Newbo Abbey was a Premonstratensian house of canons regular in Lincolnshire, England, and was dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.
Malbis, as one of the judges itinerant of York and heavily in debt to a Jewish banker, had instigated in 1190 a pogrom against the Jews of the city, which may have cost as many as 500 lives.
(See the History section of York Castle and the page of Yom Tov of Joigny, an eminent rabbi who was among the victims.)
There was evidently some difficulty in finding enough to fill up the vacant places; for about the same time a further licence was granted to the abbot to dispense twelve secular persons from any kind of defect of birth, and to promote them to holy orders; they might hold benefices or any ecclesiastical dignities.
[2] Stone coffins were dug up in the area of the abbey in about 1920 by the then Duke of Rutland and are in Belvoir Castle ,(one being of an abbot),[3] which is only about four miles from the site.