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BARTON BLOUNT, a parish and small village, 11 miles W. from Derby, contains 1170A. 1R. 13P. of strong grazing land, the rateable value of which is £2,130 14s., and in 1851 had 7 houses, and 69 inhabitants, of whom 32 were males, and 37 females. Fras. Bradshaw, Esq., is lord of the manor, and principal owner, but Edward S. Chandos Pole, Esq., owns 7 acres of glebe, and the Field Farm of 208A. 1R. 15P., which is the residence of his son, Henry Chandos Pole, Esq. The Church, situated near the Hall, is an ancicnt stone edifice, partly covered with ivy, with a small turret, but no bell; it was thoroughly renovated and re-pewed in 1854, and a handsome east window of stained glass was put up. The living is a Rectory, value in K.B., £4 10s. 1d., now £76; augmented with £200 benefactions; £300 subscriptions; and £600 parliamentary grant. The tithe is paid by a modus of £11. Fras. Bradshaw, Esq., is the patron, and the Rev. George P. Lowther, rector, for whom the Rev. Alpheus Slight, M.A., officiates. In the Church is a neat mural tablet to the late Fras. Bradshaw, Esq. This manor, Baretune, at the domes­day survey, was held by Ralph, under Henry de Ferrars. In 1266, under Edward, Earl of Lancaster, by John de Bakepuze, and it had the name of Barton-Bakepuze; after it had passed to the Blounts their successors, it took its present name. Sir Walter Blount, who had a charter for free warren at Barton, in 1385, was slain in the battle of Shrewsbury, being then the King’s standard bearer. Walter, his great grandson, became Lord High Treasurer to King Edward IV. and K.G., and in 1465, was created Lord Mountjoy. After­wards the manor came to the family of Merry, from which it passed by marriage to that of Simpson. In the year 1751, it was purchased of the trustees of Merry Simpson, said to have been a mendicant friar in a convent in France, by Sir Nathaniel Curzon. The late F. Bradshaw, Esq., obtained it by an exchange with Lord Scarsdale. The Manor House, originally a castellated building, surrounded with a moat, was garrisoned during the Civil Wars, in Charles the First’s time, by Col. Gell, on behalf of the parliamentarians, to watch the motions of the King’s garrison at Tutbury. A skirmish took place between the two on the 15th February, 1646. It has lately undergone considerable alterations, and is pleasantly situated on an eminence in a fine open country, amidst pleasure grounds and thriving plan­tations, and is the seat of Francis Bradshaw, Esq.

 

Bradshaw Francis, Esq., The Hall Pole Henry Chandos, Esq., The Field

Hewitt Thomas, farmer    Potter Thomas, farmer, Barton Park

 

BOYLSTONE, a parish and well-built but scattered village, 7½ miles S. by E., from Ashbourn, contains 1,305 acres of fertile land, 67 houses, and 302 inhabitants, of whom 153 were males, and 149 females, rateable value £2,300. John Broadhurst, Esq., is the principal owner, but Henry Tatham Esq., is lord of the manor and a small owner. The Church dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a rectory, valued in the King’s book £6 0s. 2d., now £260. The Rev. Tansley Hall, M.A., is the patron, and the Rev. Roger Bickerstaff, in­cumbent. It is a small structure, with a tower, and was repaired in 1843, at a cost of £465, raised by subscription, aided by grants, &c. The rectory is a good residence, having been recently enlarged and improved, and is very pleasantly situated a little east of the church. A National school, with a residence for the master, was erected in 1845, on the south side of the church, the land for which was given by John Broadhurst, Esq.; the average attend­ance is about 24. The Methodists and Primitive Methodists have each a Chapel. This manor, Boilestune, at the domesday survey, belonged to Harvey de Ferrars. The co-heiresses of Reginald, soon after the conquest, married Redware and Grendon, whose posterity held the manor in moieties. It was carried by heiresses to the Bassinges, the Walsdehof, again to the Redwares and Cottons, by whom it was possessed for several generations. The co-heiresses in the reign of Henry VII., married Fitzherbert, Venables, Grosvenor. Sir Henry Humphrey Ferrars died seized of the manor in 1609. The Chaloners purchased it of the Ferrars in 1664. The Rev. Thomas Gilbert who married the heiress of Chaloner, sold it to John Gilbert Cooper, Esq., in 1743. Mr. Gilbert re-purchased in 1746, and in 1751 sold to Henry Tatson; the latter devised it to the Rev. Thomas Manlove.

