A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



The chartulary sets forth with much detail 

 copies of title deeds referring to bequests of land 

 in Selston, Wandesley in Bagthorpe, Brinsley, 

 Hucknall Torkard, Newthorpe, Cressy Fee, 

 Watnall Chaworth, Brook, and Willey, all in 

 Nottinghamshire.^" 



One of the most important of these grants was 

 that of the manor of Etwall, Derbyshire. Sir 

 William de Finchenden, kt., Richard de Ravenser, 

 Archdeacon of Lincoln, and Nicholas de Chad- 

 desden, Richard de Chesterfield, and Richard de 

 Tissington, clerks, obtained licence from Ed- 

 ward III to grant this manor to Beauvale Priory 

 (soon after its foundation), to pray for Sir William 

 whilst living, and for his soul and that of his 

 wife Blanche after death. ^^ 



Some forty folios are occupied with the setting 

 out of the various papal privileges enjoyed by the 

 priory. By far the greater part of these were 

 common to the whole Carthusian order ; but the 

 bull of Clement VI names and confirms the 

 special liberties granted to Beauvale on its 

 foundation.^^ 



The chartulary concludes with the setting 

 forth in full of the various documents relative to 

 the appropriation of churches to this monastery.^' 

 The archiepiscopal and royal assent of the appro- 

 priation of the churches of Greasley and Selston 

 were obtained at the time of the first foundation 

 of the house ; 2 marks out of the rectory of 

 Greasley and i mark out of the rectory of Selston 

 were assigned as pensions to successive Archbishops 

 of York, and 20s. and los. respectively to the 

 Dean and Chapter of York. In the following 

 year (1344) the resignation of the rectors of both 

 Greasley and Selston was secured, and they were 

 at once presented to medieties of the rectory of 

 the church of East Keal, Lincolnshire. Vicarages 

 were duly ordained for both parishes. In the 

 case of Greasley a vicarage house was to be built, 

 adjoining the church, on an area of 180 ft. by 

 100 ft. ; the vicar was to receive all mortuaries 

 and oblations, together with all small tithes 

 valued at ;^i o a year, and the priory was to find 

 bread, wine, lights for the high altar, and a parish 

 chaplain or curate. The Selston vicar was to 

 have a house on the king's highway, near the 

 church, having an area of 154 ft. by 140 ft., and 

 the mortuaries and oblations and the tithes of 

 wool and lambs and all other small tithes of the 

 value, according to inquisition, of 6 marks or £4.. 

 The church of Farnham was appropriated in 

 1355, the archbishop securing a pension of 

 6s. 8d., and the dean and chapter 31. 4/^. The 

 vicarage house was to include a hall, two suitable 

 chambers, a kitchen, a stable, a bakehouse, and 

 a barn for grain and hay." 



At the beginning of the chartulary are tran- 

 scripts of ten royal charters, confirming the 



'» Add MS. 6060, fol. 39, &c. " Ibid. fol. 55-9. 

 " Ibid. fol. 77-91, 104-22. " Ibid. fol. 92-103. 

 " Ibid. fol. 101-3 ; Harl. MS. 6971, fol. 113^. 



various benefactions afterwards recited. On the 

 last folio, in a cursory hand, is the statement 

 that this chartulary, compiled through the in- 

 dustry of Nicholas Wartre, recently prior of the 

 house, extends from the foundation up to the 

 year i486 ; prayers are asked for the good estate 

 of Nicholas during his life and for his soul after 

 death.i= 



There are various deeds at the Public Record 

 OfKce relative to this priory ; the most interest- 

 ing are the four here briefly cited : — 



1 . A licence by John de Grey, lord of Cod- 

 dington, in 1358, to Robert Bernow and William 

 Braydeston to grant to the Prior and Convent of 

 Beauvale the manor of Kimberley with its ap- 

 purtenances." 



2. A mining lease granted by the priory in 

 1397 to William Monyash of Costall and others 

 of a coal mine in ' Kyrkestallavnd.' " 



3. Release in 1404 by John Prior of St. Fre- 

 mond, Normandy, to William Prior of Beauvale 

 of all rights in the priory of Bonby, Lincoln 

 diocese. ^^ 



4. Confirmation in 1 462 by John Day, vicar of 

 Selston and others, of the grant of a ninety-nine 

 years' lease to the priory made by the late William 

 Arnalde (in 1457) of all <^°^^ and right of digging 

 for the same in Selston parish, and of all wood 

 growing there to make ' punches and proppes,' 

 paying 13^. 4^/. a year so long as they obtain 

 coal.^" 



There are numerous records of grants to this 

 priory on the Patent Rolls of Edward III ; but 

 they need not be cited, as they refer to matters 

 of which particulars are given in the chartulary. 

 In 1403 Henry IV granted to this house the 

 alien priory of Bonby, Lincolnshire, with its 

 advowsons, lands, rents, and services not exceed- 

 ing the annual value of 18 marks. The Prior 

 and Convent of St. Fremond, of which it was a 

 cell, had granted Bonby (without licence) to the 

 London house of Carthusians in 1390, but at 

 that time Bonby was in the hands of Richard II 

 on account of the war with France, and there- 

 fore that grant was void. The possessions of 

 Bonby included the rectory of the parish church 

 of that place, pensions of 1 35. ^.d. each from the 

 churches of Saxby and St. John's Stamford, and 

 the advowsons of the churches of Sts. Peter, 

 John, Paul, and George, Stamford, and Saxby 

 and Grafton.^ 



There is a highly interesting document extant 

 dated 7 February 1422, whereby Dom Richard 

 de Burton, Prior of Beauvale, covenants with 

 Brother John de Bedysdale, of the Derby Do- 



" Prior Nicholas is named in two deeds of i486 

 and 1489 ; Anct. D. (P.R.O.), B. 81, 2165. 



" Anct. D. (P.R.O.), B. 171 1. 



" Ibid. 1782 ; Kirkstall, Yorks. 



"Ibid. 480. "Ibid. 3217. 



" Pat. 4 Hen. IV, pt. ii, m. 31,3; Anct. D., B. 

 480. 



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