A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



buildings of the hospital, and was bound by an 

 oath to perform all his duties. 13 



In 1501 Mr. Dykar was appointed master H on 

 the resignation of Alexander Lee, who, owing 

 to paralysis and other troubles, had for some 

 months been so infirm as to require the services 

 of a coadjutor. 16 Mr. Dykar was a most un- 

 scrupulous person. He expelled from the hos- 

 pital all the poor inmates for whose benefit it 

 primarily existed, and in their place added to the 

 staff two priests, two deacons, and four boy- 

 choristers. The change considerably increased 

 the master's income, which was still further 

 augmented by the reduction of the clerical staff 

 in the course of the reign of Henry VIII to two 

 priests, two deacons, and two children. 16 



In the Valor of 1535 the annual value of 

 Sherburn Hospital is given as 142 os. 4< lr As 

 a secular foundation it was not dissolved with 

 the religious houses, but continued to exist in a 

 more or less impoverished and disorganized state, 

 the subject of many broils, till in 1585 it was 

 incorporated anew under the name of Christ's 

 Hospital, Sherburn. The number of brethren 

 was raised to thirty, under a master who was to 

 be a preacher holding no other cure ; and the 

 bishop was empowered to make rules for its good 

 government. 18 The well-known Valentine Dale 

 was the first master under the new regime. 19 

 From time to time the bishops of Durham have 

 issued fresh ordinances for the house ; those made 

 by Bishop Butler in I735 20 holding good till the 

 hospital was reconstituted by the Charity Com- 

 missioners in i857. 21 



MASTERS OF SHERBURN HOSPITAL 



Arnold of Auckland, occ. 



Ralph the Monk 23 



Warren of Godet 24 



Martin of St. Cross, app. I245, 26 occ. I259 26 



Roger of Seyton, occ. c. 1269 27 



William of the Island, occ. I302 28 



Lambert of Trikingham, occ. 1 3 1 3 29 



13 Dur. Epis. Reg. Langley, fol. 244. 



14 Ibid. Fox, fol. 46. 



15 Ibid. fol. 39 d. l6 Allan, Coll. 



17 In the list of hospitals in Bishop Tunstall's Epis. 

 Reg. I 530, the value is given as 100. 



18 Surt. Hist. Dur. i (2), 132. 



19 Dur. Epis. Reg. Barnes, fol. 19. 



n Printed in extenso, Surt. Hut. Dur. i (2), 135. 



11 Account of Chris fs Hospital, Sherburn, by H. A. 

 Mitton, M.A., p. ii. 



" Allan, Coll. 



K G. S. Faber, Master of Sherburn, 1850. MS. 

 note in the margin of Mr. LongstafFe's copy of Sur- 

 tees' Hist, i (2), 127, &c. Now in the library of the 

 Dean and Chapter of Durham. 



" Ibid. >5 Allan, Coll. 



K Wills and Invent. (Surt. Soc.), i, 6. 



" Allan, Coll. 88 Ibid. 



19 Reg. Pa/at. Dun. ii, 1224. 



Thomas of Haswell, occ. before I33O 30 

 Thomas de Nevill, presented 1340" 

 John of Westwitton, occ. I343 32 

 Alan of Shuttlington, coll. 15 August, 1362 33 

 Thomas of Bernolby, coll. I3&7 84 

 John of Waltham, occ. 8 May, I384, 35 res. 

 I 3 88 36 



Thomas Haxeye, app. by the king, 13 Sep- 

 tember, 1388" 



Henry Godebarne, estate ratified, 28 Septem- 

 ber, I 3 8 9 38 



John Stacy, app. by king, 26 September, I390 39 

 John Burgess, app. by king, 1 7 August, 1391 40 

 John Wendelyngburgh, died before 22 Sep- 

 tember, 1395" 



Nicholas Slake, app. 22 September, 1395, p.m. 

 John Wendelyngburgh 42 



Alan of Newark, occ. 3 January, I4O3-4, 43 

 res. 1409,** died 1411 46 



John Newton, inducted 1 4 June, 141 1, 46 occ. 

 January, 141 5-6 47 



Nicholas Dixon, coll. 28 November, 1427, 

 p.m. J. Newton 48 



John Marshall, coll. July, 1433, p.r. N.Dixon 49 

 Alexander Lee, coll. c. 1490 w 

 Robert Dykar, coll. 1501, p.r. A. Lee 61 

 Roderick Gundisalve, app. 1 1 May, 1507 M 

 Geoffrey Wren, occ. 1524, d. 4 April, I527 63 

 Edward Fox, app. 1527 64 

 Sir Thomas Leigh, kt., coll. 14 September, 

 1535, d. 1545" 



Anthony Bellasis, app. 1545, d. I552 66 

 Sir Richard Read, kt. occ. 1552 " 

 Anthony Sal v in, app. 13 August, I552, 68 de- 

 prived for Romanism I559 69 

 Ralph Skinner, occ. 1559 w 

 Thomas Lever, app. 28 January, 1 562-3 61 

 Ralph Lever, coll. 16 July, 1577, p.m. T. 

 Lever 68 



Valentine Dale, pres. 17 April, I585 63 



80 Dugdale, Man. Angl. (ed. 1846), vi, 668. 

 11 Reg. Pa/at. Dun. iii, 275. 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Bury (in Reg. Hatfield), fol. 5. 



83 Ibid. Hatfield, fol. 129. * Ibid. fol. 142. 



" Dugdale, Mm. Angl. (ed. 1846), vi, 668. 



86 Ibid. 



" Pat. 12 Ric. II, pt. I, m. 21. 



"Ibid. m. 12. " Ibid. m. 22. 



40 Ibid. m. 24. "Ibid. m. 1 8. "Ibid. 



48 Wills and Invent. (Surt. Soc.), i, 5 1 n. " Ibid. 



46 Ibid. ; Dur. Epis. Reg. Langley, fol. 41. 



46 Dur. Epis. Reg. Langley, fol. 41 d. 



" Ibid. fol. 79 d. 



48 Ibid. fol. 134. " Ibid. fol. 204 /. 



M Allan, Coll. 



81 Dur. Epis. Reg. Fox, fol. 48. 



61 Dugdale, Men. Angl. (ed. 1846), vi, 668. 



68 Ibid. " Allan, Coll. 



65 Dugdale, Man. Angl. (ed. 1846), vi, 668. 

 M Ibid. " Ibid. M Ibid. 



69 Surt. Hist. Dur. i (2), 131. M Allan, Coll. 

 81 Dugdale, Mon. Angl. (ed. 1846), vi, 668. 



68 Dur. Epis. Reg. Barnes, fol. I d. 

 68 Ibid. fol. 19. 



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