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mothers are called in English Gommes, (this lady) herself they 
used to call by the common appelation the Gome of the Dale. 
This (lady) had a son, Richard by name, a youth of good dis- 
position, whom, when he had studied the sacred writings, after 
he had taken Holy Orders in due course, she caused to be 
ordained priest, that in her Chapel of Depedale he might minister 
about holy things. Which he also did. Moreover the mansion 
of the same matron was in the upper part of our garden 
towards the south in the place where there is now a pond which 
is called brother Roger de Alesby’s. When our fathers made 
that same pond, they found at the bottom of it many worked 
stones which had formerly belonged to the abovesaid mansion. 
At the time when the house of Kalc was the mother church 
of Repton, God, who agreeably disposes all things, willing to 
exalt more graciously the place of Depedale, the aforesaid 
from Kalk venerable matron consenting, nay, rather managing it, the said 
Serlo de Grendon called together the Canons of Kale’ and 
gave them the place of Depedale. Moreover the aforesaid 
Richard the chaplain took the regular habit among them. And 
as Humfrid told me (of whom I have made mention above) 
the Prior of these same Canons was called Umfrid, and he 
had as associates Nicholas and Simon, who had a short time 
before been the schoolfellow and companion of William de 
Grendon in Paris; and Richard the chaplain aforesaid, and two 
others whose names have escaped my memory, [which Umfrid, 
with those canons, there performed their ministry for days and years]. 
The aforesaid Canons, therefore, having taken root in the 
same place and being comforted by God, built for themselves 
a church, a costly work, and other offices. Humfrid their 
Prior, even visited the Roman Curia and obtained the excellent 
privilege . . . . which we still have concerning the confirmation 
of the place, in the right of burial, and of celebration, even when 
the land was under an interdict, and very many other liberties. 
About that period flourished Albinus, first Abbot of Darley,™ 
shining forth with so great a token of a holy and honest con- 
versation, that the interior of the cloister and the corner of the 
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