RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Adam de Norhampton, intruded, occurs 



1259'^ and 1266^0 

 R— 1267" 

 William de Richale, occurs 1279" 



[Benedictine] 



William de Richale, occurs 1280,^' resigned 



1291 " 

 William de Eboraco, confirmed 1291,"" 



occurs 1297 ""^ 

 Richard de Halghton, confirmed 1304,''^ 



deprived 1323 " 

 William de Went, 1323,^' resigned 1338 ** 

 William de Appleby, confirmed 1338^' 

 William de Staynton, occurs 1347,'" died 



1349" 

 Hugh Brerley, confirmed 1 349 ^^ 



John de Birthwaite, 1363,'^ occurs 1370^* 



William de Ardesley, 1387,°* resigned 1404 °^ 



John de Crofton, 1404," resigned 1407** 



Thomas Dolldale or Dowdale, confirmed 



1407," died 1425 ^° 

 John de Crofton (second time), elected 1425 *^ 

 Richard de Ledes, occurs 1435,'^ 1442,°' 



1452,^* 1484^* 

 William Batley, elected 1486,*^ died 1494" 

 Robert Drax, confirmed 1494 ^ 

 Roger «' 



Thomas Tickhill, confirmed 1504™ 

 William Browne, confirmed 1523'^ 



" Harl. Chart. 112, F. 28. 



*" Assize R. 1050, m. 13. 



" JrcAip. Giffard'sReg. 155. 



" As William de ' Riole,' Torks. Arch. Journ. xii, 

 398. 



*' York Archiepis. Reg. Wickwane, fol. 353. 



" Ibid. Romanus, fol. 21. "" Ibid. 



"" Lansd. MS. 405 (Cartul. of Monk Bretton), 

 fol. I4d. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. sed. vac. fol. 44^. 



" Ibid. Melton, fol. 160^. 



"Ibid. ; Baildon, Mon. Notes, \, 140, gives 'Went- 

 brig' as an alternative form of his name, but it is 

 always ' Went ' only in the Registers, where it fre- 

 quently occurs. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Melton, fol. zi!,b. 



" Ibid. 



'" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 140. 



*' York Archiepis. Reg. Zouch, fol. 39. 



" Ibid. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 135. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 140. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 135. 



'° York Archiepis. Reg. Scrope, fol. 43. 



" Ibid. " Ibid. sed. vac. fol. 290. 



'' Ibid. ™ Ibid. fol. 4083. " Ibid. 



'' Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 140. *' Ibid. 



«' Cott. Chart, xxviii, 88. 



** Burton, Mon. Ebor. 99. 



^ Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 135. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Rotherham, i, fol. 83. 



«« Ibid. '' Burton, Mon. Ebor. 99. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Savage, fol. 37. 



" Ibid. Wolsey, fol. 71 (5. 



A seal, apparently of the I2th century, is a 

 vesica, 2f in. by 2 in. ; showing a full-length 

 figure of St. Mary Magdalene, the patron saint. 

 Of the legend only the word marie remains." 



2. THE ABBEY OF SELBY 



The abbey of St. Mary and St. German of 

 Selby claimed the Conqueror for its founder, but 

 its origin was due to Benedict, a monk at 

 Auxerre. The legend ' is that Benedict, when 

 a monk at Auxerre, was warned in a dream by 

 St. German to go to England, whither he came, 

 bringing with him as a relic a finger of the saint. 

 Somehow he got to Salisbury, where a person 

 named Edward gave him a beautiful wrought 

 golden shrine to hold the relic, which was after- 

 wards exhibited at Selby. He left for the place 

 in Yorkshire indicated to him in the vision, and 

 established himself as a hermit about the year 

 1068, at the place which afterwards became 

 known as Selby. Here he was found by Hugh, 

 the Sheriff of Yorkshire, by whom he was brought 

 into contact with William the Conqueror, then 

 possibly at York. The Conqueror granted a 

 small piece of land on which to build the monas- 

 tery, and this grant he largely increased by a 

 subsequent charter a year or two afterwards. 



Why William the Conqueror should have 

 chosen Selby for founding the monastery has 

 always been unexplained. Probably Canon 

 Fowler's suggestion is the true explanation of 

 the matter, viz., ' that Hugh the sheriff was so 

 impressed by the holiness and reputation of 

 Benedict and his wonder-working relic that he 

 induced the king to provide that in place of an 

 anchor-hold, there should spring up an abbey, of 

 which the anchorite should be the first abbot.' ^ 



The date of the foundation charter seems to 

 be fixed at about 1070. Symeon of Durham 

 says that Selby Abbey sumpsit exordium in 1069, 

 and as Bishop Remigius, one of the witnesses, 

 was consecrated in 1070, the latter seems to be 

 the probable date of the charter.' In the founda- 

 tion charter* the king granted to Abbot Benedict 

 leave to found an abbey in ' Salebya,' in honour 

 of Our Lord Jesus Christ, His blessed Mother 

 the Virgin Mary, and St. German, Bishop of 

 Auxerre, and gave the abbey its own court, with 

 sac and soc, and tol and theam, and infangenthef, 

 and all the better customs as the church of , 

 St. Peter of York. 



" Cat. of Seals, B.M. 3657 ; Harl. Chart. 84, B. 28. 



' The ' Historia Selebiensis Monasterii,' written in 

 1 1 84, which contains the legend as to Benedict, is 

 printed in the Coucher Bk. of Selby, i, p. [i]-p. [54]. 



' Coucher Bk. of Selby (ed. J. T. Fowler), i, p. vii. 



' Ibid. 12 n. 



* Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iii, 499, no. i ; Coucher Bk. 

 of Selby, i, 11. 



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