THE CHURCH AND VILLAGE OF MONYASH. II 



Neither Monyash nor Taddington obtained burial rights 

 until the year 1345. There is preserved among the capitular 

 muniments at Lichfield an indenture from twenty-four residents 

 of Monyash, whereby, in recognition of the grant of burial rights 

 to their chapel, they covenant to pay a farthing to the vicar 

 of Bakewell for each corpse on the day of burial, and to offer 

 at the high altar in Bakewell church, every All Saints' Day, 

 twelvepence for the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield. About half 

 of the twenty-four wax seals appended to this indenture still 

 remain. 1 



The Valor Ecclcsiasticus of Henry VIIL notes that the 

 chapelry of Monyash was still paying this yearly pensioai of 

 1 2d. to the Lichfield Chapter. 



The services at Monyash must have been veiy fitful for the 

 century after the suppression of the chantry. 



At the time of the Parliamentary Survey of Livings, carried 

 out in 1650, it was reported of Monyash that it was fit to be 

 made an independent parish. Ralph Roades was then the 

 minister. The Survey of the Lichfield Chapter possessions, 

 undertaken at the same time, said : — " To the Chapell of Mony- 

 ash there is noe certaine meanes but of late an Augmentacon 

 of Thirty pounds out of the late Deane & Chapter's rent 

 due from S"^ Edward Leech." 



During the reign of Charles II., Monyash became one of the 

 headquarters of the Derbyshire Quakers. John Gratton, the 

 most famous of the Midland Quakers, went to live at Monyash 

 in 1668, where he resided forty years, and was active in dis- 

 turbing congregations both Episcopal and Presbyterian. The 

 return of recusants made by the Derbyshire constables in 1689 

 show that there were then twelve Quakers at Monyash, including 

 John Gretton and his wife.^ 



The church, which is dedicated to St. Leonard, consists of 

 chancel, north and south transepts, nave with clerestoried north 

 and south aisles, south porch, and western tower and spire. 



1 Dr. Cox's Catalogue of the Muniments of Lichfield, p. 64. 



2 Dr. Cox's Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals, i., 342-347. 



