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IScvlcg ^i>i)t^ Cibartcrs pvcsciljrtr af ISdboir. 



[By the gejierous permission of His Grace the Duke 

 of Rutland^ 



Contributed by Rev. C. Kerry. 



MONG the vast numbers of original charters and docu- 

 ments in the muniment room at Belvoir, are many 

 deeds formerly belonging to the Abbot and Convent of 

 Derley, near Derby. Many of these are endorsed in 

 the briefest style, " Inter nos et . . . ," at once attesting 

 their monastic origin. They must have been handed over to the 

 purchasers or grantees of the Abbey estates at the Dissolution, 

 and so through legal or accidental transmission have ultimately 

 found a home where every care is taken for their safe preservation. 

 The members of our Society will be pleased to learn that our 

 esteemed friend, Mr. W. A. Carrington, has been appointed 

 custodian of the Belvoir and Haddon muniments, and that under 

 his untiring energy and zeal these precious treasures of local 

 history are being arranged and indexed. It is by the assistance 

 of Mr. Carrington, by the Duke's kind permission, that we are 

 enabled to publish these valuable memorials of the past. 



The Convent of Derley, one of the greater houses of the 

 Augustinians, was originally founded at Derby, at the upper 

 end of Bridge Gate, upon or near the site now occupied by 

 the Derby Grammar School, by Robert de Ferrers, Earl of 

 Derby, in the reign of King Stephen, c. 1140. Simpson, in 

 his "History of Derby," Vol. I., page 281, gives a copy of the 



