RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



pensions amounting to ^^ 195 were allotted to the 

 brethren, the prior was given j^6o with the house 

 and chapel called the Mount, eight of the priests 

 received £"] each, and eighteen others smaller 

 payments. 



Priors of Mount Grace 



Robert Tredwye or Tredewy, 1398 ' 



Edmund, occurs 1399* 



Nicholas LuiF, occurs 141 3,' 141 5)' 1416' 



Robert Lay ton, occurs 1421 * 



Thomas, occurs 1428' 



Thomas Lockington, occurs 1436,^" '437) 



1439" 

 Robert, occurs 1449," ^454" 

 Robert Leke, occurs 1469," 1473" 

 Thomas, occurs 1475," 1476" 

 Thomas, occurs 1497 '' 



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Henry Eccleston, occurs 1501,^" 1506" 

 John, occurs 1527-8,^* 1531-2^' 

 William (?) Fletcher, occurs 1532-3^* 

 John Wilson, occurs 1537-8,^^ 1538^" 



The seal of the house'*' used in 1520 is a 

 vesica, 2f in. by if in., with a design of the 

 assumption of our Lady and the prior seated 

 under an arch in the base. An H above his 

 right shoulder perhaps refers to Prior Henry 

 Eccleston. The legend is : — 



sigill' 



ONIS : BEE : MARIE : IN MONTE GRE 



Prior John Wilson's seal,^' a vesica, | in. by 

 f in., shows him seated, wearing his mitre, and 

 blessing. The legend is : — 



s' PRIORIS DOMUS MONTIS GRACIE 



HOUSE OF GRANDIMONTINES 



45. THE PRIORY OF GROSMONT 



About 1200 Joan Fossard, wife of Robert 

 de Torneham, gave to the prior and brothers of 

 the order of Grandmont ^ a mansion in the forest 

 of Egton, and land which was to extend along 

 the River Esk for 7 ' quarantans,' and towards 

 the hill for 3I- 'quarantans,' measured by a rod 

 of 20 ft. The brothers were to have 200 acres 

 of land round their house, with the woods, and 

 timber for building and other requirements, and 

 a toft at Sandsend. This charter was con- 

 firmed by her husband, who made an additional 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 28, no. i. 



* Pat. 22 Ric. II, m. 5. 



' Exch. K.R. Accts. bdle. 81, no. 7. 



' As ' Nicholas Love ' ; Yorks. Arch. Journ. xviii, 7 1 . 



' As ' Nicholas ' ; Baildon, Mon. Notes, i , 1 44. 



' Burton, Mon. Ebor. 258. 



'Exch. K.R. Accts. bdle. 81, no. 13 (probably 

 Thomas Lockington). 



^^ Rkvoulx Chartul. (Surt. Soc), 351. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 144. 



" Ibid. 



" Exch. K.R. Accts. bdle. 81, no. 20. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 144. " Ibid. 



" Reg. Corpus Christi Guild, Tork, 88. 



" Exch. K.R. Accts. bdle. 82, no. 15. 



" Ingledevif, Hist, of Northallerton, 264, 266. 



" Torks. Arch. Journ. xviii, 71. 



" Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, App. 35. 



" Rievaulx Chartul. (Surt. Soc), 357. 



" Conventual Leases, Yorks. (P.R.O.), no. 542. 



^' Ibid. no. 519. 



" Ibid. no. 524. The membrane is dirty, but the 

 Christian name appears to be William. 



'^ Ibid. no. 533. '^ Ibid. no. 547. 



" Cat. of Seals, B.M. 3663, xlix, 18. 

 " Ibid. 3665, xlix, 20. 



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gift of land, and both charters were confirmed 

 by King John in the fifteenth year of his reign 

 (1213-14).^ 



On 13 April 1228' Archbishop Gray con- 

 firmed to the prior and brothers of the order 

 of Grandmont the grant of the advowson of the 

 church of Lockington, made by Robert de Torne- 

 ham and Joan his wife, daughter of William 

 Fossard, and afterwards by Peter de Mauley and 

 Isabella his wife, with licence of the pope. 



Peter de Mauley III, grandson of the fore- 

 named, in 1294* made a new grant of the mill, 

 &c. of Egton, to Roger de Creswell, corrector 

 of the order of Grandmont in Eskdale, and the 

 brothers of the same place belonging to the 

 English nation, imposing an obligation that they 

 were to have two more chaplains who were to 

 celebrate daily in their church of St. Mary, for 

 his and his wife's and other of his relations' and 

 ancestors' souls, and yearly to commemorate his 

 father and mother and Nicholaa his wife. 



Burton ^ states that the house was peopled 

 from an ' abbey ' in Normandy, but does not 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 1025. There were 

 several Grandimontine priories (but no abbey) in 

 Normandy, but it was to the one abbey of the order 

 near Limoges (then only a priory) that the gift was 

 made, though Grosmont became a cell to a house of 

 the order in Normandy. 



The mother-house of Grandmont became an 

 abbey in 13 18, and was annexed to the See of 

 Limoges by a bull dated 6 August 1772, when the 

 order was also suppressed ; Le Clergi de France, par 

 M. L'Abbe Hugues du Terns, Paris 1775, iii, 319. 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl vi, 1025, no. i. 



' Archbishop Grafs Reg. (Surt. Soc), 22. 



* Atkinson, Cleveland, Ancient and Modem, i, 202 n. 



' Mon. Ebor. 275. 



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