RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



who married Elizabeth, heiress of the Clarels of 

 Aldwark, and thus succeeded to the patronage 

 of the friary, was buried here in 1479," and 

 his eldest son, Sir Thomas, was buried near his 

 father in 1497.'* Elizabeth widow of Sir 

 Richard, in her will, December 1502, desired 

 to be buried next her husband, and left to the 

 friars 5 marks and 'a cape of white velvet 

 sprinkled over with black marks made of silk, 

 like the fur called powdered ermine.' '' Sir 

 Thomas Fitz William the younger in 1 5 1 3 

 wished to be buried here if he came back 

 alive from the Scottish war, and willed that 

 his executors should make a tomb over his 

 father's body.^" He was slain at Flodden, but 

 the latter part of his instructions seem to have 

 been carried out. In the parish church is a 

 gorgeous monument of alabaster, richly painted, 

 which was removed from the friary church at 

 the Dissolution. It is adorned with the arms 

 of Fitz William, Clarel and Nevill, and upon it 

 lie the effigies of a knight and lady. The 

 inscription, now much defaced, contains names 

 of (Sir Richard) Fitz William, kt., and Lady 

 Lucy Nevill, daughter of John, Marquess of 

 Montagu, his wife.^^. 



Sir Hugh Hastings, kt., 1482, left a serge of 

 wax to be burned daily in this friary in honour 

 of St. Ninian, and bequeathed a quarter of 

 wheat yearly for three years and 10s. to the 

 friars.'^ Richard III gave them an annuity of 

 5 marks during his life.^' 



Richard Robinson, the prior, gave evidence 

 respecting the relations of the prior of the 

 Austin Friars of Grimsby with the rebels in 

 1536.^^ He and seven brethren gave up the 

 house to Sir George Lawson and his fellow 

 commissioners, 19 November 1538.^'' The 

 goods, including a clock and a pair of old organs, 

 were sold for ^^5 is. 8d. Of this sum £2 lOs. 

 was distributed to the friars. The lead (80 or 90 

 fother on the roofs of the various buildings), two 

 bells in the bell tower, and two chalices weigh- 

 ing 1 6 oz. were reserved.^* The demesne lands 

 consisted of 9 or 10 acres of orchard, meadow 

 and pasture, and about 46 acres of arable land : 

 all these lands, the collector of rents noted in 

 1539, are let to John Robinson by indenture 

 under the common seal of the late priory for sixty 

 years at a rent of 53^. 4^. Further, the friars 



" Test. Ebor. iii, 246-7 ; Hunter, op. cit. i, 245 ; 



», 53-4- 



" Test. Ebor. iii, 247. 



" Ibid, iv, 209. » Ibid, v, 45. 



" Leland, Ititi. i, 37 ; Hunter, op. cit. i, 241-2. 



" Test. Ebor. iii, 274. 



"Harl. MS. 433, fol. 28. 



" L. and P. Hen. Fill, xi, 593. 



"Ibid, xii (2), 869, 1064; Dep. Keeper's Rep. 

 viii, App. ii, 45. 



''Mins. Accts. 29-30 Hen. VIII, no. 197 

 (Yorks.) ; Suppression P. (P.R.O.), iii, fol. 93. 



3 28 



owned in the town of Tickhill an acre of arable 

 land at the lime kiln in the South Field, given 

 by Christopher Norris about 1528, and a cottage 

 in Westgate as well as a very considerable 

 property in Newton on Derwent, which was let 

 to tenants of the priory for io8i. a year. The 

 total annual rent amounted to j^8 6x. 2d.^ 



The seal, of which an indistinct impression 

 remains, represents a saint preaching to a crowd 

 of hearers.** 



97. THE BLACK FRIARS, YARM ' 



The Friars Preachers settled at Yarm in or 

 before 1266, in which year Henry III gave 

 them ten oaks in Galtres Forest.* Sir Peter de 

 Brus, lord of the manor, who died in 1272, 

 granted to them for the welfare of his soul and 

 the soul of Hillaria his wife a toft in the south 

 part of the town.' John de Levington gave 

 them a plot of land lying between their land 

 and the rivulet of Skytering ; this grant was 

 confirmed by Sir Marmaduke de Twenge, lord 

 of Danby, and Lucy his wife, the sister of 

 Peter de Brus. John son of Roger de Leving- 

 ton gave them two adjacent plots,' and John de 

 Aslacby, burgess of Yarm, and Parnel his 

 wife, 20 January 130 1-2, conferred on the 

 friars the croft called Ribaldcroft, containing 5 

 acres, the royal licence having been granted on 

 condition that a footpath be kept by stiles 

 between this land and the Tees. The gift was 

 confirmed by William de Latimer, lord of 

 Yarm, and Lucy his wife, the granddaughter of 

 Marmaduke de Tweng.' All these grants were 

 confirmed by Edward II in 13 14.* It appears 

 that the friars also had some land of the gift of 

 John de Meynil of Middleton before the end 

 of the 1 3th century.' 



In October 1302 a commission of oyer and 

 terminer was issued to three justices touching 

 the persons who entered the close of the prior 

 of these friars, threw down some walls, broke 

 his gates and carried away the timber of them, 

 and beat his servants.' And in October 1304 

 the prior obtained a similar writ against those 



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

 Hunter, op. cit. i, 245-6 ; Suppression P. (P.R.O.) 

 iii, fol. 93. 



"B.M. Seals, Ixxv, 15. 



' See ' The Friars Preachers, or Black Friars of 

 Yarm,' by the Rev. C. F. R. Palmer, Torks. Arch. 

 Journ. xxxviii, 184-92. 



' Close, 51 Hen. Ill, m. 10. 



' Pat. 8 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 24 (inspeximus). 



♦ Ibid. 



'Ibid. 30 Edw. I, m. 33 ; Inq. a.q.d. file 36, 

 no. !?. 



° Ibid. 8 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 24. 



' Ibid. ; rorks. Arch. Journ. xxxviii, 186, iqo 



' Pat. 30 Edw. I, m. (>d. 



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