Stafford No. 5 / Stadford / Statford

There are four entries for this Stafford [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ9223/stafford/] [accessed 16 July 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this friary in the Victoria County History (Stafford, vol. 3, 1970) notes: "The Friars Minor were settled in Stafford by 1274 when the bishop granted 20 days' indulgence to all who visited the friars' church on certain days and said there the Lord's Prayer and the Hail Mary for the king, the kingdom, and the faithful departed. [...] Archbishop Pecham celebrated orders in the friars' church in 1280, being unable to do so in St. Mary's which was under an episcopal interdict. [...] The community's existence came to an end on 9 August 1538 when Richard Ingworth, Bishop of Dover, came to the house and read the injunctions which he had framed. Rather than accept these the community, 'with one assent, without any counsel or coaction', surrendered the house into his hands for the king's use. [...] On 27 September a sale took place of the buildings and the goods in the church, hall, kitchen, buttery, and brewhouse. [...] The friary lay on the east side of the main road from Stafford to Stone north of what is now the junction with Browning Street; the main road is still known as Grey Friars in this area. In 1610 a house called Grey Friars stood here on an extensive walled site approached through a gatehouse. Despite its distance from the town walls it was very evidently pulled down as part of the demolition of buildings within musket shot of the walls under the order of the Parliamentary Committee in 1644 to facilitate the defence of the town."