RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



the friary." The site, containing i^ acres, 

 together with a plot called 'le Courte garth,' 

 was let to Robert Gray for 5^. 8^. a year. The 

 churchyard itself, with some gardens and 

 orchards extending from the wall of the site on 

 the east to another wall next the highway on 

 the west, 75 yds. long and 57 yds. wide, had 

 already been leased 23 March 1536-7 to John 

 Harwoode under the convent seal for sixty-one 

 years at a rent of 6;. 8d. 'Le ponde garth' and 

 a garden between the site and the wall of the 

 Carmelites had likewise been leased to John 

 Barwick, 3 November 1537, at a rent of 31. 

 The friars also owned several cottages and tene- 

 ments in other parts of the town.''* 



Priors 



Robert, 1367 

 William Tailyor, 1505 

 John Newton, 1536-9 



95. THE WHITE FRIARS, SCAR- 

 BOROUGH 



Edward II on 1 9 October 1 3 1 9 granted to the 

 Carmelites two houses in Scarborough which he 

 held of the gift of Robert Wauwayn or Walweyn, 

 to build there an oratory and dwelling-place.^ 

 He secured the consent of the Cistercians to the 

 foundation within the parish of St. Mary by 

 giving them licence to acquire land in Scar- 

 borough to the value of 60s. a year ; " and the 

 archbishop's licence to the friars to build a chapel 

 and bell-tower was granted 24 March 1320-1.' 

 But difficulties arose with Thomas de la Rivere 

 and Joan his wife, who maintained that they 

 had let this land to Robert Wauwayn and his 

 heirs at a rent of 60s. a year : that, Robert having 

 ceased to pay the rent, they had obtained judge- 

 ment against him : and that he had then handed 

 over the property to the king. Edward II 

 forbade the judges to proceed further in the 

 matter, and they dared not disobey. On the 

 accession of Edward III the aggrieved parties 

 petitioned for redress.* But on 18 April 1341, 

 at York, Joan, now a widow, surrendered to 



'' Wright, Suppression, 192 ; Ellis, Orig. Letters 

 (ser. 3), 179, 186; L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiv (i), 

 493 ; Mins. Accts. 30-1 Hen. VIII, no. 166 

 (Yorks.). 



" L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiv (i), 492 ; Mins. Accts. 

 30-31 Hen. VIII, no. 166. 



'Pat. 13 Edvi?. II, m. 30. Robert vcas burgess in 

 the Parliament of Carlisle 1307, and bailiff of Scar- 

 borough 1316; Hinderwell, Hist, and Antiq. of 

 Scarborough, 131 ; Pat. 9 Y.dcvf. II, pt. ii, m. 27 d. 



'Ibid. m. 6 ; I Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 23. 



^ Fasti Eb»r. i, 416: another licence was granted 

 6 Jan. 1324-5 ; and on 12 Feb. there was a letter 

 for the quaestores. 



'■Pari. R. ii, 418; Plac. de Banco, Mich. 2 Edw. Ill, 

 m. 305 d. 



the Carmelites all her right to the tenement, 

 which is described as ' extending in length and 

 breadth between the capital house formerly 

 belonging to John Ughtred, now a brother of 

 the aforesaid order, and the house of John son 

 of Robert at Cross, and from the highway to 

 the house of the late Roger Ughtred.' 



Meanwhile, in the time of Edward II the 

 friars acquired a plot adjoining their house, 

 measuring 140 ft. by 30 ft., and worth lid. a 

 year, from Henry Paa of Scarborough : they 

 received pardon on the accession of Edward III 

 for taking possession of it without royal licence." 

 Another small plot was granted to them by 

 Ralph de Nevill, lord of Raby, in 1330.' 

 William Kempe and Adam Dyotsone gave them 

 a messuage, held of the king for 6d. a year as 

 ' house-gabel,' in 1350 ; Robert de Nuby and 

 William de Nuby, chaplains, gave them a similar 

 messuage adjoining the friary in 1358;* and 

 Sir Robert de RouclifF, kt., gave them some land 

 in 1362.' Sir Robert was buried in the church.^' 



The prior, Mauger de Baildon, in 1369 sued 

 Thomas Webster of Riccall, and Maud widow 

 of John Je Caleys of Tadcaster, for debts of 10 

 maiKs each ; and Thomas son of Henry of 

 Grimston for a debt of 6 marks. In the same 

 year he and Friar John Eryll brought an action 

 against John Bendebowe, John Goldyng, and 

 Simon de Lesam, all chaplains, for assaulting 

 Friar Eryll, and ill-treating him so that he 

 despaired of his life. In 1370 the same prior 

 sued John Motsom, carpenter, to keep the agree- 

 ment made between them to the effect that John 

 should, at his own expense, build in the friary a 

 hall, with chamber, study, and chapel, and with 

 a cellar, doors and windows, two hearths, and 

 two sinks.^^ 



Till the eve of the Dissolution there is little to 

 record of the house, save a number of bequests, 

 the largest being 5 marks from William, Lord 

 Latimer, 138 1, and 3^/. a day for three years 

 from Sir Marmaduke Constable, kt., in 1518." 



'Bodl. MS. Dodsworth, vii, fol. 119. 



' Inq. a.q.d. file 196, no. I ; Pat. I Edw. Ill, 

 pt. ii, m. 21. 



' Inq. a.q.d. file zll, no. 12; Pat. 4 Edw. Ill, 

 pt. ii, m. 34. 



'Pat. 24 Edw. Ill, pt. iii, m. 10 ; Inq. a.q.d. file 

 326, no. n ; Pat. 32 Edw. Ill, pt. i, ra. 30. 



'Inq. a.q.d. file 340, no. 17 ; Pat. 36 Edw. Ill, 

 pt. i, m. 31. 



'°Co//. Tofog. et Gen. iv, 133. Sir Robt. de 

 RouclifF, kt., who in 1381 left 20/. to the Carmelites, 

 and 3/. ^. to each of the other houses of friars here, 

 desired to be buried in the church of St. Mary of 

 Scarborough; Test. Ebor. i, 118. Others buried in 

 the Carmelite church were ' a Scot with his wife, lord 

 of Senton in Scotland,' and Thomas Lacy of Falton, 

 esq. Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 133. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes (Yorks. Arch. Soc), i, 104. 



^'Test. Ebor. i, 114; v, 93. See also ibid, i, 10, 

 35. 98, 118, 199, 239, 242, 274, 290. 



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