88 HISTORY AND CHARTULARY OF THE ABBEY OF DARLEY. 



The charge of the parochial chapelry of Glapwell with its 

 tithes in Bolsover parish was among the first of the benefac- 

 tions to the abbey. In 1250 a dispute arose between the 

 inhabitants and the convent owing to the chancel roof of 

 the chapel requiring renewal. The dispute was settled by the 

 freemen of the vill of Glapwell, described as " our parishioners," 

 consenting to accept five acres of land at Glapwell in discharge 

 of the abbey's responsibility for repairing the chancel and its 

 kindred obligations.* 



About the year 1250 the abbey received an important 

 acquisition of land at Wigwell, near Wirksworth ; the grange 

 at that place remaining one of its most important outlying 

 farms until the Dissolution. 



There is an interesting series of original deeds, with seals 

 attached in good condition, conveying this land, which is 

 now in different private hands in Derbyshire, t By these 

 charters various portions of two cultures} at Wigwell were 

 granted to the abbey. In the first, whereby Henry Braund, 

 of Wirksworth, conveyed a fourteenth part of the two cultures, 

 it is stated that they were " the two cultures which Vincent 

 the chaplain, my brother, gave to the same canons with his 

 body." All these grants were, therefore, made by direction 

 of, or pursuant to, the wish of this Vincent, who stipulated 

 for his burial in the abbey. 



Between 1250 and 1252 Ralph, son of Ralph de Wistanton, 

 made various important gifts to the canons of Darley. He 

 bestowed on their tenants at Wessington rights of pasturage 

 for twelve oxen, for six cows with their calves of two years, 

 for four horses or four mares with their foals of two years, 

 for twenty-four sheep with lambs of one year, for forty sheep 

 without young, and for two sows and their litters of one year, 

 in the common pasture of Wessington. If the convent or 



* Titus C. ix. f. 116b. 



t Reliquary xvii., 65-71 ; Derb. Arch. Soc. Journal viii., 92-97. Copies 

 of the whole of these charters appear in the chartulary Titus C. ix. f. 130. 



X The culture (cultura) was a parcel of arable land of varying but con- 

 siderable extent. 



