RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Robert Bellamy, occ. 1589** 



Thomas Murray, app. 1608 ** 



William Shawe, coll. II July, 1623** 



David Miles, 'curate in Sherburn Hospital,' 



occ. 1 626" 



John M action, occ. 24 September, 1636, 



ejected i642 w 



John Fenwick, sen. occ. l6 43} usurpers 9 



John Fenwick, jun. occ. 1654} 



John Machon, restored 12 March, 1660 I * 



John Montague, occ. i68o 71 



Thomas Rundle, D.D., occ. 1727 7> 



Wadham Chandler, occ. I August, I735 71 



Robert Stillingfleet, occ. June, 1738 74 



David Gregory, D.D., occ. 15 September, 



1759"; d. 1767." 



Mark Hildesley, D.D., occ. 21 September, 



1767" 



Thomas Dampier, D.D., occ. 1773, res. 1774 



Thomas Dampier, D.D., coll. June, 1774 n 



Andrew Bell, D.D., occ. iSog 80 



George S. Faber, app. 1832, d. i854 81 



Edward Prest, app. 1857 



James Carr, app. 1861 



Henry A. Mitton, app. 1874, pres. master 



The seal of Sherburn House bears a full-length 

 figure of our Lord, clad in a long robe, holding in 

 His left hand a crown, and in His right a scroll 

 with the words ' Dato et retribuam.' In the dis- 

 tance a lame man is represented, approaching the 

 door of the hospital. Legend 



SIGILLUM'HOSPITALIS'CHRISTI ' IN 1 SHEREBURNE. 81 



20. THE HOSPITAL OF THE HOLY 

 TRINITY, GATESHEAD 



The origin of this hospital is unknown. It 

 was in existence about the year 1200 (and 

 possibly long before), as a foundation for the 

 support of a chaplain and three poor brethren. 

 To it, at about that period, Osmund son of 

 Hamo gave four acres of land in ' Harlei,' close 

 to Benchelm Wood. 83 



In 1226 Henry of Ferlington, constable of 

 Durham, bestowed on the hospital his vill of 

 Kyo in frankalmoign to provide a chaplain to 



44 Allan, Coll. 



44 S.P. Dom. Addend. Jas. I, mix, No. 50. 



44 Dur. Epis. Reg. Neile, fol. 54. 



47 Ibid. fol. 92. 



* Dugdale, Man. Angl. (ed. 1 846), vi, 668. 



* Allan, Coll. ' n Ibid. " Ibid. 

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



n Ibid. " Ibid. n Ibid. 



74 H. A. Mitton, Account of Christ* s Hospital, p. 10. 



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



" Ibid. " Ibid. Ibid. 



41 H. A. Mitton, ut supra, p. 1 8. 



* Engraved on title-page of Allan's Coll. 



" Orig. Chart, in the vestry at Gateshead. 



celebrate and to maintain three poor men to 

 pray for the soul of the donor ; M and by an un- 

 dated charter Baldwin-with-the-head gave to 

 Gerard son of Geve, steward of the hospital, 

 seventeen acres in the south part of his Held called 

 Alrisburne, reserving a rent of 8d. towards the 

 repair of Tyne Bridge. 8 * 



The house seems to have been poor and un- 

 important, and in 1248 it had sunk so low that 

 the inmates could afford to live neither a religious 

 nor a secular life. Bishop Farnham in conse- 

 quence of this united it with his new hospital of 

 St. Edmund the Confessor. 8 * 



21. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN 

 THE BAPTIST, BARNARD CASTLE 



This hospital is said to have been founded in 

 or about the year 1230 by the elder John Baliol, 

 but the evidence is imperfect. 1 It was dedicated 

 to the honour of St. John the Baptist, and was 

 occupied by three poor women who received a 

 pension in money and coals to pray for the soul 

 of the founder. 3 Surtees describes the house as 

 ' a low thatched building, containing one room 

 only, called the bedehouse.' * In the fifteenth 

 century, however, it possessed a church of its 

 own, for in 1497 the pope granted an indulgence 

 of a hundred days to all who attended ' the 

 church of the said hospital ' on the feasts of the 

 nativity and beheading of its patron saint. This 

 was done to aid the funds of the house, which 

 were low at the time. 4 



The Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1536 gives the 

 clear value of the hospital as $ 91. ^d. The 

 list of its possessions at that time includes the 

 site and house ; land called Septem (or Sewinge) 

 Flatts and a cottage ; lands, pasture, &c. in Selby 

 [Seleby] ; rents in Hullerbush [Hullerbuske] 

 and Ovington ; a pension of ^i 6s. 8d. from 

 Rievaulx Abbey ; and tithes from the mills of 

 Barnard Castle, Gainford, and Bywell. The 

 particulars given in the Commissioners' Report 

 in 1594 agree in the main with the above, the 

 pension of I 6s. 8d. being then paid from the 

 revenues of the dissolved abbey of Rievaulx. 



The sole event in the pre-Re formation history 

 of the hospital is a robbery of certain of its goods 

 which took place in 1355, and was punished 



* Madox, Formul. Angl. 58. 



* Brand, Hist. Newcastle, \, 464-5. 



** Orig. Chart, in Aug. Off., printed by Brand, 

 Hiit. Newcastle. 



1 Surt. Hiit. Dur. iv (i), 80 ; see Hutchinson, Hist. 

 Dur. iii, 137. 



' Surt. ut supra ; see Arch. Atliana (New Scr.), 



vi, 45- 



1 Hill. Dur. iv (i), 80. 



4 Indulgence, printed by Surt. Hist. Dur. iv (i), 

 121 ; possibly this church may be identified with 

 the ' Bedelcirk,' an old deserted chapel which stands 

 at the head of Gallowgate, and the history of which 

 is unknown. 



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