RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



commes to her [hear] service at Bolton. Item 

 to the repayringe of the saide churche of Bolton 

 vj" xiij' viij''.' 



Prior Moone and fourteen canons surrendered 

 the house on 29 January 1540. A yearly pen- 

 sion of ;^40 was assigned to the prior, and sums 

 varying from ^^6 13J. ^d. to ^4 were granted 

 to the canons. 



Priors of Bolton 



Reynold, 11 20*' 

 John, occurs 12 12," 1219^' 

 Robert, occurs 1222," 1227" 

 Thomas, occurs 1233 ** 

 Adam, occurs 1255*' 

 Henry, occurs 1263** 



William de Danfield, occurs 1267," 127 1 '" 

 Richard de Bakhampton, confirmed 1270," 

 resigned 1274-5'^ 



William Hog, confirmed 1275," deprived 



1275" 



John de Lund, or Landa, confirmed 1275,** 

 occurs 1327,°^ resigned 1330" 



Thomas de Coppeley, died 1340 ^^ 



Robert de Harton, confirmed 1340,'^ died 

 1369 » 



Robert de Ottelay, confirmed 1369,^^ occurs 



1385^^ 



Robert de Grene, occurs 1397,^' 1398 ^* 

 John Farnhill, occurs 141 3," resigned 141 6 ^' 

 Robert Catton, succeeded 1416,*^ occurs 



1423,'' died 1430*' 

 John Farnhill (again) 1430"' 

 Lawrence, occurs 1439 '"^ 

 Thomas Boston, occurs 144.8-9," resigned 



1456" 



" First prior (at Embsay) ; Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 

 203, no. ii. 



*' Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 1 2. 



« Feet of F. file 14, no. 59 (Hil. 3 Hen. III). 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 1 2. 



" Feet of F. file 18, no. 13 (Mich. 11 Hen. HI); 

 19, no. 90. 



"Ibid, file 26, no. 13 (Trin. 17 Hen. III). 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 1 2. " Ibid. 



'^ Archbp. Gifard's Reg. {S\iTt. Soc), 145. 



"Add. Qiart. 20927 (as William only). 



" JrM/>. Giffard's Reg. (Surt. Soc), 32. Dugdale, 

 Mon. Angl. vi, 202, gives him the alias of Burlington. 



"Ibid. '' Pat. 3 Edvir. I, m. 6. 



"Archbp.Giffard'sReg. (Surt. Soc), 307. 



''Ibid. 312. '^Add. Chart. 16706. 



"Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 202. 



^ York Archiepis. Reg. sed. vac. fol. 50. '° Ibid. 



«> Ibid. Thoresby,fol. 155. "Ibid. 



"Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 12. 



^Cal. Papal Letters, v, 59. 



** Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 202. 



*' Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 12. 



** York Archiepis. Reg. Bowett, fol. 3 5^. " Ibid. 



** Baildon, Mott. Notes, i, 12. 



*' York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. 356. ™ Ibid. 



"Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 12. 



" Ibid, (from Knaresborough Ct. R.). 



" York Archiepis. Reg. W. Booth, fol. 8. 



William Man', elected 1456,'^ resigned 1471 " 

 Christopher Lofthouse, confirmed 1 471 '^ 

 Gilbert Wilson, occurs 1477'' 

 Gilbert Marsden, occurs 1482,''' resigned 

 1483'' 



Christopher Wood, 1483,^° resigned 1495 " 

 Thomas Ottelay, 1495,*^ resigned 1513"' 

 Richard Moone, 15 13," last prior '^ 



The seal ^' of Bolton Priory bore a representa- 

 tion of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Child. 

 Legend : — 



SIGILLUM SANCTE MARIE DE BOLTON 



47. THE PRIORY OF BRIDLINGTON 



The great Augustinian priory of Bridlington 

 was founded by Walter de Gant in the reign of 

 Henry I.^ The priory received gifts from a large 

 number of donors, and soon became one of the 

 richest religious foundations in the county. Bur- 

 ton has given a list of its possessions,^ occupying 

 no less than thirty-four folio pages of his work. 

 The founder himself, besides 13 carucates, &c., 

 at Bridlington, gave five churches, and the 

 moiety of another, and at the Dissolution the 

 priory possessed sixteen churches besides several 

 chapelries. In addition to its temporalities King 

 Stephen gave ' the port and harbour of Bridling- 

 ton, with all kinds of wreck of the sea which 

 shall in future happen on or issue in all places 

 within the Dykes called Earl Dyke, and Flayn- 

 burg Dyke.' ' 



Ralph son of Ralph de Nevill granted the 

 canons stone from the quarry of Filey for build- 

 ing their monastery and its offices, with access for 

 fetching the stone over his land.* 



The founder's gift of the church of Grinton 

 in Swaledale led to a strange complaint on the 

 part of the prior and convent to the pope. The 

 Archdeacon of Richmond had, they said, travelled 

 on his visitation with a retinue of ninety-seven 

 horses, twenty-one dogs, and three hawks, and 



'* Ibid. [The name is written Man' as if con- 

 tracted.] "Ibid. fol. 8^. 



'«Ibid. G. Nevill, fol. 139. 



"Reg. Corpus Chris ti Guild, Tork, 10 1. 



''York Archiepis. Reg. Rotherham, i, fol. 2o3. 



"Ibid. 37. '"Ibid. "Ibid. 88. »'Ibid. 



^ Ibid. Bainbridge, fol. \ob. '* Ibid. 



*' Surrendered the house 29 Jan. 1 5 40- 1 ; Dugdale, 

 Mon. Angl. vi, 202. 



'^Ibid. vi, 203. 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 234. Among the wit- 

 nesses to the Foundation Charter was Archbishop 

 Thurstan. Pope Calixtus II (l 119-24) confirmed to 

 Guicheman,the first prior, all the grants made by the 

 founder ; Prickett, Priory Ch. of Bridlington, 15. 



' Burton, Mon. Ebor. 2 1 3-46. 



'Prickett, Prioi-j Ch. of Bridlington, 20. 



* Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 288, no. xiv. 



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