132 ANCIENT DOCUMENTS RELATING TO TITHES IN THE PEAK. 
of the tithes of lead on the demesnes of William Peverel, 
of the tithe of the mill of Richard Daniel, and of the tithe of the 
hunting stud and of venison—that the Dean and Chapter should 
pay 14 marks out of the tithes of Bakewell and Hope to Lenton 
Priory—and that two-thirds of the great tithes only should go 
to the Priory in other parts, and of pastures and places then 
cultivated at Bakewell, Nether Haddon, Ashford, and Chapel- 
en-le- Frith. 
This decision secured peace in the Peak between the rival 
religious bodies, but only for some twenty or thirty years, when 
the strife broke out again almost as fiercely as ever. The docu- 
ments given below, all now for the first time printed, are some of 
those that bear on this first dispute of 1250-1252. 
No. I. is the undated Confirmation Charter of Bishop Stavenby 
of the Peak churches to the Lichfield Chapter. It is written on a 
slip of parchment only eight inches by four, and the ink is as 
black and legible as when first penned. 
No. II. is the formal abrogation addressed to the Pope by the 
Archdeacon of S. Alban’s of the powers entrusted to him by the 
Holy See. He recites the appointment by the Roman Court of 
the Prior of Lande, of the Abbots of Burton and Rocester and the 
Prior of Kenilworth, and of himself and others to act as com- 
missioners, and finally declares that he found it impossible to 
terminate the quarrel owing to the astuteness and contumacy of 
the Prior and Convent of Lenton. The document is in excellent 
preservation, and an admirable specimen of the caligraphy of 
those days. 
No. III. is a beautifully written narrow roll, three feet long, 
giving full particulars as to the estimated value of the tithes 
received by Lenton in the different townships of Bakewell, Hope, 
and Tideswell ; together with an account of the violent seizure 
of the sheep in Tideswell church and of the damage done. It 
is a transcript of two Inquisitions taken on oath in 1251, with 
additional remarks, and intended for the use of the proctors 
engaged in the cause. 
No. IV. is a similar sized document to the last, but in bad 
