Repton and its neighbourhood : $b a descriptive guide of the archæology, &c. of the districtHipkins, F. C. (Frederick Charles)
History
Repton and its neighbourhood : $b a descriptive guide of the archæology, &c. of the district
Hipkins, F. C. (Frederick Charles)
Repton (England) -- Description and travel; Repton (England) -- History
The Bull Baiting is supposed to have been introduced, in imitation of the
Spanish bull-fights, by John of Gaunt, who assumed the title of King of
Castile and Leon, in right of his wife. A bull was granted by the Prior
of Tutbury, the poor beast’s horns were sawn off, his ears and tail cut
off, and his nose filled with pepper. Then the minstrels rushed after
the maddened beast, and if they could cut off a portion of hair or skin
before it crossed the river Dove, it belonged to the Minstrels, if it
escaped it was returned to the Prior. The proceedings led to very great
rows, and many returned home with broken heads, &c. In 1778 the Duke of
Devonshire abolished the whole proceedings.
[Illustration: Plate 20.
Etwall Church. (Page 116.)
Etwall Hospital. (Page 119.)]
In 1831 some workmen, digging gravel out of the bed of the river, about
thirty yards below the bridge, four or five feet below the surface
of the gravel, discovered “upwards of 300,000 valuable coins,” which
Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, lost, together with his baggage, when he
was attempting to cross the river, in flood. For five hundred years the
coins, consisting of English, French, and Scottish pieces, had remained
hidden below the bed of the river.
The chief attractions at Tutbury are the Castle, Church, and Glass-Works.
ETWALL AND ITS HOSPITAL.
Etwall is about four miles north-west from Repton, and six miles from
Derby.
The manor belonged to Henry de Ferrers at the making of Domesday Survey,
and included the lordships of Bearwardcote (its old moated farm-house
remains), and Burnaston. Etwall was for a time in the possession of the
Shirley family. In the year 1370 it was conveyed to the Abbey of Beauvale
in Nottinghamshire. In 1540, King Henry VIII. granted the manor, together
with the impropriate rectory, and the advowson of the vicarage, to Sir
John Porte, Knight, one of the Justices of the King’s Bench, father of
Sir John, the founder of Repton School.
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