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Excerpt from History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Derby, With the Town of Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire: Comprising a General Survey of the County, With Separate Historical, Statistical, Topographical, Commercial, Agricultural and Mineral Descriptions of All the Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, Townships, Villages, Hamlets, Manors, and Extra Parochial Liberties Ashbourn, Bakewell, Belper, chapel-eu-le-frith, Chesterfield, Derby, Glossop, Biddings, Tideswell, Winster, and Wirksworth. Derbyshire is included in the diocese of Lichfield, and province Of Canterbury, in which it forms an archdeaconry, comprising the deaneries of Ashbourn, Castillar, High Peak, Chesterfield, Derby, and Repington, which contain 58 rectories, 52 vicarages, 116 perpetual curacies, 6 donatives, and 1 peculiar. There are also in the county 396 dissenting places of worship, Of which 45 belong to the Independents; 34 the Baptists, 289 the (different branches of) Methodists, 10 the Unitarians, 5 the Friends, 2 the Swedenborgians, 1 the Latter Day Saints, 1 the Free Gospellers, and 8 the Roman Catholics. The Barmote courts for the regulation Of mineral concerns, and determining all disputes relating to the working of the mines, are held at Monyash, Ashford, Eyam, Stoney Middleton, Crich, and Wirksworth. The assizes are held at Derby, as are the quarter sessions, except the Easter, which are held at Chesterfield. Derbyshire and N et tinghamshire formed but one shrievalty, until the year 1569, and the assizes for both counties were held at Nottingham till the reign of Henry III. They were then held alternately in each county, till 1569, since which 'time they have been uniformly held at Derby. Judge Blackstone says, England was first divided into counties, hundreds, and tithings, by Alfred the Great, for the protection of property and the execution of justice. Tithings were so called because ten freeholders with their families formed one; ten of these tithings were supposed to form a hundred. Wapentake, from an ancient ceremony, in which the governoi of a hundred met all the aldermen Of his district, and holding up his spear they all touched it with theirs, in token of subjection and union to one common interest. An indifferent number of these wapentakes or hundreds form a county or shire, for the civil government of which a shire-reeve or sherilf is elected annually. The king dom was divided into parishes soon after the introduction of Christianity, by Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the year 636, and the boundaries of them, as marked in Domesday book, agree very nearly with the present division. The custom which still continues of making the hundreds responsible for the excesses of a lawless mob, is an'ap pendage to the Saxon system of tithing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
