page_title: William de Notton
section_title: Chantry
hierarchical_section_title: William de Notton / Chantry
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of Monk Bretton Priory, South Yorkshire, England
context_page_description: Sir William de Notton was an English landowner and judge, who had a highly successful career in both England and Ireland, culminating in his appointment as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland in 1361.
  He belonged to the landowning family of de Notton, who took their name from Notton in West Yorkshire. He acquired the manors of Fishlake, Monk Bretton and Woolley Hall in Yorkshire, as well as Litlington, Cambridgeshire, and Cocken Hatch near Royston, Hertfordshire.
context_section_description: In 1350 he  and his wife Isabel conveyed  their lands at  Fishlake, Monk Bretton, Woolley and Moseley   to John de Birthwaite,  the Prior of  Monk Bretton Priory,  to build a chantry  chapel at Woolley, where prayers would be said for the King and his family, and  for Notton, Isabel and their children. The grant  may have been inspired by  the ending of the first outbreak  of the Black Death, a time when many  people felt  a sense of  thanksgiving  for their  deliverance from the plague, together with an increased awareness of  their  own mortality.
caption: Ruins of Monk Bretton Priory
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