Monument record 638/1/2 - Bellow (Bekkelow)

{1}The survey of the former priory made in 1526 recorded a number of fishponds in the closes adjoining to the yard. In the close called the Bellow (presumably Bekkelow) was a motte called the round ab[ ] wherein lay ‘fyve small stewes for fysshe’. A ‘feyr fysshepole’ lay in the close called ‘the wey to the horse pole’ and there was another in the ‘dayhouse close’. All the pools were stored with fish.
In c. 1290 John of Daventry relaxed his rights in a wall behind the fishpond running from the house held by Bertrann of the monks in the Nether End, and granted permission to shut off a path between the granges and the garden next to the hospitale. Several other agreements of the late 13th century saw various parishioners of Daventry renouncing their rights of common pasture connected with the wall behind the fishpond. There was mention too of the concession to block the path between the hospitale and the cemetery. In about 1300 Walter fitz Robert quitclaimed to the priory (inter alia) the right to water all sorts of animals in the priory fishpond at the Norton end of Daventry so that the monks could enclose the pond at their will without objection from him or his heirs. Some fifteen years later he quitclaimed to the priory all his rights in a wall behind the monks’ fishpond running from his field to Bertrann’s house held of the monks in the Nether End. He also granted permission to wall in a path in Daventry between their granges and their garden running from their hospitium to the cemetery.

<1> Ballinger J.; Foard G., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Daventry (Medieval/Post Medieval/ Industrial), Section 3.1.2.2 Fishponds (checked) (Digital archive). SNN100501.

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May 28 2009 11:17AM