RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



"was to hold any colloquy with any of the 

 •convent, &c. 



The archbishop enjoined the prioress in virtue 

 •of her vow of obedience, that Alice Lye, her 

 jiun who held the ofBce of hostilaria, or anyone 

 who succeeded her in office, should henceforward 

 be free from entering the rooms of the guests to 

 lay the beds, but the porter should receive the 

 bedclothes from the hostilaria at the lower gate, 

 and when the guests had departed he should 

 give them back to her at the same place. All 

 the nuns were enjoined not to allow any seculars, 

 or religious men, or their own servants, or 

 relatives or others of the male sex, to pass the 

 night in the inner guest-house, or within the 

 inner doors of the house. And none of the 

 nuns, the prioress excepted, were to retain any 

 one, clerk or layman, serving them, but having 

 dismissed such for the avoiding of scandal, they 

 might get a worthy woman, not suspected, who 

 should serve and minister to them. 



The secular servants of the house, and the 

 arrodariiy who attracted to them other secular 

 persons from the country by whom the house 

 was burdened or the nuns disturbed, were to be 

 forthwith removed and were not to be allowed 

 to enter the door without special leave of the 

 prioress, sub-prioress, or cellaress, and if these 

 corrodarii were otherwise introduced for the day 

 the livery of the introducer was to be withheld. 

 Nor were secular corrodarii to remain in the 

 house, except for the hour of receiving the 

 livery, unless they had needs for their continuous 

 stay there. The prioress was not to allow any 

 of the corrodarii or others to retain suspected 

 wromen with them in the house. The por- 

 tions allowed the nuns were to be augmented 

 according to the means of the house, with the 

 consent of the majority and wiser part of the 

 convent. The prioress was to take efficient action 

 with all speed to recover the pension of 40^. due 

 from the church of Greetwell in Lincoln diocese, 

 and also the rental of 50J. due from John Fitz 

 William, lost through neglect. 



On 10 September 1426 ''' Archbishop Kemp 

 licensed brother John Wotton of the order of 

 Friars Minor to hear the confessions of the nuns 

 of Hampole. 



Among the leases granted by the nuns of 

 Hampole is an indenture dated 6 September 

 151 6,'" by which ' dame Agnes Ynse prioresse 

 w' all the hoyll convent assent in the monastery 

 of owr blessed lady of Ampull of ye order of 

 cysternencis ' granted to Sir William Percy, 

 brother of the Earl of Northumberland, then 

 dwelling at Sutton upon Derwent, * for to be 

 steward of owr forsaid howse tennamentes and 

 landes for ye terme of ye for sayd Syr William 

 Percy knyghtes lyfe.' Sir William was to keep the 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. 28. 



" Conventual Leases, Yorks. (P.R.O.), no. 279. 



courts for the convent and their tenants were to 

 be at his command. For his work as steward 

 the convent agreed to pay him 20J. a year. 



A list of the nuns at the time of the Dissolu- 

 tion^^ is headed by thename of Isabella Arthington 

 the prioress, aged fifty, and Joan Gascowyne the 

 sub-prioress, aged sixty. There were twelve 

 others whose ages ranged from fifty to two aged 

 nineteen. Against each is written 'religion,' 

 and it is said ' all be of good conversation.' 



Prioresses of Hampole 



Denise, occurs 1284^*" 



Custance de Cressy, resigned 13 12 ^' 



Agnes de Pontefracto, elected 1312,'" died 



1319-20 " 

 Margaret de Hecke, elected 1319-20'^ 

 Maud, occurs 1348 '' 

 Elizabeth Fairfax, succeeded after 1380 '* 

 Elizabeth, occurs 1392-1414'* (as Isabel 



1406) '« 

 Agnes, occurs 1433" 

 Alice, occurs 1433, 1439'* 

 Margaret Banastre, died 1445 '' 

 Margaret Normanville, confirmed 1445,** 



resigned 1452 ^ 

 Agnes Clarel, confirmed 1452 *^ 

 Elizabeth Rawdon, resigned 1483 ^' 

 Isabella Wheteley, confirmed 1483," resigned 



1503-4'' 

 Elizabeth Arley, confirmed 1503-4,*° resigned 



1512*' 

 Agnes Ynche, elected 1 5 1 2 ** 

 Isabella Arthington, confirmed 1 5 1 7 *' 



33. THE PRIORY OF HANDALE, 

 OTHERWISE GRENDALE 



This small nunnery, under the invocation of 

 the Blessed Virgin Mary, was founded in 1133^ 



" Suppression P. ii, fol. 176. It is entitled 

 ' Prioratus sive domus monialium beate Marie de 

 Hampall ordinis sanctl Augustini et de regula sancti 

 Benedict! Cistercien.' , 



Cott. MS. Nero D. Ill, fol. 58^. 

 Perhaps deprived, York Archiepis. Reg. Green- 

 field, ii, fol. 62, 62,b. 



'» Ibid. fol. 62. " Ibid. Melton, fol. 1373. 



" Ibid. '' Baildon's MS. Notes. 



" Burton, Mon. Ebor. 26^. 



" Baildon's MS. Notes (perhaps the same as the 

 preceding.) 



'= Ibid. " Ibid. 



^ Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 84. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. \o(>b. 



« Ibid. *' Ibid. W. Booth, fol. 376. 



" Ibid. " Ibid. Rotherham, i, fol. \\b. 



" Ibid. " Ibid." Savage, fol. 36. 



*6 Ibid. " Ibid. Bainbridge, fol. 27^. 



" Ibid. " Ibid. Wolsey, fol. 36. 



' Atkinson, Cleveland Anct. and Modern, 249. 



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