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CHARITIES.—Thomas Allsop, rector of Hathern, who died in June, 1682, gave by his will to the poor of Boylstone, 16s. per annum out of his farm at Boylstone, to buy 16 dozen of white bread at 14 to the dozen, to be distributed to the poor. Thomas Allsop, rector of Boylstone, son of the above-named, left 16s. per annum in bread, to be paid out of the same farm. These are now paid from a farm the property of Mrs. Ann Clough. John Harpur, in 1676, gave to the poor of Boylestone and Cubley 8s. a year in bread, to be dealt 4 dozen on Easter-day and 4 dozen on Christmas-day. This is now paid by Robert Stone, Esq., of Rolleston Park, Staffordshire, and distributed as above. Bailey’s charity, noticed in the returns of 1786, gave land producing 12s. a year, for bread to the poor of this parish. This is now paid from an estate belonging to John Broadhurst, Esq. John  Gisborne’s charity, of one gown or coat—(see St. Werburgh, Derby.) William Challoner, Jun., who died in 1675, by his will left £5 to be secured by his executors, the interest to be laid out in bread and given every Christmas-day. He also gave the sum of £4, the interest to be bestowed in repairing the church. Robert Challoner, by will dated 6th December, 1703, gave to the poor of Boylstone £6, the interest to be bestowed in bread on New Year’s day. John Challoner, from an entry in the parish book, who died in 1705, gave 6 dozens of bread, to be dealt every Christmas-day. Nothing is now known as to any of these three gifts.

 

Adams George, jun., butcher Baker Thomas, foot postman Blood George, joiner and wheelwright Dean Job, blacksmith Dean Thomas, blacksmith, &c Dean William, blacksmith, and brick and   pipe maker, & manufacturer of thrashing   machines, &c. Hall Rev. Tansley, M.A., Rectory

Jeffrey Henry, shopkeeper Last Mary Margaret, schoolmistress Morley Mrs. Harriet Preasbury John, shopkeeper Reeve George, cowkeeper Slater Henry, vict., Rose and Crown Tunstall James, tailor Wedgwood Mr. John

 

Farmers.   Adams George Bakewell Elizabeth Cooper William, (and   shopkeeper) Docksey Thos., Hare-   hill

Gilman John Jeffrey Thomas Leason Joseph, Top   House Leason Samuel, Field,  Morley James, (and   machinist)

Morley William, Top   Farm Mosley John, Manor   house Port Henry Horatio Preasbury Joseph Rushton John Slater Henry

Warrington Thomas,   High grounds   Carrier. Byfield Joseph, to Ut-   toxeter,Wednesday;   Derby, Friday; and   Ashbourn, Saturday

 

BRADLEY, a parish and scattered village, 3¾ miles E. from Ashbourn, contains 2357A. 1R 1P of gravelly and strong clay land, rateable value, £2,480. 5s. 10d, and in 1851 had 59 houses, and 248 inhabitants, of whom 128 were males, and 120 females. The principal owners are Samuel Harwood, Esq., Mrs. Sqambella, Mrs. Archer, Mrs. Stoddert, the Executors of the late Mrs. Meynell, and Charles Sprengel, Esq.; Mrs. S. Harwood, is lady of the manor. The church dedicated to All Saints, is an edifice, with nave, chancel, and wooden turret, with three bells, and was repaired in 1836, and again in 1843. The living is a rectory, value in K.B., £5 19s. 9½d. now £259, in the patronage of the Bishop of Lichfield, and incumbency of the Rev. Wm. Skynner, for whom the Rev. Evan Thomas, officiates. The rectory, a good mansion, pleasantly situated south of the church, is occupied  by Mrs. Archer. There are 60A. 1R. 27P. of glebe land, and the tithe was commuted in 1838. A Free school was established by the rector several years ago, at which about 40 children attend. At the domesday survey, this manor belonged to Henry de Ferrars. At an early period it became the property of the family of Kniveton; Sir Gilbert, whose father was a younger branch of the family, was created a baronet in 1611, and had been long settled at Mercaston, but at that time removed his residence hither. His successor, Sir Andrew, who had suffered much in the civil war, sold Bradley, in 1655, to Francis

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Meynell. Bradley Hall, a large mansion E. from the church, is the residence of Samuel Harwood, Esq. Bradley Park, at the S.E. extremity of the parish, and 4 miles E. by S. from Ashbourn, contains 3 farms. Fox & Hounds, a large inn on the Ashbourn and Belper road, 3¾ miles E. from the former, is in the occupation of Mr. Charles Haseldine. The Pastures, a good substantial house, with a large farm of 430 acres, 3¼ miles from Ashbourn, on the road to Belper, is in the occupation of Messrs. Thomas Tomlinson & Son.

