125 



ibidem iiij**. De Sacrista Monasterii pro terris in Aclam' xvj''. 

 De Domino le Scrope de Bolton pro terris in Warms worth ^ iiij". 

 De A.bbate de Thornton^ pro terris in Burnham* et Thornton xl'. 

 Summa Ixxvj'. iij**. ob. 



Pensiones. Et de x'. xv". iiij^. receptis de pensionibus infra 

 tempus compoti, viz., de Ecclesia de Homsey^ c'. De Priore 

 de Wedderall*' xiij*. iiij**. De Priore Sancte Bege^ xiij'. iiij**. 



• Probably Aclam on the Wolds. 



2 Near Doncaster, where the Scropes had a considerable estate. Hunter's 

 S. Yorkshire, i. 126. 



3 Thornton Curtis, in the Northern part of Lincolnshire, south-east of Barton, 

 where a Monastery of Augustin-Canons was established in 1139 by "WUliani le Gros, 

 Earl of Albermarlc ; by whom or by one of his descendants, it is probable, these 

 lands were granted to the Abbey of St. Mary. 



■• In the Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire, near Epworth. 



5 The Church, Manor and Mere of Hornsea were granted to St. Mary's Abbey, 

 at its foundation by Odo, Earl of Champagne, and his son Stephen. In the year 

 1260, the Abbot of Melsa (Meaux, in Holdemess) claimed a right of fishing in the 

 Southern part of the Mere ; which was resisted by the Abbot of St. Mary's. The 

 Abbot of S. Meaux therefore brought a writ of right against the Abbot of 

 St. Mary's ; and it was resolved that the dispute should be settled by wager of 

 battle. "On the day appointed for the combat, the parties' and their champions 

 appearing properly accoutred, the fight commenced, and lasted, according to the 

 narrator, from morning till evening, when the champions of the plaintiff were beaten 

 to the ground, and the fishery ultimately relinquished by the Abbot of Meaux." 

 Poulson's History of Holdemess, vol. i, p. 319. This account is taken from the 

 Liber Melsa. The date, 1260, refers this remarkable transaction to the second year 

 of the Abbacy of Simon dc AVarwick ; but it is not noticed by him in his Annals 

 of the Abbey. 



6 Wetherall, in the county of Cumberland. A priory was founded here in the 

 reign of William Rufus, by Ranulf de Meschin, Earl of Cumberland, and given by 

 him as a Cell to the Abbey of St. Mary, York, in the time of Stephen of Whitby, 

 the first Abbot. The establishment consisted of a Prior and eight Monks. 



' St. Bees in Cumberland ; so named after Bega, a pious woman, who foimded a 

 convent there for nims, in the seventh centviry. Having been destroyed by the 

 Danes, it was refounded as a Priory for Monks by William, son of Raniilph dc 

 Meschin, in the time of Hen. I., and given by him as a Cell to the Abbey of 

 St. Mary, York, on condition that a Prior and at least six Monks should be main- 

 tained there by the Abbot and convent. It is observable that Leland in his 

 Itinerary speaks of St. Bees as being in the neighbourhood of Lincoln ; " in one of 

 the east suburbs, scant half a mile from the Mynstere." He refers, no doubt, to the 

 cell of St. Magdelene. The editors of the last edit, of Mon. Ang. observe, 

 " Leland was probably right as to the situation of the ceU, but wrong as to its 

 name, which he seems to have confounded with St Bees in Cumberland." 



