RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



MASTERS OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. EDMUND 

 THE KING, GATESHEAD 



Hugh of Lokington, coll. 9 June, 1315.'* 



Richard, occ. 1366." 



William of Brantingham, occ. I374, 18 1378." 



Reginald Porter, coll. 1399.* 



John Newton, coll. 1407, p.r. R. Porter. 11 



John King, coll. 1410-11, p.r. J. Newton,** 



occ. 1436.** 



John Shirwood, occ. 1467,** 1469.** 

 A Master, name unknown, occ. 1507.** 

 Anthony Bellasis, occ. 16 January 1544 5," 

 1546.*" 



Robert Claxton, occ. 1552.** 



John Woodfall, coll. 6 May, 1579,* died c. 



, 1587." 



Clement Colmore, coll. 4 February, 1587-8.'* 

 The rector of Gateshead for the time 

 being. 



29. THE HOSPITAL OF GAINFORD 



There seems to have been a small hospital at 

 Gainford, but scarcely anything is known of it. 

 In 1317 the ad vowson of this hospital was granted 

 to William de la Zouche and Alice his wife, 

 widow of the late earl of Warwick, out of the 

 said earl's property as dower. The yearly value 

 of the advowson is given as 6s. 8d. u 



30. THE HOSPITAL OF WERHALE 



In 1265 Sir Marmaduke, knt., son of Geoffrey, 

 granted to Richard, then warden of the hospital 

 of Werhale, and his successors an annual sum of 

 5 marks, on condition that he and his heirs should 

 be released from a certain payment to the hospital 

 of the corn from two bovates of land, which in 

 time past had been made annually by his pre- 

 decessors. At the date of an inspeximus of this 

 grant made by Bishop Bury, I June, 1344, John 

 de Lynce was warden of the hospital. 14 



COLLEGES 



31. THE COLLEGE OF DARLINGTON 



It has been stated that when Bishop William 

 removed the secular clergy from Durham, he 

 established some of them at Darlington ; * but 

 the church received its collegiate form and consti- 

 tution from Bishop Pudsey, or at least was 

 entirely remodelled by him.* The college con- 

 sisted of a dean, or as he was at first styled a 

 vicar, and four prebendaries. In the Taxation of 

 Pope Nicholas (1291), the revenues are rated 

 at 73 6,. W. 



In 1312 Bishop Kellaw made an inquiry 

 into the defects of the prebendal houses, and 

 gave orders for their repair. 4 



Bishop Neville materially altered the constitu- 

 tion of the college. In his time the prebendaries, 

 though richly endowed, neither resided them- 

 selves nor provided deputies,* so that the whole 

 charge of the parish fell on the vicar, Master 

 Richard Wytton. He was no longer able to 

 sustain the burden, his revenues being greatly 



" Reg. Palat. Dun. (Rolls Ser.J, ii, 706. 

 " Dur. Epi. Reg. Hatfield, fol. 141. 

 " Suit. Hist. Dur. ii, 127. 

 " Rot. B. Hatfield, m. 1 1 d. 



10 Bourne, Hut. Newcastle, 207 ; cf. Hutchinson, 

 Hut. Dur. ii, 457*. 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Langlcy, fol. 10. 



" Ibid. fol. 40. " Ibid, fol. 246 rf. 



14 Suit. Hit. Dur. ii, 127. 



* Pat. 9 Edw. IV, pt. i, m. 24. 



* Script. Tret. (Surt. Soc.), App. cccxvi. 

 " Allan, Co//, relating to Sherburn. 



" Chantry Cert, printed by Brand, Hist. Newcastle, 



>, 473- 



* Surt. Hist. Dur. ii, 1 27. 



* Dur. Epis. Reg. Barnes, foL 5 d. 



diminished, as well by the pestilence (the Black 

 Death) which was rife among the people as by 

 other misfortunes and accidents, in consequence 

 of which the name of vicar was no longer so 

 much honoured among the people. The bishop 

 accordingly (8 November, 1439) ordained that 

 the vicar should thenceforth be called dean ; and 

 for the support of that dignity he erected one 

 additional prebend to be held with the deanery, 

 to consist of the oblations, mortuaries, viltaragc, 

 and offerings which the vicar then held, together 

 with his ancient manse. He also made an 

 arrangement by which the dean was to receive 

 the tithes of each of the other prebends in 

 succession for three years.' 



In addition the bishop ordained (1443) that 

 every prebendary should provide one officiating 



" Royal Com. Rep. 1594. 



" Dur. Epis. Reg. Barnes. 



" Close, 1 1 Edw. II, m. 24. 



M Hunter's MSS. No. 37. Surtees gives the names 

 of Richard and John de Lynce in his list of the masters 

 of St. Edmund's Hospital, Gateshead (Hist. Dur. ii, 

 127), but mentions no authority for doing so. The 

 above appears to be the only reference to the hospital 

 of Werhale, which may possibly be identical with one 

 of the hospitals at Gateshead. (?) 



1 Leland, Coll. i, 385. * Angl. Sacr. i, 724. 



Suit. Hist. Dur. iii, 361. 



* Reg. Palat. Dun. (Rolls Ser.), i, 101, 245. 



' They were great pluralists. William of Kildesby, 

 prebendary in 1343, held at one and the same time 

 seven prebends, a church, a chapel, and a hospital. 

 Pat. 17 Edw. Ill, pt. I, m. 31. 



' Reg. Ecclcs. Dun. iii, fol. 244. This plan was 

 found to be inconvenient, so in 1451 it was ordered 

 that the dean was to keep the prebend of Darlington 

 permanently. Ibid, iv, 77-8. 



