“Sir John had no property at Repton. His executors were probably induced to establish the school there, rather than at Etwall, by finding the refectory of the building of the dissolved priory well adapted to the purpose. By indenture, dated 12th June, I Eliz. 1558, Gilbert Thacker, the grantee of the site of the priory, in consideration of £37 10. ‘bargained and sold to Richard Harpur, serjeant-at-law, John Harker, and Simon Starkey, three of the executors of Sir John Port ... one large great and high house near the kitchen of the same Gilbert Thacker, in Repton, commonly called the Feringre (Fermery or Infirmary of the priory) ... upon which the schoolmaster’s lodgings were then newly erected, together with all the rooms, both above and beneath, of the same long house, ... also one large void room or parcel of ground upon the east part ... lately called the Cloyster, and one other room thereto adjoining, lately called the Tratrye (Fratry), as the same was then inclosed with a new wall, to the intent that the same should be a schoolhouse, and so used from time to time thereafter.’”—(See page 43 of the Report.) The erection of “schoolmaster’s lodgings, with rooms above and below,” on the ruins of the Priory, referred to above, makes it very difficult to identify the present Priory with the original building. As Mr. St. John Hope writes in the 1884 volume of the _Journal of the Derbyshire Archæological Society_: “The western side of the claustral buildings consisted of the block under the charge of the cellarer, called the _cellarium_. It is here complete to the roof as far as the structure is concerned, but the original round-headed windows (with the exception of one) have been superseded by larger ones, and sundry partitions and insertions have quite destroyed its ancient arrangements. The _cellarium_ appears to be the only remaining part of the original Norman monastery, built when the canons migrated from Calke, in the middle of the twelfth century.” The ground floor consisted of a large room, divided by a row of six massive Norman circular columns, with scalloped or plain capitals; four of these remain. At the southern end of the west side is a slype or entrance to the cloister; at the northern end are three rooms, probably the kitchen larder; and from the appearance of the third—with its groined roof, the ribs of which were intended to be ornamented with the dog-tooth moulding, which was begun and never finished—it was used by the cellarer as a “plate house,” etc. The “causey” at the south end was erected to form an entrance to the school.