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Others which might be named of the same period. We may 

 therefore safely fix this date of i 306 as one very approximate to 

 the date of th's memorial. 



The next point to ascertain is, whether any person of note 

 connected with Ilkeston died about this time. The Cantelupes 

 were then its lords. Referring to Glover's account of this family 

 in his "History of Ilkeston and Shipley," published in 1831, we 

 find that William de Cantelupe, founder of this family, left five 

 sons. William, the eldest son, died in 1307 — the very year in 

 point — but as neither he nor his descendants had any connection 

 with Ilkeston, it is not likely to be his memoiial. Now Nicholas, 

 the fourth son (whose cross-legged effigy still lies in the chancel 

 of Ilkeston Church), by his marriage with Eustacia, sole daughter 

 and heiress of Hugh Fitz Ralph, lord of Greasley and Ilkeston, 

 became lord of Ilkeston. This Nicholas and Eustacia had an 

 only son, William de Cantelupe, who succeeded his father in his 

 lordships, and died in 1309. And this is clearly the person to 

 whose memory this once beautiful, though now broken and 

 ejected, memorial was erected. It was not reared to Nicholas the 

 father, because his recumbent effigy still remains ; nor was it 

 erected to Nicholas, the son and successor of this William, 

 because he died in 1346, a period far too late for a monument 

 of this character. 



Relying, therefore, on the evidence afforded by analogy, we 

 have now identified this interesting relic of departed greatness as 

 the tomb of William de Cantelupe. He is related to have 

 attended Edward I. in his French and Scottish wars, and was 

 summoned to Parliament from 28 Edward I. to i Edward II., 

 being then seized as aforesaid of the Manor of Ilkeston in right 

 of his mother. 



Unfortunately, the slabs have lain so long (thirty-four years) 

 exposed to the elements, that " the sun by day and the frost by 

 night "' will soon have completed the work of disintegration, and 

 in a few years the traces I have so carefully delineated will be no 

 longer visible. A natural flaw or fault in both of the large slabs 

 has widened into a fissure extending the whole length, and if the 



