, who holds in His left hand the orls mundi. There
were originally four shields of arms pertaining to this brass, but
only one was left in 1662, viz., Stathum and Morley quarterly.
On a plate below the figures is this inscription : —
" Here lieth John Stathum Squyer Bomtyme lorde of this towne and Cecily his
Wyfe. Which gat to yis Churche iij belles & ordyned iijs iiijd yerely for brede
to be done in almes amonge pore folk of y« prsch I y> day of ye obit of dame
Godith sometyme lady of y8 towne. the said John dyed the vj day of Novembre
v« yere of our lord M cccc liiij. and the said Cecily died the xxv day of April
the yere of our lord M cccc xliiij. of whos Sowles God have Mercy Amen."
* Monuments having this unsightly characteristic may always be assigned to circa
445. In Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., two close-cropped effigies were described
at the churches of Kedlestou and Kadboume.
MORLEY. 329
The third memorial of John Stathum is of special interest, and
takes the form of a requiem plate, of most exceptional if not
unique character, enjoining certain specific " benefactory prayers."
It is most appropriately fixed against the south wall of the chancel,
immediately over the piscina, so that the priest could not fail,
whenever he approached the piscina for the ahlutions, or to
remove the cruets from the credence shelf within the niche, to be
reminded of the obligations that were due from him to the
memory of the pious family thereon emimerated. The following
is the inscription : —
ffirr i£0 sofoles 0f $afe 60bgt^f %0ms 6Ii§ab,el|j ®.eriH SBO Qalgn & of
t^jgr ^umssom & f0r all rristea $0tolei gegfuuMs &r : pater nosier &t :
glue mark: tt m K0s : nqt et'nam &c : §nc mufti 0rac0m : to* gis
0ra0 ^ttdina 0tte &ti ^0^« £slal|n 0r0gB0 gis t0 fa sai0 & more
toritm in; 0tl;er bium boMa.*
The good and notable works done by the pious John Stathumt
to the fabric of the church, in addition to his bequests to the
poor, were no doubt the prolonging of the south and north aisles,
and piercing the chancel walls with arches communicating there-
with ; there is a piscina at the end of the south aisle, which
is clearly of about that date ; the corresponding one in the other
aisle would be removed when the north aisle was rebuilt in the
next century. Probably John Stathum also put a new roof on
the nave, of Perpendicular pitch, raising the walls over the
arcades, and inserting clerestory windows. At all events that
work was done in the fifteenth century, though the tracery of
these windows was removed and the mullions renewed at a
later date.
To him, too, as mentioned on the second memorial, the
* The De Profundis (Ps. cxxx.) forms part of the usual Office of the Dead. The
Pater Noster and A ve Maria need no explanation. The ne nos is puzzling; perhaps
it is intended to stand for the last clause but one of the Lord's Prayer, and may
imply certain parts of the service that followed on the recitation of the two last
clauses, when the first part had been said in secreto. Requiem eternam stands for
the following refrain, that is used after every psalm and canticle in the office : —
" Eternal rest : grant unto them, O Lord.
And light perpetual : shine upon them."
Domine exaudi orationem refers to the antiphon, "Hear, Lord, my prayer: unto Thee
shall all flesh come," and probably also implies the psalm that follows it, usually the
Ixv. The orison Inclina domine, refers to the beautiful and simple collect for the
departed in our Book of Sarum, which may be thus Englished : — " Incline Thine ear,
O Lord, to our prayers, who humbly entreat Thy mercy : that Thou wouldest grant to
Thy servant N., whom Thou hast called from this world, a place in the land of peace
and light, and wouldest call him to the companionship of Thy Saints ; through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Amen."
f For his benefactions to Breadsall Priory, see Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii.,
pp. 271-2.
330 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
church owed three bells, and it is peculiarly interesting to find
that two of these bells still swing in the ancient tower, fulfilling
the pious purpose of calling the faithful to the offices of the
Church. On the first of these bells is the legend : — Ora pro
nobis beate Andrea, in elegant old English lettering. On the second
is : — Ihc Nazarenus Rex Judeorurn, in highly ornamental Lombardic
capitals. The third bell, which has been recast since the time
of Stathum's gift, bears: — God save His Church, 1614, and the
founder's mark of George Oldfield.
One of the patterns on the encaustic tiles in the north aisle
bears a lion rampant ducally crowned (the arms of Morley, often
assumed by the Stathums of Morley after their alliance with
that heiress), the spaces at the angles of the tile, outside the
margin of the shield, being filled in with three bells. This is
evidently a tile specially designed to commemorate John Sta-
thum's munificent gift of bells. A similar tile has been found
within the church of the adjacent abbey of Dale, during the
excavations now (1878-9) in progress, from which we may infer
that the Morley tiles were undoubtedly fired at the important kiln
belonging to the canons of that establishment.
John Stathurn left a son and heir, Thomas, who died in 1470,
having twice married. On the north side of the south chancel
chapel, is an altar tomb bearing an elaborate brass to his
memory. The inscription at the base is as follows : —
" Orate p' aiabs Thome Stathum milit' rmper dni hujus ville q1 obiit xxvij die
July A° dni M° cccc° lxx° Et dne Elizabeth uxis et filie Eobti langley Armigeri ac
Thomasine alterius uxoris et filie Johis Curson quor' aiabs ppiciet' deus Amen."
In the centre, above the inscription, is Sir Thomas Stathum
in plate armour, with his sword girt in front of his left thigh,
the head resting on a tilting helmet surmounted by the crest of
a stork (?) rising. He is flanked by his wives, who are repre-
sented as clad precisely alike, in long flowing gowns, trimmed
round the neck and wrists with fur, and wearing the mitred
head-dress. From the knight's head proceeds a label — See Cris-
tofere ora p' nobis, surmounted by a figure of that saint bearing
the Infant Saviour. From his first wife, on his right hand,
proceeds the label : — See Anna ora pj nobis, leading up to a figure
of S. Anne teaching the Blessed Virgin to read ; and from his
second wife proceeds the label — Sea Maria ora pro nobis, and
above it is a well executed little brass of Our Lady (crowned
and sceptred) and the Holy Child. In the upper part of the
MOKLEY. 331
slab is a shield bearing Morley ((try., a lion rampant, sab.,
crowned or), and Stathum (gu., a pale fusilly, ary.), quarterly ;
also the matrix of another one now missing, which Ashmole
shows to have been Morley. By the side of the first wife is
Morley and Stathum quarterly, impaling Langley (arg., a cocka-
trice, sab., membered, gu.) ; and by the side of the second wife
is the same quartered coat, impaling Curzon (arg., on a bend,
sab., three popinjays, or].
Sir Thomas Stathum was succeeded by Henry Stathum, his son*
by his first wife, who married three times, but had only one
daughter who survived him. His tomb consists of a raised slab
of Purbeck marble inlaid with brasses, and now resting beneath
a well-finished canopied archway (supposed to have been brought
from Dale), opening from the extreme east end of the north wall
of the south chapel into the chancel. This raised or altar tomb
to Henry Stathum, though here in 1662, is evidently not in its
original place. Within the archway, at its east end, is a small
niche and a hook for an image. The slab contains the por-
traitures of Henry Stathum and his three wives, somewhat rudely
inserted in the stone. Henry is represented in that elaborate
development of plate armour which prevailed in the last quarter
of the 15th century; his feet rest upon a lion, and his head upon
a helmet with mantling, and a large crest of a bird (either a
stork or spoon-bill) rising from a coronet. To his left are two
figures dressed much like the wives of his brother Thomas, and
to his right is the third wife, who survived him, wearing over
her gown a long mantle, fastened across the shoulders with a
cord, a veil over her head-dress, and a stiffly-plaited barbe below
the chin. Above the heads of the figures is this distich —
"Thou art my brothur or my Sester
pray for us A pater Noster."
Below the figures is the following inscription: —
" Orate pro animabus Henrici Stathum, nup' dm hujus ville qui obiit xxx° die
Aprilis Anno dni M° cccc° lxxx° Et domine Anne filie Thome Bothe domini de
barton Elizabeth filie Egidii Seynclow Et Margarete filie Johis Stanhop uxor' ei
qr aiabs ppiciet de' amen."
Beneath the inscription are the small figures of one son and
four daughters, all but one of whom died in their infancy.
* Mr. Fox makes Henry the brother, instead of the son, of Sir Thomas, but we have
quite failed to find any authority. He is his son according to the Warwickshire
Visitation, and also according to Harl. MSS., 1,093, f. 79; 1,537, f. 105; and Egerton
MSS., 99b, f. 71.
332 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
There used to be four shields on this tomb, as mentioned
by Ashmole — (1) Stathum and Morley, quarterly ; (2) Stathum
impaling Bothe * (arg., three boars' heads erased and erect,
stib.) ; (3) Stathum impaling Stanhop (sab., a bend between
six cross-crosslets, arg.} ; and (4) Stathum impaling Seynclow
(erm., a chevron, gu.) ; but only the second and fourth now
remain.
The estates of Morley, after continuing in the Stathum family
for four generations, passed into the hands of the Sacheverells,
by the marriage of Joan, daughter and sole heiress of Henry
Stathum, with John Sacheverell, son and heir of Ralph Sa-
cheverell, of Snitterton and Hopwell, by Joan, daughter of John
Curzon, of Kedleston. In a note of Ashmole's to the visitation
of this church in 1662, it is stated that this ancient family
originally came from " Sau-cheverell, a towne in Normandy, and
that the name is derived ' de saltu Caprioli, a goates leape '
The early pedigrees of this family are much confused, but that
given in Thoroton's Nottinghamshire, the one usually quoted, is
undoubtedly faulty in several particulars. The one that seems
the most accurate, so far as we have been able to test it, is
that in the Warwickshire Visitation, 1619.f Patricius de Sau-
cheverell, about the end of the reign of Henry III., held a fourth
part of a knight's fee at Hopwell, parish of Sawley, under Nigel
de Longford, and Nigel under the bishop of the diocese. He
also held a whole knight's fee of the same manor immediately
under the king.J Patrick married the daughter and heiress of
Snitterton, of Suitterton, Darley Dale, whence that property came
to the family. Robert Sacheverell, the sixth in descent from
Patrick, married for his first wife the heiress of John Hopwell.
Their son John married Anne, daughter (but not co-heiress, as
asserted by Thoroton, Lysons, etc.), of Sir Roger Leche, of
Chatsworth, and their eldest son and heir was Ralph, father of
John Sacheverell, who married the heiress of Stathum.
Upon a brass plate against the south wall of the south chapel
(which was in this position in 1662) is this inscription : —
* John Bothe, in the beginning of Edward TI's reign, married Loretta, daughter and
heiress of Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Gilbert de Barton. The original arms of
Bothe were a chevron engrailed, in a canton or mullet, but the family subsequently
assumed the Barton arms, the three boars heads, as given above. Anne, daughter
of Thomas Bothe, of Barton, Lancashire, was sister to Sir John Bothe, of whose large
family, including William, Archbishop of York, and John, Treasurer of Lichfield
Cathedral, we shall learn more under Sawley church.
t Harl. MSS., 1,167. Printed by the Harleian Society.
} Testa de Nevill, ff. 34, 54.
MORLEY, 333
" Hie jacet Johnes Sachevrell Armig fill et heres Radi Sachevrell Armigi dm
de Snetterton et hopwell Et Joana ux eju' filia et unica heres herici Stathum
Armigeri did de Morley qui quidem Johnes obiit In bello Eicardi tercij juxta
bosworth anno dni M° cccc" lixxvto Quorum aiabus propicietur deus Amen."
Above the inscription are the figures of John and his wife
kneeling opposite to each other ; he is represented in plate
armour, with three boys behind him, and his wife in a close
fitting gown and pedimental head-dress, with five girls kneeling
behind her similarly attired. The style of the armour is not
such as was worn at the battle of Bosworth Field, but many
years later, and the general character of the brass shows that
it was engraved circa 1525. Joan, the relict of John Sacheverell,
was married a second time to William Zouch, and this memorial
was probably not put up till after her death. The sons of
John and Joan Sacheverell were (1) John, who died in his
youth ; (2) Henry, of Morley ; and (3) Ralph, who obtained the
manor of Radcliff-on-Soar by bequest from his uncle, and was
the ancestor of the Sacheverells of that place.
Scrolls bearing an invocation to S. Christopher (who seems to
have been the patron saint of the lords of Morley, and to whom
we believe that the altar at the end of the south aisle was
dedicated) proceed from the heads of the figures to a representation
of that saint bearing the Holy Child.
There are three shields of arms on this brass. (1) Sacheverell
(arcf., on a saltire, az., five water-bougets, or) and Hopwell * (arg.,
three hares playing upon bag-pipes, gu.) quarterly, impaling
Curzon. (2) Sacheverell and Hopwell quarterly, impaling Stathum
and Morley quarterly. (3) Sacheverell and Hopwell quarterly.
On a large slab, between the chancel and north aisle, near the
altar, are the portraitures in brass of Sir Henry Sacheverell, son
of John Sacheverell of the last monument, and his wife Isabella,
daughter of Sir John Montgomery, of Cubley. Sir Henry presents
a well-finished though small example of the plate armour of that
late period ; his wife is tastefully dressed in French hood with
* Thoroton has given in his pedigree a John Sacheverell, five generations earlier
than Patrick mentioned above, who marries an heiress of Fitz-Ercald ; but though
five generations earlier than Patrick, temp. H. III., are given in the Warwickshire
'Visitation, no such match appears, and we may be sure that there was no earlier
alliance with an heiress than that of Hopwell known to the sixteenth century heralds,
or it would have appeared in the quarterings. It has been usual to attribute the
hares and bagpipes to Fitz-Ercald, but both Dugdale and Ashmole, and other authori-
ties, rightly assign them to Hopwell. There is a note on these arms in Burke's
General Armory (repeated in his last edition of 1878), which is full of blunders, and
which previously misled us in assigning the coat to Fitz-Ercald — Churches of Derby-
shire, vol. iii., p. 462. It is an instance of Canting Heraldry, for the hares are
represented as hopping well to their own music.
334 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
falling lappet, and in a gown, with sleeves puffed at the shoulders,
tied with knots of rihbon in the upper part, but open below, and
showing a jewelled tablet bearing the monogram ihc suspended low
down by a cord from the sash. Above their heads is a shield of
six quarters : — Sacheverell, Morley, Stathum, Estafcren, Snitterton
(gu., a swan, arg., ducally gorged, or), and Hopwell. Below them
is this inscription : —
"Hie jacent corpora Henrici Sachevrell de Morley in comitata Derbe Milit &'
Isabella uxoris ejus; qui quide Henric' obiit xxj° die Julii A° dni Mccccclviij."
" The stone which contains this brass is very far from being in
its original situation. The brass is small, and inferior to the
earlier ones ; and the stone in which it is placed is extremely
rough and unfinished. This led to an examination of the under
part of the stone, when it was found that it had once contained a
very fine brass of an ecclesiastic, and had been surrounded by a
border fillet, bearing au inscription. Those parts of the stone
which were not cut away to receive the brass and fillet, were
highly polished. The rivets were still quite perfect, and the pitch
with which the brass had been imbedded was quite fresh. It is
not unlikely that, after this stone had been deprived of its
original treasure, it formed part of the spoil which was brought
from Dale Abbey."*
We have now come to the end of the description of this most
interesting series of brasses, -by far the most complete and perfect
of any church in the midland district, but it remains to note one
or two of the monuments of a later date.
Sir Henry Sacheverell left five* sons and five daughters. To one
only of these children is thei-e any monument now extant at
Morley, viz., to Katharine, who was married to Thomas Babington,
of Dethick. Her monument is a raised tomb against the north
wall at the east end of the north aisle, upon which reclines a
well-executed effigy in alabaster. Bound the margin is this in-
scription : —
" Here lyeth y bodye of Kat'yn Babyngton, late wyfe of Thomas babynto' &
daught' to henrye Sacheverell, knyt. ye whyche said Kat'yn dyed ye xxiij day of
August in y6 yere of O Lord God M'ccccc'xliii."
Iii front of the tomb is an eight- quartered shield of Babiugton
(Babington, Dethick, Alfreton, Bret, Allestree, Stafford of Grafton,
Grey, and Aylesbury) impaling Sacheverell quartering Morley and
* Fox's History of Morley Church, p. 8. In this volume are excellent drawings of
all the brass portraitures described above.
MOKLKY. 335
Hopwell.* The shield is flanked by eight sous and five daughters.
The names of only four of these children are known, so that it
may be concluded that the others died in their infancy: — (1)
Henry, the heir ; (2) Edmund, who married Mary, daughter of
George Zouch, of Codnor ; (3) Anne, married to John, Baron
Darcy ; and (4) Margaret, married to Thomas Eeresby, of Thri-
bergh and Ashover.f Katharine Babington was buried, according
to the parish registers, on August 27th.
The registers contain an entry of the second marriage of .Sir Henry
Sacheverell, with Margery, daughter of Sir John Holford, which
occurred on November 28th, 1548, his first wife, Isabel, having
only died March 28th of the same year. His second wife was
buried October 16th, 1553. And here it may be noted, as not a
little remarkable, that not only did several of the Sacheverells, who
were determined recusants or adherents to the Roman faith, obtain
burial within the church, but would appear, from the entries in
the registers, 'to have been, buried after the ordinary course with
Anglican rites. This was distinctly illegal, for recusants were
excommunicate, and had to be buried at night without any service,
as several of our old Derbyshire registers bear witness.^ Neither
John Sacheverell, son and heir of Sir Henry, who married Eliza-
beth, daughter of Sir William Pierpoint, nor his son John, who
married Katharine, daughter of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, have any
monuments, nor are they mentioned in the registers. This probably
arose from the fierceness of the persecution they underwent for
clinging to the faith of their fathers, for which they were repeatedly
fined and imprisoned. This was especially the case with the son-
in-law of the famous judge ; he was imprisoned in the Counter,
Wood Street, by order of the Bishops of London, Ely, and
Chester, Commissioners of Eecusants, in 1561, and though subse-
quently released, he was again put in pi'ison, where we believe he
died.§ The son and heir of John and Katharine Sacheverell, was
Henry Sacheverell, who lived in the quieter times of James I.
There is no memorial of him, but the registers say : — " 1620, June
* Bassano mentions an exact duplicate of this coat that used to be on the wainscot
at Dethick Hall, and which he noted (1710) at Glapwell Hall, where it had been
removed. For an account of these quarterings, and general information respecting
the Babington pedigree, see Churches of Derbyshire, vol. i., under Ashover and
Dethick. Some blunders were made with the heraldry of this elaborate shield when
it was repainted in 1850.
f Nichols' Collectanea, vol. viii., p. 349.
J E.g. Hathersage and Longford.
§ Dom. State Papers, Eliz., Addenda, vol. xi., n. A 5.
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15. Old Henry Sacheverell Esquier Died." It should be noted
that there is no entry of his burial.
The eldest son of Henry Sacheverell, by Joan, daughter of Sii
Humphrey Bradbourne, was Jacinth, who married Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Richard Harpur, of Littleover. The effigies of
Jacinth and Elizabeth, executed with much care, and evidently
portraits, lie side by side, facing the east, on a large altar tomb,
the foot of which is against the east wall of the north aisle.* On
its north side are figures of three of the children kneeling, and the
fourth is placed in a most realistic cradle. Within two wreaths at
the west end of the tomb are the arms of Sacheverell quartering
Stathum, Morley, and Hopwell, and the arms of Harpur quartering
Brock, Fiudern, and Willington. On the south is the following
nine-quartered coat, fully explained by the early pedigree of the
family, already given : — Sacheverell, Snitterton, Hopwell, Stathum,
Massey, Eisley, Morley, De la Launde, and Estafcren. Against the
east wall, immediately above the feet of the effigies, and blocking
up one light of the window, is a tablet bearing the following
touching inscription : —
D. 0. M. P. S.
Hie jaceiit corpora, non item spes Jacinthi Sachevereli de Morley in Com.
Derb. armigeri ; et Elizabeths ejus tarn in morte quam in vitse socise; quam
quidem Elizabethan! Richard! Harpur de Littleover in eodem com. militis filiam
ille uxorem sibi ducens, simul et felicitatem amoris mutui tarn pignora quam
fructus ex ea suscepit filios tres, Henricum, Radulphum, et Richardum, filiam
unicum Dorotheam ipse dierum, divitiarum ac famse satur, annos numerans LXXIX,
facit cedens hue recessit xxn Januar. MDCLVI. Ilia vero postea vitas impatiens una
et viduitatis secundum morte conjugium expetit simul obtinuitque Martii xii
prox. sequentis.
Die
Papam humaniter Christum religiose colens,
Fidem Romanam orthodoxam charitatem tenens,
In sacrificio crucis, noii in signo spem pouens,
De Deo quidem nihil, de pauperibus optime merens,
Monumento ipse nullo prorsus omnino egens,
Suo tumulo monumentum satis amplum sese hoc
Deponi curavit.
Tu autem legens hsec, viator, abi,
Charitatem ejus alias sonantem audi
Mirari, imitare, et memento mori.
S. T. T. L.
This tablet is clearly of a rather later date than the tomb
itself. For this we can offer a very reasonable solution. The
* Ashmole describes this monument as being " surrounded wth Iron spikes." The
Rev. C. Kerry tells us that he can just remember these iron railings, when a child;
they were painted light blue.
MORLEY. 337
bold avowal of the " orthodox Koman faith," contained in the
inscription, could hardly have been put up during the Common-
wealth. John Harpur, who succeeded William Bennett in the
rectory of Morley in 1647, was brother-in-law of Jacinth Sa-
cheverell. He was episcopally instituted in 1662, on the presen-
tation of Jacinth's heir, and we think it would be about that
date, or during the later years of his rectorship, that this
remarkable inscription was permitted to be put up. Several of
the Harpur family had themselves suffered for recusancy, and
probably John Harpur was one of those High Churchmen who
could look with much leniency, if not with partiality, on those
who in spite of all pains and penalties had thought it right to
cleave to the Eoman faith. Poor Jacinth Sacheverell suffered
severely in divers ways, and various particulars that can be
gleaned respecting his life prove the truthfulness of the careworn
features of his effigy.* But this is not the place to enter into
seventeenth century biography. On the pavement, close to this
monument, are incised slabs to the memory of his four children,
which we may be pardoned for reproducing, as they are not
given in the History of Morley : —
" Here lieth ye bodie of Henry Sacheverell ye eldest sonne of Jacinth Sache-
verell Esq. Lord of this Towne by Elizabeth his wife who died in London y6 30th
day of Decem 1638 being aged 19 yeeres & 5 monthes having beene marryed but
5 weekes before."
His effigy is depicted in long hair, and holding an open book
in his hand. Note that the sculptor has shown as much of the
beads of a rosary as he dared, f
" Here lieth the bodye of Raph Sacheverell second sone of Jacinth Sacheverell
by Elizabeth his wife who died the 30 day of Novr 1625 being aged one yeere
and 5 weekes."
The child is represented in a long gown and cap, holding a
skull in his hands. On one side of the head is an hour glass,
on the other a sprig of rosemary or some herb.
* On a portrait of Jacyuth Sacheverell (dated 1638, the year of the death of his son
Henry), and now in the possession of Captain Bateinan, are written the following
lines : —
' ' Quffi mihi nascenti luxerunt sydera ? Quae tam
Noxia pars cceli est ut me nil tale merentem
Lseserit, et primis infortunarit ab annis ? "
f Possibly this slab was the work of a local artificer. A list of recusants, put in the
hands of Lord Keeper Puckeringe, on Feb. 2nd, 1595, includes — " One Greene a Car-
penter and Mason, dwellings at Morley on Mr. Sacheverell's laude v miles beyonde
Darbye (was servant to Mr. Beutley), who maketh all the little Beades that bee in
boxes ; bee made a secrete place in Mr. Bentley's house at Lea with a dore of free
stone that no man could judge there were any such place, and maketh all the secrete
places in Eecusants houses in that Countrey." — Dom. St. Papers, Eliz., vol. 251,
No. 13 and 14.
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338 DKRBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
" Bichard Sacheverell the third soiie of Jacinth Sacheverell by Elizabeth his
wife died in the yere of our Lord 1628 in December and lyeth buryed at Button
Colefeeld church in Warricksheere."
This child is represented swathed in its chrysom, or baptismal
robe, thus betokening that it died before it was a month old.
" Here lieth the body of Dorothe Sacheverell the only daughter of Jacinth
Sacheverell by Elizabeth his wife who dyed the 20th day of January 1639 being
aged sixteene yeeres and two monthes."
She holds a book in her hands, and wears a necklace with a
pendant.*
Close to these alabaster slabs of Jacinth's children, and under
a wooden platform on which stands an harmonium, is another
one incised with the half-length figure of a boy in a cap; of
this, too, we give the inscription, as it is somewhat worn, and
not given in the History of Morley.
" Hie jacet corpus Bichardi filii Johannis Harpur hujus ecclse rectoris et Maria
uxoris ejus utrisque juxta charissimi qui quum bienniu & quinque menses vixisset
animarn expiravit 25 Martii. A. Dni. 1660."
In the south-east angle of the chapel at the east end of the
south aisle, is a mural monument of repellent design, having
half length figures of Jonathas Sacheverell and his wife. Below
them is this inscription, affording a curious contrast to that of
his brother in the opposite aisle : —
" Here lyeth the body of Jonathas Sacheverell second son to Henry Sacheverell
of Morley, Esqr, and Jane his Wife, daughter to Sir Humphrey Bradburne, of
Bradburne, Knt. ; which Jonathas married Elizabeth f daughter to Mr Balph
Owen, Gent. , and had issue by her, two sons, John and Nathaniel, who both died
in their infancy. He was pious, charitable, and a true lover of his friend, and
the last of the eldest line of the Sacheverells of Morley in Darbyshire, who died
a true Protestant in the faith of Jesus Christ, the vin day of November, 1662, the
79 year of his age."
Jonathas is said to have been the first of the Sacheverells,
of Morley, who left the Roman faith. It is also said, though
* " 1623, Novemb. 30. Dorothie Sacheverell daughter of the Bight Wor11 Jacinth
Sacheverell Esquier and Elizabeth his wife was baptized." Parish Registers.
t 1682. " May 9. M18 Sacheverill of Derby Belict of Jonathan Sacheverill of Darby
Bsq was buryed." " Mistress Elizabeth Sacheverell above named the Belict of
Jonathan Sacheverell Esq did give vnto this church a comunion cup and cover to it,
and did also give six pound the interest whereof is to be imployed to the Bepaire of
that part of the Isle of the church in which hers and her husbands Tombe stand and
fowre pound more the interest whereof is to be paid yearly to ye clarcke for the
keepinge of there Tombs in a decent manner from dust, or any other defilements."
The chalice, with its cover, which originally served for a paten, was presented to the
church at Morley by Mrs. Elizabeth Sacheverall in or about the year 1663-4, the
" hall mark " being of that period. The chalice has the following inscription round
the bowls : — " The Guift of Ellezabeth Sacheurell Belict of Jonathas Sacheurell Esq:
for the vse of the Prish Church of Morley." Mistress Elizabeth was also the donor of
a velvet altar cloth and pulpit cushion to All Saints', Derby.
MOKLEY. 339
we would hope without truth, that the reason of his conversion,
late in life, was the hope that he would thereby secure the
Morley estates on the decease of his brother Jacinth, it being a
principle constantly acted upon for the government to strain
every point to give succession to those of the establishment.
But Jacinth bequeathed the property to his relative of the Barton
line, to the exclusion of his brother, who being untainted with
recusancy was allowed to inherit. Henry Sacheverell, of Barton,
Notts., did not long retain the property, dying- two months before
his cousin Jonathas. There is an ugly altar tomlfto his memory,
in the north aisle, thus inscribed : —
" Here lyes the body of Henry Sacheverell, late of Barton, in the County of
Nottingham, Esq., who heing descended from William, the second son of Sir
Henry Sacheverell, Lord of this Manor, upon failer of issue male of the eldest
line of the said Sir Henry, in Jacynth and Jonathas Sacheverell, succeeded the
said Jacynth in this estate of Morley, and dyed the sixteenth day of September,
in the yeare of our Lord 1662, and leaving issue William, Catherine, and Joyce."
There is another raised tomb in this aisle, fully described in the
History of Morley, to William Sacheverell, son and heir of Henry
Sacheverell, 1691, and to Jane, his second wife, 1709 William
Sacheverell, in making a settlement of his property, left his three
surviving daughters, Joyce, Elizabeth, and Jane, co-heiresses of a
moiety of his estates. Joyce became the wife of Eobert Wilmot
of Chaddesden ; Elizabeth, of John Osbome of Derby ; and Jane
died unmarried.
There is also a tomb at the east end of this aisle to Eobert
Sacheverell, of Barton, son of the last-named William, who died in
1714. His only surviving daughter, by his first wife, married
Edward Pole, of Eadbourn.
A marble slab above this monument is to the memory of William
and Henry, the two sons of William Sacheverell (another son of
William, who died in 1691), by Alice, daughter of George Sitwell —
" ye last male heirs of the family of ye Sacheverells, formerly
resident here, but late of Barton, in Nottinghamshire. They both
dyed infants," 1723 and 1724.
There are also tablets in this aisle to Katherine Sitwell, eldest
daughter of Henry Sacheverell, and wife of Francis Sitwell, of
Eenishaw, 1705— to Jane Sacheverell, only daughter of William
Sacheverell by his second wife, 1746 — and to Elizabeth, daughter
of George Sitwell, 1769.
In the chancel are mural monuments to Eichard Wilmot, rector,
1771, fourth son of. Eobert Wilmot, of Chaddesden, by Joyce,
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daughter of William Sacheverell— to Edward Sacheverell Wihnot
Sitwell, of Stainsby House, 1836, second son of Bichard Wilmot,
rector, who took the name of Sitwell — to William Sitwell, rector,
1844 — to William Wilson, rector, 1741. A monument has also
recently been placed in this church to Sir Hugh Bateman. of
Hartington Hall, 1824, who is buried in All Saints', Derby, and a
brass to the late Samuel Fox, the eminent Anglo-Saxon scholar
and author, who was rector of this parish for twenty-six years, and
died September 3rd, 1870.
When Dale Abbey was dissolved, and the church destroyed, in
1539, Francis Pole, of Radbourn, purchased most of the material.*
We have already seen how he removed much of the carved work
to his church of Radbourn .t It has usually been supposed that
he was also the donor of the glass, etc., that was removed from
the abbey to Morley church, but after diligent enquiry we have
failed to find the slightest evidence of this, and it is much more
likely that it was purchased from him and placed here by Sir
Henry Sacheverell. Not only was the beautiful glass from the
windows of the refectory moved here, but the stone framework of
'the windows themselves. To accommodate this addition to the
fabric, the outer walls of the north aisle were taken down, and it
was much increased in width. The abbey windows are five in
number, all consisting of four lights ; they are square-headed and
of the Perpendicular style, and were no doubt originally constructed
in the time of Abbot John Stanley. Four of these windows are
in. the north wall, and the remaining one (having one light blocked
up by the tablet to Jacinth Sacheverell) at the east end.
At the west end of this north aisle, there is a doorway, now
blocked up, about eight feet from the ground, which formed the
private entrance from the manor-house to the church. There are
marks on the external wall, where the beams supporting the
passage from the house rested. This doorway opened into a
gallery, where the family might be able to sometimes put in an
appearance at public worship, without mixing with the general
congregation, and thus save themselves from being presented as
Eecusants, if the churchwardens were not very strict. J The north
* Dale Abbey Inventory, Add. MSS., 6,698, f. 529.
t Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 256.
J The less strict Papists would occasionally attend the ordinary services of the
church, but not Holy Communion. ' They were termed schismatics by their co-reli-
gionists ; and if the churchwardens acted up to the law, which bound them to return
the names of all abgeut from Holy Communion, this half-hearted conformity did them
no good.
MOIiLEY. 341
aisle was separated from the rest of the church by stout iron
railings up to the end of the last century, and we have no doubt
that there would be a stairway down from the Sacheverell gallery
to the basement of the aisle. There, in the early morning, by
but a very slight stretch of the imagination, we can picture the
persecuted Romanists attending Mass, after their own use, at a
movable altar, in the midst of the memorials of their ancestors,
and surrounded by the beauties of pious art that had been rescued
from the desecrated abbey of Dale. The Mass would be celebrated
by one of the proscribed priests, whom it is known were often
concealed Ln the adjacent manor-house,* and with the probable
complicity of the parish clergyman ; for the Elizabethan rectors
did occasionally wink at secret services of the old faith in secluded
villages where the squires refused to embrace the reformed religion.
Nor would there be much fear of the altar lights betraying the
service to the eyes of a too inquisitive villager, for the whole of
the windows of this aisle were secured with strong wooden shutters,
partly intended, no doubt, for the preservation of the glass, but
chiefly, we suspect, for the better securing of privacy. t
The most interesting of the old glass from Dale is that which
fills one of the north windows, and represents, in a series of seven
compartments, the legend of Robert the Hermit. It is thus
described by Ashmole, in 1662 : —
Painted Glass wch was brought from the Abbey of Dale at the tyme of its
dissolution and set up in the midle window of the North Isle of the aforesaid
Church : being the Story of Robert de Bloys the Hermit.
The Inscription beneath the painted Story.
Saint Robert being an Hermite
Seyng the dere eytying ys corn
where he coraplauyth hym to the Kyng
Go whom and pinu them.
whereof the Kepers complaiue to the King
bid him come to me
Go whom and yowke them
and take the gronde y* ye plooe
here saynt Robert plooyth with the . . . +
* The family mansion of the Stathums and Sacheverells stood very close to the
church, at its north-west angle. The only portion now standing is a fifteenth century
doorway in a fragment of wall, but its extensive character can be clearly gathered
from the inequalities in the turf that majrk the foundations. Dugdale, Aug. 6th, 16*i2,
rioted various arms in the windows of this Hall — Brailsford, Morley. De la Launcle,
Sacheverell, Sacheverell quartering Stathum, Clopham, Massey, Lumley, (Journey,
Henry Stathum and wife, John Stathum and wife, Stathum and Morley quartered,
and nine others. Visitation of Derbyshire, 1662-4. f. 92, Coll. of Arms.
t These " strong wooden shutters " are mentioned by Dr. Pegge, circa 1770, who
says that they were only opened in service time.
I We have compared this with the version given by Dugdale, and it exactly corres-
ponds, excepting three literal variations.
342 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Pilkington and Lysons assumed that this legend referred to
the acquisition of lands by the canons of Dale, but it had really
no further reference to them than that it adorned one of the
windows of their refectory. The legend is one of a class that
is told of several monasteries on the continent, but in English
hagiology it really pertains to S. Robert, of Knaresborough, who,
on being complained of by the foresters to the king for shooting
the deer that were eating his corn, impounded them on the next
occasion of their trespass, in a barn. Complaint of this action
being also lodged before the king, S. Robert obtained leave from
the king to enclose and hold for the Church as much land as
he could plough in a day with a yoke of these deer, a feat
that it is unnecessary to add the saint accomplished with ease.
Originally the five windows of this aisle that came from Dale
were all filled with painted glass, but the wooden shutters being
removed about the close of last century, and an era of gross
carelessness having set in, they were bit by bit mutilated and
robbed, until only three remained, and those in a much damaged
condition.* An inscription in the glass at the base of the S.
Robert window, tells of their careful restoration : —
" These ancient windows were brought here by Francis Pole from the Abbey
of Dale after its destruction in 1539, & were restored by W. Warrington, London,
for Thomas Osborn Bateman in the Year 1847. Samuel Fox, M.A. Rector."
Above this inscription were inserted the arms of Dale Abbey,
Pole, Bateman, and Sitwell. The right compartment of this
window represents a monk reading a lecture to an erring brother,
who has his hands manacled, the inscription being, Take heed
to thy ways, brother. This has nothing to do with the S. Robert
legend, but is probably all that remains of another pictorial
story that was in one of the other windows. f
The subject represented in the next window is the legend of
* From about 1800, when the church was extensively "repaired," the old chancel
screen removed, and other enormities perpetrated, up to 1829, when Mr. Fox, who
afterwards became rector, entered on the curacy — "it was the custom of the friends
and visitors at the village, at times of hospitality, such as Christmas and the Wakes,
to show their regard for the church and its interesting objects, by pulling a bit of
stained glass out of the windows to take home as a relic, or as an object of amusement
for children.'' See an interesting paper on Morley Church, by the late Mr. Bateman,
in vol. xiii. of the Reliquary. Mr. Bateman was specially interested in the preserva-
tion of this church and its noble series of monuments. When living at Chaddesden
Common, he had in his possession a stone holy-water stoup, ribbed like the one at
Boulton (Plate VII), which he had recovered from a farm-yard at Morley, and which
in all probability belonged to the church.
f Mr. Kerry thinks that this may refer to an incident in the life of Henry, an early
prior of Dale, whom (as related in the Chronicle of Thomas de Musca) the Abbot of
Tupholme ordered to be brought before him by force, for his continued disobedience
and misconduct with a certain young woman of Morley. — Vide Glover's Derbyshire.
vol. ii., p. 339.
MORLEY. 343
the Holy Cross, most interestingly depicted, with inscriptions
below each of the ten compartments.* Another compartment has
a figure of S. James the Less, and the twelfth has another
figure made up of fragments. Much of the background of this
and the last named window, was composed, when the glass was
restored, of bits of canopy and other work that have clearly
belonged to different subjects.
Another of the north windows has recently been filled with glass
to the memory of Harriet Wilrnot, wife of Hon. W. M. Jervis,
and daughter of E. Sacheverell Sitwell, who died January 22nd,
1875. The Good Samaritan, and other parables of our Lord, are
represented in a series of small compartments. The style and
character of the old glass of Dale refectory has been herein most
successfully imitated by Messrs. Burlison & Grylls.
The east window of this aisle contains full length figures of
the Blessed Virgin, S. Ursula, and S. Mary Magdalene, and
below them three subjects illustrative of the Te , Deum — " The
Holy Church," "The Glorious Company of the Apostles," and
" The Noble Army of Martyrs." The centre light is the most
remarkable, and as there is no plate of this window in the
History of Morley, we give a drawing of it (Plate XIV.) In the
base are the Twelve Apostles, led by S. Peter with the keys,
from whose mouth proceeds a label, bearing' — Te decet laus et honor
dne. The singularly extravagant legend of S. Ursula and the
eleven thousand virgins, who, when making a pilgrimage from
Britain to the Holy Land, were martyred by the pagans near
Cologne, is illustrated in the upper part of this light. S. Ursula
is represented as ascending to heaven escorted by angels, two of
whom hold up the hem of her mantle, in which are gathered
eleven of the virgins, with their hands conjoined in prayer. On
a label above her head is this inscription — Sea Ursula cum xi m
v'ginum cu angelis ascendeus in celuni. The treatment of this legend
was a favourite subject with the mediaeval artists of England,
but, so far as we are aware, an illustration of this character
has not hitherto been noted. She is more usually represented
standing on the ground, clad in a handsome mantle, sheltering
some diminutive virgins under its folds. The wording of this
inscription, as well as the number of virgins depicted, is strikingly
confirmatory of the view that "eleven thousand" is a compara-
* There are carefully finished coloured plates of these two windows in Fox's History
of Morley, as well as detailed descriptions.
344 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
tively modern gross for " eleven," the m signifying martyrs and
not tfiousands*
In the south aisle there is also some excellent old painted
glass, but there is no necessity for supposing that it came from
Dale. The heraldry shows that it was originally designed for
Morley church. In the east window (one of the three lights of
which is blocked up by the monument of Jonathas Sacheverell)
are whole length figures of SS. Peter and Elizabeth. In the
lower part are three boys and five girls all kneeling, and also
a mosaic cross made of old fragments, but of modern putting
together. The kneeling figures prove this to have been an
obituary window, such as we have described at Norbury, and
from the number of the children there seems no doubt that it
was to the memory of John Sacheverell, slain at Bosworth
Field. In the upper tracery are the arms of Stathum and
Estafcren.
The window in the south wall nearest the east end is of three
lights, one of which is occupied by a full length figure of Ste
Rogerus, wearing a mitre, and with a pastoral staff in his right
hand and a book in his left. There was a S. Eoger, abbot of
Elan, in Champagne, circa 1175, but it is more likely that it is
intended for Eoger, Bishop of London, who died 1st October,
1241, and was canonized (according to certain hagiologists) for
his sanctity and miracles. t In the middle light are the four
Evangelists, with their emblems. In the other side light are Ste
Johannes Prior Bndlington and Willelmus Archiepiscopus. S. John, of
Bridliugton, is represented bare-headed, with tonsure, and having
a pastoral staff in his right hand; he died 10th October, 1379.
He is described by Alban Butler as "an eminent contemplative,"
and was celebrated for the fervour of his piety and the tenderness
of his devotion. 8. William, of York, is represented in a mitre,
with crosier in his right hand and open book in his left; he
was nephew of King Stephen, his mother being Emma, the king's
sister, who was married to Earl Herbertus. hence the name of
the archbishop, William Fitzherbert; he died in 1154. "The
lustre of his virtues far exceeded that of his birth." The glass
in this window is particularly good. In the upper tracery of
* For a'full account of this legend, see Baring Gould's Myths of the Middle Ages,
pp. 317-40, and Mrs. Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art,vdi. ii., pp. 501-16. The
latter author describes ten different attitudes in \vhich S. Ursula has been depicted,
but does not mention a single instance of her ascension,
t Brit. Sanct., pt. ii., p. 149.
MORLEY. 345
this window are the arms of Okeover (erm., on a chief, gu.,
three bezants), and Stathum quartering. Morley.
The next window, of two lights, is composed of fragments of
painted glass of various descriptions, including the Sacheverell
arms, and the upper half of a crowned female figure, with long
yellow hair, a drawn sword in the left hand, a sceptre in the
right, and wearing a jewelled mantle. We conclude this figure
is intended for S. Catharine.
When Ashmole was here in 1662, he noted the arms of Lumley
(gu., on a fesse, between three popinjays, arg., as many mullets,
sab.), in the west window of the south aisle, and the arms of
Clopham * (fretty, on a chief a lion passant), which we believe
to have been au alliance of Lumley. The alliance between
Stathum and Lumley has been mentioned above. Neither of
these coats are now extant.
The encaustic tiles, which formerly were in various parts of
the church, were all placed together at the east end of the north
aisle in 1850. These tiles, no doubt, came from Dale Abbey,
but only in the sense of being purchased from the canons' kiln,
and were not brought here, as has generally been said, after
the dissolution of the abbey. The Morley arms, with the three
bells, which has already been described, was obviously specially
made for this church. In addition to- some remarkably good
set patterns and initial tiles, are various armorial tiles, including
those of the Earls of Lancaster, Beauchamp, Grey, Deincourt,
Cantilupe, De Quinci, Babington, Thomas Fitz-Alan, Archbishop
of Canterbury, Hillary, England and France, Abingdon, Zouch,
and others who do not seem to have been connected specially
with Morley, but whose arms had been struck by the canons
either for particular churches, or else because they were bene-
factors of the abbey. The moulds would subsequently become
part of the ordinary stock-in-trade of the kiln-master, and would
be used whenever fresh tiles were required.
No frescoes were brought to light in 1850, but an inte-
resting autograph was found on the north pier of the chancel
arch, close to the opening of the hagioscope. It reads thus —
Ihc dominus Gregorius HaivkesweU scripsit — and is most carefully
painted in letters of some size, of a chocolate tint.t We have
* This coat is differently tinctured by Ashmole and Dugdale, and the former queries
his own tinctures in the margin of his MS. The latter identifies the coat as Clopham
in his account of the Hall windows.
t The letters were repainted in 18-50 by Rev. Charles Kerry.
346 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
already given some information respecting Gregory Hawkswell in
our account of S. Peter's, Derby, at which church he was priest
of the chantry of the Blessed Virgin at the time when it was
dissolved. He obtained a pension from the exchequer on the
accession of Queen Mary, and he may possibly have served an
altar at Morley, under the rector, during that reign ; but we
think that most likely Gregory was a clever artist, as the style
of these letters, especially the capital G, would indicate, and
that he was engaged to illuminate with texts, or otherwise
re-adorn the chancel walls; all his works have since perished
under the frequent application of the whitewasher's brush, except
the signature.*
There were several well-carved oak bench ends, of Perpendicular
style, amongst the clumsy pews previous to the restoration of
the church, most of which have been worked up in the present
open seats. In the north aisle is a fine old parish chest of oak,
6 ft. 6 in. long, by 1 ft. 7 in. broad.
The shaft of the old churchyard cross still remains, near the
priest's door to the chancel, although considerably shortened to
receive a sundial plate, which bears the date of 17G2. The
graceful shaft of another cross, with part of the cross remaining,
and with the steps complete, stands a little distance to the west of
the church, in grounds »now belonging to the rectory, but which
were enclosed from a public green about a century ago ; we
take it to be of fourteenth century date.
The oldest register book of Morley, commencing in 1540, is of
parchment, and in very fair preservation t There are many
entries pertaining to the Sacheverell, Wilmot, Dethick, Kuiveton,
Harpur, and other county families of note. The following are a
few of the more interesting interpolations : —
1614 " M'ch 12 ye great snowe broke wch had coiitinewed flrom Ffriday seaven
weekes before."
1615. " Note. This yeare after the great Snowe followed a great Drought
which continued the most part of Somer."J
1618. " Memorand. that this yeare Novemb the 25th aud for three weekes after,
* A certain " Friar Gregory," possessed also of two or three aliases, was mixed up
in some singular difficulties in which the recusant Sacheverells found themselves
involved towards the end of Elizabeth's reign. Can this be our friend who has left
his autograph on the walls ? If so, he must have lived to a ripe old age.
f The Rev. Charles Kerry contributed an able and exhaustive paper on the registers
of Morley and Smalley to the Journal of the Derbyshire Archceological and Natural
History Society for 1878.
I This " great snowe " aud subsequent drought is graphically described, at length,
in the Youlgreave Parish Register (Churches of Derbyshire, vol. ii., pp. 334-5), and is
also noted in several other registers of the county of Derbyshire.
MORLEY. 347
the blazing starre appeared in the East and did retrogade. January the 11th the
Whitehall was burned and Queen Anne died the spring followinge."
1619. " Memorand. that the 3th daie of maie 1619 Robert Williamot of Chaddes-
den did cawse a ditche to be digged upon Morley Lime wch was presently cast in
after them by appointment of Henry Sacheverell Esquier Lord of Morley and so
there was much to doe aboute npthinge."
1647. "Memorand. Delivered into the hands custody and possession of Henry
Hibbert of Morley churchwarden One large Bible Jewells Old communion Booke
Psalme Booke one Quushion One carpett one linnen table cloath marked with
M.C. Erasmus Perephrasse the 25 of October Anno Domini 1647. And this
Eegester Booke
" Teste Willia Bennett
"minister Wilne at Breaston."
348 DERBVSH11JK CHUUCHKS.
of Smaller,
JIEOM the earliest time of its ecclesiastical history, Smaller
seems to have been a parochial chapelry of Morley, and
with scarcely any distinctive history of its own, the
rector of Morley being responsible for the due performance of
service.
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., drew up the
following inventory of this chapel : —
" Smalley— Oct. 4. Thos. Sutton Curett. ij lytyll bells— j vestment of gr.ene
sylke & ij of wytte tuke with albes and parrels thereto belongyng — j cowpe of
whytte fusteon — ij alter clothys— iij towells— j corporas cloth with the case — ij
crosses of brasse — j hand bell — j sacryng bell— ij cruetts of pewter — j syrples."
In the third year of Elizabeth, the crown granted^to Sir George
Howard a piece of land in Morley parish called Baggot Eyddyng,
containing one acre, which had been left to^ the church for sus-
taining a lamp ; it is described as being bounded on the west by
a footpath, and on the east by a spring called Sandy well.* At
the same time the chapel of Smalley, together with two cottages
and three crofts (called Ferneley, Horsleys,raud Eogreve), valued
at five shillings per annum, which had been given for the susten-
ance of a priest at Smalley, were also bestowed upon the same
knight. t
To the Eev. Charles Kerry, a native of Smalley, and now vicar
of Matfen, we are greatly indebted for the following account of the
old chapel, taken down in 1792, which Mr. Kerry compiled about
1855 from particulars given by the late Mr. Joseph OJdknow, of
Smalley.
* Mr. Kerry tells us that the spring called Sandywell, which used to be on his
father's farm at Smalley, is now no more, the plot having been drained some years
ago. It lay about a quarter of a mile to the south of Stainsby Hall, and from fifty to
a hundred yards north of the pathway from Rmalley to Smalley Mill.
t Add. MSB., 6,675.
SM ALLEY. 349
The old chapel, consisting of tower, nave, and chancel, was built
of a lightish red sandstone ; many of the decayed stones of the
exterior had been replaced with patches of brickwork. The roof
was of oak, and covered with red tiles, darkened by age and
exposure. There was an open timbered roof within, probably
erected about 1460; for, when the gallery of its successor was
removed, about the year 1855, one of the old roof beams was
discovered, enriched with deep hollow chamfers, hi which oak
leaves, &c., were carved at intervals of about eighteen inches.
The chapel was lighted by five windows — one in the chancel,
three on the south side, two of which were eastward of the porch,
and one small one at the south corner of the west end, sufficiently
elevated to light the gallery. The details regarding the windows
are interesting; all of them had "curved" heads. The chancel
window alone had a wooden frame inserted in the stonework.*
Each window was splayed deeply; and on each side, "close to the
glass," was a shaft with a rudely carved capital ; there was also
" carved work " running round the arch of each window '' from
shaft to shaft." Mr. Oldknow could not remember the exact
nature of this carving, but spoke very positively of its existence,
and that it was not nicely executed, but "very rough and rude."
There was a considerable amount of stained glass, " very much
like the glass at Morley," but the "yellow tinge" prevailed. Mr.
Oldknow could not remember the subjects, nor whether there was
any such glass in the chancel window, but he believed not. The
gallery window was of plain glass, but had a coloured border.
The porch was about three or four yards square, and had stone
seats on each side. There was no outer door. The inner doorway
had a "curved" arch; the door itself massive, and studded with
" large headed " nails, swung on ornamental iron hinges. There
was also a small door on the south side of the chancel.
The tower at the west end of the chapel was entered beneath
the gallery by a "round-headed doorway," probably, an arch.t
Upon the tower, a little higher than the gable of the nave, was
placed a small wooden turret, painted white, which contained the
two bells. The sides of this chamber were pierced with circular
sound-holes. A weathercock surmounted the structure.
* Two large fragments of Perpendicular tracery were discovered in the foundation
of the apse of the 1793 chapel, when it was taken down in August, 1862. These are
now in the possession of Mr. Anthony Kerry. They were obviously portions of the
old chancel window, circa 1460.
t " Thomas Smeeton theld' of Kidsley buried in the He betwixt the chancell and
the A rc/ie of the chapel of Smaley on the eleventh of December 1632."— Reyisters.
350 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
The old font, with its many endearing associations, is, alas ! no
more. Happily, however, it has not been forgotten. The bowl
was large and circular, and was capable of containing " from
sixteen to twenty gallons of water." The bottom was " dished,"
but whether perforated is not certain. Round the top, at the
outer verge, ran a carved band or fillet, about seven inches wide,
"curiously ornamented," but the pattern could not be remembered.
Beneath this fillet the bowl curved inwards. At the base of the
bowl was another fillet, " rounded," about two inches in thickness.
Of the base, or pedestal, Mr. Oldknow could not speak with any
certainty. The font was covered with a flat lid, to which was
attached a " bowed handle." It stood on the north side of the
nave, nearly opposite the porch.
There were only two pews in the church — one on each side the
chancel arch — that on the south being occupied by the " Richard-
son Radfords," whilst the other belonged to the Fletchers or
Barbers, of Stainsby Hall. All the other seats were plain oak
benches, " without backs or ends."
The pulpit stood on the north side of the chancel arch. Above
this arch, on the east wall of the nave, were the ten command-
ments, engraven on two large slabs of slate, and these were
surmounted by the Royal Arms. On each side of the arch were
tablets with the lists of benefactions to the parish.
Four coloured paper garlands (at least) were suspended from
the main timbers of the nave roof — two in front of^ the chancel
arch, and two more about half-way down the church.
The altar pace was only raised one step above the floor of the
nave. The floor was of stone, the old level being eighteen inches
lower than in the present building.
In the centre of the nave lay two slabs, inlaid with small brass
plates.*
From this description, and from the fragments found in 1862, it
would seem pretty clear that the roof, glass, and chancel window
were of fifteenth century date. But the somewhat confused de-
scription of the deeply splayed nave windows looks as if they had
been Early English.
A large stone block, which had formed half of a door-head, was
also found in the foundation of the apse in 1862. It was of
Early English character. The outer splay was 11 inches; from
* The old plates were removed in 1857, and new ones— fac similes of the originals-
placed on the east wall of the nave. The old slabs were lowered beneath the new
pavement at the late restoration.
SM ALLEY. 351
this the under surface of the arch measured. 8 inches ; against
this the door closed under a further projection of 10£ inches,
forming a straight- sided, but somewhat obtuse arch within. This
block was laid in the foundation of the present chancel. The
old chancel door was little more than eighteen inches wide.
Proof, however, exists of an earlier fabric than that of the
Early English period — a fabric, too, that had rites of sepulture
attached to it. At the formation of a vault for Miss Elizabeth
Eadford, close by the south wall of the present chancel, a fine
stone coffin -lid was discovered, bearing an early incised cross.
The slab was broken in two, and placed over the modern coffin,
where it unfortunately remains. At the removal of the apse,
another of these ancient memorials was found in the foundation.
It is about 2 ft. 6 in. long and 12 in. wide, and bears an early
incised cross, probably of the eleventh or beginning of the twelfth
century. This has been inserted in the south wall of the interior
of the present chancel.
In 1793, owing to the old fabric being considerably out of
repair, a new church or chapel was erected on the same site,
consisting simply of nave and small apsidal chancel. It measured
48 ft. 7 in. by 22 ft.* A south view of it, taken by Mr. Rawlins
in 1822, shows that it was lighted on that side by three round-
headed windows. It had a small square bell-turret perched on
the west gable, and was altogether remarkable for its exceptional
ugliness. In 1844, north and south transepts were added "in the
Norman style." In 1862, these recent additions were removed,
and the cruciform building converted into a parallelogram by the
erection of north and south aisles. This was immediately followed
by the erection of a good chancel in the place of the shallow apse
of 1793, as is recorded on the following inscription : —
" This Chancel was erected to the honour and glory of G-od by Mary Buttle
Eadford, wife of John Radford Esqr of Smalley A.D. 1863."
The church is dedicated to S. John Baptist. The bell has the
inscription, " Thomas Mears of London, 1793," the two small ones
of the older building being exchanged for it. The weathercock of
the old turret was not without a history. The persons employed
to fetch it from Derby, in 1793, remained there so long "on the
spree," that they were at last obliged to return without the bird
— the landlord of the inn having retained it as a guarantee of
repayment for his score.
« Rawlins MSS.
352 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
There is a fine old yew tree in the churchyard ; it was greatly
injured by a high west wind, about the year 1860, when two of
the largest arms were blown off. The churchyard possesses the
proud distinction of being the best kept and the brightest with
flowers of any in the county. Long may it retain its position.
The rank nettle beds, the heaps of ashes and other refuse, the
broken tombs, the protruding bones, the befouhnents of sheep and
even larger cattle, that characterise some of our Derbyshire grave-
yards, are often indescribably painful to the reverent eye; but here
it is tended as if its custodians had realised that it was " God's
Acre."
The oldest register book of Smalley commences June 1st, 1623.
It is of parchment, and in fair preservation. There is a hiatus
from 1640 to 1655, but a few entries of these years pertaining to
this township will be found in the Morley registers.
In the second register book, commencing in 1655, occurs this
entry : —
" Thomas Holland aud William Holland his son and Catherine Holland his
daughter all three shotten and Kill'd with Thunder and lightning on Thursday
the six & twentieth day of August Anno Domini 1680, were buried in Smalley
chappel yard on Friday the twenty seaventh day of the said mouth of August in
the said yeare of our Lord God Oue thousand six hundred and eighty."
In a later register is the following entry : —
"1785. Dec: 23. Samuel Ligget Buried. Poper, (and underneath in another
hand), Starved to death by the Humanity of the parish Officer."
On the opposite page is the following : —
" The Poors' Rates of this Township having very considerably increased, it was
thought advisable to have a standing overseer and a meeting of the Parishioners
was held to appoint a man to the office distinguished for extreme parsimony &
hardness of heart. The result of the appointment was cruelty and oppression to
the poor, and Samuel Liggat was absolutely starved to death. I was from home
when he was buried, and did not know of his death till many months afterwards
when, although I obtained sufficient information to convince me of the fact I
could not obtain sufficient evidence to convict the overseer upon it, and therefore
he escaped the punishment which he deserved.
" R. W. (Robert Wilrnot) Rector."
| HE parish of Penfcrich coutains the hamlets of Wain-
grove and Butterley Park. Till recently the neigh-
bouring town of Eipley was also comprised within its
limits. The manors of Pentrich and Eipley were held at the
time of the Domesday Survey by Levenot under Ealph Fitz-
Hubert ; on the foundation of Darley Abbey in the reign of
Henry II., they were bestowed by Ealph Fitz- Stephen, in con-
junction with Hubert Fitz-Ealph (grandson of Ealph Fitz-Hubert),
baron of Crich and lord of the fee, on that establishment.* No
mention is made of a church here when the Domesday Book
was compiled, but a Darley chartulary records that Ealph Fitz-
Stephen, in the year 1175, gave to the canons of Darley the
church of Pentrich, with all its appurtenances and liberties,
including pannage in the forest for forty pigs, saving the tenancy
of William, the priest, who was to hold it for his life.t This
grant was confirmed by Eichard Peche, the bishop of the diocese,
and was subsequently confirmed by Bishop Hugo Novant, who
held the see from 1188 to 1198, and by Hubert Fitzwalter,
Archbishop of Canterbury.]:
The forest of Pentrich, with its pannage for swine, seems to
have been of some importance. In the year 1229, Ealph de
Leicester, abbot of Darley, let the forest of Pentrich to Peter
Fitz-Piers de Ulkerthorp, on an annual payment of 3s. 4d. at the
feast of S. Martin, and a like sum at the Invention of the
* Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. ii., p. 230.
f Cott. MSS., Titus C. ix., f. 110.
J Ibid., ff. 155, 163b.
356 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Holy Cross.* In 1268, we read that Hugh Fitz-Piers de Ulker-
thorp releases the ahbey from all damage by reason of the
burning of part of the wood of Pentrich, and for the making
of iron mines within the same wood.t
Soon after Ralph Fitz-Stephen had given to the canons of
Darley the lands at Pentrich and Ripley, and the church of
Pentrich, he also bestowed certain lands at Waingrove, in this
parish, on the Knights Hospitallers. This led to disagreements
between them and the abbey. In 1191 it was settled that the
abbey should allow the Hospitallers to hold Waingrove in per-
petuity of them, but that the tenant of the Hospitallers should
hold common rights for his cattle, both in the wood and in the
plain, only in proportion to the tenants of the abbey ; that he
should keep no pigs except his own, and that those should not
exceed twenty ; and that he should keep no goats unless they
were also kept by the abbey tenants. It was stipulated in the
agreements that the rights of the mother church of Pentrich
should be fully respected, and it was also arranged, in return
for these concessions, that the Hospitallers should pay to the
abbey an annual sum of 5s., within the octave of S. Michael. J
In the first instance the gift of the church of Pentrich to the
canons of Darley, simply meant that they held the advowson of
the rectory. But they were suffered before long to appropriate
the great tithes, and a vicarage was ordained that was endowed
with the tithes of lambs and wool, and the whole of the obven-
tions and offerings.! But it seems to have been still a rectory
in 1291, for in Pope Nicholas' Taxation Roll it was valued at
£6 13s. 4d., as an ecclesia and not a vicarage. || The clear annual
value of the vicarage was put down in the Valor Ecclesiasticus
of Henry VIII. at £6.
When the monasteries were dissolved, the lands held by Darley
Abbey at Pentrich and Ripley, together with the advowson of the
* Cole MSS., vol. xxi., p. 155. This is a transcript of another small chartulary of
Darley Abbey, compiled temp. Eic. II., which used to be at Emmanuel College, Cam-
bridge. The wood is described as being bounded on one side ad veter' Haiam campi
de Pentriz, which is an interesting description, as it apparently, without doubt, refers
to the Roman Camp that used to be at Pentrich, which was the half-way station on
the Ikeneld Street, between Little Chester and Chesterfield.
f Ibid., p. 156.
£ Cott. MSS., Titus C. ix., ft. 110, llOb. The dispute is spoken of as controversia
que diu fuit inter domum Hospitalis Jerusalem et Abbatem et Canonicos Sancte
Marie de Derleia de terra que vocatur Waingrif.
8 Add. MSS., 6,668, f. 935.
II A list of the temporalities of the abbey, drawn up about the same time (Titus C.
ix., f. 41b), gives the annual value of their rents, &c., at Pentrich, at 20s., and of two
water mills, with fishery attached, in the same parish, at 50s.
PENTRICH. 357
vicarage, were granted by the crown to Zouch, of Codnor. In
the year 1634, Sir John Zouch sold his Derbyshire estates, and
the presentation to the vicarage has ever since been in the hands
of the Cavendishes.
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., made here
the following inventory : —
" Pentryche. Oct. 5. Barnard Braude mynyster. j chalyce parcell gylte — iij
corporas cases — iij parcells for albs-i coope rede sylke of colour with flours —
j vestemeut of the same — j vestemeiit of rede sattyn — j old coope of twyll with a
olde vestement of the same — ij albs — ij aitare clothes — ij surpleses — j cross of
brass plate — j pyx of latyn — j payre of censers — j hand bell— iij bells in the
stepyll — ij candelstyks of pewter — j sacryng bell — j cruett — j old to well— j byble —
j paraphrase of Erasmus — j booke of the Comon Praer."
The Parliamentary Survey of Livings, 1650, thus describes this
benefice : —
" Pantridge is a viccaridge really worth tenn pounds per annum an augmentason
of fortye pounds per annum forth of the impropriate Rectorye of
sequestred from the Lord Deincourte. Mr Eobert Porter is viccar an able and
pious man."
The followiug list of vicars is compiled from the Lichfield
Diocesan Registers and the returns of the First Fruits Office.
The patron was always the abbot of Darley up to the time of
the dissolution of the abbey, and the Duke of Devonshire in
1713, and in all subsequent institutions : —
. Nicholas
1349. Thomas de Pentrich. On the death of N.
. John le Warde. On the death of T. de P.
. William le Bolton. On the death of J. le W.
1363. William de Kersington. On the death of W. le B.
1391. John Dand. On the resignation of W. de K.
. Thomas Morley.
1424. John Raynar. On the resignation of T. M.
1427. John de Bowre. On the resignation of J. R.
. John Altoft.
1470. John Loughborow. On the death of J. A.
1487. Nicholas Key. On the death of J. L.
1497. Henry Proctor. On the resignation of N. K.
1539. Christopher Proctor ; patrons, Sir John Byron, and Nicholas Holborue,
citizen and grocer of London, by the gift and concession of the lately dis-
solved Abbey of Darley. On the death of H. P.
1564. George Howe ; patron, Sir John Zouch, de Codnor. On the death of C. P.
1576. John Lawson; patron, Sir John Zouch. On the* resignation of G. H.
1577. Paul Hearon; patron, Sir John Zouch. On the resignation of J. L.
. John Chapman. Though at first conforming to Presbyterianism, he was
afterwards ejected by the Parliament. He died on All Saints' Day, 1652.
Parish Registers.
358 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
(1650). Robert Porter.* Parliamentary Commission.
1663. John Potter; patron, Christian, Countess of Devonshire. " Per alienationem
Roberti Porter."
1670. William Licet; patron, Christian, Countess of Devonshire. On the death
of J. P.
1713. Samuel Milward; patron, the Duke of Devonshire. On the death of W. L.
1755. Miles Halton. On the death of S. M.
1774. Thomas Carr. On the resignation of M. H.
1797. Joseph Milward. On the resignation of T. C.
1818. John Wood.
1855. G-. H. J. Pocock. On the resignation of J. W.
1874. W. J. Ledward. On the resignation of G. H. J. P.
The church, which is dedicated to S. Matthew, consists of a
nave, north and south side aisles, a porch, chancel, and short
embattled tower at the western end. To discover the oldest por-
tion of this edifice we must go at once into the interior. The
arches which separate the nave from the side aisles, five on each
side, at once remind us of those in the church of S. Mary at
Crich. These circular arches, and the pillars which support
them, are of a plain description, and clearly of the late Norman
period. Their date is about 1150, and as we know that this
church was given to the abbey of Parley in the reign of Henry
II. (1154 to 1189), by Ralph Fitz-Stephen, it seems only reason-
able to conjecture that he was the original founder of the church.
The font, which is placed immediately in front of a small organ
at the west end of the church, is of the same date ; the upper
portion is massive and round, and ornamented with a circular
arched moulding ; the pedestal, which is a rude endeavour at
imitation, bears the date of 1662. This interesting relic of the
early faith of our forefathers was rescued from desecration some
thirty years ago. It will scarcely be credited that it was then
* " Born in Nottinghamshire, and bred in Cambridge. His Parts were great and
quick, his Fancy very Rich and Pregnant, and his Wit rendered him the Desire and
Pleasure of Gentlemen in Conversation The People he settled amongst were
poor, but his Labours were great, and very prosperous among them. His stated
Income was not above 151. per Ann: But being greatly belov'd by the Neighbouring
Gentry and other Persons, they rais'd it to near Fifty. He was invited and would
have been welcome, where he might have had much more, but he refus'd
When he was ejected in 62, he kept as long as he could within the Parish, to help his
People in Private, when he might not do it Publickly. Sometimes he preach'd in his
own House ; sometimes he went by Night, or by One or Two of the Clock in the
Morning, to an obscure House about a mile off, till the coming out of the Oxford Act,
when he retir'd to Mansfield, where he spent the rest of his Days. From thence he
. would often visit his forme* Charge and Flock, keeping Days of Prayer with them,
etc. And many a dark Night hath he been engag'd in Travelling in dirty and dan-
gerous Ways, on their Account, to show his sincere Regard to their Souls good."—
Calamy's Ejected Ministers, vol. ii., p. 180-2. He died at Mansfield, 1689-90. He
published a 4to book, entitled, An Account of the Life and Character of Mr Hieron,
and oilier Derbyshire Ministers, but we are not aware that there is a single copy
extant.
PENTRICH. 359
found in the cellar of a house at Kipley, the residence of a
former churchwarden of this church, where it was used as a
receptacle for beef when undergoing the process of salting ! The
font which was used during the temporary sojourn of the old
one at Eipley, is a marvellous construction of iron, and may still
be seen within a railing in the churchyard against the northern
wall of the tower. The small round-arched door from the nave
into the tower is also of the Norman period. The great thick-
ness of the walls (about four feet), as compared with the size
and height of the tower itself, seems to show that the lower
part of the tower is also part of the original building, and this
view is confirmed by the absence of a stone staircase, which is
rarely or never found in the small churches of the Norman
period.
Of the next two styles — the Early English and the Decorated —
there are no traces ; but the whole of the church seems to have
been renovated and enlarged in the Perpendicular period. We
are inclined to put the date of these alterations about the year
1480. The whole of the windows of the side aisles, as well as
the clerestory windows above the arches of the nave, are of this
period. The obtusely arched east window of the chancel, with its
five lights, is well worthy of attention, as being, as far as our
experience goes, of a unique design which is not ineffective. The
singular disposition of some of the transoms was probably owing
to the particular design that was destined to fill the glazing of
the window; for it, as well as the other windows, was doubtless
originally filled with stained glass. The other windows of the
chancel vary somewhat from those of the body of the church,
and this may point out a slight difference in the date of their
construction. / The embattlements of the nave, side aisles, and
porch, together with the belfry windows and other external details
of the tower, are likewise of the same period.
The porch, which is well proportioned to the church, opens
into the south aisle. It has a small niche over the doorway,
and is lighted by a square-headed window on the eastern side.
On the pillars of the archway leading into the chancel, and in
certain other parts of the church, are traces of red paint, which
formerly adorned the walls. This was discovered when the interior
was carefully scraped and freed from the whitewash and plaster
of the "churchwarden" era. The whole of the church was care-
fully and simply restored in the year 1859. At the same time
360 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
it was re-pewed and re-roofed in a neat and effective manner, the
whole expense being borne by the Duke of Devonshire. At this
date the stonework of the interior of the chancel and of the space
above the arches of the nave was laid bare, but the walls of the
side aisles, as well as the large blank piece of wall at the west
end, are simply plastered. This, we suppose, was inevitable, owing
to the irregular nature of the stone courses.
In the year 1875, the following admirable alterations were made
in the chancel of this church. The flooring, which consisted of
old gravestones damp and decaying, the inscriptions upon which
time had altogether obliterated, were covered over with a layer
of cement, and encaustic tiles of an old ecclesiastical pattern
laid thereon. A similar flooring, of a richer pattern, was laid
upon the altar pace, and an altar step of white marble was
added. The chancel step was replaced by one of red veined
alabaster. A piscina of Caen stone, of a neat pattern, was placed
at the same time in the south wall of the chancel, where existed
the remains of an ancient one. A bracket was also inserted in
the north wall, of a similar pattern to another, co-eval with the
church, in the north aisle, to serve for the purpose of a credence
table. The choir-stalls, which too much crowded the chancel, were
reduced and re-arranged; the reading-desk was brought from the
nave into the chancel ; the pulpit reduced in height ; and the
organ removed from the west end of the nave, and placed at
the east end of the north aisle.*
When Bassano visited this church, in 1710, he noted the arms
of Frecheville and of Grey, of Codnor, in the east window of the
chancel. Some notes taken by Mr. Meynell in 1812 mention
these two coats, and also two others in the same window — viz.,
arg., a chevron, az. (Swillington), and the usual Grey arms with
three torteaux in chief, a difference that was occasionally borne
both by the Greys of Codnor and of Euthen. Margaret, co-heiress
of Sir Roger Beler, of Crich and South Wingfield, was married,
temp. Richard II., to Sir Robert Swillington. Rawlins' notes of
Pentrich church, written in 1818, make mention of the Royal
Arms, with the date 1660, on their left hand the sun, with motto
"Fear God," and on the right the moon, with "Honor the King."
He gives the following as the dimensions of the church : — Nave,
* It may interest some to know that in the following year, a restoration of another
kind also took place in this church, viz., the practice of the daily morning and even-
ing prayer, as by rubric enjoined, and in olden time observed.
PENTRICH. 361
52 ft. 2 in. by 24 ft. 2 in. ; north aisle, 51 ft. 7 in. by 9 ft. 8 in. ;
south aisle, 51 ft. by 5 ft. 7 in. ; and chancel, 26 ft. 8 in. by 16 ft.
These dimensions differ slightly since the recent restorations.
There are no monuments of any antiquity in this church, the
oldest being to Edmund Home, of Butterley Hall, 1673. But the
sills of several of the windows of the clerestory and north aisle
are composed of early sepulchral slabs, carved with rudely incised
crosses, which have evidently been disturbed from the interments
that they covered in the Norman period.
The tower contains a ring of five bells. Till within a year or
two their number was only three ; but in 1869 two new ones were
supplied by Messrs. Taylor, of Loughborough. At the same time
a bell bearing the date of 1715 was substituted by this firm for
one of the old ones which was out of repair. All the inscription
on this bell, except the date, has been chipped off. On one of the
old bells is the invocation, " Ave Maria gratie plena." Bound the
other is a handsome border of flowers and foliage, bearing in one
place the name " Jesus " in old characters, and below it the
initials " H. D."
The earliest register book consists of several leaves of parchment
that have been stitched together without due attention to chrono-
logical order. The first baptisms are of the year 1621, but the
burials and marriages are rather later. At the head of the first
page occur the following words : —
" We whose names are hereto subscribed have taken the vow and protestation
made and appointed by the Parliament according to their declaration and in (proof)
of the same witness our hands and markes underwritten — Thomas Chapman,
Vicar, John Rowlandson, Minister ibid, Thomas Newton, Matthew Bate, &c., &c."
After this follow no less than one hundred and eighty signatures,
extending over six pages. A considerable majority of the persons
signing are only able to do so by making then: mark. This
document is not dated, but it is evidently the declaration insisted
upon by the Parliament, about 1646, when all the beneficed
cjergymen were compelled to sigr an agreement of conforming to
Presbyterian practices, or else to give up then- livings.
There are a large number of collections by Brief recorded in the
registers. Between 1733 and 1741 there are no entries. Under
the year 1817 is this entry : —
"On the evening of 9th June an Insurrection broke out in Pentrich, S. Wing-
field, Swanwicke, and Kipley, which was quell'd next day at or in the neighbour-
hood of Kimberley."
362 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
This entry refers to that unfortunate outbreak of a few half-
starved peasants, excited by the designing informers and perjured
spies of the Government, that was hatched at the White Horse,
Pentrich. To call it an " insurrection " is simply a ridiculous
parody on the word. Three of these poor men were hung and
beheaded at Derby — two of them, William Turner and Isaac
Ludlam, being natives of South Wingfield. Several labourers of
Pentrich were transported for life. To dignify this disturbance as
an insurrection, and to charge its participator's with high treason,
was as inhuman as it was foolish.*
The disturbance was ingeniously seized upon by the vicar of
Pentrich, John Wood, to further a subscription towards the "in-
tended Chapel of Ease at Bipley." In a circular signed by him,
and issued in 1819, he says that the smalluess of church accom-
modation in that parish " has occasioned a neglect of religious
duties and morals, the lamentable effects of which during the last
two years are but too well known, and have rendered it an
imperious duty upon the well-disposed inhabitants to take some
means for stemming the torrent of irreligion and disaffection. " t
Bipley church was built in 1821.
* It has hitherto never been chronicled that the poet Shelley witnessed the execu-
tion of Brandreth, Turner, and Ludlam, on November 7th, 1817, at Derby ; the ghastly
details of which made a great impression on his mind. On the previous day the
Princess Charlotte died in childbirth. Shelley seized the occasion to write a vigorous
pamphlet, drawing a contrast between the two deaths, and giving various details
respecting the Derby execution. It is an 8vo pamphlet of 16 pages, with the singular
title: " We pity the plumage, but forget the dying bird." An address to the people
on the death of the Princess Charlotte. By the Hermit of Marlow. This pamphlet,
which recently came into our hands, is one of extreme rarity, as may be judged from
the fact that Mr. Rosetti was unable to procure a copy for reference, when writing his
recent life of the poet, and misrepresents its contents.
f Add. MSS., 6,673, f. 112.
|T the time of the Domesday Survey, Sandiacre was held
under the King, by Toli, one of the Eoyal Thanes.
