HISTORY AND CHARTULARY OF THE ABBEY OF DARLEY. 93 



License was granted by the crown in May, 1327, to Robert, 

 vicar of St. Peters, Derby, and Robert de Alastre, chaplain, 

 to alienate to the abbey three messuages, three tofts and land, 

 and rent in Burley, of the yearly value of 68s. 8d., in part 

 satisfaction of a licence from Edward II. to acquire, in 

 mortmain, land and rent to the yearly value of twenty marks.* 



On December 12th, 1330, the king wrote to the treasurers 

 and barons of the Exchequer that the abbot of Darley had 

 shown, by petition before him and his council in parliament, 

 that the late king was indebted to him in 115s. pd. for divers 

 victuals (during his sojourn at the abbey in 1293), as appears 

 by certain bills of the king's wardrobe, and the abbot was 

 indebted to the king's exchequer in twenty marks for the 

 voidance of the abbey, and that, therefore, this sum, if found 

 correct, was to be deducted from the sum due for the 

 voidance. t 



But on this very day, Roger de Coventry and Nicholas de 

 Parwich, canons of Darley, brought news to Westminster of 

 the death of their abbot, William de Alsop, which caused 

 another voidance, and obtained leave to elect.* On February 

 3rd, 1331, the royal assent was given to the election of William 

 de Clyfton, one of the canons, and the temporalities were 

 restored on March 3rd.§ 



A long-standing tithe dispute between the abbey and the 

 neighbouring church of Mackworth was brought to a conclusion 

 in 133 1 by Bishop Roger de Norbury during a personal 

 visitation. Edmund Touchet, rector of Mackworth, then 

 entered into a covenant whereby he expressed himself con- 

 vinced by the evidences shown to him that the abbey was 

 entitled to hold a place within the parish of Mackworth, qui 

 vulgaritcr vocatur Hastowe, tithe free, and he bound himself 

 and his father, Sir Robert Touchet, patron of Mackworth, 

 never to demand such tithes.j| 



*Pat., 1 Edw. III., pt. ii., m. 21 Cal. 



t Close R., 4 Edw. III., m. 9 Cal. 



J Pat. R., 4 Edw. III., pt. ii., m. 24 Cal. 



§Pat. R., 5 Edw. III., pt. i., ms. 36, 26 Cal. 



|| Titus C. ix., f. 145b. 



