A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



Ordinations were held in this church on 17 

 May 1396-7, when orders were conferred on 

 four Minorites, six Preachers, five Carmelites, 

 and four Austin Friars ; and on 6 March 1 500-1, 

 when orders were conferred on seven Minorites, 

 one Preacher, two Carmelites, and five Austin 

 Friars." 



Among the chief benefactors of the house 

 were Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln (125 7-1 31 1), 

 who gave them 60 marks and many other goods, 

 and William de Nunny his almoner, who was 

 buried in the church." The wills of the 14th 

 and 15 th centuries contain many bequests from 

 all classes. The earliest is a bequest of 5 marks 

 from Sir William Vavasour, 131 1 ; ^* and the 

 earliest burial recorded is that of Edmund de 

 Boyvill, 1 314, for whose soul Bishop Kellaw 

 granted, 9 August 1314, an indulgence of forty 

 days.'' John Carlelle of York left in 1390 2s. 

 a day for forty-seven days for masses, with 

 torches for ' the four altars in the body of this 

 church when masses are celebrated ' ; and a cup 

 of black crystal to the Friars Minors of York.*" 

 Richard Bridesall, merchant of York, left 20s. to 

 Friar Simon Brampton and 3^. 4^. to Friar 

 William Norton of this house in 1392." 



Isabella Percy of York left these friars ' a large 

 basin for washing feet' in 1400.^^ Several of 

 the Mowbrays were buried here — Sir William 

 Mowbray of Kirklington, jun. (1391), and his 

 mother, Margaret Percy of Kildale ; Sir 

 William Mowbray of Colton (1391) ; *' and the 

 body of Thomas Mowbray, Earl Marshal, who was 

 beheaded in 1405.** A number of the Ughtreds 

 were buried here, one in the chapter-house, 

 another in the north side of the quire, at the 

 head of Sir Robert Neville, who died in 1431.*^ 

 The tombs of the family of Ross of Ingman- 

 thorpe and many other local families were 

 noted in the church by John Wriothesley, Garter, 

 about 1500.** Walter Berghe desired to be 

 buried (1404) here 'next my lady Eufemia of 

 Heslarton,' and left the friars 20 lb. of wax 

 and 20s. to spend on food in York.'' George 

 Darell of Sessay, esq., was buried in the 

 church (1432), and among other bequests left 

 I s. or 6d. to each member of the house attend- 

 ing his exequies, four cushions of white and red 

 to the high altar, a green bed with coverlets, 



" B.M. Cott. MS. Galba E. x, fol. iigi, 145. 

 " CoJ/. Topog. et Gen. iv, 77, 78 ; Leland, I tin. 



i, 3 3- 



" Reg. Pal. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), i, 332. 



" Ibid. 592 ; cf. Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 78. 



«° Test. Ebor. i, 140. «' Ibid. 174. 



«=Ibid. 271. ^Ibid. 144,158. 



" Ric. Burgh, 1407, desired to be buried at the feet 

 of Sir Thomas ; ibid. 347. 



^' Test. Ebor. 1, 241 ; ColL Topog. et Gen. iv, 78, 79. 



*' The list, containing fifty-four names, is printed in 

 Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 77-9. 



" Test. Ebor. i, 333. 



290 



blankets, sheets, curtains, quilt and mattress, to 

 the friars for their common use, pewter vessels, 

 61. U. each to Friars John Belasys and John 

 Shirlowe of this house, and a chair with two 

 benches for the chamber of the master (i.e. 

 the master of the schools) of the Grey Friars." 

 Alice Croull of York, widow, was buried in 

 the church of the Friars Minors, York, next 

 her husband in 1464.°' Henry Salvin, esq. and 

 citizen of York, was buried in the quire in 1464 

 with his brother Sir John, and left 4 marks to 

 erect a stone over the tombs, his best garment 

 as mortuary, and 5j. to Friar Snawball.™ 

 Margary Salvin, Sir John's widow, was buried 

 in the north aisle before the image of the 

 Virgin in 1496, and left, besides damask and 

 velvet, a bone of St. Ninian to the friars.'' 



The will of Richard Russell, merchant, of 

 York, 1435, contains bequests of 40^. to Friar 

 John Rikall, O.M., and 6j. 8^. to every friar 

 who was a master ; William Revetour, chaplain, 

 left them in 1446 a 'small book of the whole 

 bible ' with gloss. Under the will of John Carre, 

 1487, Dr. Shirwyn had 20i. ; under that of Joan 

 Chamberlain, 1 501-2, Friar Makeblith, her con- 

 fessor, 3J. \d. ; under that of Robert Clifton, 

 Prebendary of York, 150 1-2, Friar John King- 

 ton, S.T.P., ;^6 13^. \d. ; and under that of 

 John Marshall, merchant, 1524, Dr. Vavasour, 

 the warden, 5 marks and a silver spoon." The 

 friars, however, did not in the last years of their 

 existence rely entirely on casual offerings ; they 

 drew small rents from houses not only in York," 

 but also in Snaith, Hensall or Endsall, Kelling- 

 ton, Egborough, Wakefield, ' Carrecrosse ' by 

 Doncaster, some cottages in RawclifFe, and else- 

 where ; these were estimated at the Dissolution 

 at £\2 5^. 5^. a year.'* 



Some of the outlying lands formed the endow- 

 ment of the ' RoecliflF mass,' a chantry founded 

 by Brian RoeclifF of Cowthorpe, baron of the 

 Exchequer, who, dying in 1495, desired to be 

 buried near the altar of the Holy Trinity in the 

 Grey Friars Church, ' with honourable but not 

 pompous exequies,' and left 40J. and 2 quarters 

 of corn to the house and small sums to each 



'' Ibid, ii, 27. At the Dissolution the friars had a 

 rent of 2/. 8a'. from a tenement and lands called 

 ' Darelles landes ' in the parish of St. Nicholas, Miclde- 

 gate; L. and P. Hen. Fill, xx (l), 1081 (19). 



'' Test. Ebor. ii, 263. " Ibid. 



Ibid, iv, 1 16. Thomas Eure was buried in the 

 church in 1475 ; ibid, iii, 214. 



" Ibid, ii, iv, v. 



" e.g. 10/. for two cottages in Micklegate, 34J. for 

 a house in ' Estberigge,' 4/. in Castlegate ; Mins. 

 Accts. 30-1 Hen. VIII (Yorks.), no. 166. 



" Ibid. ; L. and P. Hen. Fill, xvi, p. 724 ; xviii 

 (2)' 449(47)- They also had a perpetual annuity of 8/. 

 from Walter Bradford of Houghton, 1531 ; Test. 

 Ebor. V, 284. A lamp burning daily in the church 

 was provided by an endowment of Ric. Gascoigne 

 and others in 1407 ; Pat. 8 Hen. IV, pt. ii, m. 24. 



