RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



■canons being called ebdomadarii, and seeing that 

 he, on account of an impediment of his tongue, 

 could not conveniently do so, he was to be free 

 for life from such obligation. 



Archbishop George Nevill gave notice of a 

 visitation of Newburgh on il October 1465,'' 

 and a letter is preserved in his register from the 

 prior, William Helmesley, giving the names and 

 offices of the persons summoned to appear before 

 the archbishop. The offices were those of sub- 

 prior, sacrista et magister febricarum, magister 

 tannarie, elemosinarius, cellerarius, magister 

 sartrie, magister firmarie, cantor, hostiarius,^' 

 magister granarie, sub - cellarius, sub - cantor, 

 sub - sacrista, refectorarius. The result of the 

 visitation itself does not seem to have been 

 entered in the register. 



In the Taxatiooi 1291^' the ancient assessment 

 of Newburgh is put at ;^8i "js. and the new 

 assessment at ;^20. 



In 1527'" the clear value was returned as 

 j^300, and in the Valor Ecclesiasticus '^ the total 

 income was returned as £^^S1 '3^' S^- ^^^ ^^^ 

 clear value at ^2)^'] is, 7,d. The priory of 

 Newburgh held property in Durham, Leicester- 

 shire, and Lincolnshire, besides Yorkshire.'^ 



Drs. Legh and Layton ^' record, as superstition 

 at Newburgh, that the canons had the girdle 

 * Sancti Salvatoris,' which, as it was said, was 

 good for those in child-birth. They had also in 

 veneration an arm of St. Jerome. 



There were seventeen canons besides the 

 prior, William Lenewodd, at the dissolution,'* 

 four of whom were deacons. The prior received 

 a yearly pension of j^50, and the others sums 

 varying from £ib 13^. ^. to ;^4 each. 



When an inquiry was made in the seventh 

 year of Edward VI '' as to the payment of pen- 

 sions in the North Riding the following return 

 was made as to Newburgh : William Edward 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Geo. Nevill, fol. 1 9. 



'* Hostiarie is the actual reading. It should perhaps 

 be either magister hostiarie or hostiarius. 



" Pope Nick. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 325. 



'» Subs. R. (P.R.O.), bdle. 64, no. 303. 



" Valor Eccl. v, 92. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 317-18. 



" L. and P. Hen. Fill, x, p. 137. 



" Ibid, xiv (l), p. 67. One of the canons 

 named in the list, Thomas Ripon, ' otherwise called 

 Wardroper, preste,' made his will 21 April 1543, 

 and left his ' bodie to be buried within the 

 churche of Cookwolde. . . . Also I bequeathe to 

 everie brother of Newburgh beinge at my buriall 

 xi]d.' . . . The will, which has much else of interest 

 in it, contains bequests to the canons still living : to 

 Sir Gilbert Kirkbie, two half portasses ; to Sir William 

 Barker, a bonnet ; to Sir William Graie, a velvet 

 cap ; to Sir William Edward, two cloth tippets, &c. ; 

 to Sir William Johnson, ' one swerd,' and to Sir John 

 Flynnte, a sarcenet tippet. Reg. York Wills, xiii, 

 fol. 138. 



" K.R. Exch. Accts. (P.R.O.), bdle. 76, no. 24. 



{io6f. 8i.) appeared with his patent ; John Flint 

 (io6j. id.) 'is dead the xth day of July in the 

 first yere of Kinge Edward the Sexe' [1547] ; 

 Robert Tenant (iooj.); Rowland Fostar (lOOf.); 

 Thomas Grason (^^4) ; James Barwyke (^^4) ; 

 and William Graye (j^4) appeared with their 

 patents and were for the most part a year in 

 arrear. 



On 18 December 1537'' the council in the 

 north wrote to the king that ' of late a young 

 fellow, Brian Boye, late servant to the Prior of 

 Newburgh as keeper of St. Saviour's Chapel 

 (whereunto many pilgrims resort), said that the 

 prior has spoken unfitting words of your high- 

 ness.* The prior and Boye were examined to- 

 gether, and the prior swore that it was false, 

 Boye was commanded home to his father, and 

 although there was no other evidence against the 

 prior they say ' we have thought right to sequester 

 him till the king's pleasure is known at St. Leo- 

 nard's, York," a house of the same order, with 

 our fellow Mr, Magnus,' 



Priors of Newburgh 



Augustine '' 



Richard, occurs 1 1 69-70 " 

 Swein, occurs before 1195 *" 

 Barnard, occurs 1199*^ 

 M . . ,, occurs 1199*^ 

 D . , ,, occurs 1202*' 

 Philip, occurs 1225 *''-3i ** 

 Ingram, occurs 1246-9" 

 John, occurs 1252-3*^ 

 William de Louthorpe (mentioned 1284)*' 

 John de Skipton, 1250-I ■" 

 Robert, occurs 1279,*' 1280^° (de Hoving- 

 ham) " 



" L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xii (i), 534. 



" St. Leonard's was an Augustinian hospital. 



" There is some doubt about the succession of the 

 first four priors, but it seems probable from Roger de 

 Mowbray's grant of St. Andrew's Church, Fishergate, 

 York (Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 320, no. v), when the 

 canons were at Hood, that Augustine, who is named 

 in the charter, was the first prior. 



" Pipe R. 16 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc), 44. 



" Rievaulx Chartul (Surt. Soc), 113. 



" Guisborough Chartul. ii, 55 ; Cott. MS. Vesp. 

 E. xix, fol. 73. 



" Cal. of Papal Letters, i, 7. 



" Coucher Bk. ofSelby, ii, 141. 



«' Cott. MS. Nero D. iii, fol. 51. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 145. 



" Feet of F. file 39, no. 85 ; file 41, no. 25. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 145. 



" Ibid. 



*' As ' Schipton ' ; Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 3 1 7. 

 Mentioned 1329 as Skipton ; Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 



145- 



" Feet of F. file 57, no. 20 (Trin. 7 Edw. I). 

 '" Ibid, file 59, no. 91 (Mich. 8 Edw. I). 

 " Baildon, Mon. Notes,\, 145. 



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