144 CHANTRIES FOUNDED IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF ASHBURNE. 



Imprimis the sayd Towne of Ashburne is scittuat in the Peake in the 

 County of Derbye a very rude cuntry in maner utterly voyde of preachers to 

 teache ether younge or olde theire duties ether towardes God or her Ma*"* and 

 therefore greate nede of Scholes for the good bringing up of youthe. 



Item the sayd Towne is the Chefeste Market Towne w'^n the sayd County 

 greatly replenished, but yet w'^ poore people who are not able to paye their 

 children scholing and so through wante bringe them up rather in begginge 

 then in vertuous learninge. 



Item there is fouriie and odde townes and villages w'Mn Fyve myles com- 

 pass about the sayd Towne of Ashburne and in all that compass and much 

 more not one Schole so the sayde Schole being erected it will be a nurse of 

 Learneinge to all those Townes and the reste of the Cuntrye thereabouts. 



Item for wante of Scholes the youthe of that Cuntrye followe the olde 

 traditions of Men and rather cleave to Papistrye than to the truthe of the 

 Gospelle. 



Item for wante of Scholes they know not God nor her Ma''" Lawes but are 

 geven over to wickedness and vyces as sweringe, drunckenes, whordome, idle- 

 nes and suche lyke to the greate displeasure of God, contempte of her 

 Heighness, and to the great damage and hurte of the comen wealthe. 



Item, generally for thes and other great causes it might be alledged it is the 

 place that hath greateste nede of a Schole in all Englande and yet no man 

 hetherunto hath gone aboute to provyd for the same. 



Item the sayd Towne and Mannor of Asheburne where the Schole is to be 

 erected is her Ma'"^ towne and pcell of her Duchie of Lancaster. 



Item the sayd Schole is determined to be dedicated to her Ma'''= and in 

 ppetuall memory of her Heighnes goodnes and Love towardes the same 

 Cuntrye it shall be called after the erection thereof " Schola Gramaticalis 

 Dne Elizabethe Regine Ville sue Ashburnie." 



These causes together with the zeale they beare to the gospell theire 

 allegaunce to her Ma'''= and theire Love to theire Cuntrye hath moved dyvers 

 her Ma''" subjectes who are never to reap benefitt by the same daylye to 

 travell for the erection of the sayd Schole to their great costes and charges 

 expendinge their tyme and goodes in psentinge of this w'^'' otherwyse they 

 might use to theire owne profifite. 



Item the causes aflforesayd have moved dyvers her Ma''" Lovinge subjects 

 to graunte or gyve Landes towardes the mayntenaunce of the same. So that 

 yf her Ma'''= maye be moved for the causes afforesayd to gyve the Landes 

 demaunded then will the same Schole be made a very famous Schole and be 

 well mayneteyned for ever to the manifolde comoditye of many otherwyse it 

 is in great hassard never to be further pceded in — God graunt the conterarye. 



Item the buyldinge thereof hath coste her sayd Subjectes and wyll coste 

 them before it be finished ccccli so famous they intende to make it because it 



