RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



tal alone are mentioned in the grants, as if the 

 hospital had been a foundation for women only ; 

 but in a later grant (the date of which is not 

 recorded) by Roger the son of Hervey of Moles- 

 croft the brothers as well as the sisters of the 

 hospital are named," and although the sisters are 

 more frequently mentioned, the foundation com- 

 prised brothers up to the time of its dissolution ; for 

 Isabella Swales, one of the sisters, on 2 1 May 1 536 

 bequeathed a maser as an heirloom to the house, 

 directing that it was to be in the keeping of the 

 eldest brother or else of the eldest sister.'' 



In 1352 Pope Clement VI granted a relaxation 

 of a hundred days of enjoined penance to peni- 

 tents visiting the church of the poor hospital of 

 St. Mary Magdalene, Killingwoldgraves, on the 

 feast of the patron saint ; and at the same time 

 he issued a mandate to the archbishop to cause 

 Maud de Beverlaco to be received as- a sister, if 

 she was found to be fit.'' 



In 1355 Edward III granted licence to the 

 sisters to hold certain messuages in Beverley and 

 Walkington with rents given them by William 

 and Nicholas de Spaigne. In 1399 Alice de 

 Burton, Alice de Ferriby, and Maud Rydell, 

 sisters of the hospital of Killingwoldgraves, came 

 before the twelve governors of Beverley and 

 sought leave to have one bull, twelve sheep, and 

 twenty swine in the Westwood of Beverley, a 

 portion of land comprising 400 acres which was 

 leased to the commonalty of Beverley by the 

 archbishop.*" In 1530 we find the chapter, of 

 Beverley paying ;^i 4.S. to the sisters of the 

 hospital,*^ and two years later a similar annuity 

 was being paid to the brothers and sisters. 



There was a chaplain, whose stipend was 

 reckoned in 1527 at 5 marks, besides the master, 

 whose stipend was 26s. yd.*" The mastership 

 was usually held by clergymen of distinction in 

 the diocese, and in several instances by the 

 su£Fragan bishop. 



Masters 



Willelmus ' Pharen' episcopus,' *' admitted 



1399 

 William de Scardeburgh,** occurs 1 4 1 1 

 Richard Bowett,*' occurs 141 4 

 Thomas Bryan,*" occurs 1423 

 Thomas Tanfieldj*' admitted 1449 

 John Cromwell, died i486 *' 

 William, Bishop of Dromore,*' admitted i486 



" Dugdale, Mon. vi, 650. 



" Test. Ebor. (Surt. See), vi, 53. 



" Cal. of Papal Letters, iii, 464. 



«» Beverky MSS. (Hist. MSS. Com.), 63. 



" Pouhon, Beverlac, 621. 



" S.P. Dom. Ret. by Brian Higdon. 



" Dugdale, Mon. vi, 650. " Ibid. « Ibid. 



" Baiidon, op. cit. i, 99. 



" Test. Ebor. (Surt. Soc), iii, 214 n. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Rotherham, fol. lb. 



" Ibid. 



John Riplingham, died isoy'" 

 John Hatton, Bishop of Negropont,'' ad- 

 mitted 1507 

 Christopher Wilson, occurs 1527 '^ 

 William, ' Dariens episcopus,' resigned 1543°' 

 Robert Warde, S.T.B.," 1543 



125. HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY AND 

 ST. ANDREW, FLIXTON 



(Otherwise Carman-Spitle) 



According to the Letters Patent of Henry VI 

 in 1448,''° confirming the original foundation, the 

 deeds concerning which had, it is stated, been 

 burnt, the hospital was founded in the reign of 

 King Athelstan by a certain knight named Ace- 

 home, formerly lord of Flixton, and was to 

 consist of an alderman and fourteen brothers and 

 sisters, and the object of the foundation was the 

 preservation of travellers from the wolves and 

 wild beasts then infesting those parts. For this 

 end Acehorne endowed the hospital with a toft 

 and croft, and two selions of moor and pasture 

 land in Flixton, and also gave the alderman, 

 brothers, and sisters common of pasturage for 

 twenty cows and a bull in Flixton. From time 

 out of mind the alderman, brothers, and sisters of 

 the hospital had possessed 30 other acres of arable 

 land in Flixton, the gifts of various persons. 

 Some doubt is, perhaps, cast on the date assigned 

 to the foundation of the hospital by the entries 

 made under the head of Flixton in the Lay 

 Subsidy Roll, 25 Edward I (1297), printed by 

 Mr. William Brown,*' where the entry ' De 

 Acone Horn' xij*^ ' has a curious resemblance to 

 the name of the reputed founder of the days of 

 King Athelstan. It may be added that of the 

 sum of 14.S. collected in Flixton, the hospital of 

 St. Andrew paid 2s. 6d., the largest sum of any 

 in Flixton. 



The Letters Patent record that the vicar 

 of the parish church of Folkton, in which parish 

 Flixton is situated, was accustomed, time out 

 of mind, to come to a certain chapel within 

 the hospital dedicated to God, the undefiled 

 virgin Mary, mother of Christ, and St. An- 

 drew, and there to celebrate solemnly the 

 mass cum benedictione calicis, and after mass to 

 bless bread and water, and to divide the bread 

 and sprinkle the water among those who had 

 heard the mass. Many of the popes, it is added, 

 had granted great indulgences and remission of 

 sins to each person who heard the mass and 

 received the aforesaid sanctified bread and water. 



'° York Archiepis. Reg. Savage, fol. 31. " Ibid. 

 " S.P. Dom. Ret. by Brian Higdon. 

 " York Archiepis. Reg. Lee, fol. 74^. " Ibid 



'° Pat. 25 Hen. VI, pt. ii, m. 17, printed in Dug- 

 dale, Mon. vi, 613. See also Anct. Pet. 9795. 

 " roris. Arch. Soc. Pub/, xvi, 138. 



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