6 THE CHURCH AND VILLAGE OF MONYASH. 



every messuage in that town should pay a farthing a year for 

 finding lights for their chapel, in addition tO' the fee that they 

 customarily paid to Bakewell for the same purpose. They 

 further undertook, on behalf of themselves and the inhabitants, 

 that this provision of a chaplain should not in any way prejudice 

 the various rights of the mother church, and that they would 

 attend sen'ice at Bakewell at Christmas and Easter, and on 

 All Saints' Day.^ 



Some fifty years after the bestowal of the oxgang of land and 

 a house at Monyash on the Lichfield Chapter, tO' insure three 

 celebrations a week in their chapel, the Dean and Chapter 

 granted this property to William, son of Alan, and his heirs, 

 at a yearly rental of los., but made stringent regulations against 

 its sub-division or the sub-letting of it to Jews or monks or 

 anyone else.^ 



Meanwhile a vicar of Bakewell was appointed with a stipend 

 of twenty marks, out of which he had to pay various assistants, 

 and certain small provision was made for the different chapelries. 

 But these regulations were so' ill-observed, that when the ener- 

 getic Archbishop Peckham made his visitation of the diocese 

 of Lichfield in 1280, he sternly rebuked the dean and canons 

 for their gross neglect of the spiritual necessities of Bakewell 

 and its several dependent chapelries. In defence, it was urged 

 that it was only by the great favour of the chapter that the 

 inhabitants had been allowed to build these chapels, to save 

 them the trouble and danger in bad seasons of coming to the 

 mother church. The archbishop, by his decision, made a 

 compromise, and, so far as respected Monyash, ordained that 

 the chancel should be kept in repair by the inhabitants, who 

 were also to find a chalice and a missal, but that the rest of the 

 fabric, and books, and ornaments, were to be supplied by the 

 Dean and Chapter. The inhabitants of Monyash were also to 

 add one mark, in addition to the glebe of twelve acres which 



1 This charter is given in full in Churches of Derbyshire, ii., 585-6. 



2 This charter is given in full in Churches of Derbyshire, ii., 586, 

 from Harl. MS. 4799, f. 27 ; it is entitled AUenatio terre de 

 Moniasche interdicta. 



