RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Alice daughter of the Marquess of Saluzzo, their 

 infant son John and daughter Margaret ; the 

 I heart of her husband George de Cantlowe and 

 their infant son : and ' Agnes de Vescy, sister of 

 the said lady Alice Lacy.' Others relate to the 

 barons associated with Simon de Montfort, such 

 as Roger Mowbray and Maud Beauchamp his 

 wife, the heart of their son-in-law Adam of 

 Newmarket ^^ and his son Adam, their son Roger 

 Mowbray and Roesia his wife, daughter of 

 Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester ; Robert de 

 Vipont, and Roger de Leybourne, the husband of 

 Robert's daughter Idonea de Vipont. Another 

 group represents the victims of civil wars : Lord 

 Warin de Lisle,^' who was executed after the 

 battle of Boroughbridge ; the hearts of Richard, 

 Duke of York, ' of most blessed memory,' and his 

 son Edmund, Earl of Rutland ; of Richard Nevill, 

 Earl of Salisbury, and his son Thomas, ' whose 

 bones were afterwards translated to the priory 

 of Bisham ' : all these fell at Wakefield or were 

 executed after the battle. Members of the families 

 of Metal, Rothersfield, Touchet, Deschargell, 

 and many others are also enumerated. 



Thomas Box, esquire, who was buried here 

 in 1 449 does not appear in this list : '* nor 

 William Strudther, who desired to be buried 

 (1495) before the image of the Virgin, and left 

 the friars 20s. to amend the frater.^^ Thomas 

 Huntingdon of Hull, alderman and merchant, 

 in 1 526, and Walter Bradford of Houghton, gent., 

 in 1530 left instructions for the endowment of 

 chantries in this church. ^^ 



The royal commissioners. Sir George Lawson, 

 Richard Bellasis and two others, received the 

 surrender of the house 26 November 1538 ; they 

 were ' thankfully received.' The act of sur- 

 render was signed by the prior, Robert Dae, 

 Richard Lorde, D.D., five other priests and one 

 novice.'^ The goods of the house were sold by 

 the commissioners for ^5 I os. 4^. ; among them 

 were a suit of blood worsted sold to the mayor 

 for i6s. ; an old suit of velvet vestments of a 

 mulberry colour, 1 3^. i^.d. ; two surplices and three 

 altar cloths 3^. 4.^. ; utensils of kitchen, brew- 

 house, pantry ; two feather beds, two bolsters, two 

 coverlets, &c., of the strangers' chamber, 8s. 8d. ; 

 out of the cells, 8s. ; a cartload of hay is. 8d. 



" Petronilla of Newmarket, formerly recluse of 

 Wyrmelay (probably Womersley ; of. Torks. Arch, and 

 Topog. Journ. vi, 374), is also mentioned. 



" ' Messire Garin de Visul ' in the MS. ; cf. Dug- 

 dale, Baronage, i, 738. His widowr Alice de Tyers 

 wished to exhume her husband's body and rebury it 

 at Clifton in the diocese of Salisbury ; Cal. Papal 

 Letters, ii, 410 (28 Jan. 1332-3). 



'° Boothroyd, Hist, of Pmtefract, 340 ; Holmes, op. 

 cit. zi. 



" Holmes, op. cit. 24. 



" Test. Ebor. v, 224, 284. 



" Wright, Suppression, 167-8 ; L. and P. Hen. 

 VIII, xiii (2), 912, 1064; Dep. Keeper's Rep. viii, 

 App. ii, 38 ; Holmes, op. cit. 44. 



Out of the proceeds the prior received 13;. \d., 

 and each of the friars 5^. The house had no debts. 

 The land (about 10 acres) and buildings, worth 

 j^3 14X. 4«'. a year (net) with two bells, four 

 fother of lead on the roof, a lead conduit and a 

 brass ' holy water vat,' were left in the keeping 

 of Richard Welbore, the mayor. The plate and 

 jewels consisted of one chalice weighing 9 oz.'* 



Priors 



Oliver Daincourt,'^ 1269 



John de Thorpe,'' 1319 



Robert Dae or Daye," 1536, 1538. 



92. THE GREY FRIARS, RICHMOND 



The foundation of this friary is attributed to 

 Ralph Fitz Randal, lord of Middleham, in 

 1258 : his heart was buried in the quire in 1270.^ 

 The friary stood in the north part of the town, 

 a little without the walls.^ Archbishop Romanus, 

 when organizing the preaching of the Crusade 

 in 1 291, requested the friars of Richmond to 

 provide one preacher there and to send one to 

 the most suitable place in the deanery of Cope- 

 land (Cumberland).' John of Britanny, Earl of 

 Richmond, left ^^5 to these friars on his death in 

 1304.* In this year Arthur of Hartlepool, an 

 apostate friar who had carried off some goods of 

 neighbours and friends of the friars deposited in 

 their house, was arrested by the king's officers 

 and given up to the friars of Richmond for 

 punishment.' Special instructions were sent by 

 the archbishop to the warden in January 1314-15 

 to preach against the Scots and rouse the people 

 to resist.* In 1 350-1 Robert of Hexham was 

 warden and lector of the convent.' 



In 1364 Sir Richard le Scrope, kt. (after- 

 wards first Lord Scrope of Bolton), and William 

 de Huddeswell granted these friars five tofts 

 adjacent to their dwelling, held of the Earl of 

 Richmond and containing 4 acres of land.' John 



" Mins. Accts. 29-30 Hen. VIII, no. 197, and 

 30-1 Hen. VIII, no. 166, quoted by Holmes, op. 

 cit. 45, 53 ; Suppression P. (P.R.O.) iii, fol. 93. 



" Dugdale, Man. Angl. v, 123. 



'« Pat. 13 Edw. II, m. 2 2d. 



" He was sometime priest of the chantry of St. 

 Thomai, and was living at Lumby, near Sherburn, in 

 1545, when James Thwaytes, last Prior of St. John, 

 left him a legacy ; Padgett, Chron. of Old Pmtefract, 75, 



' Clarkson, Hist, of Richmond, 214 ; R. Gale, Reg. 

 Hon. de Richmond, 'Observations,' 235. 



' Leland, Itin. v, 109. 



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



* Clarkson, op. cit. 33. 



' Close, 32 Edw. I, m. 5. 



« Hist. P. and L. from N. Reg. (Rolls Ser.) 239 n. 



' York Archiepis. Reg. Zouch, fol. 280. 



' Inq. a.q.d. file 354, no. 4 ; Pat. 38 Edw. Ill, 

 pt. i, m. II ; Mon. Franc. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 295. 



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