Marrick Priory

Reference No:
U DDCA2/29
Dates:
1154-1838
Description:

This collection of charters and other muniments of the priory was published in 'Collectanea topographica et genealogica', Vol. 5, pp. 100 - 124 and 221 - 258 (1838). A photocopy of the relevant pages is with the collection. They were then in possession of Martin Farquhar Tupper of Lincoln's Inn. Their location in that publication is indicated by the numbers in brackets (e.g. (101/1) is the document numbered 1 on page 101). Certain of the published documents are either from secondary sources or are now missing. Five of the items published are now in the Brotherton Library in Leeds which holds a complementary archive for Marrick Priory. Some of the documents also appear in 'Early Yorkshire Charters : Honour of Richmond. Pts. I and II. Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series. Extra Series Vols. IV and V. 1935 - 1936'. References to the latter are given as e.g. (EYC V/173).

DDCA2/29 contains the founding gift of the priory by Roger de Aske 1154-8 and a number of confirmation charters as well as a gift by Robert de Brus of a toft in Hartlepool in the mid-twelfth century. Most of the later charters also take this form thus indicating the property owned by the priory as well as income pledged by local families.

DDCA2/29/108 is a rare survival - an acount roll of Cicely de Blakeston, bursar, Agnes Gower, sacrist and Agnes de Wenslaw, granger, covering the period Michaelmas 1415 to Michaelmas 1416. This has been translated by John Tillotson and published in his account of the convent: Marrick Priory: a nunnery in late medieval Yorkshire (1989). Some rentals also survive for 1457, 1497 and 1511.

Post-reformation material includes letters patent exempting the priory from dissolution in 1536 and the later crown lease of priory land in 1542. Title deeds, leases and bonds exist through to 1684. DDCA2/29/134 is a copy of the 1838 publication of the charters in Nichols.

Extent:
132 items, 2 bundles
Language:
English Latin
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Papers of the Stapleton (incorporating Errington and Tempest) Family, Lords Beaumont, of Carlton Towers