ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



This threat apparently had the desired effect, for the next entry in the 

 register is the grant by Sir John de Heriz to Geoffrey de Hoveringham, 

 chaplain, of the custody of his house of Broadbusk, with lands, rents, posses- 

 sions and all things pertaining to it, as it was elemosina mea et antecessorum 

 meorum, so that he may hold the cure of it for making and ordaining as should 

 seem best ; but providing that he should never sell any lands or rents, nor 

 make or receive any brother without the assent of Sir John or his heirs. 

 The chapel was to be held by Geoffrey for life, unless it should happen that 

 he should absent himself or be convicted of any grave delinquency against the 

 house.™ 



An exceptional mandate was issued to the archdeacon's official in 1286, 

 whereby he was instructed to warn William de Beltoft, a parishioner of the 

 church of Clay worth, to treat his wife Cecilia with proper respect [maritali 

 affectu), and to make provision for her sustenance." 



In February 1287-8 a mandate was issued to the Dean of Bingham to 

 publish the excommunications of the persons who had violently assaulted Adam 

 de Bonnington, priest, at high mass in all churches of his deanery on Sunday 

 and festivals ; when their names were discovered, the offenders were to be 

 summoned to appear before the archbishop (wherever he might be) on his 

 next court day after the festival of Sts. Peter and Paul.^^ Sentence of 

 excommunication was pronounced in January 1288—9 ^^ ^^^ church of 

 Flintham and in adjacent churches against those who had unjustly accused 

 Sir John de Hose, kt., of various crimes which he had not committed ; and 

 at the same time a general sentence of excommunication was uttered against 

 slanderers, against those who wilfully hurt their neighbours by fraud or malice 

 or by theft, contrary to the primitive principles of the Decalogue.'^* Absolu- 

 tion and restitution to fame was granted by the archbishop in 1289 to John 

 de Calveton, priest, after he had solemnly purged himself of the charge pre- 

 ferred against him, for having so severely thrashed a boy named William de 

 Wympton that his back, it was said, was a continuous mass of bruises.'^* 



The last archbishop of the 13th century, Henry de Newark (1296-9), 

 was a native of Nottingham and kinsman of William de Newark, Canon of 

 Southwell and Archdeacon of Huntingdon, who died in 1286. Henry de 

 Newark was a favourite of Archbishop Wickwane, who made him Arch- 

 deacon of Richmond, whilst Archbishop Romayne gave him the stall of 

 Muskham in Southwell Minster. In 1290 he was promoted to the deanery 

 of York." 



Before proceeding to the 14th century, it may be well to give a brief 

 analvsis of the Taxation Roll of Pope Nicholas taken in 1292 for the province 

 of York. 



From the manner in which the returns are entered, this Taxation Roll 

 is not to be quite relied upon for including all the appropriated churches and 

 vicarages that had been formally ordained up to that date ; but the following 

 is a hst of those churches (numbering forty-eight) therein entered as then 

 appropriated to religious houses within the county : — Lenton Priory : the 

 churches of St. Mary, St. Nicholas, and St. Peter in Nottingham, Lenton, 

 Beeston, and Radford ; Welbeck Abbey : Whatton, Ratcliffe on Soar, 



"> York Epls. Reg. Romayne, fol. 74. " Ibid. fol. 70. " Ibid. 



" Ibid. fol. 71 d. " Ibid. fol. 72. " Raine, Hist, of York and its Archbishops, 349-5 i. 



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