26 LIST OF THE INHABITANTS OF MELBOURNE, 1695. 
who was presented to the Vicarage in 1690 by Dr. Smith, Bishop 
of Carlisle. The Royal Manor of Melbourne formed part of the 
endowment of the Sea of Carlisle from the time of its foundation 
by Henry I., in 1133. The fourth Bishop built a Palace here, in 
1230, and en-parked the adjoining lands. He and his successors 
constantly resided here, and had leave from the Bishop of the 
diocese to hold ordinations in Melbourne church ; for they were 
often driven from Carlisle by the inroads of the Scots during the 
frequent wars between England and Scotland. The Bishop’s 
Palace and impropriate Rectory were farmed, in the reign of 
Charles I., by Sir John Coke, Secretary of State, who paid a 
stipend of £20 per annum to the Vicar, and a rent of £45 per 
annum to the See of Carlisle. The Parliamentary Commissioners 
of 1650 reported that the Vicarage was worth £26 per annum, 
and that the rent of #45 reserved under the lease of the 
parsonage was ‘“‘ enjoyed by Sir John Coke to the use of the 
Vicar.” An agreement, however, was made, in 1701, between the 
Bishop of Carlisle and his lessee, Mr. Thomas Coke, that, in con- 
sideration of the Vicar’s stipend being raised from #20 to £35 
per annum, and the rent being increased from £45 to £70 per 
annum, the lease should be converted into a grant in fee simple ; 
and this agreement was confirmed by Act of Parliament, in 1704. 
The Palace was at this time known as Beaulie Hall, and was occu- 
pied as a farm-house for several generations by the Earp family, 
as tenants of the Cokes; but they eventually purchased it, and it 
was pulled down in 1821. The name of Earp was spelt Erp in 
1695; and Thomas Erp, the tenant of Beaulie Hall, who is de- 
scribed in the list as a farmer, was the lineal ancestor of Thomas 
Earp, Esq., the well known brewer and maltster, who has repre- 
sented Newark in Parliament since 1874. 
Melbourne church is one of the most interesting churches in 
England of the early Norman period, and is admirably described 
in the third volume of Mr. Charles Cox’s lVotes on the Churches of 
Derbyshire. The Vicarage, however, is poorly endowed, and, 
accordingly the Vicar and his wife kept only one servant—a 
maiden. ‘Troughton held the living twenty-eight years, and was 
