REPORT. xxiii 



1 Old cope of twyll with an olde vestment of the same. 



2 Albs. 



2 Altar cloths. 



2 Surplices. 



I Cross of brass plate. 



I Pyx of latyn. 



1 Pair of censers. 



1 Hand bell. 



3 Bells in the steepyl. 



2 Candlesticks of pewter. 

 I Sacryng bell. 



1 Cruett. 

 I Old towel. 

 1 Byble. 



I Paraphrase of Erasmus. 

 I Booke of the Coanon Praer. 

 This Church of Pentrich was for 365 years under the rule of the Abbots 

 of Darley, and therefore subject to the influence of the Papal power, but since 

 the dissolution of monasteries, in the order of God's providence, it has reverted to 

 its original status, with the exception of the great tithes, which still remain 

 impropriated. 



The foreign element is gone; abbots and monks no longer step in to 

 alienate the people from their parish Priest. The old order remains-the 

 Church as originally constituted, with its threefold ministry of Bishops, 

 Priests, and Deacons. The pure and simple faith of our Reformed Church is 

 taught the people, and the Gospel is preache.l as in those early days of the 

 Saxon Church here in Mercia, which owed its conversion from Paganism to the 

 missionaries of lona, by whose labours the half of Eng and was evangel/. , 

 and a great portion of Northern Europe as well. For k has beea ascertained 

 that It is notably the Celtic element that prevails after the lapse of 1,000 years 

 m our English Christianity, and our Church owes more than is generally 

 known to the pure faith, the spirit of poverty, and missionary labours of 

 Columba of lona, and through him to Patrick, the great apostle of Ireland 

 from whom the Church of lona and Lindisfarn received its doctrine and 

 ecclesiastical customs. 



The drive was continued to Ripley, where luncheon was taken 

 at the "Cock," after which the parly drove on to Codnor Castle 

 and were received by Mr. F. C. Corfield the Butterley Company 

 having given every facihty for inspecting the ruins. The Rev. 

 Chas. Kerry, who has taken infinite pains to search into the past 



