Men of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire : being biographical notices of five hundred men and women who were born, or worked, or abode, or died in the county or city of Nottingham, and who, in some way, were distinguished for usefulness to others / by Robert Mellors.
- Mellors, Robert, 1835-
- Date:
- 1924 [i.e. 1925]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Men of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire : being biographical notices of five hundred men and women who were born, or worked, or abode, or died in the county or city of Nottingham, and who, in some way, were distinguished for usefulness to others / by Robert Mellors. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![also if he lamed the horse, pricked him, or shod him strait, etc. And if an army should be in Wales, he was to do service according to the quantity of two carucates (? 240 acres) of land, and likewise for homage, that is, when he acknowledged the King as his sovereign, and promised faithful service. Gamelbere died without an heir, and so the land became forfeited to the King. (Henry I. 1100-1135). The point of interest in this case is that it shows that at the Conquest all the old owners were not dis¬ possessed, and we had better assume that Gamelbere lived a good life, and that the shoeing was well done. [Dukery Records]. THE FOUNDERS OF THE MONASTERIES, or Religious Houses in Nottinghamshire, and their Archi¬ tects, Dean Hole—adopting the sentiments expressed by Lord Macaulay—says, deserve commendation for estab¬ lishing institutions which they designed to perpetuate religion, charity, quietness, the cultivation of arts of beauty, and other beneficial purposes in the midst of unfavourable surroundings of violence and ignorance and squalid poverty. These were noble aspirations, and they cannot be charged with the evils that arose in the gener¬ ations after their decease. So here follow notices of several of such men. WILLIAM de PEVEREL, (d. 1113) First Gover¬ nor of Nottingham Castle, which had been a stockaded fortress, but would, about 1068, on the coming of the Conqueror, be built in Norman style,—“ a style that was unknown before.” William Peverel is said to have been an illegitimate son of the Conqueror, but this is discredited and it is believed that there is no proof thereof. In 1103-8 he founded Lenton Priory in honour of the Holy Trinity, and for love of the divine worship, and the common remedy for souls; and he gave very large donations of towns, mills, woods, tithes, churches, lands, villeins, etc. We must therefore give him credit for thankfulness to God, and the desire to promote the welfare of the people. This appreciation must apply to other founders and benefactors of monasteries.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31353289_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
