A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



The consent of Edward III to the appropria- 

 tion was obtained on 9 May of the same year ;^ 

 and in June of the following year the arch- 

 bishop made a formal ordination of the vicarage." 



An indenture made in April 1504 between 

 Laurence, Prior of Felley, with his convent, and 

 John Vyncent of Braithwell, Yorkshire, is given 

 in English in the chartulary. It recites that there 

 had been ' diverse variaunces and contraversies ' 

 between the two parties with regard to certain 

 lands and tithes of the said John in Braithwell, 

 but that by the mediation of Robert, Prior of 

 Worksop, and Robert Henryson, the said parties 

 had come to an agreement.*' 



This small priory was visited in 1536 by 

 the commissioners, Legh and Layton ; but they 

 merely reported that the annual income was 

 £/^o and that the debts amounted to a like sum. 



Christopher Bolton, the last prior of this small 

 house, was granted a pension of £6 a year on its 

 dissolution. This pension was cancelled on 2 July 

 28 Hen. VIII, when Bolton was appointed to the 

 rectory of Attenborough, Nottinghamshire." 



In 1536—7 the possessions of this priory, 

 dissolved under the Act for the confiscation of 

 the lesser houses, passed into various hands ; 

 Richard Samond obtained the lease from the 

 Crown of the rectory of Annesley for twenty- 

 one years at \obs. 8d. annual rent, and grants 

 were made of other parcels to different officials of 

 the royal household.'* In September 1538 

 William Bolles, a receiver of the Court of Augmen- 

 tation, and Lucy his wife obtained a grant in fee 

 simple of the house and site of the late priory, with 

 the whole of its lands in Felley and Annesley, of 

 the clear annual value of ^13,^' to beheld in 

 the same way as Christopher Bolton, the late 

 prior, held them. 



There is a cast of the 13th-century seal of 

 this priory in the British Museum.'" It is a 

 pointed oval, displaying the Blessed Virgin 

 crowned and seated on a throne, in the right 

 hand a sceptre, fleur-de-lis, and having the Holy 

 Child on the left knee. Remains of legend : — 



SIGILLUM SAN 



IE ... HA . . 



Priors of Felley '' 



Walter, probably first prior ^' 

 Adam de Nokton, temp. Henry II " 

 William de Lovetot, temp. Henry II ^ 



" Pat. 17 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 26. 



"Add. MS. 36872, fol. 128. 



»Add. MSS. 36872, fol. 69, 70. 



" Aug. Off. Bks. ccxxxii, fol. 30^. 



'^L. and P. Hen. Vlll. xii, 316 ; xiii (l), 579-81. 



"Pat. 30 Hen. VIII, pt. vi, m. 19. 



'"Cists of Seals, Ixx, 45. 



" The first five names occur in the chartulary in 

 various undated charters. The order in which they 

 are given is only conjectural, based on the witnesses to 

 the charters. "Add. MS. 36872, 25^. 



'^ Ibid. fol. 29. " Ibid. fol. 83-84, 90. 



Henry, temp. Henry III " 



Thomas, temp. Henry III" 



Walter, occurs c. 1 240" 



Henr)', occurs 1260 '* 



Ralph dePleasley, occurs 1268, deposed 1276" 



Thomas de Wathenowe, 1276^° 



Alan deElksley, 1281 " 



William de Toveton, resigned 1315" 



Elias de Lyndeby, 1315 " 



Johnde Kirkeby, 1328" 



John de Holebroke, 1349" 



Richard de Shirebrook, 1349** 



Robert Eavys, died 1378*' 



Thomas Elmeton, 1378 *' 



John de Mansfield, 1381 *^ 



William Tuxford, died 1405 ^ 



John Gaynesburgh, died 1442 " 



Peter Methlay, 1442 '* 



John Throglicroft, died 1454'' 



William Acworth, 1454*^ 



Richard Congreve, 1463" 



William Symondson alias Bolton, 1482 '* 



Laurence Ynggam, 1 5 00" 



Thomas Gatesford, resigned 1519 " 



Thomas Stokk, 1519'' 



Christopher Bolton, last prior ^ 



7. THE PRIORY OF NEWSTEAD 



The priory of St. Mary of Newstead [De Novo 

 Loco) in Sherwood, a house of Austin Canons, 

 was founded by Henry II about the year 1 1 70. 

 The first witness to the foundation charter was 

 Geoffrey, Archdeacon of Canterbury ; he was 

 preferred to the see of Ely in 1 1 74. This 

 charter, executed at Clarendon, conferred on the 

 prior and canons a site near the centre of the 

 forest ; Papplewick, with its church and mill and 

 all things pertaining to the town in wood and 

 plain, together with the meadow of Bestwood by 

 the side of the water; and 1 00^. of rent in 

 Shapwick and Walkeringham. At the same 

 time the king confirmed to them lands in 

 Nottinghamshire, the gift of Robert de Caus and 

 John the cook.^ 



"Ibid. fol. 84, 106. 



"Ibid. fol. 89. "Nott. Bor. Rec. i, 38. 



"Add. MS. 36872, fol. 131^. 

 " Ibid. fol. 9 1 ; York Epis. Reg. GifFard, fol. 1 42-3. 

 " Ibid. 



" York Epis. Reg. Wickwane, fol. 179. 

 "Harl. MS. 6972, fol. If. "IbiJ. 



"Ibid. fol. 16. "Ibid, fol 18. 



« Ibid. •' Ibid. fol. 23. 



«Ibid. "Ibid. 



« Ibid. fol. 24. " Ibid. fol. 28. 



" Ibid. " Ibid. fol. 30. 



"Ibid. "Ibid. fol. 31. 



« Ibid. fol. 37. "Ibid. fol. 41. 



*» Ibid. fol. 45. ''Ibid. 



"Pat. 30 Hen. \T1I, pt. vi, m. ig. 

 ' Cited in confirmation on charter of 1247 ; Chart. 

 R. 31 Hen. Ill, m. 9. 



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