A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



who had broken his close, trampled down and 

 consumed grass to the value of +oi. by pasturing 

 cattle there.* These events were probably con- 

 nected with a claim to the land granted by 

 John de Aslacby. 



When the Archbishop of York was organiz- 

 ing the preaching of the Crusade in 1291 he 

 enjoined the convent of Yarm to cause some of 

 their friars to preach at AUerton, Yarm, and 

 Thirsk.^" In the same year they had iooj. from 

 the executors of Queen Eleanor.^^ Edward I 

 gave them ioj. for one day's food in December 

 1299.^^ Edward II gave lis. to the thirty- 

 three friars here in 1 3 1 9 " ; and Edward III 

 in 1335 gave gs. 4.d. to the twenty-eight friars of 

 Yarm and 20s. for the repair of their cloister." 



The church seems to have been rebuilt at 

 the beginning of the 14th century, as the arch- 

 bishop issued a commission to the Bishop of 

 Whithern to dedicate it 3 May 1308.^' In 

 January 1314-15 the archbishop sent instruc- 

 tions to the Dominican friars, and especially to 

 the Prior of Yarm, to denounce the Scots, who 

 were devastating the country, and to stir up the 

 people to resist." In October 1322 the prior, 

 Edmund de Clif, bought victuals from the royal 

 household for £S 6s. 8d. Of this debt Edward 

 III in 1329 pardoned the friars £S." 



In 1392 Thomas Ingilby gave to the friars 

 three messuages in Yarm adjoining their house ; 

 the prior and convent paid 2 marks for the 

 royal licence.^* 



Friar John Leeke of this house had permission 

 of the master-general to go to the Roman court 

 or elsewhere at his will with a companion of 

 the order in 1393, and in 1397 he was 

 appointed by the same authority to lecture 

 concurrently on the Sentences at Oxford if he 

 could obtain the grace from the University." 



Bequests were numerous. Henry Lord Percy 

 left the friars 30J. in 1349^"; William Lord 

 Latimer ;^io and a vestment embroidered with 

 his arms in 1381 "^ ; Sir John Mowbray of 

 Colton ' un grand plombe q'est a Jarum ' 

 valued at 5 marks in 1391, to sing trentals for 

 his soul and that of Elizabeth his late wife ^^ ; 



^ Pat. 3 2 Edw. I, m. 4a'. 



'» Hisi. P. and L. from the N. Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 93. 



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



" Liber Quotid. 28 Ediv. I (ed. Topham), 25. 



"Add. MS. 17362, fol. 3. 



" Exch. Accts. bdle. 387, no. 9. 



" Fasti Ebor. i, 378. 



'« Hist. P. and L. from the N.Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 238. 



" Torks. Arch. Journ. xxxvii, 188 ; Pat. 3 Edw, 

 III, m. 14. 



" Pat. 16 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 2. 



'» Add. MS. 32446. 



2" Test. Ebor. i, 58. Some goods belonging to 

 Henry Hotspur valued at Xio° were deposited here 

 in 1403. Pat. 5 Hen. IV, pt. i, m. 29. 



" Test. Ebor. i, 114. 



^' Ibid. 161. 



Isabella, widow of Walter Lord Fauconbeig, 5 

 marks in 1401 " ; Robert Conyers of Sodcburn 

 left 1 01. to the convent and 6j. 8^. to l-riar 

 John Leeke in 1431." Jane Boynton 

 daughter of James Strangeways, in i486 desired 

 to be buried in the quire near the high altar, 

 and left to them 40J. for her burial, 40J. to 

 divide amongst them, two lead tubs and 

 ' mashfattes,' a board with trestles, her mass 

 book, chalice and vestment ; she left instruc- 

 tions that mass should be said for twelve and a 

 half years for her soul in the friars' church (for 

 which purpose she entrusted 100 marks to the 

 Prior of Mount Grace), and that ' an image of 

 the Salutation of our Lady and St. Gabriel ' 

 should be put up at the end of the high altar 

 before her grave.^' 



In the church and cemetery were buried 

 many of the Hiltons of Hilton, and the Meynells 

 of Hilton. In the quire lay Eva daughter of 

 John Bulmer, widow of Henry son of Hugh, 

 her son Hugh and grandson Thomas, and also 

 Robert de Hilton, ' all of the progeny of the 

 Hiltons.' In the chapel of St. Katherine lay 

 Mary wife of Nicholas de Meynell ; John de 

 Hilton, lord of Hilton, and Isabella his wife. 

 In the cemetery Hugh Meynell of Hilton and 

 his wife Alice, Robert de Meynell, John de 

 Meynell and his wife Sibilla,^° Nicholas de 

 Hilton and Cecilia his wife.^' 



In 1520 the master-general assigned Friar 

 Clement Guadel to the convent of ' Jerm,' 

 and ordered the prior not to employ him in 

 any conventual office, but to allow him when 

 divine service was over to go to the Grammar 

 Schools.^' 



The friary was surrendered 21 December 

 1538 to William Blytheman by Miles Wilcock 

 the prior, five priests, and six novices, a very 

 unusual proportion of novices.^' Bryan Layton, 

 esquire, was put in charge of the house, and 

 bought the goods for io6j. 8^.; out of this sum 

 the prior received ZOs. and the ten friars 

 54J. ^d. There were 40 fother of lead, two 

 bells, and 49 oz. of plate (consisting of two 

 chalices, twelve spoons, and three maser- 

 bands).'" The annual value of the possessions, 

 over and above reprises, is given in one docu- 

 ment as 8i., '^ but this seems irreconcilable with 



" Ibid. 282. " Wills and Invent. (Surt. Soc), i, 8 1 . 



'' Test. Ebor. iv, 13 ; cf. description of the seal. 

 More bequests are noted by Palmer, Torks. Arch. 

 Journ. xxxvii. 



'° Living in 1306 ; Graves, Cleveland, 71. 



" Bodl. Dods. MS. xlv, p. 76, quoted by Palmer, 

 Yorks. Arch. Journ. xxxvii ; Graves, op. cit. 70. 



''Add. MS. 32446, fol. 15. 



"L. and P. Hen. nil, xiii (2), 1174; Dep. 

 Keeper's Rep. viii, App. ii, 50. 



'» Mins. Accts. 29-30 Hen. VIII (Yorb.), 

 no. 197. 



" Harl. MS. 604, fol. 104. 



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