There was then a priest and a church on the manor.
In Henry III.'s time, the manor was held hy the Grey family,
and passed from them to the Leekes, in the reign of Henry IV.
Much can be gathered respecting the history of this manor, but
as the church became, at an early date, separated from it, it
would be foreign to our purpose to pursue it any further.
About the year 1280, Bishop Eoger Longespee, who held the
See of Coventry and Lichfield from 1257 to 1295, gave the church
or rectory of Sandiacre to the prebends of his cathedral, or rather
to a special prebend, who took his title from this parish as the
Prebendary of Sandiacre. * The Bishops of Lichfield were patrons
of this prebend. The taxation roll of Pope Nicholas III., taken in
1291, gives the annual value of this rectory at £12.
The Valor Ecclesiasticus, 27 Henry VIII., estimates the rectory
of Sandiacre (including capeW de Sta Sytha 11s.), after deducting
a pension of £8 to the general capitular body of Lichfield, at the
clear annual value of £10 Is. 5d.
The chapel of S. Scythaf was probably a chapel in Sandiacre
* Anglia Sacra, vol. i., p. 447. "In the time of Henry III., the bursaries, prebends
paid out of the bishop's purse, were reconstituted at Lichfield, and endowed with
lands. A prebend is a separate endowment impropriated, as distinguished from the
communa, manors, or revenues appropriated to maintain all the capitular members.
When regular canons only existed, all were maintained from a common stock, from
which they were pretended or fed (prcebenda, provendor, an allowance of food). When
the common life was given up by the canons on their becoming secular, each canonry
became a benefice, with its fixed revenues and stated allowance."— Walcott's Sacred
Archceologi/, p. 462.
f S. Scytha^or Osyth, was a daughter of Frewald, a Mercian prince. She founded
a monastry at Chick, in Essex, of which she became abbess. She was martyred by
the Danes, A.D. 870. There was an image of this saint in the conventual church of
Repton priory (Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 429), and a good representation of
her is still extant in one of the old stained glass windows on the south side of the
nave of Norbury church, which we have, in error, assigned to S. Agatha (Churches of
Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 246).
366 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
parish, which paid this annual sum as a recognition of the mother
church. Perhaps it was attached to the manor-house of the Greys
of Sandiacre ; but there is no tradition or trace of such a chapel
at the present day.*
As will be seen from the above statement, there was no vicarage
endowment at Sandiacre, as was often the case with prebends, but
the whole of the tithes and oblations fell to the prebendary, he
being held responsible for the due performance of Divine Service.
This in the old days would often be done, at all events during
certain periods of the year, by the prebend himself, but more
usually, and subsequently entirely, by a chaplain or curate. Yet
even this responsibility was shifted on to other shoulders, for it
became the habit, certainly as early as the fifteenth century, to
farm the rectory of Sandiacre on lease under the prebendary ;
the lessee in that case becoming also responsible for the finding
of a curate. In 1592, Thomas Charlton became lessee of the
rectory ; his father, Thomas Charlton, had settled at Sandiacre
some short time before, having come out of Lancashire. f He died
in 1631, and was buried with his father in the chancel, having
been thirty-nine years lessee of the prebend. His son Edward
inherited the rectory ; he was a Commissioner under the Parlia-
ment during the Civil War, and a Justice of the Peace for Derby-
shire. The Parliamentary Survey of Livings, in Lambeth Library,
for the year 1650, speaks thus of Sandiacre :— -
" Sandeacre is a prebend belonging to the Deane and Chapter of Litchfeild
really worth one hundred pounds per annum. Mr. Edward Charleton is ffarmer
and procures the cure supplied. Mr. William Viccars officiates and is an able
man and of good conversason. The rent reserved to the Deane is eight pounds
per annum, to the Archdeacon tenn shillings and seaven pence, to the Prebendarye
seaven pounds six shillings and eight pence."
Joseph Moore succeeded to William Viccars, as minister of
Sandiacre, shortly after the drawing up of this report, and was
ejected for nonconformity in 1662. " He entred Young into the
Ministry; but his Youth was not despicable, being Grave, Serious,
and Savoury." J
Edward Charlton died in 1658. The rectory remained with his
descendants until 1704, when the lease expired, on the death of
his nephew, Nicholas Charlton, of London, aged 82, on whose life
* Or it may have been on that part of Bisley township which is included in Sandi-
acre parish. See the subsequent account of Kisley chapelry.
t Thomas Charlton, the first who settled at Sandiacre. died in 1578. By his will,
he leaves to his " brother Hamlet a blew cote. " Hamlet Charlton was vicar of
Bakewell, where he was buried in 1614. — Churches of Derbyshire, vol. ii., p. 44.
J Calamy's Ejected Ministers, vol. ii., p. 179.
SANDIACRE. 367
the lease depended, the prebendary having refused to renew it at
less than double the usual amount. *
The following is a list of the Prebendaries of Sandiacre, taken
for the most part from Harwood's History of ' Liclifield , t but cor-
rected and enlarged by reference to the Episcopal and Chapter
records ; it comprises several names of eminence, including two
who became Bishops of Lichfield, and one who was Archbishop ^of
Canterbury : —
1296. Walter de Langton. Raised, the year of his appointment, to the see of
Lichfield.
1296. Feb. 3rd. John Bensted.
1331. John de Arundel.
1331. Sept. 15th. Thomas de Garton.
1342. Roger de Norbury.J He was Bishop of Lichfield, 1322-1359.
1347. Simon de Islip. He was Secretary and Keeper of the Privy Seal to
Edward III. ; and was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury in 1349. He
died April 26th, 1366.
1350. Henry de Chaddesden. Archdeacon of Leicester from 1346 to 1354. §
1354. Canon Congdon. Amongst the Chapter muniments is the form of proxy
given by Canon Congdon, dated June 8th, 1354, from the chapel within the
Castle of Leeds, with the purpose of swearing to pay 20 marks as pension
to the Dean and Chapter, out of Sandiacre Stall.
1363. John de Saxton.
1375. Simon Malstang.
1382. John Cheyne.
1409. William Ulf.
1423. Roger Westwood.
1423. May 13th. John Leyborne.
1429. Richard WrangiU.
. John Anstell.
1445. John Warkworth. On the resignation of J. A.||
1450. William Boydon. On the resignation of J. W.
1489. Robert Mome. On the resignation of W. B.
1500. Guido Whyttyngton. On the death of R. M.
* Letter from Nicholas Charlton to Thomas Charlton, of Chilwell, dated 23rd
Oct., 1691 ; preserved at Chilwell. The system of life leases for prebeudal and other
capitular property, by which a very small rental was obtained but very heavy fines
for renewal, etc., was usual but in every way objectionable. Lichfield Chapter were
special offenders in this respect. Charles I., 'in 1634, attempted to put it down, and
a proclamation of his addressed to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield is on record in
the Capitulary Act Books. Strong objections are therein raised to the conversion of
twenty-one years leases into life leases " by that meanes the present Deane and
Chapter putt great fynes into their purses to enrich themselves, their wyves and
Children, and leave their Successors (by what deserts soever to us and the Church)
destitute of that growing meanes which else would come in to helpe them." It was
ordered that no more leases were to be entered upon for life, and such as were existent
were to be redeemed to years. Lichfield Chapter Act Book, No. v., f. 10.
f Harwood's History of LichfieM, pp. 245-7.
% He collated himself to this prebend on July 22, 1342, in the person of Robert de
Craven, his proctor, who swore to pay an annual pension of 20 marks to the Dean
and Chapter. Chapter Act BOOK, Ashm. MSS., 794. f. 85.
§ He was the founder of the valuable chantry of Chaddesden, in Spondon parish.
For several particulars concerning him, see Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii. pp.
304-10.
'I Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. ix., f. 93. The date of this institution is wrong
in Le Neve's Fasti, where it is 1445. John Anstell is not mentioned by Le Neve or
Harwood.
368 DEEBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1542. Simon Jaques.
1546. Oliver Stoning. He was deprived in 1554.
1554. Michael Anstey.
1559. Arthur Lowe.
1571. Richard Porte.
1585. Brian Exton.
1589. William Whitlock.
1597. Robert Blithman.
1614. Thomas Booth.
1616. Joseph Hill.
1617. John Rowlandson. He seems to have survived the Restoration.*
1661. John Boylston, Rector of Market-Bosworth.
1678. Benjamin Woodroff, Canon of Christchurch, and Rector of S. Bartholomew's,
London.
1711. Richard Bynnes, Rector of S. Mary's, Stafford.
1713. Michael Hutchinson, Minister of All Saints', Derby.f
1721. Robert Pitt, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxon.
1730. Theophilus Rider.
1731. James Brookes, Archdeacon of Stafford.
1763. Edmund Law, Archdeacon of Stafford. Consecrated Bishop of Carlisle,
1769.
1769. Joseph Pote, Rector of S. George's, Southwark, and of Milton, Kent.
1797. William Walker.
1832. Jeremiah Smith.
Of those who really served the cure of souls at Sandiacre, no
list can be given, for being merely curates, for several centuries
dismissable at will, they were not episcopally or otherwise insti-
tuted. Last century the living, or curacy, was augmented by Queen
Anne's Bounty (and subsequently by a Parliamentary grant), and
thus became a Perpetual Curacy. By recent legislation, the
advowson of this Perpetual Curacy was taken from the Prebendary
of Sandiacre, and bestowed upon the Bishop of the Diocese. The
income has been recently increased from the prebendal or rectory
farms and tithes, now held by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
and the benefice gazetted as a rectory on May 4th, 1866; so that
the present incumbent, Eev. J. L. Longmire is the first rector of
Sandiacre.
The following is the inventory of the Church Goods Commis-
sioners, when they visited this church, 6 Edward VI. :—
" Sandyaker. Wm Wod Curate. Oct. 5. j canopie — j pyx of brasse — j corporax
with y6 case — j auter cloth — ij candulstiks of brasse — j wyte vestmente of wyte
fustan — j cope of blak color of serg — j crosse of brasse — j towell — ij cruytts — ij
hand bells — j surplys— j payr of sensures of bras — j holie water stope wyth ye
* So says Harwood; but iu Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy (Pt. ii., p. 41) it is
said:— " Tis very probable he died before, or soon after the Restoration; for the
Prebend was filled, April 8, 1661."
t See supra, p. 79.
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sprenkell of bras. In the belhouse ij bells — j sauns bell — j bybell with ye
mynystration with y8 boke of ye parafeces (Erasmus Paraphrases). Be hyt
knowne y* the chales, the grene & yolo vestymeuts with theyr amysys & albys,
j autur cloth, & the beste cope were feylenusly stolen about 7 yers sens weche
tyme we hadd the both of the pyx for a chalyce."
The church, which is dedicated to S. Giles, consists simply of
a nave, a large chancel, and a tower, surmounted by a low spire
at the west end. The dimensions of the area, as taken by Mr.
Eawlins in 1822, are — nave 52 ft. 1 in. by 22 ft. 9 in., and
chancel 45 ft. 10 in. by 19 ft. 5 in.
The inner door of the south porch is a fine Norman one, with
three orders of shafts, and good cylindrical mouldings. On each
side of the nave is a large round-headed Norman window, with
shafts and billet mouldings. The chancel arch is also Norman,
of very rich character, with three orders of shafts and cylindrical
mouldings. The shafts are clustered with a large general abacus,
which is enriched with pellet and other ornaments. In the angles
are grotesque figures. The lower part of the masonry of the tower,
especially on the north side, seems also to be of Norman date ;
the tower of that period being taken down, almost to the founda-
tions, to be rebuilt in the thirteenth century. The Norman work
of this church is rather late in the style, circa 1160. But there
are, unless we are much mistaken, evidences of an older church,
viz., of the fabric erected hi Saxon times, which was standing when
the Domesday Survey was compiled in 1086. Eecent restoration
brought to light, over the arch into the chancel, a window, the
sides of which are of " long and short " work, and the head
formed of two long stones placed on end upon the imposts, and
leaning against each other so as to form a triangle. This proves,
either that the original Saxon church was a simple parallelogram,
without any external sign of a chancel, or else (which is more
probable) that the plain Saxon chancel arch was removed in the
last century, and its more elaborate Norman successor inserted in
the same place.
The lower stage of the tower (excepting some remains of Norman
or Saxon (?) masonry already named) is of the Early English
period, circa 1220, and has a long narrow lancet window in the
south and north walls, with a small buttress of a single set-off
below each. The building of the tower, after it had just cleared
the roof of the nave, seems to have been suspended for some fifty
years or more, and then to have been resumed about the time
when the Decorated period was beginning. To that date, or not
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370 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
later than T300, belong tlie two-light bell-chamber windows, and
also the broached octagon spire, with its two tiers of lights.
The great attraction of this church is its remarkably fine and
spacious chancel, which is a noble example of Decorated work of
an advanced date. Looking back at the list of prebendaries of
Sandiacre, we have no hesitation in assigning this costly work to
that wealthy prelate, Eoger de Norbury, who held the see of
Lichfield from 1322 to 1359." He was instituted to this prebend
in 1342, holding it for five years, and we can pardon his being a
pluralist when we find that the erection of this chancel, the cost
of which must have very far exceeded his prebendal income, was
the result. On each side are three large windows, each of three
principal lights, the tracery of those on the north differing some-
what from those on the south. It has a fine moulded parapet,
pierced with quatrefoils. Between the side windows, flanking the
great east window, are elaborate buttresses carved with tracery,
which are crowned with lofty crocketed pinnacles (Plate XV.)
The priest's doorway, on the south side, is very charming (Plate
XVI.) The internal work of this chancel is also very good; over
all the windows are hood moulds, continued as a string-course.
On the south side are three remarkably fine sedilia and a piscina,
under four high canopies, having cinquefoil feathering, and richly
crocketed and finialed. A reference to Plate XVI. will be far
better than any verbal description of this elaborate work. A stone
bench used to run along both sides of the chancel, an interesting
feature that was unfortunately removed in 1855. The chancel was
restored in 1864, with that usual lack of good judgment that for
the most part characterises the architectural efforts of the Ecclesi-
astical Commissioners. But considerable restoration was absolutely
necessary in order to rescue it from long-continued neglect. Sir
Stephen Glynn, who was here in 1848, wrote of this fabric that it
was " a very interesting church in a wretched condition," adding
afterwards of the chancel (which was entirely boarded off from the
nave) that it presented " a lamentable spectacle of neglect and
decay." The fine east window, of six lights, was shamefully used
about the middle of last century, being bricked up, and a round-
headed window, of about a fourth the size of the original, inserted.
In the south wall of the nave is a four-light Decorated window,
* Roger de Norbury had at pne time been Keeper of the Privy Seal. He was also
Archdeacon of Richmond and Chancellor of Cambridge. The terminals of the
weather-moulds of the chancel windows are all well executed heads. Might they not
have been intended as rough portraits ? One of them wears a bishop's mitre.
SANDIACRE. 371
of simple but effective character (Plate XV.) The walls of the
nave were raised several feet in the Perpendicular period, and
three clerestory windows, of two lights, inserted on each side. The
stone corbels, from which sprang the older roof, still remain in the
walls between the clerestory windows. The nave was reseated in
1855. At the same time the present south porch, which is an
imitiation of Norman work, was built. Its immediate predecessor
was of debased character.
The large chalice-shaped font, which stands at the west end of
the nave, is 80 in. in diameter, and 41 in. high. The character of
its rather unusual and bold ornaments can be gathered from the
drawing on Plate X. It is a good specimen of a late Decorated
font.
On the floor of the chancel, in the south-east angle, is a
remarkable incised gravestone or coffin-lid. The largest portion of
it was found under the pulpit, in the nave, in 1854, and that part
of the base which was missing was afterwards fortunately uncovered
in the churchyard. It probably got disturbed from its original
position when the chancel was being rebuilt in the fourteenth
century. The nondescript animals, one on each side of the stem
of the cross, are perhaps intended for dragons, or emblems of sin,
trying in vain to assail the symbol of our salvation.* We take
the date of this uniquely patterned stone to be towards the end of
the twelfth century. It very possibly marked the grave of the
rebuilder of this church in the Norman period.
In the churchyard is a small stone coffin, only 40 in. long, that
was found under the south wall.
Mr. Meynell, writing of this chancel in 1815, says : — " There is
some stained glass in the windows, but for the most part it is
destroyed. What remains represents an owl, part of a sphynx or
tyger, a goat's head, the head of a man in armour, and many
grotesque figures." These remnants have since disappeared, except
a few small fragments in the north chancel window, that is partly
concealed by the organ. Up to 1855 there were some parts of the
old rood screen still remaining across the chancel arch, of Deco-
rated date. Some of this tracery has been used-up in the
reading-desk, and the pulpit has been made to correspond.
There were formerly some ten or a dozen slabs to the memory
of different members of the important family of Charlton, who were
* Compare with, this stone those at Tickhill and at Dewsbury, Yorkshire (Boutell's
Christian Monuments, p. 68 ; Cults' Manual of Sepulchral Slabs, plate xl.), where the
stem of the cross rises between somewhat similar creatuies.
372 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
for so long farmers of this prebend, but several have disappeared
during the present century. When the church was reseated, etc.,
in 1855, several names were re-cut on the stones that remained,
the dates being supplied from the registers. The four Charlton
slabs, now on the chancel floor, are thus inscribed: —
Hie jacet Thomas Charlton Gen. Firmar. Prsebend. de Sandiacre per annos 39
uxorem duxifc Catherinam filiam Gulielmi Pym de Bisley cum qua vixit annos 46
ex qua genuit 8 filios et 3 filias et obiit 29 Nov. 1631 An. JStatis 70.
(Arms and crest of Charlton)
Hunc tumulum Charltonus habet pietatis amator
Justitiae cultor Diis placet atque viris
Vixerat ille, diu multos numeraverat erat anuos
Ille sibi prudens consuh't ille suis
Consuluit felix aliis ad prsemia velox
Contegit ossa solum spiritus alta petit.
Hie jacet Michael Charlton filius Thomas et Catharinae uxoris collegii sacro
sanctaa Trinitatis Cantabrigise quondam socius natus 15S9 obiit 1614.
Alicia uxor de Nicolas Charlton de Chilwell obiit 1615.
Thomas Charlton de Breaston & Eisley obiit 1638.
John Charlton de Breaston obiit 1674.
Thomas Charlton de Breaston obiit 1687.
Edward Charlton de Sandiacre obiit 1658.
Thomas Broughton Charlton renovavit 1855.
Hie jacet Katherina uxor Thomse Charltou de Sandiacre obiit 1644, set. 85.
Michael Charlton obiit 1573.
John Charlton obiit 1573.
Thomas Charlton obiit 1579.
Uxor de Thomas Charlton obiit 1586.
(Arms and Crest of Charlton: — Az., on a chevron, or, between three swans,
arg., three cinquefoils, gu. — Crest, a swan's head and neck erased, arg., beaked gn.,
gorged with a chaplet vert.)*
* This coat, except the cinquefoils, was borne by Thomas Charlton, the first who
settled at Sandiacre, being the coat of his ancestors, the Charltons of Hillingdon,
Middlesex, one of whom, Sir Thomas Charleton, was Speaker of the House of
Commons in 1453. This coat was confirmed to his son, Thomas, by Richard St.
George Norrey, in 1612, with the augmentation of the three cinquefoils, and the
granting of a crest. From Nicholas, the eldest surviving son of this second Thomas
Charlton, descended the Charltons of Chilwell; from his third son, Thomas, the
Charltons of Breaston (who removed to Chilwell on the extinction of the elder branch
in 1748), and the Charltons of Risley ; his next surviving son, Edward, inherited the
lease of Sandiacre rectory. The old rectory or prebendal house (where the Charltons
resided), which stood on the side of the hill at the south-east end of the church, had
been converted into a farm-house, and was pulled down about 1864, and a new
farm-house erected on the site. Some of the rooms were beautifully panelled in
old oak, part of which now covers the walls of the dining-room at Chilwell Hall,
and part remains in the present farm-house. Katharine Charlton, of Sandiacre,
eldest daughter of Nicholas of Chilwell, by will dated 30th Jan., 1634, says : — " I give
unto Mr Edward Heushaw Minister at Sandiacre the sume of fourty shillings " — and
in an undated codicil adds — " the legacie given to Mr Heushawe of xls in her former
will to be given to Mr Whitchurch and foure poundes more. Proved at Lichfield
22d May 1(537. Inventory taken by Tho: Charlton Gent, and Richard Whitchurch
clerk, cur. de Sandiacre, 3 May 1637." In the will of Anne Charlton, of Sandiacre,
widow, proved 1691, occurs — " To Mr John Barret', senior twenty shillings desireing
him to preach my funerall sermon." The baptisms of John Barrett's children occur
in the register from 1665 to 1676, so that he was probably curate. For this informa-
tion we are indebted to the kindness of Thomas W. Charlton, Esq., of Chilwell Hall.
SANDIACKE. 373
Here lyeth the bodys of Anne & John Charlton daughter and son of Henry
and Anne Charlton of risley, anne dyed February the 5th 1695, aged 3 years, &
John dyed April 24th 16P6, aged about 5 years. Memento Mori.
On the floor of the nave is a marble slab thus quaintly
inscribed : —
Young men this memoriale is here placed as well to put you in mind of
your owne end as of the death of John Manley (who lyes here interred) & of six
more of his brothers and sisters 'sons & daug of Wilughby Manley Gent &
Prudence his wife all which departed this life before any of them attained the
age of 12 years.
Whence learne that young as soone as old may die,
Then lets all live for death prepairedly,
Which that I may doe pray thee pray for mee,
And reader I will doe the like for thee. Wilughby Manly.*
This stone used to be, according to Mr. Meynell, on the wall
against the pulpit, and surmounted by a skull, flanked by the arms
of Mauley (arg. a dexter hand couped and erect, sab., a bordure
engrailed, of the last), and Willoughby (or, on two bars, gu.,
three water -bougets, arg.}.
The tower has a ring of three bells, thus inscribed : —
I. " God save the Church, 1650," and the usual mark of George
Oldfield.
II. " God save the Church, 1608."
III. " God save the Church, our Queene, and Eealme." There
is no date, but it -is an Elizabethan bell, and bears a founder's
mark, consisting of a bell on a shield, the whole within a circle,
having the words " I made bi Henri Ouldfeld '' round it.
In the earliest register book, the burials begin in 1570, the
baptisms in 1571, and the marriages (a page being cut out) not
till 1581. The registers are in fair preservation, but there are no
interpolations of interest. The second name on the register is
George Charlton, baptized July 3rd, 1571. There are numerous
entries of that family, for the most part in a large and apparently
different hand, as though they had been written by the Charltons
themselves.
* " John Manley, 2d son of Willoughby Manley gent, and Prudence his wife, buried
29 Jan: 1658, in the seat of sd W. M. next the Desk." — Parish Eegisters.
Ihng €lafon.
| HE manor of Sawley, at the time of the Domesday
Survey, with its hamlets of Draycott and Hopwell, and
its lordship of Long Eaton, are described as pertaining
to the Bishop of Chester ; Peter, Bishop of Lichfield, having
removed the See to Chester in 1067, as a place of more consi-
deration. There were at that time on the Bishop's demesne a
priest and two churches, and the whole manor was estimated to
be of the then Iprge annual value of eight pounds. There can he
no doubt that the two churches here mentioned were those of
Sawley and Wilne.
We have, however, proof of Sawley pertaining to the See of
Lichfield more than two centuries before the compiling of Domes-
day Book. In the year 822, Bishop Ethelwald, who held the See
from 817 to 828, first appointed prebendaries in his cathedral
church of Lichfield. Their number was nineteen, and one of them
was styled the Prebendary of Sawley (or Sallow, as it used always,
up to comparatively modern days, to be termed), from the estates
there that pertained to the See.*
Bishop Eoger de Weseham, in 1255, definitely assigned the
churches of Sawley and Wilne, cumearum ctipellis, to the important
office of Treasurer of the Cathedral, and from henceforth the
Treasurer was always prebendary of Sawley. t This grant of
Bishop Weseham's was confirmed by Archbishop Boniface on
February 12th, 1259.
But these benefactions on the part of different bishops towards
the endowment of a special canonry in their cathedral, must not
* Malmesbury's De Gestis Pontificum.
t Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. iii. p. 224.
378 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
be taken as any abandonment of the manor of Sawley. The
endowment of the Treasurer and Prebendary of Sawley simply
consisted of the rectory or tithes, but the manor and its appur-
tenances remained in the hands of the See, and formed an im-
portant part of its revenues. The annual value of Sawley manor,
including two water-mills, was put down in the Taxation Eoll of
1291 at £42 Os. 8^d., and the Valor Ecclesiasticus, of Henry VIII.,
estimated it at £70 19s. 9d. The Long Parliament issued an
Ordinance in November, 1646, for the sale of all bishops' lands
and estates for the service of the Commonwealth. On March 20th,
1647, the fee-farm rent of Sawley was sold to Nathaniel Hallowes
for £400.* There was much jobbery in these sales, to favour the
friends of the Parliament, and estates were often sold at an
appraisement barely equivalent to the materials of the mansion-
houses and timber on the grounds. We need not, therefore, be
surprised at the smallness of the sum for which Sallow was
sold.
In 1258, Bishop Longespee obtained a charter, granting him and
his successors the right of free warren, the establishment of a
Tuesday market, and of a three days' fair at Michaelmas on their
manor of Sawley.t This charter was confirmed to Bishop Stretton
by Richard II. J In 1330, Cardinal John Gauselinus, Prebendary
of Sawley, described as persona ecclie de Sallowe, claimed the
privilege of adjudging the weight and measures of bread and beer
on that manor ; but they were taken away because he had neg-
lected to keep a pillory and tumbrell, § and had proceeded
against offenders by fine. However on paying a penalty of one
mark, the prebendary was re-instituted in his privileges. At the
same time Bishop Norbury claimed the above-mentioned rights of
free warren, a market, and a fair, citing, through his attorney,
the charter to Bishop Longespee, and another to Bishop Langton ;
a long discussion ensued before the judges, and at last the jury
decided that these rights belonged to Cardinal Gauselinus and the
holders of the prebend, and not to the bishops. However Bishop
Norbury obtained a day for the re-hearing of the case, and from
the Charter of Richard II., it is clear that he won his case. ||
Sawley was at one time a favourite church with the bishops for
* Nichols' Collectanea, vol. i., p. 6. In Harwood's Lichfield, by a curious error, the
fee-farm of Sawley is said to have fetched only £4 !
+ Calend. Eot. Chart., 43 Henry III., memb. 4.
J Ibid., 13 Richard II., memb. 27.
§ Vide supra, p. 73.
il Placita de Quo "Waranto, pp. 144, 149, 150.
SAWLEY. 379
holding ordinations. The following are the dates of the ordina-
tions, with the numbers of those ordained, that took place during
the episcopate of Roger de Norbury : —
Sub-deacons. Deacons. Priests.
1324, Dec. 22nd ... 17 ... 5 ... 11
1327, Sept. 19th ... 55 ... 49 ... 58
1332, April 18th ... 1 ... 3 ... 3
1343, Dec. 20th ... 103 ... 89 ... 109
1345, Sept. 24th ... 14 ... 153 ... 105*
Let us now revert to the little that can be gathered respecting
the more immediate history of the church of Sawley. The advow-
son of the prebend, i.e., of the rectory, of Sawley, was naturally
in the hands of the bishop, but this right was on several occasions
disputed, or parts of the emoluments attempted to be retained. In
the year 1212, Richard de Marisco, prebend and rector of Sawley,
brought an action at Derby against Thomas de Wilne, for one
" ploughland " (carucata) that pertained to him in right of his
possession of the church of Sawley. Kichard urged, through his
attorney Robert de Noville, that his predecessor in the rectory,
William Duredent, had held this ploughland in the reign of Henry
II. Thomas de Wilne, on the contrary, stated that this land and
the church of Wilne had been duly assigned to him and his suc-
cessors in court, in the reign of Richard I., by William Duredent,
on the annual service of five shillings. To this the attorney of
Richard de Marisco says that the grant in the time of Richard I.
cannot be upheld, because William was parson of the church, and
could not do anything in things pertaining thereto, except for his
life only ; and therefore he places himself on the Great Assize.
Judgment does not appear, t
In consequence of a claim to the advowson of Sawley, which
is not detailed, the court, in 1232, officially declared that the
patronage was in the hands of the Bishop of Coventry and Lich-
field, in accordance with a previous decree of Richard I., and
confirmed the institution thereto of Alan de Bretun. %
The annual value of the rectory of Sawley was estimated on the
Taxation Roll of 1291 at the large sum of £66 13s. 4d. This was
* It is at first sight difficult to think how such large numbers of the clergy could
possibly find accommodation at Sawley, but it should be recollected that there would
certainly be three large houses immediately pertaining to the church, then at Sawley,
which would be sure to be thrown open for hospitality on such occasions, viz., the
bishop's manor house, the prebendal residence, and the quarters of the well-endowed
vicar.
t Placita, 14 John, Trinity, rot. i.
% Placita, 10 Edw. I., Easter, rot. 6 in dorso.
e380 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
only exceeded by two other churches in the county, viz., Bakewell
and Chesterfield, both of which, especially the former, were far
larger parishes than that of Sawley. The large amount of tithes
pertaining to this church at that period arose, doubtless, from the
fact of the manor having been under cultivation from so early a
date as part of the episcopal estates. The Valor Ecclesiasticits of
Henry VIII. estimates its yearly value at £56 13s. 4d.
An indenture dated November 28th, 1589, between Richard
Abingdon and Constance his wife, of the one part, and Michael
Willoughby, of the other part, recites a lease dated July 4th, 4
Edward VI , whereby George Lee, prebendary of Sawley, demised
to Geoffrey Edmondson, his prebend, rectory, parsonages, and
churches of Sawley and Wilne, with mansion and other houses,
glebe lands, tenements, etc., to hold for 99 years, paying to the
said prebendary and his successors a rental of £66 13s 4d , the
said lease being ratified by the Bishop, and by the Dean and
Chapter of Lichfield. The same indenture also recites that Geoffrey
Edmoudson gave the premises, etc., to Edward Edmondson, his
son, who dying possessed thereof, the same descended to Constance,
his daughter, now wife of the said Richard Abingdon. It then
proceeds to state that Richard and Constance, in consideration
of a sum of £50 from Michael Willoughby, sell to him all the
tithes of corn, grain, hay, wool, lambs, etc., of Risley, within the
parish of Wilne, on a yearly rent of £'6 6s. 8d. ; also 6s. 8d.
as yearly rent for the tithes of Woodhall Park. This indenture
is thus indorsed : — "I, Sir Henry Willoughby, Bart., having sole
interest in this assignment, have surrendered same to Sir Edward
Knight, and caused this to be cancelled, October 19th, 1624."
The Parliamentary Commissioners, of 1650, say : —
" Sawley is a prebend belonging to Litchfeild worth two hundred and fiftye
pounds per annum. Sir Edward Leech is farmer and procures the cure supplied,
by a late augmentason eight and twenty pounds per annum is paid forth of the
rent reserved to the Deane. There is a Chappell att Long Eaton apperteyning
the place unsupplied."
Woolley's MS. History of Derbyshire, written about 1700, says of,
Sawley, that it " has a good chancel with a fair steple, belongs
to one of the Prebendaries of Litchfield, called the Golden one,
being very rich, extending itself over this corner of the country,
which is called Sawley Soke The Leechs, a family that
had formerly a great Estate in the county, have the lease of it
* Add. MSS., 6,671, f. 389.
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at 100 marks a year, and when a life falls the fine is usually
£400. They were wont to have the presentation of the several
vicarages under it, which in the last lease was reserved to the
Prebendary." *
The following list of Prebendaries of Sawley is chiefly taken
from Harwood's History of Lichfield. The names of several earlier
Treasurers of the Cathedral are known, but it was not till 1256
that the Prebend of Sawley was attached to that office. Many
of these rectors of Sawley were men who left their mark upon
the age, and include two Cardinals, a Bishop of Hereford, and a
Bishop of Winchester : —
. William Duredent. Tump. Henry II. and Richard I. Plea Rolls.
. Richard de Marisco. Temp. John. Plea Bolls.
1256. Richard de Gloucester, Archdeacon of Coventry. He was Treasurer in
1232, but not Prebendary of Sawley till 1256.
1259. Ralph de Chaddesden, Archdeacon of Coventry, and Chancellor of the
diocese.
1266. Alan de Bretun. The date given by Harwood is 1277, but he was certainly
holding this prebend in 1266, as we shall subsequently see.
1306. Thomas de Mevill. On, the death of A. de B., who died at Lichfield,
in June, 1306.
1311. John de Sandale. He was Rector of Solihull and several other churches,
Dean of S. Paul's, Chaplain to Edward II., Chancellor of Dublin, Prebendary
of Wells, etc., etc., and Bishop of Winchester 1316-19.
1316. Thomas de — — .
1318. John Gauselinus, Cardinal of S. Marcelin and S. Peter, Prebendary of
York, and Rector of Hackney and various other livings.
1346. Hugh Pelegrinus, Cardinal-Nuncio from Rome, and Archdeacon of Canter-
bury.
1373. Richard Voyter.
1380. July 31st. John de Oudeby. He was only Treasiirer for some three weeks,
when he was made Prebendary of Bishopshull and Archdeacon of Derby.
1330. August 24. John Carpenter.
1387. John Beverley. A sequestration for non-payment of penalty for non-resi-
dence was issued, in 1390, by the Dean and Chapter against the estates of
Canon Beverley .f
1390. Nicholas Hauk.
1417. Thomas Barton, Precentor, 1433.
1434. John Heyworth, Vicar of Newcastle-upon-Lyme.
1436. George Radcliffe, Archdeacon of Chester.
1449. William Radcliffe, Prebendary of S. Paul's.
1458. Vincent Clement.
1474. John Bothe, Prebendary of York. Buried at Sawley, 1496.
1490. Charles Bothe, Prebendary of Lincoln, Archdeacon of Bucks., and Bishop
of Hereford 1516-4635.
1516. Richard Pace, Dean of Exeter 1522-7.
1523. John Huys.
1530. Geoffrey Blythe, executor to his uncle, Bishop Blythe.
1541. George .Lee, brother of Bishop Lee, and Dean of S. Chad's, Shrewsbury.
* From the original MS. in the College of Arms.
f Chapter Documents at Lichfield.
382 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1574. Richard Barbour, Archdeacon of Leicester, Warden of All Souls', Oxon.,
and Rector of Easton, Hants.
1625. Richard Pilkington.
1628. Thomas Laurence, Master of Baliol, Oxon., Margaret Professor of Divinity,
and Rector of Bemerton and Foggleston, Wilts. He took a prominent part
for the King in the civil war, and on the success of the Parliament he
was deprived of all preferment. He died in obscurity at Colne, Huntingdon,
in 1657. After the ruin of the King's cause, " he grew melancholy and
careless, and did much degenerate in his Life and Conversation." Walker's
Sufferings of the Clergy, pt. ii., p. 100.
1660. Edmund Diggle, Archdeacon and Prebendary of York, and Rector of Slim-
bridge, Gloucestershire. He died 1688, and was buried at Sawley.
1664. Anthony Scattergood, "per neglectum Edmund Diggle non compentis ad
legendu, Librum prcecum publicarum." Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol.
xvii., f. 51. This nonconformity of Diggle (unknown to Harwood, who omits
Scattergood's name from the list of Sallow Prebendaries) is rather remark-
able, for he had been a staunch Royalist and Churchman, and Chaplain to
Bishop Frewen, by whom he was raised to this dignity on the Restoration.
1688. Job Grace. Collated by Archbishop Sancroft. Vicar of Watford, North-
amptonshire. Died in 1719, and buried at Sawley.
1719. William Higgs, Vicar of Chesterfield.
1733. William Vyse, Archdeacon of Salop.
1770. Charles Newling, Headmaster of Shrewsbury Grammar School.
1787. Spencer Madan, Rector of Ibstock, sou of the Bishop of Peterborough.
1809. Edward Outram.
1821. Lawrance Gardiner.
1845. Hon. Grantham Munton Yorke.
The practice of farming out the prebendal estate does not seem
to have prevailed until after the Eeformation, and we meet with
much incidental proof that the Prehendary of Sawley was often in
residence at the rectory. Nevertheless the Dean and Chapter were
careful to make due provision for the spiritual duties of this
important parish, within a year or two after it [had been attached
to the Treasurership of the Cathedral. On the feast of S. Michael,
1266, the Dean and Chapter issued their mandate to Alan de
Breton, Treasurer and Prebend of Sawley, and to Hugo de Scoter,
Chaplain of Sawley, for the due ordination of a vicarage. It was
ordered that Hugo and his successors were to have all the altar
dues and the whole of the small tithes, etc., * of the churches of
Sawley and Wilne, and of all the chapels of these churches,
except the tithes of wool and the money for wool, etc. The
vicar was also to have the manse outside the churchyard, and
sufficient material for building a hall, a chamber, and a kitchen
* The comprehensive term for this endowment is totum altaragium. " This word
(altaragium) includes not only the Offerings made upon the Altar, but also all the
profit that arises to the Priest by reason of the Altar, Obventio Altaris, as by an Order
21 Eliz., whereby it is declared that by Altaragium is meant Tithes of Wool, Lamb,
Colt, Calf, Pigs, Goslings, Chickens, Butter, Cheese, Hemp, Flax, Honey, Fruits,
Herbs, and other such small Tithes, with Offerings that shall be due in the Parish."
See a full explanation of this term in Cowell's Interpreter.
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to the said manse. In consideration of this endowment, the vicar
was to be responsible for the finding of four chaplains, one deacon,
and two clerks for the aforesaid churches and chapels, and was
also to sustain all the ordinary burdens, except the fabric of the
chancels, and the repairs of books and vestments. * The
patronage of the vicarage was vested in the Prebendary for the
time being. The following list of vicars of Sawley, up to William
Stapleford, 1403, is taken from the Episcopal Registers, as up
to that date they were instituted by the Bishop. After that
date they were simply collated by the Dean and Chapter, and the
last four on the list are from the Chapter Act Books. After the
appointment made in 1432, we cannot find any record of a Vicar
of Sawley ; as it is known that the Prebendaries Bothe were in
almost constant residence here in the last half of that century,
it is possible that, by the influence of that powerful family, the
ordination of a vicarage was annulled. At all events, from that
time up till 1866,t the officiating priest at Sawley has simply
been termed curate, or perpetual curate, and had no endowment
of tithes pertaining to his office.
1266. Hugh de Scoter.
1315. William Patris. In this year Roger de Shelton, rector of Heanor, was
appointed to act as " curator " (? curate) to the vicar of Sawley.
1343. John de Sallowe.
. William de Bromley.
1363. Richard de Braydeston, vicar of Horsley, exchanged benefices with W. de
B., vicar of Sawley.
1369. John de Apthorpe; patron, Hugh Pelegrinus. On the death of E. de B.
(1390). Richard de Rodyngton. He is mentioned in a Chapter deed of this date
as vicar of the prebendal stall of Sawley, vicar of Sawley church, and
chantry priest of the Blessed Virgin at that church.
. William Beck.
1394. John de Acres ; patron, Nicholas Hauk. On the death of W. B.
1403. William Stapleford, chantry priest at Chesterfield, exchanged with J. de
A., vicar of Sallow; patron, Nicholas Hauk.
1403. John Peek. On the resignation of William de Sandiacre, de Stapelford, to
whom a pension was assigned out of the vicarage.
1414. John Besage.
1430. John Bloreton; patron, Thomas Barton.
1132. Richard Ryseley; patron, Thomas Barton.
An account of the " glebe and dues belonging to the curate of
Sawley and Wilne," delivered at the Visitation of Dr. Walmisley,
Dean of Lincoln, June 20th, 1721, specifies the churchyard of
* Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. xiii. & xiv., f. 38, where the Ordination of
Sawley Vicarage has been copied out of an older Register (not now extant), on the
institution of John Huys to the Prebend of Sawley. Also Add. MSS., 6,671, f. 385.
f On April 3rd, 1866, the living of Sawley was gazetted a rectory, owing to some
part of the old prebendal funds, now in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
being restored to the parish.
384 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Sawley, rented at 50s., the churchyard at Wilne at 10s., surplice
fees and Easter dues, and also 10s. from each parish at the
Dean's Visitation, for writing a copy of the registers, and if beyond
a triennial Visitation, 3s. 4d. per annum. *
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., drew up the
following inventory at Sawley church : —
" Sallow. Thos. Tuysse clerke. j chalys of sylver — j canapy with a pyx of
laten — j crosse of copper — iij bells in the steple — j sauuce bell — j hand bell —
j sacryng bell — iij suits of vestments, whereof j of whyght silke, j of blake
chamblet, j of whyte sylke — viij syngle vestments, whereof j of red velvet, j of
blake chamblet, j of blak saten, j of blak worstyd, ij of white fustyon, ij of whyte
serge — iiij albes, of wh ij were put to make a coveryng to the font — v coopes, j of
whyte sylke branchett, j of blak chamblet braunchett, j of red silke, j of whyte
chamblet, j of whyte fustyon — iiij tunacles — ij to wells — v baner clothez— ij cor-
poraces with the cases — j pix — j payre of orgyns— iij alter clothez — ij cruetts of
pewter — j surples — j holy water stoke of brasse wch was put by the consent of the
hole paryshe to the mending of the brasse of the bells."
A chantry, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, was founded in
Sawley Church by Kalph de Chaddesden, at the time when he held
this prebend (1259 — 1266). It was served in 1390 by Richard
de Rodyngton, who was also at the same time vicar • and it seems
likely that the holding of this chantry with the vicarage was
then the rule, and not the exception. The Chantry Roll, 1 Edw.
VI. says —
" Sallowe. The Chantrey founded by Sir Eaffe Chaddesdyn sometime thresorer
of the Cathedral Churche of Lychfeld to praye for the Soules of the seyd Raffe
and of all the bishoppes and Canons of Lychfeld and all cristian soules. Cs. clere
payd owte of the suppressed howse of Burton uppon Trente. Eobarte Bradshawe
chauntrye pryst. It is within the Parishe church, there is iij° housellynge people
and more. M1 Pagett having the hole possession of the late Collegiate Church
of Burton hath gyven comaundment to his officers there to paye the same
Salarye. There are only iij vestements, iij aulter clothes, a masse boke, and ij
towells of no valewe. Clere value Cs."
Robert Bradshawe received a pension of £5 from the Exchequer
in the time of Philip and Mary, f
This interesting church, which is dedicated to All Saints,
consists of an exceptionally wide nave, side aisles, south porch,
chancel, and tower surmounted by a spire at the west end. The
measurements of the area are — nave 52 ft. 3 in. by 27 ft. ; north
aisle 49 ft. 8 in. by 16 ft. 8 in. ; south aisle 49 ft. 8 in. by 9 ft.
6 in.; and chancel 42 ft. 10 in. by 18 ft. 3 in.
Seeing that we know that there was a church here in 822,
Saxon work is naturally looked for .in this fabric. Nor is the
* Add. MSS., 6,671, f. 381. This Terrier is signed " Fr. Coleire, Curate of Sawley
and Wilne."
f Add. MSS., 8,102, f. 49b.
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expectation disappointed. The archway into the chancel is a semi-
circular one, rising from plain imposts ; the masonry above the
arch, and on the north side within the chancel, is rude, and a
small part of herring bone work can be detected. This is un-
doubtedly Saxon. Had the architect of the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners, who restored the chancel in 1865, shown more care and
respect for this very early masonry, it would have been better for
the historical interest of this ancient fabric. Still, we must be
thankful, seeing what has often occurred in this county, that the
Saxon work was not altogether modernised or swept away.
An incidental proof of the substantial character and size of the
old Saxon Church of Sawley, is found in the fact that it does
not seem to have been in any way enlarged or materially
repaired in the Norman era, though we know that Sawley was
then a place of some repute. The next oldest work to the Saxon
is to be found in the Early English, widely-splayed, lancet-window
in the west wall of the south aisle, now blocked up;* and also in
the Early English responds at the east end of the nave arcades,
which consist of three clustered columns. They are late in the
style, and tend to show that the church was extensively rebuilt
about the middle of the thirteenth century. We do not think
we shall err in conjecturing that this was the work of Canon
Ealph de Chaddesden, prebendary of Sawley 1259 — 1266, who
probably was the first who gave aisles to the nave. The chantry
of the Blessed Virgin, of his foundation, was in the north aisle.
Here, beneath the central north window, up to 1838, rested the
alabaster effigy of a priest. It is now in the porch, much muti-
lated, not a little of the disfigurement being of recent years. It
is of thirteenth century date, and is, we have no doubt, the
effigy of Ralph de Chaddesden, who would be sure to be buried
within the chantry of his own founding.
He only lived to hold this prebend for a short time, and pro-
bably the works at his death were in an incomplete and imper-
fect state. Hence they soon required altering or finishing, and
when his successors took up the work the style of architecture
had developed into the Decorated. The Decorated work of this
church seems to extend from about 1290 to 1320. The ordina-
tions held here throughout Bishop Norbury's episcopate (1323-1360)
seem to show that no extensive repairs were then in progress.
* The width of the Early English aisle can be clearly seen on looking at the exterior
of the west wall, where the weather-line of its former very steep-pitched roof can
also be noted.
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386 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
The south aisle is the earliest work of that style; especially can
this be noted in the doorway within the porch. The three three-
light Decorated windows in the south wall, and the one at the
east end, all harmonise, being an approach to geometrical tracery
in the upper part. The nave is separated from the aisles, on
each side, by an arcade of four pointed arches, resting on octagon
columns, and on corresponding responds at the west end. The
north wall of the north aisle has a pointed doorway of early
Decorated character, but the three three-light Decorated windows,
in the same wall, with slender mullions, seem of rather later
character. The blocked-up west window of this aisle was of the
same style, and the east window also corresponded, but has been
debased at a later date. The large chancel has two two-light
Decorated windows on the north side, like those of the north
aisle, and there is one of the same style in the south wall.
The five-light east window is a fine specimen, with a set reticu-
lated pattern in the upper tracery. The south priest's door has
a trefoiled head. In the south wall of the chancel, towards the
west end, is an external founder's recess, evidently coeval with
the building of the chancel, circa 1320. Up to the last few
years the stone effigy of the pious founder remained beneath
this sepulchral recess, when in 1869, after having withstood the
weather and the rough usage of man for five centuries and a half,
it was, with inconceivably bad taste, ejected to make room for a
modern slab to the memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Seuhouse.
The effigy now rests in the chancel, behind the stone screen.
It is much worn, but the chasuble and other eucharistic vest-
ments of a priest can be discerned. This we are inclined to
assign, with some confidence, to the Cardinal Presbyter, John
Gauselinus, who entered on this prebend in 1318. Though holding
much other preferment, we know that he often resided here, and
did not farm out the prebendal estate.
The north side of the body of the church used to have a most
interesting and unique monument, that commemorated another
founder, but the Goths of 1838 pulled it to pieces. It stood
between two of the pillars of the north arcade, and consisted of
the effigy of a priest in eucharistic vestments beneath a canopy.
The canopy, judging from a drawing made by Mr. Meynell circa
1810, and a description of it by Bassano a century earlier, con-
sisted of two trefoiled arches supported in the centre, and on each
side of the effigy, by a slender shaft. A trefoil was pierced on
SAWLEY. 387
each side above the shafts, and above the opening were angels
carved in relief on the stone. The ends were plain, and there
was no crocketed work, or usual style of ornament about it.
Protecting the effigy at the sides, reaching about half-way up the
canopy, were grates, or intersecting rails of iron, apparently coeval
with the stone-work. We recognise the effigy as being the second
of those now on the floor of the porch, and there, too, is a single
fragment of the canopy," showing one of the four angels. The
priest is remarkably well carved, the maniple and stole are quite
distinct. We may be sure that no prebendary (unless he were a
founder of a chantry, or some definite part of the body of the
church, when he would be placed within the wall) would be
interred elsewhere than in the chancel ; and we have come to the
conclusion that this was the monument of Hugh de Scoter, the
first vicar of Sawley, 1266 — 1315, who was also chantry priest Of
the Blessed Virgin. He was probably chiefly responsible for the
building of the present north aisle, and the nave arcades, etc. He
would be placed on the north side, indicating his connection with
the altar of Our Lady, and yet not within it, as being also Vicar
of the Church. The character of the monument was of the first
half of the Decorated period.
It will now be best to say a word or two respecting the Bothe
family, who were the next benefactors of this church. The Bothes,
a family of some celebrity and wealth, were originally of Dunham
Massey, Cheshire, and of Barton, Lancashire. John de Bothe
(fourth in the family pedigree), at the beginning of Edward II.'s
reign, married Loretta, heiress of Sir Gilbert de Barton. The original
arms of Bothe were a chevron engrailed, on a canton a mullet,
and the crests, a Catharine wheel and an Agnus Dei— as appears
on the seal of John del Bothe, 43 Edward III. ; but after their
alliance with Barton, the arms of that family were often assumed,
and in 1403, Thomas Barton, of a younger branch, made a
formal grant of the Barton arms (dry., three boars' heads erased
and erect, sab.) to John del Bothe. t
This Sir John Bothe, to whom the Barton arms were granted,
married for his first wife, Maud, daughter of Sir John Savage,
of Clifton, by whom he had one son, Laurence, Bishop of Durham,
and afterwards Archbishop of York (1476 — 80). By his second
* This fragment was found built into the garden wall of the parsonage, by the Rev.
S. Hey, the present rector, and by him placed in the porch.
f Bailies' History of Lancashire, vol. iii., p. 113; Ormerod's History of Cheshire,
vol. i., p. 401.
1388 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
wife, Joan, daughter of Sir Henry Trafford, he had seven sons
and five daughters. The eldest son by that match, Sir Thomas
Bothe, left one son, Sir John, who fell at Flodden Field, where-
upon Barton, etc.. passed to his next brother, Sir Robert ; the
third son was William, Archbishop of York, 1452 — 1464 ; and the
fifth son, Roger, settled at Sawley (styled Sailer-ferry in the
pedigrees), where they obtained a three-life lease of the prebendal
estate from Prebendary Eadcliffe.
Between the two north windows of the chancel is an altar-
tomb projecting from an ogee-shaped canopy, with crocketed pin-
nacles and finial. On the marble slab are two small brass
figures of an esquire and his lady. The esquire wears the pecu-
liarly developed plate armour that pertained to the close of the
fifteenth century, and his feet rest on a boar, and his head, which
is close cropped above the ears, on a tilting helmet. His wife
wears a double-peaked or ruched head-dress, and has a pendent
cross formee from a necklace. Below them are two plates, bear-
ing representations of seven sons and ten daughters. There are
also the matrices of four shields and an oblong inscription-plate,
but these are all now missing. Bassano (1705) mentions, between
the two effigies and their children, "a small brass figure, repre-
senting a clergyman,"* and that one of the four shields then
remained, bearing " Bothes arms in centre a Catharine wheel."
Round the margin of the slab was this inscription on a brass
fillet :—
"Hie jacent Rogerus_Bothe (Armiger Frater Willim Bothe Archi Episcopi
Ebor et Laurence •)•) Epi Dunelmensis et Katerina ux' ejus pater & mater
(Magistri Johis Bothe) thesaurarii lych qui quidem Rogerus obiit decimo octavo
die mensis Augusti Anno Domini Millimo CCCC sexagesimo septimo & Katerina
ux' ejus obiit Anno p'cedente et hoc erat Anno Domini Millimo CCCC sexagesimo
sexto quor' aiab propicietur Deus Amen."
There is a series of small shields in quatrefoils on the front
of the tomb, but they are uncharged. Roger Bothe, of Mollington
and Little Neston, in right of his wife, was the fifth son of Sir
John Bothe, of Barton and Dunham Massey. He married
Katharine, daughter of Richard de Hatton, next of kin and heir
to Edmund de Eulowe. j One of the missing coats of arms,
according to Kniveton, was Bothe impaling ary., a griffin, sab.
* This has now gone, but the matrix remains.
f The words in brackets are now missing, but supplied from Bassano's notes, who
visited this church in 1705, and from those taken by Saint Loe Kniveton in the 17th
century, which are in the Bodleian.
£ Ornaerod's Cheshire, vol. ii., p. 207.
SAWLKY. 389
(Hatton). Kniveton also noticed, at the entrance to the quire, a
separate memorial to the wife of Roger Botlie, that has now dis-
appeared. It was thus inscribed : —
" Hie jacet Katherina nup' us' Eogeri Bothe, mater Mgri Johis Bothe, p'
bendari; prebende de Sallowe, que obiit 16 Jun. 1466."
The names of two of the sons and five of the daughters were in
brass below their figures, in Bassano's days, viz., James, Robert,
Dorothy, Johne, Dowce, Eleanor, and Erne. From different
pedigrees * we learn the names, etc., of those of the children who
lived to maturity: — (1) John, Prebend of Sawley, whose tomb we
shall shortly describe ; (2) Ralph, Archdeacon of Durham, 1463,
and of York, 1747, he died 1497 ; (3) Robert, son and heir, whose
brass will be next described ; (4) William, married Jane ;
(5) Richard, of Old Durham, married Philippa, daughter and co-
heiress of Thomas Fulthorpe ; f (6) Isabel, who became the wife
of Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmoreland ; (7) Margery, who was the
wife of Nicholas Harrington; (8) Emmota, wife of Robert Downes;
(9) Elizabeth, wife of Richard Parker ; (10) Margaret, wife of
John Ogle; and (11) Anne, wife of Thomas Pegge ; and
wife of Thomas Worth.
Ormerod says : — " Roger Bothe was brother of two Archbishops
of York, iTiicle to a Bishop of Exeter, father of Archdeacons of
Durham and York, grandfather of a Bishop of Hereford, and great-
grandfather of an Archdeacon of Hereford ; a series of high digni-
taries in the Church, which were most probably never attained by
the same number of descents of any other family."
On the left hand side of the steps coming up into the chancel
from the nave, is an altar tomb to the memory of Robert, son and
heir of Roger Bothe. In the upper slab, of Purbeck marble, are
inserted brass effigies of the esquire and his wife ; the former
wearing long hair, and the Collar of Suns and Roses (the badge
of Edward IV.) over his armour, and his feet resting on a boar ;
the latter in the plaited barbe and veil of widowhood, and with
her feet resting on a stag. The small brasses of the three sons
and six daughters have gone, but above the place where the latter
have been are the names, " Katerina, Isabell, dowce, Jane, Aimes
(misspelt for Agnes), Erne." The four shields of arms are gone,
but Bassano tells us that — "on ye first y6 Bothe arms in ye centre
* Harl. MSS., 1,531, 1,540, 2,109, 4,600, 6,159; Lansdowne MSS., 864, etc.
f He bore the usual arras, with an annulet for difference : " In window just by (this
monument) Bothe arms in centre 2 annulets or." Bassano.
390 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
on a tun fessewise a mullet ; ye 2nd on a bend 3 bucks heads
cabossed ; under his feet, his and her arms impaled ; under her
feet, his arms." Bound the margin is this inscription, the parts in
brackets (now missing) are supplied from Bassano or Knivetou: —
" (Hie jacent Robtus Bothe Armiger filius et heres) Roger! Bothe in cancello
sepulti frater Magistri Johannis Bothe Archdiaconi Dunelm et Magistri Radulphi
Bothe Archdiacoui (Ebor et Margareta uxor ejus qui quidem Robtus obiit vices-
simo sedo) die mensis februarii Anno dni M°CCCC septogessimo octavo et p'dicta
Margareta obiit mes A° dni millimo CCCC quor' (aiabus
ppicietur deus Ameu."
We are able to enumerate the following children of Bobert
Bothe by his wife Margaret Stanley, who survived him : — Boger
(son and heir), Charles (Bishop of Hereford), John, Katharine,
Isabel, Do wee, Jane, Agnes, and Emma.
It is evident that Bobert Bothe, on the death of his father in
1 467 , considerably altered the church ; for the monument to his
parents on the north side of the chancel forms part of a structural
change. The Decorated window in the north chancel wall, nearest
the east end, was then filled up at the top, and a two-light
Perpendicular window inserted. Below this window is a double
locker or almery, still bearing the marks of the bolts and hinges.
In the east jamb of the window is a canopied niche for a saint,
and straight across the chancel from this point, which is seven
feet from the east wah1, runs a stone screen (about level with the
base of the east window) having an embattled parapet. The door
into the space behind, which must have been intended for a vestry,
and should be compared with that at Tideswell,* is on the north
side ; it is the original door, and the key and handle are worth
noting by those interested in old ironwork. Against the screen, at
the back of the altar, is an intersecting set pattern painted in
chocolate on a plate of zinc ; it is noticed here, as it is a repro-
duction of some fresco painting found there in 1865. A piscina
in a trefoiled niche in the south wall shows behind the screen, but
was partly blocked up in building it. A square-headed three-light
Perpendicular window was at the same time inserted in the south
wall, having a canopied niche in its east jamb, like that on the
opposite side, and a piscina drain in the angle of the window-sill.
The whole of the tower and spire (see Plate XVII.) are also of
fifteenth century work, and were probably due to the Bothes or
their influence. We must except, however, part of the east wall
of the tower, upon which may be noticed the weather-mouldings of
* Churches of Derbyshire, vol. ii., pp. 296-7.
SAWLEY. 391
the former high-pitched roof of Decorated date, and which must
have been allowed to stand when the new tower was being built.
There is only a pointed doorway into the tower from the nave,
instead of an arch ; there is a small bracket on each side of it.
The large south porch is of somewhat the same date ; its two
square-headed windows are now bricked up. The walls above the
nave arcades were raised in the fifteenth century, and four
clerestory windows inserted on each side ; those on the south
retain their tracery, but those on the north are only divided by
plain mullions. There is a good Perpendicular roof to the nave,
with large bosses, and the north aisle was evidently re -roofed at
the same time. Much of the old oak of these roofs seems in fair
preservation. The chancel was also re-roofed about that time, and
had an embattled parapet, but a high-pitch roof of glossy pine was
put on in 1865.
In the south wall of the chancel, close to the west end, is a
projecting bay of late Perpendicular character, and of much
interest as a most exceptional feature in a parish church. Its
exterior will be noticed on Plate XVIL, and Plate XVIII. is a
faithful drawing of the interior, but not showing the two-light
window in its east side. Within the recess, on a raised tomb
having four uncharged shields within quatrefoils in the front, rests
the alabaster figure of a Canon, in cassock, surplice, and almuce.
His head rests on a cushion supported by two smaU angels.
There is now no inscription, but in the seventeenth century the
tomb bore : —
"Hie jacet Mgr Johes Bothe, Thesaurarius Ecclise Lichfield et Prebendarius
istius Eccliae qui obiit 11 Sept. M°CCCC° septuagesimo (?) cuj' aie ppcietur
Deus Amen."
In the window above this tomb were the impaled arms of all
the nephews and nieces of the Canon (with their names below),
who have been already mentioned in connection with their parents'
brass at the chancel steps.*
This recess and tomb, which must have presented a very hand-
some appearance when the monument, windows, and walls were
duly emblazoned with heraldry, were undoubtedly the work of
* This tomb and these arms (Bothe differenced in various ways, Neville, Worth
Harrington, Ogle, Downes, and Parker, each impaling Bothe, and Bothe impaling
Futhorpe) are all described by S. Loe Kniveton.— Dodsworth MSS., vol. Ixxxiii.,
f. 48b. His description has been given in the Reliquary, vol. xii., but with almost
numberless misprints and errors.
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Charles Botlie, who was collated to this prebend on November
18th, 1495, on the resignation of his uncle, who died in -the
following year. Charles B-othe was an intimate friend of Bishop
Smythe, and Canon John Botlie did not resign until he had the
Bishop's promise to collate his nephew. He resigned this prebend
and the treasuryship on his consecration to the bishopric of
Hereford in 1516.* Eoger Bothe, of Sawley Ferry, brother of
Charles, had a large family. His son and heir, Charles Bothe,
removed to Durham ; he left an only daughter and heiress, Agnes,
who was married to William Mordant, of Okeley, Beds.f
On the expiration of the Bothe three-life lease, Geoffrey
Edmondson secured the prebendal estate, as we have already
seen, for ninety-nine years. On the floor in the south aisle there
used to be a blue stone bearing brasses of Edmund, the son of
Geoffrey Edmondson, and his wife and child, and also this
inscription : —
" Hie jacet Edward Edmondson generosus qui obiit xxviii August! Anno
Domini 1582 efc Constance uxor ejus quae obiit 23 Junii Anno Domini 1588
quorum animarum miseretur Deus."
Mr. Meynell says that the brasses were loose in his time, and
they have now quite disappeared. Constance Edmondson, after
her husband's death, was confined for some time in Derby gaol
as a recusant. |
Bassano, Meynell, and Bawlins (who was here in 1827), all
mention the altar tomb in this same aisle, on which were the
brasses of a merchant and his wife, and this inscription at their
feet : —
" Here lyeth Bichard Shylton sometyme Merchant of the Staple at Callis &
Ayls his wyfe the which Eichard deceased the 16 day of July in the year of our
Lord 1510, and the said Alys deceased the day of Anno on whose
souls Jesu have mercy."
The merchant was represented with long hair, and in a furred
gown ; from his mouth was a scroll bearing Pater de calls Deus
miscre nobis. There was also a scroll from his wife's mouth, but
that had gone even in Bassano's time, and also seven brass
shields for arms. All traces of this altar tomb and its brasses
have now vanished.
* Churton's Founders of Brasenose College, p. 114, etc., etc.
t See diverse Visitations of Beds.
J She was in gaol in January, Io87.—Talbot Papers (Coll. of Arms), No. 136. She
was also repeatedly fined by Elizabeth's government for cleaving to the " old religion."
SAWLEY.
In the year 1838 a west gallery and an organ were put up, at
a cost of £400, and it was at that time that such disgraceful
and wanton havoc was made with the exceptionally interesting
monuments and ancient fittings of this church. Up to that
date the east end of both of the aisles had been screened off
by beautiful carved oak parcloses of Decorated date ; remains of
these may be noticed in various parts of the church, worked up
into the pews There is some good oak stall-work in the chance],
and a massive screen of late Perpendicular workmanship. There
are also some solid oak benches, of Elizabethan date, in the nave.
The Holy Table, of seventeenth century date, is evidently of the
same period and by the same maker as that described in the
church of Aston-upon-Trent. Behind the stone screen of the
chancel is an old oak parish chest, with an elaborate lock that
shoots four bolts at once. The Jacobean pulpit, with a sounding
board, is rather good for its style, and we hope it will not be
discarded when the time comes for the "restoration" of the body
of the church.
In the south wall of the south aisle are two oblong recesses.
We can only conjecture that they have had something to do with
some monument now removed. On the north, side of the east
window of this aisle is a projecting bracket, and there is another
one on the other side of the respond of the arcade, close to
the pulpit. There is probably a hagioscope below this second
bracket.
There is a piscina to the right hand of the east window of the
north aisle, and another one hid behind the wainscot at the east
end of the south aisle. At the west end of this latter aisle stands
the font, which is a plainly cut octagon-shaped stone, without any
base; its diameter is 28 in., and its height 30 in. We believe it
to be of Decorated date.
Over the chancel arch are the Koyal Arms (1767), the Com-
mandments, Lord's Prayer, and Creed.
On a black lozenge in the chancel floor is — " The Rev. J. L.
Senhouse died September 5th, 1844, aged 57." Another is to the
memory of Eev. W. Harding, July 1st, 1823, aged 43. There is
also a monument to Mr. Senhouse, against the south chancel
wall, on which it is recorded that he was for twenty-one years
" minister of Sawley, Wilne, and Long Eaton."
In the tower are three bells, thus inscribed : —
I. "God save His Church," and the mark of George Oldfield.
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II. "I sweetly toling men do call
To taste on meats that feeds the soole,
1625," and the mark of George Oldfield.
III. "God save His Church, 1591," and the mark of Henry
Oldfield.
There are no earlier registers than for the year 1654. They are
defective between 1691 and 1697. The earliest register book begins
thus : — "' A regester of all such as have been baptized from the
feast of Saint John ye Baptist anno Domiui 1654.'' That a Com-
monwealth minister should have ventured to refer to a saint's
day is not a little remarkable. On October 15th, 1667, " Anthony
Wood, minister of Sawley and Willue was buryed."
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of Hong
SE know nothing of the ecclesiastical history of Long Eaton,
except that it was from the earliest times a chapel of
Sawley, and that the vicar of Sawley (according to the
ordination of the vicarage in 1266) was hound to supply a chaplain
for the due performance of the offices of the church — until we
come to the report of Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI.,
who drew up the following inventory : —
" Longeyton — Oct. 5. Jo Woodward Clark, ij vestments with albes— ij alter
clothez — j towell-j cruett— j surples — ij bells in the steple— j hand bell — j sacryng
bell — ij baner cloths — j holy water stocke of brasse."
The reference to Long Eaton in the Parliamentary Survey of
1650 has been already given under Sawley. In 1838 it was made
a parochial chapelry, and excused from payment towards the
repairs of the mother church. In 1864 it was gazetted as an
independent vicarage.
The church, which is dedicated to S. Laurence, now consists of
a chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, and tower surmounted by a
spire at the west end of the south aisle. The north aisle, nave,
and chancel are additions of 1868, carried out by Mr. Street at a
cost of £3,000 ; the old nave and chancel being turned, by a
happy and well-carried-out scheme of the architect, into a south
aisle and chancel chapel. Mr. Eawlins, who was here in 1825,
gives the area of the nave as 49 ft. 3 in. by 20 ft. 6 in., and the
chancel 20 ft. 2 in. by 18 ft. 6 in. As we do not profess to
describe or criticise modern architecture in these pages, our
" notes " will be confined to the old work.
The south doorway, under the porch, is a fine example of late
Norman work, probably of the reign of Stephen. It is ornamented
396 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
with the double-billet moulding, with a unique circular chain
pattern/ and with an inner moulding of bold beak-heads. The
semicircular archway between the old nave and chancel is of a
perfectly plain description, certainly a good deal older than the
doorway, and we have little or no hesitation in assigning it to
Saxon times. The small south window of the (old) nave, deeply
splayed, and the embrasure finished with "long and short" work,
seems to be also of that period.
In the south wall of the (old) chancel is a two- light square-
headed window, with flowing tracery at the top, sometimes termed
" cat-ear." From Sir Stephen Glynn's notes of this church, taken
November 8th, 1848, we find that there used to be a similar
window on the north side of the nave. The square-headed bell-
chamber windows of the tower are of the same character, their
date being late in the Decorated period, circa 1350, when the
church was evidently restored throughout, and the present tower
and spire built. The tower has only a narrow loop-hole light in
the west wall, on the basement, and it opens into the church by
a small archway supported on corbels. The spire is octagonal, but
not very lofty.
In the south wall of the nave is a large two-light square-headed
window of Perpendicular character ; the east window of the chancel
used to be a debased one of two lights, and has been renewed.
To the south side of the archway into the (old) chancel is a
small blocked-up piscina niche. Here probably stood the small
Lady altar. Within this chancel (now used as a vestry) is a piece
of old oak carving, which was found in 1868 used as a joist under
the floor. It looks as if it had been part of the cornice of the
rood screen, and is carved with three four-leaved flowers and two
heads. Its date is circa 1460. To the north side of the chancel
arch is a stone thus inscribed : —
Henry : Howit
John : Baret
Chur : Ward
1696
Edw : Carter
Cleark : 55 ye.
The same date was on a beam of the flat nave roof, removed in
1868, and it was supposed, from various traces, that there had
been a destructive fire in this church immediately prior to that
year. Mr. Meynell, as well as Mr. Kawlins, tell us that on the
cornice of the old pulpit was the date 1619.
LONG EATON. 397
The church was re-pe\ved and repaired in 1731, at a cost of
£300. There used to be a west gallery, in which an organ was
placed in 1841.
A ring of six bells was placed in the tower in 1875, each
bearing a similar inscription : — " John Taylor & Son, Lough-
borough, 1875." The weight of the first is 4 cwt. 1 qr. 22 Ibs.,
and the weight of the tenor 10 cwt. 1 qr. 16 Ibs. The three old
bells, then removed, were thus inscribed : —
I. " Jhesus be our speed, 1612."
II. "God Save the King, 1612."
III. Four capital letters S alternating with four crosses, and
the founder's mark usually attributed to Kichard Mellour, of
Nottingham.
There are no registers earlier than 1813.
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sea tine.
|HE little that we know respecting the early history of
Wilne church has been already given under Sawley. It
is on several occasions described as a parish church, but
its endowments and rights were transferred at a very early period
to the adjacent church of Sawley, the two together forming the
prebend of Sawley, that was founded by Bishop Ethelwald in the
year 822. The church of Wilne was served by a chaplain or
curate appointed by the prebendary, but after 1266 by the vicar
of Sawley. Then in post-Eeformation times, when the vicarage of
Sawley had lapsed, the very poor provision of a joint curate for
the two churches of Sawley and Wilne was all that was provided
by the prebendary. The church has always had rights of baptism
and burial attached to it, but it did not recover its independence
as a parish, which it had lost for more than a thousand years,
until the year 1865, when it was gazetted, under recent legislation,
as a vicarage.
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., drew up the
following inventory at this church : —
" Wylne. Oct. 5. Jo Symson curat. j chales of silver with j paten iiij vest-
ments & all things necessary to the same whereof ij red_ sylke ij whyt sylke —
j cope of red damaske — iij alter clothes — iiij towells — j corpis with a case — j pix
of laten — iij bells in the steple — j lytill hand hell — ij tynacles for a deacon — j
crosse of laten — j holy water fatte presentyd on the last inventory worth xvj^.
There is one Chapell called Brayston."
The Parliamentary Survey of Benefices, 1650, thus mentions
Wilne :—
" Little Wilne is a parsonage impropriate really worth three hundred pounds
per annum. Breaston is an appurtenance and hath a Chappell of Ease. Sr
Edward Leech is Impropriator and farmes it of the Deane and Chapter of Litch-
field and hath formerly paid twelve pounds per annum Salarye for supplying the
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Cure and lately an Augmentation of thirty eight pounds per annum forth of the
rent reserved to the Deane. Item Risley is a parochial chappell lately consecra-
ted for the conveniency of Sr Henry Willoughby's famelye, no meanes apperteyn-
ing, two myles distant within one myle of Sandeacre and part of the Lordshipp
within Sandacre, we conceive more convenient to be united to Sandacre. Mr
Gervase Faulkuor is Curate.
The church is dedicated to S. Chad, and was prohably consecra-
ted to the memory of that eminent missionary Bishop at no great
interval after his death. S. Chad died in 672, and Wilne had a
churcn which had gained parochial rights as early as 822. The
church consists of nave, south aisle, chapel, chancel, and tower at
the west end. The measurement of the area, as taken hy Mr.
Rawlins in 1823, is— nave, 54 ft. 8 in. by 25 ft. 7 in. ; south aisle,
57 ft. 7 in. by 12 ft. ; south chapel, 34 ft. 3 in. by U ft. 8 in. ; and
chancel, 31 ft. 10 in. by 18 ft. 1 in.
Though the fabric itself does not retain any obvious traces of
great age, yet it shelters by far the most interesting relic of early
Saxon Christianity that the county possesses. Indeed, we have
strong doubts if there is an older font in the kingdom than that
of S. Chad's, Wilne, and it is very remarkable that it should have
hitherto escaped the notice of antiquaries. The font is separate
from the moulded base (apparently of Norman date), on which it
now rests. Its total height is 37 inches, but the font itself is
only 23 in. high, and 26 in. in diameter. It is circular, but
divided, as it were, into six compartments, sculptured with inter-
laced knot-work, etc. The necessity for further verbal description
is precluded by the very careful drawing of all its details made by
Mr. Bailey, as shown on Plate IX. Drawings of this font have
been submitted to several gentlemen most competent to form a
sound opinion as to its probable date, and none have suggested a
later period than the ninth century. Mr. W. de Grey Birch, Hon.
Sec. of the British Archasological Association, writes to us: — "It is
a very uncommon form of font, and the ornamental sculpture is
not unlike the interlacings seen on early MSS. of the so-called
Irish school. I should be inclined to refer the work to the eighth
century — but it is impossible to be precise in dates of this kind,
but say from 650 to 850. The characters within the compartments
at the base are either simple ornaments, or may be referred to an
Eastern origin — compare the Palmyrene inscription just found at
South Shields." * Mr. Bailey first suggested to us the idea that
* There is a plate of this South Shields inscription in the Journal of the British
Archceological Association, for December, 1878, with a description by Mr. Birch.
There is a close resemblance in one or two of the characters.
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the continuous line of carving at the base (unfortunately much
worn and mutilated) was an inscription in "runes" or some other
characters. Of this we now feel quite convinced, but any possible
meaning to be attached to it has hitherto eluded the grasp of
those whom we have consulted. It is to be hoped that this
notice and plate will have the effect of attracting to this unique
font the attention it deserves.
The church was evidently rebuilt in the Decorated period of
the fourteenth century. The south porch, which is a good and
interesting example of that date, has a stone roof with strong
arched ribs, and square-headed lateral windows of two lights with
flowing tracery ; the outer doorway is on corbels, the inner quite
plain. The nave is separated from the south aisle by an arcade
of four pointed arches, resting on octagon pillars. The western
respond of this arcade has a kind of embattled ornament in the
capital, and the eastern has traces of the same, but mutilated.
The south aisle has three three-light pointed windows, with plain
mullions, like those of the north aisle of Sawley church, only
much smaller. There are also two Decorated windows of three
lights, having flowing or flamboyant tracery, on the north side of
the nave. There is a north doorway, but it is closed.
There is no archway into the tower, but only a plain pointed
doorway. The basement of the tower is a foot lower in level.
The lower stages of the tower are Early English in style, and of
the thirteenth century; it is lighted with three single lancets.
But the upper part is of Decorated date, as shown by the bell-
chamber windows. The tower has an embattled parapet, which
probably dates from a later time, when the nave was also embat-
tled. There is also an Early English lancet window on the north
side of the nave, close to the tower.
In the Perpendicular period of the fifteenth century, the nave
walls were raised, and five small square-headed clerestory windows
inserted over the south aisle, and four others over the pointed
windows on the north of the nave. The east window of the
chancel of three lights, and square-headed, is also of this date,
and the two two-light windows in the north wall, with the priests'
door below the one nearest the west. Much of the old Perpen-
dicular roof of the nave remains, with some good bosses on the
tie beams. There is a plain Perpendicular screen of oak across
the chancel arch. At the west end of the nave is a gallery and
organ. There are parts of several substantial oak benches of
PLATE.; ix.
