NOTES ON ASHBURNE CHURCH. 113 
to be ina thoroughly satisfactory condition; but I am thankful 
that I have been enabled to assist in preserving what is really the 
finest ecclesiastical building in Derbyshire. 
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YET LIVING 
QVIRE BY IOSEPH HEN 
HENSON THE 13" OF IV 
DAVGHTER WAS MARIED 
FRANCE : THE PARSON O 
SHE WAS VERY PYOVS 
& NEEDY & WAS THE 
E070 OE, 
John Hanson, by Will dated January, 1610, charged his lands 
in Ashburne with the payment of #5 annually to the church- 
wardens, to be by them distributed, at Easter and Michaelmas, 
to such poor of the town as they should think in most need. 
II. 
THE MA, 
OF THIS TOWNE 
DREN PAVL TIM. 
ROBERT HER LATE 
THE 4™ & SHE THE 27™ OF M 
TO THIS PLACE ELLEN THE DAVGHTER OF 
M THO TAYLOR IS YET LIVING & THE 
OTHER 2 SONS RICHARD & ROBERT & 
DAVGHTERS DOROTHY MARY GRACE & 
ELLONER ALL DIED YOVNG. 
Blessed are they that dye in the Lord 
Revel. 14. 13. 
No memorial survived of this once well-known family of 
Taylor (of which Dr. Taylor, Johnson’s friend, was a member, I 
believe), until I discovered these fragments. 
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