A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



insolences both within and outside the monas- 

 tery ; but who they were, or what were their 

 offences, is not recorded. 



In 1364'' Urban V granted a faculty to 

 Thomas, Prior of St. Oswald's, Nostell, to 

 dispense six canons of his monastery to be 

 ordained priests in their twenty-second year, 

 many havingdied of the pestilence. 



In 1380'^ there were fifteen canons besides 

 the prior. 



In 1438 the priory was so impoverished by 

 lawsuits, the expense of re-building their 

 church and other causes, that the king granted 

 to the canons the hospital of St. Nicholas, in 

 Pontefract.^^* 



The Archbishop of York claimed an annual 

 pension of 5 marks from the priory for any clerk 

 he might name, on the creation of a new prior, 

 and on 9 May 1480'' Archbishop Rotherham 

 claimed the pension for John Wigmore, his 

 clerk, on the election of William Melsonby to 

 the vacancy created by the death of Prior 

 William Assheton. 



For Mme reason not known, Melsonby re- 

 signed ' dolo, fraude, et metu quibuscumque 

 cessantibus,' two months after his election," 

 and the archbishop directed that he was to have 

 the mansion or rectory of the parish church of 

 Bamburgh for his dwelling, with all the tithes. 



The gross revenue ^^ according to the Valor 

 Eccleiiaiticus was j(^6o6 ()s. 3|<^., and the clear 

 annual value £^()2 lis. 2d. Drs. Legh and 

 Layton record as superstition that a pilgrimage 

 was made here to St. Oswald. The house was 

 surrendered by Robert Ferrer, prior (afterwards 

 Bishop of St. David's), and twenty-eight canons 

 on 20 November, 1540,'° and the site was 

 afterwards granted to Dr, Legh," one of the 

 notorious commissioners. 



Priors of Nostell 



Athelwold,'* 1 121, occurs 1 1 22 

 Savardus, elected 1 153 



" Cal. Papal Letters, iv, 3 7. 



" Subs. R. (P.R.O.), bdle. 63, no. 12. 



'-• Cal. Pat. 1436-41, p. 190. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Rotherham, i, fol. 126^. 



" Ibid. fol. 1273. 



« Falor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 62. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, g I . 



" Ibid. 



" The list in Burton (A/ra. Ebor. 3 1 o), and 

 others copied from Burton, place Ralph Adelavus or 

 Adelave first, with the date 1121, followed by 

 Adelwald, who became first Bishop of Carlisle in 

 1 133, and had been chaplain to Henry I. Mr. 

 Balldon (Mra. 'Notes, i, 152) suggests that these were 

 one and the same person. This seems certainly 

 correct, as in a charter concerning land at Twyford, 

 betsveen the canons of St. Paul's, London, and 

 William Cranfort, in 1 122, among the witnesses 

 occurs ' Adeloldo priore Sancti Oswaldi ' {Hist. 



Geoffrey, died I 175 



Anketil, elected 1 175, died 1 1 96 



Robert de Wodekirk succeeded, died 1199 



Ralph de Bedford, died 1208 



Robert (?), I208'»' 



John, occurs 1209,'"" 1218" 



Ralph (?), occurs 1219-27 *" 



John, occurs 1231-6," died 1237 " 



Ambrose, died 1240*' 



Stephen, resigned 1 244''* 



Ralph succeeded,*' occurs Easter 1244,'" died 

 1246*' 



Robert de Behal succeeded 1246,*' died 

 1255 « 



William de Clifford,'" occurs 1255," died 

 1277 " 



Richard de Wartria, elected 1276," occurs 

 J 285" 



Thomas, occurs 1286 *' 



Richard de Wartria,'" occurs Trinity 1291," 

 died August 1291 '' 



William de Birstall, elected 1291," resigned 



I3I2«'' 



Henry de Aberford, elected 1312,'' resigned 

 I328«2 



John de Insula, appointed 1328," occurs 



1331" 



John de Dewsbury, confirmed 1331,°' died 

 1336" 



MiS. Com. Rep. ix, App. i, 65). The prefixing of 

 the name Ralph to the form Adelave must be an 

 error. Le Neve gives a number of variants of the 

 form of the name of the first Bishop of Carlisle, as 

 e.g., Adulfus, Aethelwulfus, Arnulphus, Aelulfus, 

 Adelulfus, Adelwaldus (^Fasti Ecclesiae Anglkanae [ed. 

 Hardy], iii, 229). The other five succeeding names 

 and dates are taken from Burton {Mon. Ebor. 310). 



^ After the death of Ralph de Bedford Roger de 

 Lacy, a patron, informed Archbishop Geoffrey that one 

 Robert had been elected prior. Cott. MS. Vesp. E. 

 xix (Chartulary of Nostell), fol. 14 d. 



""Ibid. fol. i66d. 



" Cal. Papal Letters, i, 52. 



'" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 152, but John occurs in 

 the Chartulary (fol. 9, 10) as prior in 1219, ^^zi, 

 1225, 1227. 



" Ibid. " Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 91. 



" Ibid. « Ibid. " Ibid. 



*' Baildon, loc. cit. " Dugdale, loc. cit. 



" Ibid. " Ibid. » Ibid. 



" Baildon, loc. cit. " Dugdale, loc. cit. 



" He was elected on 30 December, while Henry 

 de Lacy, the patron, was outside the county ; he 

 might therefore have presented himself to the steward 

 of Pontefract, but he preferred to go the longer 

 distance to the patron ; Chartulary, fol. 1 6. 



"Ibid. fol. lod. 



" Baildon, loc. cit. 'o Dugdale, loc. cit. 



" Baildon, loc. cit. " Dugdale, loc. cit. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Romanus, fol. 40. 



" Ibid. Greenfield, ii, fol. 55. «' Ibid. 



" Ibid. Melton, fol. 172^. «» Ibid. 



" Baildon, loc. cit. " Dugdale, loc. cit. 



« Ibid. ; Chartulary, fol. 16. 



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