1 6 THE CHURCH OF ST. HELEN'S, DARLEY DALE. 



On his death the manor was divided into two parts, held, as we 

 suppose, by two of his sons, for at the beginning of the reign 

 of Edward I. half of Darley was held by Thomas de Darley 

 and half by Henry de Darley. Both of them are described as 

 holding under the Crown, by the service of an annual payment 

 of 13.?. /\d. towards the maintenance of Peak Castle. But 

 within a year or two of this time Robert de Darley, who, we 

 think, was the son of Thomas, died seized of a part of the 

 manor ; and it seems that this moiety passed to the family of 

 Kendall. William de Kendall died seized of it in 1309. 

 William Kendall left a daughter and heir married to Laurence 

 Cotterell. The history of this moiety here becomes somewhat 

 confused. John de Darley and his wife,' Matilda, paid a 

 fine to the King in 1310, of two marks, for holding a mediety 

 of the manor of Darley, which they had acquired of William 

 Cotterell without royal license. This was probably the mediety 

 inherited by Laurence Cotterell, passed on to his son William, 

 and held for his lifetime by John de Darley. But Cotterell died 

 without issue, and the property reverted to the heirs of the 

 widow of Laurence Cotterell, who had married Sir William 

 Herberjour; for it appears that in 1391 William Roper con- 

 veyed this moiety to Nicholas atte Weld, one of the rectors of 

 Darley, which had been the inheritance of Margaret, his mother, 

 daughter and co-heir of Sir William Herberjour, of Chaddesden, 

 by Alice, daughter and heir of William Kendall. This con- 

 veyance to Nicholas atte Weld seems to have been merely as a 

 trustee, for the same person also had conveyed to him the manor 

 of Ockbrook. But the real purchaser of both these manors was 

 Sir Godfrey Foljambe, who settled them on his wife Avena, 

 and on the heirs of his son Godfrey. The inquisition taken 

 at his death says that the moiety of Darley was held by him 

 of John Duke of Lancaster, as of his honour of the Castle of 

 High Peak, by knight service. Sir Godfrey's son, Godfrey, 

 had died before him, but his grandson, of the same name, 

 inherited, being then nine years old. This would probably 

 necessitate a renewal of the trust deeds of this moiety on his 



