Sir Francis Foljambe, Bart., sold Walton Manor House and the Derbyshire estate to Sir Arthur Ingram in 1633. From that time Aldwark became the chief residence of the family. Sir Francis died, leaving no male issue, in 1640, and the representation of his family devolved on his third cousin, Peter Foljambe, who was able to prove his descent and claim to the family estates. He lived at Steveton, one of the inherited estates in the parish of Sherborn, Yorkshire, and died in 1668. It is from the Foljambes of Aldwark and Steveton that Cecil George Savile Foljambe, Baron Hawkesbury 1893, Viscount Hawkesbury and Earl of Liverpool 1905, who died in 1907, was descended. REPTON: ITS ABBEY, CHURCH, PRIORY, AND SCHOOL By Rev. F. C. Hipkins, M.A., F.S.A. Very early in the annals of England the name of Repton appears. In the _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_ it is mentioned three times:—(1) A.D. 755, “In the same year Æthelbald, King of the Mercians, was slain at Seccandune (Seckington, Warwickshire), and his body lies at Hreopandune (Repton)”; (2) A.D. 874, “In this year the army of the Danes went from Lindsey to Hreopedune, and there took up their winter quarters”; (3) A.D. 875, “In this year the army departed from Hreopedune.” Professor Skeat thinks that “the name signifies Hreopa’s down, _i.e._, Hreopa’s hill-fort. Hreopa being the name of some Anglo-Saxon warrior, not otherwise known.” In _Domesday Book_ the name is spelt Rapendun, and many variations as to the spelling of the name appear in mediæval and modern documents. [Illustration: Repton: Parish Church and Priory Gateway.] Stebbing Shaw, in the _Topographer_ (ii., 250), writes: “Here was, before A.D. 600, a noble monastery of religious men and women, under the government of an Abbess, after the Saxon Way, wherein several of the royal line were buried.” Tradition says that this monastery was founded by St. David about the year 600, but as no records of the monastery have been discovered, we cannot tell with any precision when it was founded, or by whom. Penda, the pagan King of Mercia, was slain by Oswin, King of Northumbria, at the battle of Winwadfield in the year 656, and was succeeded by his brother Peada, who had been converted to Christianity by Alfred, brother of Oswin, and was baptized, with all his attendants, by Finan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, at Walton, in the year 632 (Matt. Paris, _Chron. Maj._). King Peada is said to have brought into the midlands four priests, Adda, Betti, Cedda (brother of St. Chad), and Diuma, who was consecrated first bishop of the Middle Angles and Mercians. In the year 657 Peada was slain “in a very nefarious manner during the festival of Easter,” and was succeeded by his brother Wulphere. Tanner, _Notitia_, f. 78; Leland, _Collect_, vol. ii., p. 157; Dugdale, _Monasticon_, vol. ii., pp. 280–2, agree that the monastery was founded before the year 660, so that either Peada or his brother Wulphere may have been the founder.