16th Century
The church nave was re-roofed and provided with a clerestory and the chancel was re-fenestrated in the early 16th century.
In 1501 the advowson was held by John Ingilby (d. 1502)
John de Eglesfield, who was possessed of the Manor of Sutton, gave instruction in his will, dated 11th April and proved 8th May 1516 that he should be buried in the nave before the image of the Virgin. (His skeleton was discovered in 1927 lying west of the east respond of the south arcade.)
Land in Sutton worth £6 13s. 4d. which belonged to one Cathwaite was forfeited to the Crown before 1526 and granted to a succession of life tenants. In 1553 the reversion was granted to John, duke of Northumberland, and the estate was thus united with the manor.
Tithes accounted for the greater part of the church’s income and produced £14 10s. in 1535.
Glebe land and five cottages produced an income of under £2 in 1535. (Note a ‘Glebe’ is land belonging or yielding revenue to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice).The church was worth £14 14.s. 6d. net in 1535.
The former priory estate amounted to 9 bovates in 1539 (7.10)
The former Warter priory land was granted by the Crown to Thomas Manners, earl of Rutland, in 1541.
In 1553 the Crown granted Sutton upon Derwent to John, duke of Northumberland, who was licensed to alienate it to John Eglesfield the same year.
The Marsh was first referred to in 1554, when a single tenant was stocking it. Earlier, however, it had been leased by the inhabitants at large and fed with up to 200-300 animals from April to July and 90 from August to November. The latter number included 20 belonging to the occupier of the manor and 4 to the rector, together with 2 for each husbandman and one for each grassman; there were said to be 20 or more tenants in each of those categories. The Marsh was sometimes flooded in winter.
South wood was mentioned in 1554.
Cathwaite House was mentioned in 1554.
Shortly before the Dissolution the priory let the property to Thomas Manners, earl of Rutland. After passing to the Crown, Woodhouse Grange was granted in 1558 to the Savoy hospital, London, and in the 16th and 17th centuries it was often leased by the Constable family.
Small estates in Sutton were held by Thicket priory, the Knights Hospitallers, Wilberfoss priory, and Warter priory. The Hospitallers' land was briefly re-granted to them by the Crown in 1558
The woods at Woodhouse were mentioned again in 1559
In 1563 Eglesfield (d. 1566) bequeathed Sutton upon Derwent to Sir Henry Gates, John Vaughan, John Herbert, and William Lakyn to the uses of his will. He was succeeded by his sisters Mary, wife of Andrew Milner, and Margaret Wallis, widow. The Wallis and Milner shares were acquired in 1567 and 1570 respectively by John Vaughan.
In 1568 Thomas Radcliffe, Earl of Essex, was appointed the president of the council of the North. JOHN VAUGHAN of Sutton-upon-Derwent was a leading member of that Council
In 1565 Sir William Ingilby conveyed the advowson (of Sutton Church) to John Eglesfield. It passed the next year to Eglesfield's sisters, and their shares were acquired in 1567 and 1570 by John Vaughan. The advowson subsequently descended with the manor
Thomas Wood, by will dated 1568, devised a rent-charge of £10 from an estate at Kilnwick Percy for the benefit of Sutton and many other townships.
A letter from Sir Thomas Gargrave to the Privy Council of October 1569 mentions John Vaughan of Sutton. This letter relates to the outbreak and suppression of the Rebellion of the North.
On the evening of the 7th November 1569 Sir Henry Gate was at the home of John Vaughan in Sutton on Derwent.
The name St. Loys was first recorded in 1577 and presumably derives from St. Eloy, or Aloysius.
The former Warter priory land ( granted by the Crown to Thomas Manners, earl of Rutland, in 1541) had been disposed of by 1591, when it belonged to Francis Vaughan and comprised a house called St. Loys, a close in which the house stood, and a wood. After 1591 the estate apparently descended with the manor.
The registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials begin in 1593 and are complete
1593 – the first Church bell was hung. This bell has it’s date inscribed.
In 1597 the manor was said to have 'three water-mills'. This may have referred to the number of pairs of stones in the mill.
Land formerly belonging to one Cathwaite was in the hands of the Crown in the 16th century.
Some inclosure evidently took place in the mid 16th century, for in 1605 it was recalled that John Eglesfield had taken seven closes out of the open fields and three from the common.
In the 16th Century a Clerestory was raised above the arcade walls of the Church nave
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