2 ALMSHOUSE OF ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY. 



written in abbreviated Latin, and this may probably account for 

 their omission from " Simpson's History," wliere the orders and 

 deed of gift are transcribed at length. They recite the proposal 

 of the Countess to found two several almshouses, one within the 

 town of Derby, and the other in the parish of Bakewell, for the 

 maintenance of certain poor within the parishes and towns of 

 Derby, Hucknall, Stainsby, Heath, Chatsworth, Bakewell, and 

 elsewhere, in the County of Derby. They grant license for the 

 foundation of an almshouse at Derby for the relief of poor men 

 and women in and about the parishes and towns of Derby, 

 Hucknall, Stainsby, Heath, Chatsworth, and elsewhere in the 

 county, and they appoint Thomas Johnson to be first warden, 

 Richard Hayward, George Tomlinson, Edward Dyker, Thomas 

 Alsoppe, Humfrey Heynes, Thomas Parre, and John Melborne 

 to be first brethren, and Dorothy Hayward, Isabella Heyward, 

 Katherine Dangerfield, and Johanna Sturdye to be first sisters. 

 In favour of Richard Hayward and Dorothy his wife, an 

 exception was made to the rule against married inmates, and 

 the former was charged by the orders with the care of the 

 chapel in All Saints', a duty which was afterwards to appertain to 

 the office of warden. 



The Charter goes on to grant that the same warden, brethren, 

 and sisters, and their successors, be a body corporate and politic 

 by the name of the warden, brethren, and sisters of the almshouse 

 of Derby, of the foundation of Elizabeth, Countess of Shrews- 

 bury, and have a common seal. It provides for the choice of 

 warden, brethren, and sisters upon any vacancy by the Countess, 

 or by such persons as she should by deed or will appoint, and 

 their heirs, and in default by the bailiffs of the town of Derby, 

 the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry or the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury, It empowers the Countess to make rules, and 

 the warden, brethren, and sisters to hold land and rents not 

 exceeding a clear yearly value of ;£ioo, and it gives license to' 

 the Countess to grant four acres of land, meadow, or pasture, 

 within or near to the town of Derby, for a site of the almshouse 

 beyond the aforesaid sum of p^^ioo, to hold to the warden, 



