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BOLTON PRIORY.
St. Cuthbert the bilhop ; and Cecilia, in her widowhood, gave
for the fouls of her hufband, and Ranulph and Matthew, her
fons, her whole lordlhip of Childewick, with the mill and foke
thereof, as alfo of Siglefden and Harwood, with the fuit thereof.
Alice de Romeli, their daughter, wife of William Fitz-Duncan
(i Henry II., 1151), tranflated thefe canons from Emefey to
Bolton, which fhe gave the monks in exchange for other lands
of theirs ; fhe being heirefs to their founders, confirmed to them
all their grants, and further granted free chace in her chace in
Craven. King Edward II. (reg. 5,) having all their lands given
by their feveral benefactors recited before him, confirmed them
to them. This priory was a cell in fome refpeCt to that of
Huntington, till it was difcharged of that fubjeCtion by Pope
Celeftine HI. The prior and convent granted to John de la
Infula, or Lifle, Lord of Rougmont, a liberty to found a chantry
of fix chaplains in the church of Harwood, for the maintenance
of which he gave one acre of land, and the advowfon of the
faid church, for the good of his foul, and thofe of his anceftors.
In the reign of king Richard II. (anno. 20), that king granted a
licenfe to Richard de Scrope, knight, to found a chantry of fix
chaplains, of whom one to be the Cuftos, in his caftle of Bolton,
and to endow the fame with a yearly rent of ^43. 6s. 8d.
Other benefaCtors of this houfe were William Vavafor, who
gave to thefe monks a carucate and a half of land, with the
appurtenances of Fedon ; Simon Braam, who gave them a
bovate of land in Over-Yeden; and Alice Wentworth, one
bovate of land in Wentworth. This priory was furrendered
to King Henry VIII.’s vifitors, in 1539, by Richard Moon, then
prior, when it was found worth ^212. 3-r. \d. per annum.
Here the reader has the whole fkeleton hiftory of the priory
of Bolton, near Skipton-in-Craven, in the ftyle which down to
near our own time prevailed amongft topographers ; and which
BOLTON PRIORY.
St. Cuthbert the bilhop ; and Cecilia, in her widowhood, gave
for the fouls of her hufband, and Ranulph and Matthew, her
fons, her whole lordlhip of Childewick, with the mill and foke
thereof, as alfo of Siglefden and Harwood, with the fuit thereof.
Alice de Romeli, their daughter, wife of William Fitz-Duncan
(i Henry II., 1151), tranflated thefe canons from Emefey to
Bolton, which fhe gave the monks in exchange for other lands
of theirs ; fhe being heirefs to their founders, confirmed to them
all their grants, and further granted free chace in her chace in
Craven. King Edward II. (reg. 5,) having all their lands given
by their feveral benefactors recited before him, confirmed them
to them. This priory was a cell in fome refpeCt to that of
Huntington, till it was difcharged of that fubjeCtion by Pope
Celeftine HI. The prior and convent granted to John de la
Infula, or Lifle, Lord of Rougmont, a liberty to found a chantry
of fix chaplains in the church of Harwood, for the maintenance
of which he gave one acre of land, and the advowfon of the
faid church, for the good of his foul, and thofe of his anceftors.
In the reign of king Richard II. (anno. 20), that king granted a
licenfe to Richard de Scrope, knight, to found a chantry of fix
chaplains, of whom one to be the Cuftos, in his caftle of Bolton,
and to endow the fame with a yearly rent of ^43. 6s. 8d.
Other benefaCtors of this houfe were William Vavafor, who
gave to thefe monks a carucate and a half of land, with the
appurtenances of Fedon ; Simon Braam, who gave them a
bovate of land in Over-Yeden; and Alice Wentworth, one
bovate of land in Wentworth. This priory was furrendered
to King Henry VIII.’s vifitors, in 1539, by Richard Moon, then
prior, when it was found worth ^212. 3-r. \d. per annum.
Here the reader has the whole fkeleton hiftory of the priory
of Bolton, near Skipton-in-Craven, in the ftyle which down to
near our own time prevailed amongft topographers ; and which