Prior of St Saviour, Holland Bridge (Bridge End). King. Prior of St Saviour, Holland...

Petitioners

Prior of St Saviour, Holland Bridge (Bridge End).

Addressees

King.

Occupation

Prior of St Saviour, Holland Bridge (Bridge End)

Nature of request

The prior requests grants in order to pay for the upkeep of the bridge at Holland Bridge. His lands are insufficient to meet the 100s per year cost, and he therefore requests a grant of pontage, and fairs to be held at the feast of St Mary Magdalene and the feast of St Philip and St James.

Nature of endorsement

He shall have pontage for five years on account of his poverty, [...].

Places mentioned

Holland Bridge (Bridge End), [Lincolnshire].

For another petition from this priory see SC 8/71/3504

For an earlier related petition, see SC 8/177/8810

• Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. V, 15 Edw III - 5 Hen V, 1341-1417, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.148 (grant to the prior of St Saviour of a weekly market and a fair on the feast of St Mary Magdalene) & p.155 (grant to the prior of a fair on the feast and morrow of St Luke and the feast and morrow of St Mary Magdalene)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. IX, 1350-1354, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.491 (grant to the prior of St Saviours of pontage for five years)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. X, 1354-1358, (Public Record Office, 1910), p.597 (grant of pontage to the prior of St Saviours for a further five years) & p.631 (grant of an aid of 40s per year for five years for the sustenance of the charges of the priory)