A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



Walter, occurs c. 1236" 



Warin, occurs 1246/' 1255'*" 



William (?) " 



Hugh, occurs 1265,'* 1269" 



Thomas, occurs 1278,*" 1280,^* 1290," de 

 Driffield^' 



Roger, occurs 1299,** 1302" 



John de Houedon, confirmed 1303," excom- 

 municated 1306,^' absolved I 31 3** 



John de Heton, confirmed 1321^^ 



John, occurs 1351,^ John de Gisburne, 1354" 



Geoffrey, occurs 1366" 



John, occurs 1372,=^ 1381,'* 1394''' 



Willi; 



I418 



William, occurs 1433,'^ I443>" William d« 



Ingylton, died 1453'' 

 Thomas Bradley, 1453,^' died 1467°° 



Robert Wode, 1467 " 



William Holdcn, confirmed 1468" 



Richard, occurs 1480" 



Thomas Burton, confirmed 1502" 



Henry Hammond, occurs 1506" 



Thomas Bolton, confirmed 1527," occurs 



I January 153^" 

 William TrafFord, 1537 «» last abbot 



A 12th-century seal^' of the abbot is a small 

 vesica, if in. by I in., showing his figure at full 

 length holding crozier and book. The legend — 



»^ SIGILLVM ABBATIS DE SALLIA 



is carelessly cut, the tv/o last words being 

 reversed. 



HOUSES OF CISTERCIAN NUNS 



29. THE PRIORY OF BASEDALE 



Licence was granted 'about the year 1 162'* 

 by Adam de Brus, as chier lord, to Balph de 

 Nevill, to found 'an abbey of nuns' at Hutton, 

 near Guisborough.^ Ernald de Percy ' also 

 granted to Ralph de Nevill the gift which he 

 had made to the nuns of Hutton of land and a 

 mill in ' Torp.' 



Nothing is known of the house at Hutton, 

 where it cannot have long remained, and the 

 allusion to the grant of land at ' Torp ' indicates, 

 perhaps, its actual removal, thus early in its 

 career, to Thorp, afterward and yet known as 

 Nunthorpe. 



'" Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A.317 ; is a co-witness with 

 Sir Richard, then Abbot of Roche. For reasons 

 stated under Roche Abbot Richard's date has been 

 put at 1228-44. 



'° Baildon, Moti. Notes, i, 190. 



"^ Percy Chartul. (Surt. Soc), 52. 



" Ibid. 90. 



" Whitaker, Hist, of Craven, 56. 



" Feet of F. Trin. 53 Hen. Ill, file 53, no. 20. 



'" Ibid. 



" Ibid, file 60, no. 116, 132. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 511. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, \, 190. 



" Ibid. " Ibid. 



'* York Archiepis. Reg. Corbridge, fol. 1 6b. 



" Ibid. Greenfield, fol. 57^. 



" Ibid. fol. jeb. 



" Ibid. Melton, slip between fol. 152 and 153. 



"" Cal. of Papal Letters, iii, 407. 



" Ibid. 534. 



" Harland, Hist. Acci. of Salley Abbey, 42, who 

 says that he was sponsor to Thomas Mowbray, Earl 

 of Nottingham, in that year. 



" Harl. MS. 1 1 2, fol. 5 1 d. 



" Harland, Hist. Acct. of galley Abbey, 42. 



"''Had. MS. 112, fol. 107 d. 



" Ibid. ; but query whether he was prior only. 



According to the Monasttcon, 'toward the 

 latter part of the reign of King Henry the second 

 by the benefaction of Guido de Bovingcourt they 

 settled at Basedale, in the parish of Stokesley.'* 

 It must have been quite at the end of the reign 

 of Henry II, or even at the beginning of that of 

 Richard I, that the move was made to Basedale, 

 for among the witnesses to Guy de Bovingcourt's 

 charter are Peter, Abbot of Whitby, and Raold^ 

 Prior of Guisborough.° Though the nuns 

 removed from Nunthorpe they still retained their 

 property there until the Dissolution. 



In Guy de Bovingcourt's gift to the nuns, for 

 the souls of Robert Bovingcourt, Bernard de 

 Baliol, and his own, &c., is no mention of 

 Basedale, but only of Stokesley and Westerdale, 

 within whose bounds Basedale lies.' 



Burton ' has compiled an alphabetical list of 

 the property of the nuns, a great portion of 

 which had been confirmed to them by Henry III 

 in 1245-6.* 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 190. 

 " Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 511. 

 " York Archiepis. Reg. W. Booth, fol. 38 1^. 

 " Ibid. An account of his election was sent to the 

 archbishop by the Abbot of Newminster. 

 "■Ibid. G. Nevill, fol. i^b. 

 '■• Ibid. "' Ibid. fol. loU. 



•^ Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 511. 

 " York Archiepis, Reg. Savage, fol. 891J. 

 " Harland, Hist. Acct. of Salley Abbey, 42. 

 ^ Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 511. 

 ^' Aug. Views of Accts. bdle. 1 7. 

 ^ Harland, Hist. Acct. of Salley Abbey, 48. 

 *' Cat. of Seals, B.M. 3965, Ixxv, 5. 

 ' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 507. 

 ' Ibid. 508, no. i. 



' Ibid. no. iii. * Ibid. 507. 



'Ibid. 509, no. viii. 'Ibid. 



' Burton, Mon. Ebor. 250, 251. 

 ' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 508, no. vi. 



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