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Pontefract Priory

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later, undated, visitation return gives the average number of monks at 20. Duckett prints a letter from Stephen, Prior of Pontefract in 1323, to Pierre, Abbot of Cluny, explaining that he had been prevented from making a visitation of the English Cluniac houses, owing to the presence of the king and court at
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In the Visitation Records it had 16 monks in 1262, and 27 in 1279. At the latter date a prior of exceptional ability was in charge of the house, and he is commended for his zeal during the twelve years of his rule, which had resulted in a reduction of the monastery's debts from 3200 marks to 350. A
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In the valor ecclesiasticus of 26 Henry VIII, the yearly revenue of the priory is entered as £472 16s. 10½d. gross, and £337 14s. 8½d. clear value. The last prior, James Thwayts, with seven brethren and one novice surrendered the monastery to the king,
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had been beheaded at Pontefract, and his body buried in the priory church "on the right hand of the high altar". Rumour declared that miracles had been wrought at the tomb. This attempt to regard the earl as a martyr aroused the anger of
72:. In a charter of Henry de Lacy, 4th Baron of Pontefract, son of Robert, the church is spoken of as dedicated to St. Mary and St. John. These donations were finally confirmed to the monastery by a Bull of Pope Celestine (whether 396: 406: 109:
was built on the site of the execution and, in 1343, license was given to the prior and Convent of Pontefract "to allow Masses and other Divine Services" to be celebrated there.
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Monasticon Cluniacense: Charters and Records among the Archives of the Ancient Abbey of Cluni, from 1077 to 1534
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Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbies and other Monasteries, etc.
134: 102: 33: 261: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the 171:'Houses of Cluniac monks: Priory of Pontefract', in W. Page (ed.), 20: 92:, which prevented his leaving home. In the previous year (1322) 101:, who impounded the offerings. However, not long after, a 397:
Christian monasteries established in the 11th century
205:'Priory of Pontefract, in Yorkshire', in W. Dugdale, 179:(British History Online, accessed 14 November 2017). 407:
Monasteries dissolved under the English Reformation
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Cluniac
St. John the Evangelist
Robert de Lacy
Yorkshire
dissolution of the monasteries
Monk-hill
Abbey of la Charité-sur-Loire
William Dugdale
II
III
ecclesiastical privileges
Pontefract
Thomas, Earl of Lancaster
Edward II of England
chantry
St. Thomas
Ilbert II de Lacy
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
Thurstan
Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster
Henry VIII of England
pp. 184–86
(Wordpress, 19pp, 2013)
pp. 118–31
pp. 150–54
public domain
Pontefract Priory
Catholic Encyclopedia
William Dugdale

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