THE CHURCH AND VILLAGE OF MONYASH. 3 



rights, was attached to the king's cou'rt, it being his duty to 

 serve as the king's valet when he proceeded to Scotland or 

 crossed the seas to the continent. This William de Lynford, 

 junior, obtained from the king two important privileges, which 

 must have brought considerable prosperity to Monyash. 

 Edward III., on 8th April, 1340, granted to William (styled 

 Dilecius valleHus nosier) to hold at Monyash a weekly market 

 ever)' Tuesday, and also a fair on the vigil, day, and morrow of 

 the feast of the Holy Trinity. This charter was witnessed, 

 among others, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of 

 Durham and Lincoln, and the Earls of Surrey and Derby.^ 



The original holder of the market and fair (the fees would 

 bring in a not inconsiderable income) did not retain these 

 privileges for long. Perhaps William de Lynford died in the 

 terrible visitation of the Black Death; at all events, in 1349 

 the market and fair of Monyash, together with the manor, were 

 all held by John de Wyne.- 



In the next centurj-, the manor, with market and fair, were 

 in the hands of the Earls of Shrewsbury.^ 



Various fragments pertaining to social life in Monyash during 

 Elizabethan and later times could be culled by those who 

 know where to look for such records. One example must 

 suffice. At a great court of frankpledge for the High Peak 

 Hundred, held at Chapel-en-le-Frith on 7th October, 1589, 

 George Goodwin, Hugh Ely, Thomas Ely, and Leonard Frost, 

 of Monyash, presented Roger Redfem, Alice Needham, Hugh 

 Rogers, Brjan Ireland, and Alice Swindell, for having broken 

 the assize as common brewers ; they were each fined twopence.^ 



At the wide end of the main street of the village (where 

 there used to be a considerable open space, until a central 

 portion was enclosed for the erection of a school) stands the 

 village cross, which was doubtless placed here in the time of 

 Edward III., when Monyash obtained its market rights. It 



1 Rot. Chart., 14 Edw. III., No. 41. 



2 Rot. Chart., 22 Edw. III., No. 27. 



3 Inq. post mort., 39 Hen. VI., No. 58; 16 Edw. IV., No. 50, etc. 

 ^ Court Rolls, Duchy of Lane, .\Hii., 455. 



