l8 THE RELIGIOUS PENSION ROLL OF DERBYSHIRE. 



PENSION COMMISSION, COUNTY OF DERBY. 1548. 



Edward the Sixt by the grace of God King of England 

 France & Ireland &c To our right trusty and well beloved 

 S"^ William Cavendisshe knight Treasurer of our Chambre 

 S'' John Byron knight Sr John Porte knight and Thos Powtrell 

 esquyer send greeting Know ye that for the good opynion 

 we have reposed in your wisdomes and dexterities we have 

 ordeyned named constituted and appointed you to be our 

 Commissioners giving to you thre or two of you full power and 

 authorite to assemble yourselves in such and so many places 

 in our Countie of Derby as to your discretions shalbe thought 

 convenient and to enquire as well by the othes of honest and 

 lawfull persons of our said countie as by all other wayes and 

 meanes semyng to your discretions convenient for the tr}'all of 

 the truthe in theise matters followinge ffirste ye shall enquire 

 how many of the late Abbots Priours Abbesses Prioresses 

 Monkes Channons ffr}'ers nonnys Incumbents and other mynyster 

 of any Abbey Priory hospital howse of ffryers colleges chauntries 

 ffree chapels guilds or ffratemityes and stipendiaiy priestes or 

 eny other having rent chardge annuytie or pencion going oute or 

 charged of any Abbey Priory hospital &c or out of any their 

 possessions for term of life mentioned in a Sedule or book 

 hereunto annexed be or shalbe at the tyme of your session deade 

 and what time and where every of them died Also how many 

 of the said persons named in the said Sedule be unpaid of 

 their annuyties or pensions and for how long tyme and for what 

 occasion they be so long unpaid. Also ye shall enquire how 

 many of them have solde granted and assigned over their 

 anuyties or pencions to whome when and for what somes of 

 money the same sales grants & assignments over were made 

 And further we give you full power and authoritie by theis 

 j^resents to call before you at such tymes and places as ye shall 

 appoint within our said countie as well all and every the persons 

 in the said Sedule mentioned as all and ever)- other person 

 whome ye shall thinke convenient and to examine them & every 



