142 THE HISTORY OF BREADSALL PRIORY. 



assign to the prior and convent of Breadsall Park one rood 

 of land and a mediety* of the rectory of Mugginton; the land 

 was valued at $d. per annum, and the mediety of the rectory 

 at £S- The jury found that William Dethick, the son of 

 William Dethick by Cecilia, the heiress of Curzon, had an 

 income of a hundred marks beyond this gift, f 



William Dethick, though he obtained the sanction of the 

 inquest for this alienation, neglected to procure letters patent 

 to warrant the evasion of the Statutes of Mortmain, and on 

 his death in 141 1 his executors and trustees were mulcted 

 by the Crown in the heavy fine of twenty-five marks for license 

 to continue to the priory the alienation of the rood of land 

 and the mediety of the church of Mugginton. J It is stated 

 in this license that the gift was made to the priory for the 

 augmentation of divine worship there, and for prayers for the 

 souls of William Dethick and Alice, his wife, and their posterity 

 and ancestry. It was further stipulated that a suitable sum 

 was to be given to the poor of Mugginton out of the fruits 

 of the living of the prior, in accordance with the provisions 

 of the statute 15 Ric. II., cap. VI., and that he should also 

 see to the sufficient endowment of a vicar for that parish. 



William Dethick procured this mediety of the rectory of 

 Mugginton and the rood of land in 1401 from Peter de la 

 Pole and his wife, Elizabeth (heiress of Chandos), in exchange 

 for land in Radburne, Dalbury Lees, and Heanor. For about 

 a century and a half Mugginton was served by a rector, and 

 by a vicar on behalf of the mediety belonging to the priory; 

 on the suppression of Breadsall priory in 1536, this right of pre- 

 sentment to Mugginton was transferred to Darley Abbey, but 

 in less than three years the abbey also fell into the hands 

 of the Crown, and it was granted to Thomas Babington. 



* Medietas. The mediety was sometimes used for the middle, or feudal 

 " third-penny ." Rents of cities and counties were divided into three equal 

 parts, of which the grant of the " third penny," or part, carried with it the 

 feudal privileges. 



t Inq. ad. q. d., 3 Hen. IV., No. 2 ; set forth in extenso in Churches of 

 Derbyshire, Hi., app. 3. 



% Pat. R. 11 Hen. IV., pt. ii., m. 7. 



