Editha, whose body lies beneath the handsome tomb in Ashover 

 Church. According 10 Woolley it appears that his gravestone 

 lay on the south side of the large monument with the recumbent 

 effigies. The stone was inlaid with brass plates, one exhibiting an 

 emaciated figure or skeleton, and the other, which is still pre- 

 served, the following inscription ; "Here lyeth Thomas Babyngton, 

 of Dethic, Esq., son of John, son and heyre to Thomas Babyng- 

 ton, and Isabella, hys wife, daughter and heyre to Robert Dethic, 

 Esq., which Thomas, deceysed, the 13th day of March, 15 18, on 

 whose souls Jhu have mercy." 



This plate is a rescript, the reverse commemorating one Robert 

 Prykke, Serjeant of the Pantry to Margaret, Queen of England, 

 who died in 1450. It was removed from the slab to which it had 

 been more recently attached at the foot of the recumbent effigies, by 

 the Rector and myself, and has been framed and hinged under my 

 instructions by the well-known firm of Barfoot, late Leaver, of 

 Maidenhead. It now occupies its former position, and is sus- 

 pended on a Purbec marble slab, which seems to have once borne 

 a rhyming epitaph to Edith, surmounted by a representation of 

 the Blessed Trinity. 



Thomas and Edith had a large family, no less than nine sons 

 and six daughters. The eldest of these, Sir Anthony, Knight, 

 of Dethic, was Sheriff of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire in T534. 

 He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of John Ormond, 

 Esq., of Alfreton, by Joane his wife, daughter and heir of Sir W. 

 Chaworih. His second wife was Catharine, daughter of Sir John 

 Ferrers, Knight, of Derbyshire. It was this Sir Anthony who 

 erected the tower of Dethic church, so famous for the heraldic 

 illustrations of the alliances of the family. 



I shall now take the issue of this Sir Anthony, the " totuer builder" 

 by his first wife, Elizabeth Ormond : — 



Thomas, his eldest son, of Dethic, married Catharine, eldest 

 daughter of Sir Henry Sacheverell, of Morley, where her beautiful 

 memorial, with its recumbent effigy, may still be seen. She died 

 on 23rd of August, 1544. Her will is preserved at Somerset 

 House. He departed on the 21st of April, 1560, and left two 



