Grantham No. 2

The entry for this friary in the Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) notes: "The Franciscans were settled here before 1290, for on 27 November of that year Pope Nicholas IV ...] granted an indulgence of one year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents visiting the church of the Friars Minors at Grantham on the four feasts of the Virgin, and those of St. Francis, St. Anthony, and St. Clare. [...] In 1339 a murderer took sanctuary in the church of St. Francis at Grantham, [...] and early in the next century a similar event led to a dispute between the friars and the town. [...] On Whitsunday the bailiff carried them off by force to Lincoln, and on the appeal of the friars to the king in council, a jury was sworn before the justices of gaol delivery and declared that the church of the friary was a sanctuary. [...] The bishop of Dover received the surrender of the house about the end of February, 1538-9, and reported the convent so poor that the king would receive nothing but the lead, bells, and a chalice." The Grantham Journal notes: "The friary was situated on the west side of the Market Place and the site later became known as the Grange. In 1300 there were about 20 resident friars."