A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



wherever the solemn study of theology or canon law prevailed. This was 

 a remarkable case, for although Edmund had been a rector in two dioceses 

 for fourteen years, he was still only in sub-deacon's orders. During his 

 absence he was to let his Nottinghamshire church and to make the usual 

 provision. 83 



In December 1286 Henry de Gloverna, rector of Sutton-on-Trent, was 

 licensed to be absent for study for a year from the next Whitsuntide. 8 * The 

 ease with which such leave of absence was obtained, for ' study ' that must 

 often have been merely nominal, is again illustrated in this case. Rector Henry 

 obtained like leave of absence on like grounds from the same archbishop 

 on two subsequent occasions, namely for two years in 1289, and for another 

 two years in I295- 65 



There are a few instances of appropriation of churches in Archbishop 

 Romayne's register. In 1287 a vicarage was instituted in the church of 

 Gotham, the rectory of which had been annexed to the prebend of Master 

 R. de la Ford of Southwell Minster. The vicar was to receive all small 

 tithes, save those of wool and lambs, which went to the prebendary, together 

 with the rectory buildings and the tithes of grain and hay throughout the 

 parish. The prebendary had to pay yearly to the vicar, at Martinmas and 

 Whitsuntide, a mark in equal portions. The vicar was to have the house 

 adjoining the churchyard with its garden, where the parish priests of that 

 church had been accustomed to live, and also all mortuaries. 66 



The church of Colston Basset was appropriated to Laund Priory in 

 1290, the formal sanction of the archbishop being secured on 28 November. 67 

 In the same year another church, that of Eaton, was appropriated to a 

 prebend of Southwell. The vicar was to have all small tithes, including those 

 of lambs and wool, with mortuaries and the turbary rights of the church, and 

 the prebendary was also to pay him 4 marks a year. The prebendary was to 

 have the manse and its buildings, the great tithes, all the land and meadow 

 pertaining to the church, and the tithes of hay. The vicar was to serve the 

 church personally, and with sufficient suitable ministers of the usual and 

 customary number, and to bear all ordinary burdens. Extraordinary burdens, 

 as often as they occurred, were to be shared by prebendary and vicar. The 

 prebendary was to provide ornaments and books. 68 



In February i 294-5 the archbishop collated to the vicarage of Bingham 

 through lapse of time. An inquisition was held with regard to the customary 

 income of the vicar ; he was declared to be entitled to the oblations of three 

 halfpence with holy bread on Sundays, the wax due of the parishioners, bread 

 and other oblations, and to tithes except those of corn, wool, lambs, and hay. 

 He was also to have mortuaries, bequests, tithes of inclosed gardens whenever 

 sowed with seed, tithes of mills, and js. ^d. from the rector in addition to 

 20 marks. Also the manse in which the vicar had been accustomed to live. 69 

 The Dean of Nottingham in 1289 was instructed by the archbishop to 

 warn Sir John de Heriz, kt., not to interfere with the chantry of three 

 priests of old foundation in the chapel of Broadbusk (Gonalston), as threatened, 

 informing him that he would be solemnly excommunicated for interfering with 

 the liberties of the Church of England unless he retracted within eight days. 



" York Epis. Reg. Romayne, fol. 69 d. " Ibid, fol, 70 d. M Ibid. fol. 75, 84 d. 



M Ibid. fol. 72, Ibid. fol. 76-7, "Ibid. fol. 75. Ibid. fol. 84 d. 



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