42 THE RELIGIOUS PENSION ROLL OF DERBYSHIRE. 



that Thomas Gylbert named in the 



sedule one of the fellowez of the said 



College bycause he cold not haue 



further allowance servyng the said 



Cure then ^5 which he had for his 



pension wold not serve the same 



wheruppon the perysshioners there 



got the seyd Roger Bertylmewe to 



serve the same promyssyng hym for 



his steypend to opteyne a warrant to 



the Kyng's officers to paye hym 



^6 13 4 by the yeer as the other 



hath whiche he dyd accordyngly 



whereof he ys behynd for one hoole 



yere 



John Porte 

 Thomas Powtrell 



CARDINAL POLE'S PENSION ROLL. 



Seven years after the drawing up of this Derbyshire pension 

 roll of Edward VI., another inquiry was held throughout the 

 country as to the pensions and annuities that were then being 

 paid as the result of the various religious suppression Acts 

 from 1536 to 1548. This inquiry produced the great parch- 

 ment roll so often cited and generally known as Cardinal Pole's 

 Pension Roll, which has been in the British Museum for nearly 

 a century. It is dated Michaelmas, 1555 (2 and 3 Philip and 

 Mary).* The Derbyshire entries follow the same order as the 

 report of 1548, and show remarkably little alteration from the 

 return of the earlier date ; only a very few of the names had 

 dropped out. 



In one particular this latter return supplements the one of 

 Edward, for it specifies six ex-chantry priests whose pensions 



* Add. MSS. 8,102. The skin.s relating to Derbyshire are numbered 

 45 to so. 



