RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



possession of the hospital, to enfeoff Simon of 

 j^io worth of land in Amerston, Hurworth, 

 and elsewhere. ^^ 



The tenants ot the hospital suffered severely 

 in the Black Death ; and as this scourge was 

 accompanied by a failure in the crops and mur- 

 rain amongst the cattle, the house was reduced 

 to great poverty, and Bishop Hatfield in 1 35 1 

 2;ranted an indulgence of 300 days to all who 

 contributed to its relief." The prior and convent 

 of Durham granted to the hospital in the follow- 

 ing year the advowson and glebe of Hunstan- 

 worth church, in exchange for an annual out- 

 rent of 1 35. ^.d.*" This, however, can have been of 

 little benefit to the hospital, for some time at least, 

 as the necessary expenses in repairing the chancel 

 and manse were so great as to render the pre- 

 sentation of a rector impossible, so that a stipen- 

 diary chaplain had to be appointed." 



In 1378 the priors of Durham and Finchale 

 were commissioned by the bishop to visit 

 St. Giles', but there is no record of their pro- 

 ceedings.^ Some sixty years later (1437), under 

 Bishop Langley, another visitation took place. ^' 

 Richard Bukley, the master, had apparently been 

 accused of maladministration of the goods of the 

 house, and a searching inquiry took place, which 

 resulted in his full acquittal.^'' When Bishop 

 Neville succeeded Langley he granted Bukley 

 (1439) a similar acquittance^'; and upon the 

 master's retiring on account of age he bestowed 

 on him a pension of 40 marks per annum.^^ 



Another charge of waste and misappropriation 

 of funds was made in Bishop Tunstall's time 

 (1532), and he announced his intention of 

 inquiring into the matter*'; but there are no 

 returns of his visitation. 



In the returns of 1535-6 the clear value of 

 Kepier Hospital is given as £16^ 2s. iid. per 

 annum.^ The house was surrendered to the 

 king 14 January, 1545-6, and was granted in 

 the same year to Sir W. Paget, who afterwards 

 reconveyed it to the king in exchange for the 

 college and manor of Burton-on-Trent and 

 other lands.*^ Edward VI granted it to John 

 Cockburn, lord of Ormiston,'" who, seventeen 



'' Close, 14 Edw. II, m. 14 a". 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Hatfield, fol. 20. 



Reg'. Ecde . Dun. iv, fol. 108. 

 " Dur. Epis. Reg. Hatfield, fol. 28. 



"Ibid. fol. 140<2'. 



" Ibid. Langley, fol. 248. 



" Ibid. fol. 249 d. 



*' Dur. Treas. Reg. iii, fol. 242. 



*' Ibid. fol. 241 d. 



*' Dur. Epis. Reg. Tunstall, fol. 5. 



*' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. (ed. 1846), vi, 731. In a 

 list of hospitals in the bishop's gift in the beginning 

 of Bishop Tunstall's Epis. Reg. 1530, the value of 

 Kepier is stated to be jfioo. 



" Repert. Orig. MS. B.M. iv, 200 ; see the Par- 

 ticular for the Grant, MS. Harl. 7389, p. 3. 



"•Pat. 23 May, 6 Edw. VI. 



years later, sold it with all its dependencies to 

 John Heath, warden of the Fleet.''' 



Masters of Kepier Hospital 



Adam, occ. 1189 '^ 



Ralph, occ. between 1228 and 1237 ^^ 



De Argentine, occ. between 124 1 and 1249'^* 



John de London, occ. 1254, 1258 " 



Peter de Tylynsby, occ. 1300 '^ 



Peter de Thoresby, occ. 1306-15 " 



Hugh de Montalto, occ. 131 1- 17 '^ 



Simon de Eycote, app. 17 October, 13 16 '^ 



Hugh de Montalto, restored 22 November, 



1320''*' 

 Edmund Howard, occ. 1341—45 *' 

 William Legat, occ. 1348 '^ 

 Richard Rotere, app. 14 January, 1362-3^' 

 Hugh Herle, or Neile, occ. 1388 ^ 

 Robert Wycliff, occ. before 1405 ; d. 1423 ^* 

 Richard Bukley, app. 1423 ; res. 1439 ^ 

 John Lound, app. 1439" ; occ. 1455 ^* 

 Henry Gillowe, res. 1479 (.?) ^^ 

 Ralph Booth, app. 1479 p.r. Gillowe™ 

 Thomas Colston, app. 1497 P-"^- Booth '^ 

 Roger Layborn, 1 501-3 '^ 

 Thomas Wytton '^ 

 John Boer ~'^ 



William Franklyn, occ. 1520 ; res. 14 Janu- 

 ary, 1545-6^' 



Two illustrations of the seal of St. Giles' Hos- 

 pital are given in Archaelogia Aeliana ; each is in 

 shape a pointed oval : the first (? thirteenth 



'''' Surt. Hist. Dur. iv (2), 65. 



" Mickleton MS. No. 3 2 ; Surt. Hist. Dur. iv 

 (2), 65. 



^' Mickleton MS. No. 32 ; see Close, 6 Edw. Ill, 

 m. 23. 



'* Mickleton MS. No. 32. 



" Hunter's MSS. and Script. Tres. c. vi, 43. 



""■ Reg. iii, P. and C. Dunelm. fol. 83^. 



'■'Reg. Palat. Dun. (Rolls Ser.), i, 34; ii, 1097, 

 1 176, &c. 



'* Script. Tres. App. Ixxxvi, pp. cv, cvi ; Dur. Treas. 

 Reg. ii, fol. (>lb. 



'' Pat. 10 Edw. II, pt. I, m. 11. 



*° Pat. 14 Edw. II, pt. I, m. 4. 



*' Mickleton MS. No. 32. 



'•'' Close, 22 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, m. 5 d. 



^ Dur. Epis. Reg. Hatfield, fol. 130. 



" Hunter's MSS. ; Surt. Hist. Dur. iv (2), 65. 



^ Dur. inlls (Surt. Soc), 66 n. ; Hunter's MSS. 



«« Mickleton MS. No. 32. 



^' Dur. Treas. Reg. iii, fol. 241. 



*' Sciipt. Tres. (Surt. Soc), App. ccxlviii. 



'' Hunter's MSS. 



"Mickleton MS. No. 32. 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Fox, fol. 1 3. 



" Surt. Hist. Dur. iv (2), 65. 



" Hunter's MS. 



■* Ibid. 



" Mickleton MS. No. 32. 



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