A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND 



was also reported that ' ij chaples are belong- 

 ing to this colleage caulled Watermelike and 

 Threlkett, thone distant vii myles and 

 thother vi myles from the parish churche.' * 

 When the legality of seizing the rectory and 

 its profits on the king's behalf came to be re- 

 viewed in court, it was argued by the incum- 

 bent that he was possessed by presentation, 

 admission, institution and induction ; that the 

 church was indeed made collegiate, but it was 

 by the pope's authority only ; that they had 

 no common seal, and therefore were not a 

 legal corporation. As judgment was given 

 against the king, the church continued rec- 

 torial and parochial. In reporting the case 

 Judge Dyer laid stress upon the want of a 

 common seal, but Lord Coke was of opinion 

 that the king's title failed owing to the fact 

 that the church was made collegiate by the 

 pope's authority only without the royal 

 assent. 2 The argument of the appellant and 

 the remarks of Lord Coke seem strange in 

 the light of the letters patent of Edward III. 

 and Richard II., by which the proposal to 

 found the college of Greystoke received the 

 royal sanction. 



MASTERS OF GREYSTOKE 

 Gilbert Bowet, first master, 1382 

 Richard Lascy, 1 4 1 2 3 

 Adam de Aglionby, 1420* 

 Richard Wryght 5 

 Thomas Eglisfelde 8 



1 Chant. Cert. No. 12, Cumberland. 



2 Nicolson and Burn, Hist, of Cumb. ii. 363, 

 quoting Dyer's Reports, f. 8 1 , and Coke's Reports, iv. 

 107. See also Tanner, Notitia (ed. 1744), p. 77. 



3 Named in a commission with John de Burg- 

 ham, rector of Melmerby, and Robert de Bampton, 

 vicar of Crosby by Eden, to collect a tenth given 

 to Henry IV. by the clergy of Carlisle, 20 Jan. 

 14112 (Clerical Subsidies, \, dioc. of Carlisle). 



* Sued in that year by William Rebanks and his 

 wife for lands in Raughton (Nicolson and Burn, 

 Hist, of Cumb. ii. 363). Aglionby had been 

 appointed priest of the chantry of St. Mary in 

 1386 on the death of Thomas Chamberlayne 

 (Carl. Epis. Reg., Appleby, fo. 359). 



6 In 1704 Bishop Nicolson copied the follow- 

 ing inscription in a window over the south door 

 of the choir : ' Orate pro anima Ricardi Wryht 

 quondam magistri Collegii de Graystok ' (Miscellany 

 Accounts, ed. Ferguson, pp. 1 29-30). As no date 

 has been found, the name is placed here for con- 

 venience. 



6 Commemorated with Walter Readman on a 

 sepulchral brass in the choir, the inscription on 

 which was copied by the Rev. T. Lees about 

 1860: 'Hie jacent corpora magistri Thome 

 Eglisfelde et Walteri Readman veritatis professoris 

 quondam huius collegii prepositorum. Qui Wal- 

 terus obiit iiij die Novembris Anno domini 



Walter Readman, S.T.P. 1507,* died in 



1509" 



William Husband, 1509, 1518 10 

 John Whelpdale, died in 1526" 

 John Dacre, last master, I535, 12 I547 13 



19. THE COLLEGE OF KIRK- 

 OSWALD 



The collegiate church of Kirkoswald, 

 situated in the Eden valley about fourteen 

 miles to the south of Carlisle, was of late 

 foundation and only existed for about twenty- 

 five years before it was dissolved. It served 



M ccccc" ix. Quorum animabus propicietur 

 Deus.' Browne Willis set down the date of 

 Eglisfelde's mastership about 1440 (Tanner, 

 Notitia, app. of edition, 1744), but from his asso- 

 ciation with Readman on the brass the date must 

 be considerably later. He seems to have been 

 Readman's immediate predecessor. 



7 One of the executors of Roger Leyburn, 

 Bishop of Carlisle, under his will, dated 17 July 

 1 507 ; appointed by the dean and chapter of 

 York to collect the bishop's goods (Test. Ebor. 

 Surtees Soc. iv. 2623). 



8 Memorial brass given above. 



9 For the term, Michaelmas 1509-10, the 

 registrar of the diocese of Carlisle accounted to the 

 bishop for I y. $d. ' de institutione domini Wil- 

 helmi Husbande ad ecclesiam collegiatam de 

 Graistok ' (MS. in diocesan registry). 



10 Jefferson, Ltath Ward, p. 360. If Jefferson's 

 date is correct, this was the master of Greystoke 

 sent by Thomas, Lord Dacre, into Scotland on 8 

 Aug. 1516, to levy the queen's feoffment (Ellis, 

 Orig. Letters, first ser. i. 1 33 ; L. and P. Hen. Vlll. 

 ii. 2293). 



Ll On the floor in the south transept there is a 

 memorial brass plate containing a half length 

 figure of a doctor of laws, clad in gown and fur 

 tippet with the arms of Whelpdale three grey- 

 hounds current in pale and collared on either 

 side of the inscription : ' Orate pro anima Johan- 

 nis Whelpdall, legum doctoris, magistri Collegii de 

 Graystok et rectoris de Caldebek qui obiit viij 

 Julii anno domini 1526.' Around the head of 

 the east window of Caldbeck church there runs 

 a Latin legend that John Whelpdale ' hoc opus 

 fieri fecit.' Care should be taken to discriminate 

 between two rectors of Caldbeck of that name. 

 The younger succeeded the elder in that church 

 in 1488. 



12 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v. 287. 



13 Chant. Cert. (Cumb.), Nos. ii, 12. In 

 the church there is a through-stone bearing 

 the inscription : 'J.D.P.G. anno domini 1557.' 

 The initials seem to mean ' John Dacre, provost 

 of Greystoke,' as if he had resumed his old title in 

 Queen Mary's reign. He conformed to all the 

 ritual changes during the first years of Queen 

 Elizabeth and died in 1567 (Carl. Epis. Reg., 

 Best, fo. 22). 



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