A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



ABBOTS OF WELBECK 



Berengar, occurs between 1153 and 1 169 " 

 Adam, occurs between 1183 and 1194'* 

 Richard, occurs between 1194 and 1224 n 

 William, occurs 1229, 1236, 1243 M 

 Richard, occurs 1250, 1252, I25&-7 81 

 Adam, occurs 1263, 1272, I2y6 82 

 Thomas, occurs 1281, 1292 8S 

 John de Duckmanton, 1309 8 * 

 John de Cestrefeld, 1310 85 

 William de Kendall, 131 6 86 

 John de Nottingham, 1322 87 

 William de Aslakeden, 1335 M 

 Robert Spalding, 1341 89 

 John de Wirksop, 1349 w 



Hugh de Langley, I36o 91 



George de Gamelston, occurs 1369, 1383, 



1387" 



William de Staveley, occurs 1389 93 

 John Bankwell, occurs I393 94 

 John de Norton, occurs 1412, dies 1450 95 

 John Greene, I45O 96 

 William Burton, occurs 1475, 1482 97 

 John Lancaster alias Acastre, occurs 1488, 



1491 98 



John Copper, occurs 1492" 

 Thomas Wydur, occurs 1494, 1497, 

 Robert, occurs 1502 101 

 Thomas Wilkinson, 1 503 los 

 John Maxey, I52O, 103 died 1536 

 Richard Bentley, surrendered I538 104 



HOUSE OF PREMONSTRATENSIAN CANONESSES 



12. THE PRIORY OF BROADHOLME 



There were but two convents of canonesses 

 of the Premonstratensian Order in England, 

 namely at Broadholme, Nottinghamshire, and 

 Ilford, Lincolnshire. 



There is some uncertainty as to the date of 

 the foundation of the small house of Broadholme 

 on the borders of Lincolnshire, and as to the 

 name or names of the original founders. It was 

 an early offshoot of the Premonstratensian house 

 of Newhouse (Lincolnshire). It appears, strange 

 to say, to have been originally a house for both 

 sexes, for the first benefaction named in a long 

 inspection charter of Edward II, subsequently 

 cited, was made to God and St. Mary and to the 

 brethren and sisters of Broadholme an expression 

 which is repeated in other early grants. Leland 

 states that Agnes de Camville, wife of Peter 

 Gousla (or Gousley), the founder of Newhouse, 

 placed here a prioress and nuns of the Premon- 

 stratensian Order about the latter part of the 

 reign of King Stephen. 1 



When the Taxation Roll of Pope Nicholas 

 was drawn up in 1291, it was found that the 



" Harl. Chart. 45 A. 30 ; Addy, Beauchief, 25. 



78 Nott. Bar. Rec. \, 8 ; Harl. Chart. 45 A. 6. 



79 Addy, Beauchief; Harl. Chart. 49 I. 16. 



80 Pat. 13 Hen. Ill, m. lod.; Welbeck Chart, fol. 

 88 ; Wolley Chart. (B.M.), i, 49. 



81 Welbeck Chart, fol. 84, 86, 87, 89, 

 81 Ibid. 85-6, 89, 90. 



63 Dep. Keeper's Rep. 1, no; Wolley Chart. 

 (B.M.), i, 52. 



84 Harl. MS. 6972, fol. 1 8 ; 6970, fol. 145. 



85 Ibid. 6970, fol. 146/5. 



86 Ibid. fol. 156^ ; 6972, fol. 20. 



87 Ibid. 6972, fol. 23. 



88 Dugdale, Mm. vi, 872. 



89 Coll. Anglo-Premon. iii, 167. 



90 Harl. MS. 6972, fol. 25*. 

 41 Ibid. fol. zjb. 



Prioress of Broadholme held a variety of small 

 temporalities in Lincolnshire to the annual value 

 of ^4 13*. ; and that in Nottinghamshire the 

 appropriated church of Thorney (in which parish 

 the house was situated) brought in an additional 

 income of _8. 2 



A charter of inspection and confirmation 

 granted to the priory of Broadholme by Edward II 

 in 1318 gives a summary of the benefactions up 

 to that date. 3 The principal of these were : 

 An orchard by the cemetery of the church of 

 St. Botolph, Saxilby 4 (Lincolnshire), by Ralph 

 D'Aubeney ; a large amount of land, meadow, 

 pasture, and tenements in Saxilby, on the south 

 side of the Fosse Dyke, by Peter and Agnes 

 Goushill and their children and others ; lands in 

 Ingleby (adjoining Saxilby), by Geoffrey de Crosby; 

 rents in Skellingthorpe (Lincolnshire), by Baldwin 

 Wake ; the church of St. Helen, Thorney, with 

 lands and the site of a mill, by Walter and Agnes de 

 Clifford ; rents in Newark and two quarters of 

 corn from the manor of Wigsley, by Hugh de 

 Basset ; a toft in Fillingham, Lincolnshire, by 



82 Dugdale, Man. vi, 872; Pat. 6 Ric. II, pt. ii, 

 m. 2 ; 1 8 Ric. II, pt. ii, m. 20. 

 9J Dugdale, Man. vi, 872. 



94 Pat. 1 6 Ric. II. pt. ii, m. 7. 

 *"' Coll. Anglo-Premon. iii, 165. 

 96 Harl. MS. 6972, fol. 35^. 



* Coll. Angk-Premon. iii, 179, 186. 



95 Ibid. 1 88, 191. 



99 Surtees Soc. Pull Ivii, 133. 



100 Coll. Anglo-Premon. iii, 193, 195. 



101 Ibid. 165. 



10> Harl. MS. 6972, fol. 49*. 



"" L. and P. Hen. Vlll, iv, 1 5 1 1. 



104 Dtp. Keeper's Rep. viii, App. ii, 47. 



1 Leland, Coll. i, 94. 



1 Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 74^, 310^. 



* Pat. 1 2 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 9. 



4 Saxilby is on the borders of a projecting loop of 

 East Notts. 



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