RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



On 24 July Dr. London, to whom the sur- 

 render was made, forwarded to Sir Richard Rich 

 the pension list he had drawn up, and asked for 

 its ratification. The prior obtained a pension of 

 £2() 1 3;. 4^., the sub-prior £6, and the rest of 

 the ten canons who signed the surrender sums 

 varying from £$ 65. Sd. to ^^3 6^. 8^.'"' 



Immediately on the surrender being accom- 

 plished the custody of the house was handed 

 over to Sir John Byron of Colwick.^' In May 

 1540 Sir John Byron was put into legal posses- 

 sion of the house, site, church, steeple, church- 

 yard, and of all the lands, mills, advowsons, 

 rectories, &c. of the late priory.** 



There is a good impression of the first 

 (12th-century) seal of this priory attached to a 

 charter in the British Museum.'*' The Blessed 

 Virgin is represented seated on a throne, with 

 the Holy Child on her left knee, and in the right 

 hand a fleur-de-lis. Legend : — 



-|- SIGILLUM . SANCTE MARIE NOVI LOCI I SCHI. 



There is also a cast from an imperfect im- 

 pression of the second seal (14th-century) which 

 also bears the Virgin and Child, and has a dia- 

 pered background. Only two or three letters of 

 the legend remain. °*' 



Priors of Newstead 



Eustace, 1216 " 



Richard, 121 6 "* 



Robert, 1234^^ 



William (late cellarer), 1241 ^* 



William, 1267" 



John de Lexinton, resigned 1288 ^* 



Richard de Hallam, 1288 " 



Richard de Grange, 1293 ^* 



William de Thurgarton, 1324^' 



Hugh de Colingham, 1349 ^ 



William de Colingham, resigned 1356*^ 



John de Wylesthorp, resigned 1366 °^ 



William de Allerton, 1366 °' 



" L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiv (i), 1 3 1 3. 



"Ibid. 1321. 



*' Pat. 32 Hen. VIII, pt. iv, m. 7. 



*' Harl. Chart. 83, C. 43. 



" Seal Casts, Ixi, 54. 



*' Harl. MSS. 6957, fol. 241. «' Ibid. 



"'Pat. 19 Hen. Ill, m. 17. 



" Close, 25 Hen. Ill, m. 9. 



" Harl. MS. 6970, fol. 177. 



'^Harl. MS. 6972, fol. 5; Pat. 16 Edw. I, 

 m. 10. 



" Ibid. 



"Harl. MS. 6970, fol. 107; Pat. 21 Edw. I, 

 pt. i, m. 22. 



" Harl. MS. 6872, fol. 16, 279 ; Pat. 18 Edw. II, 

 pt. i, m. 2, I. 



*• Harl. MS. 6972, fol. 18; Pat. 23 Edw. Ill, 

 pt. ii, m. 6. 



" Harl. MS. 6972, fol. 20. 



" Ibid. «' Ibid. 



John de Hucknall, 1406" 

 William Bakewell, 1417*5 

 Thomas Carleton, resigned 1424°* 

 Robert Cutwolfe, resigned 1424°' 

 William Misterton, 1455*' 

 John Durham, 1461 "^^ 

 Thomas Gunthorp, 1467 '" 

 William Sandale, 1 504 " 

 John Blake, 1526 '^ 



8. THE PRIORY OF SHELFORD 



Shelford Priory, a house of Austin Canons, 

 was founded by Ralph Haunselyn or Hauselin,^ 

 in the reign of Henry II. In a suit between 

 William Bardolf and Adam de Everingham in 

 1258 for the patronage of this priory, the former 

 pleaded that his ancestor Ralph Hauselin, 

 whose heir he was, in the time of the then 

 king's grandfather founded the priory and en- 

 feoffed it of all his lands in Shelford and else- 

 where, and of the advowson of certain churches. 

 Adam, on the contrary, asserted that Robert de 

 Caus, his ancestor, was founder, because the 

 canons presented a certain person to John de 

 Birkin (Adam's grandfather), whose heir he was. 

 The prior himself could not say who was patron, 

 as he had one charter by which Ralph Haunselin 

 founded the priory, another by which Robert de 

 Caus gave lands to ' his monks {sic) ' of Shelford, 

 and a third recording a joint grant by Ralph and 

 Robert. The litigants each held a moiety of 

 the barony of Shelford,^ but the jury decided in 

 favour of Bardolf, declaring that Ralph Hauselin 

 was the true founder.' 



The Taxation Roll of 1291 sets forth the 

 income of the house : in spiritualities, the church 

 of Saxondale £^, part of the church of Musk- 

 ham ;^I0 13^. 4^., and pensions from the 

 churches of Shelford, Burton Joyce, and Gedling 

 £1 2s. ; and in temporalities, in various parts of 

 the county, £2 2 J. 11^., making a total income 



The Falor Ecclesiasticus of 1534 shows a 

 great rise in the annual value of this house ; the 

 gross income is entered at j^ 1 5 1 14^. id., and 



«* Ibid. fol. 24 ; Pat. 7 Hen. IV, pt. ii, m. 3. 



" Dugdale, Mon. vi, 474. 



«'Harl. MS. 6972, fol. 25. 



«' Ibid. ; Pat. 2 Hen. VI, pt. iii, m. 12. 



^ Harl. MS. 6972, fol. 30. 



«' Ibid. ; Pat. I Edw. IV, pt. i, m. 14. 



'» Harl. MS. 6972, fol. 34 ; Pat. 7 Edw. IV, 

 pt. ii, m. 19. 



" Harl. MS. 6972, fol. 42. 



" Ibid. fol. 46. 



' Forms which represent the ' Alselin ' of Domes- 

 day. In many printed records and some MSS. it is 

 given as Hanselin. 



^ The Domesday fief of Geoffrey Alselin. 



» Coram Rege, Mich. 14 Edw. II, m. 153. 



* Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 310, 310^, 312, 



338. 



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