A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



College, Cambridge." Between 141 1 and 1470 

 ten or eleven friars of the house were admitted 

 to the gild of Corpus Christi, York.*^ Tfie 

 churches appropriated to the house were some- 

 times served by friars; thus in i486, Friar 

 Robert Tesche, afterwards minister, was vicar 

 of Hampsthwaite.*' 



In March 1532-3 the minister paid Cromwell 

 j^ 10 for restitution of temporalities." According 

 to the Valor Ecclesiasticus the temporalities were 

 worth j^24 lis. a year, the spiritualities, the 

 rectories of Hampsthwaite, Pannal, Thorner, 

 Fewston, and Whixley, £62 4.5. lod. Sums 

 were due to the king, the vicars of the 

 churches, and other officials amounting in all to 

 £S I 4^- 9'^; leaving as the net annual value only 

 ^35 11^. i^.'' 



The friars were accused of stirring up the 

 rebellion in 1536, making bills and proclama- 

 tions that the king was going to claim 6s. Sd. of 

 every plough, 6s. 8d. of every baptism, and j^.d. 

 of every beast."' The most active was Friar Esch 

 or Ashton, a ' limitor ' for the house, who with 

 a passport from William Stapleton raised the 

 country round Malton."' The minister supported 

 the government in getting two rebels executed at 

 York.'* Robert Ashton escaped to Scotland.'' 



The house was dissolved 30 December 1538, 

 the deed of surrender being signed by Thomas 

 Kent, the minister, nine priests (one of whom 

 signs with a mark), and one undescribed.'" The 

 commissioners found the clear annual value of 

 the house to be ^^93 12s. 6d. This revenue 

 was charged with ^^56 6s. Sd. for pensions to 

 the minister and friars, the minister receiving 

 £1;^ 6s. Sd. Goods sold and debts received 

 brought in £6^ Ss., out of which £2J 2s. 8d. 

 was expended in giving rewards to friars and 

 paying debts. The woods were estimated at 

 6s. 4.d. a year, the lead at 18 fother. There 

 were five bells and 82 oz. of plate.'^ 



Ministers (or Masters) 



Ralph de Redinges 1280, 1284, 1286" 

 John [Sperry] [1297], 1300'' 



*' M. R. James, Cat. o/MSS. in Trin. Col. Camb. ii, 3 5 8. 



"' Reg. of the Guild {^^n. Soc), 13 (Robt. Harton), 

 28 (Ric. Fawkes and jno. Craven), 33 (W. Stancla}), 

 34 (Thos. Bolton), 43 (Jno. Hudson), 62 (Patryngton), 

 63 (Bolton W. Rute, Chr. Craven), 83 (Jno. Whixlay). 



'^ Wheater, op. cit. 171 ; cf. 299. 



" L. and P. Hen. Fill, vi, 228 (1). 



" Falor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 254-5; cf. 3 2, 3 3, 3 5. 



^ L. and P. Hen. Fill, xi, 1047. 



"' Ibid. Xii (l), 369, 392, I02I ; (2), 291, 918. 



«' Ibid, xii (2), 1076. «» Ibid, xvii, 61. 



'» Dep. Keepei's Rep. vii, App. ii, 25 ; L. and P. 

 Hen. VIII, xiii (2), 1 173. 



" Harl. MS. 604, fol. 104 ; L. and P. Hen. VIII, 

 xiv (1), 185, 1355. 



■' Chart. R. 9 Edw. I, m. 14 ; Baildon, Mon. 

 Notes (Vorks. Arch. Soc), i, 116. 



" Baildon, op. cit. 117; cf. Pat. 25 Edw. i, pt. i, 



300 



Henry of Knaresborough, 131 5 '* 

 John [de Spofford] 1343 \M\'tV\ 

 William Donyngton, 1348, 1349'' 

 Alan of Scarborough, 1352, 1366" 

 William de Pudsey, 1372-4, c. 1380'' 

 John Kyllyngwyk, c. 1380, January 



1387-8" 

 Richard Savage, 1 400, 141 6*" 

 William Brotte, 1425" 

 Robert Harton, 1438'" 

 John , 1444*' 



Richard Fawkes, 1449-50, 1454" 

 Robert Bolton, 1461, 1484, 1491 '' 

 Robert Teshe or Tesse, 1499, 15 10" 

 Oswald Benson, 1524*' 

 Thomas Kent, 1529-1536, 1538'* 



The seal of the convent was pointed oval and 

 represented the Trinity on a carved throne under 

 a canopy ; below, under a carved arch, a man, 

 probably St. Robert, seated to the right, under a 

 tree, reading a book.*' The seal of the minister 

 showed the figure of a saint, probably St. Robert, 

 seated to the right with an open book on his 

 knees, under a tree. The legend in both im- 

 pressions is fragmentary.'" 



m. 4 ; 3T Edw. I, m. 14 ; Anct. Pet. E. 93. Cf. 

 Rule of Innocent III and Clement IV, 'non pro- 

 curator sed minister nominetur.' 

 " Wheater, op. cit. 311. 



" Baildon, loc. cit. ; Pat. 1 8 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 22 ; 

 cf. Pat. 6 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 7 ; 10 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, 

 m. 8. 



" Pat. 22 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 37 ; Inq. a.q.d. 

 file 296, no. 14. 



" Pat. 27 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 3 ; Baildon, loc. cit. ; 

 York. Archiepis. Reg. Thoresby, fol. 292. 



" Cf. Col. of Papal Letters, v, 551-2, 573 ; Baildon, 

 loc. cit. 



" Cal. of Papal Letters, v, 551-2. 

 «> Chan. Warr. (P.R.O.), file 1767, no. 21 ; Bail- 

 don, loc. cit. ; Wills and Invent. (Surt. Soc), i, 53. 

 Wheater, op. cit. 155, 180. In Cal of P apal Letters, 

 v> S 5-9> the minister is called Robert : this is probably 

 a mistake for Richard. In Duchy of Lane. Ct. R. 

 (P.R.O.), 128 (191 5), he appears as Robert Savage, 

 corrected to Richard. 

 *' Baildon, loc. cit. 

 ** Wheater, op. cit. 167. 

 " Test. Ebor. iii, 173. 



" Baildon, loc. cit. ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. viii, 

 App. i, 415 ; cf. Reg. Corpus Christi Guild York, 28 

 (1429-30) ; Wheater, op. cit. 50, 163-4. 



** Reg. Corpus Christi Guild York, 63 (the Christian 

 name is not given) ; Baildon, loc. cit. ; Hist. MSS. 

 Com. Rep. iii, App. 260 ; Yoris. Arch. Joum. xxiii, 

 145 ; Bodl. Lib. Chart, and R. York. 65. He was 

 also provincial in 1 49 1. 



'' Baildon, loc. cit. ; Bodl. Chart. York, 66. 

 •^ Reg. of the Univ. of Oxf (Oxf. Hist. Soc), i, 

 '34- 



"« Baildon, loc. cit. ; L. and P. Hen. VIll, xiii (2), 

 1173. 

 ^ B.M. Seals, Ixxiv, 74. 

 " Yorks. Arch. Joum. xxiii, 146. 



