A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



Early in 1449 the dormitory and librar)- were 

 accidentally burnt down ; when Henry VI gave 

 10 marks 'for the relief of their great poverty 

 and towards the rebuilding of their house.' " 



The friars received legacies from Sir William 

 Vavasour, kt. (1311),^° Sir Henry Percy (1349), 

 Sir Alarmaduke le Constable, kt. (1377), 

 William Lord Latimer (1381), William de 

 Chiltenham, vicar of the chapel of Holy Trinity 

 of Kingston-upon-Hull {1388), Patrick de 

 Barton, rector of Catwick (1391), and many 

 others," including Robert Fisher, mercer of 

 Beverley (1477), the father of John Fisher, 

 Bishop of Rochester.^* John de Hesile of 

 Beverley was buried in the cloister in 1 349, next 

 his wife Beatrice.^' Thomas Hilton, clerk 

 (1428), willed to be buried in the church within 

 the south door next ' le hali water fatt.' '" In 

 the quire before the high altar were interred 

 the remains of ' Elena de Wak, daughter and 

 heiress of Lord le Wak,' and a long li^t of 

 burials in the church drawn up by John 

 Wriothcbley, garter, about 1 500 is extant.'' 

 Among the names are several of the Darcys. 

 In 1524 the friars agreed with Thomas Lord 

 Darcy, K.G., by reason of his great liberality, to 

 make him and his wife partakers in all spiritual 

 suffrages in the convent, and to keep their obit>, 

 under pain if they failed to carry out the agree- 

 ment of paying 20i. to the Provost of St. John's, 

 Beverley, and ioj. 'to the beiioof of the scholars 

 of the Friars Preachers in Oxford.' The seals 

 of the provincial Robert Miles, S.T.P., the prior 

 Henry Aglionby, S.T.B., and the convent were 

 attached to the deed, for which Lord Darcy 

 paid ^5.'^ 



Two 14th-century manuscripts formerly be- 

 longing to the Black Friars of Beverley are 

 now at Oxford ; one contains works of St. 

 Augustine, Gregory, Seneca, and others '' ; the 

 other, containinga numberof ^«a^j^(a««attributed 

 to Thomas Aquinas, was in 1450 lent or 

 given by Friar Robert Stanniforth, O.P. of 

 Beverley, to William Mayne." 



On 4 July 1534 Dr. George Browne visited 



^ Issurs oftheExch. (ed Devon), 463. 



"""Reg. Pal. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), i, 333. In 13IZ 

 the nuncupative will of J. de Harpham was proved by 

 Hugh of Leicester, prior of the Friars Preachers, John 

 of Lockington, O.P., and John of Grimsby, chaplain ; 

 Beverley Chap. Act Bks. (Surt. Soc.), i, 301-2. 



" Test. Ebor. (Surt. Soc), passim. 



^Ibid. iii, 227. 



" B. M. Lansd. Chart. 304. 



" Test. Ebor. i, 414. Stephen Coppendale desired 

 to be buried here, Jan. 141 3-14 ; ibid, iv, 7 n. 



" Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 129, reprinted in Torks. 

 Arch. Joum. vii, 37. 



^Toris. Arck. Journ. vii, 39-40, from Poulson, 

 Bcz'erkc, 768-70, and Aug. Chart. O. 16. Cf. 'The 

 Austin Friars of York ' in this volume. 



"Univ. Coll. Oxf. MS. 6. 



" Corpus Chrlsti CoU. Oxf. MS. 225. 



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the friary (in accordance with the royal com- 

 mission issued 13 April), and had no difficulty 

 in obtaining the friars' acknowledgement of the 

 royal supremacy." The house was surrendered 

 to Richard of Ingworth, suffragan Bishop of 

 Dover, 26 February 1538-9." The plate was 

 sent to the royal treasury.'' The lands attached 

 to the house, which lay on the north-east of the 

 minster, amounted to about 4^ acres, and were 

 valued at 1 75. %d. a year. Besides this, the 

 friars held land in * Coldon Magna' within the 

 liberty of Beverley, the rent of which was 

 2i. 4a'.38 



Priors 



Walter of Grimsby, '^ 1 309 

 Hugh of Leicester,^" 1 3 1 2 

 William Birde,*' 1434 

 Henry Aglionby,''- 1524 

 Robert Hill," 1539 



The seal is pointed oval, and shows St. 

 Dominic standing in a canopied niche with 

 nimbus, in the right hand a book, in the left 

 a sword. Legend : sigillu prioris fratr[0] 



ORDINIS PDICATOR BEDLACI.^* 



84. THE GREY FRIARS OF 

 BEVERLEY 



The origin of the friary is obscure. It was in 

 existence in 1267, when one of the friars 

 preached at Beverley on the feast of St. John, 

 and afterwards heard the confession of a woman 

 possessed by a devil.' In 1274 deacon's orders 

 were conferred on Peter de Nutel, and priests' 

 orders on Alexander de Willingham, Andrew de 

 Whitby, and John de Howm, all of this house.' 

 Archbishop Wickwane gave the Friars Minors 

 of Beverley 10 marks in 1282 ; ' and Archbishop 

 Romanus, when organizing the preaching of the 

 Crusade in 1291, instructed them to send preach- 

 ers to Driffield, Malton, and South Cave.'' 



" L. and P. Hen. Fill, vii, 953. 



"Wright, Suppression, 191 ; Ellis, Orig. L. (ser. 3), 

 iii, 179. The date is given in Mins. Accts. 30-1 

 Hen. VIII, no. 166. 



^ Acct. ofMon. Treasure (Abbotsford Club), 17. 



''Mins. Accts. 30-1 Hen. VIII (Yorks.), no. 166. 



'' Beverley Chap. Act Bks. (Surt. Soc), i, 243. 



'"Ibid. 302. Deposed in 13 14 (see above). 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes (Yorks. Arch. Soc), i, 10. 



" He was in the London convent at the time ot 

 the dissolution. 



"Mins. Accts. 29-30 Hen. V'lII, 166. 



" B. M. Seals, hcxiv, 2 1 . Engraved in forks. 

 Arch. Journ. vii, 41, and Poulson, Beverlac, 780. 



' Lanercost Chron. 83. John of Beverley was a 

 Franciscan at Oxford c. 1250 : Mon. Franc. (Rolls Ser.), 



i, 317, 393- 



' Giffard's Reg. (Surt. Soc), 197. 



' Fasti Ebor. i, 323. 



* Hist. P. and L.firom the N. Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 95. 



