A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



buildings of the hospital, and was bound by an 

 oath to perform all his duties.'^ 



In 1 50 1 Mr. Dykar was appointed master^* on 

 the resignation of Alexander Lee, who, owing 

 to paralysis and other troubles, had for some 

 months been so infirm as to require the services 

 of a coadjutor. ^^ Mr. Dykar was a most un- 

 scrupulous person. He expelled from the hos- 

 pital all the poor inmates for whose benefit it 

 primarily existed, and in their place added to the 

 staff two priests, two deacons, and four boy- 

 choristers. The change considerably increased 

 the master's income, which was still further 

 augmented by the reduction of the clerical staff 

 in the course of the reign of Henry VIII to two 

 priests, two deacons, and two children. ^^ 



In the Valor of 1535 the annual value of 

 Sherburn Hospital is given as ^^142 Oi. /^dy As 

 a secular foundation it was not dissolved with 

 the religious houses, but continued to exist in a 

 more or less impoverished and disorganized state, 

 the subject of many broils, till in 1585 it was 

 incorporated anew under the name of Christ's 

 Hospital, Sherburn. The number of brethren 

 was raised to thirty, under a master who was to 

 be a preacher holding no other cure ; and the 

 bishop was empowered to make rules for its good 

 government.^* The well-known Valentine Dale 

 was the first master under the new r^gime.^' 

 From time to time the bishops of Durham have 

 issued fresh ordinances for the house ; those made 

 by Bishop Butler in 1735"° holding good till the 

 hospital was reconstituted by the Charity Com- 

 missioners in 1857.^^ 



Masters of Sherburn Hospital 



Arnold of Auckland, occ. 1184^^ 



Ralph the Monk-' 



Warren of Godet 2* 



Martin of St. Cross, app. 1245,*° occ. 1259"° 



Roger of Seyton, occ. c. 1269 -' 



William of the Island, occ. 1302^* 



Lambert of Trikingham, occ. 1313^' 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Langley, fol. 244. 



" Ibid. Fox, fol. 46. 



" Ibid. fol. 39^ "Man, Coll. 



" In the list of hospitals in Bishop Tunstall's Epis. 

 Reg. 1530, the value is given as ;^ioo. 



'* Surt. Hist. Dur. i (2), 132. 



'' Dur. Epis. Reg. Barnes, fol. 1 9. 



'" Printed in extenso, Surt. Hist. Dur. i (2), 135. 



" Account of Christ's Hospital, Sherburn, by H. A. 

 Mitten, M.A., p. 1 1. 



'" Allan, Coll. 



" G. S. Faber, Master of Sherburn, 1850. MS. 

 note in the margin of Mr. LongstafFe's copy of Sur- 

 tees' Hist, i (2), 127, &c. Now in the library of the 

 Dean and Chapter of Durham. 



'' Ibid. " Allan, Coll. 



'« JVills and Invent. (Surt. See), i, 6. 



" Allan, Coll. "' Ibid. 



" Reg. Palat. Dun. ii, 1224. 



I 



Thomas of Haswell, occ. before 1330^" 

 Thomas de Nevill, presented 1340^' 

 John of Westwitton, occ. 1343 '" 

 Alan of Shuttlington, coll. 15 August, 1362'' 

 Thomas of Bernolby, coll. 1367'^ 

 John of Waltham, occ. 8 May, 1384,^^ res. 

 1388'' 



Thomas Haxeye, app. by the king, 1 3 Sep- 

 tember, 1388" 



Henry Godebarne, estate ratified, 28 Septem- 

 ber, 1389^^ 



John Stacy, app. by king, 26 September, 1 390'' 

 John Burgess, app. by king, i 7 August, 1391 ^^ 

 John Wendelyngburgh, died before 22 Sep- 

 tember, 1395 ^^ 



Nicholas Slake, app. 22 September, 1395, p.m. 

 John Wendelyngburgh ^" 



Alan of Newark, occ. 3 January, 1403-4,'*' 

 res. 1409,** died 141 1 ^* 



John Newton, inducted I4june, 1411,*^ occ. 

 January, 1415-6^' 



Nicholas Dixon, coll. 28 November, 1427, 

 p.m. J. Newton^* 



John Marshall, coll. July, 1433, p.r. N.Dixon ^^ 



Alexander Lee, coll. c. 1490 '" 



Robert Dykar, coll. 1501, p.r. A. Lee ^^ 



Roderick Gundisalve, app. 11 May, 1507^" 



Geoffrey Wren, occ. 1524, d. 4 April, 1527^' 



Edward Fox, app. 1527 '* 



Sir Thomas Leigh, kt., coll. 14 September, 



1535, d. 1545'' 



Anthony Bellasis, app. 1545, d. 1552^^ 

 Sir Richard Read, kt. occ. 1552 " 

 Anthony Salvin, app. 13 August, 1552,^* de- 

 prived for Romanism 1559^'' 

 Ralph Skinner, occ. 1559 '" 

 Thomas Lever, app. 28 January, 1562-3 ^' 

 Ralph Lever, coll. 16 July, 1577, P-™- '^' 

 Lever '^ 



Valentine Dale, pres. 17 April, 1585*' 



'" Dugdale, Mon. Jngl. (ed. 1846), vi, 668. 



" Reg. Palat. Dun. iii, 275. 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Bury (in Reg. Hatfield), fol. 5. 



" Ibid. Hatfield, fol. 129. " Ibid. fol. 142. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Jngl. (ed. 1846), vi, 668. 



^ Ibid. 



" Pat. 12 Ric. II, pt. I, m. 21. 



^ Ibid. m. 12. ^' Ibid. m. 22. 



" Ibid. m. 24. "Ibid. m. 18. "Ibid. 



" Wills and Invent. (Surt. Soc.), i, 5 I ». " Ibid. 



" Ibid. ; Dur. Epis. Reg. Langley, fol. 41. 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Langley, fol. 41 d. 



" Ibid. fol. 79 d. 



" Ibid. fol. 134. " Ibid. fol. 204 </. 



'" Allan, Coll. 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Fox, fol. 48. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl (ed. 1846), vi, 668. 



»' Ibid. " Allan, Coll. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. (ed. 1846), vi, 668. 



'= Ibid. " Ibid. '« Ibid. 



" Surt. Hist. Dur. 1 (2), 131. «» Allan, Coll. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. (ed. 1846), vi, 668. 



** Dur. Epis. Reg. Barnes, fol. i d. 



« Ibid. fol. 19. 



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