Memorials of the Counties of England General Editor: Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, M.A., F.S.A. Memorials OF Old Derbyshire [Illustration: Haddon Hall: “Dorothy Vernon’s Bridge.” _From a water-colour sketch by Mr. Frank E. Beresford._] MEMORIALS OF OLD DERBYSHIRE EDITED BY Rev. J. CHARLES COX, LL.D., F.S.A. Author of “_Churches of Derbyshire_” (4 vols.), “_Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals_” (2 vols.), “_How to write the History of a Parish_,” “_Royal Forests of England_,” “_English Church Furniture_,” _etc., etc._ Editor of “_The Reliquary_” With many Illustrations [Illustration] LONDON Bemrose and Sons Limited, 4 Snow Hill, E.C. AND DERBY 1907 [_All Rights Reserved_] TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SPENCER COMPTON CAVENDISH, K.G., F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D., EIGHTH DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, AND LORD-LIEUTENANT OF DERBYSHIRE, THESE MEMORIALS ARE, BY KIND PERMISSION, INSCRIBED PREFACE It has been a great pleasure to accept the request of the General Editor of this Memorial Series to edit a volume on my native county of Derby. In proportion to its size and population, more has been written and printed on Derbyshire than on any other English county. But in these days, when, year by year, the national stores of information in Chancery Lane are becoming better arranged and more fully calendared, when there is more generous access to muniments in private possession, and when the spirit of critical archæology is becoming more and more systematised, there is no sign whatever that the history of the county is in any way near exhaustion. Nor will that be the case even when the four great volumes of the _Victoria County History_ are completed. So abundant are the historical records of Derbyshire, and so rich are the archæological remains, that there would be no difficulty, I think, in the speedy production of a companion volume to this of equal interest and of as much originality, should the General Editor and the publishers desire such a sequel. I say this as an apology for omissions of which I am fully conscious; and, as it is, the publishers have kindly allowed the present pages to exceed in number those of any other volume of the series.