A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



to /^259 9;. 4fd. The chief deductions were 

 for stipends paid by the priory to chantry priests 

 at Southwell, Newark, RatclifFe on Soar, St. 

 Benedict's Lincoln, and to two each at the 

 Derbyshire churches of Chesterfield and Crich. 

 There was also an annual charge of obligatory 

 alms, at the cost of 0i 8j. \d. distributed to the 

 poor in meat, beer, and bread on the obit of 

 Ralph Deincourt the founder, and on the four- 

 teen following days.^^ 



In 1209 Innocent III licensed the priory of 

 Thurgarton, in the event of a vacancy in the 

 cure of souls of any church belonging to them, 

 to appoint three or four of their canons, one of 

 whom was to be instituted to that church by the 

 bishop.^^ 



Henry III in 1270 granted to the priory a 

 weekly market to be held on Tuesday, on their 

 manor of Fiskerton, and also a yearly fair there 

 on the feast of the Holy Trinity and the two 

 following days." 



In 1275 the prior claimed view of frank- 

 pledge in his manors of Thurgarton, Fiskerton, 

 Crophill, Owthorpe, Hickling, Granby, and 

 Sutton ; and assize of bread and ale in Hickling 

 and Harworth ; and that his villeins in Hawks- 

 worth, Granby, Cropwell Butler, Owthorpe, 

 Wiverton, and Tythby, should not do any suit 

 to the king's wapentake court of Bingham, for 

 which they produced a charter of Henry III of 

 the year 1234. Other claims, all of which were 

 substantiated, were for right of gallows at Thur- 

 garton and for the recently granted market and 

 fair at Fiskerton.^* 



Varying fragments of information can be 

 gleaned with regard to Thurgarton Priory from 

 the earlier episcopal registers at York.'' 



In 1228 Archbishop Gray confirmed to the 

 canons the grant made by Roger son of William 

 of the advowson of the church of Hawton." 

 Seven years later the archbishop granted to the 

 priory of Thurgarton, to assist them in their 

 laudable hospitality, a pension of two bezants 

 [bisencios) out of Hawton rectory." In 1234 

 the archbishop confirmed to the same priory the 

 small pension of 3;. 4^. out of the church of 

 Gotham.^ 



A strife of considerable duration between the 

 priory and canons of Thurgarton as rectors of 



" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 150-3. 



" Cal. of Papal Letters, i, 34. 



" Chart. R. 54 Hen. Ill, m. 4. 



" Plac. de Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 147, 414, 417, 

 418, 419, 422, 635. There are also numerous 

 references to the like claims in the Hundred Rolls. 



" The registers of Archbishops Gray and Giffard 

 have been printed by the Surtees Society. Through 

 the courtesy of Mr. W. Brown, hon. secretary of the 

 society, we have been able to consult proof sheets or 

 transcripts of the registers of Archbishops Wickwane 

 and Romanus. 



" York Epis. Reg. Gray, fol. 24. 



>' Ibid. fol. 68. » Ibid. fol. 66. 



Timberland of the one part, and the prior and 

 canons of St. Katherine's, Lincoln, of the other 

 part, concerning the turbary tithes of Timber- 

 land, was amicably settled in 1245. The Lin- 

 coln priory agreed that in each year when they 

 dug turf in Timberland marsh they would give 

 \zd. at Easter to the church of Timberland by 

 way of tithe for a certain piece of the mar>h 

 pertaining to that church, but that no tithe was 

 to be expected from them for other carefully 

 defined parts of the marsh which had been 

 specially assigned to St. Katherine's." 



About the same time another dispute between 

 the priory as rectors of Timberland with Simon 

 the vicar of Timberland and the priory of Kyme, 

 concerning tithes of wool and milk and of lambs 

 and calves of animals pasturing in the parish of 

 Timberland on lands which Walter son of 

 Walthof formerly held, was brought to a con- 

 clusion. The priory of Kyme covenanted to 

 pay to the church of Timberland 5^. yearly as 

 wool tithe for each 1 00 sheep, and 5x. yearly for 

 each 100 lambs at the feast of St. Margaret, and 

 7.d. for each cow and calf at Martinmas ; and 

 the priory of Thurgarton covenanted not to 

 exact any other small tithes from that land, nor 

 any share of wax-shot and blessed bread. *^ 



The commuting of tithes in kind for a money 

 payment was fairly common in the 13th cen- 

 tury. Thus an agreement was entered into 

 between this priory and the hospital of St. 

 Sepulchre, Lincoln, whereby the brethren of the 

 latter house covenanted to pay to Thurgarton the 

 annual sum of 271. in lieu of the tithes that 

 pertained to the churches of Kirkby and Scop- 

 wick for the lands which had been granted them 

 by the son and grandson of the founder of Thur- 

 garton.''' 



Robert de Chesney, Bishop of Lincoln 

 1147-66, confirmed to the priory the churches 

 of Branston, Hanworth, Timberland, Blankney, 

 Scawby, Kirkby, and Swayfield, and a similar 

 confirmation act as to these seven churches was 

 executed by St. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln 1186- 



1200.^ 



A dispute as to the church of Branston in 

 Lincoln diocese, which was brought to a head in 

 1236 by a papal decree, is dealt with at length 

 in the chartulary. The Prior and Convent of 

 Thurgarton sought from William de Marcham, 

 rector of Branston, 5 marks annually by way of 

 pension, which they had received of old from 

 that church, namely for the space of forty years 

 and more and which they alleged the rector had 

 detained for two years. The rector retorted 

 that if this payment had been made it was an 

 unjust action. The pope appointed as his com- 

 missioners the Abbot of De Pratis, the Dean of 

 Christianity, and the Master of the Schools of 

 Leicester, all of Lincoln diocese. The priory 



" Ibid. fol. 104^. 

 "Ibid. fol. 1323. 



" Ibid. fol. 105^. 

 " Ibid. fol. 145^. 



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