154. ANCIENT DOCUMENTS RELATING TO TITHES IN THE PEAK. 
of the Church of Grandfons (Grandifontis), proctor of the said 
Prior and Convent of Lenton, with whom there was a dispute at 
the Roman Court, legally contested, as to his continual absence. 
Alan de Harby, priest, sworn and examined, says that the 
Church of Tideswell is parochial. Asked how he knows this: he 
says that he first served in that church in the sacerdotal office for 
four years continuously, then missing two years, he ministered in 
it uninterruptedly for one year in the sacerdotal office. Asked 
who constituted it parochial: he says he does not know. Asked 
by what deed or by what rights which it has the same church is 
called parochial, and how he knew this: he says that at the period 
aforesaid, all children born in the parish of Tideswell he baptized 
in the same church, and all who died in the aforesaid time in the 
said parish, he buried in the churchyard of the same church: he 
also made paschal tapers in it; and performed in it the hallowing 
of the font on the vigils of Easter and Pentecost. Asked to what 
bounds the parish of the said church extends, and how he knows 
this: he says that it commences on the east from a place which is 
called Macheford, and extends for two miles towards the west as 
far as the place which is called Fairfield, and on the north from a 
place which is called Tidislawe, for a mile and a half towards the 
south as far as a mill which is situated on the water called Wye. 
Asked how he knows this: he says that he visited the sick at the 
time aforesaid in all the townships situated within the said limits 
of the said parish, viz., in Tideswell, Litton, Weston, Wormhill, 
Hardwickwall, Tunstead, Greatrakes, Meadow, le Milnestede, and 
he had his cattle in the pastures there, and the digging of turf 
and the tithes of the said mill belonging to the portion of the said 
Dean and Chapter, and he collected with the servants of William, 
rector of the church of Eccleshall, farmer of the church of Tides- 
well, peacefully for four years all the lesser tithes pertaining within 
the limits of the said parish, except two parts of the tithe of the 
said mill and of the place which is called Hardwickwall. Asked 
concerning the place, time, month, day, hour, and those present 
where and when the said church is said to have been constituted 
parochial, and how he knows this: he says he does not know. 
