RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Hanville and other works ^^ ; another in St. John's 

 College, Oxford, contains a number of treatises on 

 music ^' ; two in the Bodleian contain the pro- 

 phecies of John of Bridlington and some musical 

 treatises,^* and a fifth in the College of Arms 

 ' contains the universal history of Treculphus, 

 the Chronicle of John Tayster to 1287, and 

 a history of England to 1357.^* 



On 20 February 1410-11 Pope John XXIII 

 exhorted the faithful to give alms to the chapel 

 of St. Catherine Virgin and Martyr recently 

 founded in this church by a confraternity the 

 members of which had mass said daily in the 

 chapel and did other works of piety, both in 

 mending roads and distributing alms to the poor.*' 

 The ' Mass of Our Lady ' was endowed by 

 « Lord de Neville.' " 



The friars borrowed ,^8 from William 

 DufEeld, canon of York, which was still owing 

 at his death in 1453.'° 



The most distinguished persons whose burials 

 are recorded in this church are Sir Humphrey 

 Neville and his brother Charles, who were 

 executed at York in 1469.^ Henry de Blythe, 

 painter and citizen of York, in 1346 desired, if 

 he could not be buried in the cathedral, to be 

 buried in the Austin Friars Church.^" Richard 

 Johnson, 'labourer,' of York in 1448 left 20s. to 

 the Austin Friars, 2d. each to twenty friars of the 

 house and 6s. 8d. to Friar William Egremond.'^ 

 John Holme of Huntington, gent., left to Sir 

 John Aske of Aughton, kt., in 1490, a garth in 

 the parish of St. Wilfred to found an obit in the 

 church.'^ Bequests to the house are as numerous 

 as those to the other friaries in York.'' 



Richard III stayed at this friary when Duke 

 of Gloucester, and in 1484 appointed Friar 

 William Bewick ' surveyor of the King's works 

 and buildings, within his place of the Austin 

 Friars of York.''* In 1493 a meeting between 



" Cott. MS.Vesp. B. xxiii ; cf. Bodl. MS. Digby, 64. 



" Codex 150. " Digby, 89. Bodley, 842. 



" College of Arms MS. Arundel 6. 



" Ca/. of Papal Letters, vi, 221. 



" Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 75. 



^ Test. Ebor. iii, 140. See also Early Chan. Proc. 

 bdle. 18, no. 87 (c. 1450). 



" Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 75 ; others are Lady 

 Margaret Moresby, Sir Thos. Baldwin, kt., Margaret 

 Lady de Maule, Sir Thos. House, kt., John Merefield, 

 Thos. Gosse ; ibid. 



'» Test. Ebor. i, 74. " Ibid, ii, 129. 



" Ibid, iv, 62-3. This was probably the tene- 

 ment in Lop Lane worth 6s. %d. a year ; Mins. Accts. 

 30-1 Hen. VIII, no. 166. 



" Test Ebor. passim, e.g. William de Latimer, 1 381, 

 j^io ; W. Barker of Tadcaster, 1403, i quarter of 

 corn, &c. 



" Harl. MS. 433, fol 179^. '^.Y>3.y\&%, Extracts 

 from Munic. Rec. of York, 125 ; cf. 186, 254. Mar- 

 garet Aske, 1465, left i ^s. \d. to Friar William Bewick 

 and 9/. to him to make a glass window with the arms 

 of herself and her son ; Test. Ebor. ii, 276. Bewick 



the Abbot of St. Mary's and the mayor to settle 

 disputes between the weavers and cordwainers 

 took place in this friary.'" William Wetherall, 

 afterwards provincial prior, was ordained deacon 

 in this church in 1500." 



On 6 April 1 5 1 1 Thomas, Lord Darcy, before 

 he sailed to Spain to fight against the Moors, 

 was, on account of his benefactions, admitted to 

 all the privileges of confraternity within this 

 priory ; the friars binding themselves to forfeit 

 20J. to the Abbot of St. Mary's, York, and i os. to 

 the scholars of the Austin Friars at Oxford if 

 they failed to observe the agreement ; the deed 

 was confirmed by John Stokes, provincial prior." 

 The Earl of Northumberland paid the prior 

 ^4 6j. 8^. for his lodging there in the year 

 1522-3." 



The prior, John Aske, seems to have given 

 some support to the rebellion known as the 

 Pilgrimage of Grace ; he supped with his name- 

 sake, the leader of the rebels, in York," but was 

 not punished. The house was surrendered to 

 the king's commissioners on 28 November 1538 

 by the prior, nine priests, and four novices.*" The 

 goods were sold in gross to Sir George Lawson 

 for ;^I3 14J. 8^. Out of this the prior received 

 20f., Edward Banks sub-prior 6j. 8^., and the 

 rest of the brethren, numbering fourteen, sums 

 varying from bs. %d. to 3^. /^d. ; total ^^5 "js. 4.d.*^ 

 The two bells and 40 fother of lead on the roof 

 of the church were reserved ; the plate, consist- 

 ing of two chalices and seven spoons, and weigh- 

 ing 38 oz., was sent to the king's jewel house.** 

 The site itself was valued at only 1 6d., the rents 

 from houses in Coney Street, Stonegate, Davy 

 Gate, Black Street, Lop Lane, Walmgate, and a 

 cottage in Micklegate of the gift of Lord Scrope, 

 brought in ^^5 6s. 8d. ; the friars also possessed 

 lands in Oswaldkirk and Huntington near York 

 to the value of £2 4.S. a year.*' 



Before the surrender took place the question 

 was being discussed to what use the Austin 

 Friars should be put. The council of the 

 north declared (6 November 1538) that it was 



was admitted to the Corpus Christi Gild in 1469; 

 Reg. Corpus Christi Guild (Surt. Soc), 71 ; for other 

 Austin Friars see ibid. 43, 63, 67, 70, 73, 82. 



'' Davies, op. cit. 254. 



^ Cott. MS. Galba E. x, fol. 144^. 



" Madox, Formulare, 341. Cf. ' The Black Friars 

 of Beverley,' ante. 



'" L. and P. Hen. Fill, iv, 3380. 



'' Ibid, xii (i), 306. 



*' Dep. Keeper's Rep. viii, App. ii, 51. Sixteen 

 friars are mentioned in Mins. Accts. 29-30 Hen. 

 VIII, 197. At the end of the 15th century the 

 friars numbered twenty-four ; Coll. Topog. et Gen. 



iv, 75- 



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

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



*^ Suppression P. loc. cit. 



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

 166. 



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