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Elizabethan date, and the remains of black-letter textual inscrip-
tion of the same time at the west end of the aisle. In the
chancel is an elaborately carved chest, which is also apparently of
Elizabeth's time. On one of the beams of the aisle roof is
inscribed:— "T I. I G. C I. G A. W.S. C. WARD. 1708."
On another is the date 1704, with the letters reversed.
In the south wall of the chancel is a small but well- sculptured
piscina, with a tref oiled arch and circular bowl, close to which
are two stone brackets, that have probably served as a credence
table.
The manor of Wilne pertained to the See of Coventry and
Lichfield ; but the important manor of Eisley, within this parish,
was in secular hands. In the reign of Edward I., William
Morteyn held Eisley under Eoger Paveley.f Isabel, heiress of
Eoger, son of William Morteyn, brought it to her husband, Sir
Eichard Willoughby, who, during the greater part of the reign of
Edward III., was one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, and
for some time Chief Justice of the King's Bench.*
On the death of Sir Eichard in 1363,t his younger son, Hugh
Willoughby, who married Joan Spencer, alias Eisley, inherited this
manor. Thence it passed in direct lineal descent to Hugh Wil-
loughby, who married Joan, daughter and heiress of Sir John
Dabridgecourt — to Hugh W., who married Isabel, daughter of Sir
George Clifton — to Hugh W., who married Anne, daughter of
Eichard Wentworth — to Thomas W., who married Isabel, daughter
of John Bradbourn, of Hough — to Hugh W., who married
Margaret, daughter of Thomas Molineux — to George W., who
married Elizabeth, sole daughter and heiress of Eichard Neale —
to Sir John W., who married Frances, sole daughter and heiress of
Henry Hawe — and to Sir Henry Willoughby, bart., who married
(1) Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Henry Knowles,
brother to the Earl of Banbury ; and (2) Lettice, youngest
daughter and co-heiress of Sir Francis Darcy.§
Sir Henry died without male issue in 1649. The manor of
Eisley became the property of Anne, one of his four daughters,
* Inq. post Mort., 12 Edw. I., No. 26.
f Richard de Willoughby, father of Justice Willoughby, had previously purchased
a third of the manor of Risley. — Inq. post Mort., 18 Edw. II., No. 81.
J Inq. post Mort., 36 Ew. III., pt. 2, No. 81. His elder son, Sir Edmund, was ances-
tor of the Willoughbys of Wollaton.
§ Harl. MSS., 1,093, f. 132; 6,675, f. 301; and 381, ff. 176-180. The last of these
MSS. has much important information relative to the Willoughbys, in the hand of
Sir Simon D'Ewes, who married Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Sir Henry' Wil-
loughby.
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who was married (1) to Sir Thomas Aston, and (2) to Hon.
Anchitel Grey.
Though there was an ancient chapel within the township of
Kisley, it had no rites of sepulture, and the burial place of the
Willoughhys of Bisley was within the church of Wilne.
On au alabaster slab, in the floor of the chancel, are the incised
figures of an esquire in plate armour, and his lady; round the
margin is this inscription : —
" Hie jacent Hugo Willoughby de Risley armicr. et Isabella ux. ei'. filia
Gervasii Clifton milit qui obiit xii die mesis Septebr an dni Millio cceclxxxxi0
Et Isabella obiit iij die mensis Maii anno dni Millio cccclxii0 quo' aiab'
ppicietur deus Amen."
The slab also bears the arms of Dabridgecourt (erm., two bars
humettee, gu.) impaling Clifton (sab., a lion rampant within an
orle of cinquefoils, arg.) ; which is a proof that Hugh Willoughby
used the arms of his mother, heiress of Dabridgecourt, in prefer-
ence to his own. The arms are now almost illegible.
Against the north wall of the chancel is a brass of an esquire
and his wife, kneeling ; behind him is the figure of one son, and
behind her the figures of four daughters. From her mouth
proceeds a label, bearing — Pater de celis deus miserere nobis, and
from his another, bearing — See trinitas un' de' miserere Above
the figures, on a separate stone, is this inscription : —
" Here under this tombe lithe he we Willowghbe Esquier__ ye whiche hath
naturalli hys lyfe departed the therd day of September ano dni M°D°xiiij ; hose
solle Jhu have marce."
When this church was visited by Dugdale and Ashmole, on July
30th, 1663,* there was against the north chancel wall immediately
below the brass, " a Tombe of stone, raysed in the forme of an
Altar without any Armes or Inscription thereon." This, which
was the tomb of Hugh Willoughby, and to which the preceding
inscription refers, has disappeared. Below the brass figures of the
husband and wife is another inscription : —
" Pray for the soules of hugh Wylloughby of Eysley Squier and Anne his wyff
daughter of Richard Wentworth Esquier aud Thomas Wylloughby son and heyre
of the seid hugh Wylloughby."
Between the labels from the mouths of the figures is a small
emblem of the Holy Trinity of the usual character. There was
also a brass escutcheon bearing Willoughby (or, on two bars, gu.,
* Visitation of Derbyshire, 1662-4, f. 102, Coll. of Arms; Ashm. MSS., 854, Bodleian.
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three water bougets, arg.) quartering Morteyn (quarterly, four lions
rampant), surmounted by a crest of a peacock's head issuing from
a ducal coronet, probably intended for the crest of Clifton, mother
of this Hugh Willoughby. This brass shield has recently dis-
appeared.
An elaborate gravestone that was on the chancel floor in 1663,
and was also noted by Bassano in 1710 (though then broken), and
about a hundred years later by Mr. Meynell, is now altogether
missing. It was thus inscribed : —
"Here lyeth Hugh Willoughby of Bisley Esquire wone of the Serjeants at
Armes unto our most dred Soverein Lord King Henry the viiith Which Hugh
departed out of this lyfe the last And Margaret his wyfe sister unto
Edmund Molineux wone of the Serjeants of the Laws to the same Ring's Majestie
Which Margaret departed this wretchid liffe unto the liffe everlasting the xviijth
day of March in the yeare of our Saviour Jhesu Christ MCCCCCXI for whose soules
of your charitie say wone Pater Noster and an Ave. Which Hugh and Margaret
had issue George, Frauncis, Michael, Gabraell, Raphaell, Baptist, Arkenwald, and
daughters Ursula, Barbara, Katheryne, Anne, and Jane."
The south aisle was prolonged towards the east in 1622, so as
to form a memorial chapel to Sir John Willoughby. It is clear,
however, that there had previously been Borne extension of this
aisle, as the archway has octagon responds and capitals of Deco-
rated date, and over the arch are two old corbels sculptured as
heads, temp. Edward I. or II. Across this archway leading into
the chapel is a heavy wooden screen with gates, elaborately carved
after that pagan fashion which prevailed soon after the Reformation,
and which gloried in the reproduction of the gross symbols of a
sensual superstition, rather than in the pure emblems of a Divine
faith. Here may be noticed centaurs, satyrs, Hercules with his
club, and a Roman soldier with fasces and axe, mixed up with
drums, cannons, and muskets ! The arms of "Willoughby and
Hawe (Sab., a fesse humettee, erm., between three griffins' heads
erased, of the last) are also carved on the gates. The date
on the back of the screen is 1624. The roof of the chapel is
ceiled with pargetting work, relieved with heads of cherubs,
and the arms of Willoughby impaling Hawe and Knowles.
The floor is paved with glazed tiles of bright colours, bearing
an effective four-tiled rose pattern. They are remarkable speci-
mens of encaustic tiles, especially when we consider how their
manufacture was almost altogether abandoned at that time, and in
all probability came from the Continent. Nor can there be any
doubt that the brilliant stained glass of the windows, specially
good for the period, is also of foreign manufacture. These
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windows were not a little damaged during the Civil War, in the
year 1648,* but have been restored within the last few years. The
east window represents the Ascension, one of the south windows
the Crucifixion, and the other south window the Nativity. The
east window is the one that has been the most restored ; in it are
also the arms of Willoughby impaling Hawe, and "Willoughby
impaling Knowles (az., crusilly of crosslets a cross moline voided,
or), and in new glass at the top the arms of Ffytchet (vert.,
a chevron between three leopards' heads, or), with the motto
Esperance en Dieu.
Under a large and costly marble canopy, against the north wall,
are two recumbent effigies, the knight in late plate armour and
ruff, and the lady in a long-waisted gown and ruff. Below
them, on the face of the tomb, are two sons and two daughters
kneeling. In the upper part of the monuments are the arms of
Willoughby quartering Neale (gu., a lion passant arg., with a
crescent for difference), over all, on an escutcheon of pretence,
the arms of Hawe. Behind the principal figures is an inscription,
which has been once renewed in gold lettering not quite corres-
ponding with the original, but now very indistinct. This was how
it read in 1663 :—
"Nere unto this place resteth the bodies of John Willoughby of Risley in the
County of Derby knight, and Frances his wife, daughter and heir of Henry Hawe
of Woodhall in the County of Norfolke Eqr They enjoyed one another in matri-
moniall love 30 yeares ; and had yssue two sons and two daughters, Henry,
Francis; Elizabeth, and Ursula. He departed this world the 28th of January
1605, and she the 21st of September 1602. To whose memory Henry Willoughby
Bart, their eldest son, to testifie his flliall love towards them, hath erected this
monument 1622."
There is also a mural monument in this chapel : —
" To the memory of Ann daur of Henry Willoughby of Risley Co Derby B*
her first marriage was with Sr Thos Aston of Aston in the Co of Chester B* by
whom she had Sr Willoughby Aston and Magdalen the wife of Robert Burdet
of Bramcote in the Co of Warwick Esq & Mary. Her second marriage was with
the Honble Anchitel Grey Esq, second son of Henry Earl of Stamford, by whom
shee had issue one sonne and one daughter, namely Willoughby and Elizabeth.
In hopes of a blessed resurrection shee ended her pious life the 2d day of June
1688 in y« 74th yeare of her age."
Of. Sir Henry Willoughby's four daughters and co-heiresses —
Elizabeth, the eldest, was married to Sir Henry Griffith, and died
without issue — Anne is mentioned above — Catherine was married
* Blore's MSS., as quoted by Mr. Meynell.
t As these arms may possibly puzzle future archaeologists, who may try to find
some alliance between Willoughby and Ffytche, it may be well to state that the win-
dows were restored by the representative of the latter family, who recently purchased
Risley manor, and hence the presence of this coat.
WILNE. 405
to Sir J. Bellingham, and afterwards to George Purefoy — and
Elizabeth, the youngest, was married, firstly, to Sir Symon D'Ewes,
aud secondly, to Sir John Wray.*
In 1663 there was in the east window a shield, bearing — az., a
falcon, arg., and Bassano noted the same in 1710. He also
mentioned — " within the (altar) railes by the south wall an old
monument, cut in stone ye image of a man his hands elevated
holding a heart, the effigy only lying above the pav* of the floor,
some sort of a priest ; " and on the chancel floor — " a small
alibaster stone, portraiture of a man, above ye head impaled coat :
2 bars gules impaling sab. a Lion Eampant among cinquefoyles
arg., and a single coat, on a bend 3 anckors gules — Hie jacet
Robertus Bakeivell Qui cibiit Cecilia .... An Dom
MD Ill cujus anime ppicietur deus amen." Neither of
these monuments can now be found.
On the floor of the nave is a gritstone slab, with a marginal
inscription all but erased. The only words decipherable are —
" primo die."
Against the north wall of the nave are several monuments
to the families of Cleator, Jowett, and Parkinson. Against the
north chancel wall is a monument to Henry Keyes, of Hopwell,
who died 1733.
The tower has a ring of four bells, thus inscribed : —
I. "Ex dono Henrici Willoughby Baronetti An Domini 1652,"
and the mark of George Oldfield.
II. Three capital Lombardic letters S, alternating with three
crosses. The bell-mark is that usually attributed to Richard Mellour.
III. ' ' I sweetly toling men do call
To taste on meats that feeds the soole, 1605."
Bell-mark of Henry Oldfield.
IV. " All men that heare my mournful sound
Eepent before you lye in ground, 1627."
The Registers begin in the year 1540, and are tolerably perfect.
There is a book of Churchwardens' Accounts, beginning in 1614,
in a torn and fragmentary condition, but only the totals, and
none of the details of the parish expenses, are given.
The small silver chalice, having a cover ornamented with
arabesques, is one of the very few examples of Elizabethan Church
Plate in the county. Its date is 1566-7.
* The marriage of Lady D'Ewes with Sir John Wray is entered in the Wilne regis-
ters, tmder Jan. 21st, 1652. Sir Henry Willoughby, we find from the same source,
was buried Nov. 22nd, 1653, and his brother Francis, March 30th, 16o§.
406 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Cfjapelrg of i&reaston.
jlE can glean hardly anything respecting the early history
of this chapel, as it was a mere dependency of Sawley.
It was really a chapelry of Wilne parish, but as Wilne
became itself subservient to Sawley, Sawley and Wilne conjointly
forming the prebend, it was often spoken of as a chapelry of the
former. The ample provision made for the carrying on the daily
celebration of the Divine Service in the different chapels, by the
appointment of chaplains dependent on the Vicar of Sawley, at the
time when the vicarage was formally ordained in 1266, has been
already detailed. The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward
VI., give the following inventory : —
" Breyston-Chapell in Wilne parish. Oct. 5. Half Harryson Curat. j chales
of sylver with a paten— ij vestments & all things necessarye — ij alter clothes —
j towell — j corporis with a case — j holly water fatt of brasse — ij bells in the
steeple — j lytill hand bell — j sakering bell."
The reference to Breaston by the Parliamentary Commissioners
of 1650 has been quoted under Wilne.
The Church, which is dedicated to S. Michael, consists of nave,
south aisle, chancel, and tower surmounted by a spire at the
west end. The dimensions of the area, according to Mr. Bawlins,
who visited the church in 1827, are — nave 50 ft. 6 in. by 13 ft.
7 in. ; south aisle 46 ft. 9 in. by 11 ft. 2 in. ; and chancel 29 ft.
8 in. by 14 ft. 10 in.
The oldest part of the present fabric is of Early English
character. The blocked-up pointed south doorway (over which are
marks of the roof of a former porch) is very remarkable for the
unusual character of the patterns sculptured on the face of the
arch stones, no two of them being alike. WTe believe this doorway
BREASTON. 407
to date about the time of John, during the transition from
Norman to Early English. The tower is of Early English style,
but late, about the end of Henry Ill's reign. The basement
is lighted with three lancets, that on the south side being blocked
up by an unsightly modern lean-to. The upper stage of the tower
is lighted by plain double lancets on each side. The broached
octagon spire is, we believe, co-eval with the tower, though
extensively repaired at later dates. There is a round-headed,
eighteenth century, west doorway to the tower, but it is now
built up. The archway from the tower into the nave is of good
character. Of similar style and date is the chancel archway. The
limit of the chancel, as then built, can be noted externally by the
difference in the buttresses, and internally by the piscina, in a
trefoiled niche, about the middle of the south wall.
The church was extensively rebuilt in the Decorated period, circa
1350. The chancel was then prolonged a bay ; a second piscina
may be noted in the south-east angle. The three-light east
window, and the similar one in the north wall, are of that date.
The windows of the south aisle and one in the north wall of the
nave, are of the same period, as well as the arcade of three
arches, supported on octagon pillars, between the nave and aisle.
The weather-moulding of the old high-pitched roof of the nave
can be traced on the west wall of the tower.
In the Perpendicular period of the fifteenth century, the roofs
were lowered and the walls raised. Two square-headed windows
were then inserted in the upper part of the north wall of the
nave, and two similar ones in the chancel walls. That on the
south side of the chancel has been cut through in recent times to
form an entrance into a remarkably ugly vestry of brick, which
blocks up the east window of the south aisle.
On a large buttress, against the north side of the church, close
to the tower, the following inscription is cut in raised letters —
"E. T. E. W. Chur. W. 1680," and below it two shields of arms.
On the upper part of the first of these is carved "Gray," and
below it is a twenty-quartered coat of Grey or Gray, now so much
damaged by the weather, that only parts of the charges are in
any way legible. We were able to detect the arms of Boinville,
Brandon, and Cecil, which note some of the more important
alliances of this distinguished family. The other coat has also the
word "Gray," and under it " Willoughby," and below this the
impaled coat of Grey and Willoughby. The arms of Grey (barry
408 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
of six, ary. and az., with a label of three points) are differenced
with a crescent, denoting a second son. These arms refer to the
alliance between the Honourable Anchitel Grey and Anne,
daughter and co-heiress of Sir Henry Willoughby, as described
under Wilne. These arms, taken in connection with the initials of
the churchwardens, prove that the church was repaired and this
buttress erected by Hon. Anchitel Grey and his wife. A current
idea, that these arms were removed from Eisley Old Hall and
placed here, is clearly erroneous. Michael Willoughby, third son
of Hugh and Margaret Willoughby, bought the manor of Breaston
of the Babingtons in the reign of Elizabeth.
The font, which consists of a fluted column and bowl of
Derbyshire alabaster, is of the year 1750 ; it now stands under the
tower.
The church was re-pewed and a west gallery erected in 1840, at
a cost of <£200. The old oak pulpit, prior to that restoration,
bore the date of 1625. * In 1871 another restoration took place,
at a cost of .£430, the chief feature of which was the ejection of
the fittings of 1840. The chancel is now fitted with choir stalls,
and the rest of the church with open seats. The western gallery
was taken down, and the bricked-up tower archway thrown open.
The large semi-circular headed debased window, formerly in the
north wall of the nave, was replaced by a three-light traceried
window corresponding with the old ones of Decorated date. The
north doorway was renewed. The church was re-opened on July
12th, 1871.
Against the exterior of the south wall is a tablet to Sarah
Dyche, who died July 27th, 1833, aged 100 years.
* Meynell MSS.
Add. MSS., 9,855, f. 680 ; the original returns of 1831, on which the Parliamentary
Account of Parish Eegisters is based.
KISLEY, 409
Of
|E know that there was a chapel within this township at
an early date, long hefore the present one was erected.
There seem good reasons to suppose that it was not oa
the site of the one now standing, and we are inclined to thiuk (as
part of the township was within Sandiacre parish) that it may
have heen the chapel of S. Osyth, or Scytha, mentioned in the
Valor Ecclesiasticus, and to which we have already referred in our
account of Sandiacre Church.
It was of the old chapel that the Church Goods Commissioners
took the following meagre inventory, 6 Edward VI. : —
"Rysley. Oct. 5. j bell in the steple — j baud bell — j old vestment— j surples."
The present fahric was built hy Michael Willoughby and Katha-
rine his wife, in the year 1593, chiefly to serve as a domestic
chapel to Kisley Hall. Though then erected, it was not consecrated
until 1632. Michael Willoughby was the third son of Hugh
Willoughby, by Margaret, daughter of Thomas Molineux. Michael
Willoughby and his wife gave twenty nobles per annum (£6 13s. 4d.)
towards the maintenance of a minister and schoolmaster at the
chapel of Kisley, a benefaction which was increased to twenty
marks (£13 6s. 8d.) by Sir Henry Willoughby. Elizabeth Grey,
only daughter and heiress of Hon. Anchitel Grey by Anne, daughter
and co -heiress of Sir Henry Willoughby, augmented the stipend of
the ^curate of Eisley by £200, which was met by a like amount
from Queen Anne's Bounty. She also found a like sum, similarly
met, for the curate of Breaston. These benefactions were made
December 1st, 1719. * From that date the incumbents of both
these chapelries became Perpetual Curates, and were no longer
* Ecton's State of the Bounty of Queen Anne, p. 76.
410 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
dependent on Wilne. As a matter of fact and convenience, the
same clergyman was nominated, and continued to be nominated, to
these two cures, but it is a mistake to suppose that any formal
coalition of the chapelries was then made, and the arrange-
ment by which they were held together could at any time have
been upset by the Bishop. Elizabeth Grey also made large
bequests to found a school at Eisley, by indenture of March 10th,
1718, by will of June 2 1st, 1720, and by a codicil of March 2nd,
1721. By the last of these documents a further augmentation of
£40 per annum was to be paid to the curates of Breaston and
Risley. *
In the Risley Register Book, under date August 2nd, 1824, is
the following entry, copied from Wilne Registers : —
" Breason was united to Eisley and made one cure [an error] Michaelmas
1719. Since which time no Christenings or Weddings or Burials from Risley or
Breason are to be registered in this Book. Such Burials or Weddings which
should come to Wilne only excepted."
The Registers begin in 1719.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, in 1868, made over to the
Perpetual Curate of Risley and Breaston certain of the tithes that
had formerly pertained to Sawley prebend, and hence the holder
of the joint benefices is now Rector.
The report of the Parliamentary Commission of 1650, has been
given under Wilne.
The chapel or church, which is dedicated to All Saints, consists
of a nave, north aisle, chancel, north vestry, and tower at the west
end. Over the south doorway are the Willoughby arms, the date
1593, and these initials —
w
M K
Within the vestry is a tablet thus inscribed : —
* Char. Com. Reports, xvii., pp. 223-231 (1827) ; Schools Inquiry Com., xvi., pp.
517-521 (1869), etc. The endowment of the school, which exceeds £400 per annum, is
now administered on a comparatively just basis ; but, for deliberate jobbery and cool
disregard of everything in the trust deeds, the management of this charity of Eliza-
beth Grey's was long notorious. The history of the various endowed Free (?) Gram-
mar Schools of this county affords most painful proof of the prevalence of human
greed, and of the inability of " pious founders " to regulate the disposal of their
charitable trusts for even a generation after their decease. But the perversion of the
funds, in the case of Risley, is almost incredible. The Commissioners tell us that
Dr. Jackson, who for many years held the curacies of both Risley and Breastou,
together with the head-mastership of the school, and died in 1811, " never had more
than one scholar and that the school itself was made use of as a green-house." It
may be well to mention here that the headmaster being a clergyman, is bound by
the trust to " read prayers in the chapel of Risley every day in the year, unless absent
by licence, or unable by some bodily impediment." Is this observed? There are
three or four instances of Derbyshire endowments of the last century for the express
purpose of the due observance of the Church's rule of daily service, but, so far as we
can learn, they have in each instance proved futile.
RISLEY. 411
"This Church was enlarged and thoroughly repaired and repewed by subscrip.
tion from the Patron, the principal Inhabitants of the Parish, and others, with a
small grant from the Derby Diocesan Church Building Society at the cost of
£545 in the year 1841.
Henry Banks Hall LL.B., Perpetual Curate.
John Wright, Churchwarden."
It was then that the north aisle and vestry were added. Mr.
Eawlins, in 1827, gave the area of the entire length as 46 ft. 2 in.
by 16 ft. 4 in. There is no external distinction between nave and
chancel, the south side being lighted by two three-light windows.
These, and the other windows of the body of the church and the
tower, though debased, are better than might have been expected
from the date of its erection. Internally the chancel is separated
from the nave by a substantial curious oak screen, ornamented with
cherubs' heads. The gates of the screen have been removed and
used for door to the vestry. Against the south wall of the chancel
is a brass plate, thus inscribed to the memory of the Founder :—
" In Tumulo Margaretse matris hie jacet Michaell Willughbye de Risley Ar.
films 3 Hugonis Willughbye ar. et dicta Margaretse qui vivens flos erat patria
egentibus munificus hospes peregrinus gratus amicis amicus vicinis et mortiras
hiis gaudet in ceelis obiit iij° Januarii 1591."
At the west end of the church is the original font of Derbyshire
alabaster. It is of octagon shape, is handsome of its sort, and
bears the Willoughby arms four times repeated.
The small tower contains three bells, thus inscribed : —
I. " J. Jackson, Eector. W. Brintnall C. Warden. G. Hedderley
fecit Nottingham, 1790."
II. "Ex dono Ville de Eisley."
III. "Ex dono Katernill Wilieghby, 1627," and a fleur-de-lis
between the initials G.O. ; a mark of George Oldfield's that we
have not seen elsewhere.
The chalice of the Eucharistic plate has the Willoughby arms,
the hall-mark of 1632-3, and the following inscription: — "This
cupe was geven to the inhabitants of the towne at the Consecra-
tion of the Chapell by Sr Henry Wilioughby Baronett beinge Lord
of the Manor in the yeare of oure Lord 1632."
There are also a paten and two alms plates of the same date,
and having the arms of Willoughby engraved upon them.
In the churchyard, on the left-hand side of the south entrance,
is the upper part of a well-carved canopy over a niche. It is now
upside down, and used as a flower vase. It was probably brought
from Dale Abbey last century, when so much of the ruins were
carted to Risley, to build a wall round the Hall.
[HE ecclesiastical history of the parish of Stantou-by-Dale
is the most meagre of any in the county. The church,
as well as the greater portion of the land in the parish,
was given at an early date to the adjacent abbey of Dale.* It
was served by the canons of Dale, and was so thoroughly in
their own jurisdiction that no vicarage was ordained, and conse-
quently there are no episcopal institutions to be found at Lichfield.
The whole of the tithes were appropriated to the monastery, and
the church was considered to be within the peculiar jurisdiction
of the abbot, so that it is not even mentioned in the Taxation
Roll of 1291, or in the Valor Ecclesiasticus of Henry VIII.
After the dissolution of the monasteries, most of the property
of Dale Abbey at Stanton was granted to the Babingtons, and was
purchased of them by Michael Willoughby, of Eisley, in the reign
of Elizabeth.
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., say : —
" Stanton juxta Dale. Jo Cadman clerke. j chalys of silver parcell guylt —
ij bells in the steple— j hand belle — j sacryng bell — iij vestments whereof j of
blew silk, ij of whyte crole— iij albes— ij alter clothez — ij to wells— ij cruets of
pewter — j byble — j boke of mynystracon."
The Parliamentary Survey of Benefices, 1650, thus mentions this
parish, in which there is evidently some confusion between Stanton
and the chapel at Dale : —
" Stanton juxta Dale is a viccaridge really worth seaven pounds per annum,
the place is void, is a peculiar antiently an abby, fitt to be united to Stantou
and Stanton made a Parish Church."
* Dale Chartulary, Cott. MSS., Vesp. xxvi., ff. 60-83. Three oxgangs of land at
Stanton were given to the abbey at its first foundation by Geoffrey and Ralph
Salicosamare.
416 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
It was an error of the Commissioners to describe it as a
vicarage, for it was merely a curacy, dependent for stipend on
money allotted by the lay impropriator, and not on any fixed
portion of the tithes. But two years later, one portion of the
lesser tithes were allotted to the minister, so that from that date
he had some right to the title of vicar. On a slab in the nave
of the church is the following record : —
" Sr Henry Willughby Barnt Lord of this Man1 and patron of this Church out
of his pious and charitable disposition did in his life time give toward the
maintenance of Minister in this place all the tithe hay belonging to this towne
reserveing only v8 yearely in lieu thereof to be paid to him and his heires for
ever as is expressed in a writeing under his hand delivered to John Baguley &
John Turner Churchwardens the 20 of February An0 Dni 1652. Witnes whereof
Michaell Cowle & others."
We find from the registers that the ministers subsequently styled
themselves vicars. The earliest Eegister Book begins in 1604; the
first part is evidently copied from an older one. Under the year
1606, it is stated — "For this year the Old Register cannot be
read." In 1670, mention is made of "Edward, son of Godfrey
Barton, Vicar." This cure was frequently held with the adjacent
one of Sandiacre. In 1702 the great tithes were restored to the
church, and the incumbents have since been rectors. This is
narrated in the registers, where a copy is given of an indenture,
dated November 12th, 1702, between Elizabeth Grey of Risley, sole
daughter and heiress of Hon. Auchitel Grey, of the one part, and
Henry Keyes, the younger, of Hopwell, Eichard Middlemore of
Stanton, and John Flanstead of Little Hallam, of the other part,
wherein it is recited that Anchitel Grey, by will dated May 20th,
1702, stated that he had agreed to purchase of Middlemore
Pilkington all the tithes of corn, grain, hay, wool, lambs, etc.,
and all glebe land, in Stanton, for the sum of £380, and being
prevented by sickness completing the purchase, ordered his execu-
tors to carry it out within three months of his decease. This
was accordingly done, and the rectorial property assigned to Henry
Keyes and the two others mentioned above, in trust for the
parson, provided there is always on Sunday one service at Stanton
and one at Dale.* This indenture was confirmed in 1779, and
* The transcript of this document was made by James Eaton (who perversely insists
on terming himself " vicar "), as is shown by the subsequent entry: — " The original
Deed was in the possession of the Rev11 Mr. Pilkington, Vicar of this Parish, & after
his Death in the year 1765 was delivered by his Widow to Mr. John Hancock, one of
the Trustees, Steward to the Eight Honble the Earl of Stamford, in whose possession
it was in the year 1769 as his Lordship did confess to me. When I came to this Living,
finding no Copy of the Deed in the Register I obtained leave of Lord Stamford for
the above Copy to be inserted and I paid Mr. Hancock four shillings and sixpence for
STANTON-BY-DALE. 417
still holds good. Since 1702 Dale chapel has been served by the
rector of Stanton.*
The church, which is dedicated to S. Michael, consists of nave,
north aisle, south porch, chancel with north vestry and organ
chamber, and tower at the west end. The dimensions of the area,
as taken by Mr. Eawlins in 1821, were — nave, 33 ft. 5 in. by
18 ft. 10 in. ; north aisle, 87 ft. 8 in. by 14 ft. 5 in. ; and chancel,
28 ft. 11 in. by 17 ft. 11 in. But in 1872 it was found necessary
to thoroughly repair and restore the fabric, at a cost of £1,600.
The chancel was then prolonged by three feet, and the north aisle
extended about a yard westward, and widened to a like extent.
Much of the outer walls had to be taken down, but every care
seems to have been exercised to preserve the old parts of the
fabric.
At the west end of the aisle is a deeply- splayed lancet window
of Early English date. This, by what we conceive to be an error
in judgment, was moved in 1872 from the right hand side of the
priest's door into the chancel, to its present position. Judging
from the drawings of Messrs. Meynell and Rawlins, several of the
buttresses of the church, previous to its restoration, were also of
thirteenth century date.
We believe the porch, too, to be of the Early English period.
It has a stone-ribbed roof, and on the tympanum of the square -
headed inner doorway is an incised cross patee. Over the entrance
is a sun-dial, the gnomon gone, and above it is the date 1650 and
the initials W. B.
The church was evidently rebuilt, or considerably restored, during
the Decorated period, circa 1320. To that date belongs the three-
light unfoliated east window of the chancel, and the three light
south chancel window. The priest's door, and the window between
it and the nave, are new, as also are the chancel arch and the
chapel or vestry on the north side of the chancel.
Between the nave and the aisle is a Decorated arcade of three
pointed arches, supported on octagon pillars and responds. The
the Expense that attended it, James Eaton, Vicar." The following entry, in the
same hand, is also of some interest : — " The Vicarage House of this paris^i being an
old ruinous place was taken entirely down and rebuilt in the year 1771 by me James
Eaton, vicar. Towards the expenses of this Building the Eight Honble the Earl of
Stamford contributed Ten Guineas and the parishioners in lieu of the demand which
I made upon them for an Augmentation of the Tithe Rent did give Bricks Lime
the Carriage thereof to the amount of about thirty two Pounds, & they also agreed to
give me the Carriage of my Coals."
* We reserve the account of this interesting old chapel at Dale, for the monograph,
now in preparation, on Dale Abbey.
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418 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
north wall of the aisle has two three-light windows like those of
the chancel.
The tower is an example of Perpendicular work, rather late in
the style, not earlier than 1475. There is no west doorway, but a
two-light window, with a square hood-mould over it. The roof of
the nave is now of high pitch. The old drawings show it with a
flat roof, and a debased three-light clerestory window on the south
side.
In the south chancel wall is a small piscina with a trefoiled
head. There was another piscina niche at the east end of the
north aisle. In 1872 an archway was made from this aisle into
the chancel chapel, and the niche was moved forward within this
archway, on its south side. Above it is a rather remarkable
small sculpture, consisting of a half-length figure with clasped
hands under a crocketed canopy. Over the arcade, within the
aisle, may be noted a row of plain stone corbels, from which the
old roof sprang. At the west end of the aisle is a large modern
painting, by a local artist, of the Embalming of Christ, which used
to serve as an altar piece. The font, close to the south entrance,
is of octagon shape, and it is sculptured with unusual ornaments.
It is 29 in. in diameter, and 39 in. high ; from the close similarity
of the mouldings with those of the nave, we judge this font to be
of Decorated date.
In the outer wall of the chancel, on the north side, are three
fragments of incised sepulchral crosses — one, the head of a four-
circled cross ; another, a calvary base ; and the third, a floriated
head. These fragments prove the existence of a church here, with
rights of sepulture, in the Norman period. There are two steps
in a walk of the churchyard, near the porch ; these both bear
sepulchral crosses in slight relief, though now much defaced.
They are of 13th century date.
Against the south pier of the chancel arch is a mural monu-
ment, thus inscribed : —
" In the middle of this Chancell amongst many of his Ancestors and other
Eelations Lie the Remains of Matthew Pilkington LL.B. Prebendary of Lichfield
who departed this Life November ye 4th 1765 in the 61st year of his age. No
Character is Given His Acquaintance may Speak it and the Righteous Judge shall
pronounce it."
On the fly-leaf of the Church Bible, between the two Testaments,
is written — "A gift to the Church of Stanton by Dale in the
county of Derby, July the 31st, 1763, by Matthew Pilkington,
STANTON-BY-DALK. 419
Minister of said parish, the son of Middlemore, born 1679, died
1752, buried at Stanton." A pedigree is then given, as it were
backwards, of the lineal descent of Matthew Pilkington, the earliest
named being Sir Koger Pilkington, of Pilkington, Lancashire, temp.
Henry III. Geoffrey Pilkington, the fifth in descent from Sir
Eoger, was, according to this pedigree, the first who resided at
Stanton, where he was buried in 1494.
On the monument is the following coat of arms : — Quarterly, 1st
and 4th, ar<j., a cross patonce voided, gu. (Pilkington), 2nd and
3rd, gu., a chevron, or, between three escallops, arg. (Sallow ?) ;
on an escutcheon of pretence, arg, on a bend, gu., between three
ogresses, three swans of the first (Clarke). Crest, a mower holding
a scythe, proper. The wife of Matthew Pilkington was the daughter
and heiress of Clarke ; she survived her husband, and left Stanton
on April 5th, 1779, as we find mentioned in an indenture in the
parish registers. They had no children, and he was the last of
this branch of the family. The arms quartered with Pilkington on
the monument are rather puzzling, as no heiress mentioned in the
pedigrees of Pilkington bore them. We find, however, that George
Sallow, who died 5 Henry V., seized of a capital mansion, etc., at
Stanton, left an only daughter and heiress, Agnes. She conveyed
the property in marriage to one of the Pilkingtons, probably to Sir
Thomas, the father of Geoffrey.* We believe the quartered arms
to be those of Sallow. From the time of their marriage with the
heiress of SaUow down to 1779, when the widow of Matthew
Pilkington married again, Stanton manor-house was their residence.
It is rather remarkable that, of the numerous generations of this
family buried in Stanton Church, no moniiments remain, except
the one described, and two eighteenth century stones on the
chancel floor.
At the west end of the aisle is a small mural monument, thus
inscribed : —
" Here lyeth the body of Katharine daughter of Humphry Wolffrston, of
Statfold and wife to Ealph Thicknesse of Balterby in the county of Stafford
Esquires, she died the second day of Decemb. 1662.
" Header prepare for Death loe heere I lie
Interr'd hence know y* thou must also die."
Above it are two coats of arms — arg., a chevron, sab., fretty, or,
in chief a scythe blade, az. (Thicknesse); and sab., a fesse wavy,
between three wolves' heads erased, or (Wolferstan).
* Meynell MSS.
420 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Near to this monument is a mural slab to Edward Holt, who
died in 1606, aged 100.
The hall-mark on the chalice of the Church Plate shows it to
be of the year 1629-30.
The tower used to have a ring of four bells, thus inscribed : —
I. " Ex dono Henrici Wilughby Barroneti Dominus hujus fundi
sive manerii Anno Salutis 1641," and the bell-mark of George
Oldfield.
II. " Sancta Gabriel," in Lombardic capitals, and having the
bell-mark attributed to Eichard Mellour.
III. " Jhesus be our spede," in Lombardic capitals, and the
mark of Henry Oldfield.
IV. "Ihs be mi sped, 1600," and the usual mark of Henry
Oldfield, surmounted by a crown.
Two of these belle being cracked, the ring was recast in 1872, a
new treble being added. They now bear : —
I. "Saint Michael, 1872. John Taylor and Co., Founders,
Loughborough."
II. " Saint Raphael. The gift of Henry Willoughby, Baronet,
Lord of the Manor, 1641. Eecast 1872."
III. "Saint Gabriel. Eecast 1872."
IV. "Jesus be our speed. Eecast 1872."
V. " Jesus be my speed. Eecast 1872."
On each of them is also repeated the name of the founders, as
on the first bell.
i]T the time of the Domesday Survey, as has been already
mentioned under Aston, Weston-on- Trent was a royal
manor, to which pertained the berewicks of Aston and
Shardlow. Two churches are then mentioned on this manor,
being those of Weston and Aston. Weston, cum membris, had been
held by Algar, Earl of Mercia, who died in 1050, but it was
forfeited to the crown through his rebellion. It was held under
the Conqueror by his nephew, Hugh, Earl of Chester, the chief
founder and benefactor of the Abbey of S. "Werburgh, Chester.
Hugh conferred a third of the manor of Weston upon the abbey,
and other grants of land on this manor were from time to time
made by the Verdons and others, who held of the crown under
the Earls of Chester. Accoi'ding to one account, Sir William
Verdon obtained lands on this manor, together with the advowson
of Aston, by marriage with Alice, daughter and co-heiress of Eobert
Morley, sou of Sir Walter Morley, of Morley. *
About the year 1175, the advowson of the church of Weston
was given to the abbey of Chester by Ralph de Monte Alto, with
the consent of his mother, and of his brother William, formerly
rector of Weston. This grant was sanctioned by Richard Peche,
Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1161 — 1183), and by Richard,
Archbishop of Canterbury (1174 — 1185), and was also confirmed
by subsequent bishops, f
During the episcopacy of Geoffrey de Muschamp (1198 — 1215), it
* Add. MSS. 6,675, f. 366b. But this, and other information given there and
partly used in Nichols' Leicestershire, vol. iii., p. 984, is not well substantiated.
William de Verdon's gifts to the abbey included the pasture of Cowholme, in the
parish of Weston.
f Harl. MSS. 2,071, f. 38; 2,062, f. 5. Harl. MSS. 2,071, 2,062, and 1,965, are
Chartularies of Chester Abbey.
424 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
was agreed that an annual pension of three marks should be
paid to the abbot out of the fruits of the rectory ; * but this sum
was afterwards reduced to nine shillings.
At the time when Hugo Grryll was Abbot of Chester, Martin
de Cyberei, rector of Weston, sanctioned the abbot founding a
chapel within the church, apparently for the use of the tenants of
the abbey, saving to himself all the rights of the mother church.f
We also find from the Chartularies, that peculiar privileges
and liberties were granted to the monks and their tenants on the
manor of Weston by Henry I., and confirmed by Henry II. and
John. These liberties are stated to have corresponded with those
possessed by the burgesses of Derby.
The procuring of the papal, episcopal, and royal sanction to
the appropriation of the churches of Weston and Aston, and the
ordination of vicarages for those benefices, in the fourteenth
century, and how this arrangement all fell through, and they
remained rectories, has been fully described under Aston, and
need not be here repeated. J The grant of this advowson by
Henry VIII. to the Bishop of Chester, and its subsequent transfer
to Sacheverell, Paget, Eoper, and Holden, has also been detailed in
the same place. It was sold to Sir Eobert Wilmot, of Osmaston,
by the Holdens, in the middle of last century.
The Taxation Koll of 1291 gives the clear annual value of
this rectory at £12, and also states that the Abbot of Chester
had a pension of 9s. from the rectory. The Valor Ecclesiasticus,
27 Henry VIII, estimated it at £11 16s.
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., drew up the
following inventory of this church : —
" Weston upon Trent, Oct 6. Hugh Shepay parson, ij chalyses of sylver
parcell guylt — iij vestments, whereof j of purple velvet, ij of sylke — iij coopes, j
of purple velvet, j of blew velvet, j of blewe silke — iij alter clothez— iij towells —
j pyx of brasse — j byble with paraphaacs — iij bells in the steple, with a hand bell
— j crosse of copper — ij sirpleces— ij cruetts — ij sacryng bells — j lytle bell — j
chrysmatorie of brass — vj baner clothez — j vayle clothe — j pyllow of downe — ij
chests — j alter clothe — ij candlestycks of brasse — j holywater stocke of brasse — j
corporas clothes — iij old cases for ye same — j payre of censors of brasse."
The Parliamentary Survey of Benefices, 1650, says: —
" Weston Super Trent is a parsonage really worth one hundred and twenty
pounds per annum noe chappell appertayning. Mr. John Boylstone Incumbent,
an able preacher and of good conversacon."
* Harl. MSS. 1,965, f. 8.
t Harl. MSS, 2,062, f. 6b ; 1,965, f. 11 ; and 2,071, f. 56.
* Vide supra, pp. 3, 4.
WESTON-ON-TBENT. 425
The following list of rectors and patrons is chiefly compiled
from the Lichfield Eegisters and the Eeturns of the First Fruits
Office. As from 1403 to its dissolution the Abbey of Chester
presented, it has not been thought worth while to repeat that fact
on each institution : —
1175 circa. William de Monte Alto. Chester Chartularies.
1208 circa. Martyn de Cyberei. Chester Chartularies.
. Henry de Legh.
1309. William de Derby. '
1313. Henry ; dispensation of absence for study.
1336. Robert de Newton ; patron, William de Bredon.*
1344. Simon de Pontefract; patron, William de Bredon.*
1349. Thomas de Bredon, jun., vicar of Barton-on-Humber, exchanges benefices
with Simon de Pontefract, rector of Weston.
1350. Thomas de Bredon, senior ; patron, the College of S. Mary juxta Castrum,
Leicester, who exchanges the patronage for that turn with the Abbey of S.
Werburgh's, Chester, the former presenting T. de B., junior, with one of
their prebendaries.
1403. William Charneys ; patron, the Abbot of Chester. This was a re-institution
of a formal nature, on the collapse of the effort to establish a vicarage. We
have not found the date of W. C.'s original institution.
1404. Richard Adenburgh ; On the death of W. C.
1438. John Bleth; patron, Hugo de Ordeswyke, for this turn.
1470. Robert Stacey. On the resignation of J. B.
Thomas Williamson.
1487. Humphrey Norris. On the death of T. W.
1496. Richard Rolleston. On the death of H. N.
1504. Henry Hurte. On the resignation of B. E.
Maurice Burchynshaw.
1529. Richard Lewes alias Pygott. On the resignation of M. B.
1548. Hugo Shepey; patrons, Robert Duckett, grocer, of London, assignee of
William Cost, of Pencombe, Hereford, by virtue of an arrangement with
the Abbey of Chester. On the death of E. L.
1564. Francis More; patrons, Eichard Cupper, Edward Colborne, and John
Taylor, by concession, for this turn, from Henry Paget.
1574. Thomas Wattwood; patron, Charles Paget. On the death of P. M.
1575. Richard Sale; patron, Charles Paget. On the resignation of T. W.
1626. John Poole ; patrons, Thomas Mansfield, Edward Willcox, and William
Sale. On the death of E. S. (Spelt Pole in the Parish Register).
1646. Everard Poole ; patron, Thomas Stych.
1674. John Boyston.
1678. Edward Holden ; patron, Lawrence Holden.
1707. Robert Holden; patron, Eebecca Holden, widow. On the "death of E. H.
1739. John Holden ; patron, Anne Holden, widow. On the death of E. H.
1759. Joshua Winter; patrons, Zacchaeus Duckett, clerk, and Eichard Brown, for
this turn. On the death of J. H.
1774. William Dawson; patron, Sir Eobert Wilmot, of Osmaston.
1807. Samuel Pearson; patron, Sir Eobert Wilmot. On the death of W. D.
1811. Robert Nicholas French ; patron, Sir Eobert Wilmot. On the death of
S. P.
1863. John Wadham ; patron, Laurence Hall, for that turn. On the death of
E. N. F.
* This exercise of patronage by William de Bredon was no doubt by special
grant from the Abbey of Chester, though it is not mentioned in the institutions.
426 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
This interesting church, which is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin,
consists of nave, north and south aisles, south porch, chancel, and
tower surmounted by a spire at the west end. Its dimensions, as
taken by Mr. Kawlins in 1835, are— nave, 34 ft. 7 in. by 18 ft.
5 in. ; north aisle, 33 ft. 7 in. by 16 ft. 1 in. ; south aisle, 33 ft.
4 in. by 15 ft. 11 in. ; and chancel, 30 ft. 9 in. by 16 ft. 5 in.
There are no remains of either Saxon or Norman work. The
chancel is chiefly Early English, early in the thirteenth century.
On the south side is a plain pointed priest's doorway and three
lancet windows, and on the north side are two lancets. The walls
were raised some four feet and a flat roof substituted towards the
end of the Perpendicular period, when a five-light east window,
simply trefoiled, without any tracery, was inserted. The obtusely
arched hood-mould of this window has been left, and its general
outline ; but during the restoration of 1876-7, the lower part was,
with questionable taste, built up, and three lancets pierced in
the upper half. * In clearing away the accumulated earth round
the base of the tower, the foundations and first courses of the
buttresses of an Early English tower have been lately uncovered.
The south aisle has excellent pedimental buttresses, with mould-
ings and finials. The south doorway, the two three-light south
windows, and especially the three-light east window, point to the
commencement of the Decorated style, and are not later than circa
1300. At the west end of this aisle is a single lancet window,
with shouldered inner arch. This Early English window has
probably been put back further to the west when the present aisle
was built, for the buttress of the old Early English tower now
comes in a line with it. There are the marks of the former
steep-pitch roof of this aisle at each end. It is evident on looking
at the south doorway that it was not originally designed for a
porch. The present tiled porch of brick and wood, on a stone
basement, is not older than James I. Nevertheless, it is so
picturesque in its colouring, and so very characteristic, that the
rector is to be much congratulated on his courage in sparing it
during the recent restoration. The east window of this aisle (Plate
XX.) should be noticed as an instance of geometric tracery, such
as may sometimes be seen in the eastern counties, but hardly ever
in the midlands. It is unique so far as Derbyshire is concerned.
* In most respects this restoration has been carefully carried out, and considerable
pains were taken to disturb the old fabric as little as possible. The total cost was
about £1,200. The architects were Messrs. Jolley and Evans. The church was re-
opened by the Bishop of Lichfield in July, 1877.
WESTON-ON-TRENT. 427
The nave is striking, from the remarkable height of the Deco-
rated arcades that separate it from the aisles. They consist of
three pointed arches on each side, supported by round pillars,
with circular mouldings to the bases and capitals, but the responds
are octagon. Much of the masonry of the interior of the church,
especially of the pillars, is beautifully veined with warm tints of
orange and purple. The arch into the chancel has octagonal
shafts, like the responds of the nave arcades. It is cut off at
the top by the flat roof of the chancel. The nave has also a flat
roof, but the old stone corbels of the former roof remain.
The north aisle is also Decorated, but of later date than its
fellow, circa 1320-40. The east window is a good example of four
principal lights, and there are two lateral ones of three lights
each. There is also a corresponding two-light window high up in
the west wall. Below it, but to one side, is a small blocked-up
doorway ; its inner head is of that character called '' flattened
trefoil," but on the outside (where there is the remains of an old
buttress by it) it is semicircular. Its date is undoubtedly of the
beginning of the Early English period, temp. John. This would
just correspond with the time when Eector Martin permitted
Abbot Hugh to found a chapel within the parish church, and we
have little doubt that this was the special entrance to it, the
north aisle being screened off by a parclose from the rest of the
church.
The narrow, tall archway into the tower has continuous mould-
ings. The west window is of two lights. The belfry windows are
of the usual pointed character that pertain to Decorated towers.
There are bold rectangular buttresses at the western angles. The
tower is embattled, but the battlements were probably renewed
towards the end of the fifteenth century, at the same time when
nave and aisles were covered with a continuous embattled roof of
a single span. The spire, which is not lofty, is octagonal, and
has two tiers of lights.
In the south wah1 of the chancel are three round-headed sedilia
and a pointed piscina niche, under a square label ; they are coeval
with the lancet windows. Below the most western of these lancets,
on the same side of the chancel, is an opening or window, splayed
on the inside, about two feet square ; it has been built up within
recent years, and cannot be perceived from the exterior. This is
one of those " low side windows " so often alluded to and explained
428 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
in these pages.* At the east end of the south aisle is a good
trefoiled piscina niche under a hood-mould. At the east end of
the north aisle, where the raised altar pace still remains, is a
plain pointed piscina, and an oblong alrnery on the north side,
with the hinges and staple for a door fixed in the masonry.
There are two brackets for saints by this east window. Against
the north wall of this aisle runs a stone bench or seat, and there
is the same at the west end of the south aisle. The font, which
is 80 in. in diameter and 46 in. high, is of octagon shape, and
bears the date 1661 on one face. The stem or base is circular ;
its mouldings show it to be either of Decorated date, or else an
imitation of that style.
One or two of the old benches had some well-executed Deco-
rated tracery.f It is most exceptional to find church seats of the
fourteenth century still extant. They have been used up to form
a reading desk. There is a pulpit of good Jacobean work, with
the date 1611, and the initials C. T I. E. The parish chest
is of oak, and bears the year 1662, and the initials B. B. W. C. ;
and there is also an old parish bier of oak, bearing the date,
Nov. 4th, 1653.
Up to the time of the recent restoration, the sedilia of the
chancel were occupied with kneeling figures of Eichard Sale, his
wife, and children, with the remainder of the monument on the
wall above. These figures had been roughly deprived of an arm
and part of one side, in order to make them fit into these
recesses. The whole monument was probably constructed in
London or at some town, and then sent down here in pieces to
be fitted up, when the happy thought seems to have struck some
local genius of utilising the sedilia. These figures have been
properly ejected, and now stand on a platform below the east
window of the north aisle, whilst the tablet and arms have been
moved to the opposite side of the chancel. It is greatly to be
regretted that they could not have been placed together. The
inscription, now against the north chancel wall, runs as follows : —
"Heare under lieth interred the bodie of Dorothie Sale, the eldest daughter and
coheire of William Wilne of Melburne in the countie of Derbie Esquier, and wife
of Eichard Sale, Clearke, Bachelor of Lawe ; Prebenderi in the Cathedrall church
of Lichfield and Parson of this church. Who weare married together 36 yeares
* See the account of Eavenston, Croxall, and Spondon churches in vol iii. of
Churches of Derbyshire, and the account (and plate) of Aston, in this volume,
t See plate 25 of vol. iii. of Sketches of the Facsimile Society.
WESTON-ON -TRENT. 429
and had betweene them in lawfull marriage 4 sonnes and 6 daughters which said
Dorothie died the 7th of Februarie Anno Domini 1615. Also the body of the
abovesaid Richard Sale who was buried the 21st of December Anno Domini 1625.
Soe heere on earth my body Lies whose sinful life deserved the rod
Yett I believe the same shall rise and praise the mercies of my God
As for my soule let non take thought : it is with him that hath it bought
For God on mee doth mercie take, for nothing els but Jesu's sake."
Then follow Anno sEtatis vixit 70, and Anno Mtatis obiit 60, which
used to be over the heads of the man and woman respectively;
implying, we suppose, that the monument, with its figures, was
originally put up in 1615, when Dorothy had died, aged 60, her
husband being at that time 70. Above is the following coat : —
Quarterly 1st and 4th arg., on a bend engrailed, sab., three
fleurs-de-lis of the first (Sale), 2nd and 3rd arg., a chevron
between three lozenges, sab. (Massey), impaling arg., a chevron
between three wolves' heads erased, sab* (Wilne). Crest, a pheon,
sab. A further inscription says : —
" Repaired by Elizabeth daughter and heiress of William Sale of "Willington
Gent great grandson of the above Richard Sale from William his second son by
Judith Oliver his second wife, 1764."
The figures now in the south aisle comprise, besides the
parents, two children in cradles, two sons, and six daughters,
with the names of all but the infants below them, viz., "William,
Richard, Dorothy, Alice, Anne, Jane, Isabel, and Elizabeth.
Richard Sale was of the old family of Sale, of Sale, Cheshire.
They were allied to the Massey s, of Sale, by marriage with an
heiress of a younger branch. His brother William was rector of
the adjacent parish of Aston. They were both strong adherents
of Elizabeth's policy; and the wives of several of the wealthy
recusants of the county, such as Mrs. Eyre, of Dunston, Mrs.
Barker, of Dore, Mrs. Pole, and Mrs. Longford, were placed under
the custody of these parsons in their rectory houses ; they having
to report on their safety every three months to the Privy Council.
Richard Sale, the eldest son of the rector of Weston, married
Dorothy, daughter of John Trew, of Melbourn ; he and his
descendants resided at Shardlow. William, the second son, settled
at Barrow-on-Trent, where his descendants still reside ; he married
(1) Dorothy, daughter of Granger, of Coton, and (2) Judith,
daughter of Roger Burden, of Aynho, and widow of John Oliver,
of Chellaston.f
* It is now sable, but Mr. Meynell, in 1710, read it gules.
t Dugdale's Derbyshire Visitation, 1662 — 4, ff. 5, 6 ; Coll. of Arms.
430 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
On a slab on the floor at the east end of the north aisle can
be read : — "Hie jacet Bri. Pulton 1640." When Mr.
Meynell was here, in 1812, he noted " several Garlands hung up,
which were carried before the corps of maids by Bachelors, but
now discontinued."
As the recent restoration has unfortunately covered up the
various memorials on the floor of this chancel, we make no
apology for reproducing them in extenso. On the south side are
the following : —
" Near this stone lie interr'd the Eemains of ye Eevd Mr. Eobert Holden M.A.
late Rector of this Church, and of Ann his wife daughter of the Reverend Mr.
Eobert Huntingdon, Eector of Whiston in the county of Northampton. He
departed this life November y« 9th in the year of Our Lord God 1739, aged LXI.
She dy'd October ye 11th, 1747, aged 76."
"Here rest the remains of the Eeverend John Holden A.M. late Rector of this
Parish and of Newton in ye Thistles, Warwickshire. In the discharge of his
Pastoral Office he was eminently vigilant, and faithful to his trust ; was greatly
beloved by his Parishioners, valuable as a friend, and died July the 21st, 1759, in
theT47th year of his age."
"Sacred to the memory of William Hickingbotham who departed this life
JanT 14th, 1832, aged 80 years.
"Here lieth waiting for immortal life
The tender husband of a loving wife
Good was his heart and in his friendship sound
Patient in pain and lov'd by all around
His pains are o'er his grief for ever done
A life of everlasting joy he's now begun.
" Elizabeth wife of Wilm Hickingbotham, who departed this life Jan1"? 14th,
1842, aged 86 years."
" Richard Brown of this Parish. Buried May 25th, 1766, aged 53."
The remainder are on the north side : —
" M. S. Edvardi Holden M.A. Hujus Ecclesise per viginti octo annos Eectoris
obiit xxvi Januarii Anno Dni 1706, jEtat 67."
" Here lieth Mary da' of John Pole parson aged 16 dyed Augst 19 : 1633.
"In whose youth mett art wisdom, grace
And boldness to look death in the face."
" Sacred to the memory the Eevd William Dawson, who departed this life
April 18th, 1807, aged 66 years. Also Susanna his wife who departed this life
April 15th 1817, aged 85 years. Lamented most by those who knew them best."
"In hope of a glorious Eesurrection lie the remains of Mrs. Ann Holden,
Daughter of the Eev* Eobert Holden late Eector of this Parish. She departed
this life January 12th, 1767, in the 53d year of her age."
There is some good modern glass in the lancets of the chancel,
but no old glass now remains. When this church was heraldically
visited on August 10th, 1611, there were several coats of arms
and inscriptions in the windows.* The arms of Bothe, and the
* Harl. MSS. 1,093, f. 108b ; 5,809, f. 58b.
WESTON-ON-TRENT. 431
inscription — Orate pro bono statu Johanis Bothe Thesaurari ecclie
Cathedrali Lichefield ; Canon Bothe was buried at Sawley in 1496.*
The arms of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester (az., a wolf's head
erased, arg.), and the inscription — Orate pro bono statu episcopi
Sodorenis et Abbatis Cestrice ; Richard Oldham, Abbot of Chester
1453, was consecrated Bishop of Sodor and Man in 1475 ; he died
in 1485, and is buried at Chester. The arms of Curzon of Norfolk
(arc/., on a bend, yu., three besantsj, and the inscription— ....
ell prebendarii ecclie Caihedrali Lichfeild. The arms of Ingleby
(sab., an estoile, arg.}. Also quarterly or and gu., with the in-
scription— Orate pro bono statu Hugonis vicar ecclie parochialis de
Melburne ; Hugo Fayrclogh was vicar of Melbourn 1459-8±t This
glass was probably all in the five-light east window of the chancel,
and was coeval with its erection.
The same notes also record three other inscriptions that were
then on monuments, but which have now disappeared. I. Hie
jacet D™ Humfridus II. Hie jacent corpora Willi
Feyrbame et Elena uxoris ejus qui quidem Wills obiit 25 die
A° dni 1523. Ilia obiit 1538. III. Hie jacet filius
Cliristopheri Eyre et Johanna uxor" ejus qui obiit 24 die . . . Anno
dni 1525; Christopher Eyre, of Weston -on- Trent, was the second
son of Eoger Eyre, of Holme, by Elizabeth, daughter of Eobert
Barley.J
In the tower are three bells, thus inscribed : —
I. " God save His Church, Eo Bryon, Eic Browne, 1716."
II. " The Churches praise I sound all ways, T : Hedderly 1760
sculp."
III. " Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews have mercy on me,
1760. T: Hedderly sculp."
The registers begin in 1565. From that date to 1586 they are
on paper. There is an odd entry or two of 1605, but with that
exception there is a gap from 1586 to 1610. With the latter year
a register book of parchment commences. At the outbreak of the
Civil War there was an engagement at King's Mill ford, in this
parish, which was held by the royal forces. After an entry of
July 4th, 1644, is written — " Some souldiers buryed of ye Gar-
rison ; " and again, under August 7th — " Duck a souldier buryed a
little aft*."
* See the account of Sawley Church for particulars relative to Bothe.
f Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 397.
{ Reliquary, vol. xii., p. 44.
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MiHingfon.
| HE manor of Willington at the time of the Domesday
Survey pertained to Balph Fitz-Hubert, and no mention
is made of a church. But there must have been a
church about this time, for William the Conqueror bestowed the
town of Willington, together with its church, on the Abbey of
Burton, which was confirmed to that establishment by Pope Lucius
III. in 1185. * Though the abbey retained certain manorial rights
and chief rents in this parish up to the time of their dissolution,
the church, for some reason which cannot now be explained, did
not long remain theirs. Perhaps they sold it to the principal
family of the place, the Willingtons of Willington, who were here
soon after the Conquest, and whom we know to have owned the
advowson of the rectory at the beginning of the thirteenth
century.
Nicholas de Willingfcon (son of Nicholas, who was a contemporary
of Eobert, Abbot of Burton, in the reign of Stephen) gave the
church of Willington to the adjacent priory of Eepton in the year
1223; this grant was confirmed by Henry III. in 1252.t Nicholas
de Willington was a considerable benefactor of the priory; he left
an only daughter and heiress, who was married to Hugo de
Findern ; his brother, Kalph de Willington, the founder of the
Lady Chapel, Gloucester Cathedral, settled at Sandhurst, and
became the ancestor of the distinguished family of that county.
The gift of the church, in the first instance, only implied the
placing of the advowson in the hands of the canons. It seems
* Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. i.,p. 275.
t Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. ii., p. 280; Topographer and Genealogist, articles on
Eepton Priory, vol. ii.
436 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
from the Taxation Roll of 1291, that the church then remained a
rectory, for it is spoken of as an ccclesia and not as a vicarage, its
annual value being £8. But it was shortly afterwards formally
ordained a vicarage, and the great tithes appropriated to the
priory. * The Valor Ecclesiasticua, of Henry VIII., estimated the
clear annual value of this vicarage at .£4 16s. 2d. The Parlia-
mentary Commissioners, of 1650, say —
" Willington is a viccaridge really worth five pounds per annum. A small
parish and neare to Finderne may be conveniently united to Findern and make
one parish and the church sett at an equall distance betwixt both."
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI., drew up the
following inventory of the goods here found : —
" Wyllyngton. Oct. 5. Ser Rob. Grace vycar. j chalys of sylver— iii vestments
olde and course — j cope — j amasse— j albe — a fane (i.e. a maniple) and a stoole
(stole) — j crosse of couper or brass — j towell — ij alter closse — -ij bells in the
steypull— ij lyttill bells — j serpeles — j peir of seucers off brasse — j corporas case
with the clothe — j cresmatory off peweter — iij cruetts of pewter — j pyx of maslen."
After the dissolution of Burton Abbey, the impropriate tithes
and the advowson of the vicarage went to the Crown, and even-
tually became the property of Sir John Port, founder of Repton
School and Etwall Hospital. Both the advowson and the impro-
priation formed part of this charity estate. The following list of
vicars is chiefly gathered from the Episcopal Registers and the
First Fruits Office Eeturns. It must be understood that the patron
of the vicarage, up to the Reformation, was in each case the
Abbot of Burton, and subsequently the Trustees of the Port
Estate, who still occupy that position. During the long blank
between 1634 and 1748, when we can find no institution to the
vicarage, it would seem that it was held as a sort of perquisite
by the Head Master of Repton School.
Robert de Sonynton.
1336. John de Gildeston. On the death of R. de S.
1349. William de Twyford. On the death of J. de G.
John Cortell de Repindon. On the death of W. de T.
1368. John de Pateshurst. On the death of J. C. R.
1375. William Lucy. On the resignation of J. de P.
Edmund Bretby.
1433. Robert Dawson. On the resignation of E. B.
1438. Richard Porter, alias Blandon de Newton Solney.
1440. Laurence Button, canon of Repton On the resignation of R. P.
1460. John Mason, alias Melburn.
* Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 423. The reference here given to Lichfield
Episcopal Registers for the appropriation of this church is an error. On looking at
it again, we find that it refers to Wellington, Salop. But the institution of vicars
shows that it was appropriated circa 1300.
WILLINGTON. 437
1467. William Clyfton. On the death of J. M.
1487. Nicholas Nyke. On the resignation of W. C.
1494. Roger Pearson. On the death of N. N. Collated by the Vicar-General of
the Diocese.
1497. Nicholas Wilson. On the resignation of R. P.
1531. Dns. Frances.
(1535). Robert Lago. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
1550. Robert Grace; patron, the King. On the death qf R. L.
1569. William Sawrier; patron, the Queen.
Thomas Milner.
1634. Lawrence Brierby; patron, Thomas Milner.
1748. Joseph Twemlow ; patrons, Trustees of Sir John Port's Charities.
Jonathan Davenport.
1792. Joseph Turner. On the death of J. D.
1809. William Boultbie Sleath. On the death of J. T.
1820. W. T. Beer. On the resignation of W. B. S.
1821. John Chamberlyne. On the death of W. T. B.
1832. William Boultbie Sleath. On the death of J. C.
1843. William Stoddart. On the death of W. B. S.
1855. William Findley. On the resignation of W. S.
This church, which is dedicated to S. Michael, consists of nave,
chancel, north transept, and small west tower. Its area is — nave,
40 ft. 9 in. by 14 ft. 11 in. ; chancel, 22 ft. 8 in. by 12 ft. 6 in. ;
and transept, 22 ft. 7 in. by 18 ft. The small and singularly plain
tower was built in 1824, and we are surprised to learn that it
cost even as much as £80. Shortly afterwards a remarkably ugly
north transept was built, and the church re-pewed, at a cost of
£300. Previous to this, as we learn from a drawing of Mr.
Rawlins, taken in 1818, and one of rather earlier date by Mr.
Meynell, the west wall of the nave was supported by three massive
buttresses, and the bells were in a square turret on the west gable.
There was a south porch, with a square-headed doorway and a
steep-pitched roof, and the south windows of the nave were square-
headed and debased. There is now no porch, and the south
doorway is built up. This doorway is of Norman date, with a
rounded moulding, and having a tympanum partly carved in
squares with intersecting lines. The arch between the nave and
chancel has probably been a plain Norman one, but was re-cased
in 1824. On each side of the chancel are two short lancet
windows, which, thoiigh the inner splay has been modernized, are
of Early English date. The two-light east chancel window is of
debased style, and so is the south priest's door. The nave windows
on the south are modern.
Inside the church is but little of any interest. Against the
north chancel wall is a shallow recess, in which used to stand a
comparatively modern font — a basin on a pillar. Three or four
438 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
years ago this was ejected to the basement of the tower, and a
font that was turned out of Egginton Church placed on the south
side of the chancel. This font is a sort of carved stone balustrade,
apparently about the time of Queen Anne, and possibly a shade or
two better than the one it has displaced. On the floor of the
nave are two large white gravestones. Round the margin of one
has been a black-letter, fifteenth or beginning of sixteenth century
inscription, but all that is now decipherable are the words — "et
uxor sue." Probably this is a memorial of a wife of one
of the Meynells, of "Willington, who held a moiety of the manor
under the abbot of Burton. The other has a marginal inscription
in Eoman capitals. All that can be now read is — "John Stephen-
son Gent, sometyme Organist II of Julye." From Mr.
Meynell's notes, we find that the date of this tomb is 1669.
Against the north chancel wall is a mural slab to Anne Turpin,
1745, and there are several eighteenth and nineteenth century
gravestones on the chancel floor.
The three old bells of this church were recast in 1827, at a cost
of £30. They all now bear—" T. Hears of London fecit 1827."
The registers only begin with the year 1680.
rl
ADDENDA.
FIRST VOLUME.
The following is a list of the vicars of this church, chiefly com-
piled (as is the case with all the subsequent lists) from the Lichfield
Registers and the Returns of the First Fruits Office : —
. Ralph de Pecco.
1311. Robert de Coventry. On the death of E. de. P. Reinstituted in 1820.
1321. Richard de Roderham. On the resignation of R. de C.
1324. Richard de Craven. On the resignation of R. de R.
1349. Robert de Wymeswold. On the death of R. de C.
1360. John de Roderham. On the death of R de W.
1368. John de Alfreton. On the death of .1. de R.
1422. John Denby. On the resignation of J. de A.
1437. A Canon of Beauchief instituted, but a blank has been left in the register
for his name.
1468. William Brotherton. On the resignation of Thomas Standen.
1495. Robert Phype (or Fypp). On the death of W. B.
1500. Thomas Peyton. On the death of R. P.
1518. William Gates.
(1535). John Davey. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
1537. Henry Kempson; patron, Henry VIII., "pro capitis ratione dissohtcinnis
monasterii de Beaucliyff in Com. Derb. auctoritate parliament' suppresxi.''
1570. Richard Bancure (?) ; patron, Sir Francis Leeke. On the death of H. K.
1615. Godfrey Platts ; patron, Sir Francis Leeke.
1618. Ralph Rodes; patron, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
1629. Elisha Bourne ; patron, Francis, Lord Deincourt.
1632. Thomas Brooke ; patron, Francis, Lord Deincourt.
(1650). John Childe. Parliamentary Commission.
1694. Thomas Mathews. Collated by the Bishop, through lapse of time.
1697. George Dudson; patron, John Turner de Swanwick. On the death of
T. M.
1733. Cornelius Home ; patron, George Turner. He was also vicar of Blackwell.
1768. Anthony Carr ; patron, Thomas Thoroton.
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1799. Thomas Webster; patrons, Ellen, wifeTof Rev. Henry Case Morewood, and
the said Rev. H. C. M., in right of his wife. On the death of A. C.
1817. John Pepper ; patrons, the same. On the death of T. W.
1842. Richard James Ozanne ; patron, William Palmer Morewood. On the
death of J. P.
1853. Samuel Shedden ; patron, William Palmer Morewood. On the resignation
of R. J. O.
1856. J. C. H. Deacon ; patron, William Palmer Morewood. On the resignation
of S. S.
The vicarage of Alfreton was always held by one of the Canons
of Beauchief, who, episcopally instituted and irremovable, had to
follow the Premonstratensian rule as far as possible, and was
bound to appear at Beauchief at all Visitations of the Abbey as
well as on certain festivals. Many of the vicars' names appear in
the Beauchief Obituary, viz.: — Eichard Coventry, Nov. 16th;
Eichard de Eoderham, Aug. 30th ; John be Eoderham, Nov. 15th ;
John Denby, July 13th ; and Thomas Peyton, April 21st, on
which days masses were said at the abbey in their memory. *
Coal was worked on lands pertaining to the chantry of the
Blessed Virgin, within the parish church of Alfreton. as early as
the fourteenth century.
Eobert White, the last priest of this chantry, obtained a pension
of £Q in the time of Philip and Mary.
The brass plate of John Oldfield, taken up during the restora-
tion of the church, for safety, and afterwards mislaid, has just
(Feb., 1879) been found, and is about to be affixed to one of the
walls.
It was accidental that there was no rope to the Sanctus Bell at
the time of our visit. The bell is always rung five minutes before
the beginning of the Service, and is called " the Parson's bell."
There are now no registers earlier than 1706. On the inside of
the cover of the oldest register book are the following interesting
records of Church discipline in the last century : —
Hannah Bullock, excommunicated Anno Dom : 1726.
Hannah Barrat, excommunicated, now absolved, 1735, by Penance.
Octobr 22, 1728. Sarah White and John Brown, Apothecary, were declared in ye
Parish Church of Alfreton excommunicated.
Note. Sarah Wood obtained an Absolution, and Mr Brown now absolved, 173o>
by Penance.
Octr 13, 1731. Mary Flint excommunicated, f
Page 11, line 20, for " son" read "daughter."
* Historical Memorials of Beauchief Abbey, by S. O. Addy : 1878. Various other
particulars will be found in these pages relative to two of the Alfretou vicars —
William Brotherton and Thomas Peyton.
t For these extracts we are indebted to the kindess of the present vicar.
ADDENDA. 443
The following is a list of the rectors and patrons of this
church : —
. Roger de Deincourt.
1343. Robert de Reresby; patron, Adam de Reresby. On the death of R. de D.
1344. William de Reresby ; patron, Adam de Reresby. On the death of R. de R.
1349. Richard de Reresby; patron, Adam de Reresby. On the death of W. de R.
1369. Thomas Wikirsley; patron, Sir Thomas de Reresby. On the death of R.
de R.
1378. William de Reresby; patron, Sir Thomas de Reresby. On the death of
T. W.
1416. William Reresby; patron, Thomas Reresby.
1466. William Stokes ; patron, Thomas Winkworth. This institution is erased,
and then the same rector's name is repeated, but on the presentation of
the trustees of Sir Thomas Reresby. W. S. was again instituted in 1469,
owing, we suppose, to some further informality.
1471. Philip Eyre ; patron, John, Earl of Shrewsbury, for this turn, as guardian
of Thomas Reresby. On the death of W. S.
1504. John Reresby ; patron, Ralph Reresby. On the death of P. E.
1518. Brian Rose; patron, Ralph Reresby. On the death of J. R.
1529. Leonard Reresby; patron, Thomas Rerysbye de Thribar. On the death
of B. R.
1557. Thomas Hulley ; patron, Lionel Reresby.
1615. John Hancock; patron, Sir Thomas Reresby.
1620. Stephen Haxby; patron, the King. On the death of J. EL
1621. Emanuel Bourne; patron, Sir Samuel Tryen. On the death of J. H.*
1669. Obadiah Bourne; patron, Thomas Bourne, citizen of London.
1711. Samuel Bourne ; patron, Matthew Powell, clerk, for this turn.
1719. Obadiah Bourne; patron, Laurence Bourne.
1763. Laurence Bourne ; patron, John Simpson, clerk. On the death of O. B.
1797. Laurence Short; patrons, Anthony Lax Maynard and another. On the
death of L. B.
1835. Joseph Nodder; patron, John Charge, of Chesterfield, trustee of the late
Laurence Bourne. On the death of L. S.
1878. John Bourne Nodder; patrons, Mary Anne Nodder, widow, and Henry
Edwin Bailey. On the death of J. N.
In 1511, Nicholas Palfreyman was instituted to the Babington
chantry which was at the altar of SS. Thomas the Martyr and
Katharine, on the presentation of Thomas Babington. On the
resignation of N. P., in 1520, Richard Sewell was instituted,
Anthony Dethyke (? Babington) being entered as patron.
William Sandell, the last priest of Babington's chantry in this
church, received a pension of £5 from the Exchequer, in the time
of Philip and Mary.
There seems to have been also a chantry dedicated to the
Blessed Virgin, in addition to the Babington chantry, for Milo
* We suppose the institution of Stephen Haxby was quashed [as informal, for
Emanuel Bourne was instituted " on the death of John Hancock," no mention being
made of his immediate predecessor.
444 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Whit worth, described as lately incumbent of such a chantry, in the
parish of Ashover, received at the same time a pension of £6.
The parisli registers begin with the year 1653, but there are
some baptisms of the year 1622. There is a gap in the marriage
register between 1724 and 1754. The following entry is often
pointed out to visitors : —
" 1660. Dorothy Matly, supposed wife of John Flint, of this
parish, foreswore herselfe ; whereon the ground open, and she
sanke over lied March 1st ; and being found dead she was buried
March 2d."
