A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



St. Sepulchre had inclosed a place which used to 

 be common.** 



On 27 February 1468 Joan de Twyer directed 

 in her will that she was to be buried in the 

 chapel of the hospital of St. Sepulchre juxta 

 Hedon, and bequeathed to the master of the 

 hospital a ewer and basin, and a brazen mortar.*' 



On 15 August 1490 Robert Twyer directed in 

 his will that he was to be buried in the church 

 of St. Sepulchre beside Hedon, near the tomb of 

 Sir William Twyer, kt., his ancestor.** In the 

 Falor Ecclesiasticus the yearly revenue of the 

 hospital is set down as j^ 1 1 18^.4^. In 1526 

 the mastership was reckoned at ^^ a year. 



Masters 



Ralph, occurs 1210-11" 

 Peter, occurs 1256 '^ 

 Robert, occurs 1282'^ 

 Alan Grass, occurs 1388^ 

 Richard Sprotlay, occurs 1468 ''' 

 Mr. William Wight, occurs 1526^* 

 Silvanus Clifton, occurs 1535,'^ 1538'* 

 Edmund St. Quintin (last master) '^ 



The Hospital of St. Leonard. — Among 

 the town records of Hedon there are several 

 allusions to this hospital,^"" and in a defective 

 Sheriff Tourn roll of the time of Henry IV 

 there is a statement that ' Lenardgote ' was 

 defective, and that it ought to be repaired ' per 

 magistrum hospitalis Sancti Leonardi ' and a 

 certain William Alnewick.^ The hospital stood 

 on the west of a road called Wood market Gate. 



The Hospital of 

 Cross. — Licence 



possessed considerable property in the town, and 

 some of its work seems to have been that of a 

 benevolent society. In an inquisition held in York 

 Castle in 1613 two messuages called God's Love 

 Houses, on the south side of the church of St. 

 Augustine, are named as having belonged to the 

 gild. Possibly these represented the old hospital.* 



131. CHARTERHOUSE HOSPITAL, 

 HULL 



III,' granting 



In the Letters Patent of Edward 

 licence to Michael de la Pole to found the 

 Carthusian monastery outside Kingston-upon- 

 Hull, provision was made for thirteen poor men 

 and thirteen poor women to be included in the 

 scheme. They might either be a part of the 

 Carthusian monastery or distinct from it, as the 

 founder determined. 



It would seem that the Carthusians were 

 established in an already existing 'Maison Dieu '* 

 or hospital in the manor of Myton, outside Hull 