CHARITIES,—John Walker, in 1691, after certain devises, gave all the rest of his lands and tenements lying in Turnditch or Hazlewood, subject to the payment of 20s. per annum to the minister of Turnditch chapel,—20s. per annum to the poor of Turnditch and Cow­ers lane,—20s. to the poor of Bradley, and 20s. to the poor of Hulland. All the above sums are now paid by Mrs. Statham as the owner of two fields, containing about 28A,, called the Long Leys and the Little Leys. The 20s. received by this parish is distributed to poor widows not receiving relief.

Rev. Francis Gisborne, of Staveley, by indenture, dated 6th of December, 1817, wishing to establish a fund for providing flannel and coarse woollen cloth for the poor of the several rectories, vicarages, curacies, and chapelries, being 100 in number, vested with the Hon. Philip Pleydell Bouverie and three other clergymen, on trust, the sum of £13,500 for that purpose, which was laid out in the purchase of £16,167 13s. 4d. three per cent. con­solidated bank annuities, that they, after defraying the expenses incurred in the execution of the trust, should pay the residue yearly amongst the rectors, vicars, curates, or ministers, that they should apply the share of the dividends amongst the poor residing in their parish, whether they should or should not have received parochial relief, or obtained a legal settle­ment or not, in the purchase of flannels and coarse Yorkshire woollens; but that no place should receive more than £5 10s; and that as often as by death or other cause the trustees should be reduced to two, the survivors should nominate others; the Archdeacon of Derby, for the time being, to be one.

The said Francis Gisborne, (who died July, 1821,) by his will dated 7th May, 1818, after making various bequests, directed that all the residue of his property should be divided into three equal parts—one part to be given to the Infirmary of Sheffield, another part to the Infirmary of Derby, and the remaining third part to the said Philip Pleydell Bouverie, and the other trustees, for the use of the charity above named, and to whom was transferred £4,083 three per cent, consolidated annuities, £2,643 three per cent reduced annuities and £116 14s. 3d. in money. The annual amount of the dividend is £686 16s. 3d., but the annual payments of £5 10s. each, to all the places mentioned in the schedule to the deed, amount only to £550. The trustees have presented a petition to the court of chancery, praying for a scheme for the disposal of the surplus income. The dividends are received by Messrs. Bouverie and Lefevre, bankers, London, and transmitted by them to the incumbents of each place, which are as follows :—Ashbourn, Ashover, Alfreton, Ashford, Atlow, Bon­sall, Bakewell, Buxton, Bradley, Bradborne, Barlborough, Barlow, Beighton, Bentley, Blackwell, Brassington, Bolsover, Belper, Baslow, Beeley, Ballidon, Brimington, Brampton Castleton, Carsington, Chesterfield, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Clowne, Crich, Chelmorton, Der­went, Darley, Dethick, Denby, Dronfield, Dore, Duffield, Edale, Eckington, Elmton, Eyam, Elton, Edensor, Fairfield, Glossop, Hartington. Hathersage, Hartshorn, Heage, Hope, Hoult, Hucknall, Heath, Heanor, Hayfield, Horsley, Hognaston, Holmesfield, Ilkeston, Kirk Ireton, Kniveton, Kirk Hallam, Killamarsh, Longstone, Matlock, Mellor, Morton, Mugginton, Monyash, Middleton (Stoney,) Mickleover, North Wingfield, Norton, Normanton (Temple), Ockbrook, Peak Forest, Pleasley, Pinxton, Pentrich, Parwich, Shirland, South Nortnanton, Spondon, Sterndale, Scarcliffe, South Wingfield, Sutton-dum-Duckmanton, Sheldon, Smalley, Tideswell, Tibshelf, Taddington, Turnditch, West Hallam, Wirks­worth, Whittington, Whitwell, Wormhill, Winster, Wingerworth, Youlgreave. In the parish of Bradley the money is expended in the purchase of flannel, which is distributed amongst the most deserving poor by the curate.