We recently met with full particulars relative to this strange
event, in a most unexpected quarter, viz., in Bunyan's Life and
Death of Mr. Badman, first published about 1680. This feigned
narrative takes the form of a dialogue between Mr. Wiseman and
Mr. Attentive, and when they are discoursing about Mr. Badman's
breach of the third commandment, Mr. Wise quotes instances of
sudden judgment for false swearing : —
" But above all, take that dreadful story of Dorothy Matley, an inhabitant of
Ashover, in the county of Derby. This Dorothy Matley, saith the relater, was
noted by the people of the town to be a great swearer and curser, and liar, and
thief (just like Mr. Badman) ; and the labour that she did usually follow was to
wash the rubbish that came forth of the lead mines, and there to get sparks of
lead ore ; and her usual way of asserting things was with these kind of impreca-
tions : — I would I might sink into the earth if it be so : or I would God would
make the earth open and swallow me up. Now upon the 23rd of March, 1660,
this Dorothy was washing of ore upon the top of a steep hill about a quarter of
a mile from Ashover, and was there taxed by a lad for taking of two single
pence out of his pocket (for he had laid his breeches by, and was at work in his
drawers) but she violently denied it, wishing the ground might swallow he (query
her) up if she had them. She also used the same wicked words on several other
occasions that day. Now one George Hodgkinson, of Ashover, a man of good
report there, came accidentally by where this Dorothy was, and stood still a while
to talk with her, as she was washing her ore ; there stood still also a little child
by her tub-side, and another a distance from her, calling aloud to her to come
away; wherefore the said George took the girl by the hand to lead her away to
her that called her. But behold, they had not got above ten yards from Dorothy,
but they heard her crying for help, so looking back, he saw the •woman and her
tub and sieve, twisting round, and sinking into the ground. Then said the man,
pray to God to pardon thy sin, for thou art never like to be seen alive any
longer. So she and her tub twirled round and round, till they sunk about three
yards into the earth, and there for a while staid. Then she called for help again,
thinking, as she said, she would stay there. Now the man, though greatly
amazed, did begin to think which way to help her : but immediately a great
stone, which appeared in the earth, fell upon her head and broke her skull, and
then the earth fell in upon her and covered her. She was afterwards digged up
and found about four yards within the ground, and the boy's two single two
pence in her pocket, but her tub and sieve could not be found."
Page 83, line 1. This coat pertains to the family of Perry,
according to Papworth, and to Percy, according to Edmondson.
ADDENDA. 445
Page 41. After the paragraph ending " Johan Baptiste de Deth,"
etc., insert — The eldest son of Thomas and Isabella was Sir
Anthony Babiugton, the builder of the tower of this chapel. Sir
Anthony, by his two wives, had a large family.
Page 43, line 5. The coat should be—az., on a chief, or, a derni-
lion rampant, yu. ; for though a younger branch of Markham did
bear arms with a sable field, the shield in question refers to the
alliance between John Markham, of Gotham, Notts., and Catharine,
daughter of Sir Anthony Babington, and the arms of Markham, of
Gotham Hall, undoubtedly an azure field.
Page 43, line 9. The arms of Constable, of Kinolton, are —
quarterly, yu. and vaire, on a bend surtout, or, three martlets, sub.,
and not as in the text.
Page 43, line 17. After " cinquefoils " add " yu."
Page 45, line 8 from the bottom. For the 2nd and 3rd quarter-
ing read — Paly of six, arg, and az., a bend surtout, yu. (Annes-
ley). *
We find from the Chartulary of Crich chantries (Harl. MSS.
3669), that the chapel of Lea was of sufficient importance in the
time of Edward III. to have two chaplains, t Sir William de
Wakebridge presented a set of vestments in the same reign.
Thomas Kowbotham, the last priest of the suppressed chantry of
Lea, was awarded a pension of 52s. 8d. in the time of Philip and
Mary.
The following is a list of the rectors and patrons of this
church^: —
1298. Henry de Berchelmen, sub-deacon ; patron Sir Walter de Goushull. He
was at the same time admitted to deacon's and priest's orders.
1313. Adam de Longford; patron, Nicholas de Longford.
1331. William de Saleford: patron, Nicholas de Longford. On the death of
A. de L.
* For these heraldic corrections we are indebted to Capt. A. E. Lawson Lowe,
F.S.A. It is only fair to ourselves to add that each of these four errors occur in
Nichols' Collectanea, on which we had too implicitly relied.
f Vide supra, p. 37.
446 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1338. Robert de Assheburn; patrons, John Cokayne and Robert tie Assheburn,
for this turn, by grant from Nicholas de Longford. On the resignation of
W. de S.
1339. Nicholas de Marchinton ; patron, Nicholas de Longford. On the resigna-
tion of R. de A.
1349. John de la Minster ; patron, Nicholas de Longford. On the death of N.
de M.
1349. Henry de Schyrley; patron, Nicholas de Longford. On the death of J. de
la M.
. John Marshall.
1427. John Assheton; patron, Margery de Longford. On the resignation of
J. M.
1464. Henry Redych; patron, Sir Nicholas Longford. On the death of J. A.
1489. "Ralph Tatton; patron, Sir Ralph Longford. On the death of H. R.
1534. John White; patron, George Lassells, for this turn, by grant from Ralph
Longford. On the death of R. T.
1538. William Walton ; patron, Godfrey Foljambe, for this turn, by grant from
Ralph Longford. On the death of J. W.
1574. Francis Nevill; patron, Sir Richard Pype. On the death of W. W.
1697. James Stephenson.
1616. Brian Heppenstall; patron, Sir John Rodes.
1639. Cyprian Banbery ; patron, Sir John Rodes.
1648. John Brocklehurst. Conformed in 1662, and was episcopally instituted on
the presentation of Anne Roades.
1682. Phineas Mace ; patron, Sir John Rhodes. On the death of J. B.
1699. James Cooke ; patron, Sir John Rhodes. On the death of P. M.
1733. Francis Bower; patron, Sir John Rhodes.
1764. William Pashley; patron, Gilbert Rhodes. On the death of F. B.
1792. Peter Acklom Reaston ; patron, Cornelius Heathcote Rhodes. On the
death of W. P.
1827. Martin Stapylton; patron, Rev. Cornelius Heathcote Reaston Rodes.
1870. Martin Stapylton; patron, Major Stapylton, for this turn, by purchase from
William Hatfield de Rodes.
There are stones on the chancel floor to Eector Phineas Mace,
who died in 1699, and to Eector. John Brocklehurst, who died
October 18th, 1682.
The Kegisters begin with the year 1648.
Page 55, line 3 from the bottom, for "Culchath" read
"Culcheth."
Barloto.
Page 63, line 16, for "distinguished" rend "distinguishing."
i$eattd)tef
Since the publication of our first volume, much fresh light has
been thrown on the history of this abbey by the publication
(1878) of Mr. Addy's Historical Memorials of Beaiichief Abbey. The
ADDENDA. 447
most valuable features of this interesting work are the Obituary
from the Cott. MSS. (referred to by us in a note on page 73),
and certain fifteenth century Visitations from an Ashrn. MS. in
the Bodleian.
The list of abbots on pp. 74, 75, requires several corrections
and additions; but that given by Mr. Addy is also incorrect. A
perfect list has yet to be compiled.
Page 75. Erase lines 8 and 9, and substitute — John Greenwood,
aUas Sheffield, elected abbot 1519, died 1536.
Page 78. Edward Pegge's Epitaph, for "filii" and " majoris,"
read " filius " and "major;" for " comitate," " comitatu ; " for
" siipernam," " supremam ; " and for " denegetum," " denegatum."
Page 79, line 3 from the bottom, for " visibus " read " vicibus."
The following is a list of the rectors and patrons, and vicars
and patrons of this church ; it will be found to slightly qualify
certain statements on page 83.
BECTOBS.
. Bartholomew.
13-19. Geoffrey de Haddon; patron, John Darcy. On the death of B.
1356. William de Fereby; patron, the King, as guardian of the heir of John
Darcy. On the death of G. de H.
. Richard de Beuley.
1367. Richard de Raundes; patron, the King, as guardian of Philip, heir of
John Darcy. On the resignation of R. de B.
1374. Richard de Kyngeston; patron, Philip Darcy. On the resignation of R.
de R.
1396. John del More; patron, Philip Darcy. On the deposition of R. de K.
1429. Roger Wyresdale ; patron, Philip Darcy. On the death of J. de M.
1435. Thomas Warkeslay ; patron, the King, for this turn, as the result of a
case at Westminster, the King versus John Darcy and Roger Wyresdale.
1442. Matthew Lachford ; patron, James Strangeways. On the resignation of
T. W.
1456. William Orell. Collated by the Bishop.
Vic AUS.
. John Tynker.
1490. Thomas Atkynson ; patron, the Prior of Mountgrace. On the death of
J. T.
(1535). Leonard Lynley. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
1538. Thomas Rainshaw. On the death of L. L.
1543, Ralph Royez ; patron, the King. On the death of T. R.
1557. William Wordsworth ; patron, Robert Swyfte. On the resignation of R. R.
. Nicholas Harvey.
1567. George Harvey; patron, Francis Wortley. On the resignation of N. H.
1638. Edward Haslam ; patron, Robert, Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull.
448 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1640. John Hunne; patron, Eobert, Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull.
(1650). William Jessop. Parliamentary Commission.
1667. Thomas Goold ; patron, Sir Samuel Jones, during the minority of Henry
Pierpoint. On the death of W. J.
1690. Robert Jackson; patron, S. Pierpoiut.
1733. John Drake ; patron, Evelyn, Duke of Kingston.
1745. John Drake, juu. ; patron, Duke of Kingston.
1763. Thomas Pureell; patron, Duke of Kingston. On the death of J. D.
1764. Joseph Meller ; patron, Duke of Kingston. Ou the death of T. P.
176^. Richard Morton; patron, Duke of Kingston.
1821. Hon. Thomas Erskine; patron, Earl Manvers.
. G-. H. Eyre; patron, Earl Manvers.
. George Antrobus; patron. Earl Manvers.
1873. Edward Reynolds; patron, Earl Manvers. On the death of G. A.
Sir Stephen Grlynu, who was here in 1860, before the church
was restored, says : —
" The aisles and clerestory are embattled. The west window of
the north aisle is Decorated, of two lights and square -headed. The
other windows Perpendicular, of ordinary character in the aisles
and clerestory of the nave ; those of the south aisle and clerestory
being square-headed of three lights. The nave has, on the north,
only two arches dividing the aisle, pointed, on an octagonal pillar,
which has an odd-looking scaly moulding under the capital. The
same occurs on the south, but a third small and rude obtuse
arch is opened eastward of the two. The tower arch may be
Early English, but it is rather puzzling, pointed, on an impost
having two tiers of toothed mouldings. There is a west gallery
and finger-organ ; the nave is pewed— the font modern. The roofs
of flat pitch, but nave bosses. The chancel-arch is pointed, on
octagonal shafts set upon corbels. The chancel is Decorated, has
an east window of three lights, and on the south one of two.
On the south of the altar is a trefoiled piscina, on the north
a pointed aumbrey. Between the chancel and aisle is a pointed
arch, now closed. The outer walls are partially stuccoed."
The six bells were all re-cast by W. and J. Taylor, in 1837,
when their foundry was at Oxford.
The Parish Eegisters begin with the year 1653 ; they are more
or less deficient between the years 1659 and 1685.
Biaclttotll
The Prior of Thurgarton was always patron of the vicarage of
Blackwell, up to the time of the dissolution of the monasteries,
so that the conjecture we have given, relative to Sir William
ADDENDA. 449
Babington purchasing five presentations, is incorrect. The aclvow-
son of the five churches, mentioned in the Inquisition 33 Henry
VI. , as pertaining to Sir William, had no connection .with Black-
well. In the following list of vicars, it has not been thought
worth while to repeat the fact each time of the prior being patron,
nor subsequently of the Duke of Devonshire, who presented in
1774, and on the succeeding vacancies.
. Ralph de Chistleton.
1310. Henry de Northwell, canon of Thurgarton. On the resignation of R. de C.
1312. William de Calidon, canon of Thurgartou. Ou the resignation of H. de N.
1317. William de Retford.
1324. Gilbert de Ocrington. On the resignation of "W. de R.
1329. Geoffrey de Wilford. Ou the resignation of G. de O.
1332. William de Curchyngton (or Kretchington). On the resignation of G.
de W.
1349. William de Cromwell. On the resignation of W. de C.
1369. William de Bothamself.
. William de Gamulston.
1382. Richard de Crumwell. On the resignation of W. de G.
1392. John de Averam (in the person of Hugo Plethorp, vicar of Hucknall). On
the resignation of R. de C.
. William Downham.
1422. John Normanton. On the resignation of W. D.
1454. Richard Skegby. On the death of J. N.
1494. Thomas Wodwarde. On the death of R. S.
(1535). William Ludlam. Valor Ecclesiasticus. ,
1546. Thomas Hunte; patron, Richard Bradshawe, by arrangement with the
lately dissolved priory of Thurgarton. On the death of W. L.
(1650). James Stevenson, "a scandalous drunkard." Parliamentary Commission.
. Isaac Bacon. Ejected 166:2. Calamy's Silenced Ministers.
1693. Sampson Rogers, licensed '' ad peragendum Diaconi officium."
. Cornelius Home. He was also vicar of Alfreton.
1771. James Brown; patron, King George, "the True Patron for this Turn by
Lapse." On the death of C. H.
1774. Anthony Swindell; patron, Duke of Devonshire. On the death of J. B.
1775. Peter Wilson. On the death of A. S.
1826. Thomas Leeson Cursham. On the death of P. W.
1869. Henry Poole Marriott. On the death of T. L. C.
Mr. Bawlins visited this church in 1816, some years before it
was rebuilt. He gives the length of the nave and both aisles as
30 ft, and their total breadth 37 ft. The chancel was 14 ft. by
15 ft. 4 in. He describes the nave as being separated from the
north aisle by " three plain Saxon (? Norman) arches," and from
the south by three pointed arches. A drawing of the south side
of the church shows that the parapets, nave and aisle, were
embattled, that there were three two-light clerestory windows, a
large south porch, a flat roof to the chancel, and a seventeenth
century priest's door.
450 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
The Registers of this parish begin in the year 1685, with the
exception of a single marriage of the year 1G79.
Page 93, line 5, for "Edward IV." rend "Edward III."
Page 93, line 15, for " siezed " read " seized."
Several of the charters relative to the gift of this church to the
Canons of Darley, from the Chartulary of that Abhey, are printed
in the Monasticon. *
In the following list of vicars, it must be understood that the
Abbot of Darley was in each case patron up to the dissolution of
the monasteries. Since 1785, the Duke of Portland has in each
case presented.
1312. John de Balyden.
1349. Robert de Burley. On the death of J. de B.
. Richard de Thursmanley. On the death of R. de B.
. Robert Hope.
1381. Adam de Fenton, vicar of Hamelton, York, exchanges with R. H., vicar
of Bolsover.
139 >. John Stanley. On the resignation of A. de F.
1407. William Predyn.
. John de Bradwall.
1421. Richard Feyreclough, canon regular of Darley. On the death of J. de B.
1464. John Harryson. On the death of R. F.
1465. John Slubber. On the resignation of J. H.
. Robert Cartleage.
1515. Ralph Smyth. On the resignation of R. C.
1548. Humphrey Smyth; patron, the. King. On the death of R. S.
1567.* William Hodson; patron, the Queen.
.... Roger Broocke. Buried April 13th, 1617. Parish Registers.
1617. William Watson; patron, Sir William Cavendish.
(1650). Thomas Foukes. Parliamentary Commission.
• ... Richard Chadwick. Buried April 29th, 1682. Parish Registers.
1690. Robert Kilborne; patron, Henry, Duke of Newcastle.
1750. John Richardson; patron, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer.
1760. William Richardson; patron, Margaret, Duchess of Portland.
1769. Edward Otter; patrons, Robert Harley and James West.
1785. John Eyre ; patron, Duke of Portland.
1798. Edward Otter; patron, Duke of Portland.
1818. William Calcraft Tinsley. On the death of E. O.
1833 John Hamilton Grey. On the death of W. C. T.
1866. T. C. Hills. On the resignation of J. H. G.
The Registers of this parish, date from the year 1603, but are
not kept regularly till 1653, when Thomas Baker was chosen regis-
trar. There are various entries of Commonwealth marriages before
' Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. iii. (Additamenta in Fornum Secundum), pp. 59, 60.
ADDENDA. 451
justices of the peace. On April 14th, 1655, Eichard Heewood and
Francese Spenser were married "by and beefore Hercules Clay
mayor of the borrough of Chesterfeld," their banns having been
"published at Boulsover Markett Crosse three severall markett days."
Since the first volume was published, this church has undergone
an extensive " restoration," at a total cost of about £6,000. The
church was re-opened on July 16th, 1878. The additions now
made consist of a large north aisle and arcade ; entirely new roofs ;
a new chancel-arch ; an organ chamber ; the complete renovation
of the chancel, including oak stalls, stone credence table and
sedilia, and a stone reredos; open seats throughout the church, of
stained deal; and a new clock and organ. There is now a new
ring of six bells, cast by Messrs. Taylor, of Loughborough, whose
name they bear; the four first have also the inscriptions of the
four old bells repeated on them.
A series of incised sepulchral slabs, bearing floriated crosses, etc.,
were found during the re-building, and are now laid in the chancel
and other pavements. An interesting late Norman capital, beauti-
fully sculptured, should be noted in the north-west angle of the
chancel.
The bas-relief of the Nativity, which used to be in the chancel,
and which proves on closer examination to be of fourteenth cen-
tury work, is now placed in the sepulchral recess of the south
aisle. The old north doorway was unfortunately done away with,
and its remains are now built up in the vicarage garden. It is a
pity that a more conservative spirit was not shown in this "resto-
ration." The size of the organ-chamber and vestry has dwarfed
the old chancel, and spoilt the north aspect of the church.
The Episcopal Eegisters at Lichfield disclose the interesting fact,
that not only was there a chapel at Glapwell, within this parish,
but also another one, hitherto unknown, at Whaley, affording a
further illustration of the abundant provision made by the mediaeval
church for the spiritual sustenance of her people. On September
16th, 1440, the Abbot of Darley petitions the Bishop that the
fruits and preventions of the chapels of Glapwell and Whaley
(Walley) may be united to the vicarage of the parish church of
Bolsover, as the proceeds are so small that they do not suffice
for the sustenance of the chaplains. The Bishop appoints Gregory
Newport, rector of Haubury, to act as his commissary, and he
decides in favour of the application, as the chapels are not far
distant from the church, and the road thither is level and in fair
452 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
condition fplana et satis pnlclirn) at all seasons. The decree of
union is formally announced in the church, on Decemher 4th;
John Bride, Archdeacon of Derhy, and Thomas Glapwell, rector of
North Winfield, being officially present as witnesses. *
ISramgrton*
In the year 1324 there was a dispute as to who was responsible
for the repairs of the chancel. The Dean of Lincoln, as rector,
threw the onus on the parishioners of Chesterfield, but the
parishioners appealed to the Bishop. The Bishop appointed the
Archdeacon of Derby and the Dean to make enquiries as to past
custom. The decision is not entered, t
The last chaplain of the suppressed chantry in this church,
Thomas Somersall, obtained a pension of 71s. 4d. from the
Exchequer in the time of Philip and Mary.
The following are the bell inscriptions : —
I. '-Jesus be our sped," in Lombardic capitals, and the
ounder's (?) initials H. D. below.
II. "In Jesu Nomen," in similar lettering, and with the same
initial letters as on the first bell.
III. "God save His Church," in small Gothic capitals.
IV. " Jesus be our sped," similar lettering and initials as on the
first and second bells.
The registers date from the year 1658, but they are defective in
the years 1723, 1724, 1725, 1732, and 1733.
Page 116. The customary fee to the vicar of Chesterfield for
the first burial in each year has been long discontinued.
The following list of vicars of Chesterfield is chiefly compiled
from the Episcopal Eegisters at Lichfield. The appointment was
in each case made on the presentation of the Dean of Lincoln,
until the institution of the present vicar, who was collated by the
Bishop, the whole of the Derbyshire patronage of the Dean of
Lincoln having been transferred by legislation to the Bishop of
the Diocese.
1298. Thomas de Walton.
1300. Walter de SucMeyrton.
* Lichfield Episcopal Eegisters, vol. ix., f. 195.
t Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. iii. (Act Book of Roger de Norbury), f. 14b.
ADDKNDA. 453
1316. Richard de Baukwell.
l:J32. Robert de Drayton. On the death of R de B.
1339. Robert de Drayton, jun., vicar of Ostudeuham (?), exchanges with R. de
D., sen., vicar of Chesterfield. Re-instituted 1342.
1349. John Bond, de Chesterfield. On the death of R. de D. J. B. is instituted
in November, but resigned in the following January, and is re-instituted
probably for the evading of the canons against pluralities.
. John G Iby
1886. Thomas Halton, rector of Kneesall, exchanges with J. G., vicar of Chester-
field.
1390. Richard Porter. On the death of T. H.
1409. Richard Hawson. On the resignation of R. P.
1438. Hugo Penyale.
1439. Ralph Calcroft. On the resignation of H. P.
1481. James Basford (Beresford). On the resignation of R. C. He was re-
instituted in 1497, having resigned to evade the plurality canons, being
instituted at this date both to Chesterfield and Matlock.*
1520. Thomas Lillylowe.f On the death of J. B.
. Christopher Flynte.
1536. Martin Lane. On the resignation of C. F.
1573. Cuthbert Hutchinson. On the death of M. L.
1600. George Gamutt. On the death of C. H. Parish Registers.
1616. Matthew Waddington; patron, Thomas Parker, by concession of Roger
Parker, Dean of Lincoln. On the death of G. G.
1638. William Edwards.
1653. John Billingsley.J Parish Registers.
1662. John Coope. On the ejection of J. B.
1681. John Lobley.
1694. William Blakeman. On the death of J. L.
1698. Henry Audeley. On the death of W. B.
1705. John Peck. Parish Registers.
1707. William Higgs.
1715. Thomas Hincksman.
1739. William Wheeler. On the death of T. H.
1765. John Wood. On the death of W. W.
1781. George Bosseley.
1822. Thomas Hill, Archdeacon of Derby. On the death of G. B.
1851. George Butt. On the resignation of T. H. Collated by the Bishop of
Lichfield.
* James Beresford, LL.D., was one of the sixteen sons of Thomas Beresford, of
Fenny Bentley. He was a distinguished scholar of his time, and was in early life
tutor to the children of Sir John Leake, of Sutton Scarsdale. He was also eminent
as a pluralist. In 1484 he was instituted vicar of Chesterfield, which preferment he
held till his death. In 1497 he was made rector of Matlock, which he resigned in
favour of Wirksworth vicarage in 1504. He was one of the learned canons promoted
by Bishop Halse in 1507, holding the prebend of Prees at Lichfield Cathedral up to
his decease. In 1512 he founded a chantry in his native church of Kenny Beutley ;
he founded two scholarships and two fellowships at S. John's, Cambridge ; he also
contributed largely to the repairs of his parish churches of Chesterfield and Wirks-
worth, and of the cathedral at Lichfield, where he was buried in July, 1520. See
further accounts of him under the various Derbyshire churches here mentioned.
f Thomas Lillylowe was also eminent as a pluralist. He held the rectory of Thorpe
for a short time, in conjunction with this vicarage, and subsequently the rectories of
Matlock and Bonsall. All these benefices were in the gift of the Dean of Lincoln.
There appears to have been some remonstrances made against his holding Matlock
and Bousall in conjunction, arid the case came before Thomas. Cardinal Archbishop
of York, in 1526, as legate a latere. (Lichfield Registers, vol. xiii. & xiv., f. 41).
J John Billingsley was a fellow of Corpus Christi, Oxford. He was ordained to
the Presbyterian ministry in 1649. He lived for 22 years after his ejection, chiefly at
Mansfield. See a long account of him in Calamy's Ejected Ministers, vol. ii., pp.
169-172.
454 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
The following institutions to the chantries of S. Michael, and of
S. Mary Magdalen, are also taken from the Lichneld Eegisters.
The two were united towards the end of the fifteenth century.
The institution of John Dyton, in 1496, describes the chantry as
that of S. Mary Magdalen, at the altar of S. Michael.
CHANTBY OF S. MICHAEL.
. Hugo de Mansfield.
1364. Roger de Leghes; patron, Eoger de Chesterfield. On the death of H. de M.
1370. Henry de Foston; patron, Richard de Chesterfield. On the resignation of
R. de L.
1386. Thomas, son of Henry Northwell ; patron, Richard de Chesterfield. On
the death of H. de F.
. John Anerham.
1421. William Worslay ; patron, Ralph Durant. On the resignation of J. A.
1450. John Balme ; patron, Nicholas Durant. On the death of W. W.
1476. John Verdon; patron, Thomas Durant. On the death of J. B.
1496. John Dyton; patron, Thomas Durant. On the death of J. V.
. Eobert Eyre.
1541. Richard Hyll; patrons, Robert Patchett and Thomas Myddelton, for this
turn, by grant of James Durant. On the death of R E.
CHANTBY OF S. MARY MAGDALEN.
1370. Roger de Leghes ; patron, Richard de Chesterfield.
1384. William Langstaffe; patron, Richard de Chesterfield. On the death of
R. de L.
. John Her by.
1408. William, son of Richard Ysaac ; patron, John Durant. On the resignation
of J. H.
. William Sutton.
1428. Roger Henmore; patron, Ralph Durant. On the death of W. S.
1429. Thomas Smythe; patron, Ralph Durant. On the resignation of R. H.
1432. Robert Isabell ; patron, Ralph Durant. On the death of T. S.
1451. Richard Hallson; patron, Nicholas Durant. On the death of R. I.
1456. Richard Hawson. On the death of R. H.
The dispossessed chantry priest of S. Michael, Richard Hill,
received a pension of £5 from the Exchequer in the time of
Philip and Mary, a like annual sum being granted to Richard
Newbold, William Bugge, and Richard Whitworth, priests of the
dissolved Guild. At the same time William Leche was granted a
pension of 6s. 8d. from the same source, in lieu of annuity that
he used to draw from the lands- and tenements of the Guild.
A local legend accounts for the twisting of the spire * in this
wise : — The Devil, when flying over Derbyshire, was overcome with
* An elaborate paper on this spire was read by W. G. Caldwell, Associate, at the
General Meeting of the Royal Institute of British Architects, January 8th, 1855. The
theory of intentional twisting is of course scouted. The writer remarks, of the
interior of the spire, that it presents " the strangest assemblage of timbers that can
be conceived," but adds that the original design can be readily discriminated, as the
old work is of oak and the repairs of deal. A few copies of this paper, with the dis-
cussion that followed, were separately printed, but it is now of great rarity.
ADDENDA. 455
fatigue, and paused on the top of Chesterfield spire for a brief
halt ; but he alighted at the time of High Mass, and a whiff of
the incense creeping up through the spire, so tickled his nostrils,
that he sneezed, and the present condition of the steeple is the
effect of that diabolical spasm.
Another legend respecting the jaw bone of a small whale in the
Foljambe chapel, instead of ascribing it to the Warwickshire Dun
Cow, assigns it to a local cow of gigantic size, that supplied milk
to all the good folk of Chesterfield, no matter how often they went
or however large the pails. But an old witch, living by the
Common side where the animal grazed, jealous of its fame, went
one night with a sieve and milked away till daylight. The
excellent animal was so vexed by its inability to fill the vessel,
that it went mad, and had to be put to death by a company
of archers. In grateful remembrance of its virtues, the inhabit-
ants of Chesterfield placed one of its rib bones within the church.
The earliest Register Book dates from 1558 to 1634, and is in
good condition, most of the entries being remarkably legible. Iii
the margin by the side of the entries for October, 1586, is written
— -'Here began the great Plague in Chesterfield." A very large
increase in the deaths is noticeable up to November, 1587. There
was a second outbreak of the plague in 1602 — 3. *
Sir Stephen Glynn visited this church in 1841, the year before
its " restoration " ; it will therefore be of interest to quote some of
his remarks : —
" The chancel has an Early English corbel-table under the
parapet, and the wall is plain and blank The nave is lofty
and spacious, but the effect sadly impaired by a flat modern ceil-
ing, and there are detestably crowded pews aud galleries completely
round it. The gallery at its eastern extremity contains the organ,
aud effectually conceals the chancel, which is thus cut off entirely,
as well as the transepts ; the latter now form sort of entrances or
vestibules In the gallery beneath the organ is incorporated
a portion of wood screen-work of rather elegant character
There is a large portion of the rood-loft screen in the south
transept. The responds of the arches in the north transept have
beautiful capitals of Early English foliage The chancel has
side aisles parallel with its whole length. The altar is raised upon
several steps."
* There is a good paper on the first volume of the Chesterfield Registers in the
Bfliquanj, vol. viii., pp. 2-1U.
456 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Page 140, line 2, for "az." read "sab."
Page 140, line 20, for "eight" read "eighth."
Page 143, Hue 9, for "Crusic" read "Crucis."
Page 149. The following corrections have been kindly supplied
to us for the Latin stanzas on Godfrey Foljambe's tomb, but it is
only fair to ourselves and the printers to say, that they (as well
as the verses on the next two pages) were printed exactly as sup-
plied to us, and we had thought it better not to attempt any
correction of errors, most of the.n obvious to a scholar : —
For "fatisque" read "factisque"; for Hue 2 (of the stanzas) rend
" Farnse abiit laudate et morte beata jacens " ; for " eundem,"
" eandem ; " for " ille," "ilia; " for " fulgebant," "fulgebunt ; " for
" una," "unus;" and for "onus," "opus."
Page 150, line 3, dele "vel."
Page 15"., Latin stanzas, for " aunis " and " aunos," i-fnil
"aunib" and "annos;"/or " aegri," "segre;" for " pletu," "fletu;"
for " omnes," '-01111118;" for " validus," '• validusque ; " and for
"' avi " " fe [i o."
Page K'2, Hue 7, for "mina" read "minor."
Page 1£2, line 8, for "Saxonica" read " Saxonice."
Page 154, line 13. This coat is more likely intended for
Paveley, than fo: Mortj^mer.
Page 154, Hue 16. This coat refers to the marriage of George
Chaworth, of Wiverton, wi;h Catharine, daughter of Thomas
Babington ; the Babingtou arms are inaccurately carved, only throe
roundles, instead of ten, being represented.
Page 157. The distinction made between istim and hujus is
incorrect, at least so far as their use in old inscriptions is
concerned.
Page 157, first note, for " celebrantes " read " celebrantis."
Page 170, line 3 from the bottom, for "Sancte Georgii orate
pro nobis," read " See Georgi 0. P. N."
In the admirably classified Muniment Room of Lincoln Cathedral
are three charters between Koger Brito and the Dean and Chapter
of Lincoln, concerning their sanction to his founding a chantry in
his chapel at Walton. The writing is beautifully . executed, and
they are in good preservation. They are ah1 of very small size,
ADDENDA. 457
the least being barely six inches square. By the first of these
charters, Sir Eoger Brito covenants to pay thirty marks to the
Dean for the privilege ; by the second, Sir Roger Brito, and
Hugo, sou of Robert de Wale ton, agree to pay half a mark annu-
ally, at four several feasts, to the church of Chesterfield ; witnesses
—Walter de Eyncourt, William, Richard, and Reginald tune
caji'llis de Cestrefeild, John capel' de Brainpton, Hugo de Liuacre,
cum alt is ; and by the third, Sir Roger endows the chantry at
Walton with one aare of arable laud in campo de \Valetort, and
with seven acres at Wmgervvorth, etc., etc.
The gift of the church of All Saints', Clown, by Robert de
Meuuil to the canons of Worksop is mentioned in the Monasticon.*
In the time of Bishop Roger de Norbury, the rector of Clowu
resisted the payment of the pension of 40s to the priory of
Worksop. The matter was referred to the Bishop, and he decided
in favour of the Prior. His decree is dated from Beauchief in the
year 1341. t
The following is a list of the rectors of Clown. As the Prior of
Worksop was uninterruptedly patron up to the time of the disso-
lution of the monasteries, and afterwaids the Crown, these facts
have not been reiterated : —
1299. John Mauclerk de Leycester. He obtained at the same time license of
non-residence for one year's study in the schools.
1315. John de Nassington, jun. On the resignation of J. M. de L.
1317. William de Navelton. On the resignation of J. de N.
1327. William de Hundemanby, acolite.
13^0. Richard de Riperes. On the death of W. de H.
1343. Simon de Lamleye. On the death of E. de R.
1353. John de Austan. On the resignation of S. de L.
1355. John de Wilford.
. John de Welton. On the resignation of J. de W.
1359. Robert Ragunhull.
Ib64. William de Halugaton, rector of Fleburgh, exchanges with R. R., rector
of Clowne.
1375. Herbert Crello (?). On the resignation of W. de H.
1376. Richard Ronclyff. On the resignation of H. C., from the plague, which
was then raging.
1393. Thomas Hexi. On the death of R. R.
1394. William Dande. On the resignation of T. H.
* Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. ii., p. 56.
t Lichfield Episcopal .Registers, vol. iii., f. 60b.
458 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1418. Roger Morton.
1422. William Swethyng. On the resignation of R. M.
1423. Thomas Alston. On the resignation of W. S.
1426. William Cawode. On the resignation of T. A.
1427. Richard Westhall, "William Cawode being found to be under the canonical
age.
1445. John Thorneton. On the resignation of R. W.
. John Marshall.
1449. John Porter. On the resignation of J. M.
1456. William Grene, deacon. On the deprivation of J. P.
1489. John Powis. On the resignation of W. G. Collated by the Bishop.
. Peter Mandivile. On the resignation of J. P.
. Brian Burton.
1528. Robert Hewet. On the death of B. B.
1530. William Inskype. On the resignation of R. H., to whom a pension of £4
was granted out of the fruits of the vicarage. He died in 1582.
1625. Robert Harrison; (1650), John Burton (Parliamentary Commission); 1663,
Poineas Mace; 1669, George Chantrey; 1721, Henry Lea; 1722, William
Portall; 1730, Thomas Donne; 1739, Samuel Yate; 1789, George
Bessley ; 1822, Joseph Wilton Pawsey ; 1833, Robert Shepherd ; 1834,
Charles Walter White; 1870, Charles Leonard Helps.
The Registers begin in the sixth year of Queen Elizabeth.
Sir Stephen Glyim, who visited Clown Church in 1851, remarks
on the " lychnoscopic character " of the small square-headed window
in the south chancel wall ; this expression, now generally aban-
doned by archaeologists, refers to what are generally termed "low-
side windows," which have been often commented on when treating
of the South Derbyshire churches.
Sronficltr,
The advowson of the rectory of Dronfield was for some time in
the gift of the Brailsfords, lords of the manor of Birchet, in this
parish. In 1331 some doubt was thrown on the right of Eoger
de Brailsford to the rectory, though he had held it for fifty-one
years, and. on the Bishop visiting the Deanery of Scarsdale, he was
called on to prove his title to the incumbency. The Bishop
declared his title good. *
Of the Brailsfords, the next presentation was purchased a few
years later by John Forester, and flien again by Ralph Barker, of
Dore, who in 1399 gave up his right to the advowson (for which
he had paid £100) to the Abbey of Beauchief ; John Ascheby, who
had just been instituted rector, resigning it at the same time. Three
* Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. iii., f. 28b.
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years after, the Bishop of the diocese formally ordained a vicarage
of Dronfield, endowing it with a manse (to be built by the canons
of Beauchief), five acres of land, £10 per annum from the canons,
and various small tithes and oblations. The books and ornaments
were to be provided by the abbey, who were also to be responsible
for the repair of the chancel. *
The following list of rectors and vicars of Dronfield is chiefly
taken from the Episcopal Registers. The Abbot of Beauchief was
patron of the vicarage, up to the dissolution of the monasteries,
since which time it has remained in the hands of the Crown.
RECTORS.
. Richard de Brathford (? Brailsford). Beauchief Obituary.
1255 circa. Thomas, parson of Dranfeld. Beauchief Chartulary.
1280. Roger de Braylesford.
1336. Roger Bancquell ; patron, Sir Ralph de Braylesford. On the death of R.
de B.
1365. Thomas Gumfrey ; patron, John, son of Adam Forester de "VVormhall. On
the resignation of R. B.
1399. John Ascheby. On the death of T. G. Resigned the rectory to the abbey
of Beauchief on Dec. 2nd of the year of his institution. He died in 1409.
VICABS.
. John Wyksall.
1405. John Accres. On the resignation of J. "W.
14-23. Edward Flood. On the resignation of J. A.
1429. John Percy. On the resignation of E. F.
1438. John Gower. On the resignation of J. P.
1439. John Brereton. On the resignation of J. G.
. John Chyppyngdale.
1463. Henry Wedyrhead.
1484. William Byngeley. On the death of H. W.
1535. William Cocks.
1543. Thomas Weste; patron, the King. On the death of W. C.
1557. Richard Hawarde ; patrons, Philip and Mary. On the resignation of T. W.
. Christopher Haslam, buried Jan. 18th, 1570. Parish Registers.
1577. Laurence Bancks.
. Vicar Bamforth, died 1581. Parish Registers.
. Thomas Bentley, buried March 29th, 1590. Parish Registers.
. Robert Topham. Parish Registers.
1616. Thomas Tayler; patron, the King.
1626. Robert Revell; patron, the King. Died 1648.
1648. Richard Coughland. On the death of R. R.
1650. Richard Mandersley.
1662. John Jacques ; patron, the King. On the ejection of R. M.
1666. John Simpson. On the resignation of J. J.
1669. Vicar Haywood. On the death of J. S. Parish Registers.
* Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. vii., f. 179.
460 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1681. Christopher Coles.
1724. Isaac OdeU. On the death of C. C.
1745. Jonathan Peake. On the death of J. O.
1748. Laurence Bourne, also rector of Ashover. On the death of J. P.
1797. John Russell. On the death of L. B.
1809. William Spencer. On the death of J. R.
1846. W. D. E. Bertles. On the death of W. S.
1862. W. H. Smith, rector of Sevington, Kent, exchanges with W. D. B. B.
In the year 1349, the Guild of the Blessed Virgin was founded
within the church, chiefly for maintaining one or two chaplains
(according to the funds) to celebrate at S. Mary's altar within the
parish church, and for sustaining a lamp at that altar. The
important Guild Returns that were ordered to be made to the Court
of Chancery in 1388, demonstrate that this Dronfield Guild had
various social as well as religious rules, in many respects resembling
those detailed under Chesterfield. Thus any brother or sister fall-
ing into poverty by misfortune, and unable to work, were to have
one halfpenny per day from the common fund, and to take their
meals with some other member of the guild ; that funeral tapers
were to be provided on the death of a member ; that before the
law was resorted to, all disputes between members should be
referred to the Alderman of the G uild ; and also that the alderman
should be el< ctjd annually, and the accounts audited at a general
meeting. * In 1392 this guild was reorganised, and in 1395 the
ordination of the chantry of the Blessed Virgin, in connection
with the Guild, received episcopal confirmation. It is therein
spoken of as founded by Thomas Gomfray, Ealph Barker, and
Thomas Kycher. f
We have found the following institutions to this chantry in the
Episcopal Eegisters : —
1388. Gilbert de Matlock.
1393. Robert Fonteneys ; patron, Alderman of the Guild of S. Mary of Dronfield,
now new founded by Thomas Gomfrey, clerk, and Ralph Barker.
1408. William Hudson; patrons, Richard Gomfrey, rector of Tadenhull, Ralph
Barker de Dore, Thomas Rycherde de Dore, and Thomas Tayllor de Dore,
aldermen (f the Guild. On the resignation of R. F.
1432. Richard Leycester; patrons, Thomas Wodrofe and John Barker.
1433. William Barker; patrons, Thomas Wodrofe and John Barker. On the
resignation of R. L.
* Guild Returns, 12 Ric. II., bundle 308, No. 58. These most valuable returns (in
the Pub. Rec. Office) are unfortunately by no means complete ; on going through
those relating to Derbyshire, we find that the returns from the Hundreds of Scarsdale
and the High Peak are all that are now extant. This Dronfield Guild is translated
in full in Addy's Beauchief Abbey, pp. 119-122.
f Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. vi., f. 104.
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. John Hordron; patrons, William Poney, Thomas Wodrofe, and John
Barker. On the resignation of W. B.
1462. Thomas Boton; patrons, Thomas Wodrofe and John Barker, together with
John Coke, aldermen. On the death of J. H.
. John Mylner.
1545. Robert Hancock; patrons, William Boure de Haloos, alderman of the
Guild, and John Parker de Doure. On the death of J. M.
Robert Hancock and Christopher Haslam each obtained a pension
of £4. from the Exchequer in the time of Philip and Mary.
In 5 Elizabeth a Commission was appointed to survey and report
upon the condition of the chancel of Dronfield Church and the
parsonage-house. Of the former they reported " that one great
wyndow in the east end of the ' said chancel ys fallen downe,
and yn great ruyue and decaye," and other considerable damage,
estimating that the chancel would require twenty-four loads of stone,
three cwt. of iron, two hundred feet of glass, in addition to lead
and wood for the roof, for its proper repair.
" Item, they say that the said great window and roof of the said chauncell
was in decay at the time of the suppression of the said Howse and monastery of
Beawchief, and that since that time the same have grown worse, more and more
in decay and ruin, and that the cause of the ruin and decay thereof was by
reason of the great force, vehemence, and violence of wind and weather ; and
they also say that the cause of the decay, of the glass of the other windows of
the said chauncell was by reason that the crowes and other vermyne have and
do daily use and haunt the said chauncell, for that the said great window is now
so in decay." *
This account explains the debased style of the tracery of the
great east window.
Sir Stephen Glynn visited this church in 1852, a few years
before its "restoration," when he remarked that "the spacious and
beautiful chancel is in a sad state of neglect and ill keeping,
divided by sundry mean wooden partitions, and having a row of
pews in the middle with their backs to the altar — the roof has
been meanly renewed." He also notices the built-up oblong open-
ing or " lowside window," below the south chancel window nearest
the west, which we had omitted previously to mention.
Page 201, line 16, for "titles" read "tithes."
Page 201, line 22, for "country" read "county."
Page 205, line 4 from bottom, dele "rex." This word is a
curious instance of how misprints arise. On our attention being
directed to the unmeaning character of this word in the inscription,
we referred to our MS., and found that a clever compositor, who
* Addy's Beauchief Abbey, quoting from Special Exchequer Commission, 5 Bliz.,
No. 601.
462 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
evidently knew something of Latin, had absolutely invented the
"rex" out of the erasure of a letter that had been made with an
undue flourish of the pen ! Of course this is no excuse for out-
carelessness in reading it.
For "Henricus" read " Henricum."
Page 206, line 8, for "tales" read "tales."
The inscription on the Gomfrey brass was exactly copied from
the notes of Mr. Reynolds, but as it is an important inscription,
so often misread (a learned work published in 1878 has no less
than twenty-four mistakes in this single inscription !), it will be
well to give a precise version : —
" Hie jacet dris Thomas Gomfrey de Wormchul quoda rector ecclie de dronfeld
q obiit xi die mense octob' anno dni M CCC Ixxxx nono. Et. sub ipso jacet
dominus Bogerus Braylisforde dudum Rector dicte ecclesie de dronnifeld.
"Hie jacet dns Ricus Gomfrey quodi Rector ecclie de TadetihuH & pbendari'
de Somerscheil in capella regis de penkeriche Et frat' dci Thome qui obiit . . .
aiino dni Millmo CCCC . . . Quorum animoru ppicietur Deus ame."
We have made a mistake (page 210) following Lysom, in saying
that these brother priests are in copes ; they wear chasubles.
Page 212, line 15, for "atlar" read "altar."
Mr. Rawlins visited the ancient chapel five years before it was
demolished, viz., in 1821. The nave was 25 ft. 8 in. by 14 ft.
9 in. ; the north aisle 26 ft. by 13 ft. 10 in. ; and the chancel
18 ft. 9 in. by 15 ft. 1 in. It had a small bell turret on the west
gable. The nave was separated from the aisle by Saxon
(? Norman) arches supported on circular pillars, and the chancel
was entered by a plain rounded arch.
iftitmgton*
The patronage of both the medieties of the rectory of Eckington,
as will be seen by the subsequent list, was in the hands of the
Stotevilles and subsequently of the Darcys. The petition of Sir
James Strangeways and his wife, dated September 14th, 1455, for
ADDENDA. 463
the amalgamation of the rectories, states that the endowments
were not sufficient for the honest life and due hospitality of two
rectors. *
BECTOBS OF THE FIKST MEDIETY.
1299, Theobald de Bello Monte ; patron, the King. The rector (evidently a
youth) obtained a license for non-residence, at the same time that he was
instituted, in order to allow his studying at the schools. He was to be
ordained sub-deacon within the year.
1302. Roger de Custancia ; patron, the King, as guardian of the heir of Eobert
de Stoteville.
1312. Adam de Pontefract ; patron, John de Stoteville. On the death of B. de C.
1322. John de Insula. Obtains dispensation for non-residence.
1322. John de Karleton, rector of Farnham, exchanges with J. de I. Patron,
the King, as trustee of John de Stoteville.
. Hugo.
1349. Nicholas de Skargill; patron, Sir John Darcy. On the death of H.
1349. Walter de Haywortn, deacon ; patron, Sir John Darcy. On the death of
N. de S.
. Roger Freena.
1353. John de Puddesey ; patron, Sir John Darcy. On the death of B. F.
1385. Roger^Darcy ; patron, Philip Darcy. On the death of J. de P.
1398. John Wygynston, rector of Treeton, Torks., exchanges with B. D., rector
of mediety of Eckington; patron, Sir Philip Darcy.
1405. Robert Foljambe; patron, Sir John Darcy. On the resignation of J. W.
1409. William Ilkeston; patron, John, Lord of Darcy and Meynell. On the
death of B. F.
. William Clover.
1429. Hugo Ardeyn, "unus cleric' cancellar' dni nost' Begis;" patron, the King.
On the death of W. C.
1438. John^Gregge (alias Gregory) ; patrons, James and Elizabeth Strangeways,
and John and Margaret Conyers.
1441. William Layley; patrons, James and Elizabeth Strangeways, and John and
Margaret Conyers. On the resignation of J. G.
1442. -William Orell; patron, James Strangeways. On the resignation of W. L.
BECTOBS OF THE SECOND MEDIETY.
129S. Robert de Mar; patron, the King.
1312. John de Stoteville; patron, John de Stoteville. On the death of B. de M.
1336. William ae Dalton; patron, the King. On the death of J. de S.
1338. Thomas de Dalton ; patron, Sir Hugo de Audeleye, citizen of Gloucester.
On the resignation of W. de D.
1351. Hugh de Langeton ; patron, Sir John Darcy.
1355. Robert Ryvers, rector of Burton, Lincoln, exchanges with H. de L., rector
of mediety of Eckington.
1369. John Earp; patron, the King, on account of the minority of Philip, son
and heir of John Darcy. On the death of B. B.
1373. Thomas de Feryby, rector of Stokesly, Torks., exchanges with J. E., rector
of mediety of Eckington.
1377. Robert Gretehened; patron, Sir Philip Darcy. On the death of T. de F.
1393. John Ingulby; patron, Sir Philip Darcy.
* Lichfield Episcopal Begisters, vol. x., f. 29.
464 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1431. William Brigeford; patron, the King. On the death of J. I.
1438. William Ekyngton ; patrons, James Strange-way, jun., and Elizabeth his
•wife, daughter and co-heiress of Philip Darcy, and John Conyers and
Margaret his wife, sister and co-heiress of Elizabeth. On the resignation of
W. B.
. Thomas Kyrkeby. Eesigus, April 22nd, 1456.
RECTORS OF THE UNITED BENEFICE.
1456. William Orell.
1483. Richard Strange-ways; patron, Sir Richard Strangeways. On the death of
W. O.
1485. George Strangeways; patron, Sir Richard Strangeways. On the death of
Henry (?) S.
. Ralph Butterworth.
1514. Thomas Barker: patron, Sir James Strangeways. On the death of R. B.
1517. Henry Hill; patron, Sir James Strangeways. On the death of T. B.
1554. Richard Raylton; patron, Leonard Dacre. On the death of H. H.
1615. Henry Duckett; patron, George Blunt.
1630. Richard Lowe.
1650. Samuel Gardiner; patron, George Sitwell. Episcopally instituted in 1661.
1686. Samuel Garniner; patron, Sir Gilbert Clerk. On the death of S. G.
1721. John Griffith; patron, James Cooke.
1765. John Griffith; patron, William Simpson, for this turn.
1784. Christopher Alderson; patron, the King.
1814. Frederick Ricketts ; patron, the King.
1843. Edmund Bucknall Estcourt; patron, the Queen. On the death of F. R.
Bishop Walter de Langton held an ordination in the church of
Eckington on June 4th, 1800, when 27 candidates were admitted
to the suh-diaconate, 48 to the diaconate, and 89 to the priesthood.
In the reign of Philip and Mary, Christopher Grene, one of the
priests of the dissolved Guild of Eckington, obtained a pension of
£4 10s. from the Exchequer.
Sir Stephen Glynn, who visited this church about 1840,
remarks : — " On the north side of the chancel is a picture repre-
senting what is called a Pieta. The font is in the chancel,
octagonal, on a circular stone, but it is doubtful whether ancient
or not." His description of the age of the different parts of the
fabric exactly corresponds with our own.
The church has recently been restored. It was re-opened on
June 19th, 1878. The galleries, north, west, and south, and the
high pews, and "three-decker," have all been removed, and the
whole of the interior of the chancel and the church wonderfully
improved.
The Registers begin in 1558, but are in a deficient mutilated
state up to 1568. They are also deficient between 1575-8, find
between 1590-5. — Parliamentary Return.
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Up to the time of the dissolution of the monasteries, the prior
of Thurgarton was always patron of the vicarage of Elmton.
Two or three of the institutions given in the subjoined list of
vicars, speak of Elmeton una cum capella de Creswell. At Creswell, in
this parish, a hamlet a mile north-east of the village of Elrnton,
are the remains of an ancient chapel, now forming part of a farm-
stead. A small early Norman light, in what used to be the west
gable of the chapel, is still quite perfect. The remains were more
obvious and considerable, until an alteration of the farm-buildings
about forty years ago. The road leading up to the railway station
is still known as " Chapel Lane." The chapel was dedicated to S.
Mary Magdalen, by whose feast the wakes of Creswell are, we
believe, still regulated.
. Robert de Satheley.
1316. Gilbert de Ocrington. On the death of E. de S.
1325. William de Retteford. On the resignation of G. de O.
1327. Robert de Savage.
1330. Hugo Wales. Collated by the Bishop. On the resignation of E. de S.
1349. John, son of Ralph Atte Welle. On the resignation of H. W.
1350. Thomas, son of Adam de Cokeneye. On the death of J. A.
1362. Henry de Sulcholm. On the resignation of T. de C.
. William de Horyngham.
1409. William Mychell de Clown. On the death of W. de H. W. M. was re-
instituted in 1411, having not been in priest's orders up till that date. He
was granted leave of absence to attend the schools at the time of his first
institution.
1432. John Holme.
. John Parker.
1462. Thomas Derby. On the death of J. P.
. Christopher Hermysted.
1511. Robert Codgrave. On the death of C. H.
1546. Christopher Barwicke ; patron, Gabriel Barwicke, by arrangement with the
lately dissolved priory of Thurgarton. On the death of E. G.
1551. Thomas West; patron, the King. On the death of C. B.
1558. Richard Watson; patron, Edmund West. On the death of T. W.
. James Hall.
1566. William Hudson; patron, - West. On the resignation of J. H.
1576. Richard Chapman; patron, Thomas Mercy.
(1650). Mr. Deane; patron, Francis Ehoades. Parliamentary Survey.
1662. John Jaques ; patron, Anne Eoades.
1689. John Davenport; patron, Martha Eodes, widow.
1725. Matthew Hartshorne ; patron, Sir John Eodes.
1778. David Holt ; patron, C. H. Eodes. On the death of M. H.
1813. Thomas Hall; patron, C. H. Eodes.
1822. Francis Foxlowe; patron, C. H. Eodes. On the resignation of T. H.
1842. William Senior Salmon; patron, Eev. Cornelius Heathcote Eeaston Ehodes.
On the death of F. F.
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466 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1864. Thomas Hills ; patron, the Duke of Portland. On the resignation of W.
S. S.
1875. Edward Lamb ; patron, the Duke of Portland. On the death of T. H.
The first legible entry in the Eegisters is of the year 1598.
Page 237, line 10, for " Patroness " read " Patronus."
J^attlt
The vicarage of Hault * Hucknall was in the gift of the Prior
of Newstead, up to the dissolution of the monasteries. The Crown
afterwards granted it, together with the impropriate rectory, to
Sir Francis Leake, and it was purchased last century hy the Duke
of Devonshire, with whom it has since remained.
1298. John Torkard, deacon.
. John de Hokenal.
1315. Nicholas de Kirkeby. On the resignation of J. de H.
1339. Robert Seynthy. On the death of N. de K.
1349. Henry de Nettleworth.
1350. William de Yelitoft. On the resignation of H. de N.
1366. Hugo de Parlethorpe. On the resignation of W. de Y.
1398. John de Stapulfond. On the death of H. de P.
1416. Thomas Lyllyng. On the resignation of J. de S.
1422. John Upryght. On the resignation of T. L.
1429. Robert Stopforth. On the resignation of J. U.
1432. John Wyntworth. On the resignation of B. S.
1418. John Watson. On the death of J. W.
1450. John Durham, canon regular of Newstead. On the resignation of William
(sic) Watson.
1461. William Kyme, canon regular of Newstead. On the resignation of J. D.
. William Braylesforth.
1513. Richard Pawson. On the death of W. B.
1558. Thomas Beurege ; patron, Sir Francis Leeke.
1628. William Smithson; patron, Francis, Lord Deincourt.
(1650). Thomas Wilson. Parliamentary Survey.
1662. Laurence Wayne; patron, Lord Scarsdale.
1682. 'Charles Hall ; patron, Frances, Countess of Scarsdale.
1690. Roger Lowde ; patron, Frances, Countess of Scarsdale.
1724. William Gardiner; patron, Nicholas, Earl Scarsdale.
1765. William Webster; patron, the Duke of Devonshire.
1796. Joseph Ashbridge.
18 — . Charles Currey.
18 — . Godfrey Harry Arkwright.
1859. Henry Cottingham.
* We think it best to adhere to the more usual spelling of Hault Hucknall, and not
Ault Hucknall, as the former was that which we used in the first volume. But we
have now no doubt that Ault Hucknall is the most correct, for we have met with it
several times hi the early Lichfield Eegisters as ecclesia de Alto Hokenhall, thus
showing that its true meaning is High Hucknall.
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The Parish Eegisters begin with the year 1660, but torn and
defective up to 1687.
Page 244, last line, for "ver" read "vir."
Page 245. The arms mentioned at the end of the second para-
graph are those of Newstead Priory.
The church of Lowne or Lund (afterwards termed Heath) was
given by Richard Bussell to the Abbey of Croxton in the reign of
Henry II.* The abbot was patron of the vicarage up to the time
of the dissolution of the monasteries, and since that date the
advowson has been in the hands of the Cavendish family.
The following is a list of the vicars : —
1307. John de Hykelinge.
1320. Robert de Scharneford. On the death of J. de H.
1335. Hugo Martyn. On the resignation of R. de S.
1349. Robert de Ardham. On the death of H. M.
1353. Henry de Twyford. On the resignation of E. de A.
. Henry de Chedel.
1358. Ralph de Cokegne. On the resignation of H. de C.
1361. Henry de Oldburgh. On the resignation of E. de C.
1367. Adam Lorde, de Clifton. On the resignation of H. de O.
1389. Henry Webster. On the death of A. L.
1418. Roger Power.
. William Glapwell.
1483. Edmund Savage. On the death of W. G.
1499. Elias Atturcliff, Ahhot of Croxton; patron, Sethe Atturcliff, for this turn.
On the death of E. S.
1508. John Burton. On the resignation of E. A.
(1535). Nicholas Styrley (or Strilley). Valor Ecclesiasticus.
1537. Laurence Pypis; patrons, Andrew Nowell, John Uvedale, and William
Dode, by reason of gift of the advowson by Thomas, Abbot of Croxton. On
the death of N. S.
1627. Cyprian Banbury; patron, William, Earl of Devonshire.
(1650). Thomas Keyes. Parliamentary Survey.
1662. Edward Rishton ; patron, William, Earl of Devonshire.
1685, Jonathan Turgead (?); 1702, Edward Revell ; 1720, Carew Reynell ; 1727,
Robert Pyrke ; 1751, William Burrow; 1758, Samuel Pegge; 1796,
William Hurd ; 1821, Joseph Ashbridge; 18— , Charles Currey; 18—,
Godfrey Harry Arkwright ; 1859, Henry Cottingham.
Nicholas Shaure, by will dated June 16th, 1520, left his body
"to be buryed in the newe ayle of heth church agayne the
middle wyndow."
The Parish Eegisters begin with the year 1682. They are
defective up to 1715.
* Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. ii., p. 604.
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Page 256, line 22, for "Stainbys" read " Savages."
Page 257. Plate of incised slab. Mr. Greaves suggests to us
that the crowned figure holding a cross may represent the Saviour ;
the figure with the bag Judas ; and the figure with the curious
head the man who tempted him with the thirty pieces of silver,
which he has just handed to him.
The church was extensively repaired in 1878. The porch was
rebuilt, the old nave roof replaced by one of high pitch ; open seats
substituted for the pews ; the west gallery removed ; and the tower
archway opened out. Various other improvements of a minor
character were effected at the same time.
Sir Stephen Grlynn, who was here in 1860, not unjustly com-
ments on " the poky and dirty nave."
The earliest Register Book begins with the year 1638.
Langwith church was re-consecrated on September 80th, 1878,
having been considerably restored and enlarged, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Norman Shaw, at a cost of about £1,500. The
church has been prolonged a bay to the west, and the chancel has
been considerably lengthened and widened. A small organ chamber
and vestry has been added on the north side of the chancel, and
the archway into it is the one removed from the opposite wall,
vide pp. 269, 270. The old east window of the chancel is now in
the north wall of the nave. There is an excellently chiselled font
of native workmanship. A small square piscina niche was found
in the south wall of the nave. The interesting old roof beams
have been retained, and the whole of the alterations carried out in
excellent taste, and in the truest conservative spirit. The word
" Bassett " was just legible on an old alabaster slab of the
fifteenth century, found beneath the chancel-floor during the altera-
tions. The incised slab to an ecclesiastic, that was on the south
side of the chancel, is now in the churchyard below the east
window.
ADDENDA. 469
The Registers of this parish begin with the year 1685.
The following is a list of the Rectors of Langwith, chiefly from
the Lichfield Registers; up to the dissolution of the monasteries,
the prior of Thurgarton was patron, since that date it has been in
the patronage of the Cavendish family.
. Nicholas de Heanor.
1316. Alexander de Thurgarton. On the death of N. de H.
1334. Richard de Draycote. On the resignation of A. de T.
1343. Roger de Whatton. On the resignation of E. de D.
1349. Richard de Graneby. On the death of R. de W.
. Richard de Soton.
. John de Wythonwyk, vicar of Graneby, Yorks., exchanges with R. de S.,
vicar of Langwith.
. John de Kildale.
1368. Richard Attewelle. On the resignation of J. de K.
1389. Peter de Outon. On the resignation of R. A.
1425. Gerard Elye.
1434. Richard Malkey. On the resignation of G. E.
1451. Thomas Knaugresse. On the death of R. M.
. William Brereley.
1-516. Nicholas Wylde. On the death of W. B.
1544. Robert Spytelhowse ; patron, John Standishe, by arrangement with the
lately dissolved priory. On the death of N. W.
1546. George Elyngthorpe; patrons, Francis, Henry, and Nicholas Hewett, by
arrangement with the lately dissolved priory.
1565. William ITnderne.
1617. James Troughton.
1663. Francis Carrington ; patron, William, Earl of Devonshire. On the death
of J. T.
1682, Robert Revel; 1685, John Newton; 1719, Gervase Fowler; 1720,
Thomas Rivers ; 1730, Michael Hartshorne ; 1778, Edward Otter; ,
Anthony Clarkson ; 1819, Immanuel Halton ; 1867, A. T. Blythe.
The following is a list of the rectors and patrons of Morton
rectory from 1300 downwards, chiefly extracted from the Lichfield
Registers. It is now in the alternate presentation of S. John's
College, Cambridge, and the Turbutt family.
1302. Walter de Eyncourte ; patron, John de Eyncourt.
1322. John de Hertwell; patron, Roger de Eyncourt. On the death of W. de E.
1346. John de Braylesford; patron, Roger Deyncourt. On the death of J. de H.
1349. William de Neuton; patron, Roger Deyncourt. On the resignation of J.
de B., who accepts the rectory of North Winfield.
1372. Richard Frankissh ; patron, William Cantilupe. On the death of W. de N.
. Richard de Hathelsey.
1391. William at the Walle; patron, Sir Nicholas Longford. On the death of
R. de H.
1395. John Odam de Clyfton; patron, Sir John Bussy.
470 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1397. Vivian Wandesford ; patron, Sir Nicholas Longford. On the resignation
of J. 0.
. William Smalley.
1413. William Asshebury; patron, Eichard Clyerowe. On the resignation of
W. S.
1416. John Hynton; patron, Sir John Bussy. On the resignation of W. A.
1426. Thomas Waryn: patron, Margery de Longford. On the resignation of J. H.
1427. William Snowe; patron, Sir John Bussy. On the resignation of T. W.
1461. James Hirton (or Huyton) ; patron, Nicholas Longford. On the death of
W. S.
1468. John Smyth ; patron, Sir John Bussy. On the resignation of J. H.
. Robert Snape ; patron, Sir Ralph Longford.
1565. John Allwoode; patron, Nicholas Longford. On the death of R. S.
1612. Richard Barlow.
1650 Edward Nickson.
1683. Matthew Powell; patron, Earl Scarsdale.
1700. John Fowle ; patron, Earl Scarsdale.
1710. Ralph Heathcote; patron, Earl Scarsdale.
1739. Ralph Heathcote; patron, Godfrey Heathcote, for this turn.
1765. Benjamin Burrow ; patron, William Burrow, clerk.
1780. Peter Wilson ; patron, William Turbutt.
1795. Richard Burrows Turbutt : patron, William Turbutt.
1841. Thomas Lund; patron, Ealph Tatham, Master of S. John's Coll., Cambridge.
1864. James W. Maltby ; patron, Sarah Ann Hardwick, of 32, Netting Hill
Terrace, Middlesex, the patroness for this turn.
The Parish Registers begin with the year 1575.
Page 275, line 13, for " Wirkson " read "Nickson."
Norwanton.
The following is a list of rectors and patrons of this church,
from 1400 downwards, chiefly taken from the Lichfield Registers,
and the returns of the First Fruits Office : —
1405. Thomas de Chelaston; patron, Sir Robert de Legh.
1432. John le Mason ; patron, Sir Robert de Legh, de Adelyngton. On the
death of T. de C.
1476. Richard Bollyngton ; patron, Robert Legh de Adelyngton. On the death
of J. le M.
1491. Thomas Power ; patron, Sir Ralph Longford. On the death of R. B.
1493. Henry Horneby; patron, Thomas Leghe, by leave of Sir Ralph Longford
and Thomas Power, clerk, lately patrons of this church.
1495. Hugo Assheton; patron, Thomas Legh de Adlington. On the resignation
of H. H.
1505. Milo Hudleston ; patron, Thomas Legh. On the resignation of H. A.
1536. John Aston; patron, Henry VIII., for this turn. On the resignation of
M. H.
1550. John Wilson; patron, the £ing. On the death of J. A. But J. W. was
re-instituted in the same year, on the presentation of Sir Richard Egerton
and Maria his wife, lately the wife of Thomas Leygh.
1615. Peter Poste; patron, George Revell.
ADDENDA. 471
1689. John Dixon ; patron, Eichard Eevell.
1692. Roger Smith; patron, Eobert Eevell.
1706. Thomas Elcock; patron, Eobert Eevell.
1718. Francis Revell; patron, Eobert Eevell.
1729. Edward Meymott; patron, Eobert Eevell.
1770. Joseph Shipston; patron, Edward Eevell.
1771. Dewes Coke; patron, Tristram Revell.
1811. Guy Bryan; patron, John Wilmot.
1819. Frederick Doveton ; patron, J. Eardley E. Wilmot.
1871. John Cooke Massey; patron, Josiah Spode, of Hawkesyard Park, for this
turn.
The whole church was thoroughly restored and reseated in
1877-8, when a south aisle, organ chamber, and vestry were
added. During the restoration, a very perfect priest's door, orna-
mented with dog-tooth mouldings, was found in the south chancel
wall. It was plastered up on the inside, and hidden by a large
buttress on the exterior. Its date is circa 1220. The total cost
of the alterations was about £2,500.
The Eucharistic plate is very good and massive, and was given
by different members of the Eevell family about the beginning of
last century.
The Parish Kegisters date from the year 1540.
Norton.
The following list of vicars is chiefly compiled from the Lichfield
Eegisters. The Abbot of Beauchief was patron of the vicarage up
to the dissolution of the monasteries, and the vicars of Norton
were always canons of Beauchief, and bound to attend the Visita-
tions of the Abbey. Almost the whole of these vicars are com-
memorated in the Beauchief Obituary. *
. Henry de Tresk.
1325. Thomas de Alfreton, canon of Beauchief. On the death of H. de F.
1349. Thomas de TykhuU. On the death of T. de A.
1351. William de Melbourne. On the death of T. de T.
1369. Robert de Bobenhull. On the death of W. de M.
1380. Thomas de Dronfeld. Ou the. resignation of E. de B. He was Abbot of
Beauchief from 1399 to 1413.
1425. Geoffrey Harnesby. On the death of T. de D.
1431. John Sheffield. On the death of G. H.
1432. John Tan den. On the death of J. S.
. William Kychyne. Attended the Visitation of the Abbey in 1475.
• See Addy's Beauchief Abbey.
472 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1490. John Croke. On the death of W. K. He was sub-cellarer of Beauchief
Abbey in 1482 ; sub-prior in 1488 ; and attended the next three Visitations
as vicar of Norton.
1510. John Sheffield. On the death of J. C. He was Abbot of Beauchief from
1519 up to its dissolution.
1519. Thomas Gilberte.
1547. Michael Brothwell ; patron, William Holland, by virtue of an arrangement
between Thomas Barley and the lately dissolved Abbey of Beauchief. On
the death of T. G.
1554. Thomas West; patron, Queen Mary. On the death of M. B.
1558. Roger Watson, in the person of Geoffrey Blythe, his proctor; patrons,
Philip and Mary. On the death of T. W.
1561. Henry Taylor. Buried March, 1613. Parish Eegisters.
1614. Richard Edwards. Buried May 8th, 1647. Parish Registers.
(1650). Kellam Mainwaring. Parliamentary Survey.
. Jeremiah Scholes.*
1663. John Harpur, deacon; patron, William Bullock. On the ejection of J. S.,
in non scribendo juxta legem.
1667. Samuel Trickett ; patron, Sarah Bullock, relict and executrix of William
Bullock. On the resignation of J. H.
1710. Cavendish Neville; patron, James Holt.
1750. George Wombwell ; patron, Katharine Neville, widow.
1763. Peter Robinson; patron, Dorothy Lister, widow.
1812. Henry Pearson; patron, Henry Pearson, clerk.
1844. Henry Hollingworth Pearson; patron, Henry Pearson, clerk.
Indorsed upon a writ of summons issued from the Consistory
Court, Lichfield, Feb. 28th, 1615, and addressed to George -More
and Philip Gell, is the following : —
" To the Churchwardens of Norton. The next Saboath or festival! day after
the receipt of these 1'res, you are to signifie unto the parishioners that the
reverend father in God the Ld Bishop of this diocesse, by vertue and force of the
Kinge Majestie's writt to him, hath sequestred all manner of tythes, oblations,
fruits, and commodities belongyng unto the vicaredge of Norton, for that the
tenthes due of the sd vicarage to his Majestie are behind, and not payde for the
time within mentioned. And therefore you must require every parishioner to
pay to you all their tythes, etc., and the same you must collect, gather, and
receive, and in your hand fast keape, as you will answer for the same at your
perill. And furthermore you must appear before the said reverend father, or his
Commissarie in that behalfe, in the Cathedrall Churche of Lichfield, in the
Consistorie there, upon Wednesday, the 10th of Aprill next, betwixt iv and vj of
the cloke in the forenoone, and then and there make and yeld up a faithful
accompt what you have done in the premiss', upon paine and perill that may
Robert Aleyn, priest of the dissolved Blythe chantry, obtained a
* Jeremiah Scholes (or Scoales) was born at Nottingham, and educated at S. John's
Coll., Cambridge. "He entered Young into the Ministry: but his Youth was not
despicable, being Grave, Serious, and Savoury. After his Ejectment, he spent the
rest of his Time in divers private Families, in Praying, Preaching, and Catechizing.
He was a hard Student, a searching Man, and a pertinent profitable Preacher. He
liv'd well, and dy'd happily, Nov. 25, 1684." Calamy's Ejected Ministers, vol. ii.,
p. 179.
ADDENDA. 473
pension from the Exchequer of <£41 5s. 6d. in the time of Philip
and Mary.
The Begisters begin with the year 1560.
Page 295, line 27, for "aminabus" read "animabus."
$Hnxton«
The following is a complete list of the rectors and patrons of
this church, from 1299 to the present time, chiefly taken from the
Lichfield Eegisters. It throws an interesting and new light on the
descent of the manor, into which space forbids us to enter.
1299. Richard, de Hereford, sub-deacon; patron, Dionysius le Wyne.
. William Bernard.
1341. Richard Pygot; patron, John Le Wyne. On the death of W. B.
1367. Giles de Ounston.
1370. John de Eton ; patron, Alured de Solney. On the resignation of G. de O.
1395. Thomas de Chelaston; patron, Sir Nicholas Longford. On the death of
J. de E.
1405. William Kynnersley; patrons, John Mulchow and Alice his wife, for this
turn. On the resignation of T. de C.
. John Carter.
1421. John Hotoft. On the resignation of J. C.
1428. John Bygge ; patrons, Sir Thomas Chaworth and Sir William Babyngton.
1438. Laurence Eaton; patron, Sir Nicholas Longford.
. Robert Kyrkeby; patron, Sir Nicholas Longford. On the resignation of
L. E.
1456. Richard Holt; patron, Sir Nicholas Longford. On the death of E. K.
. Thomas Marten.
1517. Richard Shirley. Collated by the Bishop, owing to the minority of Ealph,
heir of Sir Ealph Longford, lately deceased, "in our custody, as in right
of our Catholic Church." On the death of T. M.
1518. Christopher Rodys (Rodes). On the resignation of E. S.
1544. Simon Thomson; patron, William Hollys. On the death of C. E.
1564. Roger Wattson; patron, John Brooke.
. Robert Bamford.
1629. Ralph Rodes; patron, Edward Eevell. On the death of B. B.
1670. John Kelsall; patron, Francis Eevell.
1687. Thomas Coke ; patron, Eobert Coke.
1690. Richard Rayner; patron, Eobert Eevell.
1714. Robert Seldon ; patron, William Coke.
1748. Richard Coke ; patron, George Coke.
1771. D'ewes Coke; patron, the said Dewes Coke, clerk.
1811. Francis Wilmot; patrons, Daniel Parker Coke and another. On the death
of D. C.
1818. Peter Wilson; patron, Daniel Parker Coke. On the death of F. W.
1826. Ellis Williams; patron, John Coke, by direction of D'ewes Coke, the true
patron. On the death of P. W.
1864. Charles Gustavus Owen ; patrons, Eev. Malkin Mills and Eev. J. H. Coke.
On the death of E. W.
274 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Sir Stephen Glynn visited this church in 1869. He says: —
" This church has a nave and chancel rebuilt in ugly and incon-
gruous style about 70 years ago ; but part of the original building
remains in a south transept, which is Early English, having one
single lancet on the west and south, and on the east one two-light
Decorated window, and one debased square-headed one of three
lights. The whole of the masonry of this transept is ancient, and
it opened to the nave by a pointed arch, but a tower has been
constructed, probably of old materials, and raised upon this
transept."
The Registers begin with the year 1561, according to the
Parliamentary Eeturn.
The following is a list of the rectors and patrons of this church,
chiefly from the Episcopal Registers, and the returns of the First
Fruits Office :—
. William de Bruera.
1315. John de Hokeuhale; patron, Thomas de Shirbroke. On the death of W.
de B.
1328, Philip de Hoggesthorpe ; patron, Margaret, relict of Sir Eobert de
Wyloughby. On the death of J. de. H.
1331. Henry de Harecourt; patron, William de Harecourt. On the death of
P. de H.
1349. John Felson; patron, the King, as guardian of the heir of Joh~ de
Wyloughby. On the death of H. de H.
1361. John Wodecocke; patron, Ealph de Ferrers.
1369. John de Pokelyngton.
1382. John Hebbe; patron, Sir Thomas de Asteley, for this turn. On the death
of J. de P.
1418. Robert Takell; patron. Thomas Havey (?), lord of Pleasley.
. John Kyng.
1442. William Bardall; patron, Alice, relict of John Leeke. On the death of
J. K.
1467. William Foljambe; patron, Thomas Astley. On the death of W. B.
1499. Nicholas Harrison ; patron, Sir John Leeke. On the death of W. F.
1548. William Blythe; patron, Thomas Astley. On the death of N. H.
. Richard Madox. Buried May llth, 1627. Parish Registers.
1627. John Bayes; patron, Francis, Lord Deincourt.
1651. John Legat. On the death of J. B. Buried December llth, 1673. Parish
Registers.
1674. John Lillyman; patron, Lord Scarsdale. Subsequently rector of North
Winfield.
1696. Henry ChappeU; patron, Earl Scarsdale.
1741. William Barker ; patron, Joseph Briggs, for this turn.
1757. Chaworth Hallowes ; patron, Brabazon Hallowes, for this turn.
ADDENDA. 475
1793. George Warrington ; patron, Bache Thornhill.
1831. James Robert Holden; patrons, trustees of Bache Thornhill.
1856. Courtney Smith ; patron, W. Pole ThornhiU.
1867. Granville John GranviUe; patron, W. Pole Thornhill.
1871. Ravenscroft Stewart; patron, W. Pole Thornhill.
• The chancel was carefully restored and refitted in 1876 by the
present rector, when an effective reredos of tiles, and other im-
provements, were introduced. A second two-light window was
inserted in the south chancel wall, being a reproduction pof the
Decorated window nearest to the west hi the same wall. At the
same time, a small reading desk and a lectern of well- carved oak
were placed just within the chancel arch. The oak pulpit, so
ignominiously cast out from All Saints', Derby, is now, as already
mentioned,* in this church ; the panels and cornice have been
much enriched with some excellent carving.
On the base of the font, now in use, is incised the date 1662,
but a much older font has recently been placed in the vestry,
having been rescued from the rectory garden, where it had long
served as a flower-vase. It is of octagon shape, and on one face,
beneath a circular arch ornamented with the nail-head moulding,
is a rudely-carved figure of a seated ecclesiastic in eucharistic
vestments, and holding a pastoral staff (?) in the right hand. We
believe the date of this font to be about the beginning of the
Early English period, temp. Richard I., or John.
