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title="Augustinians">Augustinian</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">c.1174</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Disestablished</th><td class="infobox-data">1538</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Dedicated to</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Becket" title="Thomas Becket">Saint Thomas the Martyr</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#E663CA; color:black;">People</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Gerard fitz-Brian</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#E663CA; color:black;">Site</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label">near <a href="/wiki/Stafford" title="Stafford">Stafford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Priory_of_St._Thomas_near_Stafford&params=52.8037_N_2.0748_W_region:GB_source:wikidata-and-enwiki-cat-tree_type:landmark"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">52°48′13″N</span> <span class="longitude">2°04′29″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">52.8037°N 2.0748°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">52.8037; -2.0748</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Public access</th><td class="infobox-data">Yes</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Priory of St. Thomas near Stafford</b> was an <a href="/wiki/Augustinians" title="Augustinians">Augustinian</a> <a href="/wiki/Monastery" title="Monastery">religious house</a> near <a href="/wiki/Stafford" title="Stafford">Stafford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>. Founded sometime in approximately 1174, it was a surrendered to <a href="/wiki/The_Crown" title="The Crown">the Crown</a> in 1538, during the <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Dissolution of the Monasteries">Dissolution of the Monasteries</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Priory_of_St._Thomas_near_Stafford&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foundation_and_early_history">Foundation and early history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Priory_of_St._Thomas_near_Stafford&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Foundation and early history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The priory was found sometime between 1173 and 1175, by one Gerard fitz-Brian, a local landowner and <a href="/wiki/Burgess_(title)" title="Burgess (title)">burgess</a>, and settled by canons from <a href="/wiki/Darley_Abbey" title="Darley Abbey">Darley Abbey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a>. The foundation can be dated thanks to fitz-Brian's foundation charter, which was witnessed by Ralph, Archdeacon of Stafford who ceased to hold office in 1175. The priory was also dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Becket" title="Thomas Becket">Saint Thomas Beckett</a>, who was not canonized until 1173.<sup id="cite_ref-UK_History_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UK_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fitz-Brain's original grant to the priory included 70 acres of land around the <a href="/wiki/River_Sow" title="River Sow">River Sow</a> and use of property in Stafford, subject to an annual rent of 8 shillings. At some point the <a href="/wiki/Patronage" title="Patronage">patronage</a> of the priory was transferred to <a href="/wiki/Richard_Peche" title="Richard Peche">Richard Peche</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Lichfield_and_Coventry" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry">Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry</a>. Peche resigned his <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_see" title="Episcopal see">episcopal see</a> in 1182 and joined the brothers at the priory, being buried there the following year. Successive Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry would remain patrons of the house.<sup id="cite_ref-UK_History_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UK_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Throughout the 12th century, the priory accepted numerous gifts of land from the bishops and other local gentry and landowners. Bishop Peche gifts the house land in <a href="/wiki/Lichfield" title="Lichfield">Lichfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cannock" title="Cannock">Cannock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baswich" title="Baswich">Baswich</a>, as well as the rights to fish on the rivers Sow and <a href="/wiki/River_Penk" title="River Penk">Penk</a>. From the local landowners, such as the de Mutton family of <a href="/wiki/Ingestre_Hall" title="Ingestre Hall">Ingestre Hall</a>, they received land grants in <a href="/wiki/Tixall" title="Tixall">Tixall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stone,_Staffordshire" title="Stone, Staffordshire">Stone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Donisthorpe" title="Donisthorpe">Donisthorpe</a>. The priory also purchased manors of its own, such as the manors of Drayton, bought in 1194 for 35 marks, and Maer.<sup id="cite_ref-UK_History_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UK_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1245 <a href="/wiki/Henry_III_of_England" title="Henry III of England">Henry III</a> gave the house a gift of £10 to buy a <a href="/wiki/Chasuble" title="Chasuble">chasuble</a> <i>"of red <a href="/wiki/Samite" title="Samite">samite</a> with <a href="/wiki/Orphrey" title="Orphrey">Orphreys</a>"</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-UK_History_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UK_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Late_middle_ages">Late middle ages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Priory_of_St._Thomas_near_Stafford&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Late middle ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>St. Thomas near Stafford continued to grow during the late Middle Ages and it was one of the wealthier houses of the order in Staffordshire. In 1300, Geoffrey de Gresley, a companion of <a href="/wiki/Robert_de_Ferrers,_6th_Earl_of_Derby" title="Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby">Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby</a>, gave the priory rent of 10s. annually from a mill at Bupton, <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a>. They also received the <a href="/wiki/Advowson" title="Advowson">advowson</a> of the churches of <a href="/wiki/Weston-on-Trent" title="Weston-on-Trent">Weston-on-Trent</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bushbury" title="Bushbury">Bushbury</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-UK_History_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UK_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 1347 visit by <a href="/wiki/Roger_Northburgh" title="Roger Northburgh">Roger Northburgh</a>, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, showed that frequent absences of the subprior had led to a lack of discipline among the brothers. The monks were found to be keeping hounds, hunting with local laymen and wearing lay clothing. Some monks were found to be sleeping outside of the priory dormitories. The bishop levied severe restrictions on the monks, ruling that his decrees should be read in chapter throughout the year. Later visits in 1518 and 1524 confirm similar indiscretions on behalf of the brothers and similar decrees were provided by the visitors.<sup id="cite_ref-UK_History_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UK_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dissolution">Dissolution</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Priory_of_St._Thomas_near_Stafford&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Dissolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a> broke with the church in Rome in 1534, making himself supreme head of the church in England and in 1535 he commissioned the <i><a href="/wiki/Valor_Ecclesiasticus" title="Valor Ecclesiasticus">Valor Ecclesiasticus</a></i>, a survey of the finances of the church in England, Wales and English controlled parts of Ireland. The <i>Valor Ecclesiasticus</i> shows that the priory's possessions were worth a total of £180 18s.9½d and it had a net income of £141 13s. 21/6d, which made it the wealthiest Augustinian priory in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-UK_History_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UK_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Unlike a number of religious houses, the priory avoided <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries" title="Dissolution of the monasteries">dissolution</a> in 1536, with payment of a fine of £133 6s. 8d to the Crown. The payment of such a large fine proved difficult and the prior was forced to pay in installments. By 1538, the prior had surrendered the house to the Crown, in exchange for an annual pension of £26 13s. 4d. The brothers received pensions of between £5-6. In October 1539, the priory was granted to <a href="/wiki/Rowland_Lee_(bishop)" title="Rowland Lee (bishop)">Rowland Lee</a>, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, passing to his nephew Brian Fowler on his death.<sup id="cite_ref-UK_History_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UK_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Remains">Remains</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Priory_of_St._Thomas_near_Stafford&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Remains"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By the late 20th century, little remained of the Priory of St. Thomas near Stafford. A farm was built on the site and a number of the conventual buildings were incorporated into the farm structures. The ruins of the priory church and parts of the rectangular cloister are extant. Nothing remains of the eastern side of the cloister nor the <a href="/wiki/Chapter_house" title="Chapter house">chapter house</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-UK_History_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UK_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Burials">Burials</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Priory_of_St._Thomas_near_Stafford&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Burials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_de_Ferrers,_6th_Earl_of_Derby" title="Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby">Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Peche" title="Richard Peche">Richard Peche</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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