A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



the usual servants." There were also two 

 stewards, one for estates in Craven and the other 

 for those in Furness and Coupland, and Sir 

 William Scot, knight, was in receipt of a pen- 

 sion for life of ^os.^* 



The Templars' church of Whitkirk seems to 

 have been made over to this preceptory before 

 1402,^' and the sphere of its bailiwick was much 

 enlarged in the process of time until in 1535 *° 

 it extended over Lancashire, Cumberland, West- 

 morland, and Nottinghamshire, as well as part 

 of Yorkshire, necessitating the employment of 

 thirteen bailiffs. The Yorkshire rectories of 

 Darfield, Whitkirk and Kellington accounted 

 for ;^8o ; the offerings collected through the 

 fraternity of St. John the Baptist in the 

 counties other than Yorkshire amoimted to 

 £2^ ; the total issues came to ;^202 3/. Sd. 

 The deductions amounted to £^2 8s. 8^^., 

 including the stipends of a chaplain at Newland 

 and another at Stede (Lanes.), and the fees of 

 the numerous bailiffs and other officials ; the clear 

 value, therefore, was ;^I29 141. i li*/., of which 

 £8S gs. 6d. was paid over to the head quarters of 

 the order. 



Preceptors of Newland 



John de Wyrkelee, occurs 1338*' 



Richard Cerne, occurs 1402^, 1415*' 



Alban Poole, occurs 1528'° 



Roger Boydell, died 1533 '"" 



Thomas Pemberton, occurs 1535'' 



? Cuthbert Leghton, last preceptor, 1540'' 



82. THE PRECEPTORY OF RIBSTON 

 AND WETHERBY 



Upon the suppression of the Knights Temp- 

 lars in 131 2, seven out of their ten Yorkshire 

 preceptories were made over to the Knights 

 Hospitallers, but Ribston alone retained its inde- 

 pendent position as a preceptory. In 1338^ 

 the estates of this preceptory were valued at 

 £i6y III. 8d., of which some 30 marks came 

 from the appropriated church of Hunsingore, and 

 40 marks were estimated as obtainable for the 

 church of Whitkirk if it were leased instead of 



" The washerwomen received the modest remu- 

 neration of lid. z year. 



'' Larking, op. cit. 45-6. 



" Whitaker, Leeds, 139. 



« /v.ir Eal. (Rec. Com.), v, 68-9. 



•' Larking, op. cit. 46. 



" Whitaker, op. cit. 139. 



^ Cal. Papal Letters, vi, 354. 



'" Land Rev. Misc. Bks. kii, fol. I. 



»= L. and P. Hen. Fill, vii, 1675. 



" I'ahr Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 68. 



" He was given a pension of j^6o ; L. and P. 

 Hen. nil, xvi, 379 (57). 

 ■ " Larking, op. cit. 136-8. 



being kept in their own hands. The preceptor, 

 John de Thame, chaplain, seems to have been 

 the same as the preceptor of Mount St. John at 

 this date;" he had two brethren with him, 

 William de Bautre, sergeant, and Amisius de 

 Cantebiry, chaplain. There were also two 

 pensioners who held corrodies (life grants of 

 board, lodging, and small stipends), given them 

 by the Templars, and the usual staff" of ser- 

 vants, and the expenses of hospitality were 

 heavy, as the preceptory lay on the road to 

 Scotland ; the clear value, therefore, was only 

 ^loi IS. lod. 



In 1422 the Grand Master of the Hospital 

 granted for ten years to Thomas Weston tlie 

 preceptory of Ribston, vacant by the death ot 

 John Brimston, with its member Copmanthorpe, 

 vacant by the death of Thomas 'Scquipuit* 

 (probably Skipwith), 'the last preceptor';" it 

 seems, however, pretty clear that Copmanthorpe 

 was not a preceptory, but merely a member of 

 Ribston. By the i6th century, Ribston, like 

 so many other preceptories of the Hospitallers, had 

 ceased to be the residence of any of the brethren 

 and was leased to lay farmers, who probably 

 maintained a chaplain. In 1529 Sir John Raw- 

 son, the prior of Kilmainham in Ireland and 

 nominal preceptor of Ribston, had leave to lease 

 the preceptory for three years to John Alen, 

 citizen mercer of London.'' The return of 

 1535 shows a gross value of ;^224 91. jd., out 

 of which £b 13J. /\.d. had to be paid to a chap- 

 lain celebrant at Ribston 'of the foundation of 

 Mowbray' and other £1"] for the fees of 

 bailiffs and other officials." The church of 

 Hunsingore is entered as 'appropriated to the 

 monastery {sic) of Kilmayn in Ireland."' In 

 1539, ^^^ y^*"" before the suppression of the 

 order. Sir John Rawson wrote to Cromwell 

 thanking him for giving the receivership of the 

 commandery of Ribston to Henry Gaderyke, 

 who had married Rawson's niece.'' 



Preceptors of Ribston 



John de Thame, chaplain, occurs 1338*" 

 John de Bromstone, or Brimston, occurs 1 392,*' 



dead before 1422*^ 



Thomas Weston, appointed 1422^' 



John Rawson, prior of Ireland, occurs 1529, 



last preceptor*'* 



" Ibid. 48. 



" Exch. K.R. Eccl. Doc. bdle. 18, no. 14. 



^ Land Rev. Misc. Bks. liii, fol. 2. 



" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 256. 



"Ibid. 258. 



" L. and P. Hen. Fill, xiv (2), 89. 



*" Larking, op. cit. 138. 



" Select Coroners R. (Selden See), 124. 



" Exch. K.R. Eccl. Doc. bdle. 18, no. 14.. 



" Ibid. 



" Land Rev. Misc. Bb. Ixii, fol. 2. 



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