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Porbury HMlanor Bouse and the Troubles of 
the fitsherberts, 
By Rev. J. CHARLEs Cox. Illustrated by GEorGE BalLey. 
YP2ENRY DE FERRERS founded the Priory of 
mt Tutbury about the year 1080; the manor and 
church of Norbury, in the county of Derby, 
forming part of the endowment.t But in the 
year 1125, the Priory gave Norbury in fee- 
farm to William Fitzherbert, at a yearly rental 
of r0o0s.{ From this date the Fitzherberts held 
the Norbury manor as tenants of Tutbury 
Priory up to the year 1444, when Nicholas 
Fitzherbert, and Ralph, his son and heir, gave to Thomas Gedney, 
Prior of Tutbury, all their lands at Osmaston, together with other 
lands at Foston and Church Broughton, in exchange for the 
reserved rent of 1oos., and for all other services due to the Prior 
out of the manor of Norbury.§ 
By letters. patent, dated September 4th, 1252, Sir William Fitz- 
herbert. fourth lord of Norbury, obtained a grant of free warren 
over his manor of Norbury. At the Quo Warranto pleadings at 
* This initial letter is an ancient hinge, from the doorway of the Oak 
Parlour of the Manor House. 
+ Dugdale’s ‘‘ Monasticon,”’ vol. i. p. 354. 
+ Tutbury Chartulary, chart. 88. 
§ Ibid, chart 39. 
