ECR 44

Reference code

ECR 44

Title

Thurlby, Lincolnshire

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Series

Administrative / Biographical history

The reversion of Thurlby rectory, in the wapentake of Nees, co. Lincoln, was granted to Eton College by letters patent of 30 August 1547. The premises were included in various properties exchanged with the crown in return for other properties granted to Henry VIII by the Provost by deed of 20 December 1546, and in fulfilment of Henry VIII's will and of a tripartite Indenture of 1 June 1547 between the King of the first part, the Protector Somerset and the other executors of the will of the second part and the Provost of the third part. The church of St Firmin's Thurlby, had formerly belonged to the Benedictine nunnery of St Mary and St Michael, Stamford, of which it had been part of the founder's endowment.
John Newborough, headmaster from 1690 to 1711, by his will, bequeathed the Fellows £1000 to buy lands for the augmenting of any two of the poorer College vicarages viz. of a value of not more than £30 a year. The Fellows unanimously chose the vicarages of Asthall and Thurlby.