RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Henry II ° took the abbey into his protection, 

 and granted the monks and their men the privi- 

 lege of being free in all cities, boroughs, markets, 

 fairs, bridges, and ports throughout England and 

 Normandy. 



Of spiritualities the abbey held the church of 

 Old Byland, granted by their founder ; a moiety 

 of the church of Bubwith, given in 1 349 by John 

 de Mowbray for the good of the soul of his wife 

 Joan, who was buried before the high altar of the 

 abbey church ; and both moieties of Rillington, 

 Pope Clement VI on 23 January 134.4° con- 

 firmed the appropriation of the church of Rilling- 

 ton to Byland, of their patronage, and of the value 

 of 30 marks according to the old taxation, but of 

 15 according to the new. The monastery had 

 suffered by the incursons of the Scots, an allusion 

 probably to the devastation caused at the time of 

 the battle in 1322, besides that of other raids. As 

 it was a Cistercian house, exempt from episcopal 

 visitation, the Registers at York contain little con- 

 cerning the abbey of Byland beyond the elections 

 ot several of the abbots, and their benediction by 

 the archbishop. .Its internal history after Abbot 

 Philip's record comes to an end with the removal 

 to the final site in 11 77 is almost blank. From 

 a Subsidy Roll we learn that in 1 380-1,' besides 

 the abbot, there were eleven monks and three 

 convers't. The abbey received, it is not known 

 why. Letters Patent dated 30 January 1537,' to 

 continue, but it surrendered 30 Henry VIII, when 

 pensions were granted to the abbot (;^5o) *nd 

 twenty-three monks ; one other, John Harryson, 

 received no money pension quia habet vicariam de 

 Byland. 



At the time of the Dissolution there were 

 seven bells, 100 fodder of lead, 516 oz. of plate. 

 The gross annual value is given in the Monastkon 

 as ;f295 5^. 4^., and the clear income as 

 ^^238 9^. 4^.' In 1527 ^^ the clear annual value 

 was returned as ;^2I7 13^. ^d. 



The return of the commissioners as to the 

 payments of grants to ex-religious in the North 

 Riding, dated 20 February 1553," records that 

 John Alanbrige, the late abbot, appeared with his 

 patent and said that his pension of ^^50 was be- 

 hind one year at Pentecost then last past ; Robert 

 Baynton (;^io) 'appeared not,' nor did Richard 

 Pereson (^^5 6f. 81:^.) ; Robert Leafe had died, five 

 others appeared with their patents, as did also 

 Thomas Metcalf, who appeared with his patent 

 for jf 5 6f. 8^., but the commissioners say he 

 * did not axe it.' 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 343. 



* Cal. of Papal Letters, iii, 114. 



' Subs. R. 63, no. 12. 



' Burton, Mon. Ebor. 339. As the clear annual value 

 was above i^zoo, it did not come within the scope of 

 the earlier Act, and the matter is a little puzzling. 



' Ibid. 



'° Subs. R. 64, no. 303. 



" Exch. K.R. Accts. bdle. 76, no. 24. 



Abbots of Byland 



Gerard, died 1142 ^^ 



Roger, occurs 1146,^'''' resigned 1196 " 



Philip, succeeded 1196" 



Hamo, occurs 1199-1200" 



Herbert, occurs 1209^° 



Robert, occurs 1223," 1230^* 



Henry de Bathersby, occurs 1231," 1268^" 



Adam de Hustwayt," occurs 1272,^^ 1283^' 



Thomas, occurs 1285''^ 



John, elected 1288,^* occurs 1293^° 



Henry, elected 1300,^' occurs 1302 ^' 



William, elected 1302^° 



Adam, occurs 1310,^^° 1315'° 



John de Wynkburn, occurs 1 31 6,'' 1318'^ 



John, elected 131 8 " 



John, elected 1322 ^^ 



John de Miton, occurs 1332'^ 



Walter de Diceford alias de Jarum,^* elected 



1334,'* occurs 1342" 

 John, elected 1349'* 

 William, elected 1357" 

 Robert de Helmeslay,*" elected 1370, occurs 



1381" 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 350. 



"' Ibid. 572, no. v : he also occurs as contem- 

 porary with Archbishop Henry Murdac (1147-54) '• 

 Egerton MS. 2823, fol. 48. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. 353. 



"Ibid. 354. 



" Yorks. Fines, "John (Surt. Soc), 2. 



"Ibid. 160. 



" Feet of F. file 17, no. 8 (8-10 Hen. III). 



" Ibid, file 22, no. 23 (12-14 Hen. III). 



" Occurs as Henry in a number of Feet of F. from 

 15 to 39 Hen. Ill : H. de Bathersby is said in 1292 

 to have been abbot forty years before : Assize R. 1 1 00, 

 m. 84. 



'» Egerton MS. 2823, fol. 55. 



" Ibid. fol. 104 : Agreement between Adam de 

 Hustwayt, Abbot of Byland, and William de Ellerbek, 

 Abbot of Rievaulx (1268-85). 



" Feet of F. file 54, no. 27 : Add. Chart. 20546. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 27. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 344. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Romanus, fol. 30^. 



"Pat. 21 Edw. I, m. 6. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Corbridge, fol. 23^. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 345. 



" Ibid. 



'"^ Egerton MS. 2823, fol. 80. 



'" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 345. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. sed. vac. fol. 91^. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 27. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Melton, fol. 227^. 



" Ibid, slip between fol. 238 and fol. 239. 



" Ibid. fol. 2573. 



"" Egerton MS. 2823, fol. 67. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 345. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 27. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Zouch, fol. 1 6 65 



" Ibid. Thoresby, on slip at fol. 175. 



"Ibid. fol. 190. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 27. 



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