THE RELIGIOUS PENSION ROLL OF DERBYSHIRE. I? 



accountant, acted as commissioner, they had the face to write 

 down "Mr. Doctor Legh " as an annuitant for ^6 13s. 4d. 

 The Earl of Shrewsbury was entered as an annuitant for 

 £2, 6s. 8d., and forty-one others for smaller sums, running up 

 the total sum to be paid out of monastic property to secular 

 pensioners to the annual sum of £6^ 7s. 2d. The same 

 commissioners had the arrangements of the dissolution of 

 Repton and Dale in their hands ; in the former case they put 

 twelve civilians on the annuity list to the amount of ;£22 i8s., 

 and in the latter case twelve others to the amount of 

 £12, 13s. 4d. 



It is some satisfaction to find that Legh and Cavendish got 

 into serious trouble over the winding up of the accounts of 

 the suppression of these three Derbyshire and a few other 

 midland houses, it being alleged that the latter had made entries 

 after the clerks had withdrawn.* 



It only remains to add that the larger portion of this report 

 is concerned with the pensions assigned to those who held 

 chantry or collegiate or hospital preferments, and gives fresh 

 information in several cases, particularly as regards the College 

 of All Saints. The Act for securing the surrender of these to 

 the King was passed in 1545; but Henry VIII. died before 

 much of this destruction had been carried out, and its completion 

 was left to his successor, Edward VI. t Letters patent, with 

 the great seal of the Court of Augmentations, were issued on 

 22 June, 2 Edw. VI., by Sir Walter Mildmay and Robert 

 Keylwaye, general commissioners for the purpose, to fifty- 

 seven different incumbents or ministers of suppressed colleges, 

 chantries, free chapels, and stipendiary priests in the County 

 of Derby4 



* Letters and Papers Henry VIII., xiii. (2), 1233. 



t Further particulars as to each of these suppressed chantries, etc., can be 

 found in the four voUuiies on the Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire. 



% Aug. Office Accts., Exch., K. R. Bundle Ixxv., No. 8. 

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