RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



In May, 1378, Bishop Hatfield issued to the 

 priors of Durham and Finchale a commission to 

 visit the hospital of St. Edmund the Archbishop;'" 

 but no returns of this visitation exist, nor of 

 another which took place in 1 42 1." Ten years 

 later the bishop, dissatisfied with the conduct of 

 John Walkington, master, again ordered that the 

 hospital should be visited, and in consequence of 

 the state of things which was discovered, seques- 

 trated the goods alike of the house and of its 

 master (11 May, 1431).'* It seems probable 

 that Walkington was removed as untrustworthy, 

 since the collation of George Radcliffe occurs in 

 January, 143 1-2." 



In 1436 the hospital was robbed: chalices, 

 books, vestments, &c., being stolen from the 

 chapel by some persons unknown. ^^ 



Two years later the nuns of St. Bartholomew, 

 Newcastle, who had sustained severe losses by 

 fire and by the non-payment of certain pensions, 

 appealed to the bishop for assistance. He re- 

 sponded (7 October, 1448) by appropriating to 

 them and incorporating with their house the 

 hospital of St. Edmund with all its possessions. 

 The nuns in return engaged to provide two 

 chaplains to celebrate in St. Edmund's chapel ; 

 to keep the chapel and the buildings belonging to 

 it in repair ; and to pay out of the issues or 

 the hospital two pensions : — one of 6s. 8d. to 

 the bishop, and one of 3s. ^.d. to the prior of 

 Durham.^' This appropriation was followed in 

 May, 1449, ^y ^ formal grant to the nuns by 

 William Hilderskelfe, master, of the hospital 

 with all its appurtenances. This later docu- 

 ment binds the nuns to supply a chaplain to 

 celebrate in the hospital, and a priest to cele- 

 brate in St. Bartholomew's church at the 

 death or promotion of Hilderskelfe, and to 

 pay to the latter a pension of 10 marks per 

 annum. ^* 



From this time onwards the history of the 

 hospital is merged in that of the nunnery, and it 

 was in all probability included in the possessions 

 of that house at the time of the dissolution.^' 

 In a rental of the nuns' possessions, of a date 

 between 1489 and 1545, the following entry 

 occurs : — ' Gateshead. Item, the hospital of 

 St. Edmund the Bishop and Confessor, by year 



A master is mentioned in a list of persons 

 summoned to a synod in 1507, but his name is 

 not given. ^' 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Hatfield, fol. 140 a'. 



" Ibid. Langley, fol. I 76. 



» Ibid. fol. 179 a'. 



" Surt. His/. Dur. n, 127. 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Langley, fol. 23*7. 



" Bourne, Hist. Newcastle, 213, 215. 



" Madox, Formui. Angl. (ed. 1702), 271. 



" Brand, Hist. Newcastle, i, 230. 



'"Ibid. 231. 



" Script. Tres. (Surt. Soc), App. cccxvi. 



Masters of the Hospital of St. Edmund 

 THE Bishop, Gateshead 



Gilbert, occ. c. 1248^^ 

 Hugh de Segrave, occ. before 1316^' 

 John de Denton, occ. 1316 ; ^ d. 1325 ^* 

 Roland de Jorz, bishop of Armagh, coll. Feb- 

 ruary, 1325-6, p.m. John of Denton. ^^ 

 John de Thornsby, app. 2 October, 1333 "' 

 Walter Fauconberg, coll. I March, 1 340-1 ^^ 

 John de Appleby, coll. 20 August, 1353^' I 

 Adam Fenrother, occ. 10 January, 1366-7;^" 



res. 1376 '^ 

 Hugh de Conyngham, coll. by exch. with 



Fenrother, 5 August, 1376'- 

 Henry de Manchester, coll. 1 7 September, 



1381^^ 

 Richard Levesham, coll. 27 March, 1383 ^^ 

 Laurence de Allerthorp, occ. 20 November, 



13883'' 

 John Walkington, occ. 20 March, 1430-1 ^^ 

 George Radcliffe, coll. 29 January, 1431-2;^' 



res. 12 March, 1435-6'* 

 John Heyworth, coll. 12 March, 1435-6; 

 p.r. G. Radcliffe.^" 



Thomas Kirkeby, occ. 1441 ^^ 



William Hilderskelfe occ. 1449*^ 



A Master (name unknown), occ. 1 507 ^ 



23. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY 

 MAGDALEN, DURHAM 



By a composition between the priory of 

 Durham and the hospital of Kepier,' about 

 the middle of the thirteenth century, the hospital 

 ceded to the convent certain lands at Hurworth 

 and 12 acres in Southcroft near Durham, pro- 

 ducing together an annual rent of 3 marks, to 

 be devoted by the almoner to pious uses in a 

 certain place for the benefit of the soul of John 



'^ Found. Chart. Brand, Hist. Newcastle, i, 446 n. 



■^ Ibid. 469 n. 



'* Ibid. 470 n. 



"' Wills and Invent. (Surt. Soc), i, 22. 



"^ Ibid. 



" Pat. 7 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, m. 17. 



'* Reg. Palat. Dun. iii, 380. 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Hatfield, fol. 74. 



»" Ibid. fol. 141. 



" Ibid. fol. 195. 



" Ibid. 



*■ Pat. 5 Ric. II, pt. I, m. 23. 



" Pat. 6 Ric. II, pt. 2, m. 2. 



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



'° Dur. Epis. Reg. Langley, fol. I 76. 



" Surt. Hist. Dur. ii, 127. 



'' Dur. Epis. Reg. Langley, fol. 225 a'. 



»' Ibid. 



*" Surt. Hist. Dur. ii, 127. 



*' Madox, Formui. Angl. (ed. 1702), p. 271. 



" Dun. Eccles. Reg. v, fol. 88. 



' MS. Treas. Dur. 6'% 4"", Elemos. No. 1 2. The 

 document is headed : 'Hospital of St. Mary Magda- 

 lene near Kepier.' 



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