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Considerable
work has been expended by academics and historians on the history of the great
abbeys and monasteries that covered the English landscape since the Norman
Conquest. However, the same cannot be said about the lesser religious houses,
and even less so on nunneries.
In recent
times some attention has fallen on even the most humble of these priories, and
few were as humble as the Benedictine Priory of Thicket in the Ouse and Derwent
area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, a sparsely populated area that was
heavily wooded with low quality scrub and thickets and subject to frequent
flooding.
Thicket
Priory was founded before 1180, possibly as early as 1162, and survived until it
was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. Thicket followed the Rule of St. Benedict,
but also claimed to be of Cistercian Order, which was disputed and led to a
case before the Ecclesiastical Court of York. In order to understand the issues
at the heart of this case the background to the Benedictines and Cistercians is
briefly discussed in the opening chapter.
Most nunneries
in England during the medieval period were poor, and this was the case in the East
Riding of Yorkshire, where none came close to the GBP200 per annum threshold to
avoid the first wave of Dissolutions. Thicket was middling in income, having a
clear annual value of under GBP21 per annum.
It is hoped
that this monograph will add to the corpus of histories of these smaller religious
houses.
Contents
i. Preface
ii. Acknowledgements
iv. Abbreviations
v Bibliography and other Sources
1. Chapter 1 - The Benedictines
4. Chapter 2 - Foundation of Thicket Priory
25. Chapter 3 - The Construction of the Priory
31. Chapter 4 - The Economy of the Priory
36. Chapter 5 - Internal Community
57. Chapter 6 - External Community
77. Chapter 7 - Dissolution
