RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Mynors, to the amending of their bokys and 

 vest.ments, 46/. 8^. ; and I will that iche of 

 the four fryers that shall here my body to the 

 church of the said Fryers Minors have for his 

 labor zod. ; also to the repair of the said church 

 to praye for my sowle and say a solempn mass 

 yearly for four yeres 8 /; ; and that Fryer 

 John Fyssher, of the said convent, be my prest 

 and go to the court of Rome on pilgrimage, and 

 say mass for my sowle at Scala Celi'^ znd to have 

 10 marks when he goeth forth, and when he 

 Cometh home 40^.'' 



When arrangements were in active progress 

 in the latter half of the year 1538 for the 

 suppression of the friars, the Duke of Norfolk 

 mterceded with Cromwell to obtain the king's 

 sanction for the securing to him of the Grey 

 Fnars. Writing to Cromwell on 21 September, 

 the duke stated he had intended to ride into 

 Norwich on the previous day to take the sur- 

 render of the Grey Friars, but was ill, and so 

 sent his son Surrey and others to act for him 

 In a later letter the duke describes these friars 

 as « very poor wretches,' and stated that he gave 

 them 40J. apiece to procure secular dress.^ 



The site, church, house, and all the possessions 

 of the Grey Friars of Norwich were formally 

 granted to the Duke of Norfolk by the crown 

 on 12 March, 1539.' 



55. THE CARMELITE FRIARS OF 

 NORWICH ' 



Wardens of the Franciscan Friars of 

 Norwich^ 



Thomas de Docking, 1260 



Peter Queswell, 1299 



Richard le Poringland 



Roger de Merston, 1303 



Walter Catton, 1343 

 John de Wiclingham, 1362 



Simon de Tunsted, 1369 

 Geoffrey de Ling, 1390 

 Reginald de Langham, 1410 

 Robert de Carltton, 1432 

 Robert de Frisingham, 1460 

 Dr. Bernard 



Richard de Colby, 1468 

 William Rokewode, 1469 

 John Morote, 1470 

 John Sparke, 1485 

 Thomas Thornham, 1494 

 Thomas Glanvyle, 1496 

 Dr. Shenkwyn 

 Dr. Call 



' Reg. Multone, fol. 49, cited by Kirkpatrick. 



I fu?'^'^- "'"■ ^^^^' "'" (')' H^, 154. z'fi. 

 Ibid. vol. XIV (i), 651. 



* The list of wardens of the Grey Friars is taken 



from Blomefield, coinpared in the latter part with 



Kirkpatrick. The dates, save the first, are those of 



•the deaths of the wardens (Blomefield, Hist, of 



Norf.'iy, 111-14; Kirkpatrick, Relig. Ord. 0/ No!zv. 



127). 



43 



The Carmelite or White Friars settled in this 

 city in 1256 on a site between the river and 

 St. James's Church on the east side of a street 

 called Cowgate. The donor of the site and 

 the founder of the house was Philip son of 

 Warin, a Norwich merchant, who from the 

 place of his residence assumed the name of 

 Cowgate. Additional gifts enabled these friars 

 to erect dwellings and a fine church dedicated 

 to the honour of St. Mary. Philip, the founder, 

 in his old age took upon him the Carmelite 

 habit, and entered the house of his own founda- 

 tion, where he died in 1283.' Among the 

 muniments of the city of Norwich are copies of 

 early grants to the Carmelite Friars.' 



Thomas Butetorte, rector of Ti^etshall, and 

 Richard de Hedersete, rector of Beighton 

 obtained licence to alienate to the Carmelite 

 Friars of Norwich a certain messuage adjoining 

 their residence.' In 1332 Richard de Hedersete, 

 chaplain, and Adam de Shotesham, chaplain, 

 gave the Carmelites small lots of land for the 

 enlargement of their dwelling.^ 



Licence was further granted in 1345 for the 

 alienation by Richard Kyng and two others to 

 the Carmelite Friars, for the extension of their 

 house, of two more small lots of land.'" In the 

 same year the bailiffs and commonalty of the city 

 granted to the friars a lane called St. James's 

 Wente, on the west of their priory, 20 perches 

 long and 10 ft. wide. This was done, however, 

 without royal licence, but in the following year 

 Edward III pardoned their defect and allowed 

 the retention of the grant." The royal licence 

 was duly obtained four years later for the enclos- 

 ing of another lane of like dimensions on the 

 east side of their house.'- 



It was about this time that the friars were 

 occupied in building their new and capacious 

 church. It was ready for use in 1343, and the 

 new churchyard was dedicated by John Paschal, 

 bishop of Llandaff, acting as suffragan for 

 Norwich, in the following year. It was not 

 however, until 1382 that the whole church was 

 finished, when it was dedicated by Thomas, 

 bishop of Sentari, another diocesan suffragan.'^ 

 The dimensions of the church are given by 

 William of Worcester.'* 



'Kirkpatrick, Relig. Ord. of Norw. 150-84; 

 Blomefield, Hist, of Norf iv, 414-23; Dugdale,' 

 Mort. vi. I 573-4. 



' Weever, Fun. Monti. 805, 807. 



' Book of Pleas, fol. 50. 



* Pat. 16 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 30. 



' Ibid. 6 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 23. 

 '" Ibid. 18 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 5. 

 " Ibid. 19 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 29. 

 '' Ibid. 15 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 9. 

 " These dates are cited by Kirkpatrick (156) from 

 MS. of Bale's in the Bodleian Library. 

 " Itin. (Rolls Ser.), 306. 



