A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



William Thirsk, occurs I 5 26,'"^ hanged 1537 

 Marmaduke Bradley, occurs 1537, last abbot. 



The seal i"' of an abbot of the beginning of 

 the 13th century is a vesica, if in- by ' '"• It 

 has a figure of the abbot standing and holding 

 staff and book, with the legend — 



SIGILLVM ABBA 



ONTANIS 



Nicholas, elected 1279, died 1279 



Adam,'* elected 1280, died 1284 



Henry de Otley, elected 1284, died 1289 (?) 



Robert Thornton, occurs 1289,°* died 1 306 



Robert Bisshopton, occurs 1307,'*' died 13 10 



William Rigton, succeeded 1311,'° resigned 



1316 

 Walter de Cokewold, occurs 131 6," resigned 



1336 

 Robert Copgrave, occurs 1336,'^' 1342,'"" died 



1346 

 Robert Monkton, occurs 1346, died 1369 

 William Gower, succeeded 1369,^* resigned 



1383'^ 

 Robert Burley, succeeded 1383,^°" died 1410 

 Roger Frank, succeeded 1410, expelled 

 John Ripon, occurs 14 13, died 1434 

 Thomas Paslew, succeeded 1435,1" resigned 23. THE ABBEY OF JERVAULX 



The 16th-century seaP"' of the court is circu- 

 lar, ^ in. in diameter, with a design of our Lady 

 holding the Child. The legend is — 



^ CVRIA B. MARIi^ DE FONTIBVS 



1442 



John Martin, succeeded 1442,^°^ died 1442 

 John Greenwell, occurs 1444, 1471 



(5 February) 

 Thomas Swynton,"" occurs 1471, resigned 



1478 

 John Darneton, succeeded 1478 i°* 

 Marmaduke Huby,i°* occurs 1494, 1516 



°* 'Adam Ravenswath' (Suri. Soc. Publ. xlii, 140). 



*' Ibid. ; Cal. Pat. 1281-92, p. 319. 



"^^ Ibid. 1 301-7, p. 547. 



'° He was blessed in the sixth year of Archbishop 

 Greenfield's pontificate, which seems to point to 1 3 10 

 as the date of his appointment (York Archiepis. Reg. 

 Greenfield, a slip between fol. 52 and 53), but the 

 President's Book says he was made abbot 6 Apr. 1 3 1 1 

 {Surt. Soc. Publ. xlii, 141). 



'' The Dean and chapter of York asked R. the 

 Bishop of Durham, the primacy being then vacant, to 

 bless Walter de Cokewold, Abbot of Fountains, in 

 some church or chapel in York diocese (York 

 Archiepis. Reg. sede vac. fol. 84). 



''"Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. vii, 1. 



^'^Tear Bk. 16 Edtu. Ill (Rolls Ser.), 283. The 

 plea quoted gives Adam as abbot in 1290, followed by 

 Robert, Hugh, and William, temp. Edw. I, and 

 Walter, temp. Edw. II. It seems impossible to 

 reconcile this succession with our list. 



'* He was blessed, 25 Nov. 1369, in the chapel at 

 Bishopthorpe (York Archiepis. Reg. Thoresby, fol. 



*' Gower was blind in his old age and died in 

 1390 {Surt. Soc. Publ. xlii, 145). '™ Ibid. 



'"' On 26 Mar. 1435 the Bishop of Dromore was 

 commissioned to bless Thomas Passelew, Abbot of 

 Fountains and receive his oath of obedience ; York 

 Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. 392 d. 



'" Oath of obedience, 14 Sept. 1442 (ibid. fol. 45). 



"" Called Thomas Wynston in York Archiepis. Reg. 



Alex. Nevill, fol. 136^, but in 1478 he is called 



Thomas Swynton (ibid. Booth, fol. 87), as he is in 



1476 ; CaL Pat. 1467-77, p. 602. 



"* He was cellarer when he was unanimously elected 

 {Surt. Soc. Publ. xlii, 150 n.). 



'"' In his time was built the noble tower still 

 remaining. He was 'made Abbot' in 1494 (ibid. 

 230 n.), York Archiepis. Reg. Rotherham, i, fol. 83. 



138 



The story of the origin and foundation of the 

 abbey of Jervaulx is told at great length in the 

 lost Register of Byland Abbey, quoted in the 

 Monastkon} The writer records that a certain 

 knight, Akarius Fitz Bardolph, gave to a monk 

 of Savigny, Peter de Quinciaco by name, and 

 other monks of that house who were for some 

 reason then residing in the neighbourhood, part 

 of his land at Fors, in Wensleydale, where they 

 might found an abbey. How these monks 

 came to be in those parts is not explained, 

 but it seems not unlikely that they were sojourn- 

 ing, for some reason or other, at the court of 

 Alan, Earl of Richmond. The lands which 

 Fitz Bardolph gave them, and other grants, 

 made or to be made, Alan as his over-lord con- 

 firmed. 



Alan instructed Peter to inform him when 

 the first building was to be erected, that he 

 might be present. All being ready, Peter 

 sought the earl as he had been told to do, and 

 the latter, coming to the place where the first 

 building was to be raised, summoned by name 

 four or five of the knights who had accompanied 

 him, and Sdad jocundo vultu quasi in ludendo, 'We 

 all have great lands and possessions, now there- 

 fore let us help with our own hands and build 

 this house in the name of Our Lord, and let 

 each of us give land, or revenue, in perpetual 

 alms for the maintenance of the part which each 

 shall have raised.'^ Some readily assented, but 

 others refused, except conditionally. In this 

 way the first house of wood was built in 1 145, 



Soon after this Earl Alan, visiting Savigny, 

 informed the abbot that Brother Peter and the 



'-'A commission was given, 22 Oct. 1526, to 

 Matthew, Bishop of Calcedon, to bless Bro. William 

 Thnske, Abbot of Fountains. (York Archiepis. Ree. 

 Wolsey, fol. 84.) * 



'" Cat. of Seals, B.M. 3170 ; bcxiv, 4.6. 



'"'Ibid. 3169; D.C.H. 35. ^ 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 5 69-74. 



' Ibid. no. iii. 



