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head. An undated agreement, circa 1160, copied in the Darley 

 chartulary, between the abbey and the brothers of St. Helen, 

 provides that the goods of the oratory, whether moveable or 

 fixtures, should remain at St. Helen's; that the house should 

 be administered by one of the brothers whom the abbot should 

 choose with the assent of his fellows ; that the presiding brother 

 should discreetly and freely dispense the temporalities of the 

 house with the aid of his brethren, and rule them in ail matters, 

 save that confession and other spiritual affairs were reserved 

 to the abbot ; that a statement of accounts be presented to the 

 abbot twice a year; that the abbot was to admit no brother 

 without the assent of the brethren, and that the brethren 

 in their turn were to admit no one without the abbot's assent ; 

 that the brethren of St. Helen's were not to appropriate any 

 lands or possession of which the abbot and convent received 

 the rents without their assent ; that the house was not to admit 

 more brethren than its goods would suffice to maintain ; and 

 that the abbot and convent were never at any future time to 

 attempt to bring the hospital into any greater subjection than 

 was provided for in that agreement.* 



A later agreement, circa n 90, was entered into between 

 William, abbot of Darley, and the brethren of St. Helen's, 

 whereby it was arranged that the abbey confirmed to St. Helen's 

 two tofts with their appurtenances in Newlands, Derby (in nova 

 terra de Dcrbeia), on payment of a rent of 2s. 2d., at the feast 

 of the Holy Cross and at Martinmas, and four hens on 

 Christmas Day ; also all the garden adjoining St. Helen's on 

 the south side, with a toft between the garden and the hospital, 

 for a rent of 2s. 2d., payable at the aforesaid times; also the 

 fourth part of a little meadow by the well called St. Helen's 

 well on the south bank of the Derwent, and all the right which 

 they had in the little meadow which lay by the well of 

 St. Alkmund, at a. rent to the abbey of i2d. The abbot and 

 canons of Darley further granted to the brothers of the hospital 

 half a bovate of land at Granton, which they had of the gift 



* Titus C. ix., f. 77. 



