DERBYSHIRE 
The Earliest Existing Regtster-Book of 
S. Helews Chureh, Darley Dale, Derbyshire. 
COMMUNICATED BY JOHN SLEIGH, J.P. 
| “a\EXT to Youlgreave, the Darley registers are the most 
W interesting I have as yet tackled in North Derbyshire ; 
and such excerpts as are here presented may stimulate 
further research. Possibly, the account of the great 
snow might, by the aid of chemicals, be made decipherable. 
Most, if not every one, of the names of the earlier landowners and 
gentry have long since, “like the idle vapour of a dream,” faded 
out of the neighbourhood—the Baches, Beresfords, Birds, Colum- 
bells, Darleys, Fernes,* Foljambes, Greaves, Greensmiths, Knive- 
tons, Marburys, Millwards, Mowers, Seniors and Steares. 
Bassano tells us that Robt. Millward, of Snitterton (n. 1597 ; 
q: ob. 1622 ?), ‘* fought a single combat in Spain with a Spaniard. 
* Henry Ferne, of Snitterton (ob, 1703), was receiver-general of customs 
t’ W. 3. & Anne. 
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