4 THE CHURCH AND VILLAGE OF MONYASH. 



rises from a large step, 8 ft. 2 in. square, on which rests 

 a second shallow step 47 in. square. On this second 

 step rests a base-stone, with chamfered comers, which is 27 in. 

 square and 18 in. high; from this base springs a squared shaft, 

 10 in. by II in. at base, and 8 ft. high, with just the beginning 

 of the mutilated crosshead. 



Near to this cross stands the village hostelry, the Bull's Head. 

 On the lintel of a doorway are the initials and date, H.G. 

 1619, E.G., which must stand for Humphrey and Elizabeth 

 Goodwin. Humphrey Goodwin appears in a list of Monyash 

 freeholders of the year 1633. Two of the smaller houses in 

 the village have stone mullion windows and other characteristics 

 which go back tO' at least Elizabethan days ; but several sub- 

 stantial old houses of the Monyash freeholders, as well as 

 smaller cottages, have disappeared within the last fifty or sixty 

 years. 



It may be well now to turn to matters ecclesiastical in 

 connection with this village.^ At the time of the taking of the 

 Domesday Survey, in 1086, Monyash {Mancis) obtains this 

 single word mention as one of the eight berewicks into which 

 the widespread royal manor of Bakewell was then subdivided. 

 It is astonishing to note how often rash and absolutely false 

 assertions are made with regard to Domesday by ignorant 

 writers. In the last edition of Kelly's Postal Directory of 

 Derbyshire, the silly and baseless untruth is put on record that 

 " it is recorded in Domesday that Monyash was a penal settle- 

 ment for monks.'" At Oneash, in this township, the Cistercian 

 monks of Roche Abbey had a grange ; but that abbey was not 

 founded until 1147, and this grange here was never used in the 

 manner asserted. Two- priests are mentioned in the Survey as 

 being attached to the church of Bakewell. In the reign of 

 Henry I., the church as well as the manor of Bakewell were 



1 This account of the church of Monyash is considerably expanded 

 and corrected from that which I wrote thirty-five years ago, and which 

 was published in 1876 [Churches of Derbyshire, ii., 105-111, 585-6; 

 iv., 497). The original authorities have been re-consulted, and several 

 documents cited for the first time. 



