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283:, at New Year, 1400, but were captured and executed. Holland's body was eventually recovered and, in 1412, re-buried in the charterhouse that he had founded. Orphaned by these events of its founder and bereft of the income that had been granted to it by Holland and King Richard, Mount Grace was obliged to depend upon royal largesse for its income for more than a decade.
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Lincolnshire, £164 from lands outside Yorkshire and the rest from its home county of Yorkshire. In December 1539 the brothers were awarded pensions totalling £195 – £60
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Sargent, Michael G., ed., 2005: "Nicholas Love. The Mirror of the
Blessed Life of Jesus Christ: A Full Critical Edition, based on Cambridge University Library MSS Additional 6578 and 6686, with Introduction, Notes and Glossary." Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press.
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Lockington – Prior from 1421 to 1447 (given in "The typescript List of Obiits of the Carthusians of the English Houses") ("The Houses of Carthusian Monks..." shows "Thomas, occurs 1428" and "Thomas Lockington, occurs 1436, 1437, 1439" as separate
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was lost, soon after Henry's accession, the king granted the monks £100 a year from the
Exchequer until they were able to get lands of equivalent value (£1,000) and a barrel of the 'better red wine of Gascony' to be received at
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The monastery consisted of a church and two cloisters. The Great
Cloister, to the north of the church, had seventeen cells for monks ("choir monks") whilst the southern Lesser Cloister had six cells for the lay brothers.
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Carthusian monks: Priory of Mount Grace lists a number of the priors of the house, together with the years they are known to have held office. It might not be correct, as the first two entries could be
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The monks at Mount Grace were very conscious of hygiene and sanitation; included in the reconstructed cell is a reconstructed latrine and visitors are able to investigate the ditches used as sewage systems.
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724:"Mount Grace Priory – History and Stories"
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985:Howse, Christopher (29 June 2007).
666:William (?) Fletcher, occurs 1532–3
660:Henry Eccleston, occurs 1501, 1506
290:Coat of arms of Mount Grace priory
277:eventual murder of King Richard II
246:Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey
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900:Smith, David M. (13 March 2008).
869:"THE ARCHIVE OF BERMONDSEY ABBEY"
783:"Manuscript in 'Ingilby Records'"
605:Priors and rectors of Mount Grace
103:, Earl of Kent and Duke of Surrey
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752:"Mount Grace Priory (site plan)"
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961:"History of Mount Grace Priory"
934:Flood, Alison (20 March 2014).
22:House of Mount Grace of Ingelby
1259:1398 establishments in England
1244:Monasteries in North Yorkshire
906:. Cambridge University Press.
651:Robert Leke, occurs 1469, 1473
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331:The priory from the south-west
218:North York Moors National Park
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431:(part of the alien priory of
275:Following the abdication and
1065:"Explore Mount Grace Priory"
663:John, occurs 1527–8, 1531–2
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1011:Greene, J Patrick (2005).
669:John Wilson, occurs 1537–8
641:Robert Layton, occurs 1421
654:Thomas, occurs 1475, 1476
648:Robert, occurs 1449, 1454
500:The Book of Margery Kempe
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987:"Masterpiece of silence"
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561:Arts and Crafts movement
304:allowed him to nominate
224:Order, which existed in
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524:The Time Before You Die
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