RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Some of the followers of John of Hainault 

 were lodged in the friary in 1328/^ 



In 1350 John de WycliiFe was ordained 

 acolyte in the Friars Preachers' church, and John 

 de WhyteclifF acolyte in that of the Friars 

 Minors. Next year John son of William de 

 WyklifF and John son of Symon de WycliiF 

 were ordained subdeacons in the church of the 

 Friars Preachers. There can be little doubt that 

 one of these was the famous reformer." 



In 1358 we find the friars trying to recover a 

 young friar, William de Newton, who had been 

 seized and carried ofiF by his relatives." 



About this time Friar Thomas Stubbs, D.D., 

 was an inmate of the friary ; he is the re- 

 puted author of a history of the Archbishops of 

 York from 1147 to 1373, besides many other 

 works.*' 



Each visitation of the Dominican province in 

 turn had the right of nominating friars for 

 degrees in the universities. In the 1 4th century 

 the right of appointment was disputed between 

 the local bodies and the general master and chap- 

 ter. In 1393 the master appointed Friar John 

 Cawd, or Cawood, to succeed Friar Robert 

 Cawd, as lecturer on the Sentences at Oxford for 

 the visitation of York. He appointed William 

 Bakthorpe visitor of York in 1393, and William 

 Helmesley vicar of the visitation in 1397.** 



In the riots which took place in 138 1 a wall 

 within the habitation of the friars was broken 

 down, and the king ordered the mayor to compel 

 those who had broken it to repair it.*' Richard II 

 also confirmed the charters which his predeces- 

 sors had granted.** In 1385 the prior complained 

 of William Gilbek of Howden, mason, carrying 

 off his goods at Weland, near Snaith, to the 

 value of lOOJ.*' 



In July 1385 Sir Ralph Stafford, who was 

 assassinated by Sir John Holland, was buried 

 temporarily in this church, and the king attended 

 the funeral.'" 



The friars received shortly after this time a 

 relic of great value, the right hand of St. Mary 



" Chrtm. de Jehan k Bel (ed. Polain), i, 37. 



" Fasti Ebor. \, 462. Ordinations were held in this 

 church in 1480 and 1500. Cott. MS. Galba E, x, 

 fol. 133,142. 



" Cant. Archiepis. Reg. Islip, fol. 145, 149. 



" Printed in Tvirysden, Decern Scriptores ; Raine, 

 Historians of the Ch. of York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 388. 

 Friar Thomas de Stubbs, S.T.P., O.P., was one of the 

 executors of Bishop T. Hatfield's will, 1 3 8 1 . Test. 

 Ebor. i, 122. 



" Add. MS. 32446, fol. ^b, 'jb ; see ' The Black 

 Friars of Oxford ' in V.C.H. Oxf. ii. 



" Pat. 5 Ric. II, pt. ii, m. 23d.; cf. Anct. Pet. 

 12767. 



*' Pat. 5 Ric. ii, pt. i, m. 9. The confirmation of 

 this in Pat. 4 Edw. IV, m. 9 (1464) is printed in Drake, 

 Eboracum, App. p. xlv. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 243. 



'" Yorks. Arch. Journ. vi, 406 ; Reliq. xix, 211. 



Magdalen," which Sir Brian Stapleton brought 

 over from France. This was preserved till the 

 Dissolution, and so much importance was attached 

 to it that the donor, who is said to have been 

 buried here, was reckoned the second founder. 

 Sir Brian Stapleton, K.G., the famous warrior, 

 who died in 1394, was buried at Healaugh." His 

 son Brian the younger, who died before him, 

 married into the family of Aldeburgh, which, 

 like that of Stapleton, was closely connected with 

 the Black Friars of York. After his death his 

 widow Elizabeth, with her sister Sibyl, granted 

 to the friars a rent of 20s. from the manors of 

 Kirkby Overblow and Kearby, for keeping the 

 anniversaries of William de Aldeburgh and 

 Elizabeth (de Lisle), her father and mother." 

 Sir Brian Stapleton the son of Brian the younger 

 and Elizabeth Aldeburgh died in France in 141 7, 

 but his body was brought over and interred in 

 this church, his widow Agnes, daughter of Sir 

 John Godard and Maud Nevill, desiring to be 

 buried next him in 1438." It is probably this 

 Sir Brian to whom the friars were indebted for 

 the relic. 



Friar William de Thorpe, late of this house, 

 had pardon 12 June 1406 for all treasons, rebel- 

 lions, and felonies committed by him.'** 



A list of persons buried in this church, drawn 

 up by John Wriothesley, Garter, about 1500, 

 probably from the records of the house," contains 

 sixty names. The earliest appears to be Robert 

 de Nevill, Baron Raby (d. 1282). Humphrey 

 de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, John Mowbray, 

 and Roger Clifford were buried here after the 

 battle of Boroughbridge." The allied families of 

 Aldburgh, Stapleton, and Bellew are well 

 represented. Among the rest may be noted the 

 Lady Catherine Ferendolfe, ' for whose soul the 

 convent had a good cloth of gold ' ; Catherine 

 Baroness of Greystoke (c. 141 3) ; " and the lady 

 anchoress of Quixley. The list adds : ' et sont 

 bien en ladite eglise xxix Religieux.' 



A icw additions may be made of burials not 

 mentioned in this list. Agnes widow of Sir 

 Roger de Burton, kt., was buried herein 1347;" 

 Sir Robert Haunsard, kt. (of Walworth, co. Dur- 

 ham), January 13 90- 1, desired to be buried 

 before the high altar, and left 20 marks and 

 other bequests to the friars ; '' Richard Bridesall, 

 merchant, of York, who died 1392, was buried 



" Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 76. 



" Test. Ebor. i, 198 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. liv, 95. 



" Pat. 17 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 23. 



" Chetwynd-Stapyltou, The Stafeltons of Yorks. 123, 

 143. 



"' Pat. 7 Hen. IV, pt. ii, m. 23. 



" Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 76. 



" Cf Chron. de Melsa (Rolls Ser.), ii, 343. 



" Cf Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 401. 



'' Test. Ebor. i, 36. 



"Ibid. 132. Will proved Feb. 1395-6. Early 

 Line. Wills, 49. 



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