1 6 DERLEY ABBEY CHARTERS PRESERVED AT BELVOIR. 



(wood) as may for ever be drawn with one cart from the wood of 

 Duffield or Chaddesden. All these things which I have given 

 them I concede and confirm to the aforesaid Church of God and 

 of Saint Mary, for me, and mine, as well living as departed. And 

 I receive that church with all its holdings, and the advowson in 

 my custody, in wood and in plain, and in every place, the king's 

 right in that church excepted. And I concede to them all 

 liberties which I have in the aforesaid tenements, viz. : Toll, and 

 Them, and Sac, and Soc, and Infangthief. All which the king 

 granted and confirmed by his charter." 



In the reign of Henry II., Hugh, Dean of Derby, gave, with 

 the consent of his son Henry, all his lands in Little Derby, 

 near Derby, to Albinus, at that time Abbot, and to the Canons of 

 S. Helen's,* for the purpose of building thereon a church and 

 monastery. The charter of Hugh is addressed 



(2) (^o his lord Henry, King of England, and to his most 

 dear father Richard, Bp. of Chester, &c., Hugh the priest, ca/M 

 Dean of Derby, saluting." It conveys to the convent the Church 

 of S. Peter in Derby. The document was sealed before 

 "Frogero" (? Roger), Archdeacon of Derby, Peter de Sandyacre, 

 Rob. de Duyn, Henry Tuschet, and was witnessed by Here- 

 ward de Ponte, Gylaf, Agemund, Godewynus, Rob. son of Ulser, 

 Luered, and Ingermund le Palmer." — Dugdale. 



The religious house of S. Helen in Derby flourished for some 

 time after the migration of monks to Derley, for four of its 

 inmates attested a deed of quit claim, or indemnification against 

 all legal pleadings, in the year 1242. 



God and the B. Mary and the church of Merivale to construct an Abbey of the 

 Cistercian Order, my whole forest of Arden and whatsoever I have in 

 Wytinton, & the manor of Weston, and the manor of Overton, and one 

 Herdewic in the Peak at Crannokesdune and common of pasture, viz., of 

 Henterdon and Pillesbury for the feeding of sheep and animals. Witnesses : 

 Richard Peche Archdeacon, Edmund & Hugo de Ferrars, William son of 

 Nigel, Henry son of Sewal, Will son of Herbert, Rob. de Bakepuiz, Geoffry de 

 Bakepuiz Ric. de Curcun, Will, de Seyl, Hen. de Cambreys, Robert Luvet." 

 * A very interesting dedication. The church of Etwall has the same 

 invocation. Are these sites at all connected with British Christianity ? York, 

 the home of S. Helen, has a church dedicated to her memory in or near the 

 old forum. 



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