Sixhills No. 2 / Sisse / Six-Hills

There are three entries for Sixhills [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF1787/sixhills/] [accessed 7 May 2019], one of which reports a church in it. The entery for this priory in the Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) notes: "The Gilbertine priory of St. Mary at Sixhills was founded as a double house between 1148 and 1154, by one of the de Greslei family, possibly Robert, the founder of Swineshead Abbey, or his son [...] Doubtless in view of the considerable possessions of the house, the numbers were limited by St. Gilbert to 120 nuns and lay sisters, and 55 canons and lay brothers [...] In the middle of of the fifteenth century the number of inmates had greatly diminished, and the house was very poor. In 1462 it was alleged that all the lands and possessions of the priory for the maintenance of twenty-eight persons did not exceed £40 a year. [...] Shortly before the dissolution the convent suffered from an epidemic sickness. [...] The house was surrendered by the prior and seven canons on 29 September 1538 (fn. 19); the prioress and fourteen nuns were pensioned with them."