THE CHURCH AND VILLAGE OF MONYASH. 5 



given to William Peverel, and continued in that family until 

 the time of Henry II., when they escheated to the Crown, and 

 were afterwards granted to various persons. Henry II. con- 

 ferred the church of Bakewell, with all its appurtenances, on his 

 second son John, Earl of Morton, who afterwards became King 

 John. Earl John, in 1192, granted this important rectory to 

 Hugh de Novant, Bishop of Lichfield, and his canons. During 

 the episcopacy of Geoffrey de Muschamp, John came to the 

 throne, and confirmed, in 1199, Bakewell church to Lichfield, 

 including the chapelry of Monyash, for there is little or no 

 doubt that there had been a chapel there for some time. 



Under these circumstances, mth the greater part of the tithes 

 diverted to the Lichfield Chapter, it became difficult to find 

 support for the parochial chaplains of Bakewell. This was 

 more particularly the case with regard to Monyash, and some 

 other parts of the Peak, for William Peverel had given two- 

 thirds of their tithes, in 11 13, to the prior)- of Lenton, Notts., 

 3nd the priory was for ever insisting that this gift set aside 

 John's gift to Lichfield. 1 



Soon after John's accession to the throne, at a date as we 

 know from the witnesses between 1 1 99 and 1 200, important 

 religious provision was made for Monyash by a charter from 

 two benefactors, Robert de Salocia, and Matthew, son of Odo 

 of Aston, who appear to have been joint lords of the manor of 

 Monyash ; they obtained leave from the Dean and Chapter of 

 Lichfield to grant to the mother church of Bakewell an oxgang of 

 land, together with a house in the town of Monyash, on con- 

 dition of the said mother church providing a chaplain tO' serve 

 in the chantry chapel of Monyash three days in the week, viz., 

 on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. They also ordained, 

 with the common consent of the inhabitants of Monyash, that 



' A summary of this long continued Lis L'entonensis, which so sapped 

 ecclesiastical revenues and disturbed the peace of the church throughout 

 North Derbyshire for centuries, is given in Lichfield Capitular Muni- 

 ments, 66-9. There, too, will be found references to ihe various charters 

 respecting Bakewell and its chapelries in the Magnum Regisirurn Album. 

 Most of them were also given in the thirteenth cent. B. Mus. chartulary, 

 Harl. MS., 4799. 



