CHANTRIES FOUNDED IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF ASHBURNE. 1 43 



town of Ashburne, Co. Derby, to found a free grammar school 

 there, and desiring to purchase certain houses near the said town, 

 belonging to the Queen, as an endowment for the school. 



This grammar school was eventually founded on the site of 

 the house belonging to this Chantry, as the deed of conveyance 

 testifies. 



The following Memoranda are copied from a paper formerly 

 in the possession of Thomas Astle, Esq., of Battersea Rise, 

 keeper of the Records in the Tower of London, 1791. 



Ashburne \ The Estate and valewe of the landes and tenements desired 

 School. •' of her Ma'''= towarde the maintenance of her Ma''<== Free 

 Schole to be erected in her Heighness towne of Ashborne in the peake in the 

 County of Derbye. 



Imprimis the Herdman's Close and the xxx acres of Lande'j 



in Whitefeilde and Young are yet in Leas for xxiij yeares and I xxxiiij. ij. o^. 



are rented p. ann. J 



Item the Tent in Hanbury and Fowlde are yet in Leas for ix "l 



... f xxvi. viii. 



yeres and is rented p. ann. J ■" ■" 



Item the P'sonage House in Bradborne and the Landes '\ 

 thereunto belonginge are in Leas for xxv yeares and is )■ iij" xiij=. iiij^. 

 rented pr ann. ) 



The Tentes in Asheburne are Candle Rentes and have\ 

 nothinge but Lytle backe-sydes unto them belonginge and 

 are in ruin and yet in Leas for xij yeares or thereaboute f • J • 



rented pp. annu. ) 



SuiSe Totall. xi" xiij^ x'^ ot. 



Note. — That after the leases ended there is not anymore Rente to be made 

 of the Tentes in A. than the rente they go for at this psente. The reste of the 

 Landes after the Leases ended maye be sume whate better than the rent they 

 are now lett for, but for the space of the xxiij yeares and upwardes there is 

 not one peny more to be raysed then the very bare rent. So that if her Ma"^ 

 do gyve the lands but in Fee Ferme — the Schole shall not have any mainten- 

 ance therby these xxiij yeares and then but very little. It is therefore required 

 of her Heighnes either to grante to the value of Tenne powndes of the same 

 Landes in fee simple or otherwyse the Candle Rents in Fee simple and the 

 reste in Fee Ferme or all in Fee Ferme at suche a Rent as her Ma"^ shall 

 thinke mete and that the Schole may holde the same in Socage as of her 

 Manor of Asheburne. 



The causes y' maye move her Ma''"= to graunte Lycense to erecte the sayd 

 Schol and to gyve the landes demanded for mayntenaunce of y^ same. 



