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Mr. W. Dickson on a Chantry 



A. R. P. 



U swan Wood and others held there nine Burgages, also late parcel 



of the said Chauntry 2 26 



Bayleygate. 

 Four Burgages late belonging to the said Chauntry 1 3 39 



In all forty-four Burgages and Lands, containing Acres 10 3 37 



Amongst the Records of the late Court of Augmentations in 

 the custody of the Master of the Kolls, under the Head of " Cer- 

 tificates of Colleges and Chantries" we find the following entry 

 relating to this Chantry : — 



ED < 



Lands and 

 possessions 

 belonging to 

 the use and 

 stypend of 

 two Priests ; 

 the one Mas- 

 ter of a Gram- 

 mer Scoole, 

 and the other 

 Master of 

 Synge Scoole 

 w th in Alne- 

 wyke afore- 

 seyd. 



The yerely va- 

 lue of the said 

 stypendarys as 

 shall appear by 

 the particular of 

 the same.^12 13 4 



Whereof in de- 

 cay yerely of the 

 same . . . . £4 9 



And so remayn- 

 eth clere.. ,€8 4 4 



Willm Hudson and Thomas 

 Thompson, bothe of 64 yeres 

 of age, well learned, of ho- 

 nest conversation and qua- 

 lyties. The said W m Hud- 

 son having one pencon of 

 100 shillings by the year, 

 besyde his said stypend, the 

 other having no other lyving 

 but only the same stypend. 

 "S And they keep two schooles, 

 the one for grammer and the 

 other for synge, to bring up 

 Children in learning accord- 

 ing to their Foundation, and 

 there is no lande sold syth 

 the 23rd of Nov., 38th 

 Hen. VIII. 



There is of Houseing 

 people 1500 within the same 

 Lparishe. 



We learn from this that the population of the parish was 1500 

 in 1547, or thereabouts; the population is now (1851) about 

 7000, being an average annual increase of 18. 



As the 44 Burgages only produced a rental of £12 13s. 4<d. 

 in 1547, they must have been chiefly cottages and small proper- 

 ties, the average annual rental of each being under six shillings. 

 After the dissolution these Burgages were granted away by the 

 Crown by sale or otherwise, and now belong to various indivi- 

 duals. 



The house where the two Chaplains lived was in Walkergate 

 Street ; it came into the hands of the Percy family, and it is 

 sometimes called "Lady House" or "Chauntry House"; it is 

 now a ruin, but the side walls are standing as well as the gable 

 (Plate No. VII.), from which the style of architecture is shown. 

 The rooms for living and sleeping may be conjectured, and are in 

 some degree shown in the sketches No. VI. and No. VII. 



