A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



Although he had sought refuge with the foreign reformers during the reign 

 of Mary, his views were those of a cautious Anglican, resenting ' all such 

 rude and indigested platformes as have been more lately and boldly then 

 either learnedly or wisely preferred,' and the reducing of the Church of 

 England to 'the state of a small private church.'" Sandys had an unfortunate 

 genius for quarrelling, and he was soon on bad terms with his dean, 

 Matthew Hutton, whose orders were Genevan. An attempt to visit Durham 

 officially was resisted by the dean, William Whittingham, another prominent 

 Genevan divine. In 1578 Whittingham's proceedings led to the appoint- 

 ment of a commission consisting, among others, of Sandys, Hutton, and the 

 Earl of Huntingdon, who, as President of the North, incurred Sandys' enmity 

 by coveting Bishopthorpe. The commission met in the chapter-house at 

 Durham. Sandys broached the subject of Whittingham's orders. Hutton 

 took up their defence and an unedifying wrangle followed. The com- 

 missioners went to dinner. The archbishop neither ate, nor drank, nor 

 spoke, but after dinner was bitter against Hutton. He apparently dismissed 

 all dignity in contrasting his own learning with that of the dean, and 

 sneering at the dean's preaching as ' a lytle heapinge upp of doctors and 

 poets, lytle sdifyinge.' It is little wonder that the commission was a 

 failure.^- The quarrel was continued at York ; articles were issued against 

 the dean ; and eventually Hutton had to make his submission.^" Sandys' 

 want of self-restraint, and irritation at the not ill-founded charge that he 

 was enriching his family at the expense of the church, led him into counter- 

 charges against the chapter, and reflexions on the engrossment of 

 leases by his predecessor.'* An excellent and pious man, he displayed a 

 weakness in his public dealings, which on at least one occasion nearly led to 

 the triumph of baser enemies than Hutton." He died in 1588 and was 

 buried at Southwell.'* His immediate successor was John Piers, translated 

 from Salisbury in 1589, when Dean Hutton became Bishop of Durham. In 

 1594 Piers died, and Hutton returned to York as archbishop." 



Some idea of the condition of Yorkshire parish churches at this time 

 may be gained from the visitation returns from the churches within the Dean 

 of York's peculiar, between 1568 and 1602." These churches were Pickering 

 and Pocklington with their former chapels and Kilham." The articles of 

 inquiry administered to the wardens and ' fidedigni ' of each parish were 

 framed on the injunctions of 1559. No return bears witness to any direct 

 infringement of the Act of Uniformity. The sins of the incumbents are 

 mainly on the side of omission. At Barnby-on-the-Moor in i 595 there was no 



" Will of Archbishop Sandys, quoted by Drake, op. cit. 455. 



" Add. MS. 33207, fol. 5 seq. Ibid. fol. 13, occurs a document endorsed by Hutton, 'The Dean of 

 Duresme's testimonials concerning my orders at Geneva.' 



" Lansd. MS. 50, fol. 78, 79 ; 'the Speech to be used by the Deane of Yorke.' 



" Sandys to Burghley, ibid. fol. 72, 73, beginning 'The Deane spitteth out his venome still, and hath 

 used means to infect the verie Court. There is no end of his malice.' 



'* DLL Nat. Biog. 1, 283 seq. '« Drake, op. cit. 455. 



" Ibid. 456 seq. For Piers' character and virtues see Fuller, op. cit., bk. ix, sect, viii, § 9. 



" Tcrks. Arch. Joum. x\'iii, 197-232, 313-41. 



" For the ordination and consolidation of these benefices by Gray, see note 5, p. 26. The chapels formed 

 into vicarages by Gray were these : — From Pickering : Allcrston-with-Ebberston, Ellerburn-with-Wihon ; from 

 Pocklington : Barnby-on-the-Moor-with-Fangfoss, AUerthorpe-with-Thornton, Givendale-with-Miilington, 

 Ha)ton-\vith-Belby, Kilnwick Percy. Goathland was a chapel of Pickering, Yapham-with-Mcltonby of 

 Pocklington. 



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