86 WILL OF SIR HENRY VERNON, OF HADDON. 



syngyng and there abydyng in the Chappell* in neddur hadden 

 accordyng to the wyll of my grauntfatherf there to serue god 

 Saynt Nycholas and saynt Anne and to pray for my soule my 

 grauntfathers soule my wyff soule and for all the soulys that com 

 of my sayd grauntfather takyng for hys wages all thos launds and 

 Tents whech Sir John Smythe otherwyse callyd Sir John peneston 

 latly hade duryng hys lyff that ys for to say the lands now in 

 the holdyng of Robert Bagshawe and Robert VVodrufife the 

 land in sekynton Tamworth Wegynton and Chelmardon / Itm I 

 bequethe to the Churche of bakewell and to makyng of the Rode 

 lofte vj" / Itm I bequeth to my Chappell att Tonge my greate 

 and fayrest masse boke and a Chales which I bought and ys 

 of the olde facion / Itm I wyll that all the stuff remaynyng in 

 the Chappell att haddon contenew there styll except such as 

 I wyll gyff in thys my wyll or aftur / Itm I wyll that all my 

 detts as sone as they can be covenyently knowyn be payd / Itm 

 I wyll that all my Boles and Ore my Son Richerd shall haue 

 and all maner peces of leede go to my executors to performe 

 my wyll / Itm I wyll my eldest Son haue my Coler of gold 

 and also att eu'y maner that I haue and for beldyng of the same 

 all maner of stuff that belongithe to beledyng / Itm I wyll 

 that my sayd son haue my beste gowne and the remanent of myn 

 aray to be dystrybuted evenly betwixt Thomas Humffrey Arthur 

 and John my Sonnys and all other abelyments (habiliments) 



* Reference is made to the chapel of St. Nicholas in a deed, still in exis- 

 tence at Belvoir, by which William Avenell, about 1 170, made a partition of 

 his manor of Nether Haddon between his sons-in law, Richard de Vernon 

 and Simon Basset, who had married his two daughters and co-heiresses, Avice 

 and Elizabeth. By deed 18 Henry VHI. (1526), the Executors of the will of 

 Sir Henry Vernon, in fulfilment of his instructions, granted and surrendered to 

 Richard Rawson, Chaplain, the Chantry of St. Nicholas and St. Anne, in the 

 Chapel of Nether Haddon, together with the lands specified in the said will, 

 for his maintenance. 



t Sir Richard Vernon, Treasurer of Calais, Captain of Rouen, and Speaker 

 of the Parliament that met at Leicester in 1426, was born in 1390, and died in 

 1450. He married Benedict, daughter of Sir John Ludlow of Hodnet, co. 

 Salop. The insertion of the stained-glass window in the east of the chancel of 

 the chapel at Haddon is commemorated by the following inscription under- 

 neath : — 



" Orate pro aiabus Ricardi Vernon et Benedicite uxoris ejus qui fecerunt 

 avio diii milesimo ccccxxvii. " 



