156 CHANTRIES FOUNDED IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF ASHBURNE. 



God and S. Oswald for a Priest to perform divine service there, 



and to pray for the souls of the Founders, and all Christian souls ; 



the annual income of which appears by the return in i" Edward 



VI. to have been 100 shillings. 



[Rot in Cur. Augment.] 



Henry Vernon squier and Nicholas Mountgomery and other 



have license to found a Chaunteryin the Parishe Churche of Ashe- 



burne, the same to be called the Chauntery of John Bradburne, 



for ever. 



[Harleian. MSS. 433 fo. IOI^] 



In Vol. IX., p. 188, of this Journal, zxq copies of two deeds 

 contributed by Mr. W. D. Fane of Melbourne Hall, which prove 

 that the Chaplains and the patrons had already, as early as 27th 

 Henry VIII., begun to alienate the property belonging to this 

 Chantry. 



The item in the inventory of Edward VI. wherein the Commis- 

 sioners describe the two sacryng bells hanging before the Altar of 

 gretie, refers to this Chantry, it being connected with the Green Hall. 



The Chantry Roll describes it as "the Chauntrie of Assheburne 

 founded by John and Anne Bradburne to the honor of God and 

 S. Oswald, to mayntayn Godd's Service and praye for the 

 founders' souls, C. s. : clere — ciii'. x '' : for the keping of an obitt 

 iij' iiij''. To the parish Church belongeth M. houselinge people 

 stocke lxxv^ j.d." 



Queen Elizabeth on the ist February in the 6th year of her 

 reign granted to Wm. Grice, Esq., and Anthony Forster, gent, 

 all those lands and heridit' called Almes lands in Ashburne in the 

 tenure of Humphrey Bradburne, Knt., to iiold in fee, in socage. 



[Pat. 6th Elizabeth, p. 4.] 



Queen Elizabeth, on the 13th September, in the i6th year of 

 her reign, granted to John Farnham, Esq., in fee all these the 

 Chantries late founded by John Bradburne and Ann, his wife, 

 Nicholas Kniveton, and others, in the Parish Church of Ash- 

 burne, and in the Chapel of B. Virgin Mary in the Manor 

 of Hoghe, and all the lands, tenements, rents, liberties, and 



