HENOVERE AND THE CHURCH OF HEANOR. 29 



the parish of Heanor was part of the possessions of William 

 Peverel. Moreover, the Chartulary specifies that Henovere 

 was in the manor of Mickleover,. and, as Dr. Cox says, certain 

 lands at "Heanor" were included in the grant of St. Mary's 

 Church to the Abbey, from which arose the subsidiary' position 

 of the Church at " Heanor " to that at Derby, the inference 

 is that the " Church de Enere " was in the manor of Mickleover. 

 This may not be inconsistent _ with the statement that St. Mary's 

 parish was a " large " one, so large as to contain the Church 

 " de Enere," and a chapel in addition to the parish church. 



The connection between the ancient manor of Mickleover 

 and the Church of St. Mar)-, Derby, is further indicated by 

 the Chartulary. 1 After the enumeration of the tenants of 

 Littleover (c. iioo) it states that the Abbey had a church in 

 Derby which Godric the priest held (p. io6), and on p. 105 

 " Godric the priest " appears among the tenants of Mickleover 

 as holding "two bovates." And, again, in 1114 among the 

 " Censarii " of Mickleover are Seon the priest and Godric the 

 priest, the latter having four bovates of land and a church. 

 Whilst under Littleover is the statement that in Derby the 

 Abbey had a church which Godric the priest held (p. 109). 

 This seems to suggest that there was one Godric who had to 

 do with the manor of Mickleover and the church at Derby. 



To sum up the points of this article : The lands in Henovere 

 granted by William I. to the Abbey of Burton were, according 

 to the Abbey Chartular}', situated in the manor of Mickleover. 

 If there was a church there it was subject to the Church of 

 St. Mary, Derby, for the Church of Henovere, which was 

 subject to St. Mary's, was so subject by reason of land there 

 granted to Burton ; and the land in Henovere, subject to the 

 Abbey, was in Mickleover. It follows, therefore, that the land 

 in Heanor belonging to the Abbey, being in Mickleover, the 

 church was there also. 



Indeed, the only connection between the Henovere of the 

 Chartulary and Heanor seems to consist in the identical spelling 



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