140 THE HISTORY OF BREADSALL PRIORY. 



The next prior was William de Repyndon, a canon of 

 Breadsall. He resigned in October, 1347, and the bishop 

 commissioned the abbot of Darley to act for him in the 

 business of the election of Thomas de Castello, with the 

 result that this was duly confirmed.* 



In 1365, after a long vacancy, the bishop collated as prior, 

 Thomas de London — a curious and exceptional appointment, 

 for prior Thomas had been a monk of Burton-on-Trent.t 

 Geoffrey de Stafford, after a short interval, was the next prior, 

 and on his resignation in 1370, Thomas Lewes, one of the 

 canons of the house, was made prior. The entry of Lewes's 

 institution in the episcopal register names Robert Molde, 

 rector of Breadsall, Henry Adderley, and John de Twyford, 

 vicar of Spondon, as patrons of the house. This triple 

 patronage would arise through the true patron being an infant. 



Four or five of the subsequent priors had previously been 

 canons of the house; but the appointments in 1442 and 1487 

 were from among the Austin Canons of Darley Abbey, and 

 in 1456 from those of Repton priory. When Roger Upton 

 was appointed prior, in 1384, Sir Thomas Wendesley was the 

 patron, but only pro kac vice. Sir Thomas was a Derbyshire 

 knight of some renown ; he was kl'led at the battle of 

 Shrewsbury in 1403; his effigy is in the south transept of 

 Bakewell Church. It is not clear why he presented on this 

 occasion, but it may possibly have been in return for some 

 specific benefaction by arrangement with the rightful patron. 



On the Friday after Lady Day, 1392, an inquisition ad quod 

 damnum was held at Derby, when the jury found that it was 

 not to the damage of the king or others if licenses were granted 

 to Henry Cotton, clerk, to assign to the prior and canons 

 of Breadsall Park a messuage and one acre of land in Derby 

 of the clear annual value of 55. ; to Henry Barber, of Derby, 

 and Edmund Townley, to assign two messuages and two 

 cottages in Derby of the annual value of 6s. Sd. ; and to 



* Lich. Epis. Reg., Norbury, f. 130. 

 fZbid., Stretton, f. 37c!. 



