A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



Ruddington,and Cuckney; Worksop Priory: Worksop,Walkeringham,Osberton, 

 Littleborough, Gringley, West Burton, Normanton, Marnham, and Wysall ; 

 Thurgarton Priory : Thurgarton, Hoveringham, Sutton in Ashfield, Granby, 

 Owthorpe, and Tythby ; Newstead Priory : Stapleford, Hucknall Torkard, 

 Papplewick, and Lowdham ; Felley Priory : Annesley ; Broadholme Priory : 

 Thorncy ; Beauva/e Priory : Kimberley ; Shelford Priory : Saxondale and 

 Shelf ord ; Elyth Priory : Blyth and Wheatley ; Mattersey Priory : Mattersey 

 and Elkesley ; and Wallingivells Priory : Carlton in Lindrick. 



Rectories appropriated to foundations outside the county (sixteen in all) 

 were Mansfield to the Bishop of Lincoln ; South Leverton and East and West 

 Markham, to the Dean of Lincoln ; Orston, Edwinstowe, and Harworth, to 

 the common fund of the same church ; Stoke, Coddington, Farndon, Balderton, . 

 Scarle, and Clifton, to various prebendaries of Lincoln; Colston Basset to Laund 

 Priory, Leicestershire ; Basford to Catesby Priory, Northamptonshire ; and I 

 Newark to St. Katharine's, Lincoln. There were also three of those excep- 

 tional cases where vicarages were ordained in parishes in which there were 

 unappropriated rectories ; such were, at this time, Flintham, Laxton, and 

 Lowdham. These bring the total of vicarages up to sixty-eight, exclusive of the 

 several prebendal vicarages round Southwell. The prebends of Southwell 

 (which are discussed in the subsequent account of the college), together with 

 the common fund, &c., were taxed at an annual value of >C34 2 1 3 S * 4^- 

 The cathedral church of Lincoln drew about as much as this out of the 

 greater tithes of the county of Nottingham ; the prebends alone being worth 

 201 a year. 



Another interesting feature of this return is the large number of small 

 pensions from churches or portions of tithes that went out of the county to 

 religious houses in other shires, in addition to various sums that went to 

 Lenton or other Nottingham houses and to the archbishop or chapter of York. 

 The abbeys or priories of Bayham, Beauchief, Belvoir, Bermondsey, Boiling- 

 ton, Bredon, Catesby, Croxton, Dale, Darley, Delapre, Elsham, Freiston, Grace 

 Dieu, Haverholme, Heynings, Langley, Laund, Newhouse, Peterborough, 

 Repton, Sempringham, Stamford, Swineshead, Torksey, and Ulverscroft were 

 all in receipt of pensions out of Nottinghamshire churches. 



The very considerable value of many of the Nottinghamshire rectories 

 at this date is a proof of the fertility of a large share of the county, and of 

 the success attending the growing of corn crops. In addition to the high 

 value of the prebendal rectories attached to both Southwell and Lincoln, the 

 rectory of Orston was worth 60, of Ratcliffc on Soar 46 1 3-f. 4^., of 

 Bingham 53 6/. 8^., and of Blyth 50, whilst Marnham and several 

 others were worth upwards of ^30. 



The contrast between the annual value of the rectory and the vicarage 

 is usually somewhat striking. A few examples are set forth : 



Name 



Mansfield 



Lowdham 



Colston Basset 



Elkesley 



Blyth 



Laxton 



Rectory 



' <* 



26 13 4 

 1600 



30 o o 



25 6 8 



50 o o 



23 6 8 



Vicarage 



' * 

 500 



4 13 4 

 500 

 468 



10 O O 



568 



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