A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



local alms. At the burial of the poor persons 

 four lights were to be used, at their cost, if funds 

 permitted. As soon as anyone was admitted to 

 the brotherhood of the hospital he was to make 

 his will and bestow his goods on the place, and 

 was not to assign them elsewhere. The men 

 were to use white tunics and black scapulars with 

 hoods, the women white tunics and black man- 

 tles, and none were to go outside the precincts of 

 the infirmary without the leave of the guardian 

 [custoi) specially appointed for this, nor were they 

 to eat, drink, or sleep, or stay except in the 

 infirmary. Having heard divine service in the 

 chapel within the infirmary, they were to be 

 occupied with the work of the hoxKe, as in spin- 

 ning, washing the clothes of the canons and 

 their servants. The private and suspected apart- 

 ments or cells in the infirmary vere to be 

 removed without delay, that no evil could be 

 suspected in the house in future. 



The archbishops seem to have appointed the 

 master, and on 6 November 1388^^ Archbishop 

 Arundel appointed Thomas Rooland master of 

 the hospital of St. Giles, when it was explicitly 

 stated that the prior and convent could not recall 

 him to Warter. In 1410 he was elected Prior 

 of Warter, and on 31 December 1412 obtained 

 licence from Archbishop Bowett to alienate for 

 ;^6o to certain burgesses of Beverley in perpetuity 

 a close belonging to the hospital and commonly 

 called ' Seyntgiliscroft.' *^ The subsequent his- 

 tory of the hospital is merged in that of the priory 

 to which it was annexed. It would seem that 

 women were received as recluses in the hospital,*' 

 as Stephen Tilson of Beverley in his will, dated 

 6 June 1469, bequeathed 20d. 'cuilibet mulieri 

 recluse infra domum sancti Egidij Beverlaci.' ** 



A few years later than this Roger Lunde and 

 Joan his wife, in return for the gift of all their 

 property to the hospital, were given by Thomas 

 Byrdlington, then master, a corrody and a ' celle 

 sett yn the southe parte of the Fermorye of the 

 seyd hospitall with a gardyne by hym.' After 

 Roger's death John Dobson, clerk, master, and 

 Thomas Nowson, Prior of Warter (1498-1526), 

 deprived Joan of her garden, ' which was to her 

 a greate yerthely comfort,' and detained her 

 corrody.*^ 



1 06. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. 

 NICHOLAS, BEVERLEY 



Leland says 'ther was an Hospital of S. 

 Nicholas by the Black Freres but it is dekayid.' *' 



" York Archiepis, Reg. Arundel, fol. i ^b. 

 "Ibid. Bowett, fol. 180^. 



" See an instance of this in the account of Arden. 

 "York Reg. of Wills, iv, fol. 137^. 

 "* Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 242, no. 72. 

 " I tin. i, 47 (quoted Beverley Chapter Act Book 

 [Surt. Soc], ii, 346). 



Probably it was from its nearness to the house of 

 the Black Friars that it came to be commonly 

 called the ' Friary.' The earliest allusion to it 

 seems to be in an indulgence for ten days, which 

 Archbishop Romanus granted in 1286 to those 

 who visited and helped the decayed folk of the 

 hospital of the blessed Nicholas of Beverley.** 

 Some charters, dated 1363 and 14 14 respec- 

 tively, describe land as adjoining that 'of the 

 brethren and sisters of the brotherhood of St 

 Nicholas.'*' 



In 1300 one Robert Raggebroke complained 

 against Robert de Kyrketon, master of the 

 hospital of St. Nicholas at Beverley and certain 

 of the brethren, that he had been despoiled of 

 his free tenement in Beverley, to wit, a bed 

 pro infirmo for a year, a piece of grey cloth, a 

 dish of pottage daily, 2s. weekly, and 4J. yearly 

 to be received at the said hospital.** 



Archbishop Kemp, on 31 January 1448, 

 issued a commission *ad visitandum hospitaie 

 sive lociun vocatum friariam Sancti Nicholai 

 prope Beverlacum.' *' There seems, however, 

 to be no record extant concerning the visitation 

 itself. The double name of the hospital or 

 ' Friary ' is also found in the appointments of 

 masters in 141 1 and 1458. In the provost's 

 book there are notes of payments received < de 

 magistro Frarie domus Sancti Nicholai pro scitu 

 dicti hospitalis,' and for a croft called ' Frary- 

 croft.' ■"> 



Masters 



Ranulf, occurs before 1250" 

 Robert de Kyrketon, occurs 1300" 

 Thomas de Gudmundeham, appointed 1381" 

 William de Scardeburgh, appointed 1411" 

 Thomas Sprotteley, appointed 1427," died 

 Edmund Hardyng, appointed 23 Aug. 1458," 



resigned 

 Nicholas Bellerby, resigned 7 Sept. 1458" 

 John Penketh, appointed 1485," resigned 



1503 

 Richard Penketh, appointed 1503'° 

 Nicholas Mell, resigned 1538 '" 

 Richard HawcIifF, appointed 1538 *' 



*' York Archiepis. Reg. Romanus, fol. 7. 



"George Poulson, Beverkc, 774. 



" Baildon, op. cit. i, 1 1 . 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. 132. 



'^Beverley Chapter Act Book (Surt. Soc), ii, 320. 



" Assize R. 1046, m. 55. 



"Baildon, op. cit. i, n. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. A. NeviU, fol. 93^, 



"Ibid. Bowett, 176^. 



" Ibid. Kemp. 



" Ibid. W. Booth, fol. 44. 



"Ibid. 



"Ibid. Rotherham, fol. 3. 



"Ibid. Savage, fol. 24. 



•"Ibid. Lee, fol. 71. 



" Ibid. 



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