A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



Prioresses of Arthington 



Sara, 12 + 1 " 



Eleanor, mentioned 1299^^ 



Maud de Kescwik, died 1299" 



Agnes de Skrevin, succeeded 1299," resigned 



1302 ^' 

 Agnes de Pontefract, succeeded 1302*° 

 Isabella de Berghby, 1311" 

 Maud de Batheley, confirmed 1312*^ 

 Isabella Dautr}^ died 1349^^ 

 Isabella de Berughby (second time ?), elected 



1349" 



Isabel de Eccope, occurs 14 13 to 1420" 



Sibil Plesyngton, occurs 1437 " 



Alice Raucestre, died 1463^' 



Marjorie Craven, elected 1463** 



Katherine Willesthorp, confirmed 147 5/* 



died 1484" 

 Alice Mawde (sacrisia), appointed ptr lapsum 



1484," died 1492" 

 Elizabeth Popeley, confirmed 1492," deprived 



1494" 

 Margaret Turton, elected 1494," died 1496'* 



Alice Hall, elected 1496" 



Elizabeth Hall, elected 1532" 



HOUSES OF CARTHUSIAN MONKS 



43. THE PRIORY OF KINGSTON- 

 UPON-HULL 



Tickell ' says that the site of the Hull Charter- 

 house was originally occupied by a small religious 

 house, ' which appears to have been erected by 

 Edward the First, and given by him, along 

 with other lands in Myton lordship, to Sir Wil- 

 liam de la Pole. . . . This house, at first, was a 

 College of six Priests : but they disagreeing 

 among themselves were turned out, and the 

 Friers minor succeeded ; who, behaving no better 

 than their predecessors, soon shared the same fate. 

 This determined Sir William to pull down all 

 the old buildings, and to erect, on the site of 

 those buildings, a large monastery for the recep- 

 tion of Nuns of the Order of St. Clare.' 

 Unfortunately no authority is cited for all these 

 statements, although they are probably cor- 

 rect. The Letters Patent of Edward III ' show 



^ Dtp. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, App. 182. 



'" Baildon, Men. Nc.'rj, 1, 3. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. sed. vac. p.m. H. Newark, 

 fol. 27. 



» Ibid. " Ibid. Corbridge, fol. i 5^. 



" Ibid. *' Ibid. Greenfield, ii, fol. 55^. 



"Ibid. fol. 573. 



"Ibid. ; Zouch, fol. 37. "Ibid. 



"Baildon, Men. Notes, i, 3. 



" Baildon's MS. Notes. 



'■ York Archiepis. Reg. W. Booth, fol. 26. 



*'Ibid. ''Ibid. G. NeviU, fol. 172^. 



"Ibid. Rotherham, i, fol. 13^. 



"Ibid. fol. 119. "Ibid. -Jib. 



"Ibid. "Ibid. fol. 82. 



"Ibid. « Ibid. fol. 92. 



" Ibid. " Ibid. Lee, fol. 2b. 



' Hist, of the Tofcn and County of Kingston-upon- 

 Hull, 195. From the foundation charter of Michael 

 de la Pole it would seem that a building called the 

 Maison Dieu had previously occupied the site, and 

 from the expressions used, it would seem that the 

 chapel was given to the monks for their use. 



' Pat. 51 Edw. Ill, m. 10. 



that William de la Pole's original intention, for 

 which he had obtained the king's licence, was to 

 found a certain hospital of chaplains and poor 

 folk, and to endow it with property in Kingston- 

 upon-Hull and Myton, but that afterwards, in 

 place of the proposed hospital, he determined on 

 founding a religious house of thirteen nuns of the 

 order of St. Clare,' one of whom was to be 

 called abbess ; a certain number of poor persons 

 were to be maintained under their charge, and 

 for this the royal licence had been granted that 

 he might divert his originally proposed endow- 

 ments of the hospital to the nuns, and also give 

 the advowsons of the churches of Frisby, North 

 Cave, and Foston to the nuns or sisters and the 

 poor persons. William de la Pole dying before 

 his scheme was carried out, his son and heir, 

 Michael de la Pole, obtained from Edward III* 

 power to alter the scheme, and in place of the 

 nuns of the order of St. Clare to found a 

 monastery for thirteen monks of the Carthusian 

 order, one of whom was to be prior, and besides 

 this, as originally proposed, there were to be 

 thirteen poor men and thirteen poor women, one 

 of the former of whom was to be master ; the 

 prior and monks and the master and the poor 

 folk might live together, or separately, according 

 to the ordinance which Michael de la Pole, or 

 his heirs or executors, should determine. In con- 

 sequence of this latter provision, although the 

 Charterhouse and the hospital were more or less 

 distinct there was a close connexion between 

 them, the prior of the monastery was given a 

 certain authority over the affairs of the hospital, 

 and it was commonly known as the Charter- 

 house Hospital. 



By charter dated 18 February 1378' Michael 

 de la Pole founded in his messuage outside the 

 walls of Kingston-upon-Hull a religious house 



' See the mandate of Urban V, issued 1 7 Jan. 

 1365. Cal. of Papal Letters, i v, 91. 

 * Pat. 51 Edw. Ill, m. 10. 

 ' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 20, no. ii. 



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