RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



The monks however insisted on the site being 

 given up, and the friars had to quit the town. 

 On II August 1245 the king gave licence < to 

 the Friars Minors who used to dwell in Scar- 

 borough to erect their buildings in the area lying 

 between " Cukewaldhull " and the water-course 

 called Milnebec on the east side, which William 

 son of Robert de Morpath has surrendered and 

 quitclaimed to the king, of tlie land which he held 

 in chief in " Haterberg," in the parish of Scalby.'* 

 On 12 August the bailiffs were ordered to assist 

 the friars in removing their church and buildings 

 to the new site,' which contained i^ acres.^ 

 Some twenty-five years later ' they returned again 

 to Scarborough, and settled in the old town, per- 

 haps on land granted by Reginald the miller, 

 who was honoured as the founder and buried in 

 the middle of the quire before the high altar.' 

 This land is described in a charter of 1 3 1 5 as 

 ' the land in the old town of Scarborough, abut- 

 ting on the cemetery of St. Sepulchre, and the 

 gutter called Damyet, all the land abutting on 

 the lands formerly of Adam Ughtred and Walter 

 de Collum, and the land formerly of John de 

 Nessyngwyk, and land abutting on the land 

 formerly of Henry de Roston.' ° They also 

 received from Sir Robert Ughtred, kt., before 

 the end of the century, some land abutting on 

 the well called ' Burghwell,' and the wall of the 

 old town, and the gutter called 'Damyeth.' ^^ 



It does not appear whether the Cistercians 

 offered opposition to this second settlement of 

 the Friars Minors in the town. The quarrel 

 however broke out again in 1281, probably in 

 connexion with the rebuilding or enlargement 

 of the friars' church.^^ The Abbot of St. Albans, 

 as ' conservator of the rights of the Cistercians,' 

 issued a sentence ordering the friars to leave the 

 place, and subsequently excommunicated all who 

 celebrated or heard divine service in their church. 

 Archbishop Peckham, after vainly requesting the 

 abbot to revoke or suspend his judgement (August 

 1 281), ordered the Deans of Pickering and Rye- 

 dale and the vicar of Scarborough publicly to 

 declare the sentence null and void, on pain of 



* Pat. 29 Hen. Ill, m. 2. 



' Close, 29 Hen. Ill, m. 4. 



° Pat. 32 Edw. I, m. i. 



' They removed to Scarborough after Edmund 

 Crouchback received the manor of Scalby, 1267 {Engl. 

 Hist. Rev. X, 32), and before the death of Hen. Ill ; 

 Pat. 32 Edw. I, m. i. 



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



' Pat. 9 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 2. 'The sewer called 

 the Damyote' is mentioned in a lease 28 Jan. 

 1536-7 ; it seems to have been at the south end of 

 Dumple; Conventual Leases, Yorks. (P.R.O.), no. 901. 



" Ibid. 



" Cf. Close, 8 Edw. I, m. 2 (a grant of oaks for 

 timber, Sept. 1280). Licence to dedicate the church 

 and cemetery was issued to William Gainsborough, 

 the Franciscan Bishop of Worcester, 20 Mar. 1 306-7; 

 Harl. MS. 6970, fol. 1383. 



excommunication (November 1281) : he further 

 informed the Mayor and burgesses of Scarborough 

 that the conservators of the Cistercians had no 

 power over the Franciscans, who were allowed 

 by the pope ' to build churches and oratories 

 wherever it seems to them expedient ' ; and he 

 urged the proctor of the Minorite Order at Rome 

 to resist the oppression of the friars by the 

 'demoniac monks' (January 128 1-2)." The 

 Bishop of Worcester, who was appointed ' special 

 conservator ' of the friars in this case, also inter- 

 vened on their behalf (August 1281),'' and 

 Archbishop Wickwane, July 1284, addressed a 

 dignified rebuke to the proctors of the Abbot of 

 Citeaux, at Scarborough, on their attempts to 

 prevent the friars celebrating divine service at 

 suitable hours and in fitting places." The Cis- 

 tercians in their general chapter, 1285, protested 

 against the intrusion of the friars." The result 

 seems to have been favourable to the friars, 

 though their claims to hear confessions may have 

 been restricted. ^° On 15 October 1290 Nicho- 

 las IV granted an indulgence to penitents visit- 

 ing the church of the Friars Minors of Scar- 

 borough on the four feasts of the Virgin, and those 

 of St. Francis, St. Anthony, and St. Clare.^' In 

 1291 Archbishop Romanus, when organizing the 

 preaching of the Crusade, instructed these friars 

 to send one preacher to Bridlington and another 

 to Whitby.^' The warden was authorized 27 

 August 1293 to release Henry de Brumpton of 

 Scarborough from his vow of pilgrimage to the 

 shrine of St. James of Compostella on payment 



Ot lOOf." 



In or before 1283 the burgesses granted a 

 spring at * Gildhuscliff^,' on Falsgrave Moor, to 

 Robert of Scarborough, Dean of York, that he 

 might make at his own expense a conduit for the 

 benefit of the Friars Minors and the borough.^" 

 The scheme had not been carried out when the 

 dean died in 1290, but he left to the friars 100 

 marks in his will for this purpose. To pay the 

 legacy his executor. Sir John Ughtred, called in 

 a debt owing from Roger, Abbot of Meaux, and 

 the monks found it necessary to strip the lead 

 from the dormitory of their lay brethren and give 

 it to the friars in lieu of 78 marks which they 

 had failed to pay. ' With this lead, their church 

 or the greater part of it, is said to have been 

 covered.'*' It was not until 131 9 that the friars 



" Peckham, Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 214-16, 246-8, 284. 

 " Ibid. 216 ; Reg. G. Giffard (Wore. Hist. Soc), 



'35- 



" Hist. P. and L. from theN. Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 79. 



" Rymer, Foed. (Rec. Com.), i, 661. 



'= Hist. P. and L./rom the N. Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 102. 



" Cal. Papal Letters, i, 521. 



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



" Fasti Ebor. i, 340. 



"" Inq. a.q.d. file 7, no. 29 ; Hinderwell, Hist, 

 and Antiq. of Scarborough, 86. 



" Chron. de Melsa (Rolls Ser.), ii, 237. 



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