140 KELDHOLM PRIORI^ 



on (he river Dove. It is a romantic situation, 

 through which the road passes to Malton and Scar- 

 borough, The spinning of flax and tow i carried 

 on here, by Mr. Caleb Fletcher, who has a neat 

 dwelling house, and a convenient factory surmount- 

 ed with a cupola, and displaying in every part 

 neatness and attention. 



Extracts from Burton's Monasticon, and the Re- 

 cords in the Augmentation Office, London. 



Robert de Stuteville in the time of Henry I. foun- 

 ded a cistercian nunnery here, and dedicated it to 

 the blessed virgin. From Robert the founder, the 

 patronage descended to the family of the Wakes, 

 .Lords of Lyddel. 



A charter of king John, made in the second 

 year of his reign, A. D. 1201, grants and confirms to 

 the nuns of St. Mary, serving God at Keldeholm, 

 by gift of Robert de Stuteville, and by grant of 

 "William de Stuteville his heir, the place itself of 

 Keldeholm, with all the cultivated land towards the 

 north, by the divisions determined in the deeds and 

 an inclosnre for their vegetables, and the mill, with 

 the soc and multure of Kirkeby, with all the land 

 towards the south, and the meadow, as far as the 

 divisions in the same deeds ; with pasture in the 

 ivood of Ravenwick. 



About the time of the dissolution, here were a 

 prioress and eight nuns ; at that time the revenues 

 of this priory, pursuant to statute of 27 Henry VI1J., 

 were very small and inconsiderable ; being no more 

 per annum, than jg29. Qs. Itf. 



