A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



well conclude this account of Jervaulx. He 

 writes : 



I have taken down all the lead of Jervaux, and 

 made it into pecys of half fodders, which lead 

 amounteth to the number of eighteen score and five 

 fodders, with thirty and four fodders and a half that 

 were there before : and the said lead cannot be conveit 

 [conveyed] nor carried until the next sombre, for the 

 ways in that countre are so foul and deep, that no 

 caryage can pass in wyntre. And as concerninge the 

 raising and taking down of the House, if it be your 

 lordship's pleasure, I am minded to let it stand to the 

 next spring of the year, by reason of the days are now 

 so short, it would be double charges to do it now. 

 And as concerninge the selling of the bells, I cannot 

 sell them above fifteen shillings the hundred [weight]; 

 wherein I wolde gladly know your lordship's pleasure, 

 whether I sholde sell them after that price, or send 

 them up to London ; and if they be sent up surely 

 the caryage will be costly from that place to the water. 



Abbots of Jervaulx" 



John de Kinstan 1150,^" occurs 1170"^ (first 



abbot) 22 

 John Brompton, occurs 1 193 ^' 

 William, occurs 1198,^* 1209,^' (third 



abbot) =» 

 Thomas, occurs 1218^^' 

 Eustace, occurs 1224^' to 1254^* (fifth 



abbot) 23 

 Thomas, occurs 1258 '" 

 Philip, murdered 1279'' 

 Thomas, occurs 1280'^ 

 Ralph, occurs 1289,^^ 1300'* 

 Simon de Miggelle, confirmed 1304'* 

 John, died (or resigned) 1312^° (eighth 



abbot) " 



" There were twenty-three abbots of Jervaulx, and 

 the grave-slabs of six which remain record their order 

 of succession, and are valuable helps towards arrang- 

 ing a complete list. There seems to have been one 

 abbot whose name is not now known. The six 

 whose grave slabs are preserved are John de Kinstan, 

 William, Eustace, John, Peter de Snape and Robert 

 Thornton. 



'" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 571, no. vi. 



" Ibid. 567, quoting Cole MS. 



'* Grave-slab at Jervaulx. 



''Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 567, quoting Willis. 



" Ibid. " Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 92. 



'° Grave-slab at Jervaulx. 



»«^Le Neve's MS. Cal. Feet of F. 2 Hen. III. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 92. 



"Feet of F. file 47, no. 20, Hil. 38 Hen. III. 



" Grave-slab at Jervaulx. 



'"Baildon, Mon. Notes, 1, 92. 



"Assize R. 1064, m. 3 I d. 



''Ibid ; Baildon, Mon. 'Notes, i, 92. 



"Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 567, quoting Willis. 



"Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 92. 



'"York Archiepis. Reg. sed. vac. fol. 33. 



'° Ibid. Greenfield, ii, slip between fbl. I 75 and 1 76. 



"Grave-slab at Jervaulx : should, apparently, be 

 eleventh. 



Thomas de Gristhwayte, confirmed 13 1 2" 



occurs 1338'*' 

 Hugh, occurs 1342" 

 John, occurs 1349*" 

 John de Rokewyk, occurs 1398 " 

 Richard Gower, elected 1399*^ 

 Peter de Snape, elected 1425^' (seventeenth 



abbot) " 

 John Brompton II, confirmed 1436," occurs 



1464" 

 William Jerome, occurs 1469*^ 



William Heslington,*' elected 1475 " 

 Robert Thorneton, elected 1 5 10*' (twenty- 

 second abbot) '" 

 Adam Sedbergh, elected 1533 " G^^* abbot)" 



The 14th-century seaP' is a vesica, 2^ in. by 

 i^ in., showing the abbot standing in a canopied 

 niche holding staff and book. On his right is a 

 shield of the arms of St. Quintin — three cheve- 

 rons with a chief vair, and on his left another 

 shield charged with a saltire. The legend is 

 broken away. 



A second seal," somewhat similar but more 

 elaborate in design, has an additional shield of 

 arms in the base which appears to be barry. 



24. THE ABBEY OF KIRKSTALL 



On a bed of sickness Henry Lacy, grandson 

 of Ilbert de Lacy, to whom the Conqueror had 

 given with other possessions the lordship of 

 Blackburnshire, vowed that if he recovered he 

 would found an abbey of the Cistercian order. 

 Having recovered, he made a grant to the Abbot 

 of Fountains of the village of Barnoldswick, close 

 to the boundaries of Yorkshire and Lancashire, 

 and within his lordship of Blackburn.^ 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Greenfield, ii, slip between 

 fol. 175 and 176. 



"' Cal. Pat. 1338-40, p. 178. 



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



"Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 567 (Query 'de Newby' 

 mentioned 1378, Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 92.) 



*' Cal. 0/ Papal Letters, y, 121. 



"York Archiepis. Reg. Scrope, fol. 100^. 



" Ibid. sed. vac. fol. 408. 



** Grave-slab at Jervaulx. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. 3921^. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 92. "* Ibid. 



"Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 567. 



"York Archiepis. Reg. G. Nevill, fol. 175 



"Ibid. Bainbridge, fol. 20^. 



^ Grave-slab, Middleham Collegiate Ch. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 567. " Ibid. 



"Ca/. of Seals, B.M. 3315, Ixxxiv, 68. 



"Ibid. 3316, Ixxiv, 69. 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 530, &c. no. i, ii, from 

 which the earlier history of the house and its founda- 

 tion is derived. The chartulary (Duchy of Lane. 

 Misc. Bks. vii), printed by the Thoresby Soc, contains 

 much information as to the endowment of the abbey. 



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