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56: 974: 40: 349:) and returned to the Tower until 4 May when they were taken to Tyburn for execution. The execution was made deliberately more "ghastly and revolting" to show the King's power and deter others. Prior Lawrence was executed wearing his monk's habit. The rope used to hang him was larger than usual to avoid fatally strangling him; thus ensuring he was still alive when he was butchered and mutilated, before finally being "quartered" (chopped into 4 pieces). 63: 477:, because of the range of features that survive, and their rarity value, for Beauvale was one of only nine Carthusian houses to be built in England. The monks were well respected, because they maintained their austere standards until the Dissolution. The site was one of the first to receive scheduled monument protection, on 10 April 1915, and the individual buildings were granted 333:, Lawrence's predecessor as Prior at Beauvale. Prior Lawrence was interrogated on 20 April but declared he could "not take our sovereign lord to be supreme head of the Church, but him that is by God the head of the Church, that is the bishop of Rome, as Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine teach". The three Carthusians and a Brigittine monk from 373:
Beauvale Priory was finally surrendered for dissolution on 18 July 1539. The surrender document was signed by the Prior, Thomas Woodcock, and seven other monks: John Langdale, William Welles, Alexander Lowthe, Edmund Garner, Robert Gowton (proctor), Thomas Leyghton, and Thomas Wallis. Prior Woodcock
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were all tried on 28 April and charged with "verbal treason" for claiming King Henry was not the supreme head of the Church of England. The jury refused to find the four guilty as they felt "they did not act maliciously"; Cromwell, however, violently threatened the jury until they returned a guilty
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Although concrete evidence remains scant, several claims have been made for Beauvale's role in shaping late medieval English spirituality: John P.H. Clark suggests that the author of the seminal mystical text
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in person in the hope of stopping the dissolution of his priory. Cromwell never saw Lawrence and he, along with two other Carthusian Priors who had made similar journeys, were imprisoned in the
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of 1534 lists the priory as having an annual income of £227 8s., of which £196 6s. was left after expenses. At this time the priory was in control of the
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was probably a Carthusian of Beauvale Priory. and Jonathan Hughes posits that Beauvale may have been an important centre for the study of English mystic
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was awarded an annual pension of £26 13s. 4d. The priory and most of its possessions were granted in 1541 to Sir William Huse of London. The manor of
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of the churches of Greasley and Selston in Nottinghamshire; Bonby in Lincolnshire; and Farnham in Yorkshire.
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There are still substantial remains of the buildings, and the whole site has been designated as a
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The priory was founded in 1343 by Nicholas de Cantelupe (d.1355), in honour of the
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The annual value of this monastery was just under £200, the limit for the
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Following England’s break from Rome, the Carthusians refused to accept
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Salzburg, Austria: Institut fur Anglistik und Americanistik, 1995.
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The Remains of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
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The Remains of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
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Christian monasteries established in the 14th century
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status in 1952. The remains of the Priory Church are
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Some tiles and fragments of stained glass are now in
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translations of the vitae of Elizabeth of Spalbeek,
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Beauvale Charterhouse

Beauvale Priory is located in Nottinghamshire
Order
Carthusian
Beauvale
Coordinates
53°02′11″N 1°16′02″W / 53.036424°N 1.267206°W / 53.036424; -1.267206
Carthusian
Beauvale
scheduled ancient monument
Blessed Trinity
Witham Friary
Hinton
London Charterhouse
St. Anne's
Coventry
Kingston upon Hull
Mount Grace
Epworth
Shene
Valor Ecclesiasticus
advowsons
The Cloud of Unknowing
Richard Rolle
King Henry VIII
Robert Lawrence, Prior of Beauvale
Thomas Cromwell
Tower of London
John Houghton

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