MATTERSEY, (Nottinghamshire) has a good stone bridge over the Idle near Bautre, and had formerly a priory, to which the
manor bel. when it had also a Mt. and a Fair; but at the Diss. it was given to John Nevil, Esq; whose heiress carried it
by marriage to Sir Will. Hickman, Bt. whose descendant, the late Sir Willoughby, had a good seat here.