2 DARLEY DALE REGISTERS. 
He and his adversary were first to fight with quarter-staff, in 
which he was wounded. They then betook them to sword and 
dagger. The Spaniard hereby soon lost the use of his left arm 
and afterwards his life.” 
There is a curious proviso in the will of Peter Columbell, dated 
20. Oct : 1616*—that if his brothers or sisters shall find his hope- 
ful son Roger “ takeinge of tobaccoe,” he is forthwith to forfeit his 
howseholde-goodes at Darley. 
The families, some of them still in our midst, of most frequent 
occurrence in the earlier entries are—Allen, Allsoppe, Barker, 
Bradwell, Britland, Bullock, Clay, Derbyshire, Ferne, Flint, 
Gregory, Knowles, Nedham, Pidcocke, Ragge, Shore, Silkstone, 
Soresby, Sterndale, Stephenson, Taylor, Tissington, Vygors, or 
Vickers, Wall, Waterhouse vel Walters, Wildgoose (abbreviated, 
as we shall presently see, into the euphonious Goose), Wilmot, 
and Woodiwisse. 
REcTORS OF DARLEY— 
Robert Dawe, parson of Darley, 1615. 
Robert Evans, parson of North Medietie, ob. 1639 
James Holland, rector of S. Medietie, ob. 1644. 
Charles Broxholme, rector of South Medietie, ob. 1648. 
John Potts, rector of North Medietie, (resigned ?) 1663. 
Edward Payne, minister of South-mediety, ob. 1665. 
Thomas Moseley, rector of North-mediety, ob. 1685. 
John Edwards, rector of Darley, ob. 1689. 
Henry Aldrich, rector, ob. 1720. 
John Garmston, M.A., formerly fellow of Magd: Coll: Camb: 
rector of Darley and Prebendary of Wolverhampton, ob. 1744. 
Thomas Savage, M.A., rector of Darleigh, and formerly fellow of 
New Coll, Oxon, ob. 1764. 
Sir William Ullithorne Wray, 11th bart: rector, 1764-1808. 
Benjamin Lawrence, M.A. rector 1808-1838. 
* 1616 was the year of Shakspeare’s death; as also of the erection of the 
exceptionally large number of ¢we/ve sedilia in Darley Church. 
