[12] The Avenells, it would appear, about this time owned considerable property in the north, the benefits of which they seem to have dispensed with no niggard hand, as we find from the following notices in Dugdale’s “Monasticon,” vol. i. p. 839. “The manor of Oneash (the Aneise of Domesday) was given to Roche Abbey, Yorkshire, by William Avenell, Lord of Haddon.” “Conksbury, near Over Haddon, was given to the abbey of Leicester, by William Avenell.” [13] Monuments of the Vernons and Manners in Bakewell Church:-- “Sir John Vernon, Knt. (son and heir of Henry), 1477; Sir Geo. Vernon, of Haddon, d. 1561, and his two wives, Margaret, daughʳ of Sir Gilbert Talbois, and Maud, daughtʳ of Sir Ralph Longford; Sir John Manners (second son of Thomas earl of Rutland), who died in 1611, and his wife (Dorothy, daughter and coheir of Sir Geo. Vernon), who died in 1584. John Manners (third son of Sir John), who died in 1590. And Sir Geo. Manners, who died in 1623; he married Grace, daughter of Sir Henry Pierrepont.” Arms of Manners, duke of Rutland:--Or, two bars azure; a chief quarterly of the second and gules, the first and fourth charged with two fleurs-de-lis of the first, and third with a lion passant-guardant of the same, being an augmentation given to the family, in consequence of their descent from King Edward IV. _Crest_:--On a chapeau, gules, turned up erm., a peacock in pride, proper. _Supporters_:--Two unicorns, arg., thin horns, manes, tufts, and hoofs, or. [14] The subjoined particulars respecting one of these open-house occasions, in 1663, are curious and interesting. They are extracted from the bailiff’s accounts of the time of John, eighth earl, who died here in 1679:-- £. _s._ _d._ “Paid George Wood, the cook, for helping in the pastry all Christmas 3 0 0 Paid Robert Swindell, for helping at the like work all Christmas, and two weeks 1 5 0 Paid William Green, the cook, for helping in the kitchen all Christmas 1 0 0 Paid Antony Higton, turnspit, for helping all Christmas 0 3 0 Paid W. Creswick, for pulling fowls and poultry all Christmas 0 3 6 Paid Catherine Sprig, for helping the scullery-maid all Christmas 0 3 0 Paid Thomas Shaw, the piper, for piping all Christmas 2 0 0 Given by my honourable Lord and Lady’s command to Thomas Shaw’s man 0 10 0 Given by their honours’ commands to Richard Blackwell, the dancer 0 10 0 Given by their honours’ commands to Ottiwell Bramwell, the dancer 0 10 0