A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



the quarters of the victims would be displayed. 

 There are two references to these executions in 

 the chamberlain's accounts of Nottingham for 

 i537~8' The town gave my Lord's judges 

 two gallons of wine, costing i6d., 'when the 

 Monks of Lcnton suffered death.' Another 

 charge in these accounts is 2d. paid for clearing 

 Cow Lane ' when the monks of Lenten suffered 

 death.' Judging from this last entry it is possible 

 that the victims were done to death in the 

 market-place, for Cow Lane was one of the 

 principal approaches ; the name was altered to 

 Church Street in 1812.'° 



As the priory was dissolved by attainder, not 

 a single monk or servant of the house obtained a 

 pension. Even the five poor men maintained 

 there in accordance with the charter of the time 

 of Henry I were apparently thrust out penniless. 



The site of the priory has changed hands with 

 extraordinary frequency ever since the dissolution 

 of the house. 



Priors of Lenton 



Humphrey, temp. Henry I '' 



Philip '8 



Alexander, occurs c. 1189" 



Peter, occurs 1200-12 14*' 



Damascenus ^^ 



Roger, 1230*^ 



Roger de Normanton,*' occurs 1241 ** 



Hugh Bluet, occurs 1251 '^ 



Roger Norman, 1259 ^° 



Matthew, 1269 ^^ 



Peter de Siriniaco, occurs 1281, 1285, 1287 ^ 



Reginald de Jora, occurs 1289, 1290 *^ 



William, occurs 1291, 1292, 1294, 1299, 



1305, 1306 '" 

 Stephen de Moerges, 1309^' 



" Nott. Bor. Rec. iii, ■ijS-'j. 



" Nichols, Leics. ii, 4 1 9. 



" Baker, Nortianis, i, 142. 



■' Noi/. Bor. Rec. i, 2. 



^ Cart. 14 John 32 ; Thoroton, Notts. 244, 



355. 373- , ^ „ J ^^ 



*' Named as predecessor of Roger de Normanton ; 

 Nichols, Leics. ii, no, citing register of Croxton 

 Abbey. 



" Pat. 1 5 Hen. Ill, m. 6 d. 



^ Probably the same as Roger. 



^ NichoUs, Leics. ii, no. 



«'Harl. Chart, 84 F. 35. 



^ Pat. 44 Hen. Ill, m. 3. Formerly Prior of 

 Montacute. 



" Pat. 54 Hen. III. Formerly almoner of Lewes. 



s« Pat. 10 Edw. I, m. 21 ; 13, m. 4 ; 14, m. 6. 



^ Abbrez'. Rot. Oiig. (Rec. Com.), i, 659. 



'» Pat. 19 Edw. I, m. 7 ; 20, m. 18 ; 22, m. 22 ; 

 27, m. 12 ; 3 3. P'- i, m- 6 ; 34. ^- ^9- 



" Pat. 3 Edw. II, m. 25. 



Reginald de Crespy, 13^3" 



Geoffrey, 1316" 



William de Pinnebury, occurs 1324 * 



Guy de Arlato, occurs 1333 " 



Astorgius de Gorciis, occurs 1336-7 " 



Peter de Abbeville, occurs 1355 " 



Geoffrey de Rochero, occurs 1389 '* 



Richard Stafford, died 1414"* 



Thomas Elmham, 1414 '°° 



John Elmham 14261°^ 



John Mydylburgh, 1450^'" 



Thomas Wollore, 1458 "" 



Richard Dene, 1481 ^"^ 



John Ilkeston, occurs 1500, 1505 "' 



Thomas Gwyllam, occurs 15 12, 1516"" 



Thomas Nottingham alias Hobson, 1525 



John Annesley, 1531 



Nicholas Heath, 1535^" 



Seals 



There is a fine but imperfect impression of the 

 common seal of the priory attached to a charter 

 c. 1212. It is a pointed oval, about 3 in. by 2 

 in. when perfect. The obverse has Our Lord 

 enthroned on a rainbow, right hand raised in 

 benediction, book in left hand. Legend : — 



. . GILLUM : CONVENTUS SAN . . . NTO . . . 



On the reverse is the smaller pointed counter- 

 seal of Prior Peter, showing the prior in half 

 length, holding a book, in base a plinth with 

 arcade of round-headed arches. Legend : — 



-f- SIGNUM PETRI P . . . RIS DE LENTONA '"' 



There is a sulphur cast at the British Museum 

 of very imperfect impression of a second seal of 

 the 15th century, which has the Trinity in a 

 carved niche. The only lettering remaining 



is . . . MONASTERII : S , . ."" 



" Pat. 7 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 15. 

 " Pat. 9 Edw. II, pt. ii. m. 30. 

 " Plac. 17 Edw. II, cited in Dugdale, Mon. v, 109. 

 " Pat. 7 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 20 ; pt. ii, m. 19. 

 " Pat. 10 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 37 ; II Edw. Ill, pt. 

 i, m. 17. 



" Nott. Bor. Rec. i, 160. 



" Pat. 1 2 Ric. II, pt. ii, m. 9, 



" Ibid. 9. 



•" Pat. 2 Hen. V, pt. i, m. 19. 



"" Pat. 5 Hen. VI, pt. i, m. 1 2. 



"" Pat. 29 Hen. VI, pt. i, m. 19. 



"» Pat. 37 Hen. VI, pt. ii, m. 9. 



"" Pat. 21 Edw. IV, pt. i, m. 11. 



"" Nott. Bor. Rec. i, 407 ; iii, 76, 120, 182. 



"* Ibid, iii, 120, 134, 345, 422. 



'" Pat. 27 Hen. VII, pt. ii, m. 9. 



™Harl. Chart. 44 F. 19. 



"* Seal Casts, bac, 46. 



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