ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



of the Bishop of Worcester, Silvestro de Gigliis.'" Bainbridge was made a 

 cardinal by Julius II." On his death (15 14) the archbishopric was given to 

 Wolsey, then Bishop of Lincoln, who was created cardinal in 15 15.'- 

 Although Wolsey was careful to assert his dignity in competition with 

 Archbishop Warham," he delayed his installation until the last year of his 

 life," and held three EngUsh sees in succession with his archbishopric.^^ 

 His progress into Yorkshire (1530) was marked by belated spiritual energy. 

 He stayed two nights at Nostell Priory, spending six hours of the intermediate 

 day in confirming children. Before leaving next day he confirmed about a 

 hundred more, and some two hundred at Ferrybridge." He remained at 

 Cawood for nearly a month, purposing to be installed on 7 November, and to 

 spend the rest of his life in his diocese." On 4 November the Earl of 

 Northumberland arrested him at Cawood, and two days later he set out on 

 the southward journey, which ended at Leicester on St. Andrew's Day." 



The secularization of the office of archbishop was reflected in the case 

 of lesser dignities. When the Queen-dowager of Scotland came to York at 

 Whitsuntide 15 17, her entertainers were the Abbot of St. Mary's, the Dean 

 of York, and Thomas Dalby, Archdeacon of Richmond." Dalby, who 

 resided at York, was constantly quarrelling with the rest of the chapter.^" 

 His successor, William Knight, reopened the controversy about his rights as 

 archdeacon with Archbishop Lee.**^ Thomas Magnus, Archdeacon of the 

 East Riding, was canon of Lincoln and Windsor, and Dean of the chapel at 

 Bridgenorth ;'' his Yorkshire preferments included the sacristship of St. Sepul- 

 chre's,*' the wardenship of St. Leonard's Hospital,'* the rich rectory of Bedale, 

 and the rectories of Kirkby-in-Cleveland and Sessay.*^ Brian Higdon, Dean 

 of York, held the rectory of Stokesley ; no vicar is mentioned under him in 

 the survey of 1534—5.^° From that survey and other sources it appears that 

 between three and four fifths of the rectories in the diocese were appropriated. 

 A hundred belonged to collegiate bodies and chantries, the Dean and canons 

 of York claiming over seventy. About 250 more were appropriated to 

 various monasteries." Among religious houses in other counties which 

 impropriated Yorkshire churches were Durham Abbey and its cell of 



^^ Hist. Ch. York. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 443. See L. and P. Hen. Fill, i, 5252 (14 July 15 14, Cardinal Giulio 

 de' Medici announces death of Cardinal of York), 5253, 5254, 5349, 5356, 5365, 5396, 5405, 5448, 

 5449, 5465, 5651, 5664. The culprit was a certain Rainaldo da Modena, who implicated the Bishop 

 of Worcester ; but the evidence against the latter was not very strong. 



" 10 March 1510-11 (Pastor, Gesch. der PHpste [1899], iii, 661, 662). His title was Santa Prassede. 



" 10 Sept. 1515 (ibid. [1906], iv, 81). His title was Santa Cecilia in Trastevere. 



" Cavendish, Life ofWoliey (ed. Ellis, 1899), 19. 



" See account of his interview with Dean Higdon at Cawood ; ibid. 199 seq. 



" i.e. administration of Bath and Wells 1518-24, Durham 1524-9, Winchester 1529. 



" Cavendish, op. cit. 195, 196. 



"Ibid. 199, 201. " Ibid. 207 seq. 



" L. and P. Hen. Fill, ii, 3336 : Magnus to Wolsey, 3 June 1517. 



'° Hist. Ch. Tork (Rolls Ser.), ii, 444, mentions a dispute between him and Bainbridge ; see L. and P. 

 Hen. nil, i, 5169. 



" L. and P. Hen. Fill, vi, 1440, 1441, 1451. See Whitaker, Richmondshire, i, 38. 



" Diet. Nat. Biog. xxxv, 324 ; i. and P. Hen. Fill, i, 3579. 



" rorks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), i, 5. 



" Fahr Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 17. 



" Ibid. 245, 89, 98. Bedale was worth ^^92 'js. 8d. gross, ^£89 4/. Sd. net. He was also vicar of 

 Kendal, Warden of Sibthorpe College, Notts, and Prebendary of Llanbadarn Odwyn in the church of 

 Llanddewi Brefi (ibid, v, 268, 186 ; iv, 397). 



"Ibid. V, 89. " Ihid. />aisim. 



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