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Zi)t Statf of mrpton iWauov fvom tljc Jlvctgn 

 of ?l^cnn> E. to tf)at of p^envp T. 



By the Rev. F. C. Hipkins, F.S.A. 



HIS very interesting chronicle (which our Society 

 owes to the kindness of Sir Henry Bemrose, who 

 allowed me to make a copy of it from one in his 

 possession), contains an account, as the title sets 

 forth, of " the state of the Manor of Repingdon," from the 

 2ist year of the reign of Henry I., i.e., the year 1121, to 

 the first year of Henry V. (141 3-1 4), when, or, at least, within 

 the first half of that century, the original may be assumed to 

 have been compiled. Although records of this class were 

 usually called Chronicles or Histories of the Abbeys to which 

 they referred, they were, in reality, ^uasi-legal documents, and 

 equivalent to the modern Abstracts of Title. In the instance 

 before us, the object, clearly, was' to prove the Title of the 

 Prior of Repton to a " fourth part, and a fourth part of a 

 fourth part, of the Manor of Repton." 



In the record are enumerated the many benefactors to the 

 Church of St. Gyles, at Calke, to the Church of St. Wystan, 

 and to the Priory at Repton. Also the transference of the 

 Canons of Calke to Repton, by Maud Countess of Chester, 

 and her son Hugh Kenelocke. 



" Richard, surnamed Lupus, second earl of Chester," was 

 " drouned in the sea," in November, 11 20, when Prince 

 William, son of Henry I., and many other nobles went 

 down in the ill-fated " White Ship," whilst attempting the 

 passage from Normandy. Few of our early records can vie 



