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Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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bury, and another at Duffield. No great lordly abbeys reared their heads in theshire. Some monasteries situate in other counties heldlands in Derbyshire, such as Burton, Lenton, and Dun-stable. The Aiistin Canons were established at Darleyand Repton, Gresley and Breadsall. A Benedictinenunnery existed at Kings Mead, Derby, the only nunneryin the shire. The Cistercian and Benedictine ordersnever made much impression on the shire, but thePremonstratensian Canons held two houses, Beauchief(an offshoot of Welbeck) and Dale, a colony of New-house. The Dominican friars had a house in Derby. TheKnights Hospitallers had a preceptory at Yeaveley, andhospitals for lepers existed at Derby, Chesterfield, Locko,and Alkmonton, besides the Spital-in-the-Peak betweenCastleton and Hope. None of the monastic houses mthe shire were of much importance. The shire was a land of forests and but scantilyinhabited. Kings often came to hunt the deer, and thestern hills bred a hardy race of men, who had some of
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Derbyshire 145 the best fighting blood of England in their veins.Constantly they were called to fight for their countryagainst the marauding Scots or on foreign battlefields.The Scots liked not these sturdy warriors, nor theirinaccessible country, and the Bishop of Carlisle, who heldMelbourne, often used to retire there for safety when hisnorthern home was threatened. In spite of the favour shown to Walter Peveril herebelled against Henry I., and in 1115 lost his castles, ofwhich the King took possession. The troubles ofStephens reign affected not the county, but at the Battleof the Standard Derbyshire valour played a leading part.Henry H. several times visited the shire for the purposeof hunting, and on one of his visits received the sub-mission of Malcolm of Scotland. King John seems tohave been the most restless of monarchs, and often visitedthe shire. He held the important castles of the Peak andBolsover, and maintained a hold on the county during hisdisputes with his barons. The

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