RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



great writer of letters' and the author of a 

 song which was very popular among the in- 

 surgents. He was hanged at Tyburn 25 May 



1537" 



The Council of the North on 6 November 



1538 begged Cromwell to move the king to ap- 

 point the Black Friars' house to be the habitation 

 of the Council ; it stood openly and commodiously, 

 and was formerly a palace of the king's progeni- 

 tors.*' This suggestion was not carried out. 

 The priory was surrendered on 27 November, 

 the act of surrender being signed by the prior, 

 six priests, and four novices. Two of the priests 

 and two of the novices signed with a mark 

 only.'' The royal commissioners, Sir George 

 Lawson, kt., William Blitheman, and others 

 sold the goods of the house for j^i3 141. in all, 

 Blitheman himself being the chief purchaser. 

 Out of this they gave 20J. to the prior, 6s. Sd. 

 and $s. to each of the priests, and 31. 4^. to each 

 of the novices. There were 34 fother of lead 

 and two bells. The plate weighed 62 oz., and 

 consisted of a silver hand, 23 oz. (no doubt the 

 reliquary containing the hand of St. Mary Mag- 

 dalene), a cross and three chalices. The com- 

 missioners estimated the extent of the lands at 

 I acre and the net annual value at 6f.** 



Priors 



Alan, 1236** 



[Oliver d'Eyncourt (?), 1275]'^ 



Geoffrey de Worksop, 1301, 1303*' 



Thomas de Middleton, 1304, 1307 *' 



Robert de Holme, 1330 " 



Richard de Parva Cestria, Feb. 1348-9 "* 



William de Kent, Feb. 1349-50" 



John Multon, 1455 ''^ 



John Kirby, S.T.P., 1474'' 



"i. anJ P. Hen. VIII, xii (i), 479, 698, 786, 

 1019, 1021, 1199 ; (2), 12, 191 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. x\v, 



*' L. and P. Hen. Fill, xiii (2), 768. 



" Ibid, xiii (2), 918 ; Def. Keeper's Rep. viii, App. 

 ii, 51 ; Rymer, Foed.TLVi, 622. 



'* Mins. Accts. 29-30 Hen. VIII (Yorks.), no. 

 197 ; 30-1 Hen. VIII, no. 166 ; Suppression P. 



(P.R.O.), iii, fol. 92. 93- 



" Close, 20 Hen. Ill, m. 1 1 d. His death is 

 described in ' Vitae Fratrum ' {Mon. Ord. Praed. Hist. 



277)- 



^ Giffard's Reg. (Surt. Soc), 271. 



*' Add. MS. 7966 A. ; Exch. Issue D. East. 29 

 Edw. I, m. 5. The king sent him ^^ 10 for the chap- 

 ter at Pontefract, 1303, by Friar Adam de Percy; 

 Reliq. xx, 69. 



^Add. MS. 883s, fol. lb; Lib. Gard. Reg. 

 I Edw. II ; Torks. Arch. Journ. vi, 403. 



" Exch. Issue R. East. 4 Edw. Ill, m. 8. 



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



" Ibid. fol. 279. 



" Baildon, Mm. Notes, \, 243. 



'' Torks. Arch. Journ. vii, 43 (from the reg. of the 

 Masters General). 



Richard Mason, 1500, 1515** 

 John Pickering, B.D., 1536 

 Brian Godson, 1538 



The seal of the convent shows the figure of 

 Christ standing, the left hand holding a long 

 cross, the right extended over the head of the 

 kneeling Magdalen : Legend : -f- noli me tangere, 

 and around, -f- s conventvs frm predicatorvm 

 EBORAC. The prior's seal has the same subject, 

 the garden of the sepulchre being represented by 

 a tree between the Saviour and the kneeling 



figure : Legend : -f s prioris frm ordinis . . . 



95 



PRE 



TORV. 



99. THE GREY FRIARS OF YORK 



This house was probably founded about 1230. 

 From the first it was head of one of the seven 

 custodies into which the English province was 

 divided. The custody of York in the 14th 

 century included the houses of York, Lincoln, 

 Beverley, Doncaster, Boston, Grimsby, and 

 Scarborough.^ Under the rule of the first 

 custodian, Martin of Barton, who had been per- 

 sonally associated with St. Francis of Assisi, it 

 was distinguished by zeal for poverty ; for Friar 

 Martin would not allow more friars to live in 

 any place than could be supported by men- 

 dicancy alone, without debts.^ The convent of 

 York was not one of the first places in which 

 schools of theology were established, but several 

 friars who came from this city were distinguished 

 for their learning ; Adam of York was sent 

 before 1233 to lecture at Lyons; Thomas of 

 York was lecturer to the Franciscans at Oxford 

 (1253) ^^^ afterwards at Cambridge.' Henry 

 III gave these friars twenty oaks for timber in 

 January 1235-6 and forty oaks in September 

 1237.* In this month he authorized them to 

 inclose part of the highway next their houses if 

 it could be done without detriment to the street.' 

 However, the place soon proved too small to 

 accommodate the friars, and about 1243 ° *^^y 

 acquired another and permanent site between the 

 Ouse and the north-western moat of the castle. 

 The king gave them 40 marks for their new 

 buildings 17 February 1243-4.' 



" Test. Ebor. iv, 186, 261, n. ; v, 71. Th. Garten 

 was sub-prior in 1 5 i 5. 



'* Both are engraved in Drake, Eboracum. An im- 

 pression of the former is appended to the act of 

 surrender. 



' Eubel, Provincial Vetustissimum. 



' Mon. Franc. (Rolls Ser.), i, 25, 27. 



'Ibid. 38, 39, 555 ; Little, Grey Friars in Oxf. 

 (Oxf Hist. Soc), 38, 140; Tract. Fr. Thomae de 

 Eccleston (ed. Little), 62, 64. 



* Close, 20 Hen. Ill, m. 20 ; 21 Henry III, m. 2. 



'Ibid. 21 Hen. Ill, m. 2. 



° Mon. Franc. (Rolls Ser.), i, 35. 



' Liberate R. 28 Hen. Ill, m. 14. 



287 



