they were entertained at tea by Lord and Lady Belper, and 

 allowed to inspect the pictures and pleasure grounds. The 

 return journey was made from Kegworth at 7.9 p.m. 



The next expedition of the Society was held on July 28th, to 

 Ashover and Dethick. The party left Derby in special saloons 

 attached to the 10.32 a.m. train for Stretton. From Stretton 

 Station the party drove to Ashover Church, which was described 

 in detail by the Rev. Dr. Cox. Luncheon was taken at the 

 Hydropathic Establishment, Ashover. and the party afterwards 

 drove, via Trinity Chapel, to Dethick, where the Rev. Charles 

 Kerry read the following paper upon the family of Babington : — 



Babington Family. 



I have been requested by the Honorary Secretary of our Society 

 to say something to you on this occasion concerning the history of 

 the Babington family. I do so with much diffidence ; first, because 

 it is utterly impossible for anyone in the allotted time to give any- 

 thing but a mere sketch of this distinguished and wide-spreading 

 family ; secondly, because I cannot produce anything not previously 

 elucidated ; and, lastly, because we have amongst us one who has 

 perhaps more knowledge of the subject than any other person in 

 England. I mean my worthy and esteemed friend, Dr. Cox, 

 whose work on the Churches of Derbyshire is one of the most won- 

 derful examples of patient research and diligent investigation ever 

 produced in our own times. It is to this work, and to " Burke's 

 History of the Commoners," that I am mainly indebted for the 

 materials for this paper. 



Burke deduces this family from Sir Bernard Babington, lord of 

 Babington, in Northumberland. I do not know of any place in 

 this county of this name, unless it be identical with Baxwigton, by 

 Thorkcington, near the centre of the county. On a ceiling at 

 Harnham Castle (about five miles east of Bavington ), once occu- 

 pied by the Babingtons, is the crest of the family, in high relief, 

 within a circular medallion, viz., a dragon's head between two 

 dragons' wings, gu., with, I believe, a scroll issuing from the mouth. 

 I assign this medallion to the end of the fifteenth or beginning of 



