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Small Benedictine house in Spalding, Lincolnshire
The priory precinct in a 17th-century engraving by
Wenceslas Hollar
Spalding Priory was a small
Benedictine house in the town of
Spalding ,
Lincolnshire , dedicated to
St Mary the Virgin and
St Nicholas .
It was founded as a cell of
Croyland Abbey , in 1052, by
Leofric, Earl of Mercia and his wife,
Godiva, Countess of Leicester . It was supported by Leofric's eldest son.
Ælfgār, Earl of Mercia and the monks were confirmed in their property in 1074, after the
Norman Conquest of England .
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Until 1220,
Alkborough Priory Cell was a dependency of Spalding.
After 1071 one monk only remained in Spalding, so the house was refounded in 1074 as a dependent priory of
St Nicholas's Abbey, Angers . The monks secured their independence from Angers in 1397, and remained so until 1540, when the house was surrendered at the dissolution. Six human skeletons found during building work in Bridge Street are presumed to indicate the site of the Priory burial ground.
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Priors
Its priors included
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Simon 1229–1252
James 1252–1253
John 1253–1274
At some time before 1278, there was a Wazinus.
William of Littleport 1278–1293
Clement 1293–1318
Walter de Halton 1318–1322 though he is reported as holding the post for 14 years.
Thomas de Nassington 1322–1353
Burials
See also
Monks Kirby Priory , in Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, also as an English Benedictine house subsidiary to St Nicholas at Angers, established in the wake of the Norman Conquest
Adalbert of Spalding , supposed author
References
Further reading
"The Priory of Spalding" , in William Page (ed.), A History of the County of Lincoln (London:
Victoria County History , 1906), pp. 118–124.
Bailey, Mark,
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Journal of Medieval History , vol. 15, no. 4 (1989), pp. 347–358.
Darby, H. C., The Medieval Fenland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940).
Gooch, E. H., A History of Spalding (Spalding:
Spalding Free Press , 1940).
Hallam, H. E. , "Goll Grange, a Grange of Spalding Priory", Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society Reports and Papers , vol. 5 (1953), pp. 1–18.
Hallam, H. E. , The New Lands of Elloe: A Study of Early Reclamation in Lincolnshire , Department of English Local History Occasional Papers, no. 6 (Leicester:
University College of Leicester , 1954).
Hallam, H. E. ,
"Some Thirteenth-Century Censuses" ,
The Economic History Review , 2nd series, vol. 10, no. 3 (1958), pp. 340–361.
Hallam, H. E. , Settlement and Society: A Study of the Early Agrarian History of South Lincolnshire (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press , 1965).
Hallam, H. E. ,
"Further Observations on the Spalding Serf Lists" ,
The Economic History Review , 2nd series, vol. 16, no. 2 (1963), pp. 338–350.
Hallam, H. E. ,
"The Agrarian Economy of South Lincolnshire in the Mid-Fifteenth Century" ,
Nottingham Medieval Studies , vol. 11 (1967), pp. 86–95.
Jones, E. D.,
"Going Round in Circles: Some New Evidence for Population in the Later Middle Ages" ,
Journal of Medieval History , vol. 15 (1989), pp. 329–345.
Jones, E. D.,
"A Few Bubbles More: The Myntling Register Revisited" ,
Journal of Medieval History , vol. 17, no. 3 (1991), pp. 263–269.
Jones, E. D.,
"Villein Mobility in the Later Middle Ages: the Case of Spalding Priory" ,
Nottingham Medieval Studies , vol. 36 (1992), pp. 151–166.
Jones, E. D., "The Medieval Merchet: A Late Contribution to the Debate",
Medieval History , vol. 2, no. 3 (1992), pp. 26–35.
Jones, E. D.,
"The Medieval Leyrwite: A Historical Note on Female Fornication" ,
English Historical Review , vol. 107 (1992), pp. 945–953.
Jones, E. D.,
"Research Notes: Summary Execution at Spalding Priory 1250–1500" ,
Journal of Legal History , vol. 16, no. 2 (1995), pp. 189–198.
Jones, E. D.,
"Medieval Merchets as Demographic Data: Some Evidence from the Spalding Priory Estates, Lincolnshire" ,
Continuity and Change , vol. 11, no. 3 (1996), pp. 459–470.
Jones, E. D.,
"Death by Document: A Re-Appraisal of Spalding Priory's Census Evidence for the 1260s" ,
Nottingham Medieval Studies , vol. 39 (1995), pp. 54–69.
Jones, E. D.,
"The Spalding Priory Merchet Evidence from the 1250 to the 1470s" ,
Journal of Medieval History , vol. 24, no. 2 (1998), pp. 155–175.
Jones, E. D.,
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Lincolnshire History and Archaeology , vol. 33, (1998), pp. 79–84.
Jones, E. D.,
"The Exploitation of its Serfs by Spalding Priory before the Black Death" ,
Nottingham Medieval Studies , vol. 43 (1999), pp. 126–151.
Jones, E. D.,
"Some Spalding Priory Vagabonds of the Twelve-Sixties" ,
Historical Research , vol. 73, no. 180 (2000), pp. 93–104.
Jones, E. D., "Spalding Priory and Its Serfs in the Fifteenth Century",
Lincolnshire History and Archaeology , vol. 35 (2000), pp. 64–68.
Jones, E. D.,
"The Spalding Priory Operarii in the Thirteenth Century" ,
Nottingham Medieval Studies , vol. 65 (2001), pp. 51–67.
Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. ,
"Antecessor Noster: The Parentage of Countess Lucy Made Plain" , Prosopon Newsletter , no. 2 (May 1995), pp. 1–3.
Liu, Wenxi,
"Competing for Justice Beyond Law Between Croyland and Spalding, 1189–1202" ,
Anglo-American Law Review , vol. 29, no. 1 (2000), pp. 67–96.
Mitchell, Rose, and David Crook,
"The Pinchbeck Fen Map: A Fifteenth‐Century Map of the Lincolnshire Fenland" ,
Imago Mundi , vol. 51, no. 1 (1999), pp. 40–50.
Russell, J. C.,
"Demographic Limitations of the Spalding Serf Lists" ,
The Economic History Review , vol. 15, no. 1 (1962), pp. 138–144.
Smith, Richard M. ,
"Hypothèses sur la nuptialité en Angleterre aux XIIIe –XIVe siècles" ,
Annales, Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations , vol. 38 (1983), pp. 107–136.
Smith, Richard M. , "Demographic Developments in Rural England, 1300–1348: A Survey", in
B. M. S. Campbell (ed.), Before the Black Death: Studies in the Crisis of the Early Fourteenth Century (Manchester:
Manchester University Press , 1991), pp. 25–78.
Sumner, Neal,
"The Countess Lucy's Priory? The Early History of Spalding Priory and its Estates" ,
Reading Medieval Studies , vol. 8 (1987), pp. 81–103.
Thirsk, Joan , Fenland Farming in the Sixteenth Century (Leicester:
Leicester University Press , 1953).