A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND 



celler ; he is a gallant wine taster, let him 

 have his place againe and afterwards knighted 

 him.' l 



After Askew got his lease of the priory 

 lands in 1537, he was not allowed to have 

 peaceable possession, for an attempt was made, 

 when the commonalty of the northern counties 

 rose in rebellion, to oust him and restore the 

 nuns to their old home. By a petition in 

 1540 'to the Righte Worshipfull Sor 

 Richarde Riche, Knighte, Chauncellor of the 

 Kynge's Courte of Augmentacons in (of) the 

 Revenues of his Crowne, moste humblye 

 sheweth, and complaynethe unto your good 

 maystershippe, your dailye oratour, Hughe 

 Ascue, officer in the kynges graces sellar, that 

 where your seide oratour hathe of the kinges 

 grace's dymyse by indenture undre his grace's 

 grete scale of his Courte of Augmentacons of 

 the revenues of his Crowne, the house and 

 scite of the late pryorye or house of nunes of 

 Seyton in the countie of Cumberland w' all 

 and singuler the appurtenances, by auctorytie 

 of parlyamente suppresside and dissolvyde, into 

 whiche saide house or pryorye by vertue of his 

 seide lease yo r saide oratour dyd entre and was 

 therof peassablye possesside and the same did 

 furnyshe w' suche goodes and catalls as he 

 then hadd. So y 1 is that one Thomas 

 Skelton beynge accompanyde w' diveres other 

 rebellyous and mysdemenyde persons at the 

 tyme of the commocon in the Northe, 

 ryoutouslye entryde into the seyde late 



pryorye then beinge in your oratour's hande, 

 as ys aforesaide, and there put in the late 

 pryores of the same late pryorye, whoe re- 

 manede ther afterwarde by the space of a 

 quarter of a yere and more w' here hole 

 retinue at the onlye coste and charge of your 

 oratour, and the goodes and catalls of your 

 seid oratour dyd waste, dystroye, and carye 

 awaye to the value of xxiii/. Wherfore it 

 maye please your good maistershipe the 

 premises tenderlye consideryde to graunte the 

 kynges graces lettres of pryvye scale to be 

 directide unto the saide Thomas Skelton, 

 commaundynge him by the same, other to 

 restore unto your said oratour his saide goodes 

 and catalls so by him so dystraynede and 

 caryede awaye, or agrewithe your seide oratour 

 that he be and personallye appere before your 

 maistershippe in the Kinges Courte of 

 Augmentacons of the revenues of his crdwne 

 at a certayne daye and undre a certeyne payne 

 by your good maistershippe to be lymittede, 

 then and ther to aunswere to the premisses and 

 further to abyde suche ordre and dyrectyon in 

 the premisses as shall seme to your good 

 maistershippe to stonde w' equite and good 

 consceyence, and your seide oratour shall 

 daylye praye to God, etc.' 3 



PRIORESSES OF SETON 

 Elizabeth Croft, 4 occurs 1459 

 Joan Seaton, 6 occurs 1535 

 Joan Copland, 6 occurs 1536 



THE FOUR HOUSES OF FRIARS 



9. THE DOMINICAN FRIARS OF 

 CARLISLE 



10. THE FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF 



CARLISLE 



11. THE AUSTIN FRIARS OF PEN- 



RITH 



THE CARMELITE FRIARS OF 

 APPLEBY 



The four orders of mendicant friars had 

 obtained settlements in the diocese of Carlisle 

 before the close of the thirteenth century. 

 The same year witnessed the coming of the 

 friars preachers, black friars or Dominicans, 

 and the friars minors, minorites, grey friars, 

 or Franciscans, to Carlisle while Walter was 

 bishop of the diocese. In 1233, says the 

 Chronicle of Lanercost," the order of friars 



1 A Cursory Relation of all the Antiquities and 

 Familyes in Cumberland (Cumb. and Westmld. Arch. 

 Soc. 1890), p. 6. 



* Chron. de Lanercost (Maitland Club), 42. 



minors came to the city of Carlisle about the 

 Feast of the Assumption, 1 5 August, and re- 

 ceived a house (mannoneni} within the walls of 

 the city ; and the order of friars preachers 

 about the feast of St. Michael, 29 September, 

 without the walls. It is said that the friars 

 of St. Mary of Mount Carmel, Carmelites, or 

 white friars, were established in Appleby by 

 the Lords Vesey, Percy and Clifford in 1281,' 

 and it is known as a certainty that the friars 

 eremites of the order of St. Augustine, Au- 

 gustinians, or Austin friars, were carrying on 

 their mission in Penrith before I3OO. 8 These 

 religious communities occupied a prominent 

 ecclesiastical position in the district, and 



3 Dugdale, Mon. iv. 2289. 



* Arch. ^S/iana (old ser.), ii. 399. 



Valor. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v. 265. 



o L. and P. Hen. nil., x. 364. 



7 Dugdale, Man. vi. 1581. 



8 Liber >uot. Contrar. Gardenbte (Soc. Anticj.), 

 4. 43- 



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