A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



the Grey Friars, Beverley, for change of air, as he 

 had been the summer before. He was joined by 

 his brother William, who had to delay his journey 

 to London owing to the rising in Lincolnshire. 

 The rebellion broke out in Beverley on Sunday, 

 8 October. The commons assembled on West- 

 wood Green, outside the Grey Friars. The 

 friars generally do not seem to have favoured the 

 movement (some of the rebels proposed to burn 

 the friary and those within it), but it found 

 ardent supporters in Christopher's wife, and in 

 Thomas Johnson alias Bonaventura, an Observant 

 Friar, who on the suppression of that order had 

 been assigned by the Warden of York to the 

 convent of Beverley. Friar Bonaventura did 

 much towards supervising the rising, and at 

 length by judicious flattery persuaded William 

 Stapleton to become leader. He offered himself 

 to go in harness to the field, which he did as far 

 as Doncaster, but then set off to the Minorites' 

 house at Newcastle-on-Tyne.^' 



The friary was surrendered to the Bishop of 

 Dover by Thomas Thomson, warden, 25 Feb- 

 ruary 1 5 38-9. ■' The site occupied some 7 

 acres, and was valued at 26j. ^d. a year, rents 

 elsewhere bringing the total to ^^5 bs. zd?" 



Wardens 



Richard de Dalton, 1350" 

 Thomas Bolton, S.T.P., c. 147 1 

 Thomas Thomson, 1538-9 



85. THE GREY FRIARS OF 

 DONCASTER 



The Friars Minors established themselves at 

 this town on an island formed by the rivers Ches- 

 wold and Don, at the bottom of French or 

 Francis gate, at the north end of the bridge 

 known as the Friars' Bridge,' some time in the 

 13th century. Nicholas IV, i September 1290, 

 granted an indulgence to those who visited their 

 church, which was of the invocation of St. 

 Francis.- Archbishop Romanus in 1291 en- 

 joined the friars of this house to preach the 



** L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xii (i), 392. Bonaventur.i is 

 elsewhere described as an Austin Friar. 



" The d.ite is given in Mins. Accts. 30-1 Hen. 

 \"III (Yorks.), no. 166. Cf. L. and P. Hen. Vlll, 

 xiv (i), 3+8, 413. 



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



" York Archiepis. Reg. Zouch, fol. 279. 



' Fairbank, ' The Grey Friars, Doncaster,' Yorks. 

 Arck. Joum. xii, 48 I ; Leland, Itin. (ed. Hearne), i, 

 36 ; J. Tomlinson, Doncaster, p. vi. Leland, Itin. iv, 

 21, erroneously says there was a house of Black Friars 

 in this town : and Cavendish says that Wolsey after 

 his arrest was lodged one night at the Black Friars. 

 See also Hunter, South forks, i, 19 (will ofNic. Laun- 

 ger, 134S). 



' Cai. of Papal Letters, i, 5 1 6 ; Test. Ebor. ii, 1 48 ; 

 cf. L.:-.erccst Chron. 187-8. 



Crusade at Doncaster, Blyth (Notts.), and 

 Retford." 



In 1 299 Edward I gave the friars I Of. through 

 Friar Edmund de Norbury, on the occasion of 

 his visit to Doncaster, 12 November : in January 

 1299-1300 he gave them 201. for two days' 

 food and 6j. Zd. for damages to their house when 

 he was at Doncaster, by the hand of Friar de 

 Portynden. On 8 June 1 300 his son Edward 

 gave them i Of., and the king in January 1300- 1 

 gave them lOf. for the exequies of Joan, nurse 

 of Thomas of Brotherton. The friars at this 

 time numbered thirty.^ 



In 1 31 6 Sir Peter de Mauley, lord of the 

 town of Doncaster, granted the Friars Minors a 

 plot of land, 14 p. by 6 p., adjacent to their 

 dwelling-place.'' 



In 1332 Thomas de Saundeby, the warden, 

 and Friars Nicholas de Dighton, Thomas de 

 Moubray, William de Halton, and John de 

 Brynsale, were sued by John de Malghum for 

 having seized and imprisoned him.' In 1335 

 the king pardoned them for acquiring in mort- 

 main without licence in the time of former kings 

 divers plots in Doncaster, now inclosed with a 

 wall and dyke, whereon they had built a 

 church and houses.' Between 1328 and 1337 

 the number of the friars varied between eighteen 

 and twenty-seven, as is proved by the royal alms 

 granted to them by the hand of Friars John de 

 Bilton, Nicholas de Wermersworth, and others.' 



Sir Hugh de Hastings, kt., in 1347 left the 

 friars lOOf., 20 quarters of corn and 10 quarters 

 of barley.' A friar of this house, Hugh de 

 Warmesby, was authorized in 1348 to act as 

 confessor to Lady Margery de Hastings, Sir 

 Hugh's widow, and her family."* Her son Hugh 

 was buried in the church of St. Francis at Don- 

 caster, 1367." Another Sir Hugh Hastings in 

 1482 left a serge of wax to be burned here in 

 honour of the Holy Rood, and a quarter of wheat 

 yearly for three years.'^ 



Among the bequests may be mentioned that 

 of Roger de Bangwell, rector of Dronfield, of 

 20J. to the convent and \zd. to each friar in 

 1366." Thomas Lord Furnival of Sheffield, 

 1333," and Sir Peter de Mauley, 1 38 1, were 



' Hist. L. and P. from the N. Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 95. 



' Exch. Accts. bdles. 356, no. 7 ; 357, no. 4; 

 Liier Quotid. 28 £dtv. I (ed. Topham), 28, 40 ; 

 Add. MS. 7966, fol. 25. 



' Pat. 9 Edw. I, pt. i, m. 8 ; Inq. a.q.d. file I 10, 

 no. 10. 



* Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 37. 



' Pat. 9 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. II. 



«Exch. Accts. (P.R.O.), bdles. 383, no. 14; 

 387, no. 9 ; Cott. MS. Nero C. viii, fol. 202, 205, 

 207. 



' Test. Ebor. i, 38. '» fasti Ebor. i, 444 n. 



" Diet. Nat. Biog. xxv, 1 29. '> Test. Ebor. iii, 274. 



" Ibid, i, 82, where the date is wrongly given. 



" Torks. Arch. Joum. xii, 482 ; Hunter, South 

 Torks. i, 18. 



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