THE CHURCH .VND VILLAGE OF MONYASH. 2 I 



not many entries of interest, but the following burials under 

 date February 5th, 1772, bear witness to the severity of winter 

 storms on these uplands: — "John Allcock, blacksmith, and 

 Richard Boham, a baker. N.B. — These two were stan'ed to 

 death in coming from Winster market, on Middleton Common." 

 The Registers also record the sad fate, in 1776, of " ¥*= Rev^. 

 M"^. Lomas. He was killed by a fall from a rock in Lathkill 

 dale in the night." Robert Lomas had been minister of 

 Monyash for many years ; the Registers record the baptism of 

 his son Exuperius in 1753. He was returning from Bakewell 

 late on the evening of October nth, lost his way, and fell 

 over a dangerous precipice between Lathkill and Harlow dales, 

 at that time called Fox Tor, but ever since distinguished as 

 Parson's Tor. His body was found on Saturday afternoon, 

 October 12th, and the inquest and burial took place on the 

 following Monday. 1 The registers give the burial of his 

 widow in 1788. 



The oldest piece of the altar plate is a small chalice with 

 hall-mark of 1726-7. The remarkable and exceptional feature 

 of it is that it bears on the side a curious late-Renaissance^ 

 looking engraving of a chapel surmounted by a dome and a 

 cross, and lettered below " Monyash Chappell " ; but it has 

 not the most distant resemblance to the actual church or 

 chapel. 



1 A copy of the return of the coroner's inquest, together with other 

 particulars of the fatal accident, are set forth in the Reliquary (1863-4), 

 iv., 170-176. A tuft of grass found clenched in the dead man's hand 

 was preserved in a bottle at Monvash up to about 1850. Various queer 

 stories are still told in the neighbourhood as to Parson Lomas, but he 

 has left behind him a beautiful memorial in the lime trees round the church- 

 yard. 



