ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



under a provost." Six chantry-priests were endowed during the rest of 

 the 15th century, and three during the i6th, the last foundation being 

 dated 1537. In each of the three important deaneries of Ainsty, Doncaster, 

 and Pontefract, one chantry can be traced to a definite foundation in the 

 13th century.** In the 14th, two chantries in the Ainsty are dated, 

 one being that of six priests at Harewood (1366) ; eleven in Doncaster ; and 

 five in Pontefract deanery. For the 15th century the numbers are : Ainsty, 

 seven ; Doncaster, eleven ; Pontefract, thirteen. For the first half of the 

 1 6th : Ainsty, three ; Doncaster, eight ; Pontefract, nine. During the 

 pontificate of Rotherham, nine chantries were founded in Pontefract 

 deanery. Seven in Pontefract and five in Doncaster belong to Wolsey's pon- 

 tificate.'^ Small chantry colleges at Lowthorpe (1333) and Sutton-on-HuU 

 (1347) were founded in the 14th century.** The peculiar foundation of 

 Kirkby Overblow belongs to 1362.*^ In 1367 Maud, Lady Marmion, 

 founded a chantry for a warden and two priests at West Tanfield.*^ Sir 

 Richard Scrope received licence in 1393 to found a chantry in Bolton Castle 

 for a warden and five other priests, which appears to have been founded a few 

 years later as the college of Wensley." Of collegiate churches, the most 

 important were Hemingbrough, founded in 1426 by the Prior and convent 

 of Durham,** and Middleham, founded in 1478 by Edward IV, at the request 

 of the Duke of Gloucester.*^ Howden Church had been made collegiate as 

 early as 1267.'" The divided rectory of Osmotherley (1322) also may be 

 counted among collegiate foundations." 



Associations of parishioners, such as those who combined to put in 

 chantry-priests here and there, were probably in many cases gilds, whose 

 chaplain the chantry-priest became. Such gilds are mentioned in connexion 

 with chantries at Snaith, Whitgift, and Doncaster.'^ At Tickhill the 

 incumbent of the gild chantry was admitted by the inhabitants to sing mass 

 at 6 a.m. on Mondays and Saturdays, and the Jesus mass at 9 a.m. on Fridays.'* 

 The gild of Corpus Christi at York had its altar and chaplain in Holy 

 Trinity, Micklegate. This gild, incorporated in 1458, but of earlier origin, 

 organized the festival plays of Corpus Christi Day. On the second day of the 

 feast they held a procession through the city with the Blessed Sacrament, 

 and on the following day a solemn mass and dirge. In their gildhall they 

 provided eight beds for the lodging of poor strangers, which were kept by a 

 woman at their expense ; ten pensioners were maintained by them yearly." 

 Another York gild was that of St. Christopher, founded by licence dated 



^^ Torks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), i, 7 seq. 



" Ibid, ii, 233 (Ferrybridge) ; i, 158 (Bolton-on-Dearne) ; ii, 289 (Rothwell). 



■^ Ibid. The returns for Doncaster Deanery are in vol. i, for Ainsty and Pontefract in vol. ii. 



" Lawton, Co//. 305, 415, 416. Archbishop Melton's ordinances for the college at Lowthorpe will be 

 found in Ca/. Pat. 1330-4, pp. 426-8. For the Harewood chantry, see Torks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), 

 ii, 222. '' Lawton, op. cit. p. 65. 



"« roris. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), i, io6, 107. " Ibid, ii, 558, 559. 



^ Lawton, op. cit. 440, 441 ; Cal. Pat. 1422-9, p. 382. 



" Lawton, op. cit. 568, 569 ; Col. Pat. 1477-85, p. 67. 



^ Lawton, op. cit. 345. 



" Ibid. 499 ; rorks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), i, 124. To these notices of chantries and colleges should 

 be added the mention of the appropriation of Barnby-on-Don Church (1344) to the chantry of Cotterstock, 

 Northants (Lawton, op. cit. 174), and of Dewsbury and Wakefield (1349), Sandal Magna (1356), and Kirk- 

 burton (1357), to St. Stephen's Chapel at Westminster (ibid. 120, 161, 152, 141). 



^ rorks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), ii, 284, 288, 289 ; i, 181, 182. 



°' Ibid, i, 186. " Ibid, i, 54 ; Drake, Ehoracum, 246. 



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