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John Rosell, of Little Eaton, Henry Cotton, and Edmund 

 Townley, to assign the reversion of a cottage in Derby then 

 held for life by Agnes, the wife of Stephen Cotiler. 



By another inquisition held at the same time and place, 

 but before another jury, it was found that licenses might be 

 granted to Thomas Frances, clerk, Henry Cotton, Thomas 

 Wombwell, and William Heynour, to assign to the priory 

 ten acres of land in Horston, which were parcel of the 

 royal demesne of Horston manor, and held of the king by 

 service of 4s. 2d. and by appearance at the two great courts 

 at Easter and Michaelmas, and which were of the clear annual 

 value of lod. ; to Frances, Cotton and Wombwell, to assign 

 a cottage and eight acres of land in Chaddesden and Spondon 

 held of the Duke of Lancaster of the annual value of 4s. ; 

 to Robert Kniveton, vicar of Dovebridge, Thomas Waterhouse, 

 and Thomas Wade, to assign a cottage in Duffield of the 

 annual value of 2s., and a toft with twenty acres of meadow 

 and ten of pasture at Windley, all held of the Duke of 

 Lancaster, and of the clear annual value of 13s. 4^. ; to 

 Frances, Cotton, Wombwell, Heynour, and Rosell, to assign 

 two acres at Breadsall, of the clear annual value of 4^. ; to 

 John Hardy, of Morley, to assign a toft and an ox gang in 

 Morley of the yearly value of 4s. ; to Robert de Ferrers, 

 of Chartley, to assign a toft in Breadsall, worth 2d. a year, 

 on the yearly service of a rose; and to Kniveton, Wombwell, 

 Waterhouse, Wade, and Henry Cooke, of Hazelwood, a toft 

 of the clear annual value of id.* 



In return for the small benefactions particularised in these 

 inquests, it was stipulated that daily masses should for ever 

 be celebrated within the priory church, for the good estate 

 whilst living and for the souls after death of the various 

 donors. 



In 1402 there was another inquisition relative to the further 

 endowment of the house, when it was held that it would not 

 be to the prejudice of the King to allow William Dethick to 



* Chanc. Inq., 15 Ric. II., Pt. li., No. 134. 



