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armes. And the better to furnish and encourage you to the warts, 
Iretayne you ever to be my knight, with five hundred markes of 
yearly revenew, out of my inheritance.” They then carried him 
back to his tent, whereupon he called his four esquires, and, in 
presence of witnesses, spake thus, “thes four gentlemen have ever 
served me truly and especially this day, and the honor I have 
obtained is by their valiantnesse, and therefore am I bound to 
reward them. ‘Therefore doe all you testifie, that when my lord 
the prince hath given me 500 markes of yearely revenues, I 
resigne into their hands the sayd gyft, to them and their heyeres 
for ever, as surely as yt was given me, and doe disinheryt myself 
of the same.” This coming to the ears of the Prince, he highly 
commended Sir James, and gave him 600 marks for himself. The 
battle of Poictiers was fought in zoth Edward III., and de 
Mackworth was with Audley as one of his four esquires.* We 
think it very probable that de Adlardestreu was another of them, 
though we cannot find any actual record of it; the name is 
mentioned in deeds of the 13th century,+ and members of the family 
of Allestry remained in the neighbourhood as late as 1682, when 
Thomas was incumbent of St. Peter’s. They appear to have 
taken their name from the two derew7tes, as we find the hamlets 
named in Doomsday Book, but they were not held by the 
Touchets, Mackworths, or Allestrys at the time of that survey, 
though they may have been held by them soon after; for Lysons 
states the Touchets had the manor in 1251, and also that Thomas, 
son of Lord Touchet, sold it, about 1516, to John Munday, who 
was Lord Mayor of London in 1522, and who died in 1538 
possessed of Mackworth., Markeaton, Allestree, and of land at 
Findern and Chester. It continued in the same family above 200 
years. Allestree was then sold to Bache Thornhill, of Stanton in 
the Peak, who began to build the Hall, and madea park. Mr. 
Thornhill, however, never finished the Hall, and it acquired the 
reputation of being haunted, which it was, by owls. In this state 
the Hall remained until it was purchased by I. C. Girardot, who 
* Pilkington’s ‘‘ Derbyshire.” vol. ij. p. 111. 
+ Lysons’ ‘* Derbyshire,” p. 153. 
