A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



Hugh, and Robert Martell. The lands assigned 

 to this chantry or college were of the value of 

 ^25 at the time of its foundation. 17 Richard 

 Martell of Ruddington and Hugh Martell of 

 Chilwell had previously established a chantry at 

 Flawforth, early in the preceding century. 



When the Valor was taken in 1534 it was 

 found that the lands at Chilwell, Bramcote, 

 Lenton, Clifton, Clapton, Beeston, and Rudding- 

 ton pertaining to the college were then worth 

 30 a year. Henry Scott, the warden, drew a 

 stipend of 8 marks ; Edward Ersden, who 

 celebrated at Ruddington, and William Holome, 

 who celebrated at Chilwell, each drew 7 marks. 

 The two other chaplaincies, the one for Rud- 

 dington and the other for Chilwell, had both 

 been vacant for some time. 18 



When the chantry and college commissioners 

 of Henry VIII made their survey of this county 

 in 1545-6 they reported of Ruddington that 

 there were divers chantries founded there by 

 the ancestor of Edward Sheffield esq., but no 

 foundation was shown them. Their value was 

 declared to be ^24 13*. 4^. a year. Henry 

 Scott was warden at a stipend of ^5 6*. 8^. ; 

 two chantry priests ought to have been each in 

 receipt of 4 13*. 4^., but for two years (on a 

 vacancy) Edward Sheffield had retained in his 

 hands the stipend of one of these priests, and since 

 then the other had died. The rural dean of 

 Bingham and the vicar of Ruddington said that 

 the warden did nothing for his salary, but the 

 warden himself deposed that he did duty at Chil- 

 well. The chalice, &c., had been taken away 

 (from Flawfortli) by the warden. There was a 

 mansion house in Ruddington, then partly in 

 decay, where the warden and priests used to 

 dwell. 19 



21. THE COLLEGE OF SIBTHORPE 



In November 1324 Thomas de Sibthorpe 

 obtained licence to alienate in mortmain a mes- 

 suage, a toft, 50 acres of land and 5 acres of 

 meadow, in Hawksworth and Aslockton, to a 

 chaplain to celebrate daily in a chapel to be built 

 on the north side of the church of St. Peter of 

 Sibthorpe, to be dedicated in honour of the 

 Blessed Virgin, St. John Baptist, and St. Thomas 

 the Martyr, for the souls of himself, his father, 

 mother, brothers, sisters and ancestors, and others. 20 

 In October of the following year the just cited 



the Apostle St. Andrew and All Saints, in the new 

 chapel which he had erected at Flawforth, the place 

 of his birth, to dedicate it at any time he pleased. 

 York Epis. Reg. Wickwane, fol. 44 ; Had. MS. 

 6970, fol. 78. 



17 Inq. a.q.d. 37 Hen. VI, 4022 ; Thoroton, Nottl. 

 i, 126-7. 



18 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 168. 



" Coll. and Chant. Cert. Notts, xiii, 5. 

 " Pat. 1 8 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 17. 



licence was surrendered and vacated. The 

 chapel was then built, and a somewhat extended 

 alienation was sought and obtained by Thomas 

 de Sibthorpe. At the same time Thomas and 

 William le Mareschal of Sibthorpe obtained 

 licence to alienate 3 messuages, 3 oxgangs, 50 

 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, and i oj. rent 

 in Sibthorpe, Syerston, Elston, Aslockton, and 

 Thrumpton, to John Notebroun, chaplain of the 

 chantry, just ordained by the said Thomas in this 

 new chapel, to celebrate daily for their good estate 

 and for their souls after death and also for the 

 souls of Maud mother of the said Thomas, and 

 for the brothers and sisters and ancestors of 

 Thomas and of Simon de Sibthorpe, &c. 21 



By the time that the beginning of the reign of 

 Edward III was reached, this chantry began to 

 assume collegiate proportions. In April 1327 

 Thomas de Newmarket, kt., confirmed the grant 

 by Thomas de Sibthorpe, presumably a native of 

 Sibthorpe, who was then rector of the church of 

 Beckingham, Lincolnshire, founder of the chapel 

 and chantry, to John Notebroun, described as 

 chaplain and keeper of the altar of St. Mary in 

 the chapel, of certain lands in Hawksworth, held 

 of the said Sir Thomas as chief lord of the fee. 22 

 In July of the same year Geoffrey le Scrop, kt., 

 licensed Thomas de Sibthorpe to assign all the 

 lands that he held of Sir Geoffrey, either in 

 demesne or in service, in Sibthorpe, Elston, and 

 Syerston to certain chaplains or other men ot 

 religion, to celebrate divine service daily in the 

 newly constructed chapel. 23 



In February 1328 the deed was enrolled of 

 Sir Geoffrey le Scrop, whereby he licensed John 

 Notebroun, now called warden of the chantry in 

 St. Mary's Chapel, and John Edwalton, chaplain 

 of the said chantry, to acquire three messuages, 

 40 acres of land, and i o acres of meadow in the 

 three parishes mentioned above, to be held by 

 them and their successors as wardens and chaplains 

 of the chapel, without making any rent or ser- 

 vice or custom to Geoffrey and his heirs. 24 In 

 November of the same year William son of 

 Geoffrey le Clerk of Sibthorpe had licence to 

 alienate a messuage in Sibthorpe and Syerston, 

 of the yearly value of I is. "]d., to John de Ed- 

 walton, chaplain and warden of the chapel of 

 St. Mary, Sibthorpe, in succession to John Note- 

 broun, the late warden. 26 



There was a further advance in 1335, for in 

 that year Thomas Sibthorpe, rector of Becking- 

 ham, who is then styled king's clerk, bestowed 

 further lands in Sibthorpe and Syerston on John 

 Cosyn, chaplain and warden of the chapel, 

 towards the sustentation of the warden, two 

 chaplains, and a clerk as their server, who 



11 Pat. 19 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 20. 

 " Close, I Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 14 d. 

 ** Ibid. pt. ii, m. z 1 d. 

 14 Close, 2 Edw. Ill, m. 36 d. 

 " Pat. 2 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 10. 



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