[2] Built in the 14th century, it is known as the "Mollis Chapel" because of a stained glass window which shows the rising sun above the cross which was fixed to it by the local saint.

Also remarkable is the arcade between the chancel and Peter Chapel with its Early English Arches whose capitals are decorated with small bossy leaves in which can be seen the impish faces of the green men of the forest.

The control of St Mary's was given to Dale Abbey, a nearby Praemonstratensian monastery, in the late middle ages.

Gifts of this kind were strictly controlled by the Statutes of Mortmain because they had both financial and political implications for the monarchy, so ways had to be found to hide their true nature.

Aston's attempts to take over were regarded as vexatious litigation against the abbot and convent of Dale and he was imprisoned in the Fleet: he only got out in February 1398, after he had secured mainprise, a form of bail.

John Burghill, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, wrote to the king asking for the local secular powers to intervene.

The affair seems to come to an end only in Henry IV's reign, with Wylchar being pardoned in October 1402, after handing himself in at the Marshalsea Prison.

[10] The manor of Ilkeston was granted Henry VII to John Savage (soldier) for his help in the Battle of Bosworth, as the 7th Baron Zouche had been dispossessed for siding with Richard III.

Apparently not everyone found the Manners appointees satisfactory: under the Commonwealth of England in 1650 a parliamentary commission on the conduct of ministers pronounced the vicar, a Mr Fox, scandalous.