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there is more than one charter in which he is not so charac- 

 terised. He had a son, Henry ; there were at that time 

 certain avowedly married priests, but in this instance it seems 

 more probable that Hugh took orders later in life, when a 

 widower. This would partly account for his not holding any 

 important benefice, and merely serving as a parochial chaplain 

 or assistant curate. There is no clue as to how he became 

 possessed of the landed property that he bestowed upon the 

 abbey ; possibly he may have inherited it through his wife. 



Gifts speedily flowed into the new foundation, so that in 

 a very short time the abbot and canons, in addition to lands 

 at Crich, Wessington, Lea, Dethick, Tansley, and Little Chester, 

 and various mills, held the advowsons of the churches of 

 Bolsover, Pentrich, Ripley, Ashover, South Wingfield, and the 

 three Derby town churches of St. Peter, St. Michael, and 

 St. Werburgh. 



The Darley chartulary, though unfortunately incomplete, 

 is full of interest as to the ecclesiastical affairs of the county 

 at large, and of other religious foundations of Derbyshire with 

 which the abbey was connected. Various facts therefrom 

 relative to the early establishment of vicarages are of general 

 interest in ecclesiastical history. Details relative to the 

 nunnery at King's Mead, so closely attached to this abbey ; 

 to the former establishment at St. Helen's ; to the Derby 

 hospital of St. Leonard ; to the collegiate church of All Saints', 

 Derby ; to the ordination of a chantry at St. Peter's, Derby ; 

 and to the estate of the Hospitallers at Waingriff, are given 

 under the respective houses. In order, however, to avoid 

 prolixity in referring to the very numerous early gifts — par- 

 ticularly from the burgesses of Derby, who held this abbey 

 in special regard — it may be as well to reproduce from the 

 chartulary the following list of their temporalities in the 

 archdeaconry of Derbyshire. It is undated, but as it is almost 

 identical with the Taxation of Pope Nicholas of 1291, as 

 printed in the old Rolls series, there can be no doubt that 

 it was drawn up about that date. 



