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Rossington,* Richard de Rossington. Given at Breadsale on 

 Sunday, the Feast of S. Catharine the Virgin, in the 4th year 

 of the reign of K. Richard II." (November 25th, a.d. 1380.) 

 Two good seals. 



(25) JS.now ye, &c., that I, John de Chaddesden of 

 Melbourne, have given, &c., to Simon de Melbourne, clerk, and 

 William Neuton, parsyn of the church of Braylesford, all my lands, 

 tents, rents, reversions, and services, &c., which I had or have in 

 the vills and fields of Chaddesden and Breydeshale, in Com. 

 Derb., &c. Witnesses : Henry Wychard, Rob. Cokfeld, Thorn, 

 de Tutteburye, Nich. Angier, Will. Knyght, and others. Given 

 at Chaddesden, May ist. Anno 5 Henry V. (a.d. 141 7). 



Robbery at Breadsall Priory, 1448. 

 Thieves Excommunicated. 



(26) VUfvilliam, by Divine permission Bishop of Coventry 

 and Lichfield, to his beloved sons in Christ, the Rectors of the 

 parish churches of Morley and Breydeshale, and the vicar of the 

 church of Horsleye, and the weekly chaplain celebrating Divine 

 service in the collegiate church of All Saints', Derby, each of our 

 diocese, health, grace, and benediction, 



" On the part of our beloved son in Christ, William Dethic, 

 Esquire, of our said diocese, a grave complaint has been shewn 

 to us that some sons of perdition, forgetful of their salvation, 

 having no fear of falling into the abyss of Gehenna, whose names 

 are entirely unknown, and likewise their persons, certain writings, 

 charters, evidences, and muniments pertaining to the Priory of 

 Breadsal Park, as the hereditary right of William Dethic in the 

 vills of Breydeshale and Breydeshal Parke aforesaid, and concerning 



* In 1331, John, elder son of John de Rossington, owned six bovates of 

 land, etc., in Middleton-by-Yolgrave. They were given 10 the father by his 

 sister Margaret, who had them of the gift and feofment of William Launselyn, 

 her father. He also held the Grange of Ivenbrook in Winster, 1323 ; land in 

 Gratton, 1320. He resided at Yolgrave in 1350. (Haddon Charters.) 



