HISTORY AND CHARTULARY OF THE ABBEY OF DARLEY. 9 1 



in the chapel, were submitted to Peekham. By his decision, 

 the expenses of repairing the chancel and of providing books, 

 vestments, and chalice for the high altar, were to be divided 

 between the abbey and the parishioners ; the priest's meadow, 

 then in possession of the abbey, was to be retained by the 

 convent, but only on condition that the convent paid yearly 

 two shillings at Michaelmas for the lights of the chapel ; and 

 with respect to the five and a half marks already handed over 

 by the abbey to the parishioners for chancel repairs, it was 

 ordered that whatever had not been spent was to be returned 

 to the Abbot, and that the parish were to expend a like sum 

 whenever repairs were necessary before calling on the abbey 

 for any further money.* 



The question of repairing the chancel of the parochial 

 chapel of Boulton, in the parish of St. Peter's, Derby, and 

 the finding of books, etc., was also brought before the Arch- 

 bishop. The abbey in this case was ordered to undertake 

 the chancel repairs, and to find all chancel books and 

 ornaments, save the missal and the chalice, which ought to 

 be found by the parishioners.! 



By letters of the Archbishop dated from Trentham, April ist, 

 1280, it was certified that at his visitation of the diocese of 

 Coventry and Lichfield evidence had been produced before 

 him that the Abbot of Darley was possessed of the churches 

 of Bolsover, Crich, Pentrich, South Wingfield, and St. Michael's 

 and St. Peter's, Derby, with their chapels. J St. Werburgh's, 

 Derby, had before this date been transferred by the abbey 

 to the Benedictine nuns of King's Mead. 



In 1 28 1, Robert Sacheverell, in consideration of ten marks 

 of silver, acknowledged that the advowson of the church 

 (chapel) of Boulton was the right of Henry, Abbot of Darley, 

 as a free chapel pertaining to his church of St. Peter, Derby. 

 In the same year, Robert de Escryneyn acknowledged that 



* Titus C.j ix., f. 91. 

 flbid., f. 100. 

 %//> id., f. 163. 



