A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



Dame Elizabeth Formane 



Johanna Newsome 



Johanna Roos 



Johanna Steyntone 



Margery Robynsone 14 

 The Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1534 gives the 

 gross annnal value of this small priory as 

 ji8 115. iod. Rents at various places in the 

 counties of Nottingham and Lincoln, together 

 with 80 acres of demesne lands, only brought 

 in 16 I if. iod. t whilst the value of the great 

 tithes of Thorney had dropped to 40*. The 

 clear annual value was but 16 5*. "id. 



On 12 December 1536 Joan Aungewen (or 

 Angevin), the last prioress, was assigned a pension 

 of 7 marks. 16 



The site was granted by the Crown in 1537 

 to Ralph Jackson. 16 



PRIORESSES OF BROADHOLME 



Matilda, occurs 1326" 

 Joan de Rield, occurs 1354" 

 Elizabeth de Brerworth, occurs 1496 19 

 Joan Aungewen, occurs 1534 and IS36 20 



HOUSE OF GILBERTINE CANONS 



13. THE PRIORY OF MATTERSEY 



The Gilbertine priory of Mattersey was 

 founded in the lifetime of the memorable founder 

 of this order, St. Gilbert of Sempringham, by 

 Roger son of Ranulph de Mattersey, about the 

 year 1185. It was established on an island in 

 the River Idle, was dedicated to the honour of 

 St. Helen, and intended to support six Gilbertine 

 canons. 1 



An inspection and confirmatory charter of the 

 year 1341 recites a grant of confirmation. 



Pope Celestine in 1192 committed a cause 

 between the Abbot of Welbeck and the canons 

 of Mattersey concerning the advowson of the 

 churches of Mattersey, Misson, Bolton (Lanca- 

 shire), Gamston on Idle, and Elkesley, to the 

 judgement of the Abbot ofDarleyand two other 

 ecclesiastics, before whom an agreement was 

 sealed at Blyth, whereby the right to all these 

 advowsons was conceded to Mattersey, saving 

 the church of Elkesley, which was to remain with 

 Welbeck. 2 



About the end of the reign of Edward I, 

 Isabel de Chauncy, daughter of Thomas de 

 Mattersey, for the souls of herself and of her late 

 husband, Sir Philip de Mattersey, gave in her 

 widowhood to the prior and convent of St. Helen 

 on the Isle of Mattersey her whole demesne, 

 with all homages of the township of Mattersey 

 and Thorpe, and all lands and tenements which 

 they had by the gift of her ancestor in Matter- 

 sey, Thorpe, Gamston, Elkesley, West Retford, 

 Misson, and Bolton, together with the advowsons 

 of the churches of Mattersey, Gamston, Misson, 

 and Bolton. 3 



14 Coll. Angh-Premon. ii, 105. 

 14 Aug. Off. Bks. ccxxxii, 40. 



16 Ibid, ccix, 84. 



17 Close, 19 Edw. II, m. 6. 



18 Cat. of Papal Letters, vi, 159. 



19 Coll. Anglo-Premon. ii, 104. 



*> Valor Eccl. v, 185 ; Aug. Off. Bks. ccxxxii, 40. 

 1 Thoroton, Notts, iii, 442. 



In 1303 John, Prior of Mattersey, was granted 

 simple protection by Edward I for two years, as 

 he was going to the court of Rome. 4 



The prior and canons in 1307 were granted 

 free warren in Mattersey and Thorpe. 6 



The Prior of Mattersey in 1276 claimed full 

 chartered privileges of freedom from pontage, 

 passage, and every kind of toll and custom, and 

 from hundred and other dues throughout England; 

 also free warren in his demesne lands of Matter- 

 sey and Thorpe. In support of these claims he 

 produced a charter of Henry III, of the year 

 1251, and another recently granted by Ed ward I. 8 



The Hundred Rolls of 1275 show that the 

 Prior of Mattersey was charged with making so 

 great encroachments on the road leading from 

 Gringley on the Hill to Mattersey, that it was 

 scarcely possible for a cart to make its way there. 

 The jury also declared that the prior held a 

 charter of Henry III to the effect that his men 

 need appear only before the king or his chief 

 justices to answer any complaint or charge, and 

 that on this account the former waxed too bold 

 and were a source of much annoyance to their 

 neighbours. It was also set forth that the Prior 

 and Canons of Mattersey held 1 1 oxgangs of 

 land of the fee of Lancaster at Mattersey ; a 

 parcel of land at the same place on which their 

 house was situate, of the gift of Roger de 

 Mattersey, senior ; also the advowsons of the 

 churches of Gamston and Misson, and half the 

 church of Mattersey, of the fee of Lancaster ; 

 with 4*. rent from the nuns of Wallingwells ; 

 an oxgang and a half at Finningley, of whose 

 gift they are ignorant ; half an oxgang at Morton, 

 of the fee of Lancaster, the gift of Robert le 

 Vavasour ; a toft and about 30 acres of land 



'Welbeck Chart, fol. 129; cited in Thoroton, 

 Notts, iii, 332. 



* Cited in inspection charter, Chart. R. 4 Edw. Ill, 

 m. 50. 



4 Pat. 31 Edw. I, m. 39. 



6 Chart. R. 35 Edw. I, m. 17. 



6 Plac. de Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 624-5. 



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