According to S. Thompson, a probable founder of this community is Bishop Roger de Clinton (Women Religious: The Founding of English Nunneries After the Norman Conquest, 219). Although there is no direct evidence to support this, the manor of Brewood was among the episcopal possessions, and it is probable that the site was granted by Roger (Women Religious: The Founding of English Nunneries After the Norman Conquest, 197).
There were 5 nuns her in spite of the low income in 1535. There were a prioress and 3 nuns in 1538. One of these remaining nuns, Felicia Bageshawe, had previously been transferred from Farewell Priory after its dissolution in 1527. Farewell
This community is a dependency of [27001] Blackborough. (needs verification)
In 1535 the net income was over 11 pounds.
Nothing of the priory survives.
Women Religious: The Founding of English Nunneries After the Norman Conquest;
Medieval Religious Houses in England and Wales, 210.
The Priory of the Black Ladies of Brewood, Co. Stafford: Some Charters, Records and Notes on the Same
Dugdale's Monasticon Volume 4
Nunnery of "The Black Ladies of Brewood," corruptly called Brewerne, in Staffordshire online ">http://www.monasticmatrix.org/MatrixTextLibrary/mm-s12230-dugdalew-black... [Dugdale's Monasticon]
The Victoria History of the County of Stafford2:220-22 available online ">http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=37844&strquery=Brewood"> [Victoria County History]
foundation date : at the age of Richard I. Brewood was terminated in 1538 and the prioress was ordered to hand its lands and rents to Dr. Thomas Legh. The site and precinct of the priory (including the church, the surrounding churchyard, pastures and water-mill) were subsequently sold to Thomas Giffard of Stretton in 1539.
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