A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



here next his mother;*" John Scarborough, 

 rector of Titchmarsh, was buried here in 1395, 

 leaving the residue of his goods to his executors, 

 Friar John Parys, S.T.P., of this house, and John 

 de Welton, clerk, who assigned £b in. to the 

 Friars Preachers for masses ; " Beatrice Selby of 

 York, 1425-6 ; °^ Elizabeth Baroness de Grey- 

 stoke, 1434 ;'' Robert Strangways, esquire, 

 1444, was buried in the quire next his wife 

 Maud, and left the friars 10 marks;" Robert 

 Strangways, who died in 1448, was also buried in 

 the quire ; " Richard Shyrwood, alderman, 

 1443,*° and his father and brother; Walter 

 Catrike of York, barber, 1449 ; '^ John Cracken- 

 thorpe of Newbiggin, Westmorland, esquire, 

 1462, and his wife, Anastasia Vavasour, '* William 

 Holbek, alderman, 1477,*' were buried in the 

 church ; and Jane widow of Sir Richard Strang- 

 ways, who made her will in 1500 whilst residing 

 in the house of the Friars Preachers, desired to be 

 buried ' in the choir of the same friars under the 

 lectern where they read their legend ' ; she left 

 ;^20 to purchase lands to the yearly value of 20s. 

 for a perpetual obit in the church and 20s. 10 

 marks, a gilt goblet, and a pair of fine sheets to 

 make surplices to Richard Mason, the prior, who 

 was one of her executors, besides other bequests 

 to the friars.™ William Fenton, of Fountains, 

 wished to be buried in this church, 1507;'^ 

 Isabel Westley willed to be buried, 1522, 'afore 

 our Lady at the Mary Magdalene altar'.'' The 

 chapel of St. Mary Magdalene is mentioned 

 in a will in 1449.^' 



Bequests to this house are very numerous, and 

 come from all classes. Archbishops, canons, 

 many rectors of churches — Henry de Blythe, 

 painter, of York (1365), William Lord Latimer 

 (1380), Margaret of Knaresborough, seamstress 

 (1398), William Gascoigne, C.J. (1419), William 

 Conesby, carpenter (1442), Richard Johnson, 

 labourer (1448). The legacies are generally in 

 money ; occasionally a quarter of corn is be- 

 queathed.'* Margaret de Aldborough (1391) 



«» Test. Ebor. i, 1 74. 



" Ibid, iii, 1—8. He also bequeathed to John 

 Parys his best covered piece (of silver), a silver fork 

 for ginger, a silver box for powder, and the decretals. 

 William de Waltham, canon of York, left ; marlcs to 

 Friar John Parych, 141 6. Test. Ebor. iii, 57. 



" Handbk. to York (ed. Audin), 168. 



" Dugdale, loc. cit. 



" Test. Ebor. ii, 108. " Ibid. 127. 



* Ibid, iii, 206. "Ibid, ii, 135. 



^Ibid. 148. "^ Ibid. V, 32 note. 



'° Test. Ebor. ii, 127-8, iv, 186. Mason had a 

 bequest of a black horse and 40/. from Christopher 

 Wigton in 1505. Ibid, iv, 261 note. 



" Mem. of Fountains Abbey (Surt. Soc), i, 153. 



" Test. Ebor. v, 158. " Ibid. 150. 



" e.g. Richard Andrew, 1477, left to each order 

 in York 2 qr. of corn, 2 of wheat, and 3 of malt, with 

 20/. Test. Ebor. iii, 235. W. Dodington, 1292, left 

 ' duas pctras case! ' to the four orders. Ibid, v, 4 note. 



left the friars a blood-red and a green cloak, both 

 f\irrcd with miniver, for the fabric of the bell 

 tower, and all the residue of her goods to the 

 friars for the anniversaries of her lord and herself, 

 and for the fabric of their infirmary. Friar John 

 Parys, S.T.P., was one of her executors, and 

 Friar John Schaklok, O.P., w^as a witness to hei 

 will. Jane widow of Donald of Hasebrig left 

 a necklace with a ruby in the middle to the high 

 altar. John Fitz Herbert, Prebendary of York, 

 in 1505 left the friars a chalice of silver-gilt 

 weighing 30 oz." Legacies to individual friars 

 are not infrequent ; Hugh de Tunstede, rector 

 of Catton, 1346, left 5 marks to Friar Adam de 

 Wefdafe, S.T.D., his confessor, and half a mark to 

 each friar in the convent on account of the special 

 brotherhood between them and him. Joan 

 del Skergell, 1400, left 13^.4^.10 Friar Thomas 

 Multon, S.T.B. ; John Allott, vicar of Bossall, 

 1455, left 13^. \d. to Friar William Barneby of 

 this house ; Maud of York, Countess of Cam- 

 bridge, 1446, bequeathed half a mark to the 

 convent, and 5 marks to Master Robert Tatman, 

 Friar Preacher." 



This Friar Robert Tatman was parson of 

 the church of Scrayingham in Yorkshire in 

 1 44 1 -2." Another friar of the house, John 

 Roose, took up the freedom of the city as 

 'organista' in 1463-4; he was paid 5^. id. in 

 1457 for improving and repairing the organ at 

 the altar of the Virgin in the cathedral, and 

 151. 2d. in 1470 for makingtwo pairs of bellows 

 for the great organ and improving it.'' 



In February 1455-6 the archbishop proclaimed 

 an indulgence of forty days ' to help the Friars 

 Preachers of York, whose cloister and buildings 

 had been destroyed by fire,' together with their 

 ' books, chalices and vestments, goods and jewels 

 deposited in the buildings, and thirty-four cells 

 and studio.^ " The names of several friars of 

 this house appear in the register of the Corpus 

 Christ! Gild : William Barneby 1449, John 

 Roos 1463-4, John Calvard 1464-5, William 

 Byrwood 1467, John Rotham 1468, Thomas 

 Hudson 147 1, John Bower 1472, Dom. Milo 



I520.«» 



Friar John Pickering, B.D., Prior of Cam- 

 bridge in 1525, subsequently became prior of the 

 Black Friars of York. He took part in organiz- 

 ing the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536, being 'a 



Beatrix Haulay, 1389, left them a book, not specified. 

 Early Line. Wills, 50. 



" Test. Ebor. iv, 122 note. This does not appear 

 among the plate at the Dissolution. 



" Test. Ebor. passim. Palmer gives a long list of 

 bequests. Torks. Arch. Journ. vi, 407-14. 



" Pat. 20 Hen. VI, pt. i, m. 10 ; Test. Ebor. v, 

 22 note ; Reg. Corpus Christi Guild (Surt. Soc), 64. 



" Fabric R. of York Minster (S\iit. Soc), 71, 74. 



" Ibid. 240 ; York Archiepis. Reg. Booth, fol. 187. 



•" Reg. Corpus Christi Guild (Surt. Soc), 64, 68, 70, 

 80, 82, 196. 



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