 The priory was never wealthy and most of its income came from small, scattered estates, close by in Staffordshire or in neighbouring counties.A deed of 1170 has the nuns of Brewood and Blithbury, at Mavesyn Ridware, giving land they held at Ridware to the lord of the manor, in return for an annual rent of two shillings and confirmation of meadowland they already had there.This shows the nuns busily trying to make the most of a small holding.