ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



made without the consent of patrons."" As an effect of this and subsequent 

 mandates, two appointments to livings in 1254 may be noted. St. Mary's 

 Abbey presented Roger of Meulan to Stokesley, nominally held by Stephen 

 of Anagni, and Roger Heslerton to Rudston, which was said to be occupied 

 by ' Wyschardus transmontanus.' '^ 



Numerous ordinations of vicarages occur in Gray's register and the 

 register of the dean and chapter.®' Gray placed the dignities and prebends 

 of the church of York on a substantial footing. In 1 218 he separated 

 the treasurership from the archdeaconry of the East Riding, and endowed 

 it with a portion of the prebend of Sherburn, dividing the remaining 

 portion into the prebends of Wistow and Fenton.'^ In 1221 he appropri- 

 ated the church of Hornby to the common fund of the chapter.'* This 

 church was granted to him by St. Mary's Abbey, probably in return for 

 the appropriation to them of the rectories of Catterick, West Gilling, 

 Overton, and a mediety of Middleton Tyas.'* Kirkby Ouseburn, granted 

 to Gray by Fountains Abbey, was appropriated to the chantership ; °° and 

 West Acklam, obtained from Thornton Abbey, was annexed to the 

 chancellorship." On i May 1228 Gray made an arrangement with the 

 abbey of Aumale about its advowsons in Holderness. Six churches, 

 Preston, Mappleton, Withernwick, Burton Pidsea, Wawne, and Tunstall, he 

 reserved to his own use. In compensation he allowed the convent to 

 appropriate Aldbrough, Skeckling, and Kilnsea, restored to them the rectories 

 and vicarages of PauU, Owthorne, and Withernsea, granted them certain 

 tithes and pensions, and renewed a grant of the chapel of Birstall.'^ He 

 annexed Preston to the newly created sub-deanery, to which he collated 

 John Romanus.®' Burton Pidsea was appropriated in 1230 to the church 

 of York to provide stipends for the vicars ; "" Mappleton was annexed to 

 the archdeaconry of the East Riding, Wawne to the chancellorship, Tunstall 

 to the sub-chantership, Withernwick to the prebend of Holme.^ In October 

 1240 Gray ordained vicarages in the three churches of the prebend of 

 Fenton, viz. Sherburn, Kirk Fenton, and St. Maurice in Monkgate.' 

 Similar ordinations were made in the churches of Wetwang, Fridaythorpe, 

 and Kirkby Wharfe, annexed to the prebend of Wetwang.* In 1 242 the 



" Matt. Paris, Chron. Maj. (Rolls Ser.), iii, 612-14. 



" Tork Reg. Gray (Surt. Soc), pt. i, no. dli, dlv (pp. 119, izo). Roger of Meulan is probably the 

 bishop of that name who was consecrated to the see of Chester, Coventry, and Lichfield, 10 Mar. 1257-8. 



" Guy's provisions for the ornaments of churches in his diocese should be noticed (ibid. App. no. 

 Ixxxi (i), pp. 217 seq.). The parishioners were to supply chalice, missal, the principal set of vestments for 

 celebrant, deacon, and sub-deacon, copes for use on festivals by the celebrant and the rulers of the quire, a 

 processional cross, ' alia crux minor pro mortuis,' holy-water stoup, pax, paschal candlestick, censer, ' lucerna 

 cum tintinnabulo,' lenten veil, candlesticks for processional use, the church books, a frontal for the high altar, 

 three surplices, a pyx, a banner ' pro rogationibus,' the bells with their ropes, the font 'cum serura,' chris- 

 matory, images in the church, an image of the patron-saint in the chancel. They were charged with the 

 repair of all the above, the lighting of the church, the repair of the nave, the glazing of windows in nave and 

 tower, the inclosure of the churchyard, &c. The rectors or vicars were held responsible for the repair of 

 the chancel, with its roof and windows, desks and foot-stools, &c., with the repair of the rectory, &c. 



" Ibid. App. no. viii (pp. 132, 133). " Ibid. App. no. xiv (pp. 139, 14.0). 



" Ibid. App. no. xi (pp. 136, 137 : Sept. 1220). ^ Ibid. App. no. xvi (pp. 141, 142). 



" Ibid. App. no. xviii (pp. 143, 144). 



" Ibid. pt. i, no. cviii (pp. 22, 23). 



°' Ibid. pt. i, no. cxxvi (pp. 26, 27). '°° Ibid. pt. i, no. ccxvi (p. 48). 



' Ibid. pt. i, no. ccxx (pp. 52, 53). 



' Ibid. App. no. Ivii (p. 185 seq.) 



' Ibid. App. no. Iviii (pp. 189, 190), This stall was held at the time by the Archdeacon of York. 



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