Notitia monastica, or, A short history of the religious houses in England and Wales by Thomas Tanner ...

DERBY-SHIRE.

1. Calk.

A Priory of the Order of St. Austin dedica∣ted to St. Giles, and founded by ... but the Canons being removed to

2. Repingdon.

A. D. 1172. by Maud widow to Ranulph II. Earl of Chester; Calk became a Cell to this Mona∣stery. Here had been in ancient times a famous Monastery, wherein several of the Saxon Kings of Mercia were interr'd; but it was destroy••d in the Danish wars. This latter foundation was dedicated to the holy Trinity and St. Mary, and valued at the Dissolution at 118^l. 8^s. 6^d. Dugd. 167^l. 18^•. 2^•. Speed.

Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 280. T. 3. P. 1. p. 97.

3. Derby.

A College dedicated to All-Saints, and valued at the Dissolution at 38^l. 14^s. per an.

4. Derby.

A Priory of Black Canons dedicated to St. Hellen.

Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 1. p. 61.

5. Gresley.

An Abby founded by one Will. Fitz-Nigela 1.1, ••... to the honour of St. George. It's year∣ly revenues at the Suppressio••n were worth 31^l. 6^•. Dugd. 39^l. 13^s. 8^d. Speed.

6. Da••leigh.

Hugh Dean of Derby (temp. Hen. II.) built here a Priory of Black Canons to the honour of the blessed Virgin. It's yearly revenues at the Sup∣pression were worth 258^l. 14^s. 5^d. Dugd. 134^l. Le••.

Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 230. T. 3. P. 1. p. 57.

Regist. MS. in Bibl. Cotton.

7. De Bello-Capite, or B••anchief.

A Priory of Praemonstratenses founded (temp. Hen. II.) by Rob. Fitz-Ranulf one of the Murder∣ers of Thomas Becket, to whose memory this Mo∣nastery was dedicated. It was rated 26. Hen. VIII. at 126^•. 3^s. 4^d. per an.

Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 607.

* Kalendarium Mon. de Bello-capite inter MS. Dugdal. 74.

8. Dala or de Parco Stanley.

Serlo de Grendon () founded here a Cell of Black Canons to the Abby of Calk: but af∣terwards (about A. D. ...) Galfred de Salicosa∣mora

and Maud his wife, brought hither a Con∣vent of eight Praemonstratensian Canons from Newhouse. It was dedicated to St. Mary, and en∣dowed with lands to the yearly value of 144^l. 12^s. at the Dissolution.

Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 616. T. 3. P. 1. p. 73.

* Registr. penes Sam. Roper de Heanore in Com. Derb.

9. Derby juxta.

A Nunnery of Benedictines called the Mona∣stery of St. Mary de Pratis, founded by ... rated 26. Hen. VIII. at 18^l. 6^s. 2^d.

Vide Mon. Angl▪ T. 1. p. 505. T. 2. p. 897.

10. Yevelayb 1.2.

A Praeceptory of the Knights of St. Iohn, to whom it was given by Will. Meynill A. D. 1268. at the Suppression it was worth 93^l. 3^s. 4^d. ob.

Vide Mon. Ang. T. 2. p. 546.

11. Bredsall or Brisol.

An Abby of ... valued 10^l. 17^s. 9^d.

12. Brend in the Peak.

A Monastery founded by Sir Rob. Duin Knight Speed.

13. Barrow.

A Priory of Black Monks subordinate to St. Iohn's in Colchesterc 1.3, endowed with 107^l. 3^s. 8^d. per an. Speed.

14. Derby

A Cell of Cluniack Monks to Bermondsey, de∣dicated to St. Iamesd 1.4.

☞ Mr. Speed placeth Faverwell in this Shire, but 'tis in Staffordshire; and as for Pollewerk, I take it to be the same with Pollesworth in War∣wickshire, Chesterfield was but a Gild of Lay Bre∣thren.

Notes

• a 1.1

  This Will. Fitz-Nigell was probably the same with the Founder of Norton Priory in Cheshire, who lived about A. D. 1140.
• b 1.2

  Yevelay and Barrow were not both Praeceptories as Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 1039. but Yevelay only, as Tom. 2. p. 546.
• c 1.3

  Leland. Coll. voll. 1. p. 60
• d 1.4

  Reyner. Catal. Mon. MS. Bodl.