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Little Limber Chapel

Other OS name in the Parish of Brocklesby

Historical Forms

  • Lytle Lymber chapell 1530 Willsiii
  • G. abbas & conuentus de Neuhus concessimus Roberto capellano ut seruiat in tota uita sua capelle parue Linberge eHy3 HarlCh44G22

Etymology

( lost ) , Lytle Lymber chapell 1530 Wills iii and note “ there is a chantry in honour of God and the Virgin Mary … founded … at Parva Lymbergh out of a messuage and a small portion of land , the value of which messuage and land does not in modern times suffice for the reasonable sustenance of a chaplain , the king has granted licence for them , for the surer maintenance of that chantry , to assign in mortmain land and rent , not held in chief , to the value of 4l . yearly to a chaplain to celebrate service daily at the said chantry … ” 1356 Pat xxiv, 417–8 . The chapel belonged to Newsham Abbey and the earliest reference to it so far noted is G .abbas & conuentus de Neuhus concessimus Roberto capellano ut seruiat in tota uita sua capelle parue Linberge eHy3HarlCh 44 G22 and 23 .