The Royal Confirmation Charter given by King Edward II in 1319 records the donation of two plots of land by de Grey.

rent they owed to the crown, "on account of the special affection that we have and bear to the said prior and brethren."

[1] In October 1393, after killing his wife Alice, Henry de Whitley sought sanctuary within the friary.

Philip Baston of Nottingham (d.1320) "studied Philosophy and Divinity at Oxford and became a famous poet and orator".

[1] In 1532 the prior, Richard Sherwood, killed one of his friars, William Bacon, during a fight which broke out after they had been drinking.

It stood near to the south-west corner of Old Market Square; the priory precinct occupying the area between Friar Lane and St James Street.

[Notes 1] In 1923, during work to widen Friar Lane, part of the former friary was uncovered in the south-west corner of Old Market Square.

[2] Most of the priory remains (around two-thirds) lay on the land which had been acquired by the Corporation of Nottingham for the street widening.

[4] Adjacent to Friars Row, the remains were of a rectangular building of unknown function, with walls averaging 2 ft 8 in (0.81 m) thick.