RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



107-114. LESSER HOSPITALS, 

 BEVERLEY 



Trinity Hospital. — John de Ake, merchant, 

 of Beverley, in his will dated on Monday next 

 before Michaelmas 1398, bequeathed all his lands 

 and tenements in Beverley to Ellen his wife 

 during her life, after her death to be applied to 

 erecting and endowing a chapel on the Cross- 

 bridge in Beverley, and a hospital for twenty-four 

 poor folk, their places, as they died, to be filled 

 on the nomination of the twelve governors of 

 Beverley, as well as a chaplain to do divine ser- 

 vice in the chapel.^^ 



Richard II, on 27 June 1397," had granted 

 to Robert Garton and Henry Maupas that they 

 might assign to the twelve governors of Beverley 

 two messuages and a certain piece of vacant 

 ground, 120 ft. long and 24 ft. broad, to find a 

 chaplain to celebrate for the king, Thomas, late 

 Archbishop of York, John de Ake of Beverley 

 and Ellen his wife whilst they lived, and after 

 death for their souls, and for the souls of Anne 

 late Queen of England, John de Burton, clerk, 

 and of all faithful departed, in a certain chapel, 

 newly erected on the said piece of ground, and 

 also for the support of twelve poor persons, to 

 reside in a certain house there erected. 



Archbishop Scrope granted licence on 23 June 

 1399** to Robert de Garton and Henry Maupas 

 that they might give the tenement occupied by 

 Thomas de Ryse in Keldgate, Beverley, at the 

 time of his death, to the twelve governors of 

 Beverley for the support of a chaplain and 

 twenty-four poor persons in a certain house of 

 God newly erected upon the Crossbridge of 

 Beverley, further confirming the grant by the 

 Chapter of York to Robert Garton and Henry 

 Maupas and the governors of Beverley of the 

 tenement which John de Ake held on the day of 

 his death, in Cross Garths in Beverley. 



It seems clear from these evidences that John 

 de Ake had founded the hospital before his 

 death and endowed it by his will. Robert 

 Croull, Prebendary of Friday thorpe in York, also 

 on 23 June 1399/° allowed the tenements 

 in Cross Garths, which John de Ake had held of 

 the prebend, to be applied to the purposes of 

 the hospital. Poulson states that the Cross 

 Garths were situated on the east side of Butcher 

 Row, and that the Corporation Almshouses exist- 

 ing in his time (1828) in the street were those 

 of Ake's foundation. 



An indenture between Thomas Browne, 

 chaplain of the chantry chapel of Holy Trinity, 

 on the Crossbridge in Beverley, founded by John 

 de Ake and Ellen his wife and the governors of 

 the town, dated 141 9, for the safe keeping of 



"Poulson, Beverlac, 785. See also p. 729. 

 "Ibid. 784. «Mbid. 786. 



"Ibid. Z87. 



the plate, books, and ornaments of the same, is 

 printed in Poulson's Beverlac}^ 



Richard de York, chaplain of Lythe in Cleve- 

 land, in 1437 ^^f' 3^' ^'^- 'hospitali sancte Trini- 

 tatis que vocatur Crosgarth in Beverlaco,' °' and 

 Richard Beford, butcher, of Beverley, left a 

 similar sum in 1434, 'pauperibus domus sancte 

 Trinitatis apud Crossebrigg.' ^^ 



The hospital appears to have had no master or 

 warden. Leland's reference to it is ' Trinity 

 Hospital yet (1532) standith in the hart of the 

 Toun. Sum say one Ake found id it.' °' 



The Hospital of St. Mary without the 

 North Bar. — In Leland's time there was ' an 

 hospitale yet standyng hard without the North 

 Bar Gate, of the foundation of 2 merchant men, 

 Akeborow and Hodgekin Overshall. As I re- 

 membre ther is an image of Our Lady over this 

 Hospitale Gate.'^^^^On 26 July 1434 Richard 

 Beford of Beverley, butcher, left 3^. 4^. ' pauperi- 

 bus capelle beate Marie extra Barram borialem.' ^* 

 On 8 January 1466-7 William Tasker of 

 Beverley, chaplain, bequeathed dd. ' pauperibus 

 domus elemosinarie beate Marie virginis extra 

 Barram borialem.' '^ Henry son of John Holm, 

 late of Beverley, on 20 August 147 1 '^ left 

 6f. id. to the poor of the house, described 

 exactly as before, as did also John Midelton, 

 merchant, of Beverley, on 17 June 1475.'* 

 John Ashton, mercer, of Beverley, a little earlier 

 described it in his will (21 November 1468) as 

 ' domus oracionis extra barram borialem,' '^ a 

 term he applied to the other hospitals in the 

 town. It must not be confused with a leper 

 house, also outside the North Bar, which was 

 quite distinct from it. 



The Hospital of St. John Lairgate. — 

 Of this hospital nothing is known either as 

 to its origin or history, but allusions to it are 

 met with in wills and other documents. On 

 8 January 1466-7 William Tasker of Beverley, 

 chaplain, bequeathed bd. ' pauperibus domus 

 elemosinarie Sancti Johannis in Laythgate.' '^^ 

 Robert Bentlay of Bentley left on i March 

 1467—8 the same sum ' hospitali Sancti Johannis 

 in Laythgatt.' '' On 21 November 1468 John 

 Ashton, mercer, bequeathed 'domui oracionis 

 Sancti Johannis in Laregate ' 2odP Henry 

 Holm, 6s. 8d. on 20 August, 147 1, 'pauperibus 



^° Ibid. 788-790, quoting Lansd. MS. 896, fol. 134. 



'' York Reg. of Wills, ill, fol. 524. 



«»Ibid. fol. 392. 



''^Beverley Chapter Act Book (Surt. Soc), ii, 346. 



'» Ibid. 



"York Reg. of Wills, iii, fol. 392. 



" Ibid, iv, fol. 46. " Ibid. fol. 81. 



» Ibid. fol. 196^. " Ibid. fol. 148. 



" Ibid. fol. 46. "Ibid. fol. 57. 



"Ibid. fol. 148. 



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