RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



with many occasional visitors and guests, included 

 bread and corn, £() ; 80 quarters of barley for 

 brewing, ^^8 ; flesh, fish, and other necessaries 

 for the kitchen at 2s. 6d. a week, £6 lOs. ; oats 

 for the horses of the preceptor and guests, ^^5 ; 

 habits and clothing for the preceptor and his 

 confrater, 54^. 8d. ; stipend of the steward, 20;.; 

 stipend of the parochial chaplain, 26s. Sd. ; 

 clothing and salary of servants, 33^. 4^. ; two 

 boys of the preceptor, one cook boy, a swine- 

 herd, a cowherd, a carter, 5^ each, and three 

 pages, 20d. each ; repairs of the houses, 20s. ; the 

 two days' visitation of the prior, 40;., and archi- 

 diaconal fees, 145. The outgoings also included 

 four life pensions, which were a heavy charge on 

 the house, namely ;^iO a year to Henry de 

 Edwinstow, clerk of the king's chancery; 5 marks 

 to Sir John de Bolynbrock ; ^^20 to Sir Robert de 

 Silkeston ; and 5 marks to Brother Thomas de 

 Warrenne. These charges brought the total of 

 outgoings up to ^77 Js. ; this leaving a balance 

 of j^ 1 7 1 3^. 8^. for the general treasury of the 

 English ' language.' 



The two brothers then in charge of this 

 preceptory were Sir Nisius Waleys, the preceptor, 

 and Sir Thomas de Warrenne. 



At the camera of Winkburn there was a 

 manse with garden and dovecote, valued at 

 16s. 8d. ; arable land worth ;^I5, and meadow 

 and pasture, j6s. ; underwood (beyond that used 

 in the house), 28j. ; a windmill, 20s. ; assize 

 rents, ^^9 lis. 2d. ; customary labour and service, 

 45?. jd. ; and court pleas and perquisites, i6s. 8d. 

 The messuage of Danethorpe, with its lands, 

 meadows, and pasture, was let out to farm at the 

 annual rent of 10 marks. The appropriated 

 church of Winkburn, with the chapel of Maple- 

 beck, was of the yearly value of 25J marks ; 

 common pasture for twenty cows produced 4.0s., 

 and the same for 500 sheep 4.1s. The total 

 receipts and profits of the camera realized 93 

 marks 8j. 5^. 



The outgoings included a composition of 

 66f. %d. for tithes to the rector of Kneesall ; for 

 tithes and archidiaconal fees, 9^. 9<5? ; the 

 stipends of two chaplains for the church of 

 Winkburn and its chapel, 6of. There was also 

 a payment of \0s. a year for life to Richard de 

 Coppegrave,^^ who is also entered as a 'corrodian,' 

 that is in receipt of board and lodging. The 

 repairs of the house cost 6j. 8^., and a like sum 

 was expended on wax, wine, and oil for the 

 church and chapel. The expenses of the house, 

 that is for the sustenance of the preceptor or 

 warden, the chaplain, and household servants, 

 amounted to 6oj. ; for bread and corn, grain for 

 brewing, £4; kitchen expenses, 78^.; stipends 



" Richard de Coppegrave was ordained priest in 

 the church of Blyth by Archbishop GifFard on 

 20 September 1274 ; he must therefore at this time 

 have been eighty-eight years of age. York Epis. 

 Reg. GifFard, fol. 93. 



and clothing for five servants, 33^. ^d. ; robe, 

 mantle, &c., for the warden, 331. \d. ; and 2s. for 

 the warden's page. 



The sum of the expenditure came to 30 marks 

 8j. 5(/., leaving a balance of 60 marks for the 

 general treasury. Brother William Hustwayt 

 was at that time warden. 



Perhaps the most interesting item in these 

 accounts is the very large sum of ;^22 loj. 

 (fully ;^400 at the present value of money) 

 entered a.s confraria, which was collected through- 

 out the county of Nottingham yearly by the 

 two clerks appointed for that purpose. The 

 confraria was a voluntary contribution made by 

 the order throughout England, which Arch- 

 bishop Romayne commended to the clergy of this 

 county, as we have seen, in 1287. It seems to 

 have been collected by a house-to-house visita- 

 tion. The whole amount gathered in England 

 in 1338 amounted to about ^^900; so that 

 Nottinghamshire, when we consider its compara- 

 tively small size, contributed an exceptionally 

 large share to the fund for holding the infidels in 

 check. The Prior of St. John's, Clerkenwell, 

 visited each preceptory annually at the expense 

 of the house visited. 



The chief expense was the maintenance of 

 the household, and it should be remembered 

 that most of the provisions would be furnished 

 from the stock of the estate. In the hall were 

 three tables, the first for the preceptor, his 

 confrater and chaplain, and any corrodian of 

 good birth ; the second for the full servan's ; 

 and the third for the hinds or labourers. The 

 rule as to hospitality was a stringent one, and 

 guests or wayfarers would be placed at table 

 according to their station. In the stricter days 

 of the order there were never more than two 

 meals a day, and the food was moderate. The 

 two collectors attached to each bailiwick were 

 enjoined never to feed sumptuously when 

 entertained on their travels. When dark they 

 were always to carry a lanthorn, and to hold it 

 before them when entering a house. 



Maplebeck, a chapelry of Winkburn, had 

 originally belonged to the Templars.^^ Rents 

 at Sibthorpe, another Templar property, to the 

 value of 10 marks a year, were in 1338 some- 

 what strangely returned to the Lincoln bailiwick 

 of Temple Bruer. The transference of the 

 church of Sibthorpe is mentioned under the 

 college of that place. The rectory of Marnham 

 was at that date farmed, up to 1340, by Sir 

 Robert de Silkeston at 30 marks a year ; whilst 

 at Flawforth there was a messuage and a 

 plough-land let for life to Thomas de Sibthorpe 

 at 7 marks a year.^' 



From the Valor oi 1534 it appears that the 

 bailiwick of Ossington was then merged in the 

 larger one of Newland, Yorkshire, of which 



'' Larking, Knights Hospitallers in Engl. 158. 

 "Ibid. 161. 



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