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the sanction of his successor, Henry II., the earl gave to the 

 abbot and canons of the newly-devised foundation the churches 

 of Uttoxeter and Crich, a tithe of his Derby rents, and the 

 third part of the meadow of Oddebrook, six shillings of land 

 at Osmaston with the oratory and cemetery there, six acres 

 at Aldwark, and as much wood as might for ever (daily) be 

 drawn with one cart from the wood of Duffield or of 

 Chaddesden.* There was apparently, however, some hitch 

 about the site the new house was to occupy, when Hugh, dean 

 of Derby, came forward a few years later, and gave the Little 

 Darley site, and arranged that the Austin Canons of St. Helen's 

 should proceed there. Hence Hugh was looked upon as a 

 joint founder; though Earl Ferrers really occupied that place. 

 This is shown by the crown assuming the patronage of the 

 abbey on the confiscation of the Ferrers' estates, which resulted 

 in the house having always to apply for the royal license to 

 elect. 



About the year 1160, Hugh, dean (rural) of Derby, gave 

 all his lands at Little Darley to the canons of St. Helen's 

 for the purpose of building thereon a church and a monas- 

 tery. In consequence of this grant, the greater part of these 

 Austin Canons moved from the immediate outskirts of the 

 town of Derby, and occupied a site a mile to the north of the 

 town on the banks of the Derwent, under Albinus, their first 

 abbot, f 



Tanner and Dugdale infer that the foundation must have 

 been a good deal earlier, because of the date 1121 given in the 

 chartulary to a concord between the abbot of Darley and the 

 Hospitallers relative to lands at Waingriff ; but this date is 

 clearly, from a variety of evidence, an error of the copyist, 

 and is probably intended for 1221. 



* The original of this charter is at Belvoir. It is given, with many other 

 Darley charters at Belvoir, in the Peck collection, Add. MSS. 4937, ff. 127- 

 133; and they are translated in Derb. Arch. Soc. Jour., xvi., 14-43. 



t This foundation charter (Monasticon, vi., 359) is cited from Plac. coram 

 Rege 7, Rich. II., rot, 28 Derb. The probable date of 1160 is arrived 

 at by an analysis of the witnesses. 



