A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



of the new eastern arm of York Minster. He lived to finish the Lady- 

 Chapel.*' When ^neas Sylvius visited York in 1435 he spoke of the- 

 light interior of the completed church, its walls of glass, and its slender 

 clustered piers. ^^ 



Thoresby and his successor, Alexander Nevill, received mandates from 

 the pope and king to proceed against heretics in their diocese." Innocent VI 

 tells Thoresby that such heretics are said to impugn the necessity of good 

 works to salvation, and the doctrine of original sin. Whatever his attitude 

 towards heretics may have been, Nevill's sixteen years of office (1374-88) 

 were mainly spent in useless quarrels with his chapter. He drove vicars out 

 of Beverley Minster, replacing them by unwilling substitutes from York." 

 The expelled vicars, after some wretched years of fugitive wandering, obtained 

 restoration ; " and Nevill, after a long process, was cast in his suit before the 

 curia. His support of Richard II combined with unpopularity at home to 

 effect his downfall. The Parliament of 1388 attainted him of treason.'* 

 He attempted to escape abroad, but was taken at Tynemouth," and was 

 eventually banished. Urban VI translated him to the see of St. Andrews — 

 an empty honour, as Scotland recognized the anti-pope." Nevill died at 

 Louvain in 1392." 



To Nevill succeededThomas Arundel, Bishop of Ely, translated in 1388.'* 

 He was translated to Canterbury in 1396. His successor, Robert Waldby, 

 Bishop of Chichester, spent the forty weeks of his primacy in London, and was 

 buried in Westminster Abbey.'' In June 1398 Innocent VII translated 

 Richard Scrope from Coventry and Lichfield.*'' The new archbishop received 

 Bolingbroke on his landing, and gave a qualified support to his claims. But 

 the attitude of Henry IV to the Church drove Scrope into opposition. 

 Making common cause with the survivors of Shrewsbury, he excommuni- 

 cated the king." On 29 May 1405 he assembled his men on Shipton Moor, 

 near York, declaring his intention of seeking redress, by peaceful discussion, 

 from the taxes with which the Church was burdened. The king's representa- 

 tives lured him to a conference ; he walked with his cross erect into the trap, 

 and was taken prisoner to Pontefract. The king was at Bishopthorpe, and 

 Scrope was brought to trial in his own hall, where a judge appointed by 

 Henry on the refusal of the Chief Justice pronounced sentence of death." 

 Scrope was beheaded near Clementhorpe Priory ; four vicars-choral of the 



" Stubbs, Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 420, 42 1 . With Thoresby, Stubbs's portion of the Chron. Pontif. 

 ends ; and his continuator soon begins to be far less full in detail. 



" ^n. Sylvius, Commentarla, v, quoted by Creighton, Hist. Papacy, iii, 55. 

 " Cal. Papal Utters, 18 Aug. 1355 ("i, 565) ; Cal. Pat. 1381-5, p. 487. 

 " Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Sen), ii, 423. 5' F 1- / 



Cal. Pat. 1385-9, p. 465 : commission to restore vicars, &c. 

 '* Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 424 ; Cal. Pat. 138C-Q, pp. 401-2, &c. 

 " Cal. Pat. 1385-9, p. 484. :y :> ^'VV -^ 



K uu" f "'•5'^- ^y'' (R°"= Ser.), ii, 424 ; Cal. Pat. 1385-9, p. 504. The same compliment was paid to 

 Archbishop Arundel m 1398. 



" Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 424. 



"Mandate to restore temporalities, 14 Sept. 1388 {Cal. Pat. 1385-9, p. 504). Arundel received his 

 pall at Cambridge on the same day ; Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 425. The account of his episcopate in 

 Htst. Lb. lork (Rolls Ser.), 11, 425 seq., is chiefly a recitation of his gifts to the minster. 



I r^"i- ^''- ^°'^ (^°"' ^''■^' "' +"7, +28. « Ibid. 428, 429. 



Ibid. 430 seq. Scrope's ' Articuli contra Henricum Quartum ' (MS. C.C.C. Camb. 197, fol. 8;-q8) 

 are printed in «w/. C^ rwvJ (Rolls Ser.), ii, 292 seq. 



" Narrative of Scrope's rebellion in Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), iii, 288 seq. 



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