A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND 



the founder for ever.' Rowland Noble, the incumbent and master of 

 the school, enjoyed the revenues, amounting to 1 1 6s., for his salary. 

 Two stipendiaries were constituted ' of the gifte of the late Prynce of 

 famous memory, Kinge Henrye the eight, to celebrate in the castle 

 there ' ; there were no lands belonging to these chantries, but the in- 

 cumbents yearly received their allowances from the King's receiver- 

 general at Cockermouth. In Edenhall there was a chantry for the 

 maintenance of the mass of the Blessed Mary in the parish church ; 

 in Great Salkeld, a stipendiary curacy for the celebration of one mass in 

 the parish church, ' off the foundacon of John Worsoppe ' with an 

 annual revenue of 40-1-. ; and in Mosser, a chantry of Our Lady founded 

 to find a priest to celebrate there for ever, but ' one Thomas Sawkeld 

 Esquier receyvethe the yerlie profittes therof, by what tytle it is un- 

 knowne, and gyvethe the priest 4/. towardes his fyndinge.' The city of 

 Carlisle had no fewer than six chantries, endowed with lands and tene- 

 ments affording revenues of varying amounts from 1 $s. 4^. to 4 1 3J. 5^. 

 In the cathedral were the chantries of St. Katherine, St. Roke, the Rood 

 or St. Cross and Our Lady, the incumbents of which used to celebrate 

 mass there ; dependent on the church of St. Cuthbert were the chantry 

 of Our Lady l and the chantry of St. Alban. " In all whych colleges, 

 chauntryes, frechappelles, guyldes, fraternytyes, stypendaryes, ther ys no 

 precher founde, grammer scole taught, nor pore people relevyd, as yn 

 ther severall certyfycates yt dothe appere.' The pensions awarded to 

 the priests of the dissolved foundations were about as much or almost 

 as much as the salaries they were in the habit of receiving as incum- 

 bents. 2 For this reason the secular priests were more liberally treated 

 than the monks, inasmuch as no rule seems to have been observed in the 

 granting of pensions at the dissolution of the monasteries. The lands 

 and endowments of these institutions were immediately leased or sold, 

 the sale often reaching as many as twenty-four years' purchase. Some 

 of the property was bought by local people, but much of it went to 

 professional jobbers like one ' Thomas Brende of London scryvener.' 3 



As the sale of the chantry lands was insufficient to provide the 

 King with money to meet his pressing debts, a new commission was 

 sent out in 1552 instructing local committees to seize all the goods, 

 plate, jewels, and ornaments of the parish churches and chapels, ' leving 

 nevir the less in every parishe churche or chappell of common resorte 



1 This chantry, which had the small revenue of 15*. $d. a year, does not appear to have been dis- 

 solved. It does not occur in the list of chantries in the King's hand, nor is the incumbent, Henry Blan- 

 rasset, mentioned in the list of ejected priests to whom pensions were bestowed. It is odd that the 

 chantry of St. Alban is ascribed both to St. Cuthbert's church and to the cathedral. In the survey made 

 by the local commissioners it is placed under St. Cuthbert's ; in the King's list it is catalogued under the 

 cathedral. 



2 These pensions are recorded on the King's list of chantries (Augmentation Office, Chantry Certi- 

 ficates, No. 12, Cumberland). 



3 The particulars of the endowments, the names and rents of the tenants, the conditions of sale, 

 the names of the purchasers, and the amount of the purchase money are all set out in schedules in Mis- 

 cellaneous Books, Nos. 67 and 68, at the Augmentation Office. The property of the Carlisle chantries 

 lay chiefly within the city, from which it would appear that they had been founded by burghers. 



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