The monument to John Stuffyn, mentioned on page 315, is now
011 the chancel floor.
The Registers begin in 1553, and are in good condition.
1664. A Blazzing Starr hath here appeared. Continueing its flames for aboute
eight weekes past Eastward inclining to the North it did rise in the East
and sett in ye West. Allmost in the line and nigh the same time of ye
rising and setting.
1665. In this year after ye hlazzing starr was ye warr at sea with ye Hollanders
& ye greate Plague at London & many other in this Nation. In London
in this year there dyed of ye Plague above ninety thousands.
The following is the most perfect list we have been able to
compile of the vicars of this parish. The Abbot of Darley was
always the patron in pre- Reformation times. There is no post-
Reformation Institution at Lichfield until 1781.
* See above, p. 95.
476 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
. Nicholas de Kersyngton.
1341. Peter de Derby. On the resignation of N. de K.
. Robert de Clifton. On the resignation of P. de D.
1343. Richard, son of Robert de Hostiler, de Adolastre. On the resignation of
R. de C.
1361. Adam de Hopton.
. Richard de Newthorpe. On the resignation of A. de H.
. Robert del Hall.
1381. Roger Fraunceis. On the death of E. de H.
1416. Gervase Eley.
1426. Thomas Laverok. On the resignation of G. B.
1433. John Studbury. On the resignation of T. L.
1448. Thomas Saynt. On the resignation of J. S.
1452. Henry Hervye.
1469. Robert Rothwode. On the death of H. H.
. John Harrison. On the resignation of T. P.
. John Reddiche.
1529. Thomas Peasse. On the resignation of J. K.
1537. John Roy. On the death of T. P.
1556. Richard Oxley; patron, John Roy, son and executor of Eichard Eoy, by
arrangement with the lately dissolved Abbey of Darley. On the death of
J. E.
(1650). Mr. Dodson. Parliamentary Survey.
(1727). William Gardiner. Parish Registers.
1781. Edward Otter; patron, the King.
1786. John Robinson. Collated by the Bishop.
1818. W. Calcraft Tinsley ; patron, the Duke of Devonshire.
1833. John Hamilton Grey ; patron, Earl Bathurst.
1867. A. T. Blythe; patron, Earl Bathurst.
Sir Stephen Glynn, who visited this church in 1869, gives an
account of the different parts of the fabric and their probable
dates, almost precisely corresponding with our own. The priest's
entrance to the chancel he describes as — "A curious semi-Norman
doorway, of small size, with a trefoil head which has toothed
mouldings and a hood, also toothed, upon corbel heads."
The Eegisters begin in 1684, but there is a single sheet of an
older book, the earliest date on which is 1665.
Page 323, line 25, /or " tumutala " read " tumulata."
EECTOBS AND PATBONS.
1312. Robert de Deneford ; patron, Sir John de Grey;
1320. Hugo de Dalby ; patron, Sir John de Grey. On the resignation of E. de D.
1335. William de Catesby; patron, Sir Henry de Grey. On the resignation of
H. de D.
. Nicholas de Wadden.
1369. Walter Gilkus ; patron, Sir Reginald de Grey, dns de Wylton. On the
death of N. de W.
ADDENDA. 477
1394. John Bower; patron, Sir Henry de Grey de Wylton. On the death of
W. G.
1441. Hugo Penyale ; patrons, Richard Grey de "Wilton, and Margaret his wife.
1451. William Felowe; patrons, Thomas lord de Eichemont, and Margaret his
wife, lately the wife of Eichard Grey de Wilton. On the death of H. P.
1465. John Clerk; patron, Reginald Grey de Wilton. On the death of W. F.
1500. John Dawson; patron, Edward Grey, lord Grey de Wilton. On the death
of J. C.
. William Holmes.
1512. Thomas Alen; patron, George, Earl of Shrewsbury. On the resignation of
W. H.
1558. John Horwood; patron, Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury. On the death
of J. A.
1563. John Home; patron, Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury. On the resigna-
tion of J. H.
1623. John Paine.
1656. Joseph Stocks ; patron, Sir George Savile.
1666. Henry Alsop ; patron, James Wright. On the death of J. S.
1675. Michael Smithurst; patron, Sir John Talbot. Buried March 1st, 1680.
1681. Nicholas Silvester.
1688. William Sleigh; patrons, Thomas Maxwell, and Jane, Duchess of Norfolk.
Bnried November 27th, 1727.
1727. John Gown ; patron, John Edwards. Buried March 28th, 1749.
1749. Francis Harrison ; patron, Rt. Hon. Countess of Thanet.
1754. Thomas Fiddler; patron, Peter Nightingale and others. Buried September
llth, 1792.
1792. George Buckston; patron, George Buckston.
1827. Thomas Qrinfield.
1870. Joseph Hall. On the death of T. G.
The Eegisters begin in the year 1678.
Page 334. The fifth coat of arms on the monument is probably
that of the ancient family of Despencer, or Spencer— Quarterly, arg.
and gu., fretty or, a bend surtout, sab. *
Page 340, line 18, for "Sancti" read '' Sancte."
Stafccleg,
The "half of the church," that is of the rectorial tithes, which
was given to the Knights Hospitallers, was not restored to the
Church at the Eeformation, but passed into the hands of the
Frechevilles, and still remains alienated from the church, in the
possession of the patron of the rectory.
An inquisition of 1316 shows that a third of the church (that
is of the half not appropriated to the Hospitallers) was then
valued at six marks, t An inquisition taken in 1390, after the
* For this note we are indebted to Capt. A. E. Lawson Lowe, F.S.A.
f Inq. ad quod damnum, 9 Edw. II., No. 30.
478 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
death of Sir Eoger Clifford, gives the value of the church at
twenty marks, and the value of the chapel of S. John Baptist
at ten marks, of the advowsons of both of which he was seized
at the time of his death. *
Thomas Bromehead, the last incumbent of the suppressed chapel
of S. John Baptist, obtained from the Exchequer, in the time of
Philip and Mary, a pension of 48s.
RECTOBS AND PATBONS.
. Nicholas Musard.
1300. Thomas de Querle; patron, the King, as guardian of the heirs of Nicholas
Musard. On the death of N. M.
1309. Robert de Wodehouse, sub-deacon, placed in custody of the living, then
sequestered, hy mandate of the archdeacon. Patron, Ralph de Frecheville.
1315. John de Horton; patron, Ralph de Frecheville. On the resignation of R.
de W.
1325. Richard de Marnham, acolite ; patron, Sir John de Crombewell.
1344. John de Herdby; patron, Anker de Frescheville. On the death of R. de M.
1349. Roger de Boston ; patron, Anker de Frescheville. On the death of J. de H.
1371. William de Montgomery; patron, Roger de Clifford, for this turn. On the
death of R. de B.
1387. Richard de Cleyolk ; patron, Anker de Frecheville. On the death of
W. de M.
. Richard Dawes.
1444. William Stokes ; patron, the King, as guardian of Peter Frecheville, then
under age. On the resignation of R. D.
. Peter Rothery. Temp. Henry VI.
. Richard Wright.
1494. Richard Frecheville; patron, Peter Frecheville. On the death of R. W.
1528. John Bakewell ; patron, the King, on account of the minority of Peter, son
and heir of John Frecheville. On the death of R. F.
(1535). John Hewett. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
1539. John Laurence; patron, Peter Frecheville. On the death of J. H.
1547 Key. He was probably a near relative of the Frechevilles, as Key
was the name of the mother of the last Sir Peter Frecheville.
.... Edward Birkbeck. Parish Registers.
1635. Roger Newham ; patron, John Frecheville. On the death of E. B.
1648. George Mason.
1653. Roger Steere. On the death of G. M.
1662. Balph Heathcote ; patron, Sir John Frecheville. On the death of R. S.
1716. James Gisborne; patron, Lord Cavendish. Prebend of Durham, 1742.
1759. Francis Gisborne ; patron, Hon. Richard Cavendish. He and his father
occupied the rectory for the extraordinary period of 105 years.
1821. Richard Smith; patron, Duke of Devonshire. On the death of F. G.
1838. Bernard Moore ; patron, Duke of Devonshire. On the death of R. S.
1847. James Duncan Macfarlane; patron, Duke of Devonshire. On the resigna-
tion of B. M.
The registers date from the year 1557.
Page 847. line 5, for "Edward VI.," read " Henry VI."
* Inq. post mort., 13 Ric. II., No. 14.
ADDENDA. 479
Page 353, coat number four. These arms cannot properly be
described as Bingham, being borne by a younger branch of that
family, which retained the ancient surname of Bugge. The betid
is usually blazoned az., instead of sab.
Page 353, coat number five. These arms are those of the family
of Joyce, the ancient lords of Burton (now called Burton- Joyce),
Notts., and appear upon the shield of a fourteenth century effigy
in that church. Thoroton records that the arms of Frecheville
(differenced with a mullet on the bend) formerly appeared, together
with the arms of Joyce, in the windows of that church, which
seems to clearly indicate an alliance between the families. *
The following list of rectors and patrons is of importance as
illustrating several difficult points in the pedigrees of the families
of Grey and Leake.
1304. John de Guldeford ; patron, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, as gnardian of
the heir of Richard de Grey.
1306. William de Barchon; patron, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster.
1329. Richard de Grey. Eot. Orig., 17 Edw. III., No. 58.
. William de Garton.
1343. Robert de Grey ; patron, Sir William de Grey. On the resignation of
W. de G.
. Walter de Skyrlagh.
1358. John de Sotherne ; patron, Sir William de Grey. On the resignation of
W. de S.
. William Byker.
1405. Walter de Hoghton; patrons, John Walysby and John de Leake. On the
resignation of W. B.
1410. Walter Robertson de Beeston, deacon ; patron, John Leake.
1413. Thomas Pelley. On the resignation of W. R.
1418. John by the Kyrke; patron, Humphrey de Halington.
1449. Richard Bellerby; patron, Alice Leake. On the resignation of John
Bithekyrk.
. Richard Taylor.
1465. William Lente; patrons, John Savage, Thomas Leake, Richard Austerley,
chaplain, Thomas Oldefeld, and John Alwode, as trustees of Alice Leake.
On the death of R. T.
1508. John Bedale; patron, John Leake. On the death of W. L.
1509. Ralph Storor; patron, John Leake. On the resignation of J. B.
(1535). Robert Townend. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
1538. Thomas Beryge ; patron, Francis Leake. On the death of R. T.
1558. Nicholas Bunnell; patron, Sir Francis Leake.
. Richard Bromehead ; patron, Sir Francis Leake. On the death of N. B.
* Capt. A. E. Lawson Lowe, F.S.A.
480 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1619. Geoffrey Platts; patron, Sir Francis Leake.
1637. Thomas Tayler; patron, Francis, Lord Deincourt.
1678. John Curvay; patron, Earl Scarsdale.
1695. Ralph Heathcote ; patron, Earl Scarsdale.
1710. Thomas Field; patron, Earl Scarsdale.
1716. Stephen Ward; patron, Earl Scarsdale.
1750. Peter Cowper; patron, Godfrey Clarke.
1773. John Denton; patron, Godfrey Clarke.
1777. John Bourne ; patrons, Trustees of the late Godfrey Bagnall Clarke.
1806. William Carlisle ; patron, Clement Kynnersley. Re-instituted, under the
same patron, in 1811, to evade canons against pluralities.
. Richard Ward.
1839. Michael Maughan Humble; patron, Richard Arkwright.
The Eegisters begin with the year 1662.
Page 371, last line but one, for " Johannis " read " Johannes."
l&ttdtmanton,
The following is a list of the vicars of this parish before its
union with Sutton. The Abbot of Welbeck was patron up to the
dissolution of the monasteries : —
. W. de Bollesovre.
1310. Robert de Carleton. On the death of W. de B.
1322. William de Chesterfield, canon of Welbeck.
1326. Robert Aslakton, canon of Welbeck. On the resignation of W. de C.
1332. John de Sutton, canon of Welbeck. On the resignation of R. A.
1333. Hugo de Lincoln. On the resignation of J. de S.
1341. John de Warsop, canon of Welbeck.
1345. Hugo de Sothewell. J. de W. having accepted the vicarage of Whatton,
Yorbs.
1349. Ralph de Ekynton. On the resignation of Hugo.
. Walter Nonus.
1372. John de Gayteburton. On the death of W. N.
. John de Spounden.
1431. Richard Malcave. On the death of J. de S.
1434: John Walton. On the resignation of R. M.
1441. John Cely.
1444. Hugo Palden.
1478. Richard Mauser. Collated by the Bishop. On the death of H. P.
. Richard Wright.
1509. James Wilkynson. On the death of R. W.
1537. John Bollesover; patron, Oliver Dey de Mansfield, faber, by grant from
the abbot of Welbeck. On the death of J. W.
1546. William Thomlynson ; patron, Sir Francis Leake. On the death of J. B.
. Laurence Watson.
In 1558, Lawrence Watson resigns, and Sir Francis Leake, as
patron of both churches, thereupon applies to the Bishop to sanc-
tion the junction of the parishes of Sutton and Duckmanton, the
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vicarage of Button being also vacant at that time through the
death of Thomas Beryge. His petition, which is curious through-
out, states that he applies for this union — tarn occasione raritate
et paucitate presbiterorum quam ex eo quod utraque ecclesia predicta
fuit, proceeding to state that the annual value of Button was
£7 16s. 5d., and of Duckmanton £5. The episcopal sanction was
obtained on Feb. 20th, 1558, and it was therein enjoined on the
parishioners of Duckmanton to attend Button Church. *
The following is a list of the rectors and the subsequent vicars
of Tibshelf; the Convent of Brewood were the patrons in both
instances : —
EECTOKS.
1299. Robert de Corringham is made custodian of the sequestered church of T.,
until the next ordination.
1301. William de Weston.
1303. Stephen de Brewode, acolite.
1316. John de Bradeleigh. On the resignation of S. de B.
1318. William de Qonaleston (or Gonaldeston).
VlCABS. '
1327. William de Cauthorpe. On the resignation of W. de Q-.
. Symon.
1391. William, son of John, son of James de Pleseleye. On the death of S.
1424. John de Walton. On the resignation of William Jameson, i.e., the
previous vicar.
1428. William de Eyton, rector of Thorpe, Derbyshire, exchanges with J. de W.
vicar of Tibshelf.
. Michael Aubreson.
1437. William Chamburleyn. On the resignation of M. A.
. William de Appulby. On the resignation of W. C.
. William Webster.
1466. John Breylesforth. On the death of W. W.
1480. William Ryley. On the resignation of J. B.
1483. John ByrchiU. On the death of W. R.
. Thomas Vyes.
1513. Thomas Sherbroke. On the resignation of T. V., to whom was assigned
a pension, out of the vicarage, of two marks.
1537. Hugo Wilson ; patron, George Cuerton, by gift from the convent of
Brewode. On the death of T. S.
1542. John Buckeland; patron, the King. On the resignation of H. W.
1555. William Snowden ; patron, Sir Francis Leeke. On the death of J. B.
1575. Richard Parson; patron, Sir Francis Leeke. On the death of W. S.
1617. John Payne ; patron, Sir Francis Leeke.
* Lichfield Kegisters, vol. xv., ff. 23b, 24.
32
482 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1627. John Bayes; patron, the King; but, according to the First Fruits Books,
Francis, Lord Deincourt. On the resignation of J. P.
1629. Francis Tallents ; patron, Lord Deincourt.
. John Twentiman. He died Feb. 7th, 1683. Brass in Church.
1708. William Heald.
1735. John Edwards; patron, Lemuel Gladwin. On the death of W. H.
1753. Benjamin Burrow ; patron, William Burrow.
1768. William Webster; patron, William Alwood Lord.
1796. John Robinson; patron, William Alwood Lord.
1804. Thomas Webster; patron, William Alwood Lord.
1817. Ralph Heathcote; patron, William Alwood Lord.
1819. G. D. Goodyar; patron, John Cocking, trustee of the late W. A. L.
1849. Francis William Sharps ; patron, John Robert Sharpe, of Weymouth, by
purchase, for this turn only.
1874. Daniel Godfrey Bishop ; patron, Mrs. Packman.
The Registers date from the year 1627.
Page 386, line 7, for "north porch" read " south porch."
RECTOKS AND PATKONS.
1315. James Paynel; patron, Yprane de Rye.
. John de Preskwyk ; patrons, Christina de Rye, and Roberta, daughter of
Adam de Crydelung (?).
1336. John de Chesterfield; patron, Thomas de Goushull.
1341. William de Sutton; patron, Ralph de Rye. On the resignation of J. de C.
In 1364, W. de S. obtained a dispensation for a year's leave of absence, and
in 1367 he obtained a repetition of this favour at the Bishop's hands.
1385. John de Barley ; patron, Ralph Rye de Whitwell. On the death of W. de S.
. Thomas Hilton.
1392. John Hynkeley; patron, Ralph Rye. On the resignation of T. H.
1429. John Newerk; patron, Ralph Cromwell, de Cromwell and Tateshall, for
this turn.
1462. Henry Redych; patron, Sir Nicholas Longford. The Bishop commissions
the Archdeacon of Derby to inquire into this presentation, as the patronage
is disputed.
1464. John Harreson; patron, Ralph Rye, for this turn. On the resignation of
H. R.
1469. Thomas Pierpoint ; patron, Ralph Rye. On the resignation of J. H.
1486. John Mafeld. Collated by the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. On the
death of J. M. This presentation seems to have lapsed to the Bishop
through disputed patronage.
. Brian Sandeford.
1543. Robert Holme ; patrons, Edward Earl Derby, George Foljambe, and Thomas
Hollys. On the death of B. S.
1546. Brian Sandeford; patron, Bryan Rye, natural son of Ralph Rye, de Tyck-
hill. On the death of R. H.
1612. Tobias Waterhouse.
(1650). John Rowlandson. Parliamentary Survey.
1658. Joseph Swetnam; patron, Earl of Rutland.
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1662. Hugo Boham; patron, Earl of Rutland. On the resignation of J. S.
1663. Benjamin Camfeild; patrons, George Cartwright and William Clayton,* for
this turn. On the resignation of H. B.
1673. John Greaves ; patron, Earl of Eutland. On the resignation of B. C.
1690. John Beardmore ; patron, Countess of Eutland.
1698. Ludovicus Griffin; patron, Earl of Eutland.
1711. Henry Feltonjf patron, Duke of Eutland.
1736. William Smith; patron, Duke of Eutland.
1752. Richard Sutton; patron, Duke of Eutland.
1786. Charles Manners Sutton; patron, Duke of Eutland.
1792. William Thomas ; patron, the King.
1798. George King; patron, Duke of Eutland.
1831. George Mason; patron, Duke of Portland.
1851. Evelyn Boothby; patron, Duke of Portland.
1874. George Edward Mason; patron, Duke of Portland.
Sir Roger Manners, whose monument is in the north transept,
was third son of Sir John Manners, of Haddon, by Dorothy,
daughter and co-heiress of Sir George Vernon. He was knighted
at Theobalds, June 2nd, 1615.
Sir Stephen Glynn visited this church in 1850. He gives a
detailed account of its architectural features, from which we may
quote the opening sentence, which is a good summary : — " A
very interesting church, cruciform in plan, with western tower,
and aisles to the nave. The whole of the western portion is
Norman, not very early, but without much admixture. The
transepts are more mixed, and the chancel is chiefly Middle Pointed
(Decorated), of excellent character.
The Registers begin with the year 1672.
Page 391, line S, for " Fitzherbert " read " Fitzhubert."
Page 392 (twice), for " Gonshill " read " Goushill" ; for "Stretly"
read " Steetly."
Page 396, Hue 27, for "sive" read "five."
The following rectors and patrons of Steetley, when it was a
separate parish, are taken from the Lichfield Registers : —
. Alexander le Selere.
1348. Laurence dctus le leche de Weston in le Clay ; patron, William Vavasour.
On the death of A. le S.
* There are several memorials of the Clayton family in the church, 1666-1751.
f Dr. Henry Felton was also rector of Barwick, Yorks. On the death of John, first
Duke of Eutland, Feb. 23rd, 1711, he preached the funeral sermon, which, with
various other of his discourses, was afterwards published.
484 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1355. William de Nykale ; patron, Gregory Vavasure. On the death of Laurence
le leche.
1357. Robert de Lamley; patron, Gregory Vavasure. On the resignation of W.
de N.
1359. Robert Smtethton ; patron, Geoffrey Vavasour.
1370. Geoffrey de Alwaston ; patron, Anker de Frecheville. On the resignation
of R. S.
1373. Robert de Lammeley; patron, Anker de Frecheville. On the resignation
of G. de A.
1382. William Franceys ; patron, Anker Frecheville. On the death of E. de L.
1385. John de Bristowe; patron, Anker Frecheville. On the resignation of W. F.
In 1322, Bishop Eoger de Norbury issued a commission to the
Archdeacon of Derby and to the Dean of Scarsdale, to inquire
into the condition of the chancel, with its ornaments and books,
and of the rectory-house. They were to enjoin the late rector
(Eoger de Mabelthorpe) to repair pro quanta. At the end of the
same year the living was sequestered, owing to the rector having
abandoned his post. There are also other references to this
church in Bishop Norbury's Act Book. *
The following is a list of the rectors of Whittington, chiefly
from the Lichfield Eegisters. The patron has always been the
Dean of Lincoln, until recent legislation transferred the patronage
to the Bishop of the Diocese.
1302. Roger de Mabelthorp, deacon.
1313. John de Kaynes.
1315. Gilbert de Middleton. Dispensation for absence for study.
1332. Michael, son of John de Haynton.
1333. John de Scrobby. On the resignation of M. de H.
. John, son of William de Waynflet. On the resignation of J. de S.
. Richard.
1349. Roger de Walton. On the death of R.
1354. Ralph de Fynderne.
1369. Thomas de Lowedon. On the death of R. de F.
. John de Oxton. On the resignation of T. de L.
. Roger Cryche.
1412. Roger Shawe. On the death of R. C.
1432. Robert Deye.
1452. Robert Page. On the resignation of R. D.
1479. Robert Foljambe.f On the death of R. P.
. William Whalley.
* Lichfield Eegisters, vol. 3b, 4, 7, 12.
t This accounts for the former presence of the Foljambe arms in the west window
of the church, as mentioned on p. 408.
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1487. James Beresford. On the resignation of W. W.
1493. John Lytton. On the resignation of J. B.
. Walter Ireton.
1530. Nicholas Roberts. On the resignation of W. T.
1531. John Laurence. On the resignation of N. E.
1626. John Wolfindale. Buried June 29th, 1650. Parish Registers.
1650. James Hewitt. He died in 1685. Parish Registers.
1685. Thomas Callice.
1724. Thomas Astley.
1751. Samuel Pegge. Collated by the Bishop, through lapse of time.
1796. William Baker.
1798. Sherard Beecher.
1812. George Gordon. He was also rector of Muston, Notts.
1872. George William Botham. Collated by the Bishop of Lichfield.
The Parish Eegisters begin with the year 1642. There is a
blank between 1653 and 1660, when Godfrey Hounsfield was
parish registrar.
Page 407, line 8, for "or" read " on."
Page 407, line 3, for "Ftz" read "Fiz."
The following list of rectors and patrons qualifies what we
have said on pp. 415-17. The Priory of Thurgarton must, at an
early date, have restored the advowson to the lords of the manor,
probably for some material consideration.
1301. Richard Wormaton; patron, John Deyncourt.
1322. John de Hertestoft; patron, John de Eynecourt.
1332. Thomas de Byngham; patron, Eoger de Eyncourt. On the death of J.
de H.
1333. Walter, son of Oliver de Broghton; patrons, Roger de Eyncourt. On the
resignation of T. de B.
1349. John de Brayllesford ; patron, Roger Deyncourt. On the death of W. de B.
1360. Thomas de Longford; patron, Sir Nicholas Longford.
1369. William de Breydeston; patron, Robert de Roos de Ingmanthorp, as
lessee of the lands, etc., of William Cantilupe, for this turn. On the death
of T. de L.
1378. John Houbell; patron, Oliver de Barton, for this turn.
1416. Robert Kyrkman; patron, Dns Deincourt.
1429. Thomas Glapwell; patron, Sir John Bushie. On the resignation of R. K.
1461. John Braylesford; patron, Sir John Bushie. On the death of T. G.
1465. John Longford ; patron, Sir Nicholas Longford. On the resignation of J. B.
1475. William Bushy; patron, Sir John Bushy. On the death of J. L.
1494. Thomas Fitzherbert; patron, Sir Ralph Longford. On the death of W. B.
. Walter Wild.
486 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1517. Robert Hummondsey; patrons, William Blotmt Lord Mountjoy, Sir John
GySord, and John Porte, as guardians of Dorothy, Helen, and Anne,
daughters and co-heirs of Sir John Montgomery.
. William Cleybrough.
15S4. Richard Gwente; patron, Ralph Longford. On the death of W. C.
1543. Anthony Draycote : patron, Philip Draycote, for this turn. On the death
of R. G.
1544. Simon Thomson; patron, the King.
. Ralph Wenwright. Buried Nov. llth, 1578. Pariah Registers.
1578. John Cooke. Buried Sept. 27th, 1599. Parish Begisters.
1630. Anthony Topham; patron, the King. He was Dean of Lincoln.
(1650). William Barton. Parliamentary Survey.
1662. Richard Beresford; patron, Lord Scarsdale.
1695. John Lyllyman; patron, Earl Scarsdale. On the death of R. B.
1700. Matthew Powell; patron, Earl Scarsdale.
1710. . . : ; patron, Earl Scarsdale.
1739. William Burrow ; patron, Henry Ward, trustee of Nicholas Leeke.
1758. William Burrow; patron, Henry Bowne, for this turn.
1795. William Pagett; patron, Richard Collett.
1799. Henry Hankey; patron, Richard Collett. On the death of W. P.
1822. William Barrow ; patron, George Hodgkinson Barrow, of Chancery Lane,
London. On the death of H. H.
1826. Edward Walter Lowe ; patron, George Hodgkinson Barrow. On the
resignation of W. B.
1841. James Barrow.
1878. George William Darby; patron, Rev. James Barrow. On the resignation
of J. B.
The Lichfield Eegisters also record the institutions to the chantry
of the Blessed Virgin, within the church of S. Helen's, North
Winfield, of Thomas Tue, in 1489, on the presentation of Sir
John Babington and Ralph Savage, and subsequently of Thomas
Bromley, and John Ley, the patron in the last case being the
Prior of Newstead.
The grievous scandal of the day school of this parish (which
has the most wealthy church repair endowment, and the most
richly endowed rectory in the whole Diocese of Lichfield) being
held in the chancel chapel, amongst the Deincourt monuments,
to which we drew attention in 1875, still continues (February,
1879).
Of this most interesting part of the church, thus desecrated,
Sir Stephen Glynn, who was here in 1868, says: — "On the
north of the chancel is a Decorated chapel, now much out of
order, and occupied as a school. The arch to the chancel, now
closed, is on octagonal shafts. There are fair windows on the
north and east. In the east wall is what appears to be a
reredos of excellent Decorated work, in four arched compartments
— the two central the loftiest — with crocketted and finialed ogee
ADDENDA. 487
canopies. In the two central arches are figures of Christ and
the Virgin Mary in relief — in the others smaller figures of saints.
In the north wall is also an ogee canopied niche with foliation,
containing some sculpture, which probably represents the Annun-
ciation."
Page 417, line 29, for " Armigeri " read " Armiger."
The patron of the vicarage of South Winfield was always the
Abbot of Parley, up to the dissolution of the monasteries ; from
1733 it has always been the Duke of Devonshire.
1310. Robert de Bollesovre. Instituted 5 kal. of April, and obtained dispensation
to be absent at the court at Rome till the next feast of S. John Baptist.
1311. William de Hambury. On the death of E. de B.
1331. Roger de la Dale.
1336. William Benet. On the resignation of R. de la D.
1349. Gilbert Belidon. On the death of W. B.
1364. Henry de Wynnfeld.
. John de Loskowe. On the death of H. de W.
. John de Bawquell.
1422. John Ferrers. On the death of J. de B.
1429. William Duffeld. On the resignation of J. F.
1431. Robert Stopsor.
. Robert Langton.
1467. John Goytte. On the resignation of R. L.
. John Glossop.
1518. Richard Reve. On the resignation of J. G.
1536. Robert Burton. On the death of R. R.
1558. John Stevenson; patron, Anthony Draycote, by arrangement with the
lately dissolved Abbey of Darley. On the death of R. B.
1570. George Hall; patron, George, Earl of Shrewsbury. On the death of J. S.
1620. John Brooke; patron, John Brooke, de Oldfield. The parish Register
mentions John Brooke, as vicar, as early as 1585 ; perhaps he may have
been the father of J. B. who was instituted in 1620.
1630. Matthew Ewin ; patron, Christian, Countess of Devonshire.
1630. William Raive ; patron, Christian, Countess of Devonshire. On the resig-
nation of M. E.
1646. Peter Coates; patron, Christian, Countess of Devonshire.
1676. Barnabas Poole; patron, Earl of Devonshire. On the death of P. C.
1733. Thomas Grove; patron, Duke of Devonshire.
1736. Philip Fletcher.
1757. Thomas Grove.
1769. John Bourne.
1806. Launcelot Greenthwaite. On the death of J. B.
1813. Immanuel Halton. On the resignation of L. G.
1875. Frederick White Christian.
The Eegisters begin with the year 1585.
488 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
When Mr. Meynell was here, circa 1816, he noted in the
chancel, against the north wall, a sword, a helmet, and other
pieces of old armour.
The first register hook begins in 1540, and extends over more
than two centuries. It is of vellum, and in excellent preserva-
tion.
SECOND VOLUME.
From the different Act Books of the Lichfield Chapter,* and
from charters in their Muniment Boom, the following additional
particulars respecting Bakewell have been gleaned, which we
briefly record in chronological order.
A small undated charter, about 9 in. by 3 in., the ink as black
and the parchment as clean as if written yesterday, is the confir-
mation to the Chapter, by Bishop Alexander de Stavenby (1224-40),
of the impropriation of Bakewell and Hope, including a grant of
exempt jurisdiction.
Another undated deed is a lease of the rectories of Bakewell and
Hope to Henry de Lexington, in reversion to his brother, for £84
per annum. He was to provide three chaplains, or prebendaries,
for the church of Bakewell, according to the grant of King John.
Henry de Lexington was Dean of Lincoln from 1245 to 1253.
On Christmas Day, 1327, when the vicar and others were
ministering in the church, and about to celebrate the Divine office,
certain of the parishioners collected with tumult, and, arms in their
hands, seized the vicar, stripped him of his eucharistic vestments,
and ejected him from the church, though having full knowledge
that he was the prebendary, and then in possession as prebendary.
Further, that they cast the vicar also out of the churchyard,
and approaching the vicarage house, occupied it, as well as the
various possessions pertaining to the vicarage. All this is set
* See Introduction to this volume.
ADDENDA. 489
forth in a form of excommunication, in which the occurrence is
described as the "Rebellion at Bakewell," issued under the Chapter
seal on January 4th, 1327-8, on the complaint of Kobert Bernard,
the vicar of Bakewell. The greater excommunication against these
malefactors and sacrilegious persons, was ordered to be proclaimed
by the vicars of Hope and Tideswell, as well as by all the paro-
chial priests of Bakewell, Hope, Tideswell, Monyash, Chelmorton,
Harthill, Longston, Baslow, and Wormhill. There is no record as
to the reason of this riot, but if it was merely a protest against
the style of man sent them by the Chapter, we confess that the
subsequent conduct of Bernard, as it may be gathered from their
own Act Books, causes us to have some sympathy with the
parishioners, unseemly as was the nature of their protest. Robert
Bernard had been registrar of the Chapter for many years before
his appointment as vicar of Bakewell ; the first fourteen folios of
the earliest Act Book, beginning in 1321, are in his handwriting.
In the year following the riot, various complaints were made
against him by the Abbot of Leicester and the Prior of Lenton, for
non-payment of pensions to which they were entitled, and in the next
year he was accused, as chantry priest of S. Peter's, within Lichfield
Cathedral, of not having paid the stipulated sum to the poor on
the founder's day. In December, 1330, he was ordered to pay to
the Chapter £24, which he confessed to have embezzled, within
six days, under pain of excommunication. At the same time he
also confessed to having retained the poor's money of S. Peter's
chantry for four years, whereupon he was ordered to pay annually
20s., in addition to 20s. to the sacristan. In 1335 complaint was
lodged against him that he very seldom celebrated at the altar of
S. Peter — and then we lose sight of this fraudulent priest.
1330. Chapels of Monyash, Chelmorton, Baslow, and Longstone,
dependent on Bakewell, are all vacant ig the month of August,
owing to insufficient stipend. The Chapter votes 45s. per annum
towards their sustenance.
1348. For this year there is a very full Easter Roll, giving the
names of all the parishioners and the sums paid throughout
Bakewell parish and the whole of the Chapter's jurisdiction of
the Peak.
1356. Lease to William, vicar of Bakewell, of the farm of
Bakewell for five years, on a rental of five marks, with one mark
in addition for the tithes of grain and hay.
490 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1384. Short lease of the tithes of Bake well and its chapelries to
Sir Nicholas de Stafford.
1385. Robert de Wardelow, administr' eccf de Baukwell, handed
over to the parish church, a ferial vestment ; an albe with amice,
stole, maniple, and girdle ; and a fair chasuble woven with gold,
the gifts of John de Derby, dean ; and also a cope of silk,
embroidered with beasts (probably the Evangelistic symbols) having
heads woven in gold, the gift of John Mareys, canon.
1386. Licence to Robert de Wardelow, sub-proctor, to build a
sheepcote on the church land, to be his for his life, and afterwards
to pertain to the chaplains.
1388. Sir Thomas de Wednesley obtains lease of Bakewell tithes.
1389. The Chapter remits to Sir Thomas two marks per annum
out of the rental of twenty marks that he had covenanted to pay.
1393. The minerals of Bakewell leased to Stephen de Schaynton
for £20 per annum.
1415. John Dean, vicar of Hope, delivers the rental of lands and
tenements pertaining to the Chapter in Bakewell, Holme, Hassop,
Birchill, Monyash, Tideswell, and Hope ; the names of the tenants
and holdings are given in full.
1417. Sir Richard Vernon obtains a lease of all tithes of lead in
the Peak, in the jurisdiction of Bakewell, on a rental of two
fodders of lead per annum. The expression "jurisdiction of Bake-
well" covered the whole rights of the Chapter in the Peak, in the
parishes of Hope and Tideswell, as well as in Bakewell proper.
1418. Monition issued to the parishioners as to the repairs of
the church. They are to spend £10 over quoddam gabellum et unum
feretrum et alia emenda. The work specified was to be completed
by a certain date, under pain of a fine of £30 to the fabric of
Lichfield Cathedral. In all probability the gable and window
referred to were the west window and gable of the nave.
1481. Monition to the vicar of Bakewell to come into residence
within fifteen days, and to repair the vicarage.
1488. A long petition from the parishioners of Bakewell, Hope,
and Tideswell, about rate of Easter dues, etc. : —
" Also we desire that the vicar of Bakewell may be restored to all such
offerings tithes and other duties which be w'holden from hyme, as well of the
offerings due to hyme at the feast of Easter last passed, as of other at Buxstones
or at any other chapel within the seid parishe after Easter aforeseid or any other
time."
1493. William Kyrke, vicar of Tideswell, proctor and receiver of
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the Chapter in the Peak, made composition in the Chapter House,
before John Yotton, dean, etc., of £18. This entry headed Compotus
de Baukewell. In 1498 W. K paid in £47 23s. from Bakewell
cum membris.
1495. The number of fleeces of wool paid in to the receiver of
the Chapter, for tithe, arranged under the different townships and
hamlets of the Peak, are this year given in full. The total number
of fleeces that came to the share of the Dean and Chapter were
2,886£, giving a total of something under 30,000 of shearable
sheep within the "jurisdiction of Bakewell." The average price
per fleece was then a little over 6d.
1496. Grant of five marks to the vicar of Bakewell to repair the
vicarage house.
1503. The Easter Eoll for this year shows that the dues from
Bakewell proper were £3 17s. Id. ; but, including the chapels, the
total came to £12- 8s. 6d., from whence was deducted £4 to be
shared between the five chaplains of Monyash, Baslow, Taddington,
Longstone, and Beeley.
1522. On June 25th, William Button, chaplain of Bakewell, took
corporal oath of Dean and Chapter and also to Vicar of Bakewell.
On August 1st, Sutton, owing to a controversy between him and
the vicar, appeared again before the Chapter, and promised obedience
to the vicar on his word as a priest (in verbo sac dodo).
1524. A balance sheet of the Jurisdiction of Bakewell gives the
following details : —
£ s. d.
Tithes of corn and hay - ... 119 15 8
Receipts of mills -------- 214
Small tithes at Chapel-en-le-Frith - - - - 1 16 8
Pensions from different chaplains and granges - - 2 14 10
Rents in Hope - 4 2 10
Freeholds in Hope 1 17 OJ
Tenements in Tideswell - 2157
„ „ Over Haddon ------ 14
„ „ Monyash 7 4
Bakewell 707
Total £142 13 2*
1527. The farm of Bakewell glebe leased to Eichard Hotoii,
vicar, at 26s. 8d. per annum.
1531. The tithes of grain and hay of Bakewell, Eowsley,
Taddiugton, etc., leased to Sir William Coffyn for 20 years at a
rental of £37 16s. 2d.
1543. The tithes of Bakewell, Eowsley, Haddon, etc., leased to
Sir George Vernon and Margaret his wife and Margaret his
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daughter for their lives (which had belonged to Sir W. C. and
Margaret his wife), for a rental of .£44 9s. 6d.
1632, October 1st. John Rowlandson, vicar, official of the
peculiar and exempt jurisdiction of Bakewell, shall for the future
transmit all processes to the Chapter.
1649-50. The following is a short abstract of the Oliverian
Survey of the Cathedral property in the Peak : —
Tithes of •wool and lamb of the whole jurisdiction (except Harthill and
Hartwell), leased for 20 years, in 1640, to Sir Edward Leech of Shipley, at a rent
of £115, but have been worth over and above said rent £400. This year let to
Sir E. L. but for £300, "by reason theare is not soe great store of Sheepe in the
Kingdome as have beene nor not above one halfe kept at this Time in these
partes." Average worth of these tythes £450.
Tithes of grain and hay of Bakewell aud most of her chapelries, and of the
mills of Bakewell and Baslow granted in fee farm to Sir George Vernon in 1543,
now held by Earl of Rutland by right of marriage at rental of £37 16s. lOd.
Tithes of grain and hay of Baslow, in 1639, to John Rowlandson for 20 years,
at £4 per annum. " The curate hath some White Tithes * worth forty shillings
pr An' and nothing else to Live upon, but ye Gratuity of the Inhabitants."
Tithes of grain and hay of Tideswell Hill and Hargate Wall, in 1637, to
Richard Goodwin and James Ford, at £12 Is. 8d., but really worth on an
average £46.
Rents for mills at Brough, Buxton, Wormhill, Conksbury, Monsal Dale, Went-
holme, Sutton, Over Haddon, Woddruffe in Hope, Ashford, and Calver, 38s. 6d.
Rents paid as pensions from Baslow, Greenlow Grange, Harthill, Taddington,
Longstone, Monyash, Chelmorton, Fairfield, and Beeley, 48s. 6d.
All glebe lands, throughout the jurisdiction, granted, in 1549, to Ralph Gell of
Hopton, at rental of £16 3s. lljd.
Tithes of grain and hay of Tunstead, Gratton, Fairfield, Bubenhall, Chatsworth,
Chelmorton, Hope, Wormhill, etc., etc., in 1549, to Ralph Gell at a rental of
£43 2s. lOd.
Tithes of herbage, eddish, wood, apples, plums, pears, fish, rabbits, pigeons,
" ferrves " (? furze), heath, hops, cherries, honey, and wax, within the whole
jurisdiction, demised in 1640 to John Rowlandson, vicar of Bakewell, for 20 years,
at 3s. 6d. per annum, " payable att the feast of St Mathew onely or within four
dayes after the said feast, att the font in the Cathedrall Church of Leichfeilde,"
but worth 16s. 6d. more.
Tithes of grain and hay of Calver, Nether Padley, and Hucklow, to Rowland
Eyre, at rental of £91 6s. 8d., but now sequestered.
Tithes of grain and hay of Curbar, Froggat, Stoke, and Monsal Dale, in 1632,
to John Greaves of Beeley, the elder, for 20 years, at £4 13s. 4d.
Similar tithes of 'Little Longstone, to Rowland Eyre at 33s. 4d. ; of Aston and
Thornhill, to Barnard Wells at 38s. 4d. ; of Shatton, Offerton, Overton, Brough,
Abney, Abney Grange, and Bridwall, to Michael Bagshaw at £7 15s. ; of Litton
(and its tithe barn), to Peter Bradshaw at £27.
Tithes of grain and hay of Conksbury and One Ash Grange, to Earl of
Devonshire, at £26. The Commissioners query — " By what right ? " f
* Tithes of Milk.
t The right to the tithes of Conksbury came through Sir William Cavendish
obtaining grants of the possessions of the Abbey of Leicester, and of One Ash as
pertaining to Roche Abbey. See Churches of Derbyshire, vol. ii., p. 344. It was a
blunder of the Commissioners to note these places in a survey of the Cathedral
property, as they had never in any way pertained thereto.
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Tithes of lead ore, within the whole jurisdiction, near upon £1,000 per annum,
two parts to Countess of Devonshire, one part to Sir John Gell. Sir Francis
Leche used to have two parts from Lenton Priory, but the miners refused to pay.
After several suits, the miners acknowledged the right to be with the King.
" Immediately after the Countess of Devonshire begged it or bought it for a very
small matter of the late King." There was also a suit between Sir John Gell
and the miners, but he maintained his right and produced his lease. The late
Chapter Clerk told the Commissioners that the Cathedral authorities only under-
stood the lease to Sir J. G. to apply to lead under glebe lands, and were about
to commence suit against him, when they were dissolved. Hence the Commis-
sioners think that all the tithes of lead ore belong to the Commonwealth.
Of Bakewell's ten chapels, it is said that all of them are parochial, but " to all
is very small means or profitts to maintayne any Viccar or Curate." The
vicarage of Bakewell endowed with the small tithes of that township and the
Easter dues, valued at £10 per annum — " Mr John Rawlinson a grave and
reverend divine is Present Viccar of Bakewell."
The spiritual condition of the chapelries, and the account of Chapel-en-le-
Frith, Peak Forest, and Kniveton, is reserved until we are respectively treating
of those places.
The following is as complete a list of vicars as we have been
able to compile from the Chapter Act Books : —
1327. Robert Bernard.
(1337). "William de Snell. Mentioned in this year's Chapter Ads, but was probably
instituted in 1330. Living in 1356.
(1427). John Huckyns.
1428. Thomas Staundon. On the resignation of J. H.
1481. Thomas Hayward. In 1487 it was decided to deprive T. H. of his vicarage
for non-residence, but this decision must have been countermanded.
1493. Thomas Porte, Bishop of Achadensis (Aghadoe, Ireland). On the resigna-
tion of T. H. He was Canon of S. Petrox, Bodmin, and Prior of Stone,
Staffordshire. In 1492 he was appointed Suffragan of the diocese of
Coventry and Lichfield.
1494. William Massy. On the resignation of T. F.
1511. John Wilcock. On the death of W. M. Nominated by the Bishop, with
the express sanction of the Chapter. The Bishop, in a letter thankiug the
Chapter for allowing him to nominate Dr. Wilcock, hopes — " that he may
occupy such farmes as his predecessor had that so he may be of better
habilitie to kepe his horse (? house) and residence."
1512. Richard Hoton. On the resignation of J. W.
1533. Richard Gwent. On the death of E. H. Nominated by the Bishop, the
Chapter having granted the Bishop the next nomination in 1526.
1537. Edmund Webster. On the resignation of K. G.
. Hamlet Charlton. Buried Jan. 14th, 1614. Parish Registers.
1615. John Rowlandson. He was also Prebendary of Sandiacre.
1668. Christopher Lawson.
1672. Edward Smith.
1675. Thomas Wilson.
1678. Gorstelowe Monck. On the death of T. W. He was also rector of
Hamstall Ridware, Stafford.
1724. Thomas Grove. On the death of G. M.
1769. August llth. Richard Weston. On the death of T. G.
1769. December 1st. Richard Chapman. On the resignation of R. W.
494 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1816. Francis Hodgson. On the death of E. C.*
18—. Hubert Kestell Cornish.
1869. Edward Balston, Archdeacon of Derby. On the resignation of H. K. C.
The following names appear in the Chapter records as priests of
the chantry of the Holy Cross, within the church of Bakewell.
. Thomas de Holland.
1385. John de Bulkynton, vicar of the prebends of the collegiate church of S.
Mary de Pratis, Leicester, exchanges with T. de H.
1388. Hugo Aleyn. On the resignation of J. de B.
1391. John Randolf, rector of Paunton Magoa, exchanges with H. A. The com-
mission of the Bishop of Lincoln to present to the chantry of Holy Cross,
Bakewell, was exhibited at the Chapter, held August 18th, 1391. The
Bishop recites that he holds this patronage through the heir of Godfrey
Foljambe, who gave it to him.
1393. William Spyk, vicar of Mansfield, exchanges with J. E. On the nomination
of the Bishop of Lincoln.
. "William Townrowe.
1481. John Dikon. On the death of W. T.
1481. Charles Dedyk. On the resignation of J. D.
The last priest of the dissolved chantry, William Oldfleld,
obtained a pension of £Q from the Exchequer, in the time of
Philip and Mary.
An account of Bakewell Church, in Orme's New Buxton Guide,
published about 1820, mentions that there was the date 1019 on
one of the stone coffins in the churchyard, but the way in which
it is printed, " M 19," renders it very doubtful. It is there stated
that the inscription relative to the Foljambe monument, before it
was cut in marble by Mr. Watson, used to be "painted on oak,
which was gone to decay." Mention is also made of a large oak
chair with arms, said to be the Bishop's seat, " in the great
middle aisle, near the pulpit," as weD. as " six. seats formerly used
by the Friars, three on each side." The whole account is original,
and more worthy of attention than most of the old guide-book
descriptions. There is also a plate giving several details, one of
an old monument said to be on the south side of the church,
which is not now extant.
Page 15, line 2 of inscription, for "mititem" read "militem."
Page 16, line 12, for "1783" read "1383."
Page 23, line 8, for " Manners " read " Vernon."
* At a meeting of the Chapter, held Sept. 23rd, 1791 (S. Mary's, Lichfi eld, being
vacant), it was agreed by the Dean and four Canons Eesidentiary to draw lots for the
appointment to five of the Chapter livings! The Dean drew Chebsey; Canon
Egerton, Dilhorne; Canon Leigh, Cannock; Canon Inge, S. Mary's; and Canon
Madan, Bakewell. This method of disposing of a trust vested in the whole Chapter,
and solemnly affirmed by them at the time of institution to be their joint act, com-
mended itself so much to the members, that they further agreed, ou the same day,
to draw lots for the patronage of Hope, Tideswell, Eugeley, and Harborne, as they
became vacant.
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The Survey of the Chapter Estates, of 1650, says : —
" To the Chappell of Ashford noe Certain allowance, nor is there alt present
any Minister or Curate."
To the list of Derbyshire churches, given on page 51, wherein it
is known that Funeral Garlands hung within the present century,
may be added — Allestree, Elvaston, Findern, Mugginton, Stanton-
by-Dale, Taddington, Weston-on-Trent, and Wilne.
The Chapter Survey, of 1650, says : —
"To the Chappell of Baslow is no certaine allowance except what Tythes
worth com annis forty shillings. But what the people give onely of late the
like Augmentacion of Twentie pounds pr Ann'."
By a decision of the Chapter, dated July 18th, 1427, it was
decided that the inhabitants of Beeley were bound to contribute to
the repairs of the mother church.
The following is the report of the Survey of the Chapter
Estates, in 1650 :—
" The Chappell of Beeleigh hath only a stipend of Eight pounds yearely wch
is A gratuity of the Parishioners except of late some Augmentacon hath beeue
allowed out of the rent late paid by Sr Edward Leech to the late Deane and
Chapter. Mr Richard Shake is Curate of Beeleigh."
Page 67, last line but one, for "while" read "which."
Page 69, line 5, for "tertis" read " tertio."
Among the Chapter muniments is a bond from the people of
Chelmorton, dated 1273, wherein, on receipt of a grant, of a
chantry, chaplain, and burial rights for Chelmorton chapel, re-
serving proper dues to the mother church of Bakewell, they
stipulate to find a chaplain, to present him to the Chapter, to
496 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
maintain him, to fence in the cemetery, and to pay 4s. per
annum and all oblations to the Chapter as rectors. This covenant
is signed and sealed by William and Henry de Boukestones, Henry
Foljambe de Stanedon, Geoffrey Tichull de Kendale, Walter de
Sternedale, Henry son of Thomas de Chelmerdon, Henry " carpen-
tarius," Roger " frater eis," Nicholas sou of Nicholas de Chelmerdon,
and Balph son of Gamel, described as parishioners of Bakewell
church, residing at Chelmorton.
The Chapter Survey, of 1650, says: —
" To the Chappell of Chelmorton there is noe certaine allowance but gratuity
onely of late the like Augmentacon of Twentie pounds pr Ann'."
C. S. Greaves, Esq., Q.C., has given considerable attention to
the puzzling inscription on the eight sides of the font. (Plate
XXI.) In an exhaustive paper on the subject, he comes to the
conclusion that the first and third figures are sword hilts, symbols
of martyrdom, and that the 0 or circle between them is intended
for an emblem of the Holy Trinity. Taking the remainder as
initials, each standing for a word, he reads it thus : — " Salus est
baptisma Sancti Johannis martyris," i.e. " The baptism of S. John,
the martyr, is salvation ; " or, " Salus ex. baptismate Sancti Johannis
martyris," i.e. " Salvation (is) from the baptism of S. John, the
martyr."*
Eichard Eawson, the last priest of the suppressed chantry,
obtained a pension of £5 from the Exchequer, in the time of
Philip and Mary.
Page 92, inscription in the east window, for " Benedicite," read
" Benedicte."
The Duke of Eutland possesses a Bull of Alexander IV., with
the leaden seal yet attached, dated Viterbo, March 14th, 1258,
addressed to the Bishop of Coventry, setting forth that Eichard
de Herthull lived in a place remote from the mother church,
* See Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, vol. i.
(1879), pp. 1-14. For the loan of the woodcut we are indebted to the kindness of Mr.
Greaves.
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which at some seasons was inaccessible, that he had already a
chapel 011 his own laud, and desired to have a chaplain to serve
therein, for whom he was prepared to provide fit support. The
matter was therefore referred to his diocesan to grant the necessary
license, if he should deem it expedient.*
lu an early number of Notes and Queries it is stated : —
" On Hartle (Harthill) moor a chapel still remains, although of much later
date than that mentioned in the above named document (Alexander's Bull);
traces of an earlier erection are however still visible in a portion of the present
foundations. It is now used as a barn." f
Page 96, the words "in Warwickshire," line 11, should follow
the word 4iPooley," line 10.
The Chapter A.ct Books give the following institutions to the
chantry of the Blessed Virgin, at Monyash : —
. William Thornbull.
1393. Henry Alysaundro, rector of S. Peter's, Rossau (Rhosfair), Anglesea, ex-
changes with W. T., chaplain of Holy Cross, Bekwell.
1396. John Alot. On the resignation of H. A. Patron, William Meynell.
1397. William Mon. On the resignation of J. A. Patron, William Meynell. In
1415, William Mon granted to the Dean and Chapter an acre of land, with
the buildings standing on it, in the town of Monyash. The Chapter
appointed John Dean, vicar of Hope, to take possession of the same in
their name.
. William Sheladon.
1503. Thomas Smyth. Mandate issued to the parochial chaplain of Monyash to
induct T. S. into the chantry.
1509. William Gudwyn. On the dismissal of T. S. Mandate to W. Massy, vicar
of Bakewell, to induct him.
154i. Michael Bredwall-t On the death of W. G. Michael and Thomas Sheldon,
de Oneashe, are at the same time bound in a sum of £15 for M. B.'s due
obedience to the Chapter.
The Chapter Survey, 1650, says: —
" To the Chappell of Monyash there is noe certaine Meanes but of late an
Augmentacon of Thirty pounds out of the late Deane and Chapter's rent due
from Sr Edward Leech."
* Archceological Journal, vol. vii., p. 297.
f N. and Q., 1st Series, vol. vii., p. 185.
J Michael Bridewell (Bred wall) obtained a pension of i'4 13s. 4cl. from the Exchequers
in the time of Philip and Mary.
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498 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
In 1345, the Chapter granted to the people of Taddington to
have a cemetery at their chapel, which was to be consecrated and
maintained at their cost. All rights were reserved to the mother
church, including a pension of 2s., and an offering of 6d. on the
high altar at Bakewell on the dedication festival, just before the
celebration of High Mass. The bond given by the residents at
Taddington to the Chapter is sealed by twenty-three parishioners.
Chapter Survey, 1650, says : —
" To the Chappell of Taddington there is noe certain Meanes but the gratuity
of the people, and of late an Augmentacon out of the rent paid by Sr Edward
Leech of Twentie pounds pr Ann'. Mr Miller is Minister there."
Page 116, in the inscription, for "March" read " Martii."
Castlcton.
The rectorial tithes of Castleton, including the whole of the
tithes of gram and hay of the lands then under cultivation, were
first formally appropriated to the abbey of Vale Royal, in 1302,
when a vicarage was regularly ordained.* In the following list of
vicars, it must be understood that the patron, up to the time of
Henry VIII., was in each case the Abbot of Vale Royal, and
subsequently the Bishop of Chester, until legislation of the present
reign transferred the patronage to the Bishop of the diocese : —
1307. William de Essheborn.
. Dns. Walter.
1346. William de Clyfton.
. Dns. Ralph.
1352. Richard Marion.
1358. William de Hope.
1362. Thomas de la Peke.
. William de Ryley.
1386. Adam de Barowe. On the death of W. de E.
1389. William Pryden. On the resignation of A. de B.
1396. Geoffrey Halghes. On the deprivation of W. P.
. Giles Claybroke.
1440. Thomas Tayleor. On the resignation of G. C.
1450. William Tailleor. On the resignation of T. T.
1492. Robert Mookson. On the death of W. T.
(1535). Edmund Goldesmyth. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
* Lichfield Episcopal Eegisters, vol. i., f. 25b.
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1546. John Wymmursley (or Wylmesley) ; patron, Milo Speucer, executor of
Thomas Langton, by arrangement with the lately dissolved abbey of Vale
Regis.
1553. Hugo Eyre ; patron, George Wylmesley, through lease of the »ectory to him
by the Bishop of Chester. On the resignation of J. W.
157-t. Thomas Savage; patron, Helen, widow of George Wylmesley, for this turn.
On the death of H. E.
1627. Isaac Ambrose; patron, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, per lapse.
1631. Lawrence Castle ; patron, John, Bishop of Chester. On the resignation of
I. A.
1650). Samuel Cryer. Parliamentary Commission. Episcopally instituted in 1662.
1697. Richard Hewytt. On the death of S. C.
1698. Thomas Roe. On the resignation of R. H.
1723. Edward Bagshaw.
1769. John Muschamp Dover. On the death of E. B.
1775 Francis Herbert Hume. On the death of J. M. D.
1780. Frederick Farran. On the resignation of F. H. H.
1818. Charles Cecil Bates. On the death of F. F.
1853. Hugh Ford Bacon. Collated by the Bishop of Lichfield. On the death of
C. C. B.
1871. A. S. Prior. Collated by the Bishop of Lichfield.
John Wymeslowe, alias Savage, the last chaplain of the sup-
pressed Hospital of Castleton, situated half-way between Castleton
and Hope, obtained a pension of 70s. in the reign of Philip and
Mai-}'.
In 1523 Michael Browne, Thomas Bagshaw, and the parishioners
of Chapel en-le-Frith, decide that William Bagshaw and the vicar
of Youlgreave are to arrange for the tithes to be paid to the
Chapter of Lichfield within eight days.
The Survey of the Chapter Estates, taken in 1650, mentions
here a little piece of land called "Deane's Yard," and half an
acre near to the churchyard " where some parte of faire hath used
to be kept," having on it an old stone house, valued at 40s. per
annum. Also a rate, paid time out of mind for tithes of corn
and hay, of £13, out of which to the Dean and Chapter (or Earl
of Devonshire) £8 13s. 4d., and £4 6s. 8d. to the minister. Some
say that the Earl of Devonshire claims this two-thirds by grant
from the late Dean and Chapter, but others through the dissolved
priory of Lenton ; no deed of purchase produced. The small
tithes, valued at £6 8s. 4d. per annum, also claimed by the Earl.
' ' There is no other meanes belonging to the minister except the
peoples gratuity." The Earl of Devonshire gathers two parts of
500 DERBYSHIRE CHURCH KS.
the tithes of wool and lamhs, and Sir Edward Leech the other
third, by virtue of a lease from the Dean and Chapter.
" The present minister is Mr William Oliver. The right of Presentacon and
donacou is in the parishioners (as they affirme) and hath been so beyond all
memory of man : The Manner of Electon is thus — Twenty Seaven of the Cheife
of the Inhabitants or the Maior pte of them chuse their minister and the rest are
all to subscribe by auntieiit Custome which still they observe,"
IBalc.
The reason given in the Episcopal Eegisters for the consolidation
of the three medieties of Darley rectory into two, which was
effected on May 29th, 1393, is because of the deterioration of
property, "propter pestilencias et sterilitates successivas et insolitas," to
which the parish had been subjected, so that the three rectors
were scarcely able to keep life within their bodies, to say nothing
of the accustomed duties of their position.
The following is a list of the numerous rectors of this parish : —
THREE RECTORS.
. Walter de Foderingye.
1300. John de Brentingham. On the resignation of VV. de F.
1304. Nicholas de Kinelworth. On the resignation of J. de B.
]313. Henry de Berleston. Dispensation for a year's absence for study.
. Marmaduke de Horunngwode.
1316. Thomas de Ledenham. On the resignation of M. de H.
1317. Elyas Ponger.
1325. Thomas de Podenham.
1329. William - — .
1332. John de Mellon.
1333. John de Scrubby. Resignation of J. de M.
. John Leghe.
1340. Robert de Haynton. On the resignation of J. L.
1341. Thomas Colyn de Cressyngham. On the resignation of R. de H.
. Elyas Ponger.
1347. William de Baliden, rector of Nuthall, Yorks., exchanges with rector of
mediety of Darley.
1343. Robert de Asshburne. On the death of Henry (de Berleston).
1349. Thomas, son of John Fotjambe. On the resignation of W. de B. Re-
instituted in the following year.
. Richard de Brokesburn, acolite. On the death of R. de A.
. William Bulneys.
1350. Nicholas del Welde On the resignation of R. de B.
1351. William de Bradewell. On the resignation of T. F.
1361. Thomas Hunte. On the death of W. de B.
1369. Henry Spencer, prebend of All Saints', Derby, exchanges with T. H.
rector of mediety of Darley.
. Richard de Fentresper (?).
1372. John de Bynbroke. On the death of R. de F. Collated by the Bishop,
through lapse of time.
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1374. Robert Attelowe, rector of Fenny Beiitlcy, exchanges with Henry Spencer,
rector of mediety of Darley.
. Nicholas Atteweld.
1381. William Avoner. On the death of B. A.
1382. Thomas de Bekyngham. On the death of J. de B.
. John Barber.
1388. Richard del Hay. On the resignation of W. A.
. Richard Sence. On the resignation of J. B.
1390. John Wyrkesworth. On the resignation of T. de B.
1391. John de Sebyston. On the resignation of E. S.
Two BECTORS. — SOUTH MEDIETY.
1406. Robert de Kybbeworth. On the resignation of J. de S.
1412. Robert Duffleld. On the resignation of R. de K.
1422. Robert Stronge. On the resignation of B. D.
1425. Richard Whitelombe. On the resignation of B. S.
. William Pylkynton.
1432. 'John Ronynton. On the death of W. P.
1469. Thomas Jakson. On the resignation of J. B.
. Richard Balle.
1514. Richard Rollisley. On the resignation of B. B.
1531. Robert Gamson. On the death of B. B.
1576. Richard Smithe. On the death of B. G.
1629. James Holland. Collated by the Bishop, through lapse of time ; but the
First Fruits Books say, presented by the King, for the same reason.
1639. Nov. 26th. John Pott; patrons, Henry and Bichard Moore.
1647. Edward Payne. Be-instituted in 16G2; patron' the King; but, according
to the First Fruits Books/ the Dean of Lincoln was the patron.
1665. Davii Llewellynn.
1671. John Edwards.
1639. Richard Innett.
1691. Stephen Masters.
1694. Henry Aldrich. On the death of S. M.
1720. John Garmston.
NOBTH MEDIETY.
1407. Henry Scoortrede. On the resignation of R. de H.
1424. William Hulyn. Ou the resignation of H. S.
1427. William Wethurby, diet' Derby.
1429. John Lawe. On the deprivation of \V. W.
1444. John Chapman. On the resignation of J. L.
. Richard Johnson. On the death of J. C.
1474. John Northampton. On the death of R,. J.
1497. Stephen Surtas. On the death of J. N.
1508. Walter Day.
. William Cretyng.
1547. Christopher North ; patrons, Sir Henry and William Sacheverell, by grant
from the Dean. On the death of W. C.
1552. Martyn Lane. On the death of C. N.
1573. William Pollard. On the death of M. L.
1610. Feb. 14th. John Pott. On resigning the South Mediety.
1672. Thomas Mossley.
1685. John Edwards.
1689. Samuel Garmston.
1691. April 26th. Stephen Masters.
1691. June 5th. Henry Aldrich.
1720. John Garmston.
502 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
ONE RECTOH.
1744. Thomas Savage.
1764. Sir William Ulithorne Wray. On the death of T. S.
1808. Benjamin Lawrence. On the death of W. U. W.
1838. Richard Lee. On the death of B. L.
1847. Daniel Vawdrey.
Since our second volume was published there has been a further
restoration and refitting of the church.* One of the chief features
of this alteration is the replacement of the old Norman font within
the church, after having been for some years in a garden at
Ashford, as mentioned on p. 154. It has a small circular bowl,
with four rounded mouldings rising to the rim, like the stoup at
Boulton (Plate VII). This font was removed some four centuries
ago to make way for a Perpendicular font of rather unique con-
struction. The latter font is now placed in the vestry. A third
stone coffin, of a small size, evidently for a child's interment, has
been dug up in the churchyard, as well as one or two more
fragments of incised slabs.
A large fragment of an upright Saxon cross, with some bold
and rude carving on it, of much the same character as the Bake-
well cross, has been discovered.
The foundations of a building, of far older date than any part
of the present fabric, were found under the nave, about three feet
below the surface. These foundations diverged considerably from
the line of the pillars of the nave arcades, being due east and
west — the present church being a degree north and south of that
direction. The material was rubble, but the cement so hard that
the stone could be far more readily broken. Unfortunately we
did not see the foundations when uncovered, but from accurate
descriptions that have reached us, and from the observations of
archaeologists on the subject of the mortar used in Anglo-Saxon
masonry, we are inclined to think that these remains more likely
pertained to the Romano-British temple that stood (as we have
already seen) on this site, rather than to an early church. But
we express this view with some diffidence.
Page 163, note 2, for "corpora" read "corpus."
Page 164, line 10, dele "hie;" line 11, for " predicti " read
" predicta."
Page 170, line 7 from bottom, for "Hensor" read " Hedsor."
* The rector desires us to state, which we most willingly do, that the whole cost of
the recent works connected with the church, including an addition to the churchyard,
and amounting to the sum of i'3,000, was munificently borne by Mr. William Roberts,
who left this valley some fifty years ago a poor lad. Laus Deo.
ADDENDA. 503
Sir Stephen Glynu visited the old church in 1857. He says : —
" It consists of a nave with aisles, chancel, west tower, and south porch. The
aisles have diagonal pinnacles at the angles. The aisles and porch have good
battlements. The arcade on each side of the nave consists of two wide pointed
arches; on the north the column Early English, circular, with capitals of rude
early foliage; on the south the pillar is octagonal, and in the wall of the east
pier is an oblong opening. The chancel arch is pointed with plain mouldings.
At the east end of the south aisle is a two-light square-headed window of Deco-
rated character; there are two others of like character in the chancel, also some
square Elizabethan ones with transoms. The east window, of three lights, is
debased. In the east gable is a bell niche. The interior is whitewashed and
blocked up by ugly pews. At the west end is an organ. The east wall of the
chancel is occupied by a huge tomb, throwing the altar out of its proper place
and reaching quite to the roof ; on it a recumbent figure and a skeleton, and a
figure of Fame. The tower is modern, embattled and pinnacled."
Sir Stephen also took notes of the new church in 1870. Some
of the details he criticised, such as the clerestory, which he says
was an afterthought, and "the effect not very happy," but he
describes the church, as a whole, as " a very handsome and satis-
factory structure."
Page 182, lines 8 and 9, for "son" and "grandson" read
"nephew" and " great -nephew."
In the year 1300, Roger de Wyne, dean of Tarn worth, was given
the custody of the church and rectory of Eyam, on account of the
insufficiency of the rector.*
To the list of rectors given on pages 190, 578, add — Thomas
Davy, instituted in 1516, on the death of Willliam Webbe, and
Peter Chevor, instituted in 1534, on the death of T. D.
Sir Stephen Glynn, who was here in 1864, before the church
was restored, says : — " A poor church, mutilated and ill-cared for
the interior is sadly disfigured by hideous pews and
galleries -there is one gallery with an organ across the chancel
arch."
The altar slab of one of the side altars was found during the
" restoration " of this church. The spirit of irreverent Puritanism
was so strong that it was no sooner found than broken up.
* Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. i., f. 23.
504 DKRBYSHIKK CIHIRCMKS.
Iii the following list of vicars the patron has not been named in
the pre-Reformation institutions, as it was always the Abbot of
Basiugwerk : —
1321. John de Overa.
1336. Richard de Boterton. On the death of J. de O.
. William.
1349. Thomas de Meynell. On the death of W.
1362. Robert de Rossyndale.
. Simon Wagstaffe.
1408. Nicholas Button. On the death of S. W.
1416. William de Hyndeley.
. Thomas Swyfte.
1439. Geoffrey Bagshawe. On the resignation of T. S.
1467. William Waynwright. On the death of G. B.
1494. John Talbot ; patron, John Talbot, Roman legate, by leave of the abbot
of Basingwerk. On the death of W. W.
(1535). Thomas Poynton. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
1551. Ralph Bower; patron, Francis, Earl of Shrewsbury. On the death of T. P.
1574. George Yeaveley ; patron, George, Earl of Shrewsbury. On the death of
R. B.
1620. Robert Cryer ; patron, Thomas, Earl of Arundel.
1662. John Sandiforth; patrons, Hon. Henry Howard and another
1673. William Wagstaffe. Collated by the Bishop, through lapse of time.
1682. Robert Wagstaffe; patron, Duke of Norfolk.
1721. John Earnshaw; patron, Lord Frederick Howard.
1728. William Goddard ; patron, Robert Goddard.
1766. Christopher Alcock ; patron, Marquis of Rockingham.
1781. Thomas Staceye ; patron, Marquis of Rockingham.
1792. John Bowman ; patron, Earl Fitzwilliam.
1793. Christopher Howe; patron, Earl Fitzwilliam.
1849. Alexander Thomas Grist Manson; patron, Earl of Ellesmere.
1857. Gilbert C. Jackson ; patron, Earl of Ellesmere.
1865. John Dickenson Knowles ; patron, Lord Foley.
Sir Stephen Glynn took a few notes of this church in 1849,
before the tower or chancel had been rebuilt. He says : —
" Of the pnrish church little of the original work remains but the steeple,
which is a low tower of good grey stone, finished by a heavy broach spire ; the
latter has two tiers of spier lights ; the west window is Third Pointed (Perpen-
dicular) of three lights, but the steeple may perhaps be earlier ..... The chancel
is ancient, and has on the South a Norman doorway with toothed ornament and
corbeled hood. There are double First Pointed (Early English) lancets on the
north and south, and a triplet at the east end. The chancel arch is low and
pointed, perhaps original."
ADDENDA. 505
There was considerable dispute, towards the end of the fourteenth
century, with regard to the patronage of this rectory. For a time
it was taken from the Priory of Launde, but eventually restored ;
and finally the tithes were appropriated to the priory, about 1405,
and a vicarage ordained, the prior remaining its patron up to
the dissolution of the monasteries. When episcopal consent was
obtained for the appropriation of the rectory, it was covenanted
that a pension of 40s. should be paid to Lichfield Cathedral.*
The patronage of the vicarage has been in the hands of the
Cavendish family since the time of Edward VI.
RECTORS.
. Thomas de Billesdon ; patron, Prior of Launde (the same down to 1381).
1306. Gilbert de Binera. On the resignation of T. de B.
1312. Nicholas de Derleye. Collated by the Bishop.
1318. John de Ayleston, sub-deacon. Dispensation for absence for study.
. Richard de Querndon. On the resignation of J. de A.
. Roger de Barlbrough.
1328. John de Halghton.
1349. Robert de Walkelyn. On the death of J. de H.
1360. Peter de Cottesmore.
1361. William de Lynden.
1381. William Alwold de Brentyngby; patron, Roger Colmon de Lichfield, for
this turn. On the death of W. de L.
1382. Richard de Brentingby, rector of Colston Basset, Yorks., exchanges with
W. A., rector of Hathersage; patron, Robert Colmon de Lichfleld.
1390. Thomas Downe, canon of Launde. Collated by the Bishop, through lapse
of time.
1393. May 17th. Peter Waryn. Collated by the Bishop, through lapse. On the
death of T. D.
1393. August 1st. William Selby; patron, the King, by leave of Pope Boniface.
On the resignation of P W.
1394. Richard Skelton; patron, prior of Launde, to whom the benefice had been
restored by the Bishop's Commissai-ies. On the resignation of W. S.
1395. John Beresford; patrons, Robert Oudeby, parson of the church of Stanton
Wynylt, and Thomas Oudeby, de Stoke. On the resignation of R. S.
VICABS.
. John Rolf; patron, the prior of Launde.
1422. John Masson, vicar of Wirksworth, exchanges with J. R., vicar of Hather-
sage.
1438. John Stede. On the death of J. M.
1442. Thurstan Eyre. On the resignation of J. S.
. Robert Hullay.
1535. Ralph Barker. On the death of R. H.
1543. Thomas Harryson ; patron, Nicholas Bayle, de Chesterfield, by arrange-
ment between him and the lately dissolved priory. On the death of R. B.
* Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. vii., ff. 180-7.
506 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1547. William Haxall; patron, the King. On the death of T. H.
1627. Robert Clarke; patron, William, Earl of Devonshire.
. John Kelsall.
1663. John Walker; patron, Earl of Devonshire. On the resignation of J. K.
1703. Alexander Hambleton ; patron, Duke of Devonshire.
1713. Balph Sleigh.
1728. Michael Burton.
1739. Charles Hadfield.
1788. Henry Lomas; collated by the Bishop through lapse of time.
1796. John le Corner.
1844. Henry Mussey. On the death of J. le C.
1847. Henry Cottingham. On the resignation of H, M.
185 . Thomas Stevens. On the resignation of H. C.
1865. C. S. Cutler.
Among the Chapter muniments is an undated charter, whereby
Bishop Geoffrey Muschamp (1198-1315) grants to the Chapter of
Lichfield 20 marks per annum, for providing wax for the tapers,
out of the rectory of Hope and its chapelries ; the charge to
become permanent at each vacancy of the mother or daughter
churches.
There are also extant the full rolls of a parochial visitation of
Hope, of the year 1345, giving the names, church payments,
offences, etc., of every parishioner.
In 1530, a brawl occurred in the church of Hope. It was
certified to the Chapter on February 15th, on the oath of Otwell
Bamford, curate of Hope, Nicholas Smyth, and Helia Staley, that
Eobert Eliot maliciously struck Edmund Eliot on the nose, before
the altar of S. Nicholas,* and that blood was effused upon the
altar. To this Eobert confessed, whereupon the Chapter appoint
Canon Edmund Stretehay to act as their commissary. He orders
Robert Eliot to submit to (corporal) punishment, kneeling before
him. The Bishop's Chancellor was also informed of the circum-
stances, and he inhibits the curate from celebrating in the church
of Hope until episcopal " reconciliation " t had been obtained. On
the 4th of the following May, the Bishop, having in the meanwhile
caused an inquisition to be held at Hope as to the circumstances,
removes the interdict, and the services are resumed.
* Edward Eyre, of Hope, by his will dated May 6th, 1559, left his body to be
buried " in the Parish Church of Hope in sainte Nicholas quere." Reliquary, vol.
viii., p. 61.
t See the previous account of a somewhat similar case of defilement from shedding
of blood in the church of S. Werburgh's, Derby.
ADDENDA. 507
The Survey of 1650 values the vicarage at £27 per annum.
" There is Two Chappells within the Parish of Hope but noe
certaine Maintaynance for a Minister nor noe preaching Minister
in them."
The following list of vicars is chiefly taken from the Chapter
Act Books : —
. Richard Forester.
1395. John Dean. On the resignation of R. F. Pension granted to R. F. of
27 marks out of the fruits of the Vicarage.
1425. Richard Walkeden. On the death of J. D.
William Kyrke.
1487. William Bagshawe. On the death of W. K.
1529. Thomas Lowe. On the death of W. B. To be inducted by Thomas Brad-
well, Chaplain of Hope.
1532. Nicholas Haye. On the death of T. L. Robert Comberford was first
instituted on the death of T. L., but he does not seem ever to have been
inducted, or to have really held the benefice.
(1565). Edmund Burton. A dispensation granted in this year, by the Archbishop
of Canterbury, to E. B. to hold the vicarage of Hope, together with the
rectory of Ibstock, Lincoln. This dispensation was confirmed by the
Queen. *
1605. William Leadbeater.
1671. John Simpson.
. James Creswell.
1722. Thomas Hayes. On the death of J. C.
1732. Thomas Wormald ; patron, the King, through the lapse of time. — First
fruits Office Books.
1764. Benjamin Bond. On the death of T. W.
1783. Charles Buckeridge. On the death of B. B.
1789. Richard Buckeridge. On the resignation of C. B., " he having accepted
two livings."
