2 HADDON : THE HALL, THE MANOR. AND ITS LORDS. 



and 9 bordars. Henry de Ferrers i.s a.sse.ssed at i carucate in 

 Hadiine." 



The Manor of Bakewell, with many other extensive domains, 

 was bestowed by the Conqueror upon his natural son William 

 Peverel, by Maud, daughter of Ingelric, who afterwards married 

 Ranulph, son of Payne Peverel (standard-bearer to Robert, 

 Duke of Normandy, father to the Conqueror), after whom not 

 only this William, but other issue he had by her, assumed the 

 name of Peverel. 



William Peverel possessed sixteen manors in Derbyshire, 

 besides Peak and Nottingham Castles. He is said to have 

 founded tlie Priory of St. James, near Northampton, and the 

 Prior)' of Lenton, near Nottingham, in 1102, and to have died in 

 1113 ; but it seems more probable that it was not the son of the 

 Conqueror, but his grandson, a second William, who founded 

 these Priories. 



William Peverel the fourth, grandson of the last-named 

 William, was deprived of his great possessions by Henry II. for 

 poisoning Ranulph, Earl of Chester, in 1153. Most of these 

 lands and honours, including the manor and church of Bakewell, 

 reverted to the Crown, and were given by Henry to his son 

 John, Earl of Moreton, afterwards King. 



Several Peverels are met with in this neighbourhood in the 

 Belvoir Charters at a considerably later date. A Henry Peverel is a 

 witness to a lease of Alport Mill, in the reign of John, or early 

 Henry III., and they were evidently located at, and held lands 

 in, Hassop in the reigns of Henry III. and Edward I., where 

 they occur as Cecilia, the widow of Nicholas Peverel, Nicholas, 

 son and heir of Peter, and Roger, son of Nicholas. It is not im- 

 probable that these were descendants of the Peverels of Haddon. 

 While, doubtless, the whole of the estates of William Peverel 

 which he possessed at the time of his outlawry were confiscated 

 to the Crown, it may be presumed that those lands and manors 

 which either he, or his predecessors, had bestowed upon their 

 dependants by tenure of knight's service, escaped the general 

 confiscation. 



