MATTERSEY, a parish in the Hatfield division of
the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM,
3 miles (S. E.) from Bawtry, containing 426 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in
the king's books at £6. 8. 9 and in the patronage of
the Archbishop of York. The church is dedicated to
All Saints'. There is a place of worship forWesleyan
Methodists. The river Idle runs through the parish, and
is crossed at the village by a handsome stone bridge.
Edmund Nettleship, in 1742, founded a free school
for seven poor boys, and endowed it with £ 140, since
vested in lands, and producing about £9 per annum. A
priory of Gilbertine canons, dedicated to St. Helen,
was founded here before 1192, by Roger de Maresay,
which at the dissolution had a revenue of £61. 17. 7.