RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Thomas deDerfield," DrifFeld,*' or Derford,«' 

 occurs 1350/" died" 



Richard de Wombwell, confirmed 1372/^ 

 occurs 1378'' 



Adam de Bilton, succeeded 1385, occurs 

 Oct. 1390''" 



John de Ledes,'* confirmed 1390," died 



1393'" 



Robert de Quixley, confirmed 1393," died 



1427'* 

 John Huddersfeld [alias Blythebroke, occurs 



1438 '*], confirmed 1427,'*' occurs 1437, 



1452," 1455 «2 



Stephen Mclsanby, occurs 1446*' 



John, occurs 1470'* 



William Assheton, confirmed 1472,*° died 



1489 »^ 



William Melsonby, confirmed 1 1 May 



1489,*' resigned July 1489 ** 



Thomas Wilcok, confirmed 29 July 1489'' 

 Richard Hirst,^ occurs 1489," 1498 '* 

 Richard Marsden, confirmed 1505 '' 

 Alvered Comyn, confirmed 1524'* 

 Robert Ferrer, last prior,'* surrendered 20 



November 1540 '* 



The seaP' of Nostell is circular, and shows 

 St. Oswald seated on a chair decorated with 

 wolves' heads ; in his right hand a cross and in 

 his left a sprig of laurel ; legend : 



SIGILLV SCI OSWALDI REGIS MR DE NOSTELL. 



" Dugdale, loc. cit. 



^ As Thomas de 'Driffeld,' confirmed 30 April 

 '337 ; York Archiepis. Reg. Melton, fol. 213. His 

 successor Ric. de Wombwell was elected to the 

 vacancy caused by the death of Thomas de ' Derfeld '; 

 Ibid. Thoresby, fol. 165^. 



" Dugdale, loc. cit. 



" Baildon, loc. cit. 



" Dugdale, loc. cit. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Thoresby, fol. 1 65^. 



" Baildon, loc. cit. 



"° Chartulary, fol. 27 d. 



" Dugdale, loc. cit. 



« Ibid. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Arundel, fol. 43. 



" Ibid. 



" Ibid. Kemp, fol. 364. 



" Baildon, loc. cit. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. 364. 



" Baildon, loc. cit. 



" Chartul. fol. 70. 



" Baildon, loc. cit. 



" Baildon's MS. Notes. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. G. Nevill, fol. 148. 



" Ibid. Rotherham, i, fol. 125^. 



" Ibid. 



" Ibid. fol. 126^. Melsonby, not Meltonby. 



" Ibid. '» Dugdale, loc. cit. 



" Conventual Leases, Yorks. (P.R.O.),no. 260,261. 



"Chartul. fol. 113. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Savage, fol. 42^. 



" Ibid. Wolsey, fol. 75. 



" Dugdale, loc. cit. " Ibid. 



" Dugdale, Mon. jingl. vi, 91. 



57. THE PRIORY OF WARTER 



The priory of Warter was founded in 1132,' 

 by Geoffrey Fitz Pain, otherwise Trusbut, who 

 conferred upon it the church of Warter and 

 6 bovates of land in the fields of that place. 



Geoffrey,^ son of William Trusbut, con- 

 firmed and supplemented the gifts of his prede- 

 cessor, and his brother Robert^ Trusbut, by a 

 separate charter, conceded the grants of Geoffrey 

 Fitz Pain and Geoffrey Trusbut, and added to 

 them the church of All Saints, Melton. 



All these grants were confirmed by Henry III,* 

 and in 1245" by Pope Innocent IV. The 

 pope, in addition, granted that clerks or laymen 

 fleeing from the world might be received ad 

 conversionem, and retained without dispute. Any 

 of their brethren, having made profession in 

 their church, might not leave without the prior's 

 licence, save for a more ascetic life (artioris 

 religionis). The chrism, holy oil, consecrations 

 of altars or basilicas, the ordinations of clerks, 

 the canons were to receive from the diocesan 

 bishop. In time of a general interdict they 

 might {suppressa voce and the bells not rung) 

 celebrate divine service with closed doors, ex- 

 communicate and interdicted persons excluded. 

 No one was to build an oratory in their parish 

 without their leave and that of the diocesan. 



Robert de Ros,° patron or the priory in 1279, 

 having seen the charters of his ancestors, con- 

 firmed them to God and the church of St. James 

 of Warter, and John the prior, and the canons. 



In other ways, and from other benefactors, 

 the priory obtained property in a considerable 

 number of villages.' 



In 1277,* to save it from ruin, Archbishop 

 Giffard annexed the hospital of St. Giles at 

 Beverley to Warter, with consent of the chapter 

 of York and the brothers of the hospital, order- 

 ing that the priests and conversi then in the 

 hospital should in future abide there or at 

 Warter, according to the ordinance of the prior 

 and convent. 



The prior and canons also obtained possession 

 of the churches of Askham, Clifton, and Barton 

 in the diocese of Carlisle, which were confirmed 

 to them by Innocent IV. Also the churches of 

 Melton, and a portion of Ulceby in Lincoln- 

 shire. They also had, at one time, besides 

 Warter, the churches of Lund, Wheldrake, and 

 Nunburnholme in Yorkshire; but in 1268,^ when 

 the archbishop appropriated Lund to the priory, 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 297. 



' Ibid. 299, no. ii. ' Ibid. no. iii. 



* Ibid. no. iv. " Ibid. no. ix. 



' Ibid. no. vii. 



' Burton, Mon. Ebor. 381-4. 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 301, no. xii. The 

 annexation of the hospital was confirmed by the 

 king. Chart. R. i4Edw. I, no. 39. 



' Burton, Mon. Ebor. 384. 



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