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Harwood Samuel, Esq., The Hall Archer Mrs. Mary, The Rectory Clark Isaac, gamekeeper Copestake William, blacksmith Harrison John, parish clerk Haseldine Charles, vict., Fox and Hounds Lamb John, cowkeeper Lamb Mary, schoolmistress

Lamb William, joiner Litchfield Mr. George Litchfield Phœbe, cowkeeper Murfin William, farm bailiff Riley Samuel, cowkeeper Salt Charles, blacksmith Salt Henry, tailor and shopkeeper Thomas Rev. Evan, curate, Brook

 

Farmers.   Blore Simon Gamble Wm., Brook Harrison Elizabeth Haseldine Charles

Litchfield Mary,   Birchen field Litchfield Thos., Shep-   herd’s Folly Naylor Eliza & Son,   Old Park

Oakden Geo. Old Park Oakden Wm. & Son Oldfield Thomas, (and   shopkeeper) Robinson Thos., Old   Park

Smith Jas., The Knob Smith Wm., Corley Thornley Jane Tomlinson Thos.& Son,   Bradley Pastures

 

BRAILSFORD, a parish, and large well built village, on the Derby and Ashbourn road, 7 miles N.W. by N. from the former, and 6 miles S.S.E. from the latter; it includes the hamlet of Ednaston, and contains 4,174A, 2R. 4P. of light land, principally in dairy farms, 52 acres of which are in roads; rateable value £6,730. In 1851 it had 148 houses, and 708 inhabitants of whom 365 were males, and 343 females. The principal owners are Thos. Wm. Evans, Esq., who is also lord of thc manor; Evans Swindell, John Harrison, Wm. Cox, Geo. Greaves, and Fras. Osborne, Esqs.; Earl Ferrers, the Trustees of Ashbourn school, and Mrs. Beeston have also estates here. The Church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient stone structure, situated on an eminence in the centre of the parish, and has a nave, chancel, south aisle, and a tower with five bells. By a date over the Porch, (1629) it would appear that portion was then added, as the Church is supposed to have been built 700 years ago. The living is a rectory valued in the King’s Book at £9 19s. 2d., now £673; Patron, Earl Ferrers; Incumbent, the Rev. Walter Shirley, M.A. The tithes were commuted in 1839 for £500 per annum, and there are 71A. 3R. 21P. of glebe. The rectory, a good residence ¼ mile E. from the church. A National school was erected by the late Mr. Evans; about 60 boys and girls attend. The Methodists and Primitive Methodists have each chapels here. Feast latter end of October. This manor was held by Alsin ancestor of the ancient family of Brailsford, under Henry de Ferrars at the Domes­day survey. The heiress of Henry de Brailsford, who was living in 1380, brought this estate to Sir John Russell. Sir Ralph Shirley married the heiress of Bassett. The late Earl Ferrers sold the manor, with several farms, to Mr. John Webster of Derby. On his becoming a bankrupt, this estate was sold to W. Drury Lowe, Esq., of whom it was pur­chased by the late Charles Upton, Esq., of Derby. Brailsford House, a handsome mansion at the east extremity of the village, pleasantly situated in tastefully laid out grounds, in the front of which is a small lake, is the seat and property of William Cox, Esq. Culland, a hamlet of four farms and two cottages, 1½ miles S. of Brailsford. William Cox, Esq., the owner. The Rose and Crown, a good Inn where the Commissioners of Taxes hold their usual meetings; and where also an Odd Fellows Lodge and Sick Society are held.

Ednaston, a hamlet and village 1¼ miles S.W. from Brailsford. Earl Ferrers and John Harrison, Esq., are the principal owners. The North Farms are scattered on the north aide of the parish, about 2 miles from the church.

Charities,—Elizabeth Poole, in 1698, gave £20 to the poor of this parish. Rev, Samuel Labonnel, in 1714, left £20. These sums, at the time of our investigation, (1826), were in the hands of Mr. Joseph Morley, a farmer of Brailsford, at 4½ per cent, interest, amounting to £1 16s. per annum. The interest is paid at Easter and Christmas, and given to the poor.

Post Office, at Mr. John Ryder’s; letters arrive from Derby at 5.0. a.m., and are despatched at 7.45. p.m.

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Those marked 1, reside at Burrows; 2, Culland; 3, Ednaston; and 4, North Farms.

