A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



The seaP' of Simon of Warwick, 1258-96, 

 is a vesica of similar design with the legend — 



s' SVMONIS 51 GRA ABBATIS SCE MAR EBORACI 



The seal for tithes'' in use at the beginning 

 of the 14th century is a vesica, i^ in. by 

 i^in., with our Lady and the Child, and the 

 legend — 



s' ABBIS EBOR' ad DECIAS DEPVTATV. 



10. THE PRIORY OF ST. MARTIN, 



RICHMOND, CELL OF ST. MARY'S 



ABBEY, YORK 



The cell of St. Martin, Richmond, has very 

 little known history. About iioo Wymar, 

 steward to Stephen, Earl of Richmond, gave to 

 God, Blessed Mary of York, and the monks 

 serving God there, the chapel of St. Martin of 

 Richmond with other possessions. Whereupon 

 a cell of nine or ten monks from St. Mary's 

 Abbey, York, w.-is estabhshed at St. Martin's '^* 

 and afterwards the hermitage or chapel of 

 St. Thomas of Bordelby or Bordebank was given 

 by the abbey to St. Martin's, for the reception 

 of leprous brethren.'"' Many other grants were 

 made to the cell. 



The cell was confirn^ j,v Pope Eugenius III 

 inii46.'<« ^ 



The Taxation of 1291 gi»s the spiritualities 

 of the cell as consisting of pensid.s from seventeen 

 different churches amounting 10/25 ^4*' ^'^■» 

 and the temporalities as £(> Os. o/., making a 

 total of ;^3 1 1 5J. 4<^."" In the actount of the 

 Provincial Council of 131 1, which deait with the 

 case of the Templars, the Abbot of St. Martin's 

 as well as the Prior of St. Martin's is separately 

 entered among those summoned.'*** The former 

 must necessarily be a clerical error. Frjm a 

 Subsidy Roll of 1380-1 it would seem tha: there 

 was then only one monk at the cell besid 'S the 

 prior.'"' Archbishop Zouch issued a notice of 

 his intention to visit the Prior and convent of 

 St. Martin's on Saturday, I October 1345,?"* 

 but nothing is recorded as to the visitation. In 

 the Falor Ecclesiasticus '"' the temporalities are 

 reckoned at ^^19 "js. $d. and the spiritualities at 

 j^26 12s. ^d., making a total of ^^47 l6x. (j;V)."'* 



Priors of St. Martin's 



John Popilton "" (first prior) 

 Herbert (? c. 1200)"" 

 John,'" occurs 1258 

 Roger,"^ occurs 1300 

 William,'" (.? temp. Henry VII) 

 John Matthew, occurs 1528,"* as John Mather 

 1535"' 



HOUSES OF BENEDICTINE NUNS 



II. THE PRIORY OF ARDEN 



About 1 1 50,' Peter de Hoton founded the 

 nunnery of St. Andrew at Arden, and Roger de 

 Mowbray, chief lord of the fee, confirmed the 

 gift, and soon afterwards the nuns received other 

 grants, all of which were confirmed by King 

 John on 28 February 1201," but in the royal 

 confirmation Roger de Mowbray and not Peter 

 de Hoton is named as the founder.' In 1290 

 Elizabeth doniina de Hoton, widow of William 

 de Carleton, confirmed to Margaret, then prioress, 

 and the nuns the lands originally granted, and 

 on 2 February 1405 Geoffrey Bygod, heir of 

 Peter de Hoton and Elizabeth widow of William 



" Cat. of Seals, B.M. 4391, Ixxv, 37. 



^ Ibid. 4393, \xxv, 35. 



"" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iii, 601. 



'"' Burton, AffTB. £i5or. 272. In neither instance is 

 there any hint as to the date of the gift of this chapel 

 by the mother house to the cell, nor how St. Mary's 

 Abbey originally obtained possession of it. 



"" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iii, 602. 



"" Ibid. 602, 603. 



'"* Rec. of northern Convocation (Surt. Soc), 32. 



'» Subs. R. 63, no. 12. 



'" York Archiepis. Reg. Zouch, fol. 67. 



de Carleton, again confirmed the gift of his 

 ancestors, delivered the evidence of the gift to 

 Alice, the prioress, and was accepted as a 

 founder, to be prayed for by the convent. 



Soon after the foundation of the house,^ a 

 dispute arose between the nuns of Arden and 

 the monks of Byland, and in 1189 a compact 

 was entered into between the two houses in the 

 presence of Jeremy, Archdeacon of Cleveland, 



"" Op. cit. V, II <7. 



"" In Mon. Jngl. (iii, 610), rentals and lordships in 

 Cumberland and Westmorland of considerable value 

 are by mistake assigned to the cell of St. Martin. 

 The m stake has been followed by Lawton, Relie. 

 Homes ofTorks. 40. 



"« Leland, Coll i, 25. 



"" Egerton MS. 2827, fol. 289. 



"' Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 1 74. '" Ibid. 



'" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iii, 605. 



'" B. Willis, Mitred Abbeys, ii, 282. 



^"' Falor EccL v, \ob. 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iv, 284. See also B.M. 

 Add. Chart. 20544. 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iv, 286. 



' Roger de Mowbray, as founder, had his obit 

 observed yearly at the time of the Valor Eccl. (v, 86). 



* Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iv, 285. 



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