A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



John de Derby, coll. ii August 1369" 

 John Burgess, occ. 1383 ; '^ 7 June, 1388" 

 John Cokyn, occ. 13 May, 1399'^ 

 John Dalton, coll. 15 April, 1408, p.m. J. 



Cokyn ^^ 

 John Hunteman, res. 23 January, 1 41 5-1 6" 

 William Brown'' 

 J. Suthwell, coll. 9 July, 14 1 6, p.r. W. 



Brown =» 

 William Pelleson ^i 

 William Brown, coll. 1417, by exch. with 



W. Pelleson ^^ 

 William Aslakby, coll. 21 September, 1424, 



by exch. with W. Brown ^^ 

 Stephen Austell, d. 27 February, 146 1 ^* 

 John Rudd, d. 29 September, 1490°^ 

 Thomas Thomyoo, D.D., coll. 1490, p.m. 



J. Rudd ^^ 

 Laurence Claxton, coll. 7. April, 1496^' 

 Robert Hyndmer, coll. 2 April, 1532, p.m. 



Claxton ;^' dean at the dissolution ^' 



35. THE COLLEGE OF CHESTER- 

 LE-STREET 



The church of Chester-le-Street has passed 

 through four stages of existence. First the seat 

 of the northern bishopric was established there ; 

 then the church became rectorial, and so con- 

 tinued till Bishop Bek, in 1286, terminated a 

 lawsuit between two claimants of the rectory by 

 turning them both out, and erecting the church 

 into a collegiate establishment, consisting of a 

 dean and seven prebendaries. To the dean, 

 who was bound to repair the chancel of Chester 

 church, and to provide ministers for the chapels 

 of Tanfield and Lamesley, were assigned the 

 altarage of the mother church and chapels, the 

 fishery on the Wear, the rents and services of 

 the tenants holding of the church within Chester 

 and Waldridge, and the whole demesne land of 

 Harraton. He was also to have the buildings 

 attached to the chapelries, only allowing the 

 prebendaries room to stack their grain. To 

 each of the prebendaries was allotted a share of 

 the tithes ; and the remainder of the church 

 property was to be divided amongst those of the 

 prebendaries who kept their three months' 

 residence. 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Hatfield, fol. 148. 

 " Surt. ut supra. 



'■"' P.it. 1 1 Ric. II, pt. 2, m. 10. 

 '" Surt. ut supra. 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Langley, fol. 15. 

 '« Ibid. fol. 80. " Ibid. fol. 83. 



'» Ibid. " Ibid. fol. 285. >' Ibid. 



" Pat. 3 Hen. V'l, pt. I, m. 27. 

 "* Surt. Hist. Dur. ii, 311. 

 « Ibid. '' Ibid. 



»' Ibid. "' Ibid. 



" Chant. Cert. Surt. Soc. PuiJ. vol. 22, App. vi, 

 p. Ixxiii. 



The first three prebendaries, who seem to 

 have been considered the wealthiest, were bound 

 to maintain three vicars in orders {vicarios 

 capellanos) ; and the remaining four to provide 

 four vicars-deacons in due canonical habit. The 

 service was to be performed according to the 

 ritual of either York or Sarum.^ 



In April, 141 5, a monition was directed to 

 the canons of Chester for neglect of their duties. 

 They had failed in the due performance of 

 divine service, in the care of their church and its 

 ornaments, &c.^ Later in the same year, the 

 repairs ordered not having been executed, and 

 the chancel and guest house (hospice) being in a 

 ruinous state, the bishop sequestrated the fruits 

 of the prebends.^ The canons, indeed, appear 

 to have had but little sense of their duty, for 

 three times after this during Langley 's episco- 

 pate, in 141 8,* 1 43 1,' and 1434,^ the bishop was 

 obliged to remonstrate with them for neglect. 



In the Taxation of Pope Nicholas (1291) the 

 deanery and prebends were rated at j^ 1 46 135. \d. ; 

 in 1534 they were valued at ;^77 I2j. 8^.;^ and 

 in 1548 at ^27 2i. %\d. only.^ 



The possessions of the church become vested 

 in the crown in 1547, by the Act for the Dis- 

 solution of Collegiate Churches and Chantries. 

 A small pension only was reserved for a 

 stipendiary curate.' 



Deans of Chester-le-Street 



William de Marclan, occ. 131 1 *" 



Robert de Kygheley, coll. May, 131 6'* 



Roger de Gilling, occ. 30 June, 1345 '^ 



John de Sculthorp^' 



John de Kingston, coll. October, 1354, by 



exch. with John de Sculthorp '* 

 Richard de Wellington, coll. 21 March, 



1362-3, p.r. John de Kingston (Kymbsten)'^ 

 Hugh de Arlam, coll. 13 March, 1364-5, p.r. 



R. Wellington " 

 Thomas Cupper, coll. 7 May, 1378 '' 

 Henry de Hedlam (Hedelham), occ. 26 April, 



1382'^ 

 John de Derby, occ. 4 June, 1390 '' 

 Thomas de Hexham, occ. 1407 "" 



' Found. Chart, printed Dugdale, Mon. Angl. 

 (ed. 1846), vi, 1338. 



' Dur. Epis. Reg. Langley, fol. 70. 



' Ibid. fol. 72 d. 



* Ibid. fol. 270. 'Ibid. fol. 181. 



« Ibid. fol. 211. 



' Surt. Hist. Dur. ii, 143. 



' Chant. Cert. Surt. Soc. Publ. vol. 22, App. vi, 

 p. Ixiv. 



' Surt. Hist. Dur. ii, 143. '» Ibid. 



" Reg. Pa/at. Dun. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 806. 



" Surt. Hist. Dur. ii, 144. 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Hatfield, fol. 86. 



" Ibid. "Ibid. fol. 131. 



'" Ibid. fol. 137. " Ibid. fol. i37A^. 



'* Pat. 5 Ric. II, pt. 2, m. 19. 



'' Surt. ut supra. -" Ibid. 



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