THE HISTORY OF BREADSALL PRIORY. 1 43 



John Jaddysdene, a canon of this house, had the honour, 

 in May, 1402, of being appointed one of the papal chaplains 

 to Boniface II.* 



In 1444 there was a suit between the Dean and Chapter 

 of the newly-formed collegiate church of St. Mary, Leicester, 

 who were the appropriators of the rectory of Duffield, and 

 the Priory of Breadsall Park, as holder of one mediety of 

 the church of Mugginton, and Richard Bee, the holder of 

 the third mediety of the same church, concerning the tithes 

 of a certain field called Hethfield. The decision of the 

 arbitrator, Roland Thornton, licentiate of laws, official of 

 Lincoln, was in favour of the Leicester College, because the 

 field was proved, from various fines and old documents, to 

 be within the bounds and limits of the parish of Duffield. 

 Rector Bee, who held the living from 1426 to 1469, was 

 condemned, for contempt of Court of Arches, to pay to the 

 Leicester Chapter the sum of 40s. t 



In the year 1448, during the time that Thomas Breadsall 

 was prior (1442-1456), certain charters and evidences pertaining 

 to the priory, which particularly affected the interests of 

 William Dethick as hereditary patron, were stolen. On the 

 complaint of William Dethick, the Bishop of Coventry and 

 Lichfield issued his mandate to the rectors of the churches 

 of Breadsall and Morley, to the vicar of Horsley, and to 

 the chaplain of All Saints', Derby, directing them to warn, 

 during High Mass on the next three Sundays and feast days, 

 all concerned in this theft to restore the muniments within 

 fifteen days under pain of the greater excommunication. J 

 Whether this ecclesiastical threat secured the return of the 

 purloined deeds cannot now be ascertained. 



An agreement was entered into on October 31st, 1453, 

 between Thomas Breadsall, prior of Breadsall Park, and John 

 Statham, of Morley, by which the prior undertook, in 



*Pap. Reg., iv., 315. 

 tLich. Epis. Reg., Heyworth, f. 194b. 



I The muniments of Mr. Hugo Harpur-Crewe — Journal of Derb. Arch. 

 Soc, xvi., 179-181. 



