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XXVIII. 1847. James Duncan Macfarlane; patron, Duke of 
Devonshire. On the resignation of B. M. 
I. Sir Nicholas Musard was the last male heir of the baronial 
family who possessed Staveley. Upon the death of his nephew, 
John, the young Lord Musard, who died just as he had reached 
maturity, he became the last Baron Musard. The fact of his 
incumbency rests primarily on the authority of the Musard 
Pedigrees, but there are abundant collateral evidences to confirm 
the statement that he was Rector of Staveley ; one in particular, 
contained in a plea of Quare impedit, 19 Edward III., tells us 
distinctly that “ Radulphus Musard fuit seisitus de integro manerio 
de Staveley, et presentavit Nich. Musard (filium suum) ad 
medietatem ecclesie ibidem et fuit admissus et institutus temp, 
Edw. I.” Though an ecclesiastic person, and consequently 
debarred by the Canons at that period in force from the state of 
matrimony, he appears to have had four children, and to have 
died about 29 Edw. I. 
A paper amongst the evidences of Lord Frecheville contains 
a remarkable notice of this Lord and rector of Staveley :— 
“ Nicholaus Musard Dominus de Staveley talliavit diversa terras 
et tenementa Willelmo filio suo et heredi, etc, Christiane filie sue, 
Johanne filie sue, et Malcolmo filio suo, successive pro defectu 
heredum etc. Nota, quod predictus Nicholaus fuit rector ecclesie 
de Staveley, et proles nominata fuere omnes bastarde.”-—[W. S.] 
IV. The name of this rector, which has been given in Nichols’ 
Collectanea (vol. iv) as “John de Horton,” and which I copied 
from the Episcopal Register under the same orthography, I now 
find to be rather indistinctly written, and the name may quite 
possibly be “ Warton.” Ifso the specially interesting monumental 
slab to an ecclesiastic in the south aisle—“ Johannes Warton 
quondam rector istius ecclesie”—is identified with the fourth on 
our list of rectors. In the first volume of the Churches of Derby- 
shire, before I had consulted the Episcopal Registers, I gave it as 
my opinion that the slab was of fourteenth century date. 
XVIII. Edward Key was probably a near relative of the Freche- 
villes, as Peter Frecheville (who died in 1582) married Margaret, 
