RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Item yat ye se such servauntes as longeth to your 

 place come in to mete and drinke, and not to have 

 yer lyveres of brede and ale outwardes, but if ye thynk 

 hit necessarye and for the welthe of your house. 



Item yat ye take no perhedinauntes " or sogerners 

 into your place from hensforward, but if yei be chil- 

 dren or ellis old persones, by which availe biliklyhood 

 may growe to your place. 



In Archbishop Savage's Register ^^ there is an 

 entry recording the institution of John Crista!!, 

 chaplain, to the chantry of St. John the Baptist, 

 in the conventual cliurch, which had become 

 vacant by the profession of John Harpham, the 

 late chaplain, as a Carthusian monk, in the 

 chapter-house of Mount Grace.^' The chantry 

 had been founded by John Latham, a wealthy 

 ecclesiastic of the diocese of York, Master of 

 Trinity College, otherwise Knolles Almshouses, 

 Pontefract, and Canon of Beverley, probably 'the 

 greatest benefactor the little nunnery of Appleton 

 ever had.' '" After directing in his will that his 

 body was to be buried in the church of the priory 

 of Nun Appleton, in the chapel before the altar 

 of St. John the Baptist, he left to the prioress 

 131. 4^., and to each nun ds. Sd., and each of 

 them were, if possible, to recite a psalter for him 

 on that day. The celebrant was to have 20^., 

 and for constructing a new roof to the conventual 

 church he bequeathed ^26 13J. ^.d. He con- 

 doned any debts due from the prioress and convent 

 to him, and left to Joan Ryther, the prioress, 

 if she survived him, a plain silver piece, and a 

 large feather bed with a bolster, for the use of 

 the convent but to remain with the prioress 

 during her life. For her own use he bequeathed 

 a silver-gilt piece with its cover, a new maser 

 gilt, standing on a foot, and certain beds, cloths, 

 sheets, &c. (which are minutely described) on the 

 condition that the prioress, in recompense for 

 all these bequests, would during her life say 

 placebo and dirige with commendatio for his soul, 

 and those of his parents. To the prioress and 

 convent for the use of the chaplain of his 

 chantry, Latham bequeathed his large Portiforium, 

 two chalices, a ' paxebrede ' of silver, and his 

 missal of York use, with all necessary cloths for 

 the apparel of the altar of St. John Baptist, the 

 chaplain being bound to pray for him. He also 

 left the prioress and convent two small ' sal'tna 

 Anglice saltesalers,' of silver with a cover. To 

 Isabella Burdet, sub-prioress, he bequeathed three 

 silver spoons, to pray for him. Joan Ryther, 

 the prioress, with two other persons, he appointed 

 his residuary legatees and executors. Joan 

 Ryther probably belonged. Canon Raine observes, 



" The ' perhedinauntes,' more correctly ' perhen- 

 dinauntes,' were the boarders so often alluded to in 

 the injunctions to nunneries. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Savage, fol. 79. 



" Torks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), 212. 



'" Test. Ebor. iii, 173 n. 



to the old family of Ryther of Ryther, as did no 

 doubt her predecessor Agnes de Ryther. 



According to the Taxatio of 1291 the priory 

 held temporalities in the diocese of Lincoln to 

 the amount of ^^13 \y. lod., and in the diocese 

 of York to the amount of ^^23 15;. lod. besides 

 a pension of ^3 6s. 8d. from the church of 

 Ryther.^^ There is no record of the value of 

 the house in the Fa/ur Ecclesiasticus, but in a 

 return of 1522-3 the clear value of the priory of 

 Nun Appleton is set down as ^^29 2s. id.^^ 

 This, however, can only apply to its revenues in 

 the county of York. According to the Monastkon 

 Dugdale and Speed had preserved a note that its 

 clear value at the time of compiling the Valor 

 waS;^73 9i. 10^.^' 



The office of prioress ^^ would seem to have 

 been vacant at the Dissolution. At any rate 

 the pension list, dated 4 or 5 December 1539, 

 begins with Elinora Normanvell, late sub-prioress, 

 who received ^2 6j. 8^/. She is followed by 

 eighteen other nuns, one of whom, Agnes 

 Snaynton, received ^3. Of the rest two 

 received a like pension to the sub-prioress, the 

 rest less. 



Prioresses of Nun Appleton 



Alice,'° occurs 1235 



Mabel, occurs 1262'*" 



Hawise,^^ occurs 1277,1285,'^ resigned 1294'^ 



Isolda,'' occurs 1300 



Joan de Normanvill,*" confirmed 1303, 



occurs 1306^^ 

 Elizabeth de Holbeke,*^ confirmed 13 16, 



resigned 1320" 

 Isabella Normanvill,^* elected 1320 

 Margaret de Nevill,*^ resigned 1334 

 Idonia,^^ occurs 1342 

 Lucy de Gaynesburgh,^^ died 1367 

 Agnes de Egmanton,*^ confirmed 1367 

 Emma de Langton,^' occurs 1388, 1397'° 

 Idonia Danyell,*^ occurs 1404, 1408,'^ died 



1426 

 Elizabeth Fitz Richard,^' confirmed 1426 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 652. 



" Subs. R. 64, no. 300. '' Dugdale, loc. cit. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 654. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 159. 



^'"Cal. Bodl. Chart, 697. '^ Baildon's MS. Notes. 



" Coram Rege R. 95, m. 7. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Romanus, fol. \(jb. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 159. 



*° York Archiepis. Reg. Corbridge, fol. i db. 



" Baildon's MS. Notes. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Greenfield, fol. 85^. 



" Ibid. Melton, fol. 142. 



" Ibid. fol. 142-5. ■" Ibid. fol. 199. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, 1, 159. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Thoresby, fol. 142^. 



" Ibid. *' Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 159. 



'» Baildon's MS. notes. " Ibid. 



'* York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. 364. *' Ibid. 



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