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condition, and contains one of the Inquisitions given in No. II. 
The last paragraph, therefore, is only given, and this is of excep- 
tional interest, as showing the conditions and emoluments under 
which John the Chaplain held the church of Tideswell. 
No. V. contains the depositions, unfortunately incomplete, 
taken before the Papal Commissioners at Tideswell in 1252, in 
proof of the parochiality of the church of Tideswell, which the 
Chapter contended was no longer to be regarded as a mere 
chapelry of Hope. This is of so much interest that it is translated 
in full. 
No. VI. is a deed from Henry de Lexington, Dean of Lincoln, 
lessee under the Dean and Chapter of the church of Bakewell, 
by which he covenants to pay fourteen marks to the Priory 
of Lenton in accordance with the decision of the Papal 
Commissioners. 
No. VII. is the formal decision of the Warden of Leicester 
and the Archdeacon of Chester, as Papal Commissioners, given 
at S. Mary’s, Leicester, in 1252. The document is in good 
preservation, and remarkably well written. This copy of their 
judgment, to be preserved by the Chapter, has appended to it, in 
addition to the seals of the Commissioners, the seal of Lenton 
Priory, and also the seal of Alan their sub-prior, who had appeared 
on behalf of the convent before the commission. 
No. VIII. is a small undated Indenture between the Priory and 
the Chapter relative to the tithes of the three Peak churches, 
apparently drawn up as an additional security for the carrying out 
of the Papal judgment. 
No. IX. is an undated Indenture, but apparently of about this 
period, or rather later, between the Priory and the Chapter, relative 
to acompromise touching the tithes of five hundred acres of newly 
cleared lands at Fairfield. This Fairfield question came up again 
and again in the next two centuries ; see Churches of Derbyshire, 
vol. il. 
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