RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



John Thoralby coll. 6 April, 1408^' 



John Dalton, coll. 7 April, 1408, by exch. 



with Thoralby ^^ 

 W. Bosum, coll. 16 April, 1408, p.r. J. 



Dalton" 

 Robert Ashburn, or Ashbury, coll. I May, 



1408, by exch. with Bosum;-'' occ. 28 



January, 1411-12" 

 Nicholas Hulme, coll. 10 February, 141 2-1 3, 



p.m. R. Ashburn 2*= 

 John Akum, occ. October, 141 7 ^" 

 Richard Diggle (Digyll), coll. October, 141 7, 



by exch. with Akum ** 

 John of Newton, occ. 1454"^ 

 John Baldwin (Bawdwyn), coll. 149 1 ^^ 

 John Balswell, occ. 1 501 " 

 Robert Chamber, occ. 13 June, 1505 ^^ 

 Thomas Keye, occ. 14 May, 1532" 

 Richard Layton, coll. I September, 1533, p.r. 



T. Keye '' 

 William Wawin, or Warren, coll. 1544, P-"'- 



Layton ; ^^ dean at the dissolution ^^ 



36. THE COLLEGE OF STAINDROP 



The college of Staindrop was founded in 1408 

 by Ralph earl of Westmorland. The establish- 

 ment was to consist of a master or warden and 

 certain other resident chaplains and clerks, with 

 a number of poor and decayed gentlemen or 

 other poor persons.^ It seems probable that the 

 earl intended the house to serve as a place of 

 retirement for his retainers and servants when 

 they grew old or infirm. In 1544 six of the 

 inmates were ' gentlemen sometime in the ser- 

 vice ' of the then earl.^ Four years later the 

 household consisted of the master, four priests, 

 brethren of the house, two choristers, two lay 

 clerks, five poor gentlemen, six poor yeomen, 

 and two poor grooms, all ' brethren.' ^ 



The college, which really partook more of the 

 nature of a mediaeval hospital, was built near 

 Langley Beck, to the north of the church. 

 Apparently Joan Beaufort, countess of West- 

 morland, carried out or completed her husband's 

 design, for Leland states that ' Johan erectid the 

 very house self of the college.' * 



The original endowment consisted of two 

 messuages and 12 acres of land in Staindrop, 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Langley, fol. 14 a'. 



" Ibid. '' Ibid. fol. 15. 



'* Ibid. " Ibid. fol. 53. 



^Mbid. fol. 65 a'. "Ibid. fol. 287 ^ 



'» Ibid. 



^' Surt. Hist. Dur. ii, 144. 



'Mbid. "'Ibid. >^Mbid. 



" Ibid. " Ibid. " Ibid. 



^ Chant. Cert. Surt. Soc. Pu6/. vol. 22, App. vi, 

 p. Ixiv. 



' Surt. Hilt. Dur. iv (2), 134. ' Ibid. 135. 



' Chant. Cert. Surt. Soc. Pui/. vol. 22, App. vi, 

 p. Ixxiv. * I tin. (2nd ed.), i, S5. 



with the advowson of the church there. ^ Later 

 the churches of Lytham,* co. Lancaster, and 

 Brigham,' co. Cumberland, were appropriated to 

 the college in augmentation of its revenues. 

 The clear value at the dissolution amounted to 

 ^126 5J.8 



In 1 41 2 Bishop Langley confirmed the appro- 

 priation of Staindrop church to the college, and 

 ordained that, lest the cure of souls should suffer 

 neglect, a perpetual vicarage should be instituted, 

 the vicar to be appointed by the warden and 

 chaplains of the college. The house was to 

 pay 4.0s. per annum to the bishop, and 20s. to 

 the convent of Durham, as an indemnity for 

 any loss which the church might suffer by this 

 arrangement.' This vicarage lasted until the 

 dissolution, when all the possessions of the 

 college were surrendered to the crown, a small 

 stipend only being reserved for the officiating 

 minister.'" 



Masters of Staindrop 



Robert Knayton, clerk, occ. 1432'' 



John Norman, occ. 1438 " 



William Lambert, occ. 1457, 1477 '^ 



Thomas Nevill " 



William Pollard, app. 20 July, 1498, p.m. 



Nevill " 

 John Claymond, M.A., app. 19 October, 



1500" 

 William Mawdesley, app. 1501, p.r. Cla) - 



mond '' 

 Edmund Nattres, occ. 1537'* 

 William Garnett, occ. 1548'' 



37. THE COLLEGE OF BARNARD 

 CASTLE 



In February, 1477-8 Edward IV granted 

 permission to his brother Richard, duke of 

 Gloucester, to found and endow a college at 

 Barnard Castle, within the castle there. The 

 establishment was to consist of a dean, twelve 

 chaplains, ten clerks, six choristers, and one 

 clerk {sic), to celebrate divine offices in the 

 castle chapel. It was to be dedicated to Christ, 

 the Blessed Virgin, St. Margaret, and St. Ninian, 



^ Surt. Hist. Dur. iv {2^, 134. 



" Pat. 2 Hen. IV. ' ' Pat. 16 Hen. VI. 



* Surt. ut supra. The value in the Chant. Cert, of 

 154.8 is ;^I44 8/. 6d. 



" Reg. Eccles. Dun. iii, 37. 



'" Surt. Hist. Dur. iv (2), 137. 



" Madox, Fortnul. Angl. 143. 



" Rot. Neville, B. No. 15 in dors. 



" Surt. Hist. Dur. iv (2), 135. 



'* Ibid. '^ Ibid. 



" Rot. 2 Fox, m. 1 1. '^ Ibid, m, 17. 



" Surt. ut supra ; Leland, Itin. i, 92. 



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

 p. Ixxlv. 



129 



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