Founded by Peter of Billinghay.
Margaret Gastwek, occurs 1538.
There were 60 females and 35 monks in 12th century. There were 5 females and 3 monks in 1538. There were 4 canons in 1377.
It received [?] 7 sacks annually and parts of knight's fee.
One of the poorest Gilbertine houses.
They were considered poor in 1254. It held spiritualities amounting to about 20 pounds and temporalities amounting to 30 pounds. In 1291 the income from temporalities was under 34 pounds. It held lands in Bilingey and Walcot (Dugdale).
In 1338 the community sufferred serious financial difficulties. There were fires. The murrain loss of tenants. In 1535, the community's net income was estimated to be over 34 pounds.
It received 7 sacks annually and parts of knights' fee.
There was a thirteenth-century oval shaped seal which depicted the Virgin on a throne with a crown with the holy child on her left knee. To the right of the base there is a prior kneeling in prayer below an arch. The legend reads:S . PRIORATUS . DE . CATTELE.
Medieval Religious Houses in England and Wales, 171.
Transcripts of the Charters Relating to the Gilbertine Houses of Sixle, Ormsby, Catley, Bullington, and Alvingham
The Victoria History of the County of Lincoln2:196-97 available online at ">http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38036&strquery=catley"> [Victoria County History]
Foundation date : in the age of Stephen, according to Oliva.
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Assets/Properties--I have read spirit and temp to refer to spiritualities and temporalities. I have reinterpreted the word Latin in Assets/Properties to possibly refer to pounds. {i.e. from L= meaning not Latin, but referring to the British pound} Is this plausible????? YES!!! See Knowles and Hadcock, which mentions temporalities!!!!
