A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



had licence to make an underground conduit 

 from ' Gildhuscliff' to their house, to lay pipes 

 under the streets of the town and repair them 

 when necessary.*^ 



Meanwhile, in 1297, the friars petitioned for 

 leave from the Crown to appropriate a piece of 

 land 117 ft. by 80 ft. for the enlargement of 

 their church : the land had belonged to Adam 

 Gumer, and had come into the king's hands 

 owing to Adam's execution as a felon.^^ The 

 jury of inquest opposed the grant, which was not 

 made : but in 1299 Simon son of Simon Gumer 

 conferred on the friars a messuage adjoining their 

 church for the enlargement of their area and 

 cemetery.^^ In 1 300 the Knights Hospitallers 

 granted them a messuage lying between the land 

 which William de Harun held of John de Blake 

 on the south and the lane called Dumple on the 

 north, and abutting on the said lane and the wall 

 of the borough." About the same time Sir 

 John Hudred or Ughtred, kt., gave them an 

 annual rent of 205. in Scarborough, * to find two 

 great wax candles burning daily at the elevation 

 of the host in the quire of the said brethren, and 

 to find oil in a lamp burning before the host in 

 the same quire, and bread and wine for celebra- 

 tion in the church and quire, with power for the 

 bailiff of Scarborough to distrain for the rent if 

 unpaid.'^' All these grants were confirmed by 

 Edward II in 1315.^ 



In 1322 these friars had licence to inclose the 

 lane called ' le Dumple ' on condition that they 

 made on their own ground another way as large 

 and convenient for the king, the commonalty, 

 and for the Friars Preachers, to whom permis- 

 sion had previously been granted to pave the 

 lane.^' 



The three orders of friars in Scarborough 

 were accustomed to send an officer round the 

 town with a hand-bell on the days of the 

 funeral obsequies of those buried in their 

 churches and cemeteries and on the anniversaries 

 of their founders and benefactors. They pro- 

 cured a royal licence for this custom in 1388, 

 but it was withdrawn the next year as being an 

 infringement of the rights of the church of 

 St. Mary.^ The practice, however, continued, 

 and is mentioned in 1522.'" 



Among those buried in the Grey Friars' 

 church were several members of the families of 



" Pat. 13 Edw. II, m. 44. 



" Inq. a.q.d. file 26, no. 13. 



" Ibid, file 30, no. 2 ; Pat. 27 Edw. I, m. 25. 



" Dugdale, Moti. Jngl. vi, 1545. 



^ Pat. 9 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 21. The bailifis were 

 ordered to compel payment of the rents, 28 Jan. 

 •332-3 ; Pat. 7 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 28. 



-' Pat. 9 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 21. 



" Inq. a.q.d. file 139, no. 6 ; Pat. 15 Edw. II, 

 pt. ii, m. 4. See the account of the Black Friars. 



" Pat. 12 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 17. 



» Test. Ebor. V, i::|. 



276 



Ughtred, Stacy, and Hastings, and the Lady 

 Elizabeth Gubiun, nun of Little Mareis, near 

 Yedingham." Sir Gilbert de Ayton, kt., left 

 20 marks to these friars in 1350." Sir 

 Marmaduke Constable in 15 18 left to the 

 White and Grey Friars of Scarborough, the 

 Black Friars of Beverley, and the Austin Friars 

 of Grimsby, 7,d. a day for three years, id. being 

 assigned to the priest saying mass for the souls of 

 those to whom the testator had done any wrong, 

 and \d. 'to amend the pittance' of the friars in 

 each house." Robert Skirley in 1522 left to 

 the Grey Friars ' the keitzen and the garth that 

 is by their house that I woyn in, up to the town 

 wall, paying to Master Whittes 2;. \d. a year ' ; 

 if his son died without issue, the same friars 

 were to have ' that house by the Leide Stowpe 

 that Alyson Gilson wonys in, and they to do a 

 dirige and mass for our souls with the belman 

 about the town.' He also bequeathed to them 

 IS. quit-rent that he had bought of Henry 

 Carthope and Robert Clarke ' ankarsmith.' '* 

 Richard Chapman, warden of the Grey Friars, 

 was in sympathy with the Pilgrimage of Grace 

 in 1536, and the officers of the town were 

 summoned by Sir Francis Bigod to the Grey 

 Friars to take an oath to support the rebel- 

 lion." 



The friary was surrendered 9 March 1538-9 

 to the Bishop of Dover, who described the 

 three friaries as 'so poor that they have sold 

 the stalls and screens in the church, so that 

 nothing is left but stone and glass, yet there 

 is merely good lead,' about 40 fother. There 

 were also bells and chalices.'* The property 

 included, besides the site, a number of cottages 

 and a tavern.'** 



Wardens 



Lawrence de Wetwang, 1293" 

 Ralph de Hertilburg, 1350'* 

 George Dan by, 1476'' 

 Richard Chapman, 1536, 1538-9*" 



" Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 3 2. 



" Test. Ebor. i, 62 ; see also ibid. 10, 35, 58, 98, 

 114, 118, 199, 239, 242, 274, 290. 



'' Ibid, v, 93. 



^ Ibid. V, 153. 



« L. and P. Hen. VIII, xii (i), 369 ; (2), 212; 

 Hinderwell, op. cit. 



''Ellis, Orig. Letters (Ser. 3), iii, 186 ; L. and P. 

 Hen. Fill, xiv (i), 348, 413, 494 ; Mon. Treasures 

 (Abbotsford Club), 1 7. 



^' L. and P. Hen. Fill, xiv (l), 482 ; Misc. 

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



" Fasti Ebor. \, 340. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Zouch, fol. 279. 



" Pat. 16 Edw. IV, pt. i, m. 28 (he was sued for 

 trespass by Thomas Sage); cf. Pat. 20 Edw. IV, pt. i, 

 m. 21. 



" L. and P. Hen. Fill, xii (2), 212 ; Conventual 

 Leases, Yorks. (P.R.O.), no. 898, 903, 904. 



