A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



Young set about his work with zeal." If much else was changed, the arch- 

 bishop still held to his right of visiting Durham diocese, and the Bishop of 

 Durham was still resolute in resisting him.'" In June 1563 Young reported 

 that the North was quiet, but the nobility, gentry, and clergy were still 

 to be feared." A list of 'recusants which were abroad and bound to 

 certain places,' made probably about August 1562, gives the names of some 

 of the most formidable clergy. The Bishop of Hull was confined to the 

 neighbourhood of Ugthorpe ; he is described as ' very wealthy and stiff in 

 papistry, and of estimation in the country.' '^ The number of clergy deprived 

 in the county between 1559 and Young's visitation seems to have included, 

 apart from Archbishop Heath and his suffragan, the Archdeacons of York 

 and Richmond, six prebendaries of York, five parochial clergy in the arch- 

 deaconry of York, six in the East Riding, three in Cleveland, and three 

 in Richmond. To these must be added the Archdeacon of Chester, 

 rector of Ripley, and the Bishop of Carlisle, rector of Romaldkirk.'' Subse- 

 quent deprivations include three parochial clergy in the West Riding, two 

 in the East Riding, three in Cleveland, and one in Richmond.'* These 

 lists are only approximate ; the main inference is that the majority of the 

 contumacious clergy of 1559 eventually took the oath. Dr. Palmes, the 

 recusant Archdeacon of York, deprived in 1559, was imprisoned in 1561, 

 and so continued in 1563." 



In 1566-7 Young consecrated Richard Barnes as his suffragan with the 

 title of Bishop of Nottingham." The archbishop died in 1568, leaving 

 behind him a reputation marred by his destruction of the hall of the palace 

 at York." Some credit must be given to his ability in the difficult task of 

 conciliating the North. No important rising had taken place since the final 

 suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace. In 1548 the dissolution of the 

 chantries had been followed by an attempted insurrection at Seamer, near 

 Scarborough.. A receiver of chantry lands and three others were murdered. 

 The ringleaders were executed at York (1549).'' In 1569, however, the 

 Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland headed the Rising of the North. 

 On 1 4 November mass was restored at Durham and Ripon ; little more than 

 a month later the rebellion was over. The punishment which followed 

 fell with excessive severity on the poorer classes." While cowing further 

 efforts at insurrection, it kept alive that steady recusancy of which later 

 Yorkshire records afford so many traces. 



Edmund Grindal, Bishop of London, was translated to York, June 

 1570,^*^ and set to work to enforce the statutes of 1559. His injunctions, 

 issued before visitation, required the destruction of altars, vestments, mass- 

 books, chalices, and rood-lofts, and the erection, at least in larger churches, 



** Cal. S.P. For. Eliz. 1561, p. 135. w Ibid. 226. 



" Ibid. 1564-5, p. 168. 



" S.P. Dom. Eliz. Add. xi, 45, printed in Gee, op. cit. 179 seq. 



" Gee, op. cit. 252 seq. (App. i). " Ibid. 288 seq. (App. iii). 



^ Cal. S.P. For. Eliz. 1564-5, p. 168. 



" Stubbs, Rfg. Sacr. jingl. 107. 



^ Drake, op. cit. 454. It was said that he wanted the lead to buy an estate for his son, but he wai 

 cheated of the profit. The story comes from Sir John Harrington's appendix to Godwin's De Praesufibus 

 ylng.-ue, and is noticed by FuUer, op. c;t. bk. ix, sect, ii, § 14. 



" Torks. Ckant. Surv. (Surt. See), i, pref. p. xvi. 



" See Froude, Hist, of Engl, ix, 177 seq. '" Drake, op. cit. 454. 



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