A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



12 March 1395-6, to which the gild of St. George was united at a later 

 date. In 1426 this gild founded two chantries in the minster ; and in 

 1446 its master and brethren joined the lord mayor and commonalty in 

 building the present gildhall.'' At Beverley, Hull, Ripon, Rotherham, 

 Wakefield, and other towns important gilds were erected ; and, as at Beverley 

 and Wakefield, some of these organized the religious dramas of the Corpus 

 Christi festival.'^ The gild of the Holy Trinity at Hull, founded 1369, 

 and incorporated by charter of 20 Henry VI, survives as the Brotherhood 

 of Trinity House." 



In 1480 Lawrence Booth was succeeded by Thomas Scott, Bishop of 

 Lincoln and Chancellor of England, better known as Rotherham."^ He was 

 not enthroned until a year after his translation.'* Much of his diocesan work 

 was transacted by a suffragan and vicar-general. Since the beginning of the 

 14th century the archbishops had employed the occasional help of suffra- 

 gans,^*^ to whom they assigned definite stipends. The Bishop of Sodor and 

 Man was commissioned to celebrate orders in 1351 and 1353.^ In 1359 

 Geoffrey, Archbishop of Damascus, was appointed suffragan by Thoresby, 

 who employed at least four other suffragans at different times, not counting 

 the Bishops of Carlisle and Norwich.' During the 15th century successive 

 Bishops of Dromore were suffragans. One of these consecrated churches for 

 Archbishop Bowet in 1424,* and dedicated Holy Trinity at Hull in 1425.* 

 Three chapels were consecrated by the bishop who helped Rotherham — 

 Middlesmoor (1484), Wentworth (1491), and Hook (1499).' Ordinations 

 were also conducted by him.* Various bishops in partibus aided the arch- 

 bishops during the i 5th century ; and the Bishop of Negropont consecrated 

 Huddersfield Church for Archbishop Savage in 1503.'' 



Rotherham died in 1500.* His three successors emphasized the detach- 

 ment of the archbishop from his see. Thomas Savage, translated from London 

 (1501), was never publicly enthroned at York. At Beverley he was enthroned 

 by proxy : for the first time, none of the banquets and rejoicings at the incoming 

 of a new archbishop were held. His biographer calls him a mighty hunter, 

 and mentions his household of tall servants, and his works of rebuilding and 

 repair at Cawood and Scrooby.' Christopher Bainbridge, translated from 

 Durham (1508), spent five out of the six years of his archiepiscopate at 

 Rome, and died there, poisoned, as his servants maintained, by the connivance 



'^Torks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), i, 82 ; Drake, op. cit. 329, 330. 



^ See, with reference to the Yorkshire gilds and dramas, Ten Brink, Hist. Engl. Literature (Engl, trans. 

 1895), ii, 256 seq. Some important Yorkshire gilds are enumerated by Page, Torh. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc.), 

 i, pref. p. ix. »' Lawton, op. cit. 389. 



^ Translated 3 Sept. 1480 ; Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 439. 



" 8 Sept. 148 1 ; ibid. 439, 440. 



"" Irish bishops were frequently employed, e.g. the Bishop of Annaghdown by Greenfield, and the Bishop 

 of Leighlin, appointed suffragan by Zouche in 1344. 



' Dixon and Raine, op. cit. 446, 458. 



' Ibid. 458, 459 note, 460 and note, 475 note. 



' Viz. St. Crux and St. Helen's-on-the- Walls, York ; Bolton Percy, Wigginton, and a chapel in Seamer 

 (Pickering Lythe) parish (Lawton, op. cit. o, 11, CC.a?^. \\i\. 



•Ibid. 388. '33.f/j. J ; 



' Ibid. 569, 241, 158. 



' Leigh Bennett, Archbishop Rotherham (1901), 130. 



' Lawton, op. cit. 137. The Bishop of Philippi consecrated Cowthorpe Church in 1458 ; see note 70 

 above. 



« At Cawood, 29 May 1500 {Hist. Ch. York [Rolls Ser.], ii, 440). • Ibid. 442. 



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