 

Alton Joseph, builder & con-   tractor Archer Thomas, Esq., King’s   Grove Bembridge Wm., beerhouse Bowyer Henry, gent Copestake Thos. G., surgeon Cox Mrs. Elizabeth, Brails-   ford House

Cox William, Esq., Brails-   ford House Croker Rev. Jas. G., curate Dyer Richard, coachman Hough John, gamekeeper   Redshaw Thos. ale & portr. dlr Sawyer Fredk., gardener to   W. Cox, Esq Shirley Rev, Walter, M.A. Rtr

Ryder John, schoolmaster 2 Smith James, gamekeeper Stanesby James, cooper Tunnicliff Jph., parish clerk Tunnicliff Moses, gent, The   Lodge Woolley John, plumber and   glazier

 

Blacksmiths. 3 Morley John Ride German Rodgers James Salt John   Butchers. Humpstone Jph. & Son 3 Morley Sml. & Thos Willams Jph., (pork)   Farmers. 4 Allsop Thomas 3 Archer Charles, (and   grazier) Hall Archer James & Wil-   liam, King’s Grove 3 Archer Robert 4 Bainbrigge, William 2 Brooks Joseph, Hall 4 Brownsword Joseph Fitchett Joseph Gerrard Eliza, (and   corn miller

4 Gerrard Jph. & Jas Hackett James, (and   brick maker,) Birch   House 4 Hallsworth Sarah 4 Harrison Edward Harrison Joseph, Old   Hall Harrison Sarah 3 Hill Edmund 3 Hill John Holmes Thomas,   Pool’s Head 3 Hulland John 4 Johnson Thomas Lamb John, Hazle-   hurst 1 Moore Mark 1 Osborne Fras., Hall 1 Osborne James Osborne Thomas 2 Osborne William Saint William,Church   Fields 2 Soresby Cassandra

Soresby Gilbert M. 1 White Joseph White Richard Wilder James, Mount Yates Hamlet, Old   Park Yates John   Inns and Taverns. Rose and Crown, Geo.   White Saracen’s Head, Mary   Dowdeswell     Maltsters. Hackett James, Birch   House Harrison William   Saddlers. Brownson James Hough George

Shoemakers. Taylor William Winson John   Shopkeepers. Crawford William and   Son (and bakers) Hill Thomas   Tailors. Dale William Derbyshire John Fitchett George Peach John Slater George   Wheelwrights. Marked * are Joiners 3 Barker Edward Kent Charles Ride George and Wm 3 Simpson Cornelius * Wilson James

 

BREADSALL, a parish and well built village, locally situated in the Morleston and Litchurch Hundred, is pleasantly situated, 2½ miles N.E. by N. from Derby, in the vale of the Derwent, at the verge of a steep hill which shelters it from the northerly and easterly winds. It contains 2,164A. 0R. l9P. of fertile land; rateable value £4,875 6s. 6d., and in 1851 had 133 houses and 621 inhabitants, of whom 298 were males, and 323 females. Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart., is lord of the manor, (and holds a court annually) principal owner, and patron of the living, a rectory value in K. B. £28 2s. 8d., now £640. Sir Fras. Darwin, Knight; Joseph Morley, and Samuel Henchley, Esqrs., are also owners. The Church is a Norman edifice, with nave, chancel, side aisles, neat tower, and 5 bells, surmounted with a handsome lofty spire. In the chancel are three stone stalls, and a basin for holy water. The communion railing is of oak beautifully carved, and it has a gallery and small organ. In 1830 the South wall of the Church was taken down and rebuilt, and other repairs were carried out at an expense of about £300, defrayed by subscriptions and rate. Rev. Henry Robert Crewe, M.A., rector, who also receives a modus of £1 6s. 8d. from the rector of Morley, which has been paid from time immemorial. Here are 6 marble tablets to the Darwin family, and several to various rectors and others. The Rectory is a handsome mansion a little N.E. from the church. It is a cemented building, erected in 1832, and has 439A. 1R. 29P. of ancient glebe and common allotment. 1,461 acres of commons and wastes were enclosed in 1815, when land was allotted for tithe. The Methodists have a neat brick chapel with stone dressings. The Priory is a large ancient stone building, in a retired situation, surrounded by park like grounds, 1 mile N. by E. from the village. It is the property and seat of Sir Francis Darwin, Knt, The Priory on Bresdaall’s Park is

