8 THE CHURCH AND VILLAGE OF MONYASH. 



of St. Leonard, Monyash, for their good estate, for their souls 

 when dead, and for the souls of their ancestors. ^ An inquisi- 

 tion of the same date showed that, after alienating this property, 

 Nicholas still possessed considerable lands both at Eyam and 

 Litton.2 



Monyash would henceforth, up to the Reformation, possess 

 two chaplains, the chantry chaplain giving a daily mass, and 

 this in addition to the services of the parochial chaplain, who 

 was bound to celebrate thrice a week. At this time, and for 

 long subsequently, the populous hamlet of Flagg was reckoned 

 to be in Monyash and not in Chelmorton parish. 



We learn something more of Nicholas de Congesdon from a 

 receipt roll of the Peak jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter 

 of Lichfield for the year 1339. Nicholas and his brother John, 

 with another, were the collectors of the tithes of minerals, that 

 is, of lead; the amount handed over by them under that head 

 was ^18 JOS. Nicholas was also one of the two collectors of 

 the general tithes of Calver. The same return shows that the 

 whole tithes of hay in Monyash, together with a third of the 

 tithes of com, brought in 22s. 4d. A long list of mortuaries is 

 given in the same roll, that is the best beast, or in default of 

 a beast the best garment, handed over to the Chapter collector 

 on the death of a parishioner. In that year in Monyash a 

 cow was sold for 7s. on the death of William Ely; an ox for 

 15s. on the death of William Cloken; and a cow for iis. on the 

 death of Gena Choker.^ 



The 1545 report on, the Derbyshire chantries, preparatory to 

 their revision, says : — "The Chauntrye of Moniasshe foimded 

 by Nich. Congson & John his brother & no we patron of the 

 ryght Hon. Erie of Shrewesburye & Humph Stafford esq.,* 



1 Pat. Rot., 22 Edw. III., pt. ii., m. 26; Rot. Orig., 22 Edw. III.. 

 No. 47. 



■- Inq. ad quod damnum, 22 Edw. III., pt. ii., No. 14. 



:■ This roll is transcribed at length in Derb. Arch. Journ. (1889), xi., 

 142-156. 



4 Humphrey Stafford, of Eyam, had inherited lands in Monyash 

 through the niarriage of his ancestor, John de Stafford, of Eyam, with 

 Dionvsia, sister and eventual heir of Sir Lawrence de Lynford, circa 

 1364, when a grant of lands in Monyash, Chelmorton, and Calver, with 



