Newbo Abbey was a

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house of

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, dedicated to the

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. In the Middle Ages,

was one of the most densely populated parts of England. Within the historical county there were no less than nine

houses. Other than Newbo Abbey, these were:

Barlings Abbey Barlings Abbey, Lincolnshire, was a Premonstratensian monastery in England, founded in 1154, as a daughter house of the Abbey of St. Mary and St. Martial in Newsham. History Its founder was Ralph de Haye, son of the constable of Lincoln Castle ...

, Cammeringham Priory,

Hagnaby Abbey Hagnaby Abbey was an abbey and former priory in Hagnaby, Lincolnshire, England. It was founded as a house for Premonstratensian canons around 1175, by Agnes, widow of Herbert de Orreby. The priory was a dependency of Welbeck Abbey and named in ...

Newsham Abbey Newsham Abbey was an abbey in Newsham, a small hamlet north of Brocklesby village in Lincolnshire, England. Founded by Peter of Gousla in 1143, Newsham was a daughter house of the Abbey of Licques, near Calais, and the first Premonstratensian hous ...

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(women),

Stixwould Priory Stixwould Priory was a priory in Lincolnshire, England, a Cistercian nunnery founded by Lucy, countess of Chester, in 1135. The Mappa Mundi describes it as Gilbertine, but modern authors regard it as Premonstratensian. Originally suppressed in ...

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and

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Pogrom

Newbo was founded in about 1198 very close to

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by Richard de Malebisse or Malbis (died 1209). Malbis, as one of the judges itinerant of

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and heavily in debt to a Jewish banker, had instigated in 1190 a

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against the Jews of the city, which may have cost as many as 500 lives. (See the History section of

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and the page of

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, an eminent rabbi who was among the victims.)

Decline

''"In 1401, the monastery was almost depopulated by the results of pestilence and poverty. A licence had to be granted to the abbot in this year to admit twelve canons regular of the order, priests or in minor orders, who should be willing to transfer themselves to Newbo for their lifetime, or until more novices should come to the house. There was evidently some difficulty in finding enough to fill up the vacant places; for about the same time a further licence was granted to the abbot to dispense twelve secular persons from any kind of defect of birth, and to promote them to holy orders; they might hold benefices or any ecclesiastical dignities. The indulgence of the Portiuncula was granted at the same time to penitents visiting the conventual church and contributing to its repair. No doubt some time passed before the abbey recovered its numbers and prosperity; but by the end of the century all seems to have been fairly well."''

Suppression

Newbo was suppressed at Michaelmas 1536 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries by

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.History Online
British-history.ac.uk. Accessed 21 September 2022. He gave a lease to the courtier

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.Elizabeth Askren, 'Margery Horsman Lyster', ''A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen'' (Routledge, 2017), p. 478. Stone coffins were dug up in the area of the abbey in about 1920 by the then

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and are believed to be at present in

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,English Heritage
/ref> which is only about four miles from the site.

Abbots of Newbo

*Ralf, occurs 1227 *Matthew, occurs 1242 *William, elected 1276, occurs 1310 *Ralf, occurs 1401 *Simon of Mumby, elected 1406 *John, elected 1412 *William Gresley, occurs 1433 *William Bottesford, elected 1436 *Peter York, occurs 1475 to 1478 *John Mownckton, occurs 1482 to 1491 *John Colby, occurs 1494 to 1500 *William Broil, occurs 1522 *Richard Carre, last abbot, occurs 1529

Pogrom

Decline

Suppression

Abbots of Newbo

References

See also