RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



The house was surrendered by Edward Stubbis, 

 the prior, and seven friars, on 13 November 

 1538 to Hugh Wyrrall and Tristram Teshe, 

 who ' made a book of the property ' and notified 

 to Cromwell that the tenements in Doncaster 

 were in some decay, and that the image of our 

 Lady had already been taken away by the arch- 

 bishop's order.^' The plate sent to the royal 

 jewel house was considerable ; 25 oz. of gilt 

 plate, 109^ oz. parcel gilt, and 48!- oz. white 

 plate.^ The net profit from the sale of the 

 goods seems to have been £i\ i8j. \d?^ The 

 site with dovecot and other houses, a garden and 

 orchard all surrounded by a stone wall and con- 

 taining %\ acres, was let to Wyrrall for ioj. a 

 year. The tenements in Doncaster included an 

 inn called ' Le Lyon ' in Hallgate, already let by 

 the prior to Alan Malster for forty-one years at 

 40X. a year in 18 August 1538, a messuage in 

 Selpulchre Gate similarly leased on 2 September 

 1538 to Emmota Parsonson for i2j., and various 

 tenements, shops, and cottages, the whole property 

 bringing in ;^io 17^. 4^. a year.'" 



Priors 



William de Freston, 1366 '^ 



John Marrey or Marre, before 1407'* 



John Sutton, 1472'' 



'E. Th. Prior' 151531 



John Bale (?) c. 1530'* 



Laurence Coke, 1536^' 



Edward Stubbis, 1538" 



87. THE WHITE FRIARS OF HULL 



The tradition of the order that the Carme- 

 lite friary of Hull dates from 1290, and that the 

 chief founders and benefactors were Edward I, 

 Sir Robert Ughtred, and Sir Richard de la Pole, 

 is probably substantially correct.* The earliest 

 mention of the house is contained in a petition of 



-• L. and P. Hen. Fill, xiii (2), 823, 860 ; cf. 

 1064. On the image cf. ibid. (l), 1054, 1177 ; (2), 

 1280. 



'' Mon. Treasures (Abbotsford Club), 23. 



"i. and P. Hen. VlU,-aM (2), 326. 



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

 The White Friars vyas situated in what is now High 

 Street and Printing Office Street. 



" Test. Ebor. i, 82. 



" Diet. Nat. Biog. xxxvi, 196; he was a distin- 

 guished theologian. 



"' Pat. 1 2 Edw. IV, pt. ii, m. 4 ; cf. Harl. MS. 

 1 8 19, fol. 200^. 



" Hunter, op. cit. i, 17. 



'' L. and P. Hen. Fill, ix, 230. 



'^ Ibid, xii (l), 854 ; he was Prior of Scarborough r 

 in 19 Hen. VIII; Conventual Leases, Yorks. (P.R.O.), 

 no. 905. 



'' L. and P. Hen. Fill, xiii (2), 823. 



' Harl. MS. 339, fol. 25. 



269 



Master Robert of Scarborough, Dean of York, 

 in 1289, for licence to bestow a messuage in 

 Wike-upon-Hull on the Carmelites.^ The 

 convent seems to have consisted of thirteen 

 brethren in 1298, when the king gave the friars 

 13^. for three days' food through Friar Robert de 

 Saunton.^ From the royal alms (51. for one day's 

 food in 1300 by the hand of Friar GeoiFrey of 

 Corringham, and 20s. for three days' food in 

 1301),* it appears that the inmates of the house 

 increased rapidly. It soon became necessary for 

 them to obtain more room both for the friars and 

 for ' the great multitude flocking there to divine 

 service.' Edward I gave them 3 acres in Miln- 

 croft outside the walls in 1 304, in exchange for 

 their site in the town, and at his request, 

 dated 25 January 1306-7, Clement V authorized 

 them, 23 June 1307, to transfer themselves to 

 the new site by Beverley Gate, and to have the 

 first stone of their new buildings blessed by a 

 bishop.^ The archbishop licensed them (17 May 

 1311) to have their church consecrated.' In 

 1320 Walter de Scorby and Robert de Barton 

 gave them small plots of land adjacent to their 

 house ' ; and William son of Sir Richard de la 

 Pole, kt., added 1^ acres to their area in 1352.' 



Several bequests were made by women to the 

 image of the Virgin in this church. Isabel Wilton 

 in i486 bequeathed to the Lady at the White 

 Friars a chest bound with iron ; Elizabeth Hat- 

 field of Hedon, in 1509, a pair of chaplets of 

 silver with a cross (also a chalice of silver to the 

 church) ; Diones of Hull, a girdle.^ Richard 

 Doughty of Hull, merchant, in 15 13 bequeathed 

 to the friars a tenement next St. James's Maison 

 Dieu.^" John Fynwell of Hull, 1521, left to 

 the prior his Golden Legend.^* Dame Joan 

 Thurescrosse left £^ towards rebuilding the 

 church in 1523.*^ Sir Thomas Sutton, kt., 

 was buried here.^' 



Shortly before the Dissolution there were eight 

 friars in the house." The friary was surrendered 



Mnq. a.q.d. file 12, no. 7. Robert afterwards 

 obtained the consent of the Abbot and convent of 

 Meaux, from whom he held the land, and renewed 

 his petition in the Parliament of 1 290 ; Pari. R. i, 63. 

 It does not appear whether the licence was given. 



'Exch. Accts. (P.R.O.), bdle. 356, no. 21. 



* Liber Quotid. 28 Edw. I (ed. Topham), 37 ; 

 Add. MS. 7966,7, fol. 25. 



'Chart R. 33 Edw. I. no. 73; Rymer, Foed. 

 (Rec. Com.), i, 1008 ; Cal. of Papal Letters, ii, 30 ; cf 

 Leland, //;■«. i, 51. The entry in Cal. of Papal Letters, 

 vi, 162, refers to Carthusians, not Carmelites. 



^ Fasti Ebor. i, 378 n. ; Fabric R. of York Minster 

 (Sun. Soc), 236. 



'Pat. 13 Edw. II, m. 5. 



' Inq. a.q.d. file 303, no. 8 ; Pat. 26 Edw. Ill, pt. i, 

 m. 2 ; the friars paid zos. for the licence. 



' Test. Ebor. iv, 16; v, i ; iv, 198 n. 



'» Ibid, v, 48. " Ibid. 



" Ibid. 171 ; cf vi, 5 3- 



140. 



Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 131. 



Ibid. 



