A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



John de Lund, appointed 1287*' 



Alan de Morton, confirmed December 1 304 *' 



Simon de Brandby, succ. 1307,*' resigned 



1318" 

 Henry de Melkingthorp, appointed 131 8,*' 



resigned 1 321 ■" 

 Robert de Tickhill, succ. 1321*^ 

 William de Craven, confirmed 1340,'*^ died 



1344" 

 Hugh de Rickhall, 1344,^° died 1349 " 

 John de Thresk, 1349," resigned 1357 '' 

 Robert, occurs 1369" 

 William, occurs 1370," Easter 1 37 1 " 

 Robert de Hoton, occurs Trinity 1371," 



1388 '» 

 Robert de Stillington, occurs 1403" 

 John de Goldsborough, occurs 1436 ^ 

 Robert Cave, resigned 1443 ^' 

 Henry Rayne, confirmed 1443 *^ 

 Christopher Latoner, confirmed 1506" 

 John Caterik, confirmed 1519 " 

 George Davy, resigned 1 531 °' 

 Thomas Yodson, confirmed 7 June 1531 °^ 



(last prior) 



The 13th-century seal" of the chapter is 

 circular, 2 in. in diameter, showing our Lady 

 seated in a throne between the sun and moon. 

 The legend is : — 



sigill' capitvh sce marie de martone 



Henry, the second prior, sealed with a vesica,** 

 I ^ in. by i^ in., having a figure of himself stand- 

 ing, with the legend : — 



hji sigil' henrici prioris de martv 



The seal" of Prior John de Thresk (1349- 

 1357) is a vesica, i\ in. by ij in., with our 

 Lady crowned and seated with the Child, and 

 the prior kneeling below. The legend ran : — 



s' ioh'is de threske prioris de martvn 



*' York Archiepis. Reg. Romanus, fol. 51. 



" Ibid. sed. vac. fol. 38^ 



" Dugdale, Mori. Angl. vi, 198. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Melton, fol. 227. 



" Ibid. fol. 227*. " Ibid. fol. 236^ 



" Ibid. fol. 236. " Ibid. sed. vac. fol. 6<)b. 



" Ibid. Zouch, slip between fol. 156 and 157. 



» Ibid. " Ibid. fol. 1653. " Ibid. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 198. A commission for 

 the election of a prior was issued I Dec. 1357, but no 

 names are mentioned ; York Archiepis. Reg. Thoresby, 

 fol. 174. 



" Baildon, Mon. Nofcs, i, 128. 



" Ibid. « Ibid. " Ibid. " Ibid. 



" Baildon's MS. Notes. 



•" Dugdale, Men. Angl. vi, 198. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. 203. " Ibid. 



^ Ibid. Savage, fol. 69. (The name is written 

 Laton' or Latov', indicating Latoner or Latover.) 



» Ibid. Wolsey, fol. 48. 



" Ibid. fol. 619. "Ibid. 



"Cat. of Seals, B.M. 3620, Ixxiv, 79. 



" Ibid. 3621, lixiv, 80. ^ Ibid. 3622, Lxxiv, 82. 



54. THE PRIORY OF NEWBURGH 



Roger de Mowbray in 1145 ' gave to God 

 and the church of St. Mary 'de Novo-Burgo,' 

 and the canons there serving God, the site itself 

 and all the east part of * Cukewald ' (Coxwold) 

 beyond the fishpond {vivarium), the church of 

 St. Mary of Hood, with the land and wood 

 under the adjoining hills, as the monks of Byland 

 had formerly possessed it.' Also the church 

 of Coxwold, with its subordinate chapels, viz. : 

 Kilburn, Thirkleby, and Silton, the church 

 of Tresc (Thirsk), together with the chapel of 

 St. James. Robert de Mowbray also granted 

 the canons and their men who dwelt in Thirsk 

 all the liberties and privileges which his bur- 

 gesses possessed in the burgh, of buying and sell- 

 ing in the market-place and outside it free of 

 toll and stallage. 



Besides these gifts Robert de Mowbray con- 

 firmed the donation of the church of Welburn 

 with 6 bovates, and the valley where the church 

 stood with the chapel of Wombleton,' and the 

 churches of Kirby in Ryedale (Kirkby Moor- 

 side), Kirby near Boroughbridge (Kirby Hill), 

 and Cundall with their endowment lands. 

 Nigel * the son of the founder, and William the 

 grandson, confirmed these and other gifts. 



By a separate charter Roger de Mowbray* 

 granted to the canons of Newburgh the churches 

 of Masham, Kirkby Malzeard, ' Landeford,' 

 Haxey, Owston, ' Appewrda,' and Belton ; 

 Samson de Albini, to whom Nigel, Roger de 

 Mowbray's father, had given them, assentiente 

 pariter et donante. To this grant Roger, Abbot 

 of Byland, was one of the witnesses. Samson 

 de Albini ° made a separate grant of the churches 

 in question to Augustine, prior of the church of 

 St. Mary of Newburgh, with certain conditions. 



A further grant' was made by Roger de 

 Mowbray for the soul of his father Nigel, his 

 mother Gundreda, his own soul, and that of 

 Adeliz his wife, to God, ' Sanctae Marie de Insula 

 desubtus Hode,' iind to Augustine the prior, and 

 the canons serving God there, in perpetual alms, 

 of the church of St. Andrew in York, ' quae est 

 ultra fossam in Fischergata.' Among the witnesses 

 to this charter were William the dean and the 

 chapter of York, and Samson de Albini. 



The priory of Newburgh was peopled from 

 Bridlington, and the canons who came for that 

 purpose at first settled at Hood, which had been 

 vacated by the monks of Byland. This latter 

 grant of Roger de Mowbray would seem to have 

 been made to the canons while settled at Hood, 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 317. 



• Ibid. 3 1 8, no. i. 

 ' The church of Welburn has become extinct, ai 



well as its dependent chapel of Wombleton. 

 ' Dugdale, Mon. Angl vi, 318, no. ii. 



* Ibid. 319, no. iii. * Ibid. no. ir, 

 ' Ibid. 320, no. v. 



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