A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



was to render an account of all receipts and 

 expenses to the convent. 



There were ten canons at the Dissolution, and 

 the priory and its entire property was granted in 

 1536-7 to Thomas, Earl of Rutland, so that 

 there was no time for returning to the Court of 

 Augmentation the annual account.'' 



Priors of Warter ^ 



Joseph 



Ralph 



Richard (abbot) 



Yvo (abbot), occurs 1 1 32 " 



Nicholas, occurs 1206 '^ 



Richard, occurs 1209" 



Thomas, occurs 1223,'' ruled six years 



Ranulph, occurs 1229,'' ruled six years 



John Leystingham, occurs 1235,^ ruled six 



months 

 John de Dunelm, occurs 1236,^' ruled eight 



years 

 Robert de Lund, succeeded 1249," ruled 



fifteen years 

 John de Queldrike, succeeded 1264,*' ruled 



sixteen years 

 John de Thorp, succeeded 1280,^^ ruled thirty- 

 three years 

 Richard de Welwyk, succeeded 1 31 4," ruled 



forty-four years 

 Robert de Balre, succeeded 1359," ruled four 



years, resigned *' 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 298. 



"In the Monasticon {Mon. Jngl. vi, 298, no. i) 

 is a document entitled ' De prima fundatione ejusdem 

 et de Successione Prionim,' which gives a list of the 

 priors with certain notes about them, and the lengths 

 of their rule, &c., ending with William Spenser 

 (elected 1458). The list, so far as it can be checked 

 with the registers, seems fairly correct. The third 

 and fourth are called abbots, but on what ground is 

 not explained. It should be noted that there is no 

 place for Robert, who is said, in the ordinary lists, to 

 have become prior in 1 271. He is not named in 

 the ' Successio,' and the Register of Archbishop 

 Wickwanc (fol. 174^) is explicit that John de Thorp 

 immediately succeeded John de Queldrike, between 

 whose names Robert has been thrust. 



'^ Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 297. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notts, i, 210. " Ibid. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 297. " Ibid. 



<" Ibid. " Ibid. 



" Ibid. " Ibid. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Wickwane, fol. 1 74^. 



" Ibid. Greenfield, ii, fol. 123. 



" Ibid. Thoresby, fol. 200. 



" Ibid. 



William de Ferriby, confirmed 1364," ruled 



sixteen years 

 Henry de Holm, succeeded 1380," ruled thret 



years, died 

 John de Hemyngburgh, 1 383,"* first time ruled 



one and a half year 

 William de Tyveryngton, 1385," ruled four 



years, deposed and expelled 

 John de Hemyngburgh, confirmed 1 1 Dec. 



1388,'^ second time, ruled two and a half 



years, died " 

 Robert Takell, elected 1 392," ruled seventeen 



years 

 Thomas Ruland, succeeded 1410," ruled ten 



years seven months, resigned 

 William Warter succeeded, occurs 1423,'* 



ruled twenty-five years, died ''' 

 Robert Hedon, confirmed 1445," ruled eight 



years nine months, resigned " 

 William York, elected 1453,°" 'renounced' 



priorship and expelled," ruled four years 

 William Spenser, succeeded 1458" 

 John Preston, confirmed 1483," died" 

 Thomas Bridlington, confirmed 1495," re- 

 signed " 

 Thomas Newsome, elected 1 498,'' died 1526'* 

 William Holme, confirmed 1526 '° 



"Ibid. fol. 211. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 297, 



" Ibid. " Ibid. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Arundel, fol. 13. 



" So in 'Successio' (Dugdale, Mon. Angl vi, 299, 

 no. i), but in Arundel's Register, fol. 35, it is said 

 that Robert Takell was elected on the resignation of 

 John de Hemyngburgh. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Arundel, fol. 35. In Mr. 

 Baildon's MS. Notes the Christian name is altered 

 from Robert to John (Takell). Robert is the name 

 in every case in which it occurs in the registers, is 

 also that in the ' Successio,' and as ' Robert Takyll, 

 Prior of St. James, Wartre,' he occurs, Cal. Papal 

 Letters, v, 230. Pardon to Robert Takell, Prior of 

 Warter, and John Etton his fellow canon, who were 

 in the field in the company of Richard, late Arch- 

 bishop of York, against the king, 10 Aug. 1409 \. 

 Cal. Pat. 1405-8, p. 55. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl vi, 297. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 210. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp. fol. 403. 



" Ibid. 



" Ibid. W. Booth, fol. 389. " Ibid. 



" Ibid. fol. 2033. (His resignation, ibid. fol. i I zi.) 



"Ibid. fol. 113. 



" Ibid. Rotherham, i, fol. 43. 



" Ibid. fol. 89^. « Ibid. 



" Ibid. fol. 155. " Ibid. 



" Ibid. Wolsey, fol. 84^. " Ibid. 



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