RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Both in 1482 and 1488 the bishop found fault 

 with the canons for not keeping silence and for 

 not wearing their cloaks at proper times.^^ 

 From the list of the brethren in 1 49 1 we find 

 that only the abbot and six canons were con- 

 tinually in residence, eight other canons serving 

 the churches of Great Ouseburn, Rokeby, and 

 Startforth, and the chapels of Ellerton, Richmond, 

 Romaldkirk, Arkendale, and Askrigg.''^ In 

 1494 the question of the cloaks was still the 

 most important matter dealt with," but in 1497 

 one of the canons had taken part in a quarrel 

 which had resulted in the death of his 

 adversary,*' and although not directly responsible 

 he was banished for seven years to Halesowen,*' 

 to appease the anger of the dead man's friends ; 

 another canon had also to undergo penance for 

 being present at the fatal quarrel, though he had 

 done his best to keep the peace. The canon 

 who had been vicar of Startforth had turned 

 apostate and had made over his vicarage to 

 Thomas Tollerton, who was recalled as un- 

 suitable. The bishop forbad the brethren to go 

 out without leave, and especially to visit the 

 town of Barnard Castle, a prohibition which he 

 repeated in 1500,*' adding that none were to 

 carry long knives either within or without the 

 abbey. Provision was to be made for the 

 cantarist of Richmond, that he should not in 

 future have to go about like a beggar. The 

 last recorded visitation, in 1 502,*^ revealed many 

 serious defects, and the canons were ordered to 

 cease from quarelling and not to go out of the 

 abbey without leave ; boys were not to sleep in the 

 dormitory, and the abbot was not to lease estates 

 for long terms without consulting the convent. 

 The abbey was exempted at the suppression 



of 1535 and re-founded in 1S37, but finally sur- 

 rendered in 1540. A pension of £1^ 6x. did. 

 was granted to the abbot, and smaller sums, in all 

 amounting to j^30 ly. ^d., to the sub-prior, six 

 priests, and one sub-deacon. 



Abbots of Egglestone " 



Ralph de Moleton, occurs 1198^*' 



William 



Nicholas, c. 1200 



Stephen, c. 1205 ^"^ 



Robert, occurs 12 16 



William, occurs 1226 



Hamo, occurs 1235,^°'' 1239 



Robert, occurs 1250-4^* 



Roger, (?) 



John of Easby, occurs 1296, died 1307 



Thomas of Durham, elected 1307 



William, elected 1309 



Bernard of Langton, elected 131 3 



John of Theakston, elected 1330 



Alexander of Easby, elected i 349 



William of Startforth, elected 135 1 



John, occurs 1364 



Peter of Easby, elected 1377 



John English or Inglys, occurs 1401,^^ died 



1411 

 John of Wells, elected 16 Feb., ob. 27 Sept. 



1411 

 Thomas Morton, elected 27 Sept. 141 1 

 Thomas Rayner, elected 1445, retired 1449 

 Richard Hilton, elected 1449 

 John Woolston, elected 1455 

 Robert Ellerton, elected 1476 

 William Westerdale, elected 1495 

 John Wakefield, elected 1503 

 Thomas Darnton alias Shepherd, 151 9-40 



HOUSES OF THE GILBERTINE ORDER 



63. THE PRIORY OF ELLERTON ON 

 SPALDING MOOR 



Early in the 1 3th century * William Fitz Peter 

 granted to God, Blessed Mary and the order 



" Ibid. 405. 

 '' Ibid. 408. 



" Gasquet, op. cit. 40 1, 403. 



" Ibid. 406. 



" He was back at Egglestone in 1500 ; ibid. 410. 



"Ibid. 'Mbid. 411. 



" The authority for this list is Torks. Arch. Journ. 

 xviii, 129-83. 



^^ Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 51. 



"* Cott. MS. Nero D. iii, fol. 5 2 d. 



""= Egerton MS. 2823, fol. 31. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 51. 



" Cal. of Papal Letters, v, 414. Granted leave to 

 resign his abbacy if he so desired. 



' Dugdale, Mott. Angl. vi, 975. Geoffrey, Arch- 

 bishop of Yorlc, is named in and is a witness to the 

 foundation charter ; as he was deprived in 1207 or 

 1208, the date of foundation must be before 1209. 



of Sempringham land in Ellerton, and other 

 property in the neighbourhood, for founding a 

 priory of canons of the order, and for the entertain- 

 ing {ad pascendum ibidem) thirteen poor persons.^ 

 About the middle of the century Peter, the son 

 of Peter de Mauley, confirmed to the canons 

 all that they had of his fee, including ' totum 

 situm abbathiae in Elretona,' with the church 

 of the same vill. 



Alan of Wilton ' gave to God, Blessed Mary, 

 and St. Lawrence, and for the sustenance of 

 the canons and thirteen poor folk, 12 acres 

 in Howm (Holme-on-the-Wolds) and other 



' Ibid. 976, no. i. Gilbert, second master of 

 Sempringham, and John, Prior of Ellerton, acknow- 

 ledged themselves bound (c. 1220) to provide for the 

 maintenance of thirteen poor persons ' in hospitali 

 ecclesiae de EIreton ' as had been arranged between 

 themselves and William son of the founder ; ibid. 

 977, no. vi. ' Ibid. no. vii. 



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