RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



buried in the church ; the latter left his best 

 beast of burden as mortuary and looj. to the 

 convent.^' John Mauleverer was buried in the 

 church of St. Francis and left 6 lb. of wax and 

 6 marks to the friars, 145 1." William Vasey, 

 alderman, left them 5^. a year rent to keep his 

 obit, 1515." Robert Skirley of Scarborough, 

 who died at Doncaster, probably in this house, 

 was buried here, 1522, and left, among other 

 bequests, his horse as his 'corse present.''' 



George Danby, a friar of this house, formerly 

 warden of the Grey Friars of Scarborough, re- 

 ceived on 8 April 1480 a general pardon from 

 Edward IV for all offences committed by him 

 before I April." 



In 1524 Richard Wilford granted 2()s. 6d. 

 yearly rent in Beighton, Derbyshire, for the use 

 of these friars for ever.^ 



Friar Thomas Kirkham was admitted D.D. of 

 Oxford in July 1527, his composition being 

 reduced to ^^4 ' because he is very poor ' ; in 

 November he was dispensed from the greater 

 part of his necessary regency because he was 

 warden of the Grey Friars of Doncaster and 

 could not continually reside in Oxford.^' Thomas 

 Strey, a lawyer of Doncaster, left 20 marks to 

 the convent in 1530 and 26s. 8d. to buy the 

 warden a coat.^^ 



Two Observant Friars, William EUel and 

 Robert Baker, were sent after the suppression of 

 the order to the Minorite convent at Doncaster, 

 where they soon died, perhaps from severe 

 treatment.^' Robert Aske, the leader of the 

 Pilgrimage of Grace, when he went to Don- 

 caster to meet the royal commissioners, November 

 and December 1536, lodged at the Grey Friars 

 with his followers, the Duke of Norfolk being 

 at the White Friars.^ 



The house was quietly surrendered 20 Novem- 

 ber 1538 by the warden and nine friars, three 

 of them novices, to Sir George Lawson and his 

 fellows, who were ' thankfully received.' ^* The 

 goods, including a pair of organs, an old clock, a 

 table of alabaster, the coverings of five altars, 

 and eighteen ' cells de waneskott ' in the dormi- 

 tory, were sold to Thomas Welbore for 

 ^11 4.S. gd. Out of this sum £2 was given 



" Test. Ebor. i, 116. 



" Ibid, ii, 148. " Ibid. V, 59. 



"Ibid, v, 154. For other bequests see Torks. 

 Arch. Journ. xii ; Hunter, op. cit. 19 (will of Sir T. 

 Windham, 1521). 



" Pat. 20 Edw. IV, pt. i, m. 21 ; Pat. 16 Edw. 

 IV, pt. i, m. 28. 



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



'' Little, Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxf. Hist. Soc), 

 282, 338. 



" Test. Ebor. v, 296. 



'' L. and P. Hen. Fill, vii, 1607. 



'* Engl. Hist. Rev. v, 341 ; L. and P. Hen. Vlll, 

 xii (i), 6. 



'' Wright, Bupp. 167 ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. viii, App. 

 ii, 19 ; L. and P. Hen. Fill, xiii (2), 877, 1064. 



to the ten friars, and £1 13J. /^d, paid to John 

 Roberts to redeem a chalice which the friars 

 had pledged for a debt. There were 43 fother 

 of lead, four bells, three chalices and two cruets 

 weighing 50 oz."' The site and adjacent 

 grounds (including four fish - ponds) contained 

 about 6^ acres, besides a cottage in Fishergate ; 

 these were let to Thomas Welbore for 36/. 8^.*' 

 A manuscript of the chronicle of Martin of 

 Troppau formerly belonging to this friary was 

 in the possession of Ralph Thoresby in 17 12.** 



Wardens 



Thomas de Saundeby,^' '332 



Robert Acaster,'" 1372 



Thomas Kirkham, S.T.P.,'1 1527, 1538 



The seal, of which a very indistinct impression 

 remains, represents a saint seated under a canopy 

 between two women. '* 



86. THE HOUSE OF WHITE FRIARS, 

 DONCASTER 



The Carmelite friary — ' a right goodly house 

 in the middle of the town ' ' — was founded in 

 1350 by John son of Henry Nicbrothere of 

 Eyum with Maud his wife and Richard 

 Euwere of Doncaster, who gave the friars 

 a messuage and 6 acres of land.* The priors of 

 the order asked permission of the Archbishop of 

 York to have the place consecrated in 1351.' 

 The earliest bequest to them recorded was made 

 by William Nelson of Appleby, vicar of Don- 

 caster, in 1360.^ In 1366 Roger de Bangwell, 

 formerly rector of Dronfield, made his will in 

 the house of these friars, in whose church he 

 wished to be buried ; he left 8 marks to the 

 convent, 2s. to each friar, his chalice and priest's 

 vestment to the altar next to which he was to be 

 buried, and other ornaments to the great altar, 

 20s. to John son of Asherford, ' if he is received 

 into the Carmelites at Doncaster,' and two-thirds 



" Mins. Accts. 29-30 Hen. VIII (Yorks.), no. 197 ; 

 Supp. P. (P.R.O.), iii, fol. 92, 93 ; L. and P. Hen. 

 nil, xiv (2), 782. 



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



" ' A Catalogue and Description of natural and arti- 

 ficial rarities in this Museum ' (printed at the end of 

 Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, ed. 1816), 83. 



'' Baiidon, Mon. Notes (Yorks. Arch. Soc), i, 37. 



'» Ibid. 



" Little, Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxf. Hist. Soc), 

 282. 



" B.M. Seals, Ixxiv, 38. See also Hunter, South 

 Torks. ii, 2. 



' Leland, Itin. i, 36. See F. R. Fairbank, 'The 

 Carmelites of Doncaster,' in Torks. Arch. Journ. xiii, 

 262-70, where excavations on the site are described. 



' Inq. a.q.d. file 299, no. 12 ; Pat. 24 Edw. I, 

 pt. iii, m. 10, 9. ; B.M. Harl. IVIS. 539, fol. 144 ; 

 Speed, Hist. fol. 1082. 



' Harl. MS. 6969, fol. 49*. 



' Torks. Arch. Journ. xiii, 191. 



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