118 NOTES ON TIDESWELL CHURCH. 
independent Parish Church about the time of King John. You 
are aware also that it has had an unbroken connection with the 
Cathedral of Lichfield. 
Considering the extensive remains of Norman and Early Eng- 
lish work at Bakewell, and of old work at Hope (both churches 
having also an unbroken connection with Lichfield Cathedral), 
and the still more extensive Norman remains at Castleton, both 
in the castle and church there, we may reasonably conjecture that 
the church at Tideswell which preceded the present structure was 
of Norman or Early English work. The Peverils of the Peak, 
whose gifts still form portions of the endowments of the churches 
just named, held their castle at Castleton, surrounded by the 
parishes interested in their gifts. 
II. Way so LarGE A CHURCH WAS BUILT AT TIDESWELL. 
The size of this church seems to have been determined, not 
merely by the number of inhabitants, but in great part by the 
existence of one or more guilds at Tideswell before the North 
Transept of this church received the Guild of St. Mary, as re- 
founded under a charter from Richard II., in 1392. ‘This charter 
of Richard II., re-founding the chantry of the Guild of St. 
Mary, from donations of the Foljambes and others (one bequest 
alone being 200 acres of land), throws great light upon the whole 
history of Tideswell Church. Without this document, procured 
many years ago by Mr. Benjamin Bagshaw, of Sheffield, then a 
student of law in London, from the British Museum, I should 
have been unable to understand this remarkable edifice. There 
are many other MSS. and papers relating to Tideswell and other 
places in Derbyshire, formerly collected by Mr. Wolley, of Matlock, 
and now in the British Museum, which ought, I think, to find a 
place in the records of your society. JI may also express a hope 
that a copy of the old statutes of this Guild of St. Mary of Tides- 
well may be found by you in the Record Office or other 
repositories of such documents. 
In accounting for the size of this church it would be an interest- 
ing inquiry what number of officers belonged to that guild, and what 
