WILL OF RALPH KITZHERBERT. 95 



he nor his father Nicholas, whom Dr. Cox calls Sir Nicholas, 

 was ever knighted ; but, though Nicholas was a knight of the 

 shire, Ijoth he and his son Ralph lived and died plain armigers. 



The Manor of Norbury was strictly entailed, and Ralph was 

 doubtless but a life tenant of the real estate which he held for 

 only ten years ; hence his will is short and somewhat common- 

 place. It contains, however, certain points of interest, the first 

 of which is the testator's reference to the Church of Saint Barlac. 



In " Derbyshire Churches," iii., 246, is the following note : — 

 " Elizabeth Fitzherbert, heiress of Marshall, by her will dated 

 October 24th, 1491, desired to be buried in the Church (?) of 

 S. Barlok in Norbury. The will is not at Lichfield, nor at the 

 Will Office, London, so that we cannot give the exact phraseolog) . 

 We are, however, inclined to think that the chapel of S. Barlok 

 in the Church of Norbury was intended." 



In this note Dr. Cox has marked the word '' Church •"' with a 

 note of interrogation, but there is no doubt about it. The 

 original Probate copy of Elizabeth's will, which is in English, 

 lies before me, and the words are as follows : — " My body to be 

 bured in the Churche of seint Barloke byfore the ymage of seint 

 Nicholas by syde the body of Rauffe Fitzherbert late my husbond.'" 



The will is dated 20th October, 1490, not 24th October, 1491, 

 as stated by Dr. Cux. The date 1494, in " Ashbourne and the 

 Valley of the Dove,'' p. 233, /i., is an obvious misprint. From 

 the will now printed it appears that Elizabeth's husband also 

 desired to be buried " in the Church of St. Barlac of Norbury.' 



By " the chapel of S. Barlok," Dr. Cox probably means the 

 south-east chapel of Norbury Church, in the chief window of 

 which is the labelled figure of " Sanctas Burlok Abbas." 



Now, in Lysons' time, 1817, Ralph's tomb stood "under the 

 arch between the nave and north transept " (aisle) ; and, accord- 

 ing to Dr. Cox, his wife Elizabeth's tomb was in the same place, 

 and it does not appear that they ever stood anywhere else prior to 

 that date. But if so, it follows that either the testators' bodies 

 were not buried in that part of Norl)ury Church specified in their 

 wills, or else that the Ecclesia Sancti Barlaci meant some other 



