(She lincoln 1Recorb S ociety (FO R T HE ANCIENT DIOCESE AND T HE CO UNTY O F L INCO LN) VO LU M E 1 8 TR AN S CR IPT S CHAR TE R S R E LAT ING T O GILBER T INE HO U S ES E DIT E D BY F M . STENTON T HE 'P U B L I C A T I O N S OF T HE lincoln 1Reco rb S ociety (FO R T HE ANCIENT DIOCESE AND T HE CO U NTY OF L INCO LN) FO UNDED IN THE Y EAR V OLUME 1 8 FOR T HE YEAR EN ING OT H SE PTEMB E R 1 2 0 D 3 , 9 T R A N S C R I P T S CH A R T E R S r e la tin g to the Gilb e r tin e Ho us e s ‘ S IX LE O R S G ' BU O , M BY , ATLEY , LLI N GT N , A ND A LV I N G H A M d e d w h a ran s at o n fr o m t he E it , it t l i , ’ ’ Ki ng s R e m e mb ran c e r s Me m o r an d a R o ll s No s. 1 8 1 8 a n d 1 8 3 , 5 , 7 M . A . M . F STENTON , . PR FE R F M ERN H T R U N VER L L EG E REA NG O SSO O OD IS O Y , I SITY CO , DI HO R NCAS T LE PRINTED FOR T HE LINCO LN R ECORD S OCIETY BY W N N 2 H GH S K. M R S REE . O TO O S , 7 , I T T CONTENTS PREFACE ERRATA I NTRODU CTION ix -xxxvi S IXLE PRIORY ORMSB Y PRIORY OAT LEY PRIORY BULL INGTON PRIORY A LV INGHAM PRIORY 1 02 - 1 1 3 — I NDEX I PERSONS AND PLACES — I NDEX II CO U NTIES AND CO UNTRIES — INDEX III SUBJ ECTS 1 63 - 1 67 PREFACE c whi c h f f c The harters ollow are printed in ull , with the pre ise c o f spelling and pun tuation the manuscript , but without any attempt to m f reproduc e its employment o f capital letters . For s o words which c ertain ly or probably a re mistakes o f the exchequer transcriber are indica ted by the addition o f [s ic] to such words . Contractions are W i . s c i n extended here the proper extension un ertain , it is printed ita lic exc ept in the fe w c ases where no plausible extension presents f m tr o f c . an sla itsel , when a mark ompendiu is added to the word The tion is intended to be a literal representation o f the Latin . It i s sometimes d ifficult to find appropriate equivalents fo r the tautological Of c i s phrases late thirteenth entury charters , but it hoped that a rendering o f the Latin word fo r word may be useful to those who wish c o f f to be me ac quainted with the ormulas O medieval documents . The c harters are numbered in the transcript from whi c h they are here f printed , and these numbers are ollowed in this text . My espec ial thanks are due to two people who have helped me to f f prepare this volume . My wi e has advised me throughout the writing O c o f i s the Introduction , mu h the translation in the text her work , and the c a f book ould not have ssumed its present orm without her assistan c e . C c hi s anon Foster has prepared the Index , whi h means that unique knowledge Of medieval Lin c olnshire topography is at the service o f f us e . those who this volume For mysel , I would express the hope that o f this book o f c harters may be only the first a series . No county has a L c a n d i n more interesting social history than in olnshire , regard to no o f county is social history illustrated by a greater number early, and as c . yet unpublished , do uments . S E O F M . T NT N . U C niversity ollege , Reading , 1 22 . 2 May, 9 ERRATA — d f l. o r n f R r ea R s o n s o o o . P xii , last f Gilbert obert obert Gilbert — . 1 o r Pre stw ald r ea d U , 5 f . ’ xv l Prestwold — 2 8 . 1 . U o r a a n st r ea d . ' , no l 3 , Engl f g against — U 2 . o r r ea d . ” 9 , no . l 3 , Engl f arms alms — . d A kth r . 2 E . o r r ea c o e l 7 , ngl f Authorpe p 1 — a d 0 . 8 . o r r . e . 3 , no , Engl f grandson nephew — 1 . o r r ea d . 3 , no . l 4 , Engl f arms alms ’ — d . 8 . r man n r r r ea . 1 o e 34 , no l , Engl f manner — 1 Lat r lllb t ea d b r ti . G e e r i r Gille e 2 . o 4 , no 3 , f — l n s 2 d c io . 1 . o r r ea s 47 , no . l . , Engl f sellions d 8 . 2 o r r ea 3 , no note depopulated nearly depopulated — r P r ea d P . 8 . 2 . o 9 , no l , Engl f hillip hilip — 1 w itn e s se r ea d . 1 00 . 2 . o r , no . l , Engl f witness — f c . te r i nse r t o 1 0 . a 7 , no l 4 , Engl f soul and that Ela my ountess — 1 1 6 s v f a dd S . Al red ee Glentham — 1 1 8 a dd Azo . See Grainthorpe . — d o f o f 1 2 a d C . 3 onan s John s Mengi , 55 ‘ 1 24 C r o sh o lm fo r 8 r ea d 1 0 1 . d ro st s witn 8 . a d . C e e . , Wm de , , — 1 2 a dd . o f . o f . U 7 Garsa dau John s Mengi , 5 5 ‘ INT R O D U CTI O N NC R E AS ING expenses and a falling revenue c ompelled Henry IV , eight times in his Short reign , to Obtain extra ordinary grants O i money from Parliament and Convocation . The charters o f whi c h Copies are printed in this book were Shown to the barons of the Exchequer by the attorney Of five Lincolnshire o f o f G O monasteries the Gilbertine order , the priories atley , rmsby , S ix le Alvingham , , and Bullington , which claimed that their posses c sions were exempt from such taxation . The Ex hequer allowed the claim . The charters which had been submitted as evidence were ’ enrolled upon the Memoranda Roll o f the King s Remembrancer with a record o f the circumstances which had led to their produ c tion . O n I O 1 0 6 C May , 4 , the Canterbury onvocation granted to the o f king a tenth all ecclesiastical property , with the stipulation that the possessions of poor nuns and of the Hospitallers should be . O n 1 0 exempt the morrow of the Close of Easter , 4 7 , William O f C a tle Ward , as attorney for the nuns y , appeared at the Exchequer to complain that although the nuns had been certified poor by the o f d . bishop Lincoln , their possessions had nevertheless been taxe ‘ The taxation had proceeded on the ground that in the roll o f the ’ n o w particulars Of the taxation , that is , in the record called the ' ' ' Tax a tzo P a as N ze zola z p é , these possessions were entered under the name o f the prior a n d not under the name of the nuns o f Gatley . It ’ fo r t o was therefore William Ward , the nuns attorney , Show that these possessions had been expressly granted to the nuns by the charters Of their founders and benefactors . With this object he submitted the twenty - nine c harters which form the C a tle y series in the present volume and were transcribed consecutively at this point c in the re ord of the proceedings . The case for the nuns was then continued by the argument that they and their predecessors had been seised Of these possessions ‘ ’ from the time o f gift . The brethren mentioned in the charters had never formed a eo n v en tus ; they were always removable at the will of the master Of S e mpr i n gh a m ; and apart from their personal requirements in food and c lothing they held nothing o f this property us e ffi o f except to the and profit o f the nuns . The o cials the Exc hequer thereupon examined the roll of the particulars o f the taxation and recorded the parts o f the roll relating to the priory o f C a tle y .