A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



lands, &c., including I 2 skeps of salt from his salt 

 works in West Coatham. In this charter first 

 occurs the additional invocation of St. Lawrence. 

 Alan de Wilton* also gave 6 bovates of land 

 in Habton for a light at the altar of St. Law- 

 rence in the canons' church, and for the main- 

 tenance of a chaplain to celebrate at that altar. 



In April 1387 ' it was agreed that German 

 Hay, then patron, and his successors, lords of 

 the manor of Aughton, should nominate eight 

 of the poor supported by the convent, in addition 

 to one who had previously been in the patron's 

 nomination, and the prior and convent were to 

 celebrate the obits of German Hay and Alice 

 his wife, the prior, if possible, officiating in 

 person. The indenture does not reveal any 

 grant, other than a general confirmation of his 

 ancestors' gifts, as a reason for these concessions. 



A good many other possessions were granted 

 to the prior and convent, and, as usual, are set 

 out in alphabetical order by Burton.' 



Archbishop Romanus, in 1286,' wrote to the 

 master of the order of Sempringham to receive 

 a canon of Ellerton who had left his house. In 

 141 7 ' there is a record of the appointment of 

 John Zuesflet, canon of Ellerton, as temporal 

 custoi of their church of Aughton. Otherwise 

 the history of Ellerton is almost a blank till the 

 time of the Dissolution. In 1380-1 there were 

 four canons besides the prior. In 1526° the 

 clear annual revenue was returned at £i>2- 

 Tanner says that there were nine religious in 

 the house,"* but there was the same number at 

 the surrender as in 1 380-1," which looks as if 

 that were the normal strength of the establish- 

 ment. Possibly he has included the poor who 

 were maintained in the house, and whose 

 number may have dwindled considerably. 



The house was surrendered on 1 1 December 

 1538 '^ by John Golding, prior, and four canons. 

 Golding had only become prior that year," and 

 there is some mystery as to the fate of his pre- 

 decessor, Prior James Lowrancc. The convent 

 of Watton had elected him their prior in 1536. 

 They had done this under compulsion, Robert 



* Dugd.ile, Mon. jingl. 9 1 8, no. ix. 



' Ibid. 977, no. iv. 



' Mon. Ebor. 259-62. William son of Ingram 

 Aguillun granted to God, Blessed Mar)-, and the 

 canons and poor pci^ons of Ellerton, Roger Colwin 

 of Cathwell with all that belonged to him. Among 

 the witnesses to the charter is William Fitz Peter, 

 the founder ; Add. Chart. 20553. 



' York Archiepis. Reg. Romanus, fol. 59. 



'Ibid. Bowett, fol. 186. 



'State Papers (P.R.O.), 1526 (return by Brian 

 Higdon). 



'" Dugdale, Mon Angl. vi, 975. 



" Dep. Keeper's Rep. viii, App. 2. 



" Ibid. 



" Cf. Conventual Leases, Yorks. (P.R.O.),no. 191, 

 and no. 187 ; Graham, St. Gilbert of Sempringham 

 and the Gilbertines, 182 &c. citing authorities. 



Holgate the actual prior being still alive. Low- 

 rance, it is said, ' would never take it upon him, 

 nor did they (Watton) receive him for such 

 indeed, but wanted him (Lowrance) to bear 

 the name (of Prior of Watton) only, for fear of 

 the commons.' He continued Prior of Ellerton 

 till early in 1538, and then disappears from 

 view ; possibly he died a natural death as his 

 name is absent from the list of pensions. John 

 Golding first occurs as prior about a month 

 before the Dissolution.** He alone of the 

 members of the house of Ellerton was alive in 

 6 Edward VI," when he was fifty-three years 

 of age ; his pension was ;^ 1 3 ds. 8 J. 



Priors of Ellerton on Spalding Moor 



John, occurs 1219,'' 1230 " 

 Ivo, occurs 1240 '' 

 Geoffrey, occurs 1246," 1248'" 

 Henry, occurs 1252,'* 1269*'^ 

 Adam de Scarborough, occurs 1282 " 

 Robert, occurs 1294" 

 Ralph, occurs 1305^° 

 Alan," occurs 1335," 1336''* 

 William, occurs 1348,^' 1371 '" 

 John Barnby, occurs 1436,^' 1437" 

 Thomas Finche, occurs 1437,'^ 1438''* 

 Giles, occurs ? 1439 '° 

 Henry Bell, occurs 1497," i 506-7" 

 Robert, occurs 1531,'' 1533^° 

 James Lowrance, occurs 1534 to 1538 ** 

 John Golding, occurs 7 Nov. 1538,*' surren- 

 dered the house 11 Dec. 1538*^ 



Hen 



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Conventual Leases, Yorks. (P.R.O.), no. 187. 

 Exch. K.R. Accts. bdle. 76, no. 23. 

 Feet of F. file 14, no. 78 (Hil. 3 Hen. III). 

 Ibid, file 22, no. 3, 21 (Trin. 12-14 

 III). 

 Ibid, file 32, no. 99 (Trin. 24 Hen. III). 

 Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 53. 



Feet of F. file 41, no. 19 (Mich. 32 Hen. III). 

 Ibid. Hil. 36 Hen. III. 

 Baildon, loc. cit. 

 Ibid. 



Feet of F. file 66, no. 4 (East. 22 Edw. I). 

 Baildon, loc. cit. 

 Baildon's MS. Notes. 

 Ibid. » Ibid. 



Ibid. 



Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 53. 

 Ibid. 



Baildon's MS. Notes. 

 Ibid. 



Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 53. 

 Subs. R. (P.R.O.), bdle. 66, no. 411. 

 Test. Ebor. (Surt. Soc.), iv, 123. 

 Ibid. 92. 



Conventual Leases, Yorks. (P.R O.), no. 187. 

 Ibid. no. 84. 



Ibid. no. 183, 190, 191 ; f^a/or Eccl. v, 128. 

 Conventual Leases, Yorb. (P.R.O.), no. 187. 

 Dep. Keeper's Rep. viii, App. 20. 



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