Beauvale Charterhouse
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Beauvale Charterhouse (also known as Beauvale Priory) was a Carthusian monastery in Beauvale, Nottinghamshire.
It was founded in 1343 by Nicholas de Cantelupe in honour of the Blessed Trinity, for a prior and twelve monks.
The annual value of this monastery was just under £200, the limit for the suppression of the lesser monasteries; but by paying the heavy fine of £166 13s. 4d. the monks obtained the doubtful privilege of deferring the day of their dissolution. This bargain was effected on 2nd January 1537-8.
The surrender of this house and of all its possessions in the counties of Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, and Derbyshire, took place on 18th July 1539. It received the signatures of Thomas Woodcock (prior), and of seven other monks, John Langdale, William Welles, Alexander Lowthe, Edmund Garner, Robert Gowton (proctor), Thomas Leyghton, and Thomas Wallis.
[edit] List of priors
- William, occurs 1404
- Richard de Burton, occurs 1422, 1426
- Thomas Metheley, occurs 1468
- John Swift, occurs 1478
- Thomas Wydder, occurs 1482
- Nicholas Wartre, occurs 1486
- John Houghton (Martyr) 1531
- Robert Lawrence (Saint), executed 1535
- Thomas Woodcock, 16 December 1537 - surrender 1539
[edit] References
- ^ Location of Beauvale Priory. The Gatehouse.
