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lEiritorial tNotes. 



The Royal Visit to Derbyshire. — Their Majesties the 

 King and Queen have honoured the County of Derby and 

 the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire by a recent visit to 

 Chatsworth. The Queen's drive to Bakewell reminds us that 

 it is not yet quite a thousand years since King Edward the 

 Elder, in 924, " went with his forces to Nottingham, and 

 commanded the town to be built on the south side of the 

 river, over against the other, and the bridge over the Trent 

 between the two towns ; and thence he went into Peakland 

 to Bakewell, and commanded a town to be built nigh thereunto 

 and manned it, and all those who dwelt in 



Northumbria, as well English as Danes and North-men and 

 others chose him for Father and for Lord." Then, an 

 English King Edward recovered Bakewell from the power of 

 the Vikings ; now, a Daughter of the Sea-kings, and Consort 

 of another Edward, is there welcomed as an English Queen — 

 such is the union of Time. It would be of interest if some 

 member of the Society would prepare a list of Royal visits 

 to our County. 



The late Mr. W. A. Carrington. — By the death of Mr. 

 Carrington, of Bakewell, the Society has lost the member- 

 ship of one who for many years has unselfishly devoted his 

 time and labour to the elucidation of the history and genealogy 

 of Derbyshire. Since he joined the Society, sixteen years ago, 

 his name has rarely been absent from our Journal, and at 

 the time of his death he was engaged upon a special paper 

 which would have appeared in its pages. He was born at 

 Bakewell in 1836, of an old Derbyshire family, being lineally 



