In vol. i. of the _Journal of the Derbyshire Archæological Society_ (1879) there is an article by Rev. Dr. Cox on these accounts, and he writes: “It is the earliest record of parish accounts, with the exception of All Saints’, Derby, in the county.” Space alone prevents me from making extracts from them and the other registers; they are full of local interest. About the year 1059, a Priory of Canons Regular, of the order of St. Augustine, dedicated to St. Giles, was founded at Calke by Algar, Earl of Mercia. Here they dwelt till _c._ 1153, according to the old Chronicle written by one Thomas de Musca, Canon of Dale Abbey, when Serio de Grendon, lord of Bradley, near Ashbourne, “called together the Canons of Kale, and gave them the place of Deepdale; here they built for themselves a church, a costly labour, and other offices.” These buildings became known as Dale Abbey, and here they lived for a time “apart from the social intercourse of men, but they began too remissly to hold themselves in the service of God; they began to frequent the forest more than the church, more to hunting than to prayer or meditation, so the King ordered them to return to the place whence they came,” viz., Calke. During the reign of Henry II. (1154–1189), Matilda, widow of Randulf, fourth Earl of Chester, who died A.D. 1153—with the consent of her son Hugh—granted to God, St. Mary, the Holy Trinity, and to the Canons of Calke, the working of a quarry at Repton, together with the advowson of the church of St. Wystan, at Repton, on condition that as soon as a suitable opportunity should occur, the Canons should remove to Repton, which was to be their chief house; Calke Priory was to become subject to it. “A suitable opportunity” occurred during the episcopate of Walter Durdent, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1149–1159). Copies of the original charters are given in Bigsby’s _History of Repton_, Dugdale’s _Monasticon_, and Stebbing Shaw’s article in vol. ii. of the _Topographer_. The charters containing grants extend from Stephen’s reign (1135–1154) to the reign of Henry V. (1413–1422), and include the church of St. Wystan, Repton, with its eight chapelries of Newton Solney, Bretby, Milton, Foremark, Ingleby, Tickenhall, Smisby, and Measham; the church at Badow, in Essex; estates at Willington, including its church; and property at Croxall.