A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



member of the same family. A corrody was 

 also held by Thomas Nendyk. The prioress 

 received a pension of ^^6 131. 4.^. Her will" is 

 dated 7 May 1541. She was then living at 

 Kirkby Moorside, where she desired to be buried. 

 Among her bequests was one ' to eght of my 

 susters that was professide in Wikham Abbey to 

 everie one of them vjj. viiji^. to be taken of the 

 gauge or pledge of Sir William Ewrie Knyght.' 

 She also left to ' Isabell Nandike my nece one 

 rabande of ij yerdes of silke and ij silver aglettes.' 

 At the inquiry in 7 Edward VI ^ as to the 

 payment of pensions nine names occur under 

 Wykeham. Six appeared with their patents 

 (including Isabel Nendyk), and in each case an 

 entry is made that they were unpaid for a whole 

 year. Three ' appeared not,' and perhaps were 

 dead. 



Prioresses of Wykeham 



Eva, occurs 1235 " 



Emma de Dunston, confirmed 1286," re- 

 signed 1 300 ^^ 

 Isabella, occurs 1321," 1337" 

 Isabella, occurs I388,»« 1398" 

 Alice, occurs 1424 ^' 

 Isabella de Westirdale, deposed 1444^' 

 Elizabeth, occurs 1450'° 

 Elizabeth Edmundson, died 1487" 

 Katherine Warde, elected 1487 ^^ 

 Alice Horneby, elected 1502," died 1508" 

 Katherine Nendyk, elected 1508" 



The 13th-century seal '^ is a vesica, 2| in. 

 by if in., with our Lady crowned, sceptred, and 

 seated, holding the Child. Of the legend only 

 the word sigillv remains. 



HOUSE OF CLUNIAC MONKS 



41. PRIORY OF PONTEFRACT 



The priory of St. John of Pontefract was 

 founded in 1090' by Robert de Lacy. The 

 house w.-is dedicated to the honour of St. John * 

 the Evangelist, and subjected to the Cluniac 

 monks of La Charitc-sur-Loire,^ the order 

 being then popular and in ' good odour and 

 honest fame.* ' The first monks, it appears, 

 had formerly lived in the St. Nicholas' Hospital, 

 and had come from the house of La Charit(i a 

 few years previously.' St. Nicholas' being near 

 the new monastery was now given to the monks 

 for the use of the poor, and the collegiate 

 chapel of St. Clement was not to be conferred 



" Teit. Ebor. vi, 131, where attention is drawn to 

 a short pedigree of Nandwick in Glover's Fiiilation 

 (Foster's ed.), 557. 



"" Exch. K.R. Accts. bdle. 76, no. 24 (dated 20 Feb. 

 7 Edw. VI). 



" Feet ofF. Mich. 19 Hen III. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Rom.inus, fol. 50. 



" Ibid. Corbridge, fol. 23. 



" Ibid. iMelton, fol. 242. 



" Burton, Mon. Ebor. 257. 



" Baildon, Mm. \c(rs, i, 228. 



" Baildon's .MS. Notes. •* Ibid. 



'' York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. Sgi. 



™Ibid. fol. 72. 



" Ibid. Rotherham, i, fol. 55^. " Ibid. 



^ Ibid. Savage, fol. 62. » Ibid 



" Ibid. sed. vac. fol. 546^. 



'' Cat. ofSiah, 5. W. 4377, Ixxv, 19. 



' Torks. jirch. Rec. xxv, 2. 



'The donation is 'to God and St. Mar}' and 

 St. John and my monks in Pontefract' (Mot. yingl. 

 v, 122). 



'Padgett, Pmtefiact, 43. 



* Foundation Charter, Torks. Arch. Rec. xxv, 1 7. 



'Fox, Pontefract, 301, and Padgett, op. cit. 43. 



184 



upon any other body of religious than the monks 

 of St. John.^ 



The establishment of the priory was for the 

 good estate of the founder and the souls of 

 William I, the founder's parents — Ilbert and 

 Hawise — and all his ancestors and heirs ; ' and 

 the endowment included the churches of Led- 

 sham. All Saints, Kippav, Darrington, and 

 Silkstone. This donation was further enlarged 

 by the founder, c. 1090 and c. 11 12, when he 

 conferred upon the house the chapel of Caw- 

 thornc, and other chapels, lands, and tithes.* 



The Prior of St. John's was not appointed by 

 election of the convent, but by the mother-house 

 of La Charit(§, and to this French monastery 

 the priory at Pontefract had to send a yearly 

 payment. But, as was the case with many alien 

 houses, this payment was confiscated during the 

 reign of Edward III.' 



Toward the end of the year 1139 the aged 

 Archbishop Thurstan, who in his youth had 

 made a vow that he would ally himself to the 

 Cluniac order of monks, decided to fulfil his 

 vow. In extreme old age he bade solemn 

 farewell to the clergy at York, and entered 

 Pontefract Priory, taking the monastic vows there 

 on 25 January 1140. He did not, however, 

 long outlive this step. On 5 February he died. 

 Just before his death he recited the office of the 

 dead, and chanted the Dies irae, and then, 

 ' whilst the rest were kneeling and praying 

 around him, he passed away to await in the land 

 of silence the coming of that Day of Wrath, so 

 terrible to all, of which he had just spoken."* 



Torh. Arch. Rec. xxv, 18. 



'Boothroyd, Pontefract, 319. 



^rorks. Arch. Rec. xxv, 18, 25. 26. 



'Fox, Pontefract, 302. ''"Fasti Ebor. 208. 



