THE MONKS OF MARMOUTIER. 71 
moors are still there, and though the mill is gone the mill- 
lane exists, a name, however, which nobody seemed to be able 
to explain. 
The other place, Sturton Grange, also became the property 
of the Priory in every part of it. In one of the valuations 
made of the Priory possessions, there is a curious reference to 
this place. It mentions the value of the land, and then says 
that the sum is not great because the land was so rocky— 
“ petrosa." In late years the rocky nature of the land has 
been a fortune to its modern possessors, for on it are the 
valuable quarries, where the Huddlestone stone comes from, 
and at the present time the Church of Holy Trinity, its 
former owner, is being restored with this identical stone 
obtained at considerable cost. 
Of the possessions acquired subsequent to the date of the 
foundation charter, perhaps the earliest was the gift of the 
chapel of S. Martin at Allerton Mauleverer, about the year 
1100., At first this was intended to be a small religious House 
under the Priory of Holy Trinity, hut afterwards, about mo, 
the founder increased his original gift, and when he was a 
guest at Marmoutier, Allerton was made an independent 
I lioiy, subject only to Marmoutier, but no longer subordinate 
to Holy Trinity, of which House it had been a cell for the 
short period of 10 years. 
About this time another important gift was made to the 
Pnorv, a place called Hedley in the wood of Bramham. Here 
\\ as built a Church dedicated to S. Mary, and then it was 
convei ted into a dependent Priory of Holy Trinity, the cell of 
Hedley, which remained under the jurisdiction of the Alien 
Benedictines at \ ork until the suppression in 1414. But 
though suppressed as a Religious House, the property still 
continued to belong to the Priory at York right down to the 
dissolution in the time of Henry VIII. 
\ eiy little is known of the monks of Marmoutier either at 
Allerton or Hedley. I have gathered together a list of 6 of 
the Piiors of Allerton, but not one of Hedley have I been able 
to find, and only a possible name of one monk, Adam de 
Heddeley, who afterwards was appointed to the Rectory of 
Moor Monkton in 1338. 
