A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



by John Wade, the prior, to Richard Ingworth, 

 Bishop of Dover, lo March 1538-9." The 

 lands comprised the site with gardens (^ acre) 

 and a close of pasture (i acre), and three more 

 gardens let to various tenants, at a total rent of 

 13^ ^d. a year. The rents in the town amounted 

 to 20s. a year, and included \2d. from the 

 masters or wardens of the Gild of Mariners for a 

 rent derived from the house called Trinity House, 

 situated on the south of the priory." 



Priors 



John Craven, 141 o" 

 John Wade, 1538 



and to Friar William Bridlington £<)} Richard 

 Wilflet of Hull, mariner, 1520, endowed lights 

 on the altars of our Lady and St. Catherine in 

 this church.' The friars are said to have num- 

 bered eighteen about the end of the I 5th cen- 

 tury,^" and seem to have depended entirely on 

 alms. At the time of the Dissolution they held 

 only the site with a garden in Bl.ickfriars Street, 

 measuring 49 yds. by 33 yds., worth 51. a year." 

 The house was surrendered by Alexander Ingram, 



prior, 10 March 1538-9, to the Bishop of 

 Dover.12 



The seal represents St. Michael in combat 

 with the dragon, in a canopied niche ; in base on 

 a corbel a prior kneeling. Legend : — 



88. THE AUSTIN FRIARS OF HULL » 



Geoffrey de Hotham of Cranswick and John 

 de Wetwang had royal licence in 1 3 1 7 to grant 

 a plot of land in Hull, measuring 205 ft. by 

 1 1 5 ft., for the construction of a house of Austin 

 Friars.^ The grant was made to the Austin 

 Friars of York, who sent some of their members 

 to found the house at Hull.' The land owed a 

 rent of lbs. Bd. to the town ; the friars peti- 

 tioned to be released from this payment about 

 1 32 1, but failed to obtain relief till Richard son 

 and heir of Geoffrey of Hotham and John de 

 Wilflet, in 1341, conferred on the town rents 

 from other messuages to the amount of 1 7;. gd.* 



Friar John de Hornyngton, S.T.P., having 

 been granted licence by the prior-general to 

 choose any convent of his order, and a chamber 

 therein to dwell in for life, and also to retain as 

 servant one of the brethren of the convent, 

 selected the house at Hull ; he complained to the 

 Crown that certain envious persons were schem- 

 ing to expel him, and obtained a writ of protec- 

 tion 20 August 1 38 1 for himself, his serving 

 friar, household, chamber, books and goods.' 

 He was S.T.P. of Cambridge, and took part 

 in condemning Wycliffe's doctrines in 1382.' 

 Richard Clay, of this house, was appointed papal 

 chaplain in 1 41 3.' 



AdamCorrey was buried here in 1 392, and left, 

 as mortuary gift, his horse with saddle and bridle, 



" L. and P. Hen. Fill, xiv (i), 348, 413 ; Mins. 

 Accts. 30-1 Hen. VIII (Yorks.), 166; cf. Jcct. of 

 Mm. Treasures (Abbotsford Club), 17. 



"Mins. Accts. loc. cit. 



" Harl. MS. 6969, fol. 86. 



' They were locally known as Black Friars ; hence 

 Blackfriais Gate, &c. There was no house of Friars 

 Preachers in Hull. 



' Inq. a.q.d. files 102, no. 13 ; 130, no. 11 ; Pat. 

 1 1 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 27 ; cf Leland, I tin. i, 51. 



' See ' The Austin Friars of York ' in this volume. 



' Inq. a.q.d. files 1 49, no. 10 ; 251, no. 4 ; Anct. 

 Pet. 3362 ; Pat. 15 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 17. 



' Pat, 5 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 27. 



• Fascic. Zizan. (Rolls Ser.), 286, 499. 



' Cal. of Papal Letters, vi, 173. 



270 



PRIORIS 



CONVENTUS : HULL 

 AUGUSTINI ^' 



ordIs : SCI : 



89. THE CRUTCHED FRIARS OF 

 KILDALE 



Sir Arnold de Percy, kt., early in the 14th 

 century granted to the Friars of the Cross a mes- 

 suage and 1 acres of land in his park in the parish 

 of Kildale without royal licence. Edward II in 

 1 3 10 pardoned the breach of the Statute of 

 Mortmain." But in 1 3 1 2 Archbishop Greenfield 

 denounced the newcomers — persons belonging to 

 an order not approved by the pope, who had 

 entered the diocese and presumed to celebrate 

 divine service without the archbishop's permis- 

 sion — and put the place under an interdict." 

 The Friars of the Cross probably succumbed to 

 this attack ; nothing more is heard of them. 



90. THE WHITE FRIARS, NORTHAL- 

 LERTON 



The Carmelite friary, situated in the east part 

 of the town,' was founded in 1356 by the king, 

 who, with the consent of the Prior and convent 

 of Durham, on 8 November gave to Walter 

 Kellaw, provincial prior,* and the friars a croft 

 called Tentour Croft, with an adjacent meadow, 

 containing in all 3 a. I r., which John Yole, mer- 

 chant, of Northallerton, had granted to him for 

 this purpose.' Two days later a writ was issued, 



' Test. Ebor. i, 148. John Grimsby and Margaret 

 his wife were buried here ; Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 132. 



' Test. Ebor. v, 114. 



'" Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 132. 



" Mins. Accts. 30-1 Hen. VIII (Verb.), 166. 



" Ibid. 



" B.M. Seals, Ixxix, 66 ; Dugdale, Mon. Angl. 

 vi, 1603. 



" Pat. 4 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 20. 



" Wilkins, Concilia, ii, 423. 



' Leland, Itin. i, 68. 



' He subsequently retired to Northallerton and died 

 there about 1367-9 ; Tanner, Bibl. 451. 



' Pat. 30 Edw. I, pt. i, m. 11 {bis) ; pt. iii, m. 19. 



