140 HISTORY AND CHARTULARY OF THE ABBEY OF DARLEY. 



of Robert Fitzfulcher, of Osmaston, at a rent of 4s., payable 

 at Lady Day and Michaelmas.* 



Some time before 1261, the priest Nicholas placed this 

 hospital on an improved basis, providing for certain poor 

 brethren and sisters as inmates, who were governed by a warden 

 or master.f 



In the Hundred Rolls of 1276, we find that a jury of the 

 burgesses of Derby complained that the Master of St. Helen's 

 had made a certain ditch, 100 feet long and 2 feet broad, too 

 near the king's highway. J 



The Taxation Roll of 1291 shows that the Master of 

 St. Helen's then held houses in Derby of the yearly rental of 

 jQi 6s. 8d., 120 acres of arable land at ^4, and 3J acres of 

 meadow at 7s., besides a capital messuage (probably the house 

 itself) worth 4s. per annum, yielding a total income of 



£4 i7s- 8d. 



After this date, no further information can be gleaned- as 

 to the history of St. Helen's ; it was not in existence as a 

 separate establishment at the time of the Reformation, and 

 had probably become absorbed by Darley Abbey. 



* Titus C. ix., t. 77b. 



t Glover's Derbyshire, 11, 482-3. We have not been able to trace the 

 authority for this statement. 



J Hundred Rolls, 1, p. 62. 