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mentioned in the time of Edward the Confessor, as a religious house, and afterwards in Domesday book. Here was a house of Friars or Hermits, in the time of Henry the III. It afterwards, to the dissolution, continued a small Priory of the Augustine Order, dedicated to the Holy Trinity. It was granted by Edward the IV. to Henry Duke of Suffolk. From the Duke of Suffolk it went to Thos. Babington, afterwards to Sir John Bentley; in the year 1702, to Sir John Bland, then to Thos. Leacroft, who sold it to Andrew Greensmith; and in the year 1799 Erasmus Darwin purchased the Priory. Mr. Darwin died soon after his purchase, having bequeathed the priory to his father, Erasmus Darwin, M.D., F.R.S., the well known physician and poet, who spent the last year of his life at the priory. He died April 18th, 1802. He was born at Elston, near Newark, and of the rare union of talents which so eminently distinguished him as physician, a poet, and a philosopher, his writings remain an unfading testimony. On laying the foundations for the improvements made by Dr. Darwin, several stone coffins were discovered. The ancient chapel was on the north side of the house. The Priory Cottage, a neat house, the seat of Charlton Jas. Wollaston, Esq., is the property of Sir Francis Darwin. The Derby Water Works are situated in this parish, and occupy about eleven acres of ground; they consist of engine-house, with two splendid engines, each of 50 horse power, a collecting reservoir, a larger one capable of holding 2,000,000 gallons of water, a service reservoir, and three filtering beds, also neat residences for the engineer and fireman. Mr. John Thompson is the engineer. The Midland Railway and the Little Eaton canal intersect the parish. During the alterations at the Church an ancient silver coin of one of the Edward’s was found.

Charities—Rev. John Clayton, rector of this parish, in 1745 left £200 for teaching poor children of the parish to read and say their catechism. In respect of this charity, there is now standing in the names of the late Daniel Parker Coke and Thomas Lowe, Esqrs., £346 I8s. 4d. 3 per cent, consolidated bank annuities. The dividends, £10 8s. a year, are received through the bank of Messrs. Crompton & Co., Derby; and a school was erected at the joint expense of the lord of the manor, Sir Henry Harpur, and the parishioners, in 1788. The late Sir Geo. Crewe, Bart. erected a commodious school in 1837, and a house for the master in 1843. About 50 boys and 40 girls attend. Sir J. H. Crewe pays an endowment of £10 to the master, who also receives the children’s pence, as well as the interest from the Rev. J. Clayton’s bequest.

Anne Johnson, London, gave a close of land known by the name of the Beadstead Orchard, on trust to pay the rents thereof to such poor widows who should have been the wife of one husband, and of the age of threescore years; and in case there should be no such widows, she directed it to be distributed amongst such poor fatherless girls as should be then living there. The close contains 8A. 3R. 1½P., and is let to S. Potter, Esq., for the rent of £12 yearly. Two widows qualified as above, are appointed every Lady-day.

Rev. John Walton, archdeadon of Derby, in 1603, gave £49 after the disease of his wife, to be set out and ordered by the succeeding parsons of Breadsall, and churchwardens for the benefit of the poor. This money was laid out in lands at Spondon, which were let for £7 a year. At a vestry meeting held 1824, it was agreed to sell the land in Spondon, containing 3A. 2R. 20., and with the produce thereof to purchase other messuages in Breadsall; to effect which, Edward Frear advanced £60 on mortgage which has since been paid off. The property now lets for £15 per annum, and is distributed on St. Thomas’s-day.

Anthony Walker, in 1714, devised a parcel of land, called Stonebark, in the liberty of Darley, to the poor of Breadsall, to buy 12 twopenny loaves, to be distributed every Sunday. He also directed what money should remain should once in the year be distri­buted to sick or lame people in the said parish. The property consists of four closes con­taining 13A. 2R. 25P. situate on the south side the road leading from Matlock to Darley, now let for £24 per annum.

William Keen bequeathed £30, and John Bailey bequeathed £20 (noticed on a bene­action to be in the church), the use thereof to be paid to the poor of Breadsall. These were deposited in a bank at Derby, which failed many years ago. The sum of £46 was

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however recovered. This was afterwards placed in the bands of an individual who failed about 1814, but the whole principal was repaid, and it was then carried to the account of the parish, for which £2 is paid as interest, and distributed on St. Thomas’s day.

Post Office, at John Rowlands; letters arrive from Derby at 7.45. a.m., and are dispatched at 6.30. p.m.

 

Bailey Edward, shoemaker Bailey John, tailor, Moor Clark William, butcher and baker Cowley Anthony, shopkeeper Crewe Rev. Henry Robert, M.A., Rectory Darwin Sir Francis, Knight, The Priory Devenport William, tailor Goadsby Miss, schoolmistress Goodwin John, corn miller, Steam mill Harlow John, herbalist, Moor Heathcote Joseph, gardener Hollingworth Elijah, joiner

Musgrove John, vict., Wind Mill Porter John, gardener and seedsman Rowland John, shoemaker Rowland John, tailor Smith William, sexton Swinne