ALMSHOUSE OF ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY. 3 



brethren, and sisters, and their successors, by their corporate 

 name in perpetuity. 



The Letters Patent proceed to grant leave to the Countess to 

 found one other almshouse at Bakewell, in the High Peak, for the 

 relief of the poor within the parish of Bakewell, and elsewhere in 

 the County of Derby, to be called the almshouse of Bakewell, of 

 the foundation of John Manners, of Haddon, Esquire, for a 

 warden and three brethren, chosen by John Manners during his 

 life, and after his decease by the lord of the manor or lordship of 

 Haddon. They appoint Thurstan Hutchenson first warden, and 

 William Abbott, Edward Harrison, and Edward Fayles the first 

 brethren. The subsequent provisions are similar to those made 

 for the Derby almshouse, but the right of nomination on default 

 is conferred upon the Vicar and wardens of the Parish Church of 

 Bakewell in substitution for the bailiffs of Derby, and the endow- 

 ment, including a mansion house in Bakewell where the said 

 warden and three poor men had then lately lived, was not to 

 exceed a clear yearly value of ;^4o. 



It does not seem that the powers of the charter for the founda- 

 tion of the Bakewell House were ever exercised. By deed, how- 

 ever, of 30th April, 1602, John Manners, of Nether Haddon, 

 Esquire, under the authority of a Statute* made meanwhile " for 

 erecting of Hospitals or Abiding and Working Houses for the 

 Poor," ordained and constituted that so much of a newly-erected 

 house in Bakewell, being part of the chapel as contained four 

 lodgings below, wherein four poor men — Edward Hopkinson, 

 Robert Sheppard, Edward Fayles, and Clement Jones — then lay, 

 and having the Town Hall over it, and the back side or garden 

 stead therewith used, should remain an hospital for ever, and 

 that the same should be called St. John's Hospital, and the 

 said John Manners incorporated the said four persons by the 

 name of " the Governor and Poor of St. John's Hospital in 

 Bakewell. "t 



• 39 Elizabeth, c. 5. 



+ The Charities in the County of Derby. Selected from Reports of Com-, 

 missioners for Inquiry, 1839. 



