A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



Record Office, but have been very rarely consulted. 4 The following is an 

 abstract of the Nottinghamshire report as far as it affected those driven out of 

 the monasteries. 



Sir John Markham and William Meringe, Anthony Foster and Wil- 

 liam Bolles, esqs., were appointed in 1551 commissioners for Nottingham- 

 shire, ' for the diligent inquisition of pensionaries, stipendiarie priests and 

 others.' 6 



They met at Newark on 26 October. With regard to Thurgarton 

 Priory they reported of Thomas Dethick, the penultimate prior, entitled to 

 30 a year, that ' of him we can her nothinge.' One of the canons, Robert 

 Cant, to whom had been assigned a pension of 5, appeared and stated on 

 oath that he had sold his patent to Richard and William Hopkin for 

 13 6s. 8d. on 1 8 June 1547 ; Richard Hopkin produced the patent, stating 

 he was unpaid for a whole year. Richard Hopkin, late canon, himself held 

 a pension of 6 1 3-r. 4^. ; he produced the patent, and was a year in arrears. 

 Henry Gascoigne, late canon, entitled to 5 a year, appeared half a year in 

 arrear. Of John Chapnaye, George Dawkin, John Robert, Humphrey 

 Dethick, Robert Warrington, John Ayleworth, and John Biron, pensioners 

 from 5 down to 40.?., the commissioners could hear nothing. 



As to Worksop, the late prior, Thomas Stokes, produced his patent 

 entitling him to 50 a year ; his pension was half a year in arrear. Robert 

 Starkbone (5 6s. 8</.) sold his patent, 21 April 1548, to John Castlin, 

 bailiff of Worksop, for 10 J%s. \d.\ and on 12 January 1551 the bailiff resold 

 his bargain to William Bolles for >C34 5 Bolles produced the patent, which was 

 in arrear two years. James Windebanke (4) sold his patent to Peter 

 Tailor of Tuxford for 12 in 1542 ; George Oxlaye (6), William Meth 

 (6), Alexander Bothe (5 6s. 8</.), Edward Robinson (5 6s. 8</.), Thomas 

 Bedale (5 6s. 8^/.), Christopher Hasleyne (40^.), Richard Ashelaye (6), and 

 George Barnsley (5 6s. 8</.), appeared and produced their patents, all of 

 which were in arrear. Thomas Richardson (5 6s. 8d.) had died in 1551, 

 whilst of Richard Hernested (4) the commissioners could hear nothing. 

 Several others are named under pensions, holding patents for small sums, but 

 they are more correctly lay annuitants. 



The prior and four canons of Newstead produced their patents ; of the 

 remainder the report is ' we can here nothinge.' Of George Dalton, late 

 Prior of Blyth, the single pensioner of that convent, nothing was known. 

 The prior and five out of the eight pensioned monks of Beauvale showed 

 their patents ; the other three appear to have died or their whereabouts were 

 not known. 



Joan Angevin, late Prioress of Broadholme, the solitary pensioner of that 

 house (4 13-!-. 4</.), ' appered by here attournaye Charles Angevin who 

 beeinge swarne and examened shewed unto us her pattent unsold and saithe 

 she is alive and is unpaid for ij yeyres at Michelmas A E. sexti septo the 

 cause whye it was not payd the first yeyr none did require it of the 



4 The whole report for Derbyshire was printed in cxtenso by Dr. Cox in vol. xxviii of the Derb. Arch. 

 Soc. Jturn. (1906). 



* Exch. Accts. K.R. bdle. 76, no. 19. It is strange that William Bolles, a receiver of the Court of 

 Augmentation, and himself a bad offender in the purchase of pension-patents, &c., should have been appointed 

 one of this commission. As to his conduct in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire see Derb. Arch. Soc. Journ. 

 xxviii, 15-16. 



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