1791. John Baptist Proby. On the resignation of R. B.
1804. Stephen Hartley. On the resignation of J. B. P.
1814. John Ibbotson. On the resignation of S. H.
1843. Wilmot C. B. Cave.
1856. C. J. Daniel.
1871. Henry Buckston. On the resignation of C. J. D.
Sir Stephen Glynn visited this church in 1841. After a few
architectural remarks, he adds : — " In this church found a funeral
of a young man, killed in the mines, when a hymn was sung at
the churchyard gate, and also within the church after the lesson."
One of the two chapels in Hope parish, mentioned as standing
in 1650, would undoubtedly be Fairfield, and the other was perhaps
the chapel of Grindlow, or Grindlow Grange, originally built by
the Austin Canons of Lilleshall. But it is equally probable that it
may have been the chapel of SHALCROSS, in the township of
Fernilee, in this parish. A list of parishes and " chapels dependent
* Chapter Act Books, vol. iv., f. 31.
508 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
on them," in the High Peak, drawn up by the Earl of Shrewsbury
about the close of Elizabeth's reign, specifies three in Hope parish,
viz., " Feyrefylde, Grenlow, and Shalcrosse."* The once prominent
family of Shal cross, of Shalcross, had a chapel attached to their
manor house, which subsequently came to be regarded as a semi-
parochial one for that district. Richard Shallcross, temp. Edward
II., is described as chaplain of Shalcross. It seems to have been
never used after the time of the Commonwealth.
Among the Lichfield muniments is a grant of the year 1331,
from the chapter to the people of Fail-field, Wolflow, and Pigtor,
of a right to have a chantry, within the chapel of Fairfield, served
by their own chaplain, and to use the cemetery there, subject to
their supporting the chaplain and presenting him to the Chapter,
and also on condition of fulfilling all the claims of the mother
church of Hope • and its vicar, and of paying 2s. per annum to
the Chapter as an acknowledgment. The charter has nineteen
seals attached to it. The Act Book of about the same date shows
that the inhabitants of Fairfield made inquiry, previous to entering
into this agreement, of the Bishop, whether the chapel and ceme-
tery had been duly consecrated ? They were answered in the
affirmative.
Page 272. The almshouses used to stand on the south side of
the churchyard, now used as a kitchen garden. A good deal of
the material of the old church was used in the rebuilding of
Dakin's house.
The survey of the Chapter property, 1649-50, says: —
"Wee find that the Forest in the Peake in the County of Derbye lyeing and
being within the Jurisdicion of Bakewell is of large extent And within few yeares
much of it inclosed, And verie fruitfull land, and likely to bee yett more
improved : On which att this day many good sheepe are kept And much very
good Corne growing. The said Forrest being inhabited by many J'amilyes and
scattering houses, scituate lying and being in severall p;trrishes pte thereof in
Hope, pte in Tidswell, pt Chappell in Lea Frith, als Bodeu, etc. But is noe
* Talbot Papers, College of Arms, N. 279.
ADDENDA. 509
Parrisli of itselfe nor hath any Chappell. The Tythes of Corne and hay (besides
wooll and Lamb Leased to Sr Edward Leech) ariseing and growing within the
Compass of the said Forrest wee conceive wee cannot Value, as now they are,
Lesse worth to bee lett than One hundred pounds per aun."
All these tithes had beeu granted in 1640 to Geoffrey Glasier,
the Chapter clerk, on a 20 years' lease at a rental of 3s. 6d., but,
on a surrender by him in the following year, the Chapter demised
them to John Shalcrosse, of Shalcrosse, and John Beetland, of
Thornecliffe, for 20 years, at 40s. per annum. Shalcrosse and
Beetland covenanted with the Chapter to defend the tithes against
the Earl of Devonshire's claim, but the Commissioners report that
no trial has come off, that the Earl receives the tithes, and that
the lessees have not paid any rent for seven years.
A handsome new church, a little to the west of the old building,
the gift of the Duke of Devonshire, was consecrated on All Saints'
day, 1878.
Page 277, note. In addition to the chapel of Peak Forest,
there are five dedications to Charles, King and Martyr, viz., one
at Faknouth, one at Tuubridge Wells, two at Plymouth, and the
chapel of Newton, in Wem, Salop.
Page 280, Iiii3 14, for "procurato" read "pro curato."
The following is the most perfect list of vicars that we have
been able to compile ; it is chiefly taken from the Chapter Act
Books : —
1254. Alan de Suceby.
1359. William de Hanley.
. John de
1364. Henry de Aston, rector of Carsiugton, exchanges with John de , vicar
of Tideswell.
. John Aleyne, alias Yoxhale.
1413. William Holmesfteld, rector of Llauvihangel, exchanges with J. A., vicar
of Tideswell.
(1493). William Kyrke.
(1501). Edmund Eyre.
1544. Arthur MevereU. On the death of E. E.
1547. George Cokke. On, the resignation of A. M.
(1560). William. Feildsend. Witness to the Foundation Charter of the Pursglove
Grammar School.
. Christopher Fulnetby.
1634. Nicholas Crosse. On the death of C. F.
1639. Ralph Heathcote. — Parish Registers.
510 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1662. Lawrence Brierley.
. Magister Jepson.
1680. Joseph Creswicke. On the death of M. J. Patron, the King.
. Richard Unett.
1691. Daniel Totty. On the resignation of B. U.
1695. John Allen. — Parish Registers.
1719. Adamson Kenyon. — Parish Registers.
1735, Edward Markland.
1776. William Stephenson. On the death of E. M.
1778. Richard Shuttleworth. On the resignation of W. S.
1796. Thomas Browne. On the death of R. S.
1837. John Kynaston.
1855. William Moxon Mann.
1858. William Humphrey Vale.
1864. Samuel Andrew. On the death of W. H. V.
The Chapter muniments include a considerable number of charters
and documents relative to their extended and diverse disputes with
Lenton Priory, as to the tithes of the Pescrel domains. In
addition to particulars already given,* we find, in the year previous
to the general compromise of 1252, a report from the Archdeacon
of S. Alban's to the Pope, detailing his failure to settle the dispute.
He therein recites the failure of a previous commission, consisting
of the Abbots of Burton and Bocester and the Prior of Kenilworth.
The dispute at that time chiefly affected the parish of Tideswell,
and special mention is made of the land tilled by Thomas Daniel
and Roger Foljambe, of the town of Wheston, and of the open
fields of Wormhill and Tunstead.
In 1493, William Kyrke, vicar of Tideswell, proctor and receiver-
general of the Chapter throughout the Peak, paid in £18 at
Lichfield. In 1498 he paid in £47; and various other compositions
are entered in the Act Books.
In 1501, John Staple was admitted before the Chapter to the
chantry of the Blessed Virgin within the church of Tideswell,
vacant by the death of John Benet. A mandate was issued to
William Massy, vicar of Bakewell, to Edmund Eyre, vicar of
Tideswell, and to John Grene, chaplain, to induct him into corporal
possession. Christopher Synderby and Christopher Lytton, the two
priests of this chantry at the time of its suppression, obtained
pensions of £5 each from the Exchequer in the time of Philip and
Mary.
John Sanderby, of Tideswell, obtained in 1509, a twenty years'
lease from the Chapter of all the rectorial houses and glebe lands
of Tideswell, at a rental of 26s. 8d.
* See the account of Chapel-en-le-Frith, vol. ii., p. 141, as well as under Fairfield
and Tideswell.
ADDENDA. 511
In 1529 Hugh Meverell and others, in the name of ah1 the
parishioners of Tideswell, petition the Chapter for the personal and
continual residence of the vicar, in accordance with a composition
by which it had been agreed that the vicar should exercise sacra-
mental functions in person, and have in addition one priest and
one sub-deacon ; but the vicar had shown letters of dispensation
of Pope Leo X. for non-residence. The Chapter decided that the
vicar should be held discharged from the composition during his
absence, but that they should hold him bound during that time to
find two priests and a sub-deacon.
The next presentation to the vicarage was granted by the Chapter,
in 1543, to Ealph Sudde and Thomas Fane.
The earliest register book is from 1634 to 1676, but is in many
places quite illegible from damp.
Sir Stephen Glynn, who was here in 1845, gives a long archi-
tectural description of the church. Of the woodwork he remarks —
" Between the nave and chancel is a good wood screen of Perpen-
dicular character .... The chancel has the original stalls for the
clergy with wood carved desks before them."
Pages 300 and 301, for " Bampton " read "Brampton."
Page 304, line 23, for "memomeris" read " memineris."
Page 306, line 18, " Dormitory " may be only an affected word
for " cemetery " ; the two words are etymologically synonymous.
SSiormtjrtl.
Sir Stephen Glynn was here in 1861, three years before the
rebuilding of this fabric. He says : —
"A small coarse structure of rough limestone, comprising nave and chancel, a
small western steeple, and south porch. The only remarkable feature is that the
chancel occupies nearly half the whole length. The east window has three plain
lancets, doubtful whether original ; the other windows of the chancel bad modern
Gothic. Those of the nave are square-headed and debased. The south porch is
wholly of stone and covered with flags. The outer doorway has the date 1746.
The inner doorway seems to be Early English, having a hood and impost. The
steeple is odd, and probably not ancient ; it is narrow, not filling up the west end
of the nave, has rude slit-like openings, and a saddleback roof, the gabled sides
being east and west. There are no buttresses. There is a chancel arch, pointed
and chamfered, on octagon corbels. The interior is full of pews and obstructed
by a gallery. The font wretched and small."
512 DERBY.SHIRE CHUKCHKS.
ITottlgrcabc.
The following list of vicars is chiefly taken from the Episcopal
Registers at Lichfield, supplemented by the registers of the parish.
Up to the Reformation the patron was the Abbot of Leicester, and
since that time the advowson has been uninterruptedly in the
Cavendish family.
1312. William de Billesden.
1312. Hugo de Lekebourne. In 1325, Hugo appeared before the Bishop's Com-
missary to protest against the pension of 18s. exacted from him by the
Lichfield Chapter; hut his appeal failed.*
1341. Nicholas de Dranfeld, vicar of Barkely, Lincoln, exchanges with II. de L.,
vicar, Youlgreave.
1350. William de Hexuldesham. On the resignation of N. de D.
1352. Bichard de Harthull. On the resignation of W. de H.
. John de Appleihorpe.
1370. John de Segyngton. On the resignation of J. de A.
. William Hoggeson.
1442. William Fox. On the death of W. H.
1456. Roger Wryght. On the resignation of W. F.
1480. William Smethley. On the death of E. W.
1508. Hugo Hevppen (or Heape). On the death of W. S.
. Hugo Heyre (or Eyre).
1546. John Wyison ; patrons, Andrew Lowe, Anthony Lowe, and John Sache-
verell, by arrangement with the lately dissolved Abbey of Leicester. On
the death of H. H.
1551. Richard Knyveton; patron, the King. On the resignation of J. W.
1581. Hugh Mann; patron, Sir William Ckven<lish.
1605. Thomas Swetnam; 1621, Stephen Moore; 1647, Edward Pole; 1650,
Samuel Coates ; 1655, John Gilbert ; 1663, William Bromsgrove ; 1665,
Thomas Palfrey man; 1666, Thomas Wilson; 1674, John Jacques; 1683,
John Edwards; 1685, Jonathan White; 1700, Edward Moore; 1720,
Francis Revell; 1729, Edward Meymott; 1770, Robert Barker; 1797,
Charles Stead Hope; 1802, Benjamin Pidcock; 183-5, Richard Coke
Wilmot ; 1840, Robert Pennyman Hull ; 1842, Robert Matthew Milne ;
1856, William Buck well ; I860, Stephen Ray Eddy; 1865, William
Malam; 1871, Richard Clarke Roy.
Richard Machyn, the last priest of the suppressed chantry of
Our Lady, obtained a pension of £4 from the Exchequer in the
time 'of Philip and Mary.
Page 329, line 10, for "superadict" read " supradict'."
Page 331, line 13, for "Eslton" read "Elston," now written
Aylestoue.
Chapter Act Book, Ashm. MSS., 794, f. 14.
ADDENDA. 513
The following is a complete list of vicars from 1300 downwards;
the Dean of Lincoln was in each case patron, until legislation of
the present reign conferred the advowson on the Bishop of the
diocese : —
1300. Thomas de Welleton.
1310. Robert de Stoke.
. Robert Ible.
1333. John de Lenton. On the death of R. I.
1349. Roger de la Dale. On the resignation of J. de L.
1361. William de Newenham.
1362. William de Exton.
1363. John de Hylle. On the resignation of W. de E.
1364. William Newenham.
1371. Hugo de Montgomery, who exchanges the rectory of Newport, Salop, with
W. N.
1373. Richard de Thrumley. On the death of H. de M.
1379. Thomas Brouster. In the following year the vicar exchanges with the
priest of Kynassey's Chantry, Lichfield Cathedral.
1394, William Borgh; 1394, William Melton; .Nicholas Derby; 1408,
William Dalton ; 1408, Roger de Knyveton; 1410, William Dalton; 1410,
William Newerk ; , John Sutton ; 1431, Richard Rode ; 1433,
Thomas Derby ; , Richard Forde ; 1439, Adam Wetton ; 1453, John
Clark ; 1470, John Northampton ; 1497, Stephen Surtas ; 1500, Henry
Hudson; , William Tykhill; 1526, Robert SachevereU; (1535),
Laurence Horobyn ; , Christopher Hauke ; 1564, William Bythinge ;
1566, Robert Hurte ; (1650), William Wayne ; 1660, Thomas Browne ;
1669, Thomas Goodread; 1702, John Manson; 1705, Nathaniel Boot-
house; 1717, Abraham Peacock; 1719, John Boydell; 1731, Luke
Hutchinson; 1749, John Fitzherbert; 1772, William Webb; 1806,
Samuel Shipley ; 1850, John Richard Errington ; 1872, Edward Marsham
Moore ; 1876, Alfred Olivier ; 1878, Francis Jourdain.
In 1490, John Northampton, vicar of Ashbourn, stating that he
was not able to live honestly or exercise due hospitality owing to
the smallness of his stipend, petitions the Dean of Lincoln to
allow the rectory of Carsington, then vacant, to be united to the
vicarage of Ashbourn. His prayer was granted, and the two
benefices were formally consolidated by the sanction of the Bishop,
on September 27th.* But on the death of Northampton, in 1497,
the benefices were again separated.
Thomas Daukyn was the first chaplain of the Kniveton
chantry, being instituted in 1393, on the presentation of the rector
* Lichfield Episcopal Registers, vol. xii., f. 80.
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514 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
of Norbury. Thomas Russell, the last priest of this chantry,
obtained a pension of £4 in the time of Philip and Mary.
The following institutions to the chantry of S. Oswald, founded
by the Bradbourns, occur in the Episcopal Eegisters : —
1484. Christopher Puce ; patrons, John and Ann Braclbourn.
1509. Robert Hasilhurst; patron, Humphrey Bradbourn. On the death of C. P.
1540. Thomas Stone ; patron, Humphrey Bradbourn. On the death of E. H.
1542. Edward Bennett ; patrons, William Bradbourn, Thomas Leghe, and Philip
Bennett. On the resignation of T. S. Bennett obtained a pension of £5
from Queen Mary.
The will of Anne Kniveton (15 Henry VII.) makes mention of
the Bradbourn chantry at the altar of S. Oswald, and speaks of
the " revestre " where the coffer with three keys containing the
endowment deeds, etc., was kept. We have but little doubt that
the small doorway discovered in the north chancel wall (pp. 379,
380) led to this vestry or sacristy.
William Hurte, by will of 1520, left his body to be buried by
his wife beneath the font in Ashbourn church.
The restored chancel was opened July 5th, 1870. Various
fragments of undoubted Norman mouldings, the only relics of the
original church, were discovered during the progress of the works.
A portion of a Saxon cross was also found. On removing the
rubbish at the east end of the chancel, the Reliquary, which
formed the receptacle for the relics under the High Altar, was
brought to light. It is now placed in the Cokayne chapel.
Page 365, note 1, dele " quasi."
Page 369, line 21, for " Eichard II." read " Eichard III."
Page 382, 1st note, line 8, for " (2) " read " (7)."
Page 387, last inscription, for "Dorothea" read "Dorothea."
Page 888. The composite altar tomb here mentioned is in the
north transept, or Cokayne chapel. The anomaly has now been
rectified by the removal of the coat of Jane Sacheverell to the
north wall of this chapel, below the monument, whose inscription
is given on page 391.
Page 394. The 5th bell of the old peal is now the 8th bell at
All Saints', Derby.
ADDENDA. 515
Thomas Parker was intituted to this chantry in 1528, on the
presentation of John and Anne Bradbourn, the vacancy being
caused by the resignation of Richard Eeve. Parker obtained a
pension of 20s. in the time of Philip and Mary.
Page 413, line 12, for " connendacion " read "coinendacion."
The rectors were always presented by the Dean of Lincoln, until
legislation of the present reign transferred the patronage to the
Bishop of the diocese.
1304. John de Brentingham.
1315. Ralph de Brancingham. On the resignation of J. de B.
1341. William de Riseley, rector of Kirkby Boliugbroke, exchanges with R. de
B., rector of Bonsall.
1349. William de Kersington. On the death of W. de R.
. John de Adderley. On the resignation of W. de K.
1361. Nicholas Russell.
1370. Simon Romayne, rector of Bluntisham, exchanges with N. R., rector of
Bonsall.
1378. Hugo de Pyrton, vicar of Grantsden, exchanges with S. R., rector of
Bonsall.
1379. Thomas Nicol, rector of Woodham Walter, Essex, exchanges with H. deP.,
rector of Bonsall.
1381. John de Allorwaslegh, rector of Buddesden, Rochester, exchanges with
T. N., Rector of Bonsall.
1387. William de Monyassch, vicar of Duffield, exchanges with John Birchover
de Allerwaslee, rector of Bonsall.
. Henry Mapulton.
1440. John Mason. On the resignation of H. M.
1446. Richard Walker. On the resignation of J. M.
. Willam Orell.
1472. Ralph Calcroft. On the resignation of W. O.
1509. John Maltby.
1511. Walter Day. On the resignation of J. M.
(1535). Thomas Lillylowe. Valor Ecclesiasticus.
1546. Robert Heywood. On the death of T. L.
1554. William Smithe ; patron, Thomas Granger, yeoman, by sanction of the
Dean of Lincoln. On the death of R. H.
1628. Edmund Franke ; patron, John Manners, by concession of the Dean of
Lincoln.
(1656). Edward Pole. — Parliamentary Commission.
1697. Goddard Knighton ; 1708, Elias Farnworth ; 1716, John Tatham ; 1734,
Edward Willes ; 1736, William Mason; 1744, Samuel Speed; 1748,
516 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Bobert Eddowes ; 1754, Thomas Jones; 1763, Samuel Hanson; 1781,
James Hadley Cox; 1795, Robert Greville ; 1827, Thomas Still Basnett,
1833, Eden Septimus Greville; .Isaac Bickerstaff; 1872, Samuel
Blackburne; 1874, John Kitchingman.
Page 423, line 21, for "obii" read "obiit."
Bratrfcoum
Up to the dissolution of the monasteries, the patron of this
vicarage was the prior of Dunstable, the vicars being almost
invariably canons of that priory. From 1646 the patronage has
been in the hands of the Cavendishes, though the last appointed
vicar was collated by the Bishop owing to lapse of time.
1299, Geoffrey de Merston ; 1311, William de Wederore; 1316, William de
Bohun; 1324, John de Lychtegne(P); 1331, John de Adington; 1335,
William Beneyt de Bracyngton; 1336, Roger de la Dale, Vicar of S.
Winfleld, exchanges with W. B., Vicar of Bradboum; 1350, John de
Boresholt (?) ; 1365, Thomas Lewis; 1371, John de Eversholt; 1382,
William de Shalyngton ; 1398, John Aston ; , John Pabenham ; 1445,
John Godfrey; 1471, John Bedford; 1476, William Lane; , John
Barrett; 1540, Thomas Swetnam; patron, John Feusan de Dunstable, by
concession of the lately dissolved Monastery of Dunstable ; , Richard
Brighte ; 1572, James Humbleton ; patron, Thomas Knyveton, for this
turn, by consent of Elizabeth Sentloe ; 1632, Luke Bacon, patron, Henry
Trueman ; 1646, John Burton, patron, William, Earl of Devon; (1650),
Thomas Myles, Parliamentary Commission; 1661, Samuel Triekett ; 1668,
Richard Ensor ; 1669, John Hopkins ; 1691, Robert Getliffe ; 1748, John
Savage; 1764, Thomas Roe; 1803, George Buckston; 1827, German
Buckston ; 1361, Edward Josiah Hayton ; 1878, Francis Crombie.
Page 433, line 27, "This glass still remains" should follow the
word " wife," three lines above.
Brassmgton*
Thomas Charlton, by will dated April 17th, 1535, leaves his body
to be buried in the " Churche of Sent James " at Brassington.
Emott Charlton, by will of the same year, leaves 2s. to John
Barrett, vicar of Bradbourn, and 2s. to " John Crychelow preyste
of Brasfington."
Carstngton,
The Deans of Lincoln have always been patrons of this rectory,
until legislation of the present reign transferred it to the Bishop
of the diocese.
ADDENDA. 517
. William del Bough.
1311. Hugh de Warkenham. On the death of W. del B.
1314. John de Keynes, sub deacon. Granted the custody of the sequestered rec-
tory on the Feast of S. John the Baptist, but instituted to the beutvfice on
July llth.
1315. John de Campana, acolite. On the resignation of J. de K. He obtained a
dispensation for absence for study, and was admitted to all the sacred
orders at the same time.
1317. Adam de Hasulbech.
1322. Simon de Brantingham.
1345. Nicholas de Kersington.
1350. Henry de Aston, or Assheton. Collated by the Bishop.
1364. John de vicar of Tideswell, exchanges with H. de A., rector
of Carsington.
. Roger Cressegh.
1384. John de Molynton, chaplain of Eynsham, Oxford, exchanges with R. C.,
rector of Carsington.
1387. William de Hungton. On the resignation of J. de M.
. Robert Yvesson.
1395. John(P) Smythe. On the resignation of R. Y.
1421. Richard Whitecombe, rector of Kedleston, exchanges with Richard (?)
Smythe, rector of Carsington.
1425. William Caldebek. On the resignation of R. W.
1425. William Todehede. On the resignation of W. C.
1426. John Coup. On the resignation of W. T.
1428. Symon Turner. On the resignation of J. C.
1429. Thomas Porter. On the resignation of S. T.
1451. Richard Smythe. On the resignation of T. P.
1465. Robert Parker.
1490. John Northampton, vicar of Ashbourne, who on the death of R. P. ob-
tained leave to unite the benefices.
1497. Thomas Wynby, in the person of Robert Darlyngton, his proctor. On the
death of J. N.
1506. Henry Justes. On the resignation of T. W.
1515. Hugo Sheldon. On the resignation of H. J.
1563. Thomas Haydocke ; patrons, William and John Sclater, by leave of the Dean
of Lincoln. On the death of H. S.
1623, Richard Carrier ; 1638, William Thorpe ; (1650), John Oldfleld ; 1662,
Robert Stones ; , Malin Harrabim ; 1688, Nathaniel Boothouse -,
1704, Samuel Brough; 1717, William Bladon ; 1762, Ellis Farnworth ;
1763, William Bladon; 1798, Benjamin Laurence ; 1808, John 'Parsons ;
1826, John Gordon ; 1927, Thomas Smith ; 1832, Henry Barrows Chinn ;
1859, Francis H. Brett.
Btntlcg.
This rectory was in the gift of the Deans of Lincoln, until
legislation of the present reign transferred it to the Bishop of the
diocese.
Robert Malet ; 1316, John de Hall; 1318, Richard de Hasilbech; 1349,
Henry Scharp ; 1361, Roger de Balliden ; 1362, Robert de Attelowe ;
518 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
1374, Henry Spencer; 1375, John de Bentley; 1381, William de Sche-
peston; 1382, John de Mapulton; 1393, Adam de Newbyggyng; 1423,
John Jurdan, patrons, the Abbots of Darley and Dale, for this turn ; 1432,
James Fouljambe; 1432, Simon Ambulford; 1443, Robert Curry; 1446,
Roger Bryde, alias Wodehouse ; 1503, Ralph Shawe ; 1508, Wilh'am
Feme; 1527, Walter Irelond ; (1530), Stephen Bynney; 1561, Nicholas
Bamford, patron, Henry Bynney, husbandman, by leave of the Dean ; 1564,
R. Nedehame, patron, Aden Beiysford, by leave of the Dean ; , Bar-
tholomew Griffin ; 1639, John Hall ; 1642, William Bott, ejected during
the Commonwealth, but replaced at the Restoration; (1650), James Hol-
lingshead— Parliamentary Survey; 1702, William Hardestry ; 1707, Charles
Hardestry ; 1747, Matthew Pilkington ; 1766, William Langley ; 1796,
Abraham Bennett; 1799, George Row; 1816, George Gordon; 1821,
Jervase Brown ; 1842, Garton Howard ; 1877, E. J. Hayton.
Page 464, line 13, for " Bafford " read " Basford."
The Abbess of the Minoresses was patron of the vicarage up
to the dissolution of the monasteries. Since 1693 the patronage
has been in the hands of the Cavendishes.
1298, Alexander de Wighton; 1316, Richard de Wyturbi ; 1335, William de
Newton ; 1349, John, son of John de Assefordby ; 1375, Richard Attehull ;
, Adam Webster; 1429, Henry Coke;* 1439, Robert de Greveye ;
1488, Roger Fynney (or Freney); 1492, Humphrey Woodshawe; 1499,
Richard Chessher; 1500, Richard Cockys, alias Thomlinson; 1509,
William Bray; 1528, Richard Comberford, by letters of dispensation from
Thomas, Cardinal, on account of being under canonical age ; (1535), Robert
Moreton— Valor Ecclesiasticus ; 1541, Gervase Alen, patron, Francis, Earl
of Shrewsbury ; (1650), Thomas Honeye, Parliamentary Survey; 1651,
William Naden; 1693, Thomas Alkin, patron, William, Earl of Devon-
shire; 1704, Thomas Johnson; 1751, Joseph Meller; 1755, John Bullock ;
1789, Benjamin Hope; 1815, William Davison; 1827, Walter Mather
Ward; 1855, Augustus Wirgman; 1875, James Hardy Andrew.
Page 476, line 5, for "Abbeys" read "Abbess"; line 3 from
bottom, for " inscised " read " incised."
Page 490, line 5 from bottom, for "1652" read " 1659.'
* Chaplain of chantry of SS. Nicholas and Katharine, at Crich ; see the previous
account of that church.
ADDENDA. 519
Hfrit Breton.
All the following rectors were instituted on the presentation of
the Deans of Lincoln, except the last three, who were collated by
the Bishop of the diocese, the patronage having been transferred
by recent legislation : —
, Henry de Luda; 1315, John de Sowerby; , John Weld; 1387, Roger
Tolthorpe ; , Richard Alferton; 1405, John Lund; , William
Hulyn ; 1424, Henry Scoretrede ; 1448, Robert Parker ; 1465, Richard
Smith ; 1483, Richard Smyth ; 1535, Robert Townrow ; 1544, Thomas
Swetnam; , Richard Tailor; 1572, Edward Bennett; 1605, Richard
Spicer ; 1647, Peter Watkinson ; (1700), Mr. More— Parish Register ; 1717,
Nathaniel Boothouse; 1718, Henry Green; 1749, William Wheeler;
1765, John Gough; 1809, John Challoner; 1815, George de Smith
Kelly; 1824, Robert Gordon; 1828, Henry Gordon; 1854, Robert Gell;
1870, J. P. Lloyd; 1875, William Hombersley.
IXmbcton.
In 1823 Dns Henr' presbiter poch' de Kniveton obtained from the
Lichfield Chapter permission to farm the rectory of Kniveton for
five years, for the first two years at 14 marks, and for the
remainder at 16 marks per annum ; but he sought and obtained a
release from this engagement within the same year.
In 1337 the Chapter enjoined the newly appointed vicar of
Bakewell to see, on his advent to his living, that Hugo the
proctor repaired the church of Kniveton. Kniveton was for several
centuries considered to form part of the peculiar jurisdiction of the
Peak, and was extra- episcopal.
On October 24th, 1424, Thomas Alynson, farmer of Kniveton
rectory, submits himself to the Chapter on account of his neglect
in finding a proper chaplain for administering the sacraments and
sacramentals in the church of Kniveton. He was fined 40s.
towards the repair of the fabric of the church, half to be paid on
the feast of S. Chad, and half on the feast of S. John Baptist.
On the same day the Chapter appoint two custodians of the
church, Roger Anabell and John Brown, to receive the said fine.
On the feast of S. Chad, 1490, the Chapter vote 20s. to Thomas
Olde for repair of the manse and other houses pertaining to
Kniveton rectory.
In 1509 Christopher Olde, chaplain of Kniveton, obtains the
520 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
rectory farm on a twenty years' lease, including a manse called
"le parsonage place," and two other houses, at a rental of 40s.
On February 16, 1544, the Chapter gave a cope of yellow silk to
the church of Kuiveton for the use of the chaplain ; three years
later it was inventoried by the Commissioners of Edward VI.
The survey of the Chapter Estates, 1649-50, states, with respect
to the lease to Thomas Gell in 1549, that " there is a covenant
that the Lessee shall beare all charges ordinary and extraordinary,
to doe all repairacons to the Church of Kniveton, and to pay the
Curate of the said Church." In a further description of the
spiritualities, it is stated that "the parish of Kniveton is a
Viccaridge to which there is only the white Tythes belonging
worth (as wee be informed) about Twenty pounds." There seems
to have been then no minister, and the Commissioners sarcastic-
ally insert in their report — " Faith corneth by hearing, but how
can they heare without a preacher ! "
Page 508, 2nd line of note, for " first " read " second."
This rectory was in the gift of the Deans of Lincoln until legis-
lation of the present reign transferred it to the bishop of the
diocese.
1299, Ralph de Cressi; 1348, John de Cresey; 1364, Nicholas de Benteley;
1377, William de Thokeby; 1391, William de Eyton; 1428, John Walter,
vicar of Tibshelf , exchanges with W. de E., rector of Thorp ; 1432, William
Shebynton ; 1442, Richard Garrarde ; 1452, William Watteson; 1466,
Thomas Jakson; 1469, Robert Midylton; , Thomas Smyth; 1527,
Thomas Lillylowe ; 1530, Adam Prowdelowe ; 1557, Richard Porte ; 1633,
Francis Topham ; 1717, Henry Lee ; 1722, William Portal ; 1734, Thomas
Dane ; 1737, Thomas Winder ; 1766, Nathaniel Kurd ; 1774, John Lloyd ;
1819, Robert Gordon; 1824, Benjamin George Blagden; 1860, John
William Kewley; 1872, William Kynaston Groves.
The following we believe to be a complete list of the vicars of
Wirksworth : —
(1272), Nicholas de Oxton, the first vicar; 1275, William Godman; 1299,
Robert de Bradborn, obtains leave of absence to go to Rome; 1313, Milo
de Leicester ; 1326, John de Hake ; 1349, Robert de Derbi ; , Robert
de Irton ; 1362, Robert Spondai ; , Thomas Castelton ; 1397, John
ADDENDA. 521
Sotheren; 1410, Bartholomew Lyburgh; , John Masson; 1422, John
Rolf; 1432, Thomas Eyton; 1487, Richard Smyth; 1504, James Beres-
ford; 1520, Anthony Draycott ; 1560, John Hibron; 1577, Michael Harri-
son; 1608, Tobias Stoyte; 1618, William Parker; 1619, Richard Caryer ;
1633, Robert Topham; (1650), Martin Topham; 1660, Peter Watkinson ;
1662, Thomas Browne; 1689, William Browne; 1705, Richard Willis,
patron, Matthew Wotton, for this turn ; 1714, John Inett, patron, the King,
for this turn, "per promotionem," d-c.; 1718, Thomas Inett; 1744, Thomas
Harris; 1778, Richard Tillard; 1787, Richard Kaye; 1790, John
Chaloner; 1815, Qeorge de Smith Kelly; 1824, Henry Gordon; 1831,
William Edward Nassau Molesworth; 1831, John Harwood; 1851,
Thomas Tunstall Smith.
Ealph Home, the last priest of the suppressed chantry of the
Holy Kood, obtained a pension of £5 from the Exchequer, in the
time of Philip and Mary.
Page 555, line 1, for "obitt" read " obiit."
Pages 558-9, inscription to Anthony Gell, for "jurisp" read
" jurisq " ; for " ob " read " o " ; for " mor " read " mox " ; for
"sit" read "sic"; for "lave" read "labe"; and for "insors"
read " insons."
Page 563, line 6 from bottom, for "1872" read "1702."
Ctomfottr.
Page 571. Henry Talbot, fourth son of George, Earl of Shrews-
bury, was by the Earl's first wife, Gertrude Manners ; he had no
issue by " Bess of Hardwick."
THIRD VOLUME.
Kalph Corke and William Fisher, the last priests of the sup-
pressed chantry of Boyleston, each obtained a pension of 64s.
from the Exchequer in the time of Philip and Mary.
Page 17, first note, for "town" read "term."
Page 22, last line but one, for "1814 " read "1844."
522 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Eector William Greaves was a younger son of John Greaves, of
Beeley. All the family were staunch royalists. He married Jane,
daughter of Sir William Kniveton. He was ejected from his living
by the Parliament in 1646, John Crompton, lecturer of All Saints',
Derby, being appointed in his place. A fifth part of the income
of the benefice, in this case £15, was paid yearly by Mr. Crompton
to Mrs. Greaves "for the maintenance of herself and her children."
Mr. Greaves died before the restoration, and Crompton was ejected
in 1662 to make way for Eichard Love. Crompton, though
refusing to conform, was a decided royalist, and suffered from
joining in a premature attempt to secure the king's return.*
Page 42, line 22, for " Aston " read " Ashton."
Page 43, line 2, for " Eici Baron" read " Johis Buron."
Page 57, note 8, for "Manual" read " Memorial."
Page 63, line 10, for " Griffiun " read " Griffinn " ; and for
"Bates" read "Bate."
Page 74, line 21, for " Hippax " read " Kippax."
Page 75, last line but one, for "place" read "plate."
Add to list of vicars, Eandolph Marriott, 1810 ; see page 88.
Page 103, second line of Latin inscription, for " monitur " read
" moritur."
Page 107, last line but two, for " Tutbury " read " Dalbury."
Page 109, line 3, for "an inj unction " read "a writ."
* See an interesting account of John Crompton in Calamy's Ejected Ministers,
vol. ii., pp. 531-7.
ADDENDA. 523
Page 112, line 12, for "tutissimo" read " tutissimus " ; line 22,
for " Eoyalists " read "Commonwealth"; line 24, for " Noti
infami " read " Notingami " ; second line of verses should read —
" Cedant arma togse, concedat laurea linguae."
Eichard Holme, the last priest of the suppressed chantry, ob-
tained a pension of £6 from the Exchequer, in the time of Philip
and Mary.
Sir Stephen Glynn, who visited this church in 1849, noted on
the south side of the chancel, " three long lancets, with connected
hoods, and a third pointed lychnoscope (low side window) of two
lights."
Page 122, Sir Thomas Milward's epitaph, for " conjunctur "
read " conjunctas " ; and for " Hoe " read " Hoc."
Page 123, last line but one, for " V. T." read " Ut."
Page 130, line 4, for "vestry" read "rectory."
Page 139, fifth line from bottom, for "illumina" read "illuminat."
Page 141, entry of year 1694, for "demorsus" read " demersus."
Thomas Haidocke, the last priest of the suppressed chantry,
obtained a pension of £4 from the Exchequer, in the time of
Philip and Mary.
Page 146, extract from the registers, for " de ultimo" read
" diem ultimum " ; and for " Quinquegiunt " read " Quinqueginta."
Page 158, last line but one, for "diameter" read "circumfer-
ence."
524 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Page 162, line 26, for " 8s." read " £8."
Page 166, line 12, for "knight" read "man"; line 20, fur
"orbs" read " orbis."
Itttrteton,
Page 180, line 13, for "work" read "word."
Margaret, the wife of Nicholas de Gresley, who gave the church
of Longford to Kenilworth Priory, was the ward of Geoffrey Clin-
ton, the founder of that priory. *
Page 194, line 5, for " armigai " read "armigeri."
John Parre, the last priest of the suppressed hospital of Alkmaii-
ton, obtained a pension of <£4 18s. 2d. in the time of Queen
Mary.
William Bonde, the last priest of the suppressed chantry, ob-
tained from the Exchequer, in the time of Philip and Mary, a
pension of .£4 17s. lOd.
Page 206, first bell, for " ora " read "gra,"i.e. gracia.
Page 208, last line but two, for " possessionem " read "posses-
sionum."
Page 220, note 3. With reference to complimentary coats per-
taining to friends of the deceased being placed upon a tomb, Mr.
Greaves refers us to the will of John Stretton, of Salisbury, who
left directions for the placing of various other arms besides his
own on his brass, but yet they were all arms pertaining to the
See of Salisbury, or its officials, f It may also be remarked that
* Dugdale's Warwickshire, p. 157.
t Notes and Queries, 6th ser., vol. vii., p. 486.
ADDENDA. 525
though we have failed to prove any alliance between the Knivetons
and Blounts, still such an alliance is rendered more probahle by
the fact of our finding Blounts mentioned as serving on Mugginton
juries in several Inquisitions of the fifteenth century, thus proving
their residence at Mugginton.
The church roof was renewed in 1878, and open seats have
taken the place of the pews.
Sir Stephen Glynn was here in 1840, two years before the ill-
judged restoration, when almost the whole of the old woodwork was
swept away, and not a little of the glass. From his interesting
notes we take the following extracts : —
"The interior of the nave has a sombre and very primitive appearance, but is
sadly dirty and neglected. All the ancient wooden benches remain, and many
have fine carved ends, but all going fast to decay Some of the northern
windows contain rich fragments of stained glass, in which are seen Saints bear-
ing scrolls on which are inscribed parts of the Creed The interior of the
chancel is most striking, and presents a combination of objects that can scarce
be equalled — the large and beautiful windows filled with stained glass, the
numerous rich tombs, and the considerable remains of fine wood seats and screen
work — but it is lamentable to see the state of neglect and decay into which all
these fine features have fallen. The chancel presents altogether a great contrast
to the nave, which is dark and homely. The stained glass which fills its
windows presents principally armorial bearings, with some very elegant fancy
patterns intermixed. Beneath these windows is a series of trefoiled niches, in
one of which are set two water-drains and a shelf — there are also remains of
sedilia broken. There is no arch of division between the nave and chancel, but
a wood screen, which has been fine, but much mutilated. There is also a large
portion of the stalls with their desks, with fine wood carving and tracery. Some
of the carved wood-work seems to have been applied to the pulpit, and to a
kind of wainscoting round part of the chancel."
Page 230, line 14, for "semul" read, "semel."
Page 223, line 8, for " teetu " read "tectif."
Page 235. Captain Lawson Lowe, F.S.A., writes to us : —
" The monumental effigy to John Strelley (1501) in Strelley Church, near here,
exhibits the same peculiar feature noticed upon the tombs of Sir Nicholas Fitz-
herbert (1473) and of his son, Sir Ealph, in Norbury Church. The Strelley
monument has, however, two small figures representing a monk and a nun with
their rosaries, one supporting the right and the other the left foot, and both
being seated upon the back of the lion against which the feet are resting. I
mention this, as, I believe, such an arrangement is exceedingly rare."
Page 240, line 6, for "eterni" read "eternu"; line 19, for
"maun" read "manu."
526 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Page 246. The female figure in the east window of the south-
east chapel, which we have conjectured to be S. Agatha, is really
S. Scytha, or Osyth. She was the daughter of Frewald, a Mer-
cian prince, and the virgin consort of Suthred, the last kmg of
the East Angles, who bestowed upon her the manor of Chick,
Essex, where she founded a monastery, of which she became abbess.
She was martyred by the Danes in 870. She is more than once
represented, as in this window, with a Bible in one hand, and in
the other two keys, one of which is a clicket or latch key, in
reference to her having presided as abbess over her monastery.
The letters below the figure are Set : sitha.*
Page 247, line 15. Barry of four arg. and gu., etc.; these are
the arms of Broughton, of Broughton, Staffordshire.
George Davys, the last priest of the suppressed chantry, obtained
a pension of £4 from the Exchequer, in the time of Philip and
Mary.
Since writing our account of Scropton, eight large pencil draw-
ings of the old church have come into our hands. They are
boldly executed, and are the work of the late Eev. H. S. Trim-
mer, vicar of Marston-on-Dove, but possess their chief interest
from having been taken on August 4th, 1855, the day before this
exceptionally interesting fabric was so heedlessly pulled down — as
sorry a day's work as was ever perpetrated in Derbyshire, by
those who have no reverence for the past history of our ancient
churches. These drawings show that the arch into the chancel
was undoubtedly Saxon — that on the south side of this arch was
a large oblong "squint" — that there was also a Saxon archway
into the small west tower, with an old oak ladder leading to the
belfry — that the south entrance, under the porch, is Norman, as
also was a small single-light window immediately to its right
(both these may possibly have been Saxon) — that some of the nave
and chancel buttresses were Early English, as also was a lancet
window in the south wall of the nave, and another smaller one on
the same side of the chancel — that the three-light pointed east
window of the chancel, and a two-light ^window in the south wall,
* There was a chapel dedicated to her in Sandiacre parish, see p. 366.
ADDENDA. 527
were of the Decorated date, with mullions plainly intersecting in
the tracery — that the three-light west window had some unusual
and good Decorated tracery — and that the nave walls had been
raised, and quasi clerestory windows inserted, in the Perpendicular
period. Mr. Trimmer's view of the south side of the chancel is
inscribed as " John of Gaunt's Chapel." Scropton formed part of
the Duchy of Lancaster estates. The architecture of the chancel
shows that it had been rebuilt during the earlier part of John of
Gaunt's career.
Page 264, line 12 from bottom, for "Scropton" read "Marston."
The inventory of the goods, etc., of Ealph Pegge, of Shirley,
deceased, was taken on April 12th, 1599, by Christopher Presse,
vicar of Shirley. His name (not given in our list of vicars) also
occurs as vicar in the will of Edward Pegge, dated 1606.
There was an ordination held in this church on September 23rd,
1324, when the Bishop admitted 33 to the sub-diaconate, 26 to the
diaconate, and 69 to the priesthood.
Ealph Shawe, Edward Calton, and William Cartelege, three of
the last priests of the suppressed chantry of Chaddesden, each ob-
tained a pension of £6 from Queen Mary.
Stanley
It was duly proved before the Court of Augmentation, 33 Henry
VIII., that Wilh'am Cooke, chaplain of Stanley, and his predeces-
sors there, have had yearly £5 5s. 8d. out of the possessions of
the late monastery of Dale, and it was therefore ordered that the
chaplain of Stanley should for the future receive the like sum out
of the possessions of the dissolved monastery, from the hands of
the bailiff or receiver of the rents. But the order is accompanied
528 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
by a qualification, leaving this payment open for future disproval.
This payment is not now made out of the Dale Abbey estates, nor
can we find any proof that it ever was paid. *
Page 317, line 29 from bottom, for the second "will" read
nill."
Page 318, line 16, insert "nave."
Page 330. Inscription to Judith Sleigh, for " invent® " read
"juventae"; for " funera " read "funere";/or "nescias" read
"nescia;" and for "antem" read " autem."
Inscription to Gervase and Eliza Sleigh, for " nuptis " read
" nuptiis," and for "ac" read "ad."
George More, who was minister of Calke in 1596, was concerned
in a case of demoniacal possession of some persons in Lancashire,
and wrote a book upon the subject, t
Page 351, line 6, for "decusaf sive ruinis pateas," read
" deusitat' sive ruinis patens."
A beautifully-executed manuscript pedigree roll of the Curzons,
drawn up about the middle of the seventeenth century, has lately
been discovered by Lord Scarsdale at Kedleston. It has the un-
usual feature of bearing well-executed pen-and-ink sketches of all
the incised Curzon slabs at Croxall, giving the inscriptions in full.
* Pub. Rec. Office, Augmentation Decrees, vol. ii., f. 59d.
f Wood's Ath. Oxon., vol. ii., p. 873 ; and the Darrel Tracts.
ADDENDA. 529
From it we make the following corrections and additions to our
account of these monuments : —
Thomas and Margaret Curzon, for " viii die" read "v die";
after " omuipotens " add " Deus Amen."
John and Anna Curzon, of whose monument only a small por-
tion now remains, after "Anna obiit,'' add '•xxiiij die Septembris "
The esquire is represented in plate armour, head uncovered, and
feet on a dog ; the lady in diamond-shaped head-dress. Below
them are the figures of ten sons and two daughters. The pedigree
gives the names of five of these children — Thomas, John, Chad,
Richard, and Anne.
Thomas Curzou, between his two wives, Anne and Elizabeth, a
monument which has altogether disappeared, for " xxv die Martii
MCCCCCXLI." read " xxij die Aprilis MCCCCCXL." Below the first
wife is written—" Anna erat fil. Joins Aston," and below the
second — " Filia Richardi Ligon, arm." Below Anne are the figures
of three sons and seven daughters ; below Elizabeth are two sons
and seven daughters. The pedigree gives the names of one child
by the first marriage — Joyce ; and six by the second — George,
Maude, Dorothy, Frances, Agnes, and Bridget.
John Curzon's monument, not now extant, but described in first
note on page 360. Inscription is thus given : —
" Hie jacet Johanes Curson Armiger Dns de Croxhall qui obiit iiij die Aprilis
A° Dni MCCCC cujus aie propicietur Deus Amen Et Innocentia* uxor ejus filia
Dni Thomae Gresley militis de . . . . "
John Horton and Anna Curzon. The quartered coat over the
lady is, 1st and 4th, az., on a bend, between two lions rampant,
arg., three popinjays vert. ; 2nd vaire, or and gu., on a chief, sab.
three horse shoes arg. ; and 3rd on a bend, arg., three martlets,
sab. This is the quartered coat of Curzon, of Croxall, as given in
the Visitation of 1568. See note, page 358.
Page 356, line 24, for "Carson" read "Curzon."
Page 382. Fifth bell, for "Fecum" read " Tecum."
Page 384, lines 7 and 23, for "Rolleston" read " Eollesley " ;
the tablet refers to the girl of seven, and not to her mother.
"Fiftieth" was probably an error of the transcriber for "fifteenth."
* But " Sarah " in the body of the pedigree.
35
530 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
The slab on the floor in the next paragraph, evidently refers to
the same child ; in that inscription " 13 " should he " 15." March
might, in the old style, be described either as 1626 or 1627.
HuUtngton,
Page 390, line 8, for "brocaded" read "broached."
Eobert Tarleton, the last priest of the suppressed chantry of S.
Katharine, obtained a pension of 70s. from the Exchequer, in the
time of Philip and Mary.
Page 896, line 18 from bottom, for "priory" read "jury."
Habenston*
Page 417, line 10, for " east " read " west."
Page 418, note 2, for " Father " read " Fathers."
ana
Mr. C. S. Greaves, Q.C., writes to us : —
" The chapel at Ingleby stood at the corner of a field, bounded by the road
through the village on one side, and by the wall of a farm-yard on the other,
occupied in my time by Browne. It was the nearest farmyard to Derby. The
course of the walls was plainly indicated by the raised ground where they had
stood. When the present church was in contemplation, the then Baronet told
the inhabitants that if they would draw the stone for the church, he would
build it wherever they liked; but if they would not, he would build it where he
liked. They refused, and accordingly it was built where it is most convenient
for the Hall, and most inconvenient for Ingleby."
Page 444, first line in note, for " Montaigne " read " Montague."
In the west window of the north aisle is a rebate or sinking
round the inside of the light, evidently for a wooden shutter, or
ADDENDA. 531
for a frame to carry canvas, used in early times instead of glass,
or until the windows were glazed. *
Page 454, line 10, for "III." read "VII."
Page 457, line 7 from bottom, for "they remain" read "it
remains."
Page 458, line 13, "Jadis" is right;" it is used, like nuper or
quondam, and means "lately" or '• formerly."
Sir Stephen Grlynn visited the old church in 1832, when he
made the following notes : —
" The church has a west tower with stone spire, a nave and side aisles,
chancel and north aisle. The whole of pretty good stone — the parapets of the
body not embattled, but with good mouldings. The tower is embattled, its west
window a lancet, the belfry windows single. The tower and spire are rather
small, but in pretty good proportion to each other. There are some late Perpen-
dicular windows, and one early Decorated one in the south aisle. The nave is
divided from each aisle by three pointed arches springing from light octagonal
columns. The clerestory has Perpendicular square-headed windows of three
lights. The chancel has on the south two lancets; it is divided from its aisle
by two pointed arches, springing from a pier of four-clustered shafts, having
foliated capital, and appearing to be of Decorated character. The east window
of the chancel is modern, that of the north aisle Decorated of three lights,
without foils. In the wall of the south aisle is a fine arched recess, surmounted
by a triangular canopy, having a cross fleury as finial, and between the canopy
and the arch a large bold trefoil — this is of Decorated character. There is a
west gallery and organ.
Page 464, line 11, for "1555" read "1655": line 12, for
"1623" read "1723"; last line of notes, for " Incloure " read
"Inclosure."
Page 500, line 18, for "Leicestershire" read "Derbyshire"; last
line but three, for " arg." read " az."
Page 501, line 6, for "filias" read "filios"; Hue 23, for "Kirk-
howen " read " Kirkhoven."
* See some brief notes on this church by Mr. P. J. Robinson, in vol. i. of the
Journal of the Derbyshire Archceo logical and Natural History Society.
532 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
FOURTH VOLUME.
ASTON. — In the list of rectors, between William Barloe, 1557,
and John Porter, 1617, insert William Sale. His brother was
rector of Weston, see page 429. He was also, like his brother, a
prebendary of Lichfield. In 1580, the Privy Council had a return
made to them from each diocese, of clerical pluralists, and used
their information as a means of increasing the forces, by fining
the transgressors in the support of so many lances and light
horse. William Sale was called upon to find one lance.*
CRICH. — Omitted from the list of vicars — 1539, William de
Brunaldeston ; on the death of W. de W.
ALL SAINTS'. — Page 84, line 6 from bottom, for "Newcombe"
read " Noone."
There were ordinations in this church in the years 1301, 1302,
1305, 1807, and 1322.
S. PETER'S. — Add to the list of vicars, Reginald, circa 1276.t
EGGINTON. — The effigy mentioned on page 191, and drawn on
Plate VIII., is a civilian and not a woman, which upsets our
conjecture as to the Tymmores.
ELVASTON. — At an ordination held in this church on February
19th, 1822, the bishop admitted five to the sub-diaconate, thirty-
one to the diaconate, and fifteen to the priesthood.
WEST HALLAM. — An old resident at Ilkeston, who contributed a
most interesting series of reminiscences to the columns of the
Ilkeston Pioneer, in the first year of its publication (1853), speaks
of having often seen the funeral garland carried to the church and
afterwards therein suspended. The custom seems to have lingered
longer here than in any other church of the county. He says : —
"I have counted more than thirty of these rustic mementoes
hanging over the piers." On the tower of West Hallam Church,
as we learn from the same source, grew four stunted trees, one of
them with a deep red foliage, that gave rise to many a legend : —
* Dom. State Papers, Q. Eliz.. vol. pxxxvi., f. 81.
f Simpson's History of Derby, p. 41.
ADDENDA. 533
At each corner right over the battlements high
There grew a tufted tree ;
An elder, an ash, and a gloomy yew,
Of the four were surely three.
The name of that other we never knew,
But its leaves had a mystic blood-red hue.
How they were planted, and how they throve
In the stone and mortar dry,
The old men knew not — tho' often they strove
To solve the reason why ;
That blood-red tree was planted, they guessed,
By the lady's spirit that would not rest.
HEANOR. — Rev. Charles Kerry has kindly' supplied us with the
following notes of the old church. " There was a square piece of
sandstone lying near the centre of the old chancel of Heanor
Church, about twenty years ago, close to the stove, which had the
words ' Pater Noster on the margin. The stone was obviously a
fragment of an early fourteenth century memorial. The original
arches, circa 1300, between the nave and south aisle were massive
and grand beyond description ; I greatly deplore their destruction.
The east window of the south aisle had much the character of
some of the windows in the banqueting hall of Winfield Manor,
circa 1460. Some years ago, the Eev. Alfred Newdigate, then
vicar of Kirk Hallam, pointed out to me a stone lying near his
churchyard gate, bearing an incised cross pomme, which he had
rescued from the debris of the old church at Heanor at its sad
demolition."
ILKESTON. — The missing tomb, mentioned on page 263, and other
monumental remains made away with at the " restoration " of the
church, are thus described in Glover's Hi&twy of Ilkeston, published
in 1831 :—
"Underneath one' of the arches in the chancel is an ancient monument,
which is supposed to be the vault of the person who built the chancel. The
gothic altar tomb is 9 ft. long, and covered with a broad marble slab, which has
been ornamented with effigies in brass, and an inscription round the border, all
of which have been carried away, so that there is no trace of whom it was
intended to commemorate.
"At the east end of the south aisle is a freestone slab, with a cross sculp-
tured within a circle, with a fleur-de-lis at each corner. Also, in the same aisle,
an alabaster slab, with the effigy of a priest, in scroll lines, engraved thereon,
and an inscription in Old English characters round the border, but it is so much
defaced that it cannot be read."
KIRK LANGLEY. — The old hall of Meynell-Langley, mentioned on
page 279, stood on a hill rather more than half-a-mile north of
the church, and where Dr. Peach's house now stands. A still
534 DKRBYSHIKE CHURG'HKS.
older hall, the original seat of the Meynells of Langley, stood in
a field about a hundred yards to the west of its successor ; its
foundation mounds can still be plainly traced.
MORLEY. — Page 344, line 1, for "gross" read "gloss."
SANDIACEE. — Prebendary Eowlandson, in 1629, renewed the lease
of the rectory to Thomas Charlton for life, and for the lives of
his sons Edward, Thomas, and Nicholas, at a rental of £7 6s. 8d.*
SAWLEY. — Prebendary Lee, 4 Edward VI., granted the prebendal
manor and rectory on a 99 years' lease, to Geoffry Edmondson, of
Sawley, at a rental of £66 13s. 4d. The lessee was bound to find
and sustain " convenyant and hable curates ministers and Preests
to keepe doo and celebrate dyvyne service " in the parish churches
of Sawley and Wilne, and in their chapels. f
BREASTON.— The following was accidentally omitted in its proper
place, page 408, though the note referring to the registers is there
given.
The tower contains a ring of three bells, thus inscribed : —
I. "John Gregory, Eobert Kirk, Churchwardens. Tho Hedderly,
Founder."
II. "Ex dono Henricus Willoughby Barronet 1657. Eecast
1705."
III. " Pura pudica pia miseris misere Maria." The inscription
of this mediaeval bell is in beautifully foliated Lombardic capitals.
The registers only date from the year 1719. There are no
burials entered until 1824, the year in which the churchyard was
consecrated ; the inhabitants were previously buried at - Wilne.
Marriages generally took place at Eisley.j
WESTON-ON-TEENT. — Page 425, in the list of rectors, fur " 1674,
John Boyston" read "1648, John Boylston."
* Chapter Act Books, vol. vi., f. 80.
t Chapter Act Books, vol. v., f. 24.
I See the second note on page 408.
ppmbip.
APPENDIX.
No. I.*
LIST OF MEDLEVAL, CHURCHES AND CHAPELS, NOW DESTROYED OR
DISUSED.
ALFRETON. — Chapel of S. Mary Magdalen at Biddings.
ASHOVER. — (1) Chapel at Lea, served by two priests; (2) chantry chapel of the
Blessed Virgin, distinct from the parish church.
BOLSOVEB.— Chapels at (1) Glapwell, and at (2) Whaley, each with their independent
endowments.
CHESTEBFIELD. — In the borough, or its vicinity, chapels to (I) S. Helen, (2) S. John
Baptist, (3) S. Leonard, (4) S. Thomas, (5) S. James, (6) the Assumption.
Also, within the parish, (7) Newbold, and (8) Walton.
DBONFIELD. — Unston. (There were chapels both at Dore #nd Holmesfield as early
as Norman days, but they are not included in this list, as there are new
churches near the sites).
ELMTON. — Chapel of S. Mary Magdalen at Creswell.
HAULT HUCKNALL. — Chapel at Stainsby.
MORTOX.— Holy Trinity, Brackenfield.
SCABCLIFFE. — Chapels at (1) Palterton, and at (2) Scarcliffe Lanes.
STAVELEY. — (1) Chapel of S. John Baptist at Staveley ; (2) chapel at Woodthorpe.
SUTTON SCABSDALE.— Church of S. Peter at Duckmanton.
WHITWELL. — Church of Steetley.
S. WINFIELD. — Chapel at Liubery.
BAKEWELL. — Chapels at (1) Harthill, and (2) Hassop ; and chapel at (3) One Ash
Grange, pertaining to Roche Abbey.
CASTLETON. — (1) Chapel in the Castle of the Peak; (2) chapel of Castleton
Hospital.
DABLEY. — Chapel at Snitterton.
EDENSOB. — Chapel at Chatsworth.
HATHEBSAGE. — Chapels at (1) North Lees, (2) Padley, and (5) three at Derwent
Woodlands, in addition to one on the site of the present church.
HOPE. — Chapels at (1) Grindlow Grange, (2) Shalcross, and (3) Stoke.
TIDESWELL. — (1) Chapel in Tideswell; (2) chapel at Monk's Dale, pertaining to
Lenton Priory.
YOULGBEAVE. — Chapels at (1) Middleton, (2) Gratton, (3) Stanton; and at (4)
Meadow Place, pertaining to Leicester Abbey.
* It was intended to give, as the first Appendix, that part of the Pension Roll,
2 and 3 Philip and Mary, which related to Derbyshire (as stated on page 77) ; but
this would be superfluous, as every statement therein has been given under the
respective chantries, etc., as they have been mentioned in this volume and in the
Addenda. We have therefore substituted for it the above list, referred to in the
Introduction.
538 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
ASHBOUEN.— (1) Chapel of S. Mary, Ashbourn Hall; (2) S. Mary, Clifton; (3)
Hough, or Hulland.
BBADBOUBN.— Chapel at Aldwark, pertaining to Darley Abbey.
WIBKSWOBTH.— Chapels at (1) Biggin, and at (2) Cromford Bridge.
BREADSALL PRIORY CHUBCH.
DOVEBBIDGE. — Chapel at West Brompton.
DUFFIELD.— Chapel at Hazelwood, pertaining to 'Barley Abbey.
LONGFOBD. — Church at (1) Bubden, or Bupton; (2) chapel of S. Leonard at Hungry
Bentley ; and (3) chapel of S. Nicholas at Alkmanton.
MABSTON-ON-DOVE.— Chapels at (1) Hilton, and (2) Hatton.
SHIBLEY.— (1) Holy Trinity Chapel, at Yeaveley; (2) chapel of the Preceptory of
Stydd.
SPONDON. — Chapel at Locko, pertaining to the Order of S. Lazarus.
CALKE. — The Priory Church.
CBOXALL. — Chapel at Catton.
LULLINGTON. — Chapel at Coton-in-the-Elms.
MELBOUBN.— (1) Church of S. Mary; (2) chapel of S. Michael; (3) chapel of S.
Nicholas, at King's Newton.
BEPTON. — (1) Priory church of S. Mary; (2) chapel at Ingleby; (3) chapel at
Milton.
STANTON-BY-BBIDGE. — (1) Chapel on Swarkeston bridge ; (2) chapel of S. Bride.
STAPENHILL. — Chapels at (1) Drakelow, (2) Heathcote, and (3) Newhall.
BABBOW. — Chapel of the Preceptory of Barrow.
CBICH. — (1) Chapel of S. Thomas the Martyr, in the churchyard ; (2) chapel at
Wakebridge ; (3) chapel at Wessington Grange, pertaining to Darley Abbey.
DERBY. — (1) Church of S: Mary; (2) priory church of S. James; (3) chapel of the
Hospital of S. Helen ; (4) chapel of S. Leonard, of the Order of S. Lazarus ;
(5) priory church of S. Mary de pratis, or King's Mead ; (6; priory church of
the Black Friars ; (7) chapel of S. Thomas the Martyr ; and (8) a church or
chapel at Litchurch.
DABLEY. — (1) The Abbey Church; also (2) another semi-parochial church, outside
the abbey walls.
DALE. — The Abbey church.
ELVASTON. — Chapels at (1) Ambaston, and at (2) Thurlston.
KIBK HALLAM. — Chapel at Mapperley.
HEANOB. — Chapels at (1) Shipley, and at (2) Codnor Castle.
HOBSLEY. — Chapel at Horsley Castle.
KIBK LANGLEY.— Chapel at Meynell Langley.
MACKWOBTH. — Church or chapel at Markeaton.
MICKLEOVEB. — Chapel of S. Leonard, at Potlock.
PENTBICH. — Chapel at Waingrove, pertaining to the Knights Hospitallers.
SANDIACBE. — Chapel of S. Scytha.
TOTAL, 102.
No. II.
CAMERA DE BAEREWE.
In Comitatu Derbye.
Est ibidem unum mesuagium, cujus gardinum et pomarium valent iij*. ijd.
Et unum columbarium quod valet iijs.
Et iiij" acre terre, pretium acre vjd « xls.
Et vj acre prati, pretium acre ijs xijs.
Et de redditu assiso per annum xx*. vjd.
Et unum molendinum ventriticum valet xxs.
Et ecclesia ibidem in proprios usus valet xxx/i.
APPENDIX. 539
Et de irupensione ecclesie de Swerkestone xs.
Et decime feni valent vjs- viij^.
Et de pro"ficuo stauri yjs. viijd.
Summa totalis recepti et proficui dicte camere liiij marce ijs.
REPEISE.
Inde in visitatione Prioris per j diem Xxs.
In oleo pro una lampade xijd.
Et in stipendiis ballivi et garcionis sui pro robis et necessariis suis xxvs.
Et Piiori de Tuttebiri pro amma impensione xs.
Et episcopo Karleonensi de redditu xiijs. iiijd.
Et hospitali de Almunton xxxiiijs.
Et in communione parochiali, ex certo xls.
Et in reparatione domorum Xxs.
Et uni vaccari'o et j porcario, pro mensa et stipendiis xxxs.
Et in adventubus preceptoris per vices xijs.
Summa omnium expensarum et solutionum xix. marce ijs.
Summa valoris— Et sic remanent ad solvendum ad Thesau-
rarium pro overibua supportandis xxxv. marce.
No. III.
RECTORIA DE BAROWE RADULFO PEMBERTONE.
OMNIBUS Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum indentatum pervenerit Frater
Thomas Docwra prior hospitalis Sancti Johannis Jerusalem in Anglia et ejusdem
Prioris confratres, salutem in domino sempiternam. Sciatis nos prefatum Priorem
et confratres unanimi nostris assensu et consensu pariterque voluntate tocius
Capituli nostri concessisse, tradidisse et ad firmam dimisisse Radulfo Pembertone
de Barow super Trentham in Comitatu Derbie yoman, Rectoriam nostram de
Barowe in Comitatu predicto cum omnibus decimis, terris, pratis, pascuis et
pasturis, et cum omnibus aliis proficuis et comoditatibus fam spiritualibus quam
temporalibus eidem Rectorie pertinentibus prout Willelmus Bowtb nuper flrmarius
ibidem habuit et occupavit. Habendum et tenendum Rectoriam nostram predictam
cum omnibus suis pertinenciis sicut predictum est prefato Radulfo Pemberton et
assignatis suis a festo Sancti Barnabe Apostoli proximo futuro post datum
presencium usque ad finem et terminum viginti novem annorum ex tune proxime
sequencium et plenarie complendorum. Reddendo inde annuatim nobis prefato
Priori et preceptori de Yeveley et Barow pro tempore existinte successoribus
atque ministris nostris apud preceptoriam de Teveley viginti libras legalis monete
Anglie ad festa Purificacionis beate Marie Virginis et Sancti Barnabe Apostoli
per equales porciones solvendas. Et predictus Radulfus Pemberton convenit et
concedit pro se assignatis suis, reparare et supportare omnia onera ordinaria et extra-
ordinaria qualitercunque predicte Rectorie durante termino predicto incumbencia.
Et si frater Ambrosius Leyton nunc preceptor de Yeveley et Barowe aliquo tempore
quo fuerit preceptor ibidem edificaverit seu reparaverit in occidentali parte Aule
ibidem Cameram conclavem seu promptuarium, tune Radulfus Pemberton predictus
convenit et concedit pro se et assignatis suis omnibus tarn fabris et latorinis seu
promptuarium edificandis vel reparandis necessariis quousque edificatis et reparatis
fuerint honesta esculenter et pocnlenter suis propriis sumptibus et expensis dare
et ministrare alioquin si prefatus preceptor qui nunc est suo tempore predicto
non edificaverit nee reparaverit, tune predictus Radulfus nee assignati ejus ad
prestandum esculenta et poculenta minime obligantur neque tenentur. Item
predictus Radulfus Pemberton convenit et concedit pro se et assignatis suis
omnia edificia et domus cujusvis condicionis sint suis propriis expensis et
sumptibus proinde reparata et in fine et termino presentis concessionis dimittere
et relinquere atque eadem in Inicio ejusdem concessionis invenerit atque acceperit.
540 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Ita quod preceptor qui pro tempore fuerit dare et concedere debet sufficiens
merernium (?) si petatur ad reparacionem premisBarum edificiorum vel domorum
ant cujusvis condicionis fuerint suis propriis sumptibus et expensis. Et si contingat
dictum annualem redditum viginti librarum sterlingorum retro fore in parte vel in
toto non soluto post aliquem tertninum solucionis antea nominatorum in loco
superius specificate per spacium quadraginta dierum, absque ulteriori demanda
vel dilatione quacunque. Tune bene licebit nobis prefato Priori successoribus
nostris et preceptori de Yevely et Barowe pro tempore existentibus vel ministris
nostris in predictam Bectoriam cum suis pertinenciis et in quamlibet inde partem
et percellam reintrare Eaque omnia ut in pristine statu nostro retinere presenti
dimissione in aliquo non obstante. Et ad omues et singulas soluciones et con-
venciones et concessiones antea recitatas ex parte dicti firmarii et assignatorum
suorum bene et fideliter perimplendum. Idem finnarius Eadulfus Pemberton
obligat se executores et assignatos suos cum aliis suis fidejussoribus nobis
prefato Priori et successoribus nostris per suum scriptum obligatorium de data
presencium in quadraginta libris sterlingorum. In cujus rei testimonium tam
Sigillum nostrum commune quam Sigillum predicti Badulphi Pemberton presenti-
bus Indentures alternatim sunt appensi. Datum apud domum nostram Sancti
Johannis de Clerkenwelle prope London in Capituto nostro celebrato ibidem
primo die mensis Maij, anno domiiii millesimo Quingantesimo vicesimo sexto, Et
Anno regni Begis Henrici octavi decimo octavo. — [Cott. MSS., Claud E. VI.,
f. 277b.]
•No. IV.
EXTKACT FROM CEICH C/HARTULAKY.
Expense facte circa reparacionem domus Cantarie.
In primis Willelmo Botelere propter calcem xijd.
Item Job.. Madur propter inquisicionem lapidum xviijd.
Item Johanni Cutt pro eodem -yjd.
Item Johanni Sclater vijs. ijd.
Item Henrico quia servivit sibi (?)
Item Johanni propter adquisicionem lapidum xvijcZ.
Item Zand~ Wode pro eodem vj<Z.
Item vicario propter victualia Job. Sclater iiijs. viijd.
Item propter victualia Henrico iijs.
Item Faber' propter bandys et haspys ... vjd.
Item propter clavos xxij<2.
Item propter lattes ... vijd. It' vjrf. pro eisdem-
Item propter clavos xijd.
Item Joh. Wodesettes propter cariagium lapidum xiiijd. Item jd.
propter cariagium lapidum ... vj,£.
Item Will. Morewode propter cariagium lapidum a Wynfelde iijdt.
Item Johanni Mader propter shapillyng lapidum xijd.
Item Puelle propter aquam ij d'ob.
Item carpentario propter emeudacionem coquine jiijd.
Item ballivo de Sokach de Wyrkesworth propter Thrydboures ... xxxd.
Item ustrinum Johannis Arundell fuit ignitum.
Item tenementum super Plastow non est coopertum nee muratum nee hostiatum.
Item tenementum Will' Pras non est reparatum in defectu domini Henrici.
Item propter tenementum emendatum Alexandri Wode iijs. iiijd. in defectu
Henrici Coke.
Item propter cariagium ad illud, iijd.
Item carpentario propter facturam hostii, iijd.
Sumtna xxxvjs. xjd. de solutis.
APPENDIX. 5-tl
No. V.
EXTRACTS FROM CBICH CHARTULARY.
TANNESLEY.
HEC sunt terre ordinate per parochianos de Cruche ad sustentaciouem cujusdam
lampadis in cancello de Cruche ; que quidem lampas ardebit semper coram
ymaginem beate Marie Virginia in dicto cancello de Cruche, videlicet in villa de
Tannesleye scilicet, de terro Nicholai de eadem super le Kleystorst, dimidia acra
terre et vocatur le Kyrk buttes. Item de terra Rogeri et Reyneri super le
Croftes super le Turnestorze dimidia acra terre. Item de terra Willelmi filii
Rogeri super le Breristorze j roda terre. Item de terra predicti Willelmi super
Hennegrenestorze j roda terre. Item de terra Roberti filii Reyneri super le Bente
et de terra Rudulfi, dimidia acra terre. Item de terra Willelmi filii Galfridi
super le Stanhirst, j roda terre. Item de terra Johannis filii Swain super
Stanhirst, j roda terre. Item de terra Nicholai de Tannesley super Spillemonne-
buttes, dimidia acra terre. Item de terra Walteri del Croftes super holdetannesley,
dimidia acra terre. Item de terra predicti Walteri subtus Hennegrenestorthe,
dimidia roda terre. Item de terra Ricardi et Henrici super le Brounlewe dimidia
acra terre et j roda. Item de terra Rogeri filii Roberti super Wodecokehalwe,
dimidia ara terre. Item de terra predicti Rogeri ad finem acrarum, dimidia acra
terre. Item de terra Walteri super le Croftes in campo de Wodecokhalwe, j roda
terre. Item de terra Radulfi de Harstan et Margerie uxoris ejus, j roda terre, et
ornnia supradicta sunt arabiles. Summa acrarum totalis, v acre terre et dimidia
et j roda et dimidia.
Memorandum quod Thomas filius Roberti super le Croftes de Tannesleye tenet
totam predictam terram excepta j acra, et j roda terre et dimidia roda per
consensum et voluntatem Nicholai de Wakebrugge, Henrici de Codingtone, Roberti
de Holeway, Willelmi de Whetecroft, Galfridi de Plastowe parochianorum de
Cruche. Reddendo annuatim pro qualibet acra terre per se iiijd. videlicet medie-
tatem ad Natale domini et aliam medietatem ad festum Sancti Jacobi apostoli.
Summa acrarum que predictus Thomas tenet, iiij acre et dimidia et summa
redditus, xviijd.
CRUCHE.
Item predicto luminari de terra Ade le Eyre vj denarii annui redditus qui
ordinati fuerunt per Robertum filium Scheyericke de Cruche pro anima sua
imperpetuum solvendum ad terminum Sancte Pasche.
Item de terra Roberti Fabri qui vocabatur Robertas Pote, ij annui redditus,
solvendis ad terminum Pasche, qui ordinati fuerunt per predictum Robertum et
Paganum de Ryly in perpetuum.
TANNESLEYE.
Memorandum, quod Rogerus filius Ricardi die mercurii proximo ante festum
Sancti Marce Evangelieste, anno domini, millesimo ccc° undecimo, dedit et
legavit luminari beate Marie de Cruche, obolum, et luminari Sancti Johannis
Baptiste, obolum, annui redditus, ad levandum et recipiendum de una placea
prati que vocatur Wallesyke in territorio de Tannesleye ad festum Assumpcionis
beate Marie de qua placea Robertus filius ejus habet cartam feoffamenti in
custodia sua.
Memorandum, quod Ricardus filius Henrici Knewe concessit et dedit duos
denarios annui redditus pro terra quam emit de Willelmo filio Willelmi Porchete,
scilicet ad Natate domini unum denarium et ad Pascha unum denarium.
542 DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
No. VI.
PLACITA COBA.M DOMINO EEGE apud Wyntoniam in Octavis Sancti Michaelis anno
regni regis Edwardi Tertio decimo incipieute quarto decimo. m. 4d.
Rogerus Coventr et Lych episcopus attachiatus fuit ad respondendum domino
Regi de placito quare Cum ecclesia Omnium Sanctorum Derb libera sit capella
domiui regis sicut et caateraa capellaa regis ab omni jurisdictions ordinaria tarn
jure regis quam per privilegia apostolica regi et praedecessoribus regis indulta
totaliter sit exempta et dominus rex eidem inhibuerit ne aliquam jurisdictionem
ordinariani in praadicta ecclesia seu praabendis aut capellis ipsius per ipsum vel
suos exerceret, et sicut vellet jura et libertates suas sub favore et protectione
regia tutas esse Ita jura et libertates regias integra et illesa faceret observari, ac
idem episcopus nichilominus ut rex accepit in praadicta ecclesia et membris suis
jurisdictionem suam ordinariam exercere praasumit in regis et Sedis Apostolicaa
prsejudicium et contemptum manifestum et contra inhibitionem regiam praadictam.
Et unde Decanus Lincoln qui sequitur pro domino rege queritur quod cum eidem
episcopo ex parte Regis inhibitum esset in forma praedicta Robertas de Redes-
well, Robertus de Thorpe, et Wilhelmus de Hennovere clerici prsedicti episcopi
nomine suo citarunt et citari fecerunt quosdam ministros de ecclesia praadicta
videlicet Rogerum capellanum Thomam capellanum, Robertum diaconum, et
alios vicarios et ministros ecclesiaa praadictaa ad faciendam eidem episcopo obedi-
entiam &c. Et episcopus per attoruatum suum venit et dicit quod praadicta
ecclesia est infra episcopatum suum et in jurisdictione sua ordiuaria et petit
judicium si debeat in curia domini regis de jurisdictione sua respondere. Et dictum
est ei per Justiciaries quod respondeat. Qui quidem episcopus per attornatum
suum petit quod Decanus Liucolniaa qui sequitur pro Rege versus ipsum ostendat
ei si quid habeat pro se quod praadicta ecclesia Omnium Sanctorum Derb sit
libera capella domini Regis et quod quieta sit de omni jurisdictione ordinaria.
Et Decanus dicit quod praadicta ecclesia exstitit soluta et quieta ab omni
jurisdictione ordinaria a tempore quo non exstat memoria Dicunt enim quod si
aliqua praabenda in praadicta ecclesia vacaret quod ipse idem Decauus alium
institueret et in eadem visitaret et correctioues caperet pro voluutate sua Ita
quod praadictus episcopus nullam habeat jurisdictioiaem ordiuariam in eadem Et
quia Dominus rex ex officio suo super praamissis vult certiorari vicecomiti
praacepit quod venire faceret coram rege a die Paschaa in unum mensem ubicuu<Jbe
&c xxiiij &c per quos &c ad recognoscendum in forma praadicta &c.
Postea a die Sancti Michaelis in unum mensem anno quarto decimo incipieute
quintodecimo venerunt juratores Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod iste
episcopus et praadecessores sui et similiter episcopus Alexander ut audiunt dicere
semper habuerunt jurisdictionem in ecclesia Omnium Sanctorum Derb videlicet,
celebrando ordines in praadicta ecclesia, capiendo sinodalia &c. et faciendo correc-
tiones de capellanis clericis et parochianis Sed dicunt quod decanus Lincoluiaa
habet talein jurisdictionem quod cum aliqua praabenda vacari contigerit in praedicta
ecclesia Omnium Sanctorum Idem Decanus confert praabendas illas et instituat
quemcumque voluerit sine aliqua praasentatione facienda praadicto episcopo.
N.B. — Appendices Nos. VII., VIII., IX., and X., referred to in
the letter-press, are held over, as the first two are taken from the
Chartulary of Darley Abbey, and the last two from that of Dale
Abbey ; and it is intended to give them in monographs on those
monasteries.
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INDEX OF PERSONS.
N.B. — Where two or more names of the same family occur on one page,
they are for the most part entered under the head of "family."
Thus on page 41, John, Anne, and Robert de Annesley are
mentioned, but the, reference in the index is simply " Annesley
family, 41 ."
A.
Abingdon, Constance,
Richard, 380
Abney, Edw. Henry, 117,
124
Acraman, William, 52
Acres, John de, 383, 459
Adams, John, 222
Adderley, John de, 515
Adenburgh, Richard, 425
Adlington, John de, 516
Agard, Philip, 6
Alastre, Robert, 213
Albinus, Abbot of Darley,
33
Alcock, Christopher, 504
Alcred, King of Northum-
bria, 113
Alderson, Christopher, 464
Aldrich, Henry, 501
Alexander, Prior of Shel-
ford, 132
Alfreton, John de, 441 :
Richard, 519 ; Thomas de,
471
Algar, Earl of Mercia, 3,
423
Alkin, Thomas, 518
Alkmund, Saint, 113
Allen, George, 213, 259;
Gervase, 518; Hugh, 494;
John, 509, 510; Robert,
222, 224, 472; Thomas,
477
Allestry, Thomas, 148 ;
William, 98, 108
Allorwasleigh, John de, 515
Allwoode, John, 470, 479
36
Almond, John, 77
Alot, John, 497
Alselin, Geoffrey, 69, 131,
132, 137, 183,195; Ralph,
183, 195
Alsop, Francis, 269, 270,
278: Henry, 477; Robert
de, 147, 149
Alston, Thomas, 458
Altoft, John, 357
Alwaston, Geoffrey de, 484
Alwold, William, 505
Alynson, Thomas, 519
Aly Saundre, Henry, 497
Ambrose, Isaac, 499
Ambulford, Simon, 518
Anabell Roger, 519
Anderson, David, 80
Andrew, J. H., 518; Samuel,
610
Andrews, J. W., 324
Anerham, John, 449, 454
Annesley, arms, 445 ; family,
41, 45
Anstey, Michael, 368
Antrobus, George, 448
Applethorpe, John de, 512
Appulby, William de 481
Apfchorpe, John de, 383
Arderne, arms, 179
Ardeyn, Hugo, 463
Arclham, Robert de, 467
Ardulph, Prince, 113
Arkwright, G. H., 466, 467 ;
Richard, 480
Arnold, Richard, 235,236;
Roger, 133
Arrowsmith, William, 368
Arundel, Alathea, Countess
of, 172; Earl of, 504;
John de, 367
Asfordby, John, 618
Ashbourne, arms, 252 ; Ro-
bert de, 446, 500; William
de, 498
Ashbridge, Joseph, 466, 467
Ashby, John, 458, 459;
William, 235
Ashe, Otho, 174
Ashmole, Elias, 177, 236
Ashton, Samuel, 7
Aslacton, Robert, 480
Asshebury, William, 470
Asshely, John, 47
Assheton, Hugo, 470; John,
446 ; Margaret, 23
Astley, Thomas, 474, 485;
Sir Thomas, 474
Aston family, 404; Henry
de, 509, 517; John, 470,
516, 529; Robert, 259;
Sir Thomas, 402
Atkynson, Thomas, 447
AttehalLJohn, 41 ; Richard,
518
Attelowe, Robert, 501, 516
Attercliffe, Elias, Abbot of
Croxton, 467 ; Seth, 467
Atteweld, Nicholas, 501
Attewelle, John, 465 ;
Richard, 469
Aubreson, Michael, 481
Audley, Edward, 286;
Henry, 453 ; James, Lord,
284, 286; Joan, 284;
John, Lord, 289 ; Marga-
ret, 286; Sir Hugo de,
463
546
DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
B.
Babington, arras, 62; An-
thony, 51, 59 ; family, 16,
17, 56, 146, 185, 187, 334,
335,455,456; Humphrey,
186; John, 18,147; Mar-
maduke, 65 ; Norman,
2122; Sir Hugh, 156; Sir
John, 486 ; Thomas, 443 ;
William, 188, 234, 448,
473
Bacon, H. F., 499; Isaac,
449; Luke, 516; William,
51
Bagshaw, Agnes, 56 ;
family, 499 ; Geoffrey,
504; Michael, 492; Wil-
liam, 507
Bagworth, John, 51
Bailey, H. B., 443
Bainbridge, family, 10 ;
William, 133
Bakepuze, family, 15 ; Ro-
bert, 16
Baker, Thomas, 450 ; Wil-
liam, 485
Bakewell (artist), 92, 93,
141, John, 478, 487;
Eichard de, 452 ; Robert,
405 ; Thomas, 172, 174
Balidon, Gilbert, 487 ; John
de, 450; Paul, 88, 89;
Roger de, 517 ; Simon de,
47; William de, 38, 41,
49, 51, 500
Ball, Richard, 501
Baline, John, 454
Balston, Edward, 494;
Robert, 323
Bamford. Nicholas, 518 ;
Otwell, 506
Bamforth, Mr., 459; Tho-
mas, 473
Banbury, Cyprian, 446, 467
Bancquell, Roger, 459
Baucure, Richard, 441
Bande, Jo., 5
Bank, Richard, 222
Baiikes, Laurence, 459 ;
Richard, 50, 52
Bannecroft, Robert, 305
Barber, John, 501
Barbour, Richard, 382
Barchoii, William de. 479
Bardall, William, 474
Bardolf family, 183, 233
Barker, family, 460 ; John,
461; Mrs., 429; Ralph,
458, 505; Robert, 512;
Thomas, 464; William,
474
Barkerolles, arms, 10
Barlbrough Roger de, 505
Barley family, 431 ; John
de, 482; Robert, 97;
Thomas, 472
Barlow, Alexander, 6 ;
Richard, 470
Barnard arms, 89
Barrett, John, 516
Barri, Geoffrey, 157
Barrow, Adam de 498 ;
family, 486; John, 19;
William, 81
Bars, Richard, 18
Barslowe, Richard, 305
Bartilmew, or Bartholo-
mew, Nicholas, 133 ;
Richard, 133 ; Roger, 77,
117
Bartholomew, Rector of
Beighton, 447
Barton, arms, 387 ; family,
387, 416; Henry de, 187;
John, 196 ; Nicholas, 173 ;
Oliver de, 485 ; Thomas
de, 381, 383 ; William, 486
Barwe, Richard de, 173
Barwick, Christopher, 465 ;
Gabriel, 465
Basford, James, 165
Basingwerk, Abbot of, 504
Basnett, T. S., 516
Bassett, arms, 89 ; family,
10, 225 ; Ralph, 276 ; Sir
William, 279; William,
268, 270
Bate, John Nathaniel, 207 ;
Katharine, 126; Matthew,
360 ; Nathaniel, 126
Bateman, Hugh, 323, 324;
Richard, 48, 324; Sir
Hugh, 340; T. 0., 95,342
Bates, C. C., 499
Bath, John, 117
Bathurst, Earl, 476
Bayes, John, 474, 482
Bayley, John, 147, 148, 269 ;
Nicholas, 133, 135, 505;
Richard, 269; William,
244
Beardmore, John, 483
Beardsley, family, 191 ;
John, 188, 247
Beaumont, Edward, 88 ;
family, 18, 19, 25, 146,
148, 185; John, 46, 50,
187; Sir Henry, 162;
Theobald de, 463
Beck, William, 383
Bedale, Roger 479
Bedford, John, 516
Beecher, Sherard, 485
Beer, W. T., 437
Beetland, John, 509
Bek, Anthony, 73
Bekyngham, Thomas de,
501
Beler, arms, 62; Avicia, 219;
family, 34, 38, 4l, 360;
Sir Roger, 36, 44, 48, 55,
219
Belewe, family, 41
Bell, John, 150
Bellairs, family, 55
Bellerby, Richard, 479
Bellingham, Sir J., 405
Belper, Lord, 118
Belton, John de, 18
Bennett, Abraham, 518;
Anthony, 244; C. 29;
Edward, 79, 99, 514, 519;
John, 510; William, "207,
323, 337, 347, 487, 516
Benskin, Charles, 141, 179,
180
Bensted, John, 367
Bentley, John de, 518;
Nicholas de, 519; Thomas,
459 ; William, 17
Bentney, Father William,
221
Benyngton, John, 196
Berchelmen, Henry de, 445
Berdeleye, John de, 173
Beresford, Aden, 518 ; fa-
mily, 60, 275, 453 ; James,
485, 521; John, 505;
Richard, 486; Samuel, 174
Berkin, W.,135
Berleston, Henry de, 500
Bernake, John, 219; Wil-
liam, 251
Bernard, Richard, 286 ;
Robert, 489,493; William,
473
Bernesley, Richard de, 213
Berry. Thomas, 174, 179
Bertles, W. D. B., 460
Beryge, Thomas, 466, 479,
481
Besage, John, 383
Besant, William, 222
Bessbro', Caroline, Countess
of, 98
Bessley, George, 453, 458
Beuley, Richard de, 447
Bevryngton, William, 19
Beverley, John, 381
Bickerstaff, Isaac, 516
Bickles, Walter, 187
Biggyner, Thomas de, 48
Bill, William, 323
Billesden, Thomas de, 505;
William de, 512
Billingsley, John, 453
Bindley, R. C.,306
Binera, Gilbert de, 505
Birch, Matthew, 250
Birchover, John, 515
Birkbeck, Edward, 478
Bishop, D. G.,482
Blackburne, Samuel, 516
Blackwall, arms, 10
Blackwell, Anthony, 197 ;
Mr., 109
Bladon, family, 517
Blagden, B. G., 519
Blagrave, George, 101
Blakeman, William, 453
Bleth, John, 425
Blith, Roger, 207
Blithman, Robert, 368
Bloodworth, Christopher,
291 ; Father, 228, 229
Bloreton, John, 383
Bloundeville, family, 244
Blount, family, 185. 199;
Sir T. P., 186, 188; Wal-
ter, Lord Mountjoy, 200 ;
William le, 47
Bloys, Robert de, 341
Blumfylde, Ellen, 244
Blundeville, arms, 89
Bluudus, John, 132
Blunt, George, 464 ;
Thomas, 197
INDEX OF PERSONS.
Ely the, A. T., 469, 476;
Geoffrey, 381, 472; Wil-
liam, 474
Bobenhull, Robert de, 471
Boden, George, 81
Boham, Hugo, 483
Bohun, William de, 516
Bold, Mr., 108 ; Samuel, 305
Bolsover, family, 480 ;
Robert de, 487
Bolton, Hugo de, 268;
William le, 357
Bolyngton, Richard, 470
Bond, Benjamin, 507 ; John,
453; William, 524
Boniface, Archbishop, 377
Bonyngton, Thomas de, 6
Bookhouse, Nathaniel, 513,
517, 519
Booth, Joseph,133; Thomas,
368
Boothby, Evelyn, 483 ;
William, 268
Boresholt, John de, 516
Borgh, William, 513
Borrow, John T., 19
Boston, Roger de, 478
Boterton, Richard de, 504
Botham, G. W., 485 ; John,
293, 299 ; William, 78
Bothamself, William de,
449
Bothe, arms, 314, 332, 387 ;
family, 22, 23, 185, 187,
331, 381, 383, 387, 388,
389, 390, 392 ; Henry, 313,
314; John, 391, 431;
William, 17, 18.
Boton, Thomas, 461
Bott, William, 518
Boturworth, Gilbert, 133
Bough, William de, 517
Boukestones, family, 496
Bourchier, Sir Humphrey,
220, 222
Bourne, Elisha, 441 ; family,
443; Henry, M.D., 222;
John, 480, 487 ; Laurence,
460
Bowden, family, 274
Bower, Francis, 446 ; John,
359, 477; Ralph, 504;
William, 461
Bowman, John, 504
Bowne, Henry, 486
Boydell, John, 513
Boy don, William, 367
Boylstone, John, 79, 368,
424, 425, 534
Bradbourne, family, 336,
338, 401, 514, 515 ; Robert
de, 520
Bradbury, John, 133, 174
Bradewell, John, 133 ;
Thomas, 507; William
de, 500
Bradleigh, John de, 481
Bradshaw, Ambrose, 312;
Ellis, 105; family, 52,
165; Henry H., 324;
Peter, 492 ; Richard, 449 ;
Robert, 384
Bradwall, John de, 450
Brailsford, arms, 58; family,
459 ; John de, 469, 485 ;
Roger de, 458; Thomas,
58
Brancyngham, Ralph de,
515 ; Simon de, 187, 517
Brand, Baruard, 357
Brandreth, Richard, 108
Branton, Thomas, 135
Brassinghon, Richard, 187
Bray, Sir Edward, 284;
William, 518
Braydeston, Richard de,
244, 383; William de,
259,485
Braylesforth, John, 481 ;
William, 466
Bredon, family, 425
Brendston, William de, 150
Brentingham, John de, 500,
515
Brentingley, Richard de,
505
Brentnall, John, 197
Brereley, William, 469
Brereton, John, 469
Bretby, Edmund, 436
Brett, P. H., 517
Bretun, Alan C., 379, 381,
382
Brewood, Stephen de, 481
Bricius, 35, 51
Bride, John, 451
Bridewell, Michael, 497
Bridgart, George, 124
Bridge, arms, 89
Brierley, Laurence, 437,510
Brigeford, William, 464
Bright, Richard, 516
Briggs, Joseph, 474
Brietowe, John de, 484 ;
Samuel, 30
Brito, Roger, 456, 457
Brock, arms and family,
253
Brocklehurst, Mrs., 446
Brodhurst, Thomas, 323
Broghton, Walter de, 485
Brokesham, Richard de, 500
Bromehead, Richard, 479 ;
Thomas, 478
Bromley, Thomas, 486 ;
William de, 244, 383
Bromsgrove, William, 512
Brook, Lord, 100
Brooke, John, 473, 487;
Roger, 450 ; Thomas, 441
Brookes, John, 368; Lau-
rence, 235
Broome, Hugh, 140, 142
Brotherton, William, 441
Brothwell, Michael, 472
Brough, Cornelius, 275 ;
Samuel, 517
Broughton, arms, 526
Brouster, Thomas, 513
Brown, family, 521 ; James,
449; Jervase, 259, 518;
John, 519; Richard, 425,
430; Thomas, 244, 510,
513; William, 18.
Browne, arms and family,
289; Michael, 499
Brownlow, Robert, 259
Bruce, Lord, 98
Bruera, William de, 474
Brun, 69, 171
Brunaldeston, W. de, 532
Bryan, Guy, 471
Bryde, Roger, 518
Buckeridge, family, 507
Bucklaud, John de, 481
Buckley, William, 77, 105
Buckston, family, 516;
George, 477 ; Henry, 507
Buckwell, William, 512
Bugge, William, 454
Bulkeley, family, 6
Bulkyngton, John de, 494
Bullock, arms, 120; family,
121, 472 ; John, 120, 126,
127, 518; Noah, and
family, 155
Bulneys, William, 500
Bunnell, Nicholas, 479
Buntinge, Richard, 133
Burchynshaw, Maurice, 425
Burden, family, 429
Burdett, arms, 215 ; family,
158; Robert, 404
Burgh, Sir Thomas, 234
Burghill, Bishop, 185
Burgulone, Robert, 48
Burley, Robert de, 450
Burlison and Grylls, 343
Burnaston, arms, 307
Burnell, arms, 89, 289;
family, 289
Buron, family, 243; Ralph
de, 211,248
Burrow, family, 470, 482;
Isaac, 152 ; William, 467,
486
Burton, Abbot of, 303,
Brian, 458; Edmuud,
507; Henry, 133; John,
458, 467, 516; Michael,
506; Robert, 487; Tho-
mas de, 196, 239
Bury, Sir Christopher, 248
Busby, Father George, 221
Busey, Sir John, 469, 470
Bushy, family, 485
Bussell, Richard, 467
Butt, George, 453
Butterworth, Ralph, 464
Bygge, John, 473 ; William,
469
Byker, William, 479
Bynbroke, John de, 500
Byngeley, John, 244
Byngham, Thomas de, 485
Bynnes, Richard, 368
Byimey, family, 518
Byrchiil, John, 481
Byrde, Roger, 133
Byrfoot, Elizeus, 147
Byrmyngham, ThomaSj 323
Byron, Sir John, 199, 357
Bysegge, Geoffrey de, 213
Bythinge, William, 513
Bywater, Robert, 174, 175
548
DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
C.
Cadman, Jo., 415
Culcroft, Ralph, 4-53, 515
Caldebeck, William, 517
Caldwell, Roger, 18: W.
G., 454
Caledon, William de, 449
Callice, Thomas, 485
Calton, arms, 58 ; Edward,
527; William, 57
Camfield, Benjamin, 483
Campana John de, 517
Campion, Frank, 125, 229 ;
John, 308
Cant, family, 269, 278
Cantilupe, family, 257, 258,
260, 262 ; Nicholas de,
259, 263; Walter de, 264;
William de, 469, 485
Cantrell, H., 92, 97, 109,
113, 115, 116, 117, 120,
121, 127; Thomas, 197;
William, 155
Carleton, Robert de. 480
Carlisle, Bishop of, 316;
William, 480
Carpenter, John, 381
Carr, Anthony, 441 ; Robert,
77 ; Thomas, 358
Carrier, Richard, 517, 521
Carrington, Francis, 469
Carrow, Richard, 305
Carson, Thomas, 52
Cart, Hugo. 286
Carter, Edward, 396 ; John,
473 ; William, 258, 259
Cartlege, Robert, 450 ; Wil-
liam,527
Cartwright, George, 483
Castle, Lawrence, 499
Castleton, Thomas, 520
Catesby, William de, 476
Caulthorpe, William de, 481
Cave, W. C. B., 507
Cavendish, Anne, 253 ;
family, 97, 98, 101, 290,
478, 505; Sir William,
450. 512
Cawode, William, 458
Cecil, Hon. Robert, 276;
Thomas, 150
Cely, John, 480
Chaddesden, family, 41 ;
Geoffrey de, 38, 187;
Henry de, 367; Ralph de,
381, 384, 385
Chadwick, Richard, 450
Chalisworth, Nicholas, 133
ChaUoner, John, 519, 521
Chamberlain, John, 437 ;
William, 481
Chambers, John, 357 ;
William, 79, 91, 92
Chandos, family, 184; Sir
John, 174, 185, 274
Chantrey, George, 458
Chapman, John, 357, 501;
Richard, 465, 493 ; Tho-
mas, 84, 360
Chappell, Henry, 474; John,
79
Charge, John, 443
Charles, Samuel, 305
Charlton, arms and crest,
372; family, 366, 372. 373,
516, 531 ; Hamlet, 493
Charnell. family, 59, 63
Ch'arnes, William de, 150,
425
Chauntrell, Robert, 19
Chaveney. Christopher, 305
Chawner, William, 52
Chaworth. George, 456 ; Sir
Thomas, 222, 473
Chedder, arms, 10
Chedel, Henry de, 467
Chellaston, Thomas de, 470,
473
Chelmerden, family, 496
Cherlton, Roger de, 234
Cherryholme, James, 150
Chessher, Richard, 518
Chester, Abbot of, 6, 323;
Bishop of, 498; Hugh,
Earl of, 283
Chesterfield, Earl of, 243
244, 215; John de, 482;
Richard de, 41, 454; Roger
de, 38, 39, 41, 42, 49, 454;
William de, 480
Chestershire, John de, 37
Chevor, Peter, 503
Cheyne, John, 367
Childe, John, 441
Chinn, H. B., 517
Chippendale, John, 459
Chistleton, Ralph de, 449
Cholmondeley, arms, 179 ;
family, 178
Christian, F. W., 487
Churchyngton, William de,
449
Clarke, Anne, 155 ; arms,
419; family, 6, 222, 238,
480 ; Godfrey, 60 ; Henry,
48; J. E., 133, 135; John,
237, 477, 513; Richard,
37, 44, 305; Robert, 59,
506; Sir G., 464 ; William,
227, 235
Clarkson, Anthony, 269
Clay, arms, 58, 59 ; family,
58, 59; Hercules, 450;
John, 51, 56, 57, 63, 66;
Theophilus, 65
Claybroke, Giles, 498
Claypole, Hugh de, 213
Clayton, John, 197; Wil-
liam, 483
Cleater, Samuel, 215
Clement, John, 18; Vincent,
381
Cleybrough, William, 486
Cleyolk, Richard de, 478
Clifford, Sir Roger, 478
Clifton, arms, 402 ; family,
401, 402; Robert de, 476;
William de, 133, 147, 437,
498
Clinton, Geoffrey, 524; Sir
Thomas, 476
Clopham, arms, 345
Clover, William, 463
Clowes, Col., 11 ; Richard,
497
Clyerowe, Richard, 470
Coates, family, 10 ; Peter,
487 ; Samuel, 512
Cochrane, D C., 19
Cockayne, family, 252 ;
George, 222; John, 446,
465 ; Ralph de, 467
Cocking, John, 482
Cocks, William, 459
Cockys, Richard, 518
Codgrave, Robert, 465
Codington, Henry de, 37,
38, 39, 48
Coffyn, Sir William, 491
Cok, William le, 18
Coke, Dewes, 471, 473 ;
family, 298, 473; Henry,
45, 47, 117, 126, 133, 518;
John, 461
Cokke. George, 510
Colborne, Edward, 425
Colechurch, Peter de, 102
Coles, Christopher, 460
Collett, Richard, 486
Collier, Joseph, 207; Wil-
liam, 147, 151
Colman, family, 505
Coin, 69, 71 '
Colyn, Thomas, 500
Comberford, Richard, 518 ;
Robert, 507 .
Congdon, Canon, 367
Constable, arms. 445
Constantine, Geoffrey de,
34, 48
Conyers, family, 463, 464
Cooke, James, 446, 464 ;
John, 314, 486; Robert,
235; William, 305, 527
Coope, John, 453
Cope, Joseph, 158
Copestake, W. G., 125
Corbett, Judith, 269 ; Sir
Richard, 268
Corfield, Frederick, 235, 237
Corke, Ralph, 521
Corner, John le, 506
Cornere, John de la, 145
Cornish, H. K., 494
Cornthwaite, Thomas, 52
Cornwall, Cecily, 328
Corringham, Robert de, 481
Cortell, John, 436
Cost, William, 425
Cosyne, family, 38
Coton. family, 305 ; Henry
de, 4, 6 ; Nicholas, 303
Cottesmore, Peter de, 505
Cottingham, Henry, 466,
467, 506
Cotton, arms, 225 ; family,
225; George, 157, 158;
Richard, 107
Coughland, Richard, 459
Coup, John, 517
Coupland, James, 237
Courtman, Humphrey, 259
Coventry, Richard de, 441,
442
Cowlishaw, William, 237
Cowper, family, 48 ; John,
173,222; Peter, 480; Tho-
mas, 47 ; William, 323 "
INDEX OF PERSONS.
549
Cox, J. H., 516
C ran well, Luke, 148
Crauford, John, 197
Craven, Richard de, 441
Cra/wshaw, family, 276
Crello, Herbert, 457
Cressegh, Roger, 516
Cressi, family, 519
Creswell, James, 507
Creswick, Joseph, 510
Cretyug, William, 501
Crewcher, family, 30
Crewe, Sir John, 18
Crich, family, 149, 150 ;
Henry de, 213 ; Roger,
484
Croke, John, 472
Crombie, Francis, 516
Crompton, J. G., 324; John,
522
Cromwell, family, 219, 221,
222, 249; Ralph de, 482;
Ralph, Lord, 220; Sir
John de, 478
Crosse, Nicholas, 509
Crowshawe, John, 291 ;
Richard, 9&
Crull, Thomas, 305
Crump, Thomas, 180
Crychelowe, John, 516
Crydeling, family, 482
Cryer, Samuel, 499; Robert,
504
Cuerton, George, 481
Cuudale, Stephen de, 259
Cunlifie, Mr., 109
Cupper, Richard, 425
Currey, Charles, 466, 467;
Robert, 518
Cursham, T. L., 449
Curvay, John, 480
Curzou, arms, 331, 431;
David, F., 269; family,
29, 310, 33Q, 332, 628-1';
Frederick E. H., 306; Sir
John, 109, 303, 305; Wil-
liam de, 268
Custaucia, Roger de, 463
Cutler, C. S., 506
Cutt, William, 235
Cyberei, Martin de, 424,
425, 427
D.
Dabridgecourt, arms, 402;
family, 401
Dacre, Leonard. 464
Dalby, Hugo de, 476
Dale, Abbot of, 184, 185,
187, 196, 216, 235, 258,
259, 518 ; Abbott and Con-
vent of, 41 ; Geoffrey, 133 ;
John, 104; Roger de la,
487, 513, 516; Thomas,
13, 52
Dalton, family, 463 ; J. W.,
180; William, 513
Dauby, John, 284
Daiid, John, 357 ; William,
457
Dane, Thomas, 519
Dangerfield, James, 278
Daniel, C. J.,507; Thomas,
510; William, 269
Darby, G. W., 486 ; Henry,
180
Darbyshire, William, 227,
299
Darcy, family, 401, 447,
463; John, Baron, 335;
Philip, 464
Darel, William, 16
Darley, Abbot of, 283, 286,
357, 518 ; Nicholas de, 504
Darlington, Robert, 517
Daukyn, Thomas, 514
Davenport, John, 465 ; Jon-
athan, 437 ; Samuel, 52.
245
Davison, William, 518
Davy, John, 441 ; Richard,
38,41,45,47, 61; Thomas,
503
Davys, George, 526
Dawes, Richard, 478
Dawsou, family, 430 ; John,
477; Robert, 436; Wil-
liam, 425
Day, John, 155 ; Walter,
515
Deacon, J. C. H., 442
Dean, John, 490, 497, 507;
Mr., 465
Degge, Sir Simon, 127, 155,
295
Deincourt, family, 469, 485 ;
Francis, Lord, 441, 466,
474, 480, 482 ; Roger, 443 ;
William, 457
Denby, John de, 251, 441,
442
Deneford, Robert de, 476
Deuton, John, 480
Derby, Edward, Earl, 482 ;
Edward de, 234 ; family,
513 ; Henry de, 6 ; John
de, 173, 490; Peter de,
476 ; Robert de, 41, 520 ;
Thomas, 323, 465; Wil-
liam, 196, 425
Dermeyne, Richard, 147
Despencer, arms, 477
Dethick, Anthony, 443 ;
Charles, 494 ; family, 44,
274, 276
Devonshire, Christiana,
C. of, 98, 101, 358, 487;
Duke of, 357, 358, 449,
466, 476, 478, 487, 5i>6;
Earl of, 487, 499; Wil-
liam, Earl of, 98, 100, 101,
461, 467, 506, 516, 518
D'Ewes, Sir Simon, 405
Dey, Oliver, 480; Robert,
484
Diggle, Edmund, 382
Dikon, John, 494
Dixie, family, 148, 159 ; Sir
Wolstan, 51, 52, 59, 147
Dixon, John, 471
Docwra, Thomas, 17
Dod, John, 63
Dode, William, 467
Dodson, Mr., 476
Donne, Thomas, 458
Donner, John, 173
Doughty, Richard, 78
Douglas, S. D. C., 80, 93
Doulfin, Thomas, 279
Dover, J. M.,499
Doveton, Frederick, 471
Downe, Thomas, 505
Downes, Robert, 389
Downham, William, 449
Drake, John, 448
Dranfield, Nicholas de, 512
Draper, Fletcher, 237
Dravcott, Anthony, 487,
521 ; family, 486 ; Richard
de, 469 ; William de. 34,
51
Drayton, Robert de, 452
Dronfleld, Thomas de, 471
Drury, Edmund, 323 ; Wil-
liam, 253
Duckett, family, 425 ; Hen-
ry, 464
Dudson, George, 441
Duffield, John, 47, 147 ;
Robert, 501 ; William,
155, 173, 487
Dugdale, Sir William, 236,
237
Dunne, family, 163, 167
Dunstable, Prior of, 516
Duporte, Henry, 78
Durant, family, 454
Durdant, Bp. Walter de,
34, 131, 145, 163
Duredent, William, 379,
381
Durham, John, 466
Duxbury, Thomas, 133
Dyche, Sarah, 408
Dylke, Thomas, 243, 244
Dyton, John, 454
E.
Eardley, Edward, 167
Earnshaw, John, 504
Earp, John, 463
Eaton, Laurence, 473
Ebsworth, G. S., 259
Eckington, Ralph de, 480;
William, 464
Eddowes, Robert, 516
Eddy, S.R., 512
Edmond, Robert, 259
Edmunds, John, 140
Edmundson, family, 380,
392; Ralph, 174
Edric, son of Coin, 69, 171
Edwards, John, 477,482,501,
512; Joseph, 19; Richard,
472 ; William, 453
Egerton, family, 470
Eggingtoii, Henry, 174
Elcock, Thomas, 471
Eley, Gerard, 469 ; Gervase,
467 ; John, 52
Elistone, John, 81; Wil-
liam, 18
Elyngthorpe, George, 469
Ellesmere, Earl of. 504
Ellison, W. J. Al., 133
550
DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Eliot, family, 506
Ellys, Richard, 241
Elton, William, 117
England, Thomas, 52, 61
Ensor, Richard, 516
Erringtou, J. R., 513
Erskine, Hon. Thomas, 448
Esiaferen, arms, 325
Estcourt, E. B., 4(54
Ethelwald, Bp., 377, 393
Eton, John de, 473
Eulowe, Edmund de, 388
Evans, A. E., 213 ; family,
289
Evatt, Robert, 244
Eversholt, John de, 516
Every, family, 188, 191, 192 ;
Henry, 155; Sir H. F.,
187 ; Sir Simon, 186
Edwin, Matthews, 487
Exton, Brian, 368; William,
513
Eyre, Adam, 37; Daniel,
174; Edmund, 509, 510;
Edward, 506; family, 60,
290, 431 ; G. H., 448 ;
Hugo, 499, 512 ; J. F. N.,
259; John, 450; Mrs.,
429; Philip, 443; Robert,
454; Rowland, 492; Thur-
stan, 505
Eyres, Thomas, 37
Eytou, Thomas, 521; Wil-
liam de, 481, 519
F.
Fairbam, family, 431
Fane, Thomas, 511
Farewell, arms, 10
Farmer, Roger, 19
Farnham, Adrian, 290
Farnworth, Elias, 305, 515,
517
Farran, Frederick, 499
Farway, arms, 10
Faulkner, Gervase, 399
Fayreclough, Hugh, 431 ;
Richard, 450
Feepound, John, 63
Feilden, H. J., 269
Fieldsend, William, 509
Felley, Prior of, 37, 45
Felowe, William, 477
Felson, John, 474
Felton, Henry, 483
Fenton, Adam de, 450 ;
John, 305
Fentresper, Richard de,
500
Fereley, Thomas de, 463;
William de, 447
Feme, William, 518
Ferrers, arms, 67, 58, 62;
Edward, 58, 63; family,
131,163; Henry de, 821;
John, 487 ; Margaret, 56,
67; Ralph de, 474; Ro-
bert de, 33, 145, 171 ;
Thomas de, 37
Fesand, John, 51
Feusan, John, 516
Ffytche, arms, 404
Fiddler, Thomas, 477
Field, Thomas, 480; Wal-
ter, 149
Finch, J. A., 6
Findern, arms, 314; family,
22, 30, 313, 314 ; Hugo
de, 435 ; John de, 305,
317; Ralph de, 51,484;
Thomas, 310
Fiudley, William, 437
Fisher, Robert, 196; Wil-
liam, 521
Fitz Geremund, Ralph, 183
Fitzherbert, family, 335,
525; Francis, 78; John,
613; Nicholas, 32, 314;
Ralph, 69, 131 ; Sir An-
thony, 305 ; Thomas, 485 ;
William, 344
Fitzhubert, Ralph, 15, 33,
145, 156, 267, 355, 435
Fitznicholas, family, 267;
Robert, 268, 269
Fitz Odo, Ralph, 48
Fitzpiers, Peter, 355, 356
Fitz Ralph, arms, 62 ; fa-
mily, 33, 34, 35, 131, 137,
183, 195; Hubert, 355;
Ralph, 52; William, 184
Fitzstephen, Ralph, 355,
356, 358
Fitzwalter, Hubert, 355
Fitzwilliam, Earl, 504
Flamstede, John, 173, 222
Flanders, Baldwin, Earl of,
219
Flanatead, John, 416
Fleetwood, family, 178
Fletcher, John, 323 ; Philip,
487; Richard, 88; Walter,
19
Flood, Edward, 459
Flynte Christopher, 453
Foderingye, Walter de, 500
Foley, E. W., 80 ; Lord, 504
Foljambe, family, 500 ;
George, 482 ; Godfrey,
494 ; Henry, 496 ; James,
305, 446, 456, 518 : Robert,
463, 484 ; Roger, 510 ;
William. 474
Folnitt, family, 285
Fonteneys, Robert, 460
Ford, James, 492; Ralph,
187 ; Richard, 513
Forester, family, 459; John,
458; Richard, 507
Forte, Thomas, 493
Foston, Henry de, 454
Foucher, family, 165 ; John,
150, 154 ; Robert, 167
Foukes, Thomas, 450
Fowle, John, 470
Fowler, Gervase, 464; John,
234
Fox, Henry, 317; John, 47;
Mr., 258, 259; Samuel,
245, 324, 340, 342; Wil-
liam, 512
Foxlowe, Francis, 465
Frampton, arms and family,
290
Franceys, family, 297 ; Sir
Thomas, 198 ; William,
484
Francis, Arthur, 197; Roger,
476; Vicar of Williugton,
437
Franke, Edmund, 515
Frankisshe, Richard, 469
William, 18
Frecheville, Anker de, 484 ;
arms, 62 ; family, 34, 137,
195, 478: Ralph de, 38;
Sir Peter, 251
French, family, 425
Freney, Roger, 463 518
Frodesham, Robert de, 6
Fulnetby, Christopher, 509
Fulthorpe, family, 389
G.
Gadesby, William, 305
Gamble, John, 125
Gamson, Robert, 501
Gamutt, George, 503
Gamulston, William de, 449
Gant, Gilbert de, 219, 257
Gardiner, Laurence, 382 ;
Simon, 464 ; William,
466, 476
Garmstou, family, 501
Garrard, Richard, 519
Garton, John, 52; Thomas
de, 367 ; William, 51, 479
Gasci, Amalric de, 183, 184
Gaunt, John of, 260
Gauseliuus, Cardinal John,
378, 381, 386
Gayteburton, John de, 480
Gee, Robert, 148
Gell, Anthony, 519 ; family,
519 ; Philip, 472 ; Ralph,
284,492; Sir John, 203,
204, 286, 493
Geoffrey, Bishop, 146
Gernon, William, 164
Getcliffe, Robert, 516
Gibbons, Grinling, 239
Gibbs, the Architect, 92
Gifford, arms, 154, 188 ; Sir
John, 486
Gilbert, John, 512; Thomas,
285, 472; William, 222,
303
Gilby, John, 453
Gilder, William, 286
Gildeston, John de, 436
Giles, Archdeacon of Berks,
72
Gilkes, Walter, 476
Gisborne, family, 478
Gladwin, Lemuel, 482
Glap well, Thomas, 451, 485 ;
William, 467
Glasier, Geoffrey, 509
Glossop, John, 487
Gloucester, Richard de, 381
Glynn, George. 77
Goddard, family, 504 ; I.,
63; Joseph, 244
Godelyng, Robert, 133
Godfrey, John, 516
INDEX OF PERSONS.
551
Godman, William, 520
Godmannus, Frater, 196
Godwin, Thomas, 269
Goldie, A. B., 197
Goldsmith, Edmund, 498
Gomfrey, family, 460, 462 ;
Thomas, 459
Gonaleston, William de, 481
Goodread, Thomas, 513
Goodwin, Samuel, 116, 121;
Kichard,492; William, 497
Goodyar, G. D., 482
Gordon,family,519; George,
485, 518; Henry, 521;
John, 517
Gough, John, 5] 9
Gould, Thomas, 448; Wil-
liam, 235
Goushull, Sir Walter, 445 ;
Thomas de, 482
Gower, John, 459
Gown, John, 477
Goythe, John, 487
Grace, Job, 382; Robert,
436, 437
Graneby, Richard de, 469
Granger, Dorothy, 429 ;
Thomas, 515
Granville, G. J., 475
Greatorex, family, 222, 226 ;
Mr. 109
Greaves, family, 522; John,
483, 492 ; William, 207
Green, Christopher, 464 ;
Henry, 148, 519; John,
510; William, 115, 45«
Greenthwaite, Launcelot.
487
Greenwood, alias Sheffield,
John, 447
Gregge, family, 263
Gregory, G. B., 237 ; John,
463, 534
Grendon, William de, 184
Gresham, Sir Thomas, 303
Gresley, family, 257, 524
Gretehead, Robert, 463
Greveye, Robert de, 518
Greville, family, 516
Grey, arms, 62, 236, 325,
407; Elizabeth, 237, 410;
family, 41, 211, 233, 234,
404,409,416,476,477,479;
Hon. Anchitel, 402, 403 ;
John H.,450; John, Lord,
236; Richard, 244; Rich-
ard, Lord, 251
Grice, Elias, 95
Griffin, Bartholomew, 518 ;
Ludovicus, 483
Griffith, John, 464 ; Sir
Henry, 404
Grinfield, Thomas, 477
Gronginett, Stephen, 207 ;
T. V., 140
Grove, Thomas, 487, 493
Groves, W. K., 519
Gryll, Hugo, Abbot of Ches-
ter, 424
Guldeford, John de, 479
Gurney, Hugh, 37
Gwente, Richard, 486, 493
Gylot, John, 244
H.
Hacket, Bishop, 106, 513
Haddon, Geoffrey de, 447
Hadfield, Charles, 506
Haidocke, Thomas, 523
Hake, John de, 520
Hales, Robert de, 18
Halghes, Geoffrey, 498
Halghton, John de, 504
Halington, Humphrey de,
479
Hall. Charles, 466 ; George,
487 ; Gervase, 79, 100, 197;
H. B., 411 ; James, 465 ;
John, 517, 518 ; Joseph,
477 ; Laurence, 425 ; R. P.,
512 ; Roger del, 476 ;
Thomas, 465
Hallam, Henry de, 244 ;
John de, 221 ; Ralph de,
211 ; Richard, 222
Halliday, George, 8
Hallowes. family, 474 ; Na-
thaniel, 378
Hallson, Richard, 454
Halsted, family, 19
Halton, Immanuel, 469, 487 ;
Miles, 358 ; Thomas, 453
Halughton, William de, 457
Hambleton, Alexander, 506
Hambury, William de, 48?
Hammencourt, arms, 188
Hancock, John, 443 ; Ro-
bert, 461
Haneygate, Robert de, 173
Hankey, Henry, 486
Hanley, William de, 509
Hanson, Samuel, 516
Harcott, William, 303, 305
Hardestry, family, 518
Harding, John, 305 ; W.,
393
Hardwick, John, 98 ; S. A.,
470.
Harcourt, family, 474
Harley, Robert, 450
Harnesby, Geoffrey, 471
Harpur, arms, 29, 253. 310 ;
Barbara, 148 ; crest, 253 ;
family, 29, 30, 147, 162,
167,253,310,311,335,338;
Hodgson Francis, 494 ;
John, 19, 20, 78, 268, 322,
323, 327, 472 ; Richard, 18
Harrabim, Malin, 517
Harrington, Earl of, 197 ;
family, 204 ; Nicholas, 389
Harris, Thomas, 521
Harrison, Francis, 477 ;
John, 450, 476, 482; Mi-
chael, 521 ; Nicholas, 474 ;
Ralph, 406 ; Robert, 458 ;
Thomas, 125, 254, 293,505;
Harthull, Richard de, 512
Hartley, Stephen, 507
Hartshorne, Matthew, 465 ;
Michael, 469
Harvey, family, 447 ; Ni-
cholas, 244
Harwood, John, 521
Haselbeach, Adam, 48; fa-
mily, 517
Haslam, Christopher, 459,
461 ; Edward, 447 ; John,
63
Haslehurst, Robert, 514
Hassell, Agnes, 60
Hastings, Lord William,
234 ; Robert de, Abbot of
Chester, 321
Hathelsey, Richard de, 469
Hattou, arms and family,
388
Haughton, John, 222
Hauk, Christopher, 513 ;
Nicholas, 381. 383
Havey. Thomas, 474
Hawe, arms, 403 ; family,
402 ; Henry, 404
Hawford, Mr., 109
Hawkswell, Gregory, 150
345, 346
Hawksworth, Josias, 235
Hawson, Richard, 453, 454
Hawton, William, 305
Haxall, William, 506
Haxby, Stephen, 443
Hay, Richard, 501, 507
Haydocke, Thomas, 517
Hayes, Thomas, 507
Haynton, Michael de, 484 ;
Robert de, 500
Hayton, E. T.,516, 518
Hayward, Richard, 459 ;
Thomas, 493
Haywood, George, 93 ;
John, 48, 196; Mr., 459
Hayworth, Walter de, 4t>3
Heacock, William, 19
Heald, William, 482
Heanor, Nicholas de, 469 ;
William de, 133, 268
Heape, Hugo, 512
Hearon. Paul, 357
Heathcote, family, 247, 254,
470 ; Ralph, 478, 480, 482,
5"9; Richard, 305
Hebbe, John, 474
Hedderly, Daniel 134 ;
George, 298, 411; Thomas,
192, 227, 239, 298, 308,
431, 534
Heith, Richard, 249
Helps. C. L., 458
Hemmingway, John, 135
Henderson, Mr., 191
Henmore, Roger, 454
Henry, Dean of Derby, 72 ;
Rector of Weston, 425
Heushaw, Richard, 141
Heppenstall, Brian, 446
Hepworth, John, 188, 191
Herbert, Sir Henry, 192
Herby, John, 454
Herdley, John de, 478
Herdman, William, 244
Hereford, Richard de, 473
Herincton, family, 6
Heriugsted, Christopher,
465
Heriz, Ivo de, 45
Heronville, family, 185
Hertestoft, John de, 485
Hertfordton, John de, 6
Herthull, Richard de, 496
552
DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Hertwell John de, 469
Hervey, Henry, 476
Heth, John, 47
Hewitt, family, 469; James,
485 ; John, 479 ; Richard,
499 ; Robert, 458
Hexi, Thomas, 457
Hexuldesham, William de,
512
Hey, Samuel, 207, 208
Heyford, Robert de, 323
Heynor, arms, 236
Heyth, George, 187
Heyworth, Bp., 138; John,
381
Heywood, Robert, 515
Hibbert, Henry, 347
Hibton, John, 521
Hickingbotham, family, 430
Hickling, John de, 467;
Richard, 279; William
de, 222
Higden, Ralph, 269
Higgs, William, 382, 453
Higham, arms, 177
Highmore, P M., 197
Hill, Henry, 464 ; John, 19,
511; Joseph, 368; Rich-
ard, 454 ; Thomas, 453
Hills, T. C., 450; Thomas,
466
Hilton, Robert de, 146, 147 ;
Thomas, 482
Hinchclyffe, Edward, 291 ;
family, 286
Hinckley, John, 482
Hincksman, Thomas, 453
Hinton, John, 470
Hirton, James, 470
Hodgkinson, John, 174
Hodson, William, 450
Hoggerson, William, 512
Hoggesthorpe, Philip de,
474
Hoghton, Walter de, 479
Holborne, Nicholas, 357
Holbroke, Charles, 141
Holden, family, 5, 6, 7, 11,
254, 425, 430; James
Robert, 475
Holewayes, Godfrey, 37
Holford, arms, 10; family,
335
Holland, James, 501 ; John
de, 173; Richard, Earl,
'222 ; Thomas de, 494 ;
William, 472
Hollingham, John, 117
Hollingshead, James, 518
Hollis, Thomas, 482 ; Wil-
liam, 473
Holme, John. 465; Richard,
523; Robert, 482
Holmes, Henry, 222; James,
278; M., 52; Nicholas,
196, 197; Richard, 244;
William, 477
Holmesfield, William, 509
Holt, David, 465; Edward,
420; James, 472; Rich-
ard, 478
Holwell, Thomas, 285
Hombersley, William, 519
Honeye, Thomas, 518
Hoord, arms, 202
Hope, Benjamin, 518;
Charles, 174 ; Charles
Stead, 117, 512; family,
79, 133; John, 100;
Mark, 286; Robert, 450;
William, 63, 147, 149, 151,
155, 229, 259, 498
Hopkins, John, 516
Hoppeley, John, 51
Hopton, Adam de, 476
Hopwell, arms, 333 ; John,
332
Hordron, John, 461
Horeston, John del, 187
Hornby, Henry, 470
Home, Cornelius, 441, 449;
Edward, 360 ; John, 477 ;
Ralph, 521 ; Robert, 222
Horobin, Laurence, 133, 513
Horsburgh, James, 259
Horsington, Jasper, 109,
286, 299
Horton, John de, 478; Mr.,
108 ; Walter, 79
Horunngwode, Marma-
duke de, 500
Horwood, John, 477
Horyngham, William de,
465
Hosteler, family, 476
Hoster, Thomas, 305
Hotham, Frederick, 174
Hotoft, John, 473
Hoton, Richard, 491, 493
Houbell, John, 4b5
Houghton, John, 79, 99
Houlkes, John, 179
Hoveden, Mr., 65
Howard, family, 504 ; Gar-
ton, 518; Henry, 268;
J. G., 133; Sir George,
348
Howe. Christopher, 504 ;
George, 357
Ho well, Thomas, 259
Hower, John, 150
Hucknall, John de, 466, 474
Hudleston, Milo, 323, 470
Hudson, Henry, 513 ; Tho-
mas, 197; William, 460,
465
Hugh, Dean of Derby, 71,
131, 145; Earl of Chester,
3, 321, 423; Rector of
Eckington. 463
Hughes, J. H., 19
Hull, Adam de, 48
Hulley, Robert, 505; Tho-
mas, 443
Hulme, John, 187
Hulmes, James, 269
Hulyu, William, 501, 519
Humble, M. M., 480
Humbleton, James, 516
Hume, F. H., 499
Hummondsey, Robert, 486
Hundemanly, William de.
457
Hungton, William de, 517
Hunloke, Sir Henry, 221
Hunne, John, 448
Hunt, arms, 16 ; family, 5 ,
9, 10 ; Thomas, 449, 500
Huntingdon, Robert, 430
Hurd, Nathaniel, 519; Wil-
liam, 467
Hurst, arms, 202
Hurt, Henry, 425; Robert,
513 ; William, 514
Hutchinson, Cuthbert, 453 ;
John, 19; Luke, 513;
Michael, 79, 89, 91, 92, 96,
368; Thomas, 140
Hutton, John, 278
Huys, John, 381, 383
Hyndeley, William de, 504
Hynkeley, John, 482
Hyton, Joseph, 47, 51
I.
Ibbotson, John, 507
Ible, Robert, 513
Ilkesdon, John, 47
Ilkeston, family, 259 ; Wil-
liam, 463
Inett, family, 521 ; Richard,
501
Ingleby, arms, 431 ; John,
463
Ingram, Peter, 145
Inskip, William, 458
Insula, John de, 463
Irelond, Walter, 518
Ireton, Walter, 485
Irton, Robert, 520
Isabell, Robert, 454
Islip, Archbishop, 49, 367
J.
Jackson, G. C., 504; Isaac,
176; J., 411; Robert, 448;
Thomas, 501, 519; Wil-
liam, 292
Jacques, John, 459, 465,
512 ; Simon, 368
Jameson, William, 481
Jepson, Magister, 510
Jerome, William, 176
Jervis, family, 343
Jessop, George, 278 ; Wil-
liam, 448
Jobson, John, 142
John, Bishop of Lichfield,
234; Chaplain of Bramp-
ton, 457 ; Earl of Shrews-
bury, 443 ; Rector of
Morley, 324 ; Vicar of
Tideswell, 507
Johnson, Dr., 180 ; N. P.,
7; Richard, 174, 501;
Robert, 133 ; Thomas,
518
Jones, Nicholas, 117 ; Sir
Samuel, 448 ; Thomas,
516
Jonson, William, 317
Jourdain. Francis, 513
Jurdan, John, 518
Justes, Henry, 517
INDEX OF PERSONS.
553
K.
Kaiieton, John de, 463
Kay, Nicholas, 147, 357 ;
Richard, 521
Kayues, John de, 484
Kelsall, John, 473, 506
Kempson, Henry, 441
Kendale, John de, 259
Kendall, Thomas, 133
Kent, Henry, 244, 248
Kenyon, Adamson, 510
Kerry, Charles, 348, 533
Kersington, Nicholas de,
187, 476, 517 ; William de,
357, 515
Kewley, J. W., 519
Key, Mr., 478
Keyes, Henry, 405, 416 ;
Thomas, 467
Keynes, John de, 517
Kibworth, Robert de, 501
Kilbie, Richard, 79, 97, 100
Kilburn, Robert, 450 ; Tho-
mas de, 213
Kildale, John de, 469
Kime, Ann, 8 ; John, 9 ;
William, 466
Kiualton, William de, 196
Kindar, Richard, 294
Kinelworth, Nicholas de,
500
King, George, 483 ; John,
474
Kingston, family, 448 ;
Richard de, 447
Kirk, John by the, 479;
Robert, 534 ; William,
490, 507, 509, 510
Kirkby, Nicholas de, 466;
Robert, 473 ; Thomas, 4ti4
Kirkby-Lackthorpe, Henry
de, '221
Kirkland, family, 61, 238;
John, 60
Kirkman, Robert, 485
Kitchingman, John, 51 i
Kiiaugresse, Thomas, 469
Knight, Sir Edward, 380;
W. D., 162
Knights Hospitallers, 15,
16,33
Knighton, Goddard, 515
Kniveton, Anne, 514 ;
family, 522 ; Lady Fran-
cis, 278; Richard, 512;
Roger de, 513; Thomas,
516
Knowles, arms, 404 ; family,
401; J.D., 504
KybbaUe, Roger, 48
Kychyne, William, 471
Kynaston, John, 510
Kynnersley, Clement, 2"22,
480; Walter, 187; Wil-
liam, 37, 44, 473
L.
Latchford, Matthew, 447
Lago, Robert, 437
Lake, Dame Mary, 207
Lamb, Edward, 466
Lamley, Robert de, 484;
Simon de, 457 ; Thomas,
165
Lancaster, Thomas, 173;
Thomas, Earl of, 479
Lane, family, 277 ; Martin,
453, 501; William, 516
Langley, arms, 331 ; family,
330 ; William, 518
Langstaffe, William, 454
Langstrother, John, 18
Langton, Bishop W. de, 75,
367, 378, 464 ; Hugh de,
463; Robert. 487; Tho-
mas, 499
Lassells, George, 446
Latham, John, 19
Lathbury,arms, 188 ; family,
186
Lathwell, Hannah, 11
Laughton, William, 286
Launde, family, 324; Prior
of, 504
Laurence, Abbot of Darley,
150
Laverok, Thomas, 476
Law, Edmund, 368
Lawe, John, 76, 95, 139, 501
Lawrence, Benjamin, 502,
517; John, 478; 485;
Thomas, 382
Lawson, Christopher, 493 ;
John, 357
Lawtou, family, 274
Lay, family, 222
Layley, William, 463
Leadbetter, William, 507
Ledenham, Thomas de, 500
Ledward, W. J., 358
Lee, George, 380, 381;
Henry, 455, 519; John,
486; Ralph, 36, 151;
Richard, 502
Leech, family, 56, 332 ;
Laurence, 6, 483 ; Sir Ed-
ward, 380, 398, 492, 495,
497,500,509; Sir Francis,
493; William, 454
Leeke, Alan, 305 ; family,
98, 211,212,213,474,479;
Nicholas, 486 ; Sir Fran-
cis, 441, 446, 480; Sir
John, 453
Lees, Alexander, 37 ; Roger
de, 454; Samuel, 235
Legat, John , 474
Leicester, Adam de, 149,
150 ; Milo de, 520; Ralph
de, Abbot of Darley, 355 ;
Richard de, 196
Leigh, family, 186, 188, 191,
192,470; Henry de, 425;
John, 500 ; Joseph, 187 ;
Peter, 323; Thomas, 514
Lekebourne, Hugo de, 212
Lely, John de, 132
Lente, William, 479
Lenton, John de, 133, 513 ;
Prior of, 244
Leuric, 69, 145
Leuricus, Abbot of Barton,
70
Levenot, 267, 355
Leventhorpe, family, 185
Lewis, G. W., 52; Lewis,
207 ; (alias Pygott)
Richard, 425 ; Thomas,
290, 516
Lexington, arms, 201 ;
Henry de, 488; Richard
de, 202
Leybourne, John, 367
Leyton, Ambrose, 17
Licet, William, 358
Ligon, Richard, 529
Lillingstone, Edward, 80
Lilly, Edward, 19
Lillylowe, Thomas, 453,
515, 519
Lillyman, John, 474, 486
Limme, arms, 326
Linacre, Hugo de, 457
Lincoln, Dean of, 484, 513,
515 ; Hugo de, 480
Lincolnia, Norman de, 69,
171
Liptrot, Isaac, 323
Lister, arms, 119; Dorothy,
472; family, 119; John,
120
Liverpool, William, 196
Liversage, Alice, 151 ; Ro-
bert, 82, 83, 150, 151
Llewellyn, David, 501
Lloyd, Bp., 177 ; family, 519
Lobley, John, 453
Lockett, William, 115, 133,
140, 174
Lomas, Henry, 506
Lombe, William, 323
Loadeforth, Hugh de, 37
London, Johnde, 145; Wal-
ter, 173; William de, 213
Longeley, Henry de, 173
Longespee, Bp. Roger, 365,
377
Longford, family, 445, 446,
470, 485 ; Mrs., 429; Nigel
de, 332; Sir Nicholas,
469, 473, 482 ; Sir Ralph,
486 ; Thomas de, 485
Longmire, J. L., 368
Longvilliers, arms, 201 ; fa-
mily, 202
Lonsdale, Bp., 229
Lord, Adam, 467; family,
276 ; W. A., 482
Loscow, John, 47, 487 ; Wil-
liam de, 259
Loughborow, John, 147,357
Lowde, Roger, 466
Lowe, arms, 252 ; ArthurJ
368; crest, 253; E. W.,
486; Edmund, 286; fa-
mily, 25, 239, 251, 252, 253,
512 ; Henry. 293 ; John,
108, 133, 197 ; Laurence,
248 ; Richard, 464 ; Tho-
mas, 259, 507 ; William
Drury, 254
Loweden, Thomas de, 484
Lucius III., Pope, 69
Lucy, William, 436
Luda, Henry de, 519
Ludlam, William, 449
554
DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Luraley, arms, 346 ; family,
327
Lund, John, 519 ; Thomas,
470
Lupus, Hugh, Earl of Ches-
ter, and arms, 431
Lyburgh, Bartholomew, 520
Lyohtegne, John de, 516
Lyllyng, Thomas, 4C6
Lynden, William de, 505
Lynley, Leonard, 447
Lynton, William de, 259
Lytton, Christopher, 510 ;
John, 485
M.
Mabilsteyn, John, 17
Mablethorpe, .Roger de, 484
Mace, Phineas, 446, 458
Macfarlane, J. D., 478
Macham, Nicholas, 133, 174
Machyu, Richard, 512
Mackworth, arms, 119 ;
John, 76 ; William, 268
Madan, Spencer, 382
Madox, Richard, 474
Mafeld, John, 482
Mainwaring, Kellam, 472
Makkeby, family, 187
Malam, William, 512
Malcave, Richard, 480
Malerya, Richard, 334
Malet, Robert, 517
Malinere, William, 6, 244
Malkey, Richard, 469
Malloy, Robert, 18
Malstany, Simon, 367
Maltby, J. W., 470; John,
515
Malyn, John, 234, 235
Mandersley, Richard, 459
Mandeville, Peter, 458
Manley, arms and family,
373
Manlove, Thomas, 109, 117
Mann, Hugh, 512 ; W. M.,
610
Manners, family, 226, 483;
Gertrude, 621 ; Grace,
Lady, 259; John, 258,515
Mansfield, Hugo de, 453 ;
Thomas, 425
Manson, A. T. G., 504;
John, 513
Manvers, Earl, 448
Mapulton, Henry, 515,
John de, 518
Mar, Robert de, 463
Marchington, Nicholas de,
446
Mareys, John, 490
Marisco, Richard de, 379,381
Markeaton, Walter de, 172,
173
Markham, arms, 445 ;
family, 202, 445
Markland, Edward, 510
Marnham, Richard de, 478
Marriott, family, 253 ; H.
P., 449; John, 46, 47, 117;
Randolph, 521
Marsh, John, 269
Marshall, arms,202 ; family,
60; John, 446, 458
Martin, family, 147 ; Hugo,
467 ; Peter, 146 ; Thomas,
473
Marton, Richard, 498
Mason, family, 483, 515 ;
George, 478; John, 52,
436, 470 ; Robert, 148, 155;
Thomas, 244
Massey, arms, 429 ; family,
325; J. C., 471; Jane,
249; William, 493, 497,
510
Masson, John, 505, 521
Masters, Stephen, 501
Mathews, Thomas, 441
Matilda, dau. of Robert,
Dean of Derby, 79
Matley, Dorothy, 443
Matlock, Gilbert de, 460
Mauclerk, John, 457
Maulovel, arms, 201 ; Ste-
phen, 202
Mauser, Richard, 480
Maxwell, Thomas, 477
Maynard, A. L., 443
Mears, C. &G..124, 125, 180;
Thomas, 314, 351, 438;
Thomas and Son, 135, 168
Medeley, Thomas, 207
Melbourn, William de, 471
Melion, John de, 500
Mellor, Joseph, 448, 518;
Richard, 30, 397, 405, 420 ;
Robert, 254
Melton, William, 513
Mercy, Thomas, 465
Merlache, Henry de, 48
Mereton, Geoffrey de, 516
Metcalfe, George, 207
Meverell, Arthur, 509 ;
Hugh, 511
Meymott, Edward, 471, 512
Meynell, family, 268, 269,
276, 277, 278; Godfrey,
270 ; Hugh, 172 ; Robert
de, 457 ; Thomas de, 504 ;
William, 497
Middlemore, Richard, 416
Middleton, Gilbert de, 484 ;
John, 235; Robert, 269,
519 ; Thomas, 454
Miller, Edward, 222; Mr.,
498
Mills, Malkin, 473
Milne, R. M., 512
Milner, John, 481 ; Thomas,
437
Milward, arms, 177 ; family,
24, 178, 358 ; Henry, 177 ;
Joseph, 245 ; Sir Thomas,
523
Minster, John de la, 446
Mitchell, William, 465
Molesworth, W. E. N., 521;
Molineux, Edward, 403 ;
family, 401, 409
Molynton, John de, 517
Mome, Robert, 367
Mon, William, 497
Monck, Garstelowe, 493
Monte, Alto, family, 423;
William de, 425
Montgomery, family, 3 3,
486 ; Hugo de, 5 la ; Wil-
liam de, 478
Monyash, John, 213 ; Tho-
mas, 174 ; William de, 615
Mookson, Robert, 498
Moore, Ambrose, 19 ; Ber-
nard, 478; E. M., 513;
family, 501, 512; Joseph,
366 ; Mr., 117
Mordant, William, 392
More, Francis, 425 ; George,
472, 528 ; John, 133. 447 ;
Mr., 519 ; Philip, 286
Morewood, family, 44'2 ;
John, 222
Morley, arms, 330, 331 ;
family, 321, 324, 423;
Hugo de, 325; Thomas,
357 ; Walter de, 211
Morphy, Garatt, 35
Morse, John, 269
Morteyn, arms, 401 ; family,
401
Morton, arms, 89 ; Richard,
448; Robert, 187, 518;
Roger, 458
Moseley, Sir Edward, 172
Mosley, family, 188
Mossley, Thomas, 601
Mountgrace, Prior of, 447
Mountjoy, family, 199, 200 ;
William, Lord, 486
Mower. George, 222
Mozley, Henry, 177
Mulchow, family, 473
Mundy, Adrian 109; arms,
289 ; family, 238, 286, 289,
290, 294,295,298; Fran-
cis, 285, 291, 293 ; M. H.
M., 324
Murillo, 191
Musard, family, 62; Nicho-
las, 478
Muschamp, Bishop Geoff,
de, 423,506
Muskham, Robert de, 257
Mussey, Henry, 506
Musters, Geoffrey de, 183,
184
Mykbrother, John, 41
Myles, Thomas, 516
Myln, Thomas, 153
Mylton, arms, 252
Mynars, Ralph, 147
N.
Nadan, William, 518
NasKiiigton. John de, 457
Nath, J., 126
Navelton, WiUiam de, 457
Neale, arms and family, 401
Needham, arms, 89; R.,
518 ; Roger, 187
Nettleworth, Henry de, 466
Neville, family, 472 ; Fran-
cis, 446 ; Ralph, Earl of
Westmoreland, 389 ; Tho-
mas de, 381
INDEX OF PERSONS.
555
Newark, John, 482; Wil-
liam, 513
Newbold, Richard, 454
Newbyggyug, Adam de, 518
Newcastle, Henry, Duke of,
450; William, Earl and
Duke of, 268, 269
Nevvcombe, William, 81, 532
Newenham, William de, 513
Newdigate, C. J., '214, '222,
2-27, 228; Colonel, 216;
family, 213 ; Francis. 215.
221 "
Newham,Ealph,141 ; Roger,
478
Newling, Charles, 352
Newport, Geoffrey, 138 ;
Gregory, 451 ; Thomas,
18
Newsam, Henry, 76
Newstead, Prior of, 466
Newthorpe, Richard de, 476
Newton, family, 469 ; Isaac,
91 ; John, 81, 323; Robert,
7 6, 303, 425 ; Roger, Ab-
bot of Darley, 75; Tho-
mas, 360 ; William de,518
Nicholas, 267; Henry, 38;
Vicar of Pentrich, 357
Nicholson, Thomas, 214
Nickson, Edward, 470
Nicol, Thomas, 515
Nightingale, Mr., 35 ; Peter,
66 ; 477
Nodder, family, 443
Noel, James, 274
Nonus, Walter, 480
Norbury, Bp. Roger de, 38,
164, 221, 367, 370, 378,
379, 484
Norfolk, Duke of, 504 ; Jane,
Duchess of, 477
Norman, family, 52 ; Roger,
19
Nonnanton, John, 449
Norris, Humphrey, 425
North, Christopher, 322,
323, 501
Northampton, John, 501,
513, 514
North well, Henry de, 449 ;
Thomas, 454
Norton, John de, 147
Nottingham, family, 149,
213; Richard de, 235,
259 ; Simon de, loO
Novant, Bp. Hugo, 355
Noville, Robert de, 379
Nowell, Andrew, 467
Nykale, William de, 484
Nyke, Nicholas, 437
O.
Gates, William, 441
Ocriugton, Gilbert de, 449,
465
Odam, John, 469
Odell, Isaac, 460
Offeryngton, John, 222
Ogden, Samuel, 286
Ogle, family, 389
Okeley, family, 6
Okeover, arms, 345 ; family
62; Rowland, 293
Oldburgh, Heury de, 467
Olde, family, 519
Oldfield, George, 12, 22, 63
85,135,142, 208, 215,247,
264, 291, 308, 330, 373, 393,
394,405,411,420; Henry,
12, 30, 64, 125, 180, 192,
199,208,227,247,254,291,
308, 373, 394, 405, 420;
John, 442, 517 ; Thomas,
479 ; William, 494
Oldham, Richard, Abbot of
Chester and Bp. of Sodor
and Man, 431
Oldkuow, Joseph, 348
Oliver, family, 429; Wil-
liam, 500
Ordeswyke, Hugo de, 425
Orell, William, 234, 447, 463.
464, 515
Orseny, Henry, 221
Orton, James, 148
Osborne, family, 339; J.,
162 ; Joyce, 323 ; William,
148
Osmond, John, 51
Ossewell, John de, 285
Osten, family, 268
Otes, John, 82
Otter, Edward, 450, 469,
476
Oudeby, family, 505; John
de, 331
Ounston, Giles, de, 473
Outon, Peter de, 469
Outram, Edward, 382
Over, Nicholas de, 268
Overa, John de, 504
Owen, C. G., 473; family,
338
Oxford & Mortimer, Coun-
tess of, 450
Oxley, Richard, 476
Oxton, John de, 484 ; Ni-
cholas de, 520
Ozanne, R. J., 442
P.
Pabenham, John, 516
Pace, Richard, 381
Packman, Mrs., 482
Page, Robert, 212, 213 ;
Roger, 484
Paget, Charles, 56, 425;
family, 303 ; Henry, 425 ;
William, 322, 323, 486
Paldon, Hugo, 480
Palfreyman, Nicholas, 423 ;
Thomas, 140, 512
Palmer, Thomas, 6
Papenham, John, 2b'8
Paploe, Mr., 109
Pares, family, 203; Thomas,
208
Parker, Dean Roger, 453 ;
family, 165, 389 ; Francis,
136 ; John, 305, 465 ;
Joseph, 293 ; Lord Chief
Justice, 147; Pelly, 213,
222; Richard, 279; Ro-
bert, 517, 519; Thomas,
174, 292, 515; William.
259, 521
Parkes, William, 239
Parkeston, William, 173
Parlethorpe, Hugo de, 466
Parre, John, 524
Parson, Richard, 481
Parsons, John, 517
Pashley, WiUiam, 446
Patchet, Robert, 454
Pateshurst, John de, 436
Patris, William, 383
Paveley, Roger, 401
Pawsey, J. W., 458
Pawson, Richard, 466
Payne, Edward, 501; John,
477, 481
Paynet, James, 482
Peacock, Abraham, 513
Peak, John, 333 ; Jonathan,
460 ; Thomas de la, 298 ;
William, 221
Pearson, family, 167, 472 ;
Roger, 437 ; S., 168 ; Sa-
muel, 425
Pease, Edward, 150, 166;
Thomas, 476
Peate, Thomas, 294
Pecco, Ralph de, 441
Peck, John, 453
Peckham, Abp., 47, 138;
arms, 226
Peche, Bp. Richard, 171,
355, 423
Pegge, Edward, 447; fa-
mily, 389, 527; Samuel,
162, 467, 485 ; Thomas,
140
Pelegrinus, Hugh, 381, 383
Pelly, Thomas, 479
Pemberton, Ralph, 17, 18
Pendleton, WiUiam, 286
Pentrich, Thomas de, 357
Penyale, Hugo, 51, 453,477
Pepper, John, 442
Percy, John, 459
Perry, arms, 444
Peter, Bishop of Lichfield,
377 ; son of Henry, Dean
of Derby, 72 ; son of
Robert, Dean of Derby,
72; Vicar of Derby, S.
Peter, 147, 164
Petmore, family, 22
Peverel, William, 233
Peyton, Thomas, 441, 442
Phillips, Thomas, 188, 192
Phype, Robert, 441
Pickering, family, 286
Pidcock, Benjamin, 512
Pierpoint, family, 335, 448 ;
Francis, 323 ; Henry, 97 ;
Thomas, 482
Piggen, Oliver, 235; Wil-
liam, 204
Pilkington, arms and crest,
419; family, 419; Mat-
thew. 418, 518; Middle-
mass, 416 ; Richard, 382 ;
William, 501
556
DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Pinchbeck, Walter de, 4
Pipard, Ralph, 267, 268
Pitt, Robert, 368
Place, Roger de la, 244
Plastowe, Henry de, 48
Platts, Geoffrey, 480 ; God-
frey, 441
Pleaseley, William de, 481
Plethorpe, Hugo, 449
Pocklington, John de, 474
Pocock, G. H. J., 358
Podenham, Thomas de, 500
Pole, arms, 57, 62; Dorothy,
291 ; E. S. Chandos, 303 ;
Edward, 349, 512, 515 ;
Edward S., 324; family,
35, 46, 47, 56, 57, 65, 185,
186, 187, 188, 268, 269, 273,
274, 430; Francis, 340,
342; German, 150; Mrs.,
429; Sir John de la, 38,
39
Pollard, William, 501
Ponay, William, 461
Ponger, Elias, 500
Ponsouby, William, Earl of
Bessbro', 98
Pontefract, Adam de, 463;
Simon de, 425
Poole, Barnabas, 487; Ed-
ward, 139, 140, 141 ; family,
425; Mr., 108; Ralph, 23
Pope, family, 185
Portal, William, 458, 519
Porte, arms, 201; Peter, 470;
Richard, 368, 519 ; Sir
John, 201, 202, 436, 486 ;
Thomas, 196
Porter, Elizabeth, 180 ;
family, 6, 11 ; John, 3)4,
458 ; Richard, 436, 453 ;
Robert, 357, 358 ; Thomas,
51?
Portland, Duke of, 450, 466.
483 ; Margaret, Duchess
of, 450
Pote, Joseph, 368
Pott, John, 501
Potter, John, 358
Poncher, family, 244
Powell, Matthew, 470, 486
Power, Roger, 467; Thomas,
470
Powis, John, 458
Powker, James, 165, 166
Powtrell, arms, 225 ; crest,
226 ; family, 220, 221, 222,
225, '226; Nicholas, 234,
235 ; Thomas, 224
Poynton, Thomas. 504
Predyn, William, 450
Prentice, Peter, 174
Presse, Christopher, 527 ;
Simon, 187
Prestwick, John de, 432 ;
Robert, 269
Prime, Nathaniel, 84
Prior, A. S., 499
Proby, J. B., 507
Proctor, family, 357
Prowdelowe, Adam, 519
Pryden, William, 498
Puce, Christopher, 514
Puddesey, John de, 463
Pugin, A. W., 118
Pulton, Brian, 430
Purcell, Thomas, 448
Purefoy, George, 405
Pusey, Timothy, 59
Putton, Nicholas, 504
Pygot, Richard, 473
Pym, family, 372
Pype, Sir Richard, 446
Pypis, Laurence, 467
Pyrke, Robert, 467
Pyrton, Hugo de, 515 ;
John, 6
Querle, Thomas de, 478
Quemdon, Richard de, 505
R.
Radcliffe, arms, 89 ; family,
381 ; Richard de, 51
Radford, Edward, 52 ;
family, 351; Simon de,
213
Ragge, family, 286; J., 84;
Thomas, 117 ; William,
284
Ragunhall, Robert, 457
Rainshaw, Thomas, 447
Raive, William, 487
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 185
Ralph, Lord Cromwell, 34 ;
Vicar of Castleton, 498;
Vicar of Derby, S. Peter,
147
Randall, Walter, 93
Randolf, John, 494
Ratcliffe, Robert, '220
Rathbone, family, 10 ;
James, 235
Raundes, Richard de, 447
Ravensdale, John, 286, -292
Raworth, Anthony, '222
Rawson, Richard, 496
Raylton, Richard, 464
Raynor, Gervase, 293; John,
357 ; Richard, 473 ; Tho-
mas, 76
Reade, Sir William, 303
Reaston, P. A. , 446
Reddiche, Henry, 446, 482;
John, 476
Redeman, Thomas, 17
Reginald, Chaplain of Ches-
terfield, 457
Rempston, Robert de, 234
Rernyngton, William, 506
Repingdon, Richard, 51
Reresby, arms, 10 ; family,
310, 335, 443
Retford, William de, 449,
465
Reve, Richard, 487, 517;
Thomas, 157, 158
Revell, Edward, 467; fa-
mily, 471, 473; Francis,
512; George, 470; Robert,
459, 469
Reynell, Carew, 467
Reynolds, Edward, 448
Rhodes, Cornelius H., 446 ;
Edward, 7
Rice, family, 215
Rich, Robert Lord, 98
Richard, Abp. of Canter-
bury, 423 ; Chaplain of
Chesterfield, 457 ; Prior
of Leriton, 248 ; Rector
of Whittington, 484 ;
Thomas, 460
Richardson, family, 450 :
George. 177 ; William, 51
Richemont, Thomas, Lord
de, 477
Ricketts, Frederick, 464
Rider, Theophilus, 368
Ridge, John, 299
Riperes, Richard de, 457
Rishton, Edward, 467
Risley, family, 325 ; Rich-
ard, 383 ; William de,
515
Rivers, Robert, 463; Tho-
mas, 469
Robert, Abbot of Burton,
435 ; Dean of Derby, 72 ;
Robert, son of, 72 ; Prior
of Kenilworth, 34
Roberts, Nicholas, 485 ;
William, 502
Robertson, Walter, 479
Robinson, family, 19 ; John,
76, 482 ; Peter, 472 ; Rich-
ard, 70, 165
Rockingham, Marquis of,
504
Rode, Richard, 513
Roderham, family, 441, 442
Rodes, family, 446, 465,
473 ; Ralph, 441
Rodney, family, 225
Rodyngton, Richard de,
383, 384 ; Robert de, 244
Roe, Thomas, 499, 516
Roger, Bp. of London, 344 ;
Bp. of Worcester, 34 ;
Chaplain of Aston, 4
Rogers, Sampson, 449
Rolf, John, 505, 521
Rolleston, family, 184, 185,
187, 5-29 ; John de, 6 ;
Richard, 268, 425
Rollisley, Richard, 501
Romayne, Simon, 515
Romsore, James, 51
Ronclyff, Richard, 457
Ronyngton, John de, 501
Roos, Robert de, 485
Roper, family, 5, 6, 322
Rose, Brian, 443
Rossell, arms, 252 ; family,
248
Rossyndale, Robert de, 504
Rosteleston, William de
305
Rotherham, John, 160
Rothery, Peter, 478
Rothwode, Robert, 476
Roton, Richard, 305
Row, George, 518
Rowbotham, Thomas, 445
INDEX OF PERSONS.
557
Rowlandson, John, 360,
368, 482, 492, 493
Roy, family, 476 ; R.C., 512
Roycestre, Robert de, 213
Royez, Ralph, 447
Rudhall, Abraham, 155, 264
Rudyard, Thomas, 293
Rufford, William, Abbot of,
234
Rupert, Prince, 100
Russell, John, 460 ; Ni-
cholas, 515 ; Robert, 155 ;
Thomas, 514
Rutland, Countess of, 483;
Duke of, 258, 259, 260,
483 ; Earl of, 482, 483
Rya, Hubert de, 33
Rye, family, 482
Ryggeway, John, 139, 147
Ryley, arms, 179 ; William,
481, 498
S.
S. John of Jerusalem,
Knights of, 15, 16, 23
Sacheverell, arms, 333 ; fa-
mily, 156, 157, 160, 253,
310, 322, 323, 332, 333, 334,
335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340,
344, 501 ; Henry S., 347 ;
John, 512; Ralph, 234;
Robert, 513
Sadler, family. 298
Sale, arms and crest, 429 ;
family, 11, 25, 425, 428,
429, 532
Saleford, William de, 445
Salicosa-Mara, family, 183
Sallow, arms and family,
419 ; John de, 383 ; Ro-
bert de, 213, 221
Salmon, William, 465
Sandale, John de, 6, 381 ;
William, 443
Sandbach, Sir Richard, 55
Sandeford, Brian, 482
Sanderby, John, 510
Sandiacre, family, 211
Sandiforth, John, 504
Sanington, Michael, 19
Sanson, Richard, 310
Saperton, Roger de, 323
Satheley, Robert de, 465
Saunders, Joseph, 174
Sauseman, Roger, 234
Savage, Edmund, 467 ;
family, 258, 387; John,
259, 479, 516 ; Ralph, 486 ;
Robert de, 465 ; Thomas,
499, 502
Saville, Sir George, 477
Sawrier, William, 437
Saxelby, Thomas de, 259
Saxton, 1 , 63 ; John de, 367
Saynt, Thomas, 476
ScargiU, John, 222, 226;
Nicholas de, 463
Scarsdale, Earl, 470, 480;
family, 466, 474, 486;
Lord, 19, 305, 306
Scattergood, Anthony, 382 ;
John, 78
Schaynton, John de, 323 ;
Stephen de. 470
Schepeston, William de, 518
Scholes, Jeremiah, 472
Scottrede, Henry, 501, 519
Scoter, Hugh de, 382, 383,
387
Scott, John, 286: M. H.,
207
Scrobby, John de, 484, 500
Scroop, Richard, 4
Seale, John, 133, 174
Sebyston, John de, 501
Seddon.Robert, 269 ; Roger,
473
Segyngton, John de, 512
Selby, William, 505
Selden, Isaac, 117, 133
Selere, Alexander de, 483
Sence, Roger, 501
Senhouse, Elizabeth, 386;
J. L. 393
Sentloe, Elizabeth, 516
Sewell, Richard, 443
Seymour, Sir Thomas, 197
Seynclow, arms and family,
331
Seynthy, Robert, 466
Seyrdan. Richard, 213, 259
Shake, Richard, 495
Shallcross, family, 508, 509
Shalynton, William de, 516
Shardlow, family, 149, 150
Sharnford, Robert de, 467
Sharpe, family, 482 ; Henry,
517; Thomas, 305
Shaw, Huntingdon, 141 ;
Ralph, 518, 527; Roger,
484
Shebyngton, William, 519
Shedden, Samuel, 442
Sheffield, John, 471, 472
Sheldon, family, 497 ;
Hugo, 517
Shelford, Prior of, 196;
Robert de, 196
Shelley, Humphrey, 157
Shelmerdine, David, 19,
25 ; family, 61 ; Thomas,
26,52,63,66
Shelton, Roger de, 383
Shepherd, John, 284 ;
Ralph, 269; Robert, 6,
458
Sheppey, Hugh, 424, 425
Sherborne, Richard, 6
Shipley, Samuel, 513
Shipston, Joseph, 471
Shipton, John, 140; Tho-
mas, 167
Shirbroke, Thomas de, 474,
481
Shirland, Bishop Walter, 4
Shirley, arms, 225; Cas-
sandra, 220; crest, 226;
family, 23, 225; Henry
de, 446 ; Richard, 473
Shiringham, John de, 234
Shore, William, 76
Short, Laurence, 443
Shovel, Richard, 220
Shrewsbury, Elizabeth,
Countess of, 100 ; family,
97, 477, 504; Francis.
Earl of, 518; George,
Earl of, 487, 521 ; Gilbert,
Earl of, 34
Shuttleworth, family, 6, 11 ;
James, 5 ; Richard, 510
Shylton, family, 392
Sibthorpe, William de, 42
Silcock, Roger, 133
Silvester, George, 63;
Nicholas, 477
Simeon Trustees, 80
Simon, Vicar of Tibshelf,
481
Simpson, Jo., 398 ; John,
443, 459, 507; William,
464
Sinderby, Christopher, 510
Sitwell, family, 245, 324,
339, 340; George, 464;
Harriet, W. S., 343;
Richard, S. W., 306
Skegby, Richard, 449
Skelton, Richard, 505
Skevington, family, 10 ;
Robert, 264
Skinner, Thomas, 155
Skipwith, Sir T. G.,222
Skirlaugh, Walter de, 479
Slater, family, 517
Sleath, W. B., 437
Sleigh, arms, 179 ; family,
178, 528; Gervase, 179;
Ralph, 506 ; William, 477
Smalley, William, 470
Swallwood, G. A., 19
Smethley, Richard, 187 ;
William, 512
Smethton, Robert, 484
Smith, Bishop, 392; Court-
ney, 475; Edward, 493;
family, 76, 187, 450, 517,
519, 521 ; Jeremiah, 368 ;
John, 19, 63, 140, 470;
Matthew, 293 ; Nicholas,
506; Richard, 108, 478,
501; Roger, 471; Tho-
mas, 77 ; 454, 497, 517 ;
William, 173, 463, 515;
W. H., 460
Smith-Kelly, George de,
519, 521
Smithson, William, 466
Smithunt, Michael, 477
Snape, Robert, 470
Snaythe, John de, 323
Snell, William de, 489, 493
Snitterton, arms, 334 ; fa-
mily, 332
Snowden, William, 481
Snowe, William, 470
Solney, Alured de, 473
Somer, Edward, 286
Somersall, Richard, 305 ;
Thomas, 452
Somery, arms, 325
Sonynston, Robert de, 436
Sorocold, George, 84
Sothern, John de, 479, 521
SotheweU, John de, 480
Sowerby, John de, 519
Sparman, Samuel, 180
Speed, Samuel, 515
558
DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Spenser, Henry, 150, 501,
518 ; Joan, 401 ; John,
529 ; Milo, 499 ; Thomas,
500 ; William, 140, 460
Spicer, Thomas. 519
Spode. Josiah, 471
Spondai, Robert, 520
Spondon, John de, 480
Sponer, Laurence, 77
Spott, Wulfric, 321
Spyk, William, 494
Spytlehouse, Robert, 469
Stacey, Robert, 425 ; Tho-
mas, 249, 504
Stafford, arms, 187 ; family,
184 ; John, 78 ; Nicholas
de, 490
Stakepule, arms, 10
Staley, Helia, 506
Stamford, Henry, Earl of,
404
Stanbancke, William, 147
Standen, Thomas, 441
Standish, John, 469
Stanford, John, 174, 226
Stanhope, arms, 201, 332;
family, 196, 197,201,202,
203, 204, 220, 244, 331;
John, 154, '20U, 205 ; Mi-
chael, 303 ; Philip, Lord,
207, 244
Stanley, family, 234 ; John,
2, 13. 340, 150 ; Margaret,
390; Ralph, 173
Stanton, family, 184 ; Isa-
bel de, 185; John, 234,
323 ; William, 148
Staple, John, 510
Stapleford, John de, 466;
William de, 303
Stapletoii, family, 446
Starkey, Richard, 196
Statham, arms, 326, 330,
331 ; family, 322, 325, 326,
327, 328, 329, 330, 331,
332 ; Henry, 234 ; Joan
de, 323 ; Sir Thomas, 323
Staunton, family, 27o ; Tho-
mas, 493
Stavenby, Bp., 34, 74, 216,
253, 488
Stead, Francis, 215 ; John.
505
Steer, Roger, 478
Stenson, George, 162
Stephenson, James, 446 ;
John, 438 ; William, 510
Sterndale, Walter de, 496
Stevens, Thomas, 506
Stevenson, James, 449 ;
John, 487 ; William, 124
Stewart, R., 475
Stocks, Joseph, 477
Stoddart, William, 437
Stoke, Robert de, 513
Stokes, Thomas de, 173 ;
William, 443, 478
Stone, Thomas, 514
Stones, Robert, 309, 517
Stoning, Oliver, 368
Stopforth, Robert, 466
Stopsor, Robert, 487
Storer, Ralph, 479
Stoteville, family, 462 ;
Johnde, 463
Stoyte, Tobias, 521
Strangeways, family, 463;
464 ; James, 447. 462
Strelley, arms, 225 ; family,
216, 220, 225 ; John, 525 ;
Robert de, 211
Stretehay, Edmund, 506
Stretton, Bishop, 39, 378 ;
John, 523
Stringer, Richard, 105 ;
Robert, 78
Strutt, Jedediah, 116. 117
Stuart, Charles, Earl of
Lennox, 97
Stubbs, John, 450
Studbury, John, 476
Stuffyn, John, 475
Sturges. Samuel, 79
Stych, Thomas, 425
Styrley. Nicholas, 467
Suceby, Alan de, 509
Suchleyrton, Walter de,452
Sudde, Ralph, 511
Suham, R. de, 47
Sulcholm, Henry de, 465
Surtas, Stephen, 501, 513
Sutton, arms, 89; family,
6, 89, 483 ; John, 187, 480,
513 ; Laurence, 436 ;
Richard de, 469 ; Robert
de, 234; Thomas, 79,348;
WiUiam, 454, 482, 491
Suwelle, Hugo de, 196
Swain, John. 197
Swethyng, William, 458
Swetnam, Joseph, 79, 108,
482 ; Thomas, 117, 512,
516, 519
Swift, Robert, 447; Tho-
mas, 504
Swillington, arms, 360 ;
family, 360; Robert de,
34
Swindell, Anthony, 449 ;
Henry, 208
Swinnerton, Thomas, 155
Swynscowe, Robert, 46, 47
T.
Taberer, Joseph, 155; Wil-
liam, 180
Takill, Robert, 474
Talbot, Henry, 521 ; John,
10, 477, 504; John, Earl
of Shrewsbury, 34
Tallents, Francis, 482
Tanden, John, 471
Tannesley, family, 48
Tarleton, Robert, 530
Tatham, John, 615 ; Ralph,
470
Tatton, Bartholomew, 323 ;
Ralph, 446
Taylor, family, 498 ; G. W.
H., 207 ; Henry, 472 ;
John, 425; Messrs., 12,
125,160,199,397,420,448;
Richard.479,519; Samuel,
264; Thomas, 279, 459,
460, 480; Walter. 148;
William, 76, 77, 244
Thacker, Christopher, 81,
83; Francis, 84 ; Robert,
77, 172, 174, 286
Thame, Philip, 16, 18
Thanet. Countess of, 477
Thicknesse, arms, 419 ;
Ralph, 419
Thokeby, William de, 519
Thomas, Abbot of Croxton,
467 ; Prebendary of Saw-
ley, 381 ; Rector of Dron-
field, 459 ; Vicar of Derby,
S. Peter 147, 149; Wil-
liam, 483
Thompson, Grammer, 245 ;
John, 235; Simon, 473, 486
Thorley, John, 196
Thornhill, Bache, 207 ;
family 475; William, 497
Thornton, John, 284, 458
Thoroton, Thomas, 441
Thorpe. William, 517
Thrumley, Richard de, 513
Thrumpton, William, 234,
323
Thnrgarton, Alexander de,
469 ; Hugo de, 259 ; Prior
of, 448
Thurmansley, Richard de,
450
Tichebroke, Thomas, 150
Tickenhall, William de, 165
Tickhull, Geoffrey, 496 ;
Thomas de, 471 ; William,
235, 323. 513
Tillard, Richard, 521
Time, Robert, 244
Tinsley, W. C., 450, 476
Tissington, Nicholas de, 38;
Richard, 41
Tochi, 69, 131
Todehede, William, 517
Toli, 365
Tolthorpe, Roger, 519
Tomlinson, William, 480
Toolne, Thomas, 286
Topham, Anthony, 486 ;
family, 521 ; Francis, 519;
Joseph, 52 ; Rohert, 459
Toplis, Abel, 108
Torkard, John, 466
Totty, Daniel, 510
Touchet, family, 283, 284,
285 ; Thomas. 289
Touke, family, 22, 184, 316 ;
Sir John, 317
Townend, Robert, 479
Townrow, Robert, 519; Wil-
liam, 494
Townson, Robert, 197
Trafford, family, 388
Trent and Mersey Naviga-
tion Co., 8
Trentham, arms, 202
Tresk, Henry de, 471
Trew, John, 429
Trickett, Samuel, 472, 516
Trimmer, H. S., 526
Troughton, James, 469
Trubshaw, William, 120
Trueman, Henry, 516
INDEX OF PERSONS.
559
Trusbut, Peter, 51
Tryeii, Sir Samuel, 4i3
Tue, Thomas, 4b6
Tuustall, Thomas, 244
Turbutt, family, 470
Turgead, Jonathan, 467
Turner, family, 441 ; John,
305: Joseph, 427; Simon.
517
Turpin, Anne, 438 ; family,
247
Tutbury, Prior of, 16
Tuysse, Thomas, 334
Twemlow, Joseph, 323, 437
Twentiman, John, 482
Twist, J. H., 133
Twyford, arms, 275; family,
268, 274, 275 ; Henry de,
467; Eobertde, 187; Tho-
mas, 269 ; William de,
436
Tylleslye, James, 139, 140
Tymmore, family, 185, 191,
532 ; John de, 187
Tynker, John, 447
U.
Ulf , William, 367
Undeme, William, 469
Unett, Richard, 510
Unwin, Edwin, 174
Upright, John, 466
Uvedale, John, 467
V.
Vale, W. H., 510
Vale Royal, Abbot of, 498
Vaux, Anne, 228; family,
227
Vavasour, family, 156, 484 ;
William, 483
Vawdry, Daniel, 502
Verdon, family, 3; John,
454; William de, 4, 321,
423
Vernon, arms, 325 ; family,
29. 483 ; Sir George, 491,
492 ; Sir Richard, 490
Vessey, William, 187
Viccars, William, 366
Vinalde, Anthony, 17
Vayter, Richard, 381
Vycare, John, 244
Vyse, Thomas, 481; Wil-
liam, 382
W.
Wadden, Nicholas de, 476
Waddington, Matthew, 453
Wadham, John, 425
Wagstaffe, family, 504
Wainwright, Ralph, 486;
William, 504
Wake, William de, 36
Wakebridge, arms, 55, 57,
62 ; family, 35, 37, 38, 39,
42, 56; Robert, 51; Sir
William de, 36, 43, 49, 53,
55, 62, 65, 445
Wales, Hugo, 465
Walkeden, Richard, 507
Wakelin, family, 184 Ro-
bert de, 505
Walker, D., 135 ; James,
133, 174, 176, 323; John,
52, 108, 506 ; Jordan, 6,
149; Joseph,125; Richard,
515; William, 368
Wall, William at the, 469
Walmisley, Dean, 387
Walpole, Sir Robert, 91
Walsh, family, 211
Walter, Abbot of Darley,
164; John, 519; son of
Henry, Dean of Derby,
72 ; Vicar of Castleton,
498
Walton, family, 97, 184.
4o7 ; Henry de, 6 ; John,
96, 480, 481 ; Roger de, 51,
484; Thomas de, 452;
W. de, Abbot of Darley,
137; William, 446
Walysley, John, 479
Wandesford, Vivian, 470
Ward, family, 133, 480;
Henry, 486; John, 269,
305, 357; Joseph, 276;
Mr., 109; Richard Row-
land, 149 ; Thomas, 244 ;
W. M.. 518
Wardelow, Robert de, 490
Wardour, family, 29
Warkenham, Hugh de, 517
Warkworth, John, 367
Warner, 233; and Sons. 227
Warrington, George, 475:
W., 342
Warsop, John de, 480
Waryn, Peter, 505; Tho-
mas, 470
Wasdutton, alias North-
burgh, Simon de, 173
Waste, Joan, 99
Waterhouse, Tobias, 482
Wathey, William, 152
Watkinson, Peter, 519, 521
Watson, John, 466; Lau-
rence, 480 ; Richard, 465 ;
Roger, 472, 473 ; Samuel,
239 ; WiUiam, 450, 519
Watt-wood, Thomas, 425
Wayne, Laurence, 466 ;
William, 513
Waynfleet, John de, 484
Weatherby, William, 284,
323. 501
Weatherhead, Henry, 259
Webbe, William, 503. 513
Webster, Adam, 47, 518;
Edmund, 493 ; family,
482; Godfrey, 222; Henry,
467; Thomas, 442; Wil-
liam, 466, 481
Wederore, William de, 516
Weekes, F. A.,7
Welbeck, Abbot of, 480
Welcham, John, 222
Weld, John, 519 ; Nicholas
del, 500
Wells, Barnard, 492
Welton, John de, 457; Tho-
mas de, 513
Wendesley, Sir Thomas
490
Wentworth, family,401,402;
John, 466
Werburgh, Saint. 175
Weseham, Bishop Roger
de, 171, 377
Wesley, family, 286
West, family, 465 ; James,
450; Thomas, 459, 472;
William, 120
Westhall, Richard, 458
Westhallam, Thomas de,
221
Weston, John de, 137;
Richard, 493 ; William de,
39, 41, 48, 51, 481
Westwood, George, 235,
239 ; Roger, 367
Wether, H., 150
Wetton, Adam, 513
Weylonby, John de, 305
Whalhede, John, 6
Whalley, John de, 51 ; Wil-
liam 484
Whatton, Roger de, 469
Wheatcroft, Samuel, 37;
Simon de, 48
Wheeldon, Gervase, 19, 20
Wheeler, William, 453, 519
Whitaker, J. A., 7
Whitby, John, 6
White, C. W., 458; John,
446 ; Jonathan, 512 :
Robert, 442
Whitecombe, Richard, 501,
517
Whitehall, family, 277
Whitehead, Ralph, 147
Whiteman, Richard, 39, 41,
45,47
Whitlock, William, 368
Whittington, Guido, 367;
William, 188
Whitfclesey, John, 51
Whitworth, Milo, 444 ;
Richard, 454
Wighton, Alexander de,
518
Wikersley, Thomas, 443
Wilcock, John, 493
Wilcocks, Edward, 425 ;
Elizabeth, 154, '205
Wild, family, 322 ; Nicho-
las, 469 ; Walter, 485
Wilford, Geoffrey de, 449 ;
John de, 457
Wilkes, Richard, 76, 77
Wilkesley, Thomas, 447
Wilkinson, James, 480 ;
John, 162 ; Thomas, 213 ;
W. F., 174
William, Bishop, 146 ;
Chaplain of Chesterfield,
457 ; Ellis, -473 ; Rector
of Darley Dale, 500;
Vicar of Glossop, 504 ;
Vicar of Ilkeston, 259
Williamott, Charles, 140
Williamson, Thomas, 425
560
DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Willington, family, 435 ;
John de, 305
Willis, Eichard, 521
Wills, Edward, 324, 515;
Mr., 109 ; Samuel, 79
Willoughby, arms, 373, 402;
Edward, '222 ; Elizabeth,
155 ; family, 59, 401, 405,
408, 409, 411, 474 ; Henry,
' 380, 399, 420, 534 ; Michael,
380, 415; Philip de, 73;
Eichard de, 234
Wilmofc, Edward, 51, 59,
79, 100; E. S., 270;
family, 167, 269. 278, 303,
305, 323, 324, 339, 471;
Francis, 473 ; Nicholas,
19; E. C., 512; Robert,
168, 229, 306, 339, 347,
352, 424, 425
Wilmot-Horton, Sir Eobert,
166
Wilne, arms, 439 ; Francis
de, 133 ; Thomas de,
379; William de, 131,132,
428
Wilson, family, 512 ; Hugo,
481 ; James, 150, 166 ;
John, 207, 470 ; Nicholas,
437 ; Peter, 449, 470, 473 ;
Thomas. 19, 466, 493;
William, 237, 340
Winder, Thomas, 519
Windsor, family, 197
Winfield, Henry de, 487;
Eichard, 235 ; Eoger de,
44
Winkworth, Thomas, 443
Winter, Joshua, 79, 425
Wirgman, Augustus, 518
Wirksworth, John, 501
Withy, Henry, 150
Wolferston, arms and
family, 419
Wolfmdale, John, 485
Wolfit, William, 18
Wolgathorpe, family, 275
Wombwell, George, 472
Wood, Anthony, 394 ;
Bishop, 299 ; Charles, 79,
99 ; family, 59 ; John,
358, 362, 453; Richard,
305; Robert, 100; Wil-
liam, 368
Woodcock, John, 474 ; Wil-
liam, 188
Woodhouse, Eobert de, 478
Woodroffe, Benjamin, 368 ;
Thomas, 460, 461; Wil-
liam, 45, 47, 61
Woodshawe, Humphrey,
518 ; Nicholas, 244
Woodward, Thomas, 449
Woolley, Edward, 66 ; T. S.,
240
Wordsworth, William, 447
Worksop, Prior of, 457
Wormald, Thomas, 507
Wormaton, Richard, 485
Worsley, arms, 89; Wil-
liam, 454
Worth, Thomas, 389
Wortley, Francis, 447
Wotton, Matthew, 521
Wrangill, Eichard, 367
Wray, Sir John, 405; Sir
W. U., 502
Wrigby, Ealph, 269
Wright, family, 149, 235;
Henry, 286; H. O., 148 ;
James, 477 ; John, 207,
411 ; Lawrence, 78 ; Kich-
ard, 478, 480; Eobert, 512 ;
Samuel, 23«
Wulphere, King of Mercia,
175
Wyersdale, John, 148; Eo-
ger, 447
Wyggynston, John, 463
Wyksall, John, 459
Wylinesby, family, 499
Wymeswold, Robert de, 441
Wyn, Cecilia, 38, 41, 42;
family, 473; Eoger de,
503
Wynkebone, Walter de, 213
Wynley, Thomas, 517
Wythale, John, 173
Wythonwick, John de, 469
Wyttro, John, 259
Wyturbi, Richard de, 518
Y.
Yate, Samuel, 458
Yates, Peter, 188
Yeaveley, George, 504
Yelitoft, William de, 466
Yorke, Hon. G. M., 383
Yotton, John, 491
Ysaac, William, 454
Yvenot, Eichard, 47
Yvesson, Eobert, 517
Yvo, John, 139
Z.
Zouch, arms, 237 ; family,
253, 258, 333, 335; Sir
John, 237, 357 ; William,
Lord, 257
INDEX OF PLACES.
A.
Abbeyfield, 294
Abbotsflat, 72
Abbot's Meadow, 288
Abingdon Abbey, 15
Alfreton, 441, 442
Allestree, 283, 284, 293-9,
495
Alvaston, 19, 131, 132,
137-42, 149, 180
Alveley, 36, 37
Ambaston, 186, 195, 197, 198
Annesley, 45, 50
Arleston, 15, 17, 20, 22, 23
Ashbourne, 216, 279, 513,
514
Ashby, 100
Ashford, 495, 502
Asbover, 44, 45, 443, 444
Ashwell, 204
Aston, 1-12, 285, 390, 423,
532
Atcham, 115
Aymestry, 115
B.
Baggot Eyddyng, 348
Bakewell, 488-95
Barlborough, 415
Barley, 97
Barlow, 446
Barraeote, 173
Barrow, 13-27, 28, 61
Baslow, 489, 492, 495
Beauchieff Abbey, 442, 446,
447, 458, 471
Beauvale Priory, 257, 26Q
Beeley, 233, 495
Beighton, 447, 448
Belper, 523
Bircbill, 490
Blackwell, 175,448, 449
Bliburgh, 115
Bolsover, 450
Bonsall, 515
Boston, 80
Bosworth Field, 333
Boulton, 140-2, 156-60, 180
37
Boylstone, 521
Bradbourn, 518
Bradley, 279
Brailsford, 83, 108, 279, 522
Brampton, 27, 252
Brancepeth, 153
Brassington, 618
Breadsall, 127, 163, 522
Breaston, 192, 398, 406-8,
534
Brentford, 100
Brewood, Convent of, 481
Bristol, 175
Bulwell, 51
Burcbmulne, 137
Buruaston, 173
Burton, 59
Burton Abbey, 26, 69, 70,
76, 233, 306, 313, 314, 316,
321,435,436
Butterley Park, 355
C.
Calke, 216,528
Cambridge, Christ's Col-
lege, 26, 61
Carsington, 516, 517
Castleton, 498, 499
Chaddesden, 83, 139, 167,
186, 251
Cbampayne Park, 165
Chapel Close, 316
Chapel-en-le-Frith, 58, 499,
500
Chase Cliff, 63
Chatsworth, 56, 97
Chelmorton, 296, 489, 495,
496
Chester, Abbey of, 3, 4, 5,
175, 321, 322, 423, 425
Chesterfield, 53, 103, 250,
4526
ChilweU, 33
Church Brodghton, 522
Clatter cote s, 45
Clebury, 27
Clown, 457, 458
Codnor, 233
Codnor Castle, 240
Coleorton, 30
Colwich, 178
Congeston, 26
Cossington, 204
Cotton, 165
Crayke, 18
CresweU, 465
Crich, 26, 31-66, 103, 117,
195, 250, 445, 532
Cromford, 36, 521
Cromwell, 219
Crosshillfield, 294
Croxall, 29, 167, 191, 528-9
Croxton Abbey, 467
D.
Dalby, 17
Dalbury, 522
Dale Abbey, 70, 183, 184,
188, 195, 198, 211, 212,
234, 237, 258, 327, 330, 331,
340-5, 411, 415, 527, 528
Dale Chapel, 417
Darley Abbey, 33-5, 48, 52,
53, 71, 75, 115, 120, 123,
125, 131, 132, 137, 138, 145,
146, 156, 163, 171, 174, 198,
283, 284, 288, 293, 355, 356,
358, 450
Darley Dale, 160, 500-2
Darley Hill, 123
Denby, 103, 248-254
Derby, 26, 27, 33, 70, 77,
105, 164, 174, 204, 205,
285
Derby, All Saints', 23, 67-
101, 108, 141, 475, 532
Derby Castle, 70
Derby Free Library and
Museum, 122, 229
Derby, S. Alkmund's, 110-
126, 140, 247
, S. Mary's, 70, 233
, S. Mary's - on - the-
Bridge, 102-106
-, S. Michael's, 120
136, 139
-, S. Peter's, 4, 63,
138, 143-55, 164, 346, 532
502
DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Derby, S. Werburgh's, 24,
Hazelbache, 233
Longstone, 489
141, 169-80
Hazlehurst, 57
Loughborough, 12
Dei-went Chapel, 315
Heanor, 70, 231-40, 533
Lowne, 467
Dethick, 36, 37, 44, 46,
Heath, 467
LuUingtou, 530
185, 445
Heath Houses, 186
Detton, 69
Hognaston, 60,518
Diseworth Grange, 26
Holloway, 36, 44
M.
Dove, River, 188
Holme, 490
Dovebridge, 52:-i
Holmesfield, 462
Mackworth, 281-293, 296,
Draycott, 27, 377
Hoo, 175
298
Droitwich, 102
Hope, 122, 488, 490, 506-
Mansfield, 59
Dronfield, 458 62
508
Mappeiiey, 212, 213, 216,
Duckmautou, 480
Hopedale-in-Peak, 23
229
Duffield, 115, 165, 523
Hopwell, 377
Markeaton, 283, 284, 289,
Hop well Hall, 207
291, 294 ; Brook, 175, 176
Horsley, 241-9
Markfield, 109
E.
Horsley Castle, 243
Marledeflat, 283
Hnlland, 515
Marston Montgomery, 522
Eatington, 23
Hulland Ward, 26
Marston-on-Dove, 192, 524
Eaton Dovedale, 178
Matlock, 26, 5(>, 61, 64
Eckiugton, 116, 121, 462-4
Melbourn, 15. 18, 20, 23, 530
Edeusor, 503
I.
Mercastou, 186
Edgehill, 100
Meynell Langley, 267, 275,
Edlaston, 523
Ilkeston, 188, 212, 255-64,
276, 279
Egginton, 20, 181-92, 258,
533
Micklemeadow, 294
267, 438, 532
Ingleby, 530
Mickleover, 26, 301-9, 312,
Elmton, 465
316
Elvaston, 132, 137, 193-2G6,
Monk's Bridge, 188, 192
495, 532
K.
Monyash, 489-90, 497
Ely, 175
Morewood, 60
Etwall, 173, 267, 52*
Kedleston, 108, 109, 524
Morley, 3, 5, 150, 319-49, 534
Etwall Hospital, 436
Kempsford, 113
Morton, 4, 5, 469, 470
Eyam, 41, 503
Kenilworth, 34 ; Priory,
Moseley, 26
524
Mossborough, 116
Kettering, 287
Mugginton, 108, 184, 279,
F.
Kilburne, 245, 248
495, 524, 525
Killamarsh, 468
Mulnefield, 137
Fairfield, 507, 508
Kingsley, 175
Falmouth, 509
King's Mead, 89, 171;
Feliceflat, 283
Priory, 285, 289
N.
Felley Priory, 37, 45
Kingston, 16
Fenny Bentley, 60, 517, 518
Kirk Hallam, 209, 516
Newark, 219; Castle, 220
Findern, 22, 26, 303, 312-
Kirk Ireton, 519
Newstead Priory, 467
316, 495
Kirk Langley, 172, 265-79,
Newton, 509
Foremark, 530
533
Norbury, 22, 525, 526
Fritchley, 44, 45
Kniveton, 216, 279, 519,
Normanton, 149, 161, 162,
520
165, 233; South, 470, 471
Norton, 471-3
G.
Nottingham, 100, 102; S.
L.
Mary's, 51, 54
Glapwell, 451
Nunsdyke, 137
Glossop, 172, 504
Lambeth Palace Library, 19
Nuthall, 51
Gloucester Cathedral, 435
Grace Dieu, 25, 146
Greenwich, 25
Grindlow, 507
H.
Haconby, 153
Haddon, 491, 496
Hanbury, 138, 175
Hardwick, 97
Hargate, 186
Harthill, 492, 496
Hartington, 47, 62, 518
Hartshorn, 33, 529
Hartwell, 492
Hassop, 490
Hnthersage, 505, 506
Hault Hucknall, 466
Langwith, 468-9
Launde Priory, 505
Lea, 16, 35, 44, 66, 445
Leicester, 202 ; Wigston
Hospital, 208
Lenton Priory, 243, 248,
510
Lichfield Close, 100
LilleshaU, 113
Litchurch, 147, 149
Little Chester, 73, 74, 102,
127
Little Eaton, 73, 74, 76,
115, 120, 123, 127, 128
Littleover, 29,- 30, 303, 309-
312
Lockington, 10
London, S. Martin's, 92
Long Eaton, 377, 380, 395-7
Longford, 124, 624
O.
Ockbrook, 196, 197, 206 8
Okerthorpe, 33
Oldcotes, 97
Osmaston, 140, 141, 163-
168. 180, 279
Over Haddon, 89
Owlgreaves, 25
Oxford, Magdalen College,
80 ; Badcliffe Library, 92
P.
Palterton, 34
Peak Forest, 508, 509
Pentrich, 33, 353-62
INDEX OF PLACES.
563
Peverel, 233
Pickering, 287
Pigtor, 508
Piuxton, 473, 474
Plaistow Green, 50, 60
Pleasley, 474, 475
Plumley, 116
Plymouth, 509
Potlock, 303, 316-7
Quarndon, 69, 73, 74, 107-
110, 115, 127
R.
Radbourn, 35, 56, 109, 150,
184
Ravenstone, 191, 530
Repton, 20, 26, 175, 249 ;
Priory, 314, 3i6; School,
436
Ridge, 56
Ripley, 33, 355, 356
Risley, 401, 402, 409-11 ;
Hall, 408, 409
Rotherhain, 64
Rotherley, 17
Rothley Temple, 185
Rotington, 41, 45
Rowsley, 491
Rushtou, 287
S.
Sandiacre, 49, 211, 363-73,
399, 409, 534
Sawcy Hill, 294
Sawley, 22, 375-95, 398,
400, 406, 534
Scarcliffe, 34, 475, 476
Scropton, 526, 527
Selston, 59
Shallcross Chapel, 507
Shardlow, 3, 5, 423
Shelford, 195. 196; Priory,
132, 195, 197, 202, 206
Shipley, 240
Shirlaud, 41, 233, 476, 477
Shirley, 23, 527
Shrewsbury, S. Alkmuiid,
115
Sinfln, 15, 20, 22-4, 27, 178
Smalley, 3, 5, 322, 348-52
Smithsby, 531
Soinersall, 6 > ; Herbert, 207
Spinkhill, 57
Spondon, 175, 191, 527
Stanley, 527, 528: Grange,
228
Stanton-by-Dale, 413-20,
495
Stapleford, 146
Staunton-Harold. 30
Staveley, 34, 62, 477-79
Steetley, 483, 484
Stenson, 15, 29
Stone, 10
Stony Stanton, 38
Stretton-en-le- Fields, 22
Sudbury, 29, 528
Suttoii, 89 ; in-the-Dale,
211, 479-81 ; on-the-Hill,
528
Swarkeston, 20, 27, 30, 310,
531; Bridge, 100, 102
T.
Taddin-rton, 491, 495, 498
Tansley, 36, 44, 48
Taunton, S. Mary, 80
Teversall, 36
Thorpe, 520
Thurgarton Priory, 39, 46,
485
Thurlston, 195, 197, 198
Thurmaston, 120, 267
Tibshelf, 45, 481, 482
Tickill, 155
Ticknall, 20, 531
Tideswell, 287, 390, 490,
509-511
Trent, River, 316
Trentham, 176
Treveglos, 175
Trusley, 29
Tunbridge Wells, 509
Tutbury, 97
Twyford, 15, 26-30, 268
V.
Vale Royal Abbey, 498
W.
Waingrove, 355, 356
Wakebridge, 35, 37, 38, 42,
44, 56, 57, 62, 65, 66
Walton, 456, 457
War burton, 175
Wardefeld, 76
Wath, 153
Weedon, 175
Welbeck, 97 ; Abbey, 27
Welleflat, 283
Weubury, 175
Wessington, 48
West HaUam, 20, 212, 217-
229, 532 ; School, 226
Weston-on-Trent 3, 4, 285,
421-31, 495, 534
Whaley, 451
Wheatcroft, 36, 37, 50, 60
Whitchurch, 115
Whittington, 51, 484, 485
Whitwell, 482, 483
Wellington, 433-8
Wilne, 377, 380, 382-4,
398-406, 410, 495
Wilne, Great, 3, 5
Windmill Pit, 99
Windley, 165
Wingerworth, 488
Winfield, 45, 60; North,
485, 486; South, 64, 487
Winster, 513
Winteringham, 287
Wirksworth, 26, 61, 71, 83,
520, 521
Wolflow, 508
Woodhall Park, 380
Woodhouse, 248
Worcester, 34
Worksop, 29 ; Priory, 457
Wormbridge, 115
Wormgay, 183
WormhilX 511
Wroot, 153
U.
Uttoxeter, 27
Y.
Yeaveley, 16, 17
Youlgreave, 512
GENERAL INDEX TO THE FOUR
VOLUMES.
Alderwasley, chapel of, ii., 566-70
Aldwark, chapel of, ii., 434
Alfreton, church of, i., 1-13, 459 ; iv., 441-2
Alkmanton, chapel of, iii., 195-7, 523
Alkmund, S., iii., 133 ; iv., 113
Alkmund, S., Derby, church of, iv., 113-
126
All Saints', i., 17, 123,193, 438, 450; ii.,
12,112, 200, 356, 438; iii., 29, 39, 58,
111, 150, 174, 216, 318, 387 ; iv., 7, 207,
214, 285, 306, 312, 384, 410
All Saints', Derby, church of, iv., 69-101,
532
Allestree, chapel of, iv., 293-299
Alsop, chapel of, ii., 402-405
Altar, slabs, i., 12, 86; ii., 90 ; iii., 445;
iv., 503 — removal of, iv., 93 — old one, in
situ, iii., 144-5 — burial under, i., 118
Alvaston, chapel of, iv., 137-42
Ambaston, chapel of, iv., 197
Andrew, S., iii., 95, 255, 311; iv., 28
Anne, S.,ii.,57,72
Ardfort, Bishop of, i., 109
Arleston, Preceptory at, iv., 17
Armour, in churches, i., 57, 167 ; ii., 422 ;
iii., 439 ; iv., 488
Arms, forgery of, i., 36
Arnold, bellfounder, i., 360 ; ii., 574; iii.,
125, 382, 390, 480
Ashbourne, church of, ii., 363-401, 580 ; iv.,
513-4
Ashford, chapel of, ii., 45-52, 577; iv., 495
Ashover, church of, i., 17-37, 460; iv.,
443-4
Assumption, i., 175
Aston-on-Trent, iv., 3-12, 532
Atlow, chapel^of, ii., 436-438, 447
B.
Bakewell, church of, ii., 5-44, 577; iv.,
488-494
Ballidon, chapel of, ii., 439-441
Barlborough, church of, i., 51-60, 464 ;
iv., 445-6
Barlow, church of, i., 63-69 ; iv., 446
Barrow, church of, iv., 15-27
Bartholomew, S., i., 405; ii., 491; iv.,
198
Barton Blount, church of, iii., 5-11, 322
Basingwerk, Abbey of, ii., 199, 205
Baslow, chapel of, ii., 53-62 ; iv., 495
Bassoon, iii., 87
Beauchief Abbey, i., 73-80, 201, 291, 464;
iv., 446-7
Beauvale Priory, iii., 161
Becon, The Reformer, ii., 402-3
Beeley, chapel of, ii., 63-71 ; iv., 495
Beighton, church of, i., 83-89, 464; iv.,
447-8
BELLFOUNDEBS —
Arnold, i., 360; ii., 574; iii., 125, 382,
390, 480
Barwell, ii., 156
Bracker, iii., 420
Brasyer, iii., 439, 449, 458, 490
Dobson, ii., 395, 453 ; iii,, 41
Halton, iii., 194
Harrison, i., 300 ; ii., 132
Heathcote, i., 37, 60, 170, 214, 231, 258,
326 ; ii., 46, 60, 70, 205 ; iii., 274 ;
iv., 247,254
Hedderley, i., 13, 37, 248, 429 ; ii., 46,
60,100, 111, 183,248, 265,297,320,353,
447, 521 ; iii., 62, 194, 206, 250, 303,
310, 407, 411, 449, 515 ; iv., 162, 192,
227, 239, 298, 308, 314, 411, 431
Hilton, i. , 170
Lester and Pack, ii., 521
Hears, i., 170, 237, 285, 306, 361, 387,
429; ii., 43, 60, 156, 320, 424, 469, 535,
563 ; iii., 112, 168, 266, 302, 324 ; iv.,
124, 125, 135, 168, 180, 314, 438
Mellour, i., 104, 214, 276, 340; ii., 508;
iii., 223, 247, 302, 310 ; iv.,30, 254, 397,
405, 420
Newcombe, iii., 448, 490
Noone, iv., 532
Oldfield, i., 36, 95, 104, 170, 195, 214,
248, 285, 428, 429; ii., 85, 100, 111,
120, 156, 195, 222, 297, 424, 469, 508 ;
iii., 88, 100, 125, 223, 247, 249, 250,
260, 266, 302, 310, 324, 374, 407, 445, 454;
iv., 12, 22, 30, 63, 85, 125, 142, 180,
192, 199, 208, 215, 227, 247, 254, 264,
291, 308, 373, 393, 394, 405, 411, 420
Pack and Chapman, iii., 390, 439
GENERAL INDEX.
565
Rudhall, ii., 147, 215; iii., 41, 439; iv.,
155, 264
Smith, i., 37, 195, 297; ii., 410
Stafford, John de, iii., 206
Taylor, i., 214, 387 ; ii., 183, 272-3, 311,
434,486; iii., 112, 266, 290, 332, 411,
464, 471, 482, 513; iv., 12, 125, 160,
199, 361, 397, 420, 448
Warner, ii., 353 ; iv., 227
Wightman, ii., 563
Bellringers' Rhymes, ii., 240, 298
Belper, chapel of, iii., 142-7; iv., 525
Biggin, chapel of, ii., 565
Black well, church of, i., 93-96, 465; iv.,
448-50
Bloodshed in church, iv., 172, 608
Blyth chapel, i., 293
Body Snatching, ii., 268
Bolsover, church of, i., 99-105, 466; iv.,
450-2
Bonsall, church of , ii., 417-424; iv., 517-18
Books, ancient, i., 203, 336 ; ii., 133 ; iii.,
61 • iv., 85, 192
Boulton, chapel of, iv., 156, 160
Boyleston, church of, iii., 15-24 ; iv., 523
Brackenfield, chapel of, L, 277-80
Bradbourn, church of, ii,, 427-435 ; iv.,
518
Bradley, church of, iii., 27-32, 322
Brailsford, church of, iii., 35-45; iv., 524
Brampton, church of, i., 109-118, 466 ; iv.,
452
Brass Lectern, iv., 179
Brasses, i., 22, 23, 29, 115, 146, 147, 151,
205, 206, 247, 355, 356, 386, 396 ; ii., 30,
31, 70, 101, 116, 166, 182, 231-235, 263,
303, 330, 385, 386, 445, 451, 556-7 ; iii.,
166-7, 179, 206, 218-220, 239-242, 498, 511 ;
iv., 96, 97, 263, 328-334, 388-392, 402
Brassington, chapel of, ii., 442-447; iv.,
518
Brasyer, bellfounder, iii., 439, 449, 458,
490
Breadsall, church of, iii., 53-64, 522-3
Breadsall Priory, iii., 67-78, 523
Breaston, chapel of, iv., 406-8, 536
Bretby, chapel of, iii., 441-2
Brewood Priory, i., 383
Brides, S., chapel of, iii., 472
Brief, rebuilding by, i., 95, 204, 217, 218,
235 ; ii., 65, 136, 200, 210, 220, 271, 348,
485, 549 ; iii., 373, 509, 514 ; iv., 90, 213
Brimington, chapel of, i., 176
British Church, i., 311
Burton Abbey, iii., 472, 475 ; iv., 69, 233,
303, 435
Burton, Lazars, Hospital of, iii., 293
Buxton, chapel of, ii., 72-77
C.
Caldwell, chapel of, iii., 481-2
Calke, Priory of, iii., 345-350, 425 ; iv.,
530
Carlisle, Bishopric of, iii., 395 ; iv., 15
Carsington, church of, ii., 457-460 ; iv.
518-9
Castleton, church of, ii., 127-134; iv.,
500-1
Catton, chapel of, iii., 363-4
Celtic Cross, ii., 122, 123
Celtic Quern, ii., 169
Centenarian, i., 264,410; ii 196; iv.,
408
Chad, S., iii., 11, 189 ; iv., 399
Chaddesden, chapel of, iii., 304-310
Chantry House, i., 295, 419 ; iii., 264,
408 ; iv., 40
Chapel-en-le-Frith, ii., 139-148, 578; iv.,
501-2
Charles, King and Martyr, ii., 277
Charlesworth, chapel of, ii., 205-8
Chatsworth, chapel of, ii., 184
Chellaston, chapel of, iii., 41)9-411
Chelmorton, chapel of, ii., 78-86, 577 ; iv.,
495-6
Chester, Abbey of, iv., 3, 321, 423
Chester, Bishopric of, ii., 129; iv., 7
Chesterfield, church of, i., 121-175, 467,
468 ; iv., 452-6. Battle of, i., 171
Chilcote, chapel of, iii., 351-2
Church ale, iv., 83-4, 206
Church Broughtou, church of, i., 81-88 ;
iv., 524
Church plate, ii., 46, 62, 121, 245, 508 ;
iii., 31, 48, 112, 182, 303, 419; iv., 109,
155, 278, 314, 338, 405, 411, 420
Churchwardens' accounts, ii., 216-7, 266,
295, 333-43, 501, 549, 552, 563-5; iii., 120,
206-7, 439, 454, 464 ; iv., 81
Clement, S., iv., 245
Clifton, chapel of, ii., 401
Clown, church of, i., 193-8, 469 ; iv., 457-8
Codnor Castle, chapel of, iv., 240
Coffins, stone, i., 53 ; ii., 40, 145, 168, 481,
565 ; iv., 153
Communicants, number of, i., 450 ; ii. , 44
Confirmation, large number at, ii., 307
"Confessional," ii., 56, 90; iv., 54, 96,
251
Consecration crosses, ii., 293
Consecration of Foremarb chapel (1662),
iii., 444
Corpses, preservation of ii., 237, 266
Coton-in-the-Elms, chapel of, iii., 391-2
Cratcliffe Hermitage, ii., 357
Crich, church of, iv., 33-66, 534
Cromford, chapel of, ii., 571-4; iv., 52n
Cross, churchyard, i., 69, 89, 95; ii., 36-8,
60, 103, 133, 183, 195-6, 312, 565 ; iii.,
158, 194, 302, 502 ; iv., 346
Croxall, church of, iii., 355-63 ; iv., 530-1
Croxden Abbey, iii., 335, 379
Crucifix, i., 100, 258
Cubley, church of, iii., 91-100, 523
Curfew Bell, i., 324; ii., 353; iii., 464
Cuthbert, S., iii., 119
D.
Dalbury, church of, iii., 107-12; iv., 524
Dale Abbey, iii., 305 ; iv., 183, 211, 234,
258, 415
Darley Abbey, i., 99, 321, 437; ii., 435,
539; iii., 37, 256, 260, 270, 305; iv., 33,
75, 76, 131, 138, 145, 156, 171, 283, 355
Darley, church of, ii., 151-174, 578; iv.,
502-4
Darley, Old Halls of, ii., 158-9
DEDICATIONS —
All Saints, i., 17, 123, 193, 438, 450; ii.,
12, 112, 200, 317, 356, 438, 447; iii., 29,
39, 58, 111, 150, 174, 216, 318, 387 ; iv.,
7, 207, 214, 285, 306, 312, 384, 410
566
DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
DEDICATIONS - continued.
S. Alkmund, iii., 133; iv., 113
S. Andrew, iii., 95, 255, 311 ; iv., 28
S.Anne, ii.,57, 72
Assumption, i., 175
S. Bartholomew, i., 405 ; ii., 491 ; iv., 198
S. Bride, iii., 472
S. Chad, iii., 11, 189; iv., 399
Charles, King and Martyr, ii., 277
S. Clement, iv., 245
S. Cuthbert, iii., 119
S. Edmund, ii., 129, 465; iv., 295
S. George, iii., 367, 460
S. Giles, i., 262, 321; ii., 97, 476,520;
iii., 101, 348, 482 ; iv., 162, 369
S. Helen, i., 175, 269, 304, 433; ii., 153,
191 ; iii., 165
Holy Cross, i., 276
Holy Trinity, i., 277; ii., 45, 253, 496;
iii., 275; iv., 216
S.James, i., 53, 291; ii., 243, 419; iii.,
157, 455, 495 ; iv., 165
S. John, i., 181; ii., 76
S.John Baptist, i., 38, 193, 201, 242,
347 ; ii., 80, 352, 507 ; iii., 21, 143, 356
S, John the Baptist and S. Mary, iii.,
283
S. Laurence, i., 63, 393, 433; iii., 447,
508; iv., 395
S. Leonard, i., 173, 321, 331 ; ii., 107,
532; iii., 196; iv., 316
S. Luke, iii., 149
S. Margaret, ii., 310, 346, 459, 567
S. Martin, ii., 246; iii., 46
S. Mary, i., 47, 84, 100, 284, 367; ii.,
401, 412, 449, 513, 546, 574; iii., 233,
401, 451, 515; iv., 52, 158, 249, 259
S. Mary Magdalene, ii., 205
SS. Mary and Thomas a Becket, i., 73,
100
S. Matthew, ii., 216; iii., 272, 352 ; iv.,
324, 358
S. Michael, i., 176, S13; ii., 114, 404,
486 ; iii., 84, 328, 402, 417, 468, 488 ;
iv., 131, 142, 237, 270, 406, 417, 437
S. Nicholas, iii., 196
S. Oswald, ii., 371
S.Paul, iii., 265; iv., 127
S. Peter, i., 235; ii., 178, 259, 409; iii.,
250, 289, 381, 410, 477 ; iv., 145, 309
SS. Peter and Paul, i., 109, 221
S. Saviour, iii., 445
S. Scytha, iv., 365
S. Swithin, i., 215
S. Thomas, i., 175 ; ii., 218 ; iii., 520
S. Thomas a Becket, i., 73-4, 79; ii.,
146 ; iii., 461
S. Werburgh, i., 94 ; iii., 296 ; iv., 171
S. Wilfred, iv., 20, 189, 223
S. Wystan, iii, 425, 442
Denby, chapel of, iv., 248-54
DernhaU, Abbey of, ii., 128
Dethick, chapel of, i., 38-46, 461-3; iv.,
445
Derwent, chapel of, ii., 241-5
Dobson, bellfounder, ii., 395, 453 ; iii., 41
Dog-whipper, ii., 61; iii., 332
Dole of S. Nicholas, i., 375
Dore, chapel of, i., 218
Dovebridge, church of, iii., 115-26 ; iv.,
523
Dronfield, church of, i., 201-14, 469 ; iv.,
458-62
Duckmanton, church of, i., 378-80 ; iv.,
480-1
Duffield, church of, iii., 129-41 ; iv., 525
Dun Cow, Bib of, i., 137; iv., 455
Dunstable, Priory, ii., 427, 436, 440, 442.
E.
Earl Sterndale, chapel of, ii, 485, 486
Eckington, church of, i., 221-231, 469 ; iv.,
462-4
Edale, chapel of, ii, 135, 136
Edensor, church of, ii., 177-184; iv., 505
Edlaston, church of, iii., 155-8, 523 ; iv.,
525
Edmund, S., ii., 129, 465 ; iv., 295
Effigies of alabaster, i., 27, 148-150, 205,
293,397; ii., 15, 18, 26, 181, 299,327,
381, 382, 386, 389, 467, 558, 560; iii., 78,
99, 136, 167, 178, 235, 236, 257, 265, 321,
438, 453, 497, 499; iv., 9, 25, 97, 120, 201,
252, 289, 310, 334, 385, 404
Effigies of stone, i, 57, 143, 323, 431, 432,
455 ; ii., 160, 298, 302, 326 ; iii, 11, 191,
192, 193, 234, 289, 321, 405, 452, 453,
470, 511 ; iv., 54, 191, 262, 386, 387
Effigy of wood, iv., 96
Eggiuton, church of, iv., 183-192, 534
Elmton, church of, i., 235-7, 470 ; iv.,
465-6
Elton, chapel of, ii. , 346-450
Elvaston, church of, iv., 195-205, 534
Encaustic Tiles, ii., 39 ; iii., 373, 390, 439;
iv., 8, 160, 273, 345, 403
Etwall, church of, iii., 161-8 ; iv., 526
Excommunication, iii., 427 ; iv., 442, 489
Eyam, church of, ii., 186-197, 578 ; iv.,
505
F.
Fair Rosamond, i., 306
Fairneld, chapel of, ii., 269-73, 579 ; iv.,
510
Felley, Priory of, iv., 45
Fenny Bentley, church of, ii., 463-9 ; iv.,
519-20
Findern, chapel of, iv., 312-5
Fodder of lead, i., 69
Fonts, desecrated, i., 432, 442 ; ii., 58, 119,
534; iv., 121, 240, 297— inscription on,
ii., 85 ; iv., 496— of lead, i., 19
Foremark, chapel of, iii., 443-5 ; iv., 530
Foxes, destruction of, i., 317 ; ii., 259,
338, 564
Fresco Painting, i., 64, 135, 351, 425 ; ii.,
83, 94. 193 ; iii., 191, 320-21, 406 ; iv., 359
Frost, great, ii., 173
Funeral Dinners, i., 68
Funeral Garlands, i., 21, 440, 441; ii.,
51-2, 521-2 ; iii., 302, 340; iv., 532
G.
George, S., iii., 367, 460
Giles, S., i., 262, 321 ; ii., 97, 476, 520 ;
iii., 101, 348, 482 ; iv., 162, 369
Glapwell, chapel of, i,, 105 ; iv., 451
Glass, stained, i., 31-34, 45, 87, 114, 152,
206-208, 226-228, 245, 262, 263, 298, 340,
GENERAL INDEX.
567
352-3oo, 368-371, 407, 408 ; ii., 54, 92-94,
230, 331-2, 392, 508 ; iii., 165, 191, 205,
222, 243-7, 448 ; iv., 63, 189, 208, 224,
341-5, 371, 403-4
Glossary of Technical Terms, i., 481-483
Glossop, church of, ii., 199-204 ; iv., 506
Gospel Lectern of Stone, ii., 115; iii., 165,
299, 309 ; iv., 54, 307
Gresley, Priory of, iii., 367-376, 387, 524
Grindlow, chapel of, ii., 268
Guthlac, S., iii., 429
Guy of Warwick, i., 137
H.
Haddon, chapel of, ii., 87-94, 577; iv., 496
Hagioscope, i., 87, 224, 424 ; ii., 90, 193,
323; iii., 41, 63, 135, 404; iv., 21, 54,
153, 291, 327
Halter Devil chapel, iii., 224-6
Halton, bellfounder, iii., 194
Hariot, or Heriot, ii., 174
Harpsichord, ii., 282
Harrison, bellfounder, i., 300; ii., 132
Harthill, chapel of, ii., 95, 96 ; iv., 496-7
Hartington, church of, ii., 473-84; iv., 518
Hartshorn, church of, iii., 379-84, 524 ;
iv., 531-2
Hathersage, church of, ii., 227-40, 579 ;
iv., 505-6
Hatton, chapel of, iii., 208
Hault-Hucknall, church of, i., 241-249,
470-472; iv., 466-7
Hayfield, chapel of, ii., 209-17
Heage, chapel of, iii., 147-149
Heanor, church of, iv., 233-240, 533
Hearth-money, ii., 174
Heath, church of, i., 253-258, 473 ; iv.,
467-8
Heathcote, bellfounder, i.,37, 60, 170, 214,
231, 258, 326; ii., 46, 60, 70, 205; iii.,
274 ; iv., 247, 254
Hedderley, bellfounder, i., 13, 37, 248,
429; ii.,46, 60, 100, 111, 183, 248, 265,
320, 353, 447, 521 ; iii., 62, 194, 206, 250,
303, 310, 407, 411, 449, 518 ; iv., 162, 192,
227, 239, 298, 308, 313, 411, 431
Helen, S., i., 175, 269, 304, 433; ii., 153,
191 ; iii., 165
Hilton, bellfounder, i., 170
Hilton, chapel of, iii., 207-8
Hobbes, Thomas, tomb of, i., 244
Hognaston, chapel of, ii., 489-492 ; iv., 518
Holy Bread, iv., 48
Holy Cross, i., 276
Holy Days, observance of, iv., 49-50
Holy Trinity, i., 277 ; ii., 45, 253, 496 ;
iii., 275 ; iv., 216
Holy Water, carriers of, ii., 8 ; iii., 303
Holmesfield, chapel of, i., 215-217 ; iv,, 462
Hope, church of, ii., 257-68 ; iv., 506-8
Horsley, church of, iv., 243-7
Hospitals, i., 173
Hulland, chapel of, ii., 411-13 ; iv., 515
Hungry Bentley, chapel of, iii., 195-7
I.
Ilkeston, church of, iv., 257-264, 533
Incised slabs, i., 4, 84, 142, 198, 257, 263,
269, 286, 304, 314, 316, 359, 360, 373, 409,
427, 440 ; ii., 31-39, 59, 86, 163-64, 167-68,
235-6, 424 . iii., 41, 133, 358-362, 410,
411, 419, 462, 470 ; iv., 25, 57, 59, 95, 140,
154, 225, 250, 273, 371, 402
Ingleby, chapel of, iii., 433-5 ; iv., 530
Insurrection at Pentrich, iv., 361-2
Intake chapel, iii., 224-6
Interdict, i., 172
Inventories of Church Goods, ii., 371,
404, 407, 418, 430, 437, 441, 443, 448, 457,
464, 476, 489, 495, 506, 512, 518, 532, 542,
572 ; iii., 264, 358, 372, 382, 389,391, 400,
406, 409, 419, 432, 441, 443, 446, 450, 455,
467, 477, 481,488, 496, 512,514, 519 ; iv.,
5, 19, 45, 46, 48-50, 85-7, 104-5, 107, 109,
140, 157, 166, 188, 197, 206, 212, 222, 236,
243, 249, 258, 269, 285, 292, 293, 304, 309,
312, 322, 357, 368, 384, 395, 398, 406, 409,
415, 424, 436
J.
James, S., i., 53,291 ; ii., 243, 419; iii.,
157, 455, 495
John, S., i., 181 ; ii., 76
John Baptist, S., i., 38, 193, 201, 242, 347 ;
ii., 80, 352, 507 ; iii., 21, 143, 356
Johnson, Dr., Marriage of, iv., 180
Journal of Edward Browne, ii., 9
K.
Kedleston, church of, iii., 171-182 ; iv.,
526
Kenilworth Priory, iii., 185-6
Killamarsh, church of, i., 261-264 ; iv.,
468
King's Mead Priory, iii., 335-6 ; iv., 171
King's Newton, chapel of, iii., 408
KirkHallam, church of , iv., 211-216
Kirk Ireton, church of, ii., 495-501 ; iv.,
521
Kirk Langley, church of, iv., 267-279,
535-6
Knights Hospitallers, i., 43, 182, 345 ; iii.,
275, 279, 283 ; iv., 15-19, 356
Knights Templars, i., 182
Kniveton, church of, ii., 505-508 ; iv.,
521-2
L.
Langwith, church of, i., 267-270, 473 ; iv.,
468-9
Launde Priory, ii., 227
Laurence, S., i. 63, 393, 433 ; iii., 447,
508 ; iv., 395
Lea, chapel of, i., 47, 48, 463 ; iv., 445
Lead Font, Ashover, i., 19
Leicester Abbey, ii., 315, 346
Lenton Priory, ii., 8, 79, 139-141, 270,
309; iv., 243
Leonard S., i., 173, 321, 331 ; ii., 107, 531 ;
iii., 196 ; iv., 316
Lepers, i., 173 ; iii., 294, 298
Leper Window, iii., 298-9
Lester and Pack, bellfounders, ii., 521
Lichfield, Dean and Chapter, ii., 5, 53, 66,
78, 257, 269, 289, 506 ; iv., 365, 377
LilleshaU Priory, ii., 268
568
DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Linbery, chapel of, i., 445-6
Lincoln Deanery, i., 109, 121, 406, 449 ;
ii., 151, 363, 417, 457, 463, 495, 505, 511,
517, 531, 539, 567 ; iii., '27, 155 ; iv., 71-5,
115
Little Eaton, chapel of, iv., 127-128
Little John's Bow, ii., 236-9
Littleover, chapel of, iv., 309-311
Locko, Hospital of, iii., 294
Long Eaton, chapel of, iv. , 395-7
Longford, church of, iii., 185-197, 523;
iv , 526
Longstone, chapel of, ii , 97-104, 578
Lowside Window, iii., 298-9, 356, 418 ; iv.,
8, 427, 458, 461
Luke, S., iii., 149
Lullington, church of, iii., 387-391 ; iv.,
530
M.
Mackworth, church of, iv., 283-292
Mapperley, chapel of, iv., 216, 229
Mappleton, church of, ii., 511-13
Margaret, S., ii., 310, 346, 459, 567
Marriages, Runaway, ii., 280-1 — Remark-
able, ii., 113, 194
Marston Montgomery, chapel of, iii., 101 ;
iv., 522
Marston-on-Dove, church of, iii., 201-8 ;
iv., 524
Martin, S., ii., 246 ; iii., 46
Mary, S., i., 47, 84, 100, 284, 367, 401, 412,
449, 513, 546, 574 ; iii., 233, 401, 451,
515 ; iv., 52, 158, 249, 259
Mary Magdalene, S., ii., 205
Mary, S.-on-the-Bridge, chapel of iv.,
102-106
Mary and Thomas a' Becket, S3., i., 73,
100
Matlock, church of, ii., 517-27
Matthew, S., ii., 216 ; iii., 272, 351 ; iv.,
324, 358
Meadow Place, chapel of, ii., 344
Mears, bellfounder, i., 170,237, 285, 306,
361, 387, 429 ; ii., 43, 60, 156, 320, 424,
469, 535, 563 ; iii., 112, 168, 194, 266, 302,
324 ; iv., 121-5, 135, 168, 180, 314, 438
Measham, chapel of, iii., 446-9
Melbourn, church of, iii., 395-408 ; iv.,
530
Mellor, chapel of, ii., 218-223
Mellour, bellfounder, i., 214, 276, 340 ; ii.,
508 ; iii., 223, 247, 302, 310 ; iv., 30, 254,
397,405 420
Mercian Kings, Sepulchre of, iii., 423
Meynell Langley, chapel of, iv., 279
Michael, S., i., 176, 313; ii., 114, 404, 486 ;
iii.. 84, 32S, 402, 417, 468, 488 ; iv., 131,
142, 237, 270, 406, 417, 437
Michael, S., Derby, church of, iv., 131-6
Mickleover, church of, iv., 303-8
Middleton-by-Youlgreave, chapel of, ii.,
343
Modwin S., ii., 380
Monk's Dale, chapel of, ii., 309
Monyash, chapel of, ii., 105-111 ; iv., 497
Morley, church of, iv., 321-347, 534
Morton, church of, i., 273-80; iv., 469 470
Mountgrace Priory, i., 83
Mugginton, church of, iii., 211-223 ; iv.,
524
N.
Newark College, Leicester, iii., 120-1
Newbold, chapelry of, i., 178-181
Newcombe, bellfounder, iii., 448, 490
Newstead Priory, i., 242
Newton Solney, chapel of, iii., 450-4 ; iv.,
530-2
Nicholas, S.,iii., 196
Noone, bellfounder, iv., 532
Norbury, church of, iii., 229-247, 523 ; iv.,
525-6
Normanton, chapel of, iv., 161-2
Normanton South, church of, i., 283-7 ;
iv., 470-1
North Lees, chapel of, ii., 253
Norton, church of, i., 291-300, 473; iv.,
471-3
Nottingham Castle, ii., 5
0.
Oldfield, bellfounder, i., 36, 95, 104, 170,
195, 214, 248, 285, 429; ii., 85, 100, 111,
120, 156, 195, 222, 424, 469, 508 ; iii., 88,
100, 125, 206, 223, 247, 249, 250, 260, 266,
302, 310, 324, 374, 407, 445, 454 ; iv., 12,
22, 30, 63, 85, 12-5, 142, 180, 192, 199, 208,
21-5, 227, 247, 254, 264, 291,308, 373,393,
394, 405, 411, 420
Ockbrook, church of, iv., 206-8
Oliver Cromwell, i., 80, 280, 402
Organs, i., 76; ii., 90, 292, 396, 542 ; iv., 65
Osmaston (Brailsford), chapel of, iii., 45-9
Osmaston (Derby), chapel of, iv., 163-8
Oswald, S., ii., 371
P.
Pack & Chapman, bellfounders, iii., 390.
439
Padley, chapel of, ii., 249-53
Palimpsest brasses, i., 30, 31 ; iii., 241
Palterton, chapel of, i., 327
Pancake bell, i., 171
Parish chests, i., 136, 203, 325 ; ii., 42, 85,
90, 111 ; iii., 121 ; iv., 264, 292, 420
Parvise, ii., 260, 306 ; iv., 290
Parwich, chapel of, ii., 406-10
Pastoral staff, i., 359 ; ii., 85
Paul, S., iii., 265; iv., 127
Peak cavern, ii., 134
Peak Forest, chapel of, ii., 277-82; iv.,
508-10
Peckham, Archbishop, ii. , 7
Peculiar of the Peak, ii., 278
Penitentiary, iv., 173
Pentrich, church of, iv., 355-62
Peter, S., i., 235; ii., 178, 259, 409; iii.,
250, 289, 381, 410, 477 ; iv., 145, 309
Peter's, S., Derby, church of, iv., 145-55,
532
Peter and Paul, SS., i., 109, 221
Pieta, iii., 522
Pinxton, church of, i., 303-7 ; iv., 473-4
Plague, The, i., 176 n., 216 ; ii , 153, 191 ;
iii., 146; iv., 42-44, 99, 125, 165, 455,
475
Pleasley, church of, i., 311-16 ; iv., 474-5
Plot of Anthony Babington, i., 41
Poor Clares, Nunnery of, ii., 475
GENERAL INDEX.
569
Pollock, chapel of, iv., 316-17
Priests, Martyrdom of, ii., 250-1
Protestant Riot, i., 179-180 ; ii., 253
Pulpit of 14th cent. Oak, ii., 222
Quarndon, chapel of, iv., 107-110
R.
Eadbourn, church of, iii, 253-263
Ravenston, church of, iii., 415-420 ; iv.,
532
Reconciliation, Episcopal, iv , 172, 506
Reconsecration, i., 434
Recusants, i., 172, 181; ii., 249-53 ; iii.,
164, 242, 247 ; iv., 220, 227-8, 337, 341
Re-Dedication, i., 193, 322, 433-4; iv., 245
Repton Priory, iii., 346-7, 355, 423-440,
524
Riddings, chapel at, i. , 14
Ripley, church of, iv., 362
Risley, chapel of, iv., 409-11
Robin Hood, ii., 236; iii., 126
Rocester, Abbey of. ii.,174
Roman Cremation, ii., 169
Rood Screen, i., 20, 137-141, 279, 350, 453;
ii., 42, 84, 211, 465; iii., 60, 218, 301,
405, 445 ; iv., 63, 200, 208, 272, 393, 411
Rosleston, chapel, of, iii., 514-515
Rowtor, chapel of, ii., 355-7
Royal Arms in Churches, i., 197
Royal Oak Day at Castleton, ii., 132
Rudhall, bellfounder, ii., 147, 215; iii.,
41, 439 ; iv., 155, 264
Rush-bearing, ii., 202-4, 216
S.
Sacrilege, i., 137 ; iii., 140
Sanctus (or ting-tang) Bell, i., 37, 351,
406, 456 ; ii., 46, 71, 222, 240, 298, 395,
500 ; iii., 194 ; iv., 64
Sandiacre, church of, iv., 365-373, 536
Saviour, S., iii., 445
Sawley, church of, iv., 377-394, 534
Saxon Architecture, iii., 102, 433, 468, 482 ;
iv., 369, 385, 396
Saxon Crosses, i., 95 ; ii., 36-8, 122, 167,
195-9, 267 ; iii., 302; iv.,122
Saxon Crypt, iii., 433-5
Saxon Font, iv., 399
Saxon Tombs, ii., 33, 553 ; iv., 123
Scarcliffe, church of, i., 321-7, 474; iv.,
475-6
Schools held in Church, i., 424 ; ii., 213
Scropton, church of, iii., 263-6 ; iv., 526-7
Scytha, S., iv., 365
Secular use of Churches, i., 172; ii., 142,
244 ; iii., 20-1
Serui-Effigial Monuments, i., 112, 426 ; ii.,
482 ; iii., 177 ; iv., 288
Sepulchre Arch, i., 21
Sheldon, chapel of, ii., 112-113, 578
Shelf ord, Priory of, iv., 132, 137, 195
Shelley at Derby, iy., 362
Shipley, chapel of, iv., 240
Shirebrook, chapei of, i., 317-18
Shirland, church of, i., 331-41, 471-5 ; iv.,
476-7
Shirley, church of, iii., 269-273; iv., 527
Smalley, chapel of, iv., 348-352
Smith, bellfounder, i., 37, 195 ; ii., 410
Smithsby, chapel of, 455-8 ; iv., 531
Snelston, chapel of, iii. , 248-250
Snitterton, chapel of, ii., 165
Soldiers Imprisoned in Churches, ii.
142, 244; iii., 20-21
' Somersall-Herbert, church of, iii., 287-
290
Spondon, church of, iii., 293-303, 523 ;
iv., 527
Stafford, John de, bellfounder, iii., 206
Stanley, chapel of, iii., 311-312 ; iv., 529
Stanton-by-Bridge, church of, 467-472
Stanton-by-Dale, church of, iv., 415-420
Stapenhill, church of, iii., 475-480
Staveley, church of, i., 345-364, 475 ; iv.,
477-9
Steetley, chapel of, i., 399-402, 475-6;
iv., 483-4
Stone Screen, ii., 84, 169, 296, 309: iv.,
262, 296, 390
Stony Middleton, chapel of, ii., 246-8
Storms, i., 204, 422; ii., 62, 144, 193,
500; iii., 147-8, 168, 329: iv., 30, 152,
175, 271
Stoup for Holy Water, i., 58 ; ii., 83, 89 ;
iv., 160
Stretton-in-the-Fields, iii., 485-90
Stydd Preceptory, iii., 279-283
Sudbury, church of, iii., 315-24, 524; iv.,
527
Suffragan Bishops, i., 109, 303; iv., 493
Sun dials, i.,46, 316, 340; ii, 40, 133, 169,
183, 195, 202, -223, 239, 244, 266, 281, 312;
iii., 40, 139, 176, 445 ; iv., 291, 346, 417
Suspension of Bishop Wood, iv, 299
Sutton-in-the-Dale, church of, i., 367-77 ;
iv, 479-80
Sutton-on-the-Hill, church of, iii., 327-32 ;
iv., 527
Swarkeston Bridge, chapel of, iii., 471
Swarkeston, church of, iii., 493-502 ; iv.,
531
Swithin, S., i., 215
T.
Taddington, chapel of, ii, 114-23, 578 ;
iv., 498
Taylor, bellfounder, i, 214, 387 ; ii., 183,
272, 273, 311, 434, 486 ; iii, 112, 266, 290,
332, 411, 464, 471, 482, 513 ; iv., 12, 12ii,
160, 199, 361, 397, 420, 448
Temple Nonnanton, chapel of, i, 182-7,
469
Thomas a Becket, S., i., 73, 74, 79 ; ii., 146 ;
iii., 461
Thomas, S., i, 175 ; ii, 218, iii, 520
Thorp, church of, ii, 531-5 ; iv, 520
Thurgarton Priory, i, 93, 415
Thurlston, chapel of, iv, 197
Tibshelf, church of, i, 383-7 : iv, 481-2
Tickenhall, chapel of, iii.. 459-64
Tideswell, church of, ii, 285-309, 579;
iv, 509-11
Tissington, chapel of, ii, 448-53
Tithes of lead ore, ii, 190-3, 543-5
570
DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES.
Toad in masonry, i., 425 ; iv., 190
Treutham Priory, iii., 107, 327
Trusley, church of, iii., 335-40
Turnditch, chapel of, iii., 150-1
Turpin, Dick, iv., 247
Tutbury Priory, iii., 81, 115, 129, 201, 208,
229
Twyford, chapel of, iv., 28-30
Tympanum, Norman, i., 243, 322, 398;
ii., 45, 409, 449, 491 ; iii., 274, 495 ;
iv., 161, 314
V.
Vale Royal, Abbey of, ii., 128, 135
Vernon, Dorothy, Exhuming of, ii., 28
Vestries, i., 7, 203, 395 ; ii., 133, 194, 496
"Vicar of Bray," a Derbyshire, i., 196
Virgin and Child, figure of, i., 110
W.
Wakebridge, chapel of, iv., 65-6
Walton, chapel of, i., 188-9 ; iv., 456-7
Walton-on-Trent, church of, iii., 505-13,
524
Warner, bellfounder, ii., 353 ; iv., 227
Welbeck Abbey, ii., 241 ; iii., 161, 162
Wells, Holy, ii., 3, 74, 246 ; iv., 114, 115
Werburgh, S., i., 94 ; iii , 296 ; iv., 175
Werburgh, S., Derby, church of, iv.,
171-80
West Broughton, chapel of, iii., 126
West Hallam, church of, iv., 219-29, 530-3
Weston-on-Trent, church of, iv., 423-31,
534
Whale, Jawbone of, i., 137
Whaley, chapel of, iv., 451
Whittington, church of, i., 405-11; iv.,
484-5
Whitwell, church of, i., 391-8 ; iv., 482-3
Wightman, bellfounder, ii., 563
Wilfred, S., iv., 20, 189, 223
Willesley, chapel of, iii., 519-21
Willington, church of, iv., 435-8
Wilne, church of, iv., 398-405
WinfieM, North, church of, i., 415-34,
477; iv., 485-7
Winfield, South, i., 437-44, 477; iv., 487
Wingerworth, church of, i., 449-56; iv.,
488
Wiuster, chapel of, ii., 351-4
\Virksworth, church of, ii., 539-65 ; iv.,
520-2
Woodthorpe Almshouses, i., 363
Worksop Priory, i., 193
Wormhill, chapel of, ii., 310-12; iv., 513
Wystan, S., iii., 425, 442
Y.
Yeaveley, chapel of, iii., 275
Yeaveley Preceptory, iii., 279-283
Yew Trees, ii., 77, 170-172, 460; iii.,
126, 158; iv., 352
Youlgreave, church of, ii., 315-345, 579;
iv., 512
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