RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



friar.'* His brother Thomas was also buried 

 before the same altar, and bequeathed to the friars 

 a garth to find a wax candle to burn before the 

 image of Jesus at the time of the RoeclifF mass.'* 

 Brian's son, Sir John RoeclifF, kt., demised lands 

 in Snaith and Hensall to the friars for twenty-one 

 years in 1530 ; " in his will proved 29 Septem- 

 ber 1534, he desired to be buried near his father 

 ' on his left side, on the north side of the church,' 

 left elaborate instructions for his burial, and for 

 the erection of a tomb with an image of himself 

 kneeling under the image of the Trinity, and 

 bequeathed his coat-armour, horse and harness as 

 a mortuary ; he further attempted to provide for 

 the permanent endowment of a chantry, but his 

 will fell to the ground probably owing to want 

 of assets.'* John Marshall of York, merchant, 

 in 1524 left houses and lands in trust to the 

 Grey Friars to found a mass after the model of 

 the RoeclifF mass.'' 



The house was surrendered 27 November 

 1538 to Sir George Lawson and his fellows, who 

 were thankfully received,^ the deed being signed 

 by William Vavasour, S.T.P., the warden, and 

 twenty others, five of whom were novices.*^ 

 The goods of the house were sold in gross to 

 Tristram Teshe for ;^20, out of which small 

 sums amounting in all to £"] ^s. were given to 

 the friars.'^ The site was estimated at "js. 6d. a 

 year, and the rents in York and elsewhere at 

 ;{^I2 $s. 5^. : out of this an annual pension of 

 ;^5 was assigned to the warden.*' The two bells 

 and 60 fother of lead were reserved. The jewels 

 and plate sent to the king's jewel-house consisted 

 of three chalices, two crewets, ten spoons, two 

 masers, one round salt parcel gilt, one wooden 

 cross plated with silver, one standing maser with 

 bands and foot silver-gilt, one little standing cup, 

 one nut with cover gilt, weighing in all 109 oz." 



Custodians '* 



Martin de Barton, c. 1235 ** 

 Eustace de Merc, c. 1245 *' 



" Tes(. Ebor. iv, 102-3. 



" Ibid. 105, note (Jan. 1503-4). 



" Mins. Accts. 1-2 Eliz. no. 44 (Yorks.). 



'* Test. Ebor. v, 319. " Ibid, v, 192-3. 



*" Wright, Suppression, 167. 



*' L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiii (2), 917 ; Dep. Keeper's 

 Rep. viii, App. ii, 5 1 ; Drake, Ebor. App. 



^- Mins. Accts. 29-30 Hen. VIII (Yorks.), no. 197; 

 Suppression P. (P.R.O.), iii, fol. 93 ; Friar Will. Pen- 

 rith had 26s. Sd. 



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

 Ct. of Aug. Misc. Bks. ccxxxiii, fol. 154^ ; L. and P. 

 Hen. Fill, xiii (2), 917 (2). 



^' Mins. Accts. 29-30 Hen. VIII (Yorks.), no. 197 ; 

 Suppression P. (P.R.O.) iii, fol. 92. 



^ It is probable that the offices of custodian and 

 warden were sometimes held by the same person. 



^ Mon. Franc, i, 27. 



»' Ibid. 61. 



N. 1267 «« 



Nicholas de Burser, February 1277-8*° 



Wardens 



GeoflFrey de Retford, 1298'° 



John de Gonnesse, 1303-4 " 



Robert de Stayndrop, 1322 °^ 



Henry, 1378 °' 



William Vavasour, S.T.P., 1524, 1538 " 



The seal is pointed oval in shape and repre- 

 sents two saints in niches with canopies pinnacled 

 and crocketed : in base, under an arcade of three 

 arches, three friars kneeling to the right. 

 Legend : — 



MINOR^ 



EBOR + 



100. THE WHITE FRIARS OF YORK 



The Carmelite Friars first established them- 

 selves in Bootham, near the Horsefair.' Henry 

 III gave them six oaks in Galtres Forest for the 

 building of their church in June 1253, ^"'^ ^^^ 

 oaks in 1255.'' In 1258, after inquiry by the 

 mayor and bailifFs, he granted them a plot of land 

 6 p. by 4 p. ' outside the wall of the friars' court 

 towards the stone cross at York ' to enlarge their 

 area.' In 1260 a provincial chapter was held 

 here, the king giving two marks towards ex- 

 penses.* Archbishop GifFard, in 1269, sent the 

 prior 30;., and in 1275 30J. again and two 

 quarters of corn for the convent.' Priest's orders 

 were conferred on Ralph de Bretton of this house 

 in 1274.* The Dean of York, Robert of Scar- 

 borough, desired in 1289 to give a messuage and 

 land in Wike-upon-Hull to the Carmelite Friars, 

 to found a new priory.' 



In 1295 William de Vescy, before his departure 

 to the wars in Gascony, gave the friars a messuage 

 or tenement in Stonebow Lane, which became 



^ Hist. P. and L.from the N. Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 9. 

 (Perhaps the same as the next custodian.) 



*' Bullar. Franc, iii, 284. 



"" Baildon, Mon. Notes (Yorks. Arch. Soc), i, 243. 



" Add. MS. 8835, fol. 5(5. He received 40 marks 

 from the general chapter at Assisi ; 25 marks for the 

 friars at Oxford, 12^ marks for those at Cambridge. 



*' Pat. 16 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 19. 



"' Baildon, ut supra. 



»' Little, Grey Friars in Oxf. (Oxf. Hist. Soc), 

 130 ; Test. Ebor. v, 192-3 ; Reg. Corpus Christi Guild 

 York (Surt. Soc), 176, 186 note. 



=' Cat. ofB.M. Seals, 4410. 



' Pat. 8 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 21. 



' Close, 37 Hen. Ill, m. 7 ; 39 Hen. Ill, m. 5. 



' Pat. 42 Hen. Ill, m. 2. 



* Liberate R. 45 Hen. Ill, m. 11. 



' Giffard's Reg (Surt. Soc), 113, 298. 



* Ibid. 197. 



' Inq. a.q.d. file 12, no. 7. See 'The White Friars 

 of Hull,' ante. 



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