Robert de Derby on behalf of Edmund Pouche (or Zouche), who was an apostate lay brother; the outcome of the appeal is not recorded.Abbot Richard’s activities included time at court: he was summoned by Edward I in an attempt to impose clerical taxation in 1294, 1295 and 1296; he was also present at the Westminster parliamentary session of September 1294 and petitioned the king for free warren in all St Mary’s Abbey's demesne lands of Stanley, Ockbrook, Boyah, Alvaston, Kirk Hallam, Grif (near Wirksworth) and Bathley (near Newark).

Abbot number eight:  John de Lincoln
Abbot John ruled for six years from September 1297 to September 1303. It was presumably earlier in 1297 that he was summoned for military service overseas.

In 1298 it is recorded that canon Simon de Radford was vicar at Kirk Hallam. A year later, Abbot John was party to a covenant in the Chartulary. This may be one in connection with common pasture in Alvaston.  

By the close of the century, the abbey held buildings and cellars near Bargate, Nottingham, buildings and a booth in the Saturday market, the moiety of two ovens and land in Ayilwelle and of the patronage of Trowell (given by William de Trowell, who retained the tithes), and more rents, tenements and pieces of land in Derby. It held two further mills in Borrowash, one rented from Gilbert de Frayino for 2s. per annum (is this the one gifted by William de Grendon; see page 27?) and the other, rented originally from Geoffrey de Salicosa Mara but obtained in its entirety in 1261;  this latter mill is referred to as being in Alvaston (see page 52). There are also records of the possession of a mill at Kirk Hallam and two at Stanley, worth 30s. per annum, and a moiety of a further mill at Bathley which was sold to Robert de Lysurs, who gave it to the canons of Thurgarton.