RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



tor thirteen monks of the Carthusian order, to 

 the honour of God, the glorious Blessed Virgin 

 Mary His Mother, the Blessed Michael arch- 

 angel, and all archangels, angels, and holy spirits, 

 and St. Thomas the Martyr, sometime Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury, and other saints of God, 

 which house he desired should be called the house 

 of St. Michael of the Carthusian order. With 

 assent of the prior of the Great Charterhouse, he 

 appointed Walter de Kele prior of his house, 

 which he endowed with the messuage aforesaid, 

 containing 7 acres of land, lately parcel of the 

 manor of Myton, and called the Mahon Dieu, 

 together with a chapel and other buildings erected 

 there for their habitation, and also the advowson 

 of the church of Foston, the manor of Sculcoates, 

 &c. The monks were enjoined to pray for King 

 Richard, for Katherine the founder's mother,' 

 and Katherine his wife, Edmund his brother, 

 and Michael his son and heir, Alexander Nevill, 

 Archbishop of York, and a large number of other 

 distinguished persons separately named. 



In the reign of Henry IV John Colthorpe and 

 Alice his wife endowed a cell for a monk of the 

 order of the house, who was daily to say mass 

 for their souls and for those of all faithful de- 

 parted.' This cell, which was what would 

 ordinarily have been termed a chantry, possibly 

 augmented the number of monks. It was en- 

 dowed with a rental of 20s. yearly, arising out of 

 a manor in Essex. This the monks exchanged 

 with Michael de la Pole for land in Myton. 

 When the cell became vacant, the prior and con- 

 vent were to appoint another monk within three 

 months ; if they neglected to do so, they were to 

 forfeit j^40 to the mayor and commonalty. 



Richard II joined the prior and convent in a 

 petition to Pope Urban VI, stating that the 

 monastery had been founded for a prior and 

 twelve monks, but had not been sufficiently en- 

 dowed ; that the patronage of the church of 

 Hoggestorp (Hogsthorpe) in Lincoln diocese had 

 been given to it by lay patrons. Urban VI 

 thereupon appropriated Hogsthorpe Church to the 

 monastery for five years, and Boniface IX in 

 perpetuity, the values of the church and monastery 

 not exceeding 120 and 180 marks, respectively. 

 This appropriation had been included in a sub- 

 sequent general annulment of appropriations by 

 Pope Boniface in 141 2, and the prior and convent 

 petitioned Innocent VII that the appropriation 

 of Hogsthorpe to their monastery might hold 



' The will of Katherine, relict of William de la 

 Pole, senior, kt., dated I July 1 381, directed that 

 her body was to be buried in the quire of the church 

 of St. Michael juxta Kyngestone super Hull of the 

 Carthusian Order. Test. Ebor. (Surt. Soc), i, 119. 



' Tickell, Hist, of the Town and County of Kings ton- 

 ufon-Hull, 200. John Colthorpe had been mayor in 

 1389, and he and his wife were buried in St. Mary's 

 Church, Hull, where, in Tickell's time, an inscription 

 asking for prayers for their souls still remained. 



good, in spite of the general annulment. On 

 23 June 1406 he granted their petition, and 

 confirmed the appropriation.' Subsequently the 

 monks complained that John Brynnesley, priest, 

 of the diocese of Lincoln, had despoiled them of 

 their church of Hogsthorpe in spite of this con- 

 firmation, and consequently Alexander I, on 

 2 July 1409, directed the Archbishop of York 

 to appropriate the church to them in perpetuity.' 



The total annual value of the house in 1535 

 was ^^231 lyf. 3a'., and the clear annual value 

 o"ly l^H i8^ 3^.^" It therefore came under 

 the operation of the Act for the suppression of 

 the lesser monasteries, but it received the king's 

 licence to continue," though why it was selected 

 for exemption is not known. 



Among the Suppression Papers ^ there is a list 

 of the members of the community compiled in 

 1 536 ; against the names of all, except that of the 

 prior, ' religion ' is written in the margin. The 

 names are : Ralph Mauleverey, prior (age 47), 

 Robert Brewet (60), Robert Fuyster, claustral 

 vicar (60), Robert Halle (60), Ralph Smyth 

 (60), James Scooles (54), William Remyngton 

 procurator (42), Adam Rede, sacrist of the 

 church (32), John Rochester, James [ ] 



' de London ' (40), Nicholas Swyfte, priest, not 

 professed (27), Helizeus P'urnes, novice (30), 

 and Brother William Gentil, conversus (34). 



In the Monasticon ^^ another and shorter list is 

 given of pensions assigned 9 December 1539. 

 Besides the names of Mauleverey, Brewet, Hall, 

 Remyngton, and Rede, against whom pensions 

 are entered in the preceding list, two other names 

 are added, viz., William Browne and Thomas 

 Synderton, each of whom received £(> 13/. /^d., 

 the same as Brewet, Hall, Remyngton, and Rede. 

 Some of these can be traced in the pension 

 inquiry list in the sixth year of Edward VI.^"* 

 Ralph Mauleverey, the late prior, died on 

 I o May 1552. William Remyngton and William 

 Browne received their pensions oi £(> \t,s. 4^. 

 Of Thomas Synderton the record is ' abest.' 



Priors of Hull Charterhouse 



Walter de Kele (first prior), 1378" 

 John Craven, occurs 1410^* 



' Cal. of Papal Letters, vi, 8 1 . 



' Ibid. 162. '° Valor Eccl. v, 126. 



" Tickell, Hist, of the Tozvn and County ofKingston- 

 upon-Hull, 162. 



" Suppression P. ii, 199. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 22. The two lists no 

 doubt are those taken at the first suppression and at 

 the final surrender. There were only seven monks, 

 including the prior, in the later list, thus indicating 

 the change that had taken place in the personnel of the 

 house in the interval. 



" Exch. K.R. Accts. bdle. 76, no. 23. 



" Foundation Chart. Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 21, 

 no. ii. 



'^ Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 19. 



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