RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



turn only should pertain to the bishop, future 

 nominations remaining with Sir Henry 

 Threlkeld and his heirs. It was also 

 ordained that the college of Greystoke should 

 receive all the tithes of Threlkeld except 

 tithes of corn and hay together with the 

 oblations due and accustomed ; that the 

 inhabitants should pay to the chaplain 

 celebrating in the chapel 3 ijs. in dicem 

 denariis at the feast of St. Peter ad vincula 

 and Michaelmas in lieu of the tithes of corn 

 and hay, whether the land was cultivated or 

 not ; and that the college should allow the 

 chaplain a yearly stipend of I2s. sterling over 

 and above the sum contributed by the 

 inhabitants. 1 



When the ecclesiastical survey was taken 

 in 1535, the total value of the rectory and 

 college was set down as ^82 14*., out of 

 which the master was obliged to pay 

 4.2 6s. 8d. in pensions, synodals and pro- 

 curations to the Bishop of Carlisle, and in 

 stipends of the chaplains. Each chantry 

 priest received an annual allowance of 

 3 6s. 8d. for victuals, and a like sum in 

 money for private use, at the hands of the 

 master of the college.' 



In pursuance of the Act of Parliament 

 (i Edw. VI. cap. 14) for the dissolution of 

 chantries, the king issued a commission, dated 

 at Westminster on 14 February 1547-8, 

 ' for thenquyrie, survey and examynacon of 

 all colleges, chauntries, frechappelles, frater- 

 nyteis, guyldes, stipendaries, priestes, and 

 other spirituall promocons' within the county 

 of Cumberland ' whiche are geven and oughte 

 to come unto his highnes.' From the sur- 

 vey we learn that there were 3,000 ' hows- 

 linge people ' in the parish of Greystoke, and 

 that the ' colledge in the parish churche 

 there ' was ' off the foundacon of one Urbane, 

 bishoppe of Rome, at the peticon of one 

 Rafe, baron of Graystocke, auncestor to the 

 lorde Dacre that nowe is.' John Dacre, 

 clerk, of the age of forty years, was the mas- 

 ter, and had for his annual salary ,40 ' over 

 and besides 61 in other places.' 3 It is also 



1 Carl. Epis. Reg., Smith, ff. 364-9. A 

 notarial copy of this deed was entered in Bishop 

 Smith's register on 27 July 1698, by desire of 

 Archdeacon Nicolson, from the original in posses- 

 sion of Lord Lonsdale. 



2 Valor Ecd. (Rec. Com.), v. 287. 



3 In July 1526 the churches of Folkton, in 

 the diocese of York, and Wemme, in the diocese 

 of Coventry and Lichfield, were united during 

 the incumbency of John Dacre, LL.B., of noble 

 birth (L. and P. Hen. Vlll. iv. 2360). Dacre 

 can have been only about nineteen years of age 

 at that time. Perhaps this young sprig of no- 



stated that < James Beamont, of th'age of 80 

 yeares, George Atkinson of th'age of 56 

 yeres, Anthony Garnett and Lancelot Levyns 

 of th'age of 40 yeres, Edwarde Elwood of 

 th'age of 50 yeres, and John Dawson of 

 th'age of 58 yeres, 4 have every of them 

 yerely for his salarie, over and besides 26 

 w ch James Beamont hath in other places, 

 3 6s. 8d. besides their borde w ch is in the 

 hole 20.' The lands and tenements be- 

 longing to the college were valued at ^84 

 igs. 8d., from which 2 ijs. lod. should be 

 deducted for reprises, ' and so remayneth 

 clere by yere 82 is. iod.' The goods and 

 chattels were valued at 16 ijs. 8d. As a 

 postscript to the survey the commissioners 

 noted that ' the said John Dacre, master 

 there, is also parson and hath no vycare in- 

 dowed, but serveth the cure hymselfe.' 5 



When the king's agents had seized the 

 chantries, the valuation of the college of 

 Greystoke was returned at 78 141. From 

 the notes added to the new survey we may 

 gather that there was some doubt in the 

 minds of the commissioners about the legality 

 of their proceedings in seizing the property of 

 this college. To the schedule of pensions, 

 in which the annual sum of 19 was assigned 

 to the master, that is, somewhat less than half 

 of his stipend, and 5 to each of the chaplains, 

 the following memorandum was appended : 

 'Forasmuch as the title of this colleage is 

 supposed doubtefull, respect the pencions un- 

 till it be examyned in the court.' It is odd 

 that it was to the college of Greystoke, and 

 not as an appendix to the whole survey, that 

 the commissioners affixed this observation : 

 'In all whych colleges, chauntryes, fre- 

 chappelles, guyldes, fraternytyes, stypend- 

 aryes, ther ys no precher founde,. grammar 

 scole taught, nor pore people relevyd, as yn 

 ther severall certyfycates yt doth appere.' It 



bility may be identified with the ' parson Dakers 

 of St. Nicholas Hostell,' Cambridge, who ' hurt 

 Christopher, Mr. Secretary's servant,' in 1530. 

 When the vice-chancellor committed him to ward 

 he escaped from the beadle, ' and that night there 

 was such a jetting in Cambridge as ye never 

 heard of, with such boyng and crying, even 

 against our college, that all Cambridge might per- 

 ceive it was in despite' of the vice-chancellor. It 

 must have been a ' town and gown ' row, for the 

 vice-chancellor complained that it was ' made a 

 country matter and greatly labored ' (ibid. iv. 

 6325). 



* It may be mentioned that the three chaplains, 

 first named in this list, held respectively the 

 chantries of St. Katharine, St. Peter and St. Mary 

 the Virgin, in 1535 (fabr Eccl. [Rec. Com.}, 

 v. 287). 



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