12 THE RELIGIOUS PENSION ROLL OF DERBYSHIRE. 



Nor must it be forgotten that in the general suppression of 

 1538, those who had taken refuge in the larger houses of their 

 Orders when their own were dissolved, found themselves 

 incapable of receiving pensions, for it was expressly provided 

 that those only were to be pensioned who had been inmates of 

 the particular house for a long time (din anted). 



Again, it was distinctly laid down that those only who made 

 ''voluntary surrender" to the King were to be pensioned. In 

 several cases, where there was passive resistance — there was 

 no such instance in Derbyshire — the religious were ejected in 

 complete beggary. 



Altogether it may be safely estimated that less than half the 

 members of the suppressed religious communities received 

 pensions throughout England, and such was certainly the case 

 in Derbyshire. 



Darley Abbey surrendered on 22nd October, 1538. The 

 surrender was signed by Thomas Rage, abbot ; William Stan- 

 banke, prior; Richard Machyn, sub-prior; and by ten other 

 canons, namely, Walter Rey, William Sawter, Thomas Haryson. 

 Thomas Trippet, Edward Cradocke, Thomas Coste, Henry 

 Hey, William Holiley, Nicholas Jevons, and Henry Cosst.* 

 Two days later the pension list was drawn up, whereby ^50 

 a year was assigned to the abbot, ;£6 13s. 4d. to the prior, ^^ 

 each to the sub-prior and two other canons, ;^5 6s. 8d. to each 

 of three canons, and £^% to each of the remaining five canons, t 



Repton Priory surrendered on 25th October, 1538, when the 

 priorship was vacant. The surrender was signed by Ralph 

 Gierke, sub-prior, and by eight other canons, namely, John 

 Wirksworth, alias Wood, Thomas Str)'nger, James Yong, John 

 Peter, Thomas Pratt, Thomas Webstar, Robert Ward, and 

 Thomas Abell.J On the following day the pension list was 

 drawn up, whereby ^6 a year was assigned to the sub-prior, 

 and sums varying from ^5 6s. 8d. to ^4 to nine other canons. 



* Dep. Keeper's Reports, viii., app. 2, 19. 



t Letters and Papers Henry VIII., xiii. (2), 839. 



X Dep. Keeper's Reports, viii., app. 2, 38. 



