A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



Beckwith's account states that there were six bells 

 in the ' campanile,' valued at ;^20, and William 

 Emson, the late prior, received a pension of j^i8. 

 There were of plate wholly gilt two chalices 

 with patens, and three maser bands, together 

 42 oz. ; and of silver parcel-gilt a chalice and 

 paten, and two salts, with one cover, together 

 32 oz. 



Priors of Drax 



Norman, occurs 1 1 7 8 " 



Alan, occurs 1205,-'^ 1226" 



Robert, succeeded and occurs 1227,*^ 1234'' 



John de Rasen, occurs after Prior Robert ''' 



Gernagan, c. 1243"' 



Robert, occurs 1252 -° 



Adam, occurs 1272 '^ 



Thomas de Camesale, occurs 1282,'* resigned 



1286^3 

 Elyas de Burton, confirmed 1287,^ occurs 



1289" 

 War . . . , occurs 1 291 " 

 John de Lincoln, confirmed 1 291," occurs 



as John only 1295 '* 

 Henry de Shirewoode, 130 1, ''died 1332'* 

 Gilbert deOunsby, confirmed December 1332 



{quaere, alias de Eboraco),'' 1334'* 

 John de Saxton alias Sapertun,'' elected 



1349'° 

 John de Wiggeton, occurs 1354*^ 



Thomas de Shirburn, occurs 1360,*^ 1368,*' 



1388," died 1 391" 



Richard de Ledes, elected 1391 *' 



John de Usflet, occurs 1393,*' 1398*' 



" Burton, Mon. Ebor. 114, note a. 



" Yorks. Tines, John, 93. 



" Burton, M'-.n. Ebor. I 14, note 3. " Ibid, notec 



" Baildon, Mon. "Note!, i, 38. 



" Burton, Mon. Ebor. 1 14, note d. 



" Ibid, note e. « Ibid, note/ 



" Ibid, note ^. " Ibid, note ^. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Romanus, fol. 28. 



'" Burton, ;!/.«. Ebor. i 14, note i. 



" Bail Jon, Mon. Notes, i, 38. 



" Burton, Mon. Ebor. 114, note /. Burton places 

 him after John de Lincoln. Mr. Baildon has altered 

 this order, and his change is followed here. 



'' York Archiepis. Reg. Romanus, fol. 38. 



" Baildon, Men. Notes, i, 38. 



" Ibid. ; Cal. of In^. p.m. 10-20 Edw. II, 264. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Melton, fol. 191;^. 



'' Ibid. Zouch, fol. 3 5^. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 38. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 195. 



"" York Archiepis. Reg. Zouch, fol. 351^, where he 

 is said to have succeeded Gilbert de Eboraco, de- 

 ceased. 



*' Burton, Mon. Ebor. 114, note/. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Thoresby, fol. lodb. 



"Ibid. fol. 1383. 



" Baildon, Mm. Notes, i, 38. 



" Burton, Mon. Ebor. 1 14, note q. 



" Ibid. ■" Ibid, note r. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Scrope, fol. i ib. 



William Selby, died 1429" 



William Chippyndaie, elected 1429'° 



John, occurs 1465,'' 1475 ' 



Thomas Hankoke " 



Richard Wilson, elected 25 October 1507," 



occurs thence till 1529-30" 

 William Emson, occurs 1531 to 1536," last 



prior (pensioned) 



The 12th-century seal" is a vesica, 2| in. by 

 in. It shows a figure of the patron saint in 



his pall, blessing and holding his crozier. The 



legend is : — 



•J* SIGILLVM SANCTI NICOLA! EPISCOPI 



The 12th-century seal'* of the chapter is 

 similar in design, but larger, and the legend is 

 longer. All that remains of it is : — 



If 



SIGILLVM CAPITVL 



NICH 



. DE DRA 



The prior's seal '' of the same date is a vesica, 

 i|^in. by i\ in., and has a half-length figure of 

 the prior praying. The legend is : — 



^ SIGILLVM PRIORIS DE D 



49. THE PRIORY OF GUISBOROUGH 



The Augustinian priory of Guisborough (or 

 Gisburne, as the place was usually called in the 

 Middle Ages) was founded by Robert de Brus, 

 who endowed it on a magnificent scale. The 

 Foundation Charter ' records that he had founded 

 the house by the counsel and advice of Pope 

 Calixtus and Archbishop Thurstan, 



" Ibid. Kemp, fol. 346. '» Ibid. 



" Burton, Mon. Ebor. 114, note /. " Ibid. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 195. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. sed. vac. fol. 519^. 



"Conventual Leases, Yorks. (P.R.C).), no. 114,. 

 146, 148, 153, 157, 160, 164, 170. In 1523 he 

 became Bishop of Meath by papal provision and ' died 

 about 1529' {Cotton, Fasti Eccl. Hibernictie iii, 115). 

 In leases 157 (6 Nov. 1529) and 160 (31 Dec. 1529) 

 he is called ' Richard Bishop late of Meath, prior,' &c. 

 In 1533-4 ^^ was in possession of land in Roxby, 

 CO. Lincoln (Conv. Lease, no. 158), and is then 

 called 'my Lorde Richarde Bushopp of Meth.' He 

 had, before then, resigned the priory of Drax. On 

 28 June 1 53 1 he was commissioned by Wolsey 

 to bless William Wode, Prior of Bridlington (York 

 Archiepis. Reg. Wolsey, fol. 623). His name as 

 Prior of Drax appears for the last time in lease 160 

 (31 Dec. 1 529). 



" In about twenty Conventual Leases between the 

 above dates inclusive. In only 172 (4 May 1533) 

 and 175 (13 Apr. 1535) does his surname, Emson ot 

 Empson, appear. 



" Cat. of Seals, B.M. 3073,lxxiv, 39. 



" Ibid. 3074, lixiv, 41. 



" Ibid. 3075, Ixxiv, 12. 



' Guisborough Chartul. (Surt. Soc), i, 1-5. 



208 



