ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



Clement VI consecrated Zouche, and the king withdrew his objections.^' 

 The two great events of Zouche's primacy were his redemption at 

 Neville's Cross (1347) of Melton's failure at Myton,'^ and the Black 

 Death. In July 1348 the plague was threatening Yorkshire ; it lasted till 

 the end of 1349.'' Nearly one half of the parish priests of the arch- 

 deaconries of York and Cleveland are said to have perished.'*'' To supply the 

 deficiency four additional ordinations a year were permitted.'^ Hugh, 

 Archbishop of Damascus, conferred orders and dedicated graveyards for 

 Zouche.'^ Meanwhile the visitation of Durham was disputed between Zouche 

 and Bishop Hatfield. On 6 February 1348-9 clerks of the bishop made a dis- 

 graceful scene in York Minster." Zouche, however, was mindful of the 

 'spiritual welfare of his flock, insisted on the observance of festivals, especially 

 those of the Blessed Virgin,** and incurred excommunication by resisting a 

 papal provision to the deanery of York.'" His chapel on the south side of 

 the quire of York Minster recalls his memory.*" He ordained a large 

 number of vicarages. Egglestone Abbey impropriated Rokeby Church in 

 1342, and Great Ouseburn in 1348." Easby, another sufferer from the 

 Scots, impropriated Manfield (1347).*^ Meaux Abbey, impoverished by the 

 Black Death, impropriated Keyingham (1349).*' 



John of Thoresby, translated from Worcester in 1351, was the first 

 archbishop translated to the see since GifFard. Zealously earnest for the good 

 of his much-tried people, Thoresby assiduously held visitations, and provided 

 his clergy with an epitome of the religious teaching which he desired them 

 to give.** His ordinations of vicarages include Harewood, appropriated to 

 the monastery of Bolton (1353), Hemingbrough, to Durham (1356), All 

 Saints Pontefract, to Pontefract (1361), and Appleton-le-Street, to St. Albans 

 (1358).*^ He also appropriated Huntington Church to the sub-chanter and 

 vicars-choral of York (1354)," and ordained vicarages in other churches 

 belonging to the chapters of York, Beverley, and Howden.*' In two respects 

 his pontificate marks an epoch in the history of the see. He brought the 

 strife with Canterbury to an end ; the use of the cross by one primate in the 

 other's province was allowed, but the title oi prima s totius Britanniae was ceded 

 to Canterbury.** And, on 30 July 1361, Thoresby laid the foundation stone 



" Cal. Pat. 1340-3, pp. 502, 504, 514. " Lett. N. Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 387 seq. 



'^ In York it lasted from about the Ascension (21 May) to St. James's Day (z; July) 1349; Stubbs, 

 Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 418. 



" C. Creighton, ap. Traill and Mann, Social Engl, ii, 188. 



" Lett. N. Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 401, 402. 



'* Hiit. Ch. York. (Rolls Ser.), iii, 268 seq. Chapels dedicated include Fulford, Cleasby, Seamer-in- 

 Cleveland, Brotton, and Easby-in-Cleveland. 



" Lett. N. Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 397 seq. '» Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), iii, 254 seq. 



'' See notice of Zouche in Diet. Nat. Biog. Ixiii, 420 seq. 



" Stubbs, Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 418, 419 ; will of Zouche and licence from dean and chapter to 

 build chapel, printed in Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), iii, 271 seq. 



" Lawton, op. cit. 582, 557. " Ibid. 580 ; Cal. Pat. 1345-8, p. 362. 



" Lawton, op. cit. 400. 



" For an account of this work, issued in Latin and English in 1357, see Dixon and Raine, op. cit. 

 469 seq. Both versions have been edited by T. F. Simmons and H. E. Nolloth (Early Engl. Text. Soc. 

 orig. series, no. 118, 1891). 



" Lawton, op. cit. 63, 440, 146, 513. " Ibid. 445. 



" Mediety of Bubwith (1365), Welwick (1361), Laxton (1370); Lawton, op. cit. 331,421, 348. 

 The other mediety of Bubwith, in which a vicarage was also ordained, was impropriated by Byland Abbey. 



" Stubbs, Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 419. The agreement is in York Epis. Reg. Lawrence Booth, 

 fol. 77. 



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