A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



The evidences of the hospital concerning all 

 these matters having been lost, and danger aris- 

 ing to the king's lieges who in the winter or at 

 night sought hospitality there, the king confirmed 

 all the rights of the hospital, and incorporated it 

 under the name of the alderman, brothers, and 

 sisters of Carman-Spitle. It is not mentioned in 

 the Valor Ecc/esiasticus, and probably was not a 

 religious foundation in the stricter meaning of 

 the term, as there is nothing to indicate that the 

 alderman was a clergyman, nor is there any men- 

 tion of a chaplain, nor in such lists as exist of 

 the clergy of the East Riding before the Refor- 

 mation is there any record of the name of a 

 priest connected with the hospital. There is no 

 mention of it in any of the wills connected with 

 Folkton or Flixton extant at York, unless 

 there is an indirect reference to the hospital in a 

 bequest by John Fishburn, rector of Folkton, in 

 1437, °f 20J. to each of the two fraternities 

 existing in his parish/' There is, moreover, no 

 reason assigned for the name of Carman-Spitle,'^ 

 under which the hospital was incorporated by 

 Henry VI. The site is now occupied by a farm- 

 house. Only one name of an alderman is known, 

 that of Richard Perron, whose name occurs in 

 the Letters Patent of 1448 as then in office. 



126. FANGFOSS HOSPITAL 



When Ralph Lutton, esquire, of Knapton, was 

 giving in his genealogy,** he showed two Latin 

 deeds wherein Sir Thomas Lutton of West 

 Lutton had bequeathed in 1 300 to Robert of 

 Fangfoss, son of ' James de Hospitali juxta Fang- 

 foss,' 4 tofts and crofts with 8 bovates and 8 J a. 

 of land in West Lutton.*^ The hospital was 

 clearly in existence in 1267, when Philip le 

 Waleys, 'of the hospital of Wangefosse,' was 

 accused of assaulting Alan son of Agnes in 

 Pocklington,'^ and is again mentioned in 1352, 

 when Nicholas Marchaunt, ' staying in Fangfosse 

 spitell,' murdered Thomas de Mikelfield.*' 



127. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY 

 MAGDALENE, NEWTON GARTH, 

 HEDON 



This hospital was founded by William le 

 Gros, Earl of Albemarle, prior to n 79, in which 

 year he died. The foundation charter is not 



*» Tori Reg. ofWills, iii, fol. 492^. 



'' The hospital stood on the edge of lands called 

 ' the Carrs.' 



«» Glover, Visit. ofYorh. (ed. J. J. Foster), 172. 



^' From information given in the Yorkshire Weekly 

 Post (25 Jan. igo8) by Mr. George Beedham of 

 Stamford Bridge, in reply to a question asked. 



" Assize R. 1051, m. 40. 



" Gaol Delivery R. 215, m. 11. 



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extant, but in the grant to the hospital by Henry 

 II of a yearly fair on the feast of St. Mary Mag- 

 dalene and seven following days, the inmates of 

 the hospital are said to have been placed there by 

 William, Earl of Albemarle, and in a deed by 

 which the confratres leprosi of the hospital 

 granted their chapel of St. Mary Magdalene at 

 Hedon to William de Ederwic, they refer to 

 William, Earl of Albemarle, as their founder.'^ 



Newton Garth, where the hospital stood, is a 

 little distance from Hedon itself, but was anciently 

 within the territory of the borough, and the in- 

 mates were called the infirmi de Hedona and 

 leprosi de Hedona.^^ 



On 5 April 1301 Edward I granted the 

 master and brethren of the hospital of St. Mary 

 Magdalene of Newton juxta Overpaghele (now 

 High Paull, adjoining Hedon), in Holderness, free 

 warren in their demesne lands of Newton. 



In 1334-5 ^'^ Richard Choldel and Alice his 

 wife recovered seisin in the king's court held at 

 Hedon against Richard de Potesgrave, master of 

 the hospital of Newton, near Hedon, and Adam 

 de Brunne, chaplain, of a corrody which con- 

 sisted of a chamber in the hospital close ; also 

 soup and two loaves of good bread daily, 28 lagenae 

 of the better ale of the hospital each fortnight, 

 and other food and pittances, as a superior 

 brother of the hospital, besides 3,000 turves 

 yearly, with thatch and straw for the chamber, a 

 stone of fat at Martinmas, 5i. 615?. yearly, and 

 pasjurage for six ewes and their lambs. 



The mastership was evidently a piece of pre- 

 ferment of consideration, and sought after. On 

 29 April 1427''^ Pope Martin V granted a dis- 

 pensation to Thomas Bourchier, master of the 

 hospital of St. Mary Magdalene, Newton Garth, 

 who was in his sixteenth year only and of a race 



" For those documents see Boyle, Early Hist, of 

 Hedon, App. EE, pp. clxxxvii-cxc. The fair granted by 

 Henry II was held on Maudlin Hill, and Mr. Boyle 

 points out (p. 1 60) that the chapel of St. Mary Mag- 

 dalene, to which William de Ederwic was appointed, 

 was not the chapel of the hospital, but a chapel built 

 by the hospital near Maudlin Hill for the people who 

 attended the fair. 



" In the Monasticon (vi [2] 730) the hospital of 

 St. Mary Magdalene is first called the ' Hospital of 

 Newton in Yorkshire,' and the judgement by Arch- 

 bishop Rotherham in regard to the dispute as to the 

 mastership is quoted from his Register. On p. 747 

 of the same volume the hospital is again entered as 

 the ■' Hospital of Newton in the Deanery of Holder- 

 ness,' but it is said that it was a different hospiul, 

 although the same valuations are given, and the same 

 quotation made from Rotherham's Register ! To make 

 things still worse, St. Sepulchre's Hospital at Hedon 

 is entitled (p. 654) in the account given of it, 'The 

 Hospital of Hedon or Newton St. Sepulchre,' whereas 

 St. Sepulchre's Hospital was on the north of the town, 

 and altogether remote from Newton. 



^ Boyle, Early Hist, and Inst, of Hedon, &c. 163. 



^ Cal. of Papal Letters, vii, 563-4. 



