RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



sheaves were called ' thraves of St. Nicholas,' 

 and were due, in the bishop's opinion, by 

 grant of the kings of England. 1 



In 1541 the possessions of the hospital 

 were included in the endowment charter of 

 the dean and chapter of Carlisle, 2 whose 

 estates were charged under the letters patent 

 to maintain a chaplain to celebrate divine 

 offices in the hospital in presence of three 

 ' bedells' and the lepers therein, with a pension 

 for the said poor ' bedells.' There is now no 

 trace of the buildings of the hospital in exist- 

 ence ; nothing is left of the institution but 

 the name of the district of St. Nicholas in 

 Botchergate to the south of the city. From 

 the parliamentary survey of 1650 we learn 

 that the hospital was altogether destroyed 

 during the siege of Carlisle in 1645, and that 

 the churchyard belonging to it abutted on the 

 highway on the south and east. Evidences 

 of burial have been found in that district dur- 

 ing the last century. The whole site is now 

 covered with streets and modern dwellings. 



MASTERS OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. NICHOLAS, 



CARLISLE 



William, chaplain, circa I2OO 3 

 Robert son of Ralf, temp. John * 

 William, rector, circa I24O 6 

 John, rector, circa 1245 * 

 Symon, master, 1270' 

 Hugh de Cressingham, 1 293-7 8 

 Richard de Oriell, custos, 1300" 



Henry de Craystok, master, appointed in 

 10 



1 Carl. Epis. Reg., Appleby, f. 212. It is said 

 that King Athelstan endowed in 936 the hospital 

 of St. Leonard, York, with a thrave of corn, called 

 Petercorne, from every plough in the bishopric of 

 York (Dugdale, Man. vi. 608-9). Certainly 

 Bishop Appleby issued a monition in 1378 to his 

 subjects of Carlisle not to neglect the payment of 

 the blada sancti Petri to the same establishment 

 (Carl. Epis. Reg., Appleby, f. 306). A similar 

 mandate had been issued by Edward III. in 1333 

 to the sheriffs of Cumberland and Westmorland to 

 aid the proctors and bailiffs of the hospital of St. 

 Leonard, York, in levying one thrave of corn for 

 every plough in these counties taken by virtue of 

 charters granted by former kings (Pat. 7 Edw. III. 

 pt. i. m. n). 



2 Ibid. 33 Henry VIII. pt. ix. mm. 11-5 ; L.and 

 P. Hen. Vlll. xvi. 878 (i i). 



3 Reg. of tVetherhal (C-amb. and Westmld. Arch. 

 Soc.), 1 14. 



* Plac. de S>uo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 122. 

 6 Reg. ofWetherhal (Cumb. and Westmld. Arch. 

 Soc.), 276. 



6 Ibid. 176-9. ' Ibid. l8o-I. 



8 Pat. 21 Edw. I. m. 13. 



9 Carl. Epis. Reg., Halton, f. 46. 



10 Pat. 31 Edw. I. m. 17. It is stated in the 



John de Crosseby, 1309-27 " 

 Thomas de Wederhale, temp. Edw. II. 



confirmed in 1327 12 

 Ralf Chevaler, 1328" 

 William de Northwell, 1332" 

 Thomas de Goldyngton, 1 334" 

 John de Appleby, 1369" 

 William de Cotyngham, 1380," resigned 



in 1388 

 Nicholas de Lodal, warden, 1388," re- 



signed in 1389 



John de Grysedale, warden, 1389 19 

 William Hayton, clerk, resigned in 



John Canonby, 1423 20 

 John de Thorpe, last independent mas- 

 ter, circa 1477 al 



13. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. 

 SEPULCHRE, CARLISLE 



This hospital appears to have been a vigor- 

 ous institution in the thirteenth century, 22 but 

 very little is known of its later history. At a 

 date between 1309 and 1327 John de Crosseby, 

 ' mestre del Hospital de Seynt Nicolas dehors 

 Kardoil,' sent a petition to the king in council 

 on behalf of John de la More and John de 

 Boulton, brothers of the hospitals of St. 

 Nicholas and St. Sepulchre, about certain ar- 

 rearages due to the Crown from the demesne 

 lands in the suburb of Carlisle leased to them 

 by Henry III. 23 



letters patent that the office was vacant through 

 the death of Cressingham, an event which took 

 place in 1297. 



11 Ibid. 2 Edw. II. pt. i. m. 17. This master 

 was instrumental in the rebuilding (refeccione) of 

 the chapel of the hospital in 1319 (Close, 13 

 Edw. II. m. 21), and caused John de Culgayth, 

 rector of a moiety of Bampton, to be arrested in 

 1310 for the non-payment of his dues (Carl. 

 Epis. Reg., Halton, f. 138). 



12 Pat. i Edw. III. pt. ii. m. 22. 



13 Ibid. 2 Edw. III. pt. ii. m. 4 ; 3 Edw. III. 

 pt. i. m. 37. 



4 Ibid. 6 Edw. III.pt. ii. m. 1 8. 

 18 Ibid. 7 Edw. III. pt. ii. m. 3. In 1342 it is 

 said that he, described as medicus, passed into Scot- 

 land with Johan le Spicer of Carlisle to give medi- 

 cal aid to the king's enemies (Pat. 1 6 Edw. III. 

 pt. ii. m. 28d). 



16 Dugdale, Man. vi. 757. 



17 Pat. 4 Ric. II. pt. i. m. 26. 



18 Ibid. 1 1 Ric. II. pt. ii. m. 20. 



19 Ibid. 12 Ric. II. pt. ii. m. 4. 

 10 Ibid, i Hen. VI. pt. ii. m. 4. 

 21 Ibid. 17 Edw. IV. pt. i. m. 16. 



33 Inq. p.m. 3 1 Hen. III. No. 25 ; 34 Hen. III. 

 No. 46. 

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