A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



Before the rebellions of 1536, John Boroby, 

 Prior of the White Friars,^' helped to encourage 

 the discontent by collecting and disseminating 

 seditious prophecies. In May 1536 he met a 

 priest at Beverley who showed him some 

 prophecies beginning ' France and Flanders shall 

 arise.' These he copied and showed to the 

 warden of the Grey Friars and the vicar of 

 Muston. The vicar gave him another collection 

 beginning * When the cock of the north had 

 builded his nest.' " Boroby was examined at 

 York, 5 December 1537, but was not removed 

 from office. He surrendered the house on 

 9 March 1538-9^* to the Bishop of Dover, who 

 remarked on the poverty of the place. ^° The 

 friars owned, besides the site, several messuages 

 which had been let on lease.^*^ 



Priors 



Robert Baston (?), 1319" 



Robert, 1327 "" 



Robert Morpath, February 1347-8 " 



Mauger de Baildon, 1369, 1371^' 



Robert Lylborne, 1476^" 



Laurence Cooke, 1527^^ 



John Boroby, 1531, 1538-9^" 



96. THE AUSTIN FRIARS, TICKHILL 



This house was situated to the west of Tick- 

 hill, close to Clarel Hall.^ It is said to have been 

 founded by John Clarel, Dean of St. Paul's.' 

 There was, however, no Dean of St. Paul's of 

 this name, and the founder was probably John 

 Clarel who was canon of Southwell in 1256 

 and held many other preferments.' The house 

 was founded towards the end of the reign of 

 Henry III. On 20 September 1274, in the 

 church of Blyth, one friar of this house, Thomas 

 de Irkingeham, was ordained deacon, and three, 

 John of Staunton, David of Haverford, and 



"He received 6/. %d. in 1536, for writing the will 

 of Thomas Percy ; Test. Ebor. vi, 55. 



"L. and P. Hen. VIII, xii (z), 212. 



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



"Ellis, Orig. Letters (ser. 3), 186. 



'^ Mins. Accts. 30-1 Hen. VIII, no. 166 ; Con- 

 ventual Leases Yorks. (P.R.O.), no. 905, 906, 907, 910. 



" The poet of Edward II who was captured by the 

 Scots and forced to celebrate the battle of Bannock- 

 bum in verse ; Tanner, B'tbl. 79. 



"' Plac. de Banco, East. 2 Edw. Ill, m. 3. 



"York Archiepis. Reg. Zouch, fol. 278. 



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



" Conventual Leases Yorks. (P.R.O.), no. 908. 



" Ibid. no. 905. Afterwards Prior of Doncaster. 



"Ibid. no. 906, 907. 



'Leland, Itin. i, 37 ; Hunter, South Torks. i, 244. 



' Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 73. 



'Chart. R. 41 Hen. Ill, m. 13; Tanner, Not. 

 Mon. 



280 



Robert of Retford, priests.* In 1276 the fr.ars 

 had royal licence to inclose a way without the 

 town on the north of their church between 

 their place and the land of William Clarel. In 

 1279 the king gave them four oaks for the work 

 of their church.' In February 1283-4 they 

 sought permission to inclose a strip of waste land 

 in Tickhill ; the jurors, however, returned an 

 unfavourable verdict, and the licence was not 

 granted.' 



From the executors of Queen Eleanor they 

 received 40^. in 1291 * ; and Edward I in 1300 

 gave them 6j. for one day's food by the hand 

 of Friar Ralph of Bamburgh.' There were 

 probably eighteen friars at this time. Edward II 

 gave ;^ I O towards the expenses of a provincial 

 chapter held here in 1319.^* Edward III gave 

 /^d. to each of the twenty-four friars in 1335." 

 Robert Clarel gave them 2 acres in Tickhill 

 in 1332, and at the same time they had 

 licence, on payment of half a mark, to inclose a 

 lane to the west of their house." 



Robert de Wirsop or Worksop, theological 

 writer, is said to have been an inmate of this 

 friary, and to have been buried here in 1350." 



Among the benefactors of the house were 

 Roger de Bangwell, rector of Dronfield, who 

 left 201. to the friary and i2ii. to each of the 

 brethren in 1366," and probably some members 

 of the families of Tibetot and Deincourt, whose 

 arms appear on part of the friary buildings." 

 Thomas Clarel, the elder, who married Maud 

 daughter of Sir Nicholas Montgomery, and his 

 son Thomas, who married Elizabeth daughter 

 of Sir John Scrope, were both buried here in 

 1442, and Robert Clarel, son of Thomas the 

 elder, in 1446." Sir Richard Fitz William, 



* Archbp. Giffard's Reg. (Surt. See), 196, 197. 



' Pat. 4 Edw. I, m. 6. ' Close, 7 Edw. I, m. 4. 



' Inq, a.q.d. iile 7, no. 9 ; Yorks. Inq. (Yorks. Arch. 

 Soc.) ii, II. 



'Exch. Accts. (P.R.O.), bdle. 352, no. 27. 



'Ibid. bdle. 357, no. 4 ; Liber Quotid. 28 Edw, I 

 (ed. Topham), 28. 



"Add. MS. 17362,10! 5. 



" Exch. Accts. bdle. 383, no. 14 ; Cott. MS. Nero 

 C. viii, fol. 202. 



" Pat. 6 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 14 ; Inq. a.q.d. files 

 222, no. 10 ; 223, no. 3 ; confirmation of same 

 grants in Pat. 15 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 12. 



" Pits, De Ilkst. Angl. Script. 478. He was sent 

 by the king to the papal court in 1 321, and received 

 £io. Add. MS. 9951, fol. 22^. 



' Test. Ebor. i, 82. For other bequests see ibid, i, 

 50, 58, 124, 143, 211, 274; iii, 259; Reg. Pal. 

 Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), i, 333 ; York. Archiepis. Reg. 

 Chicheley, i, fol. 473^ ; Cal of Wills, Court of 

 Husting, Lond. i, 309 ; Hunter, op. cit. i, 245, who 

 also mentions a gift of two oaks by Thomas, Earl of 

 Lancaster, 1 109. 

 "Hunter, loc. cit. 



"TV//. Ebor. iii, 247; Hunter, op. cit. ii, 53 ; 

 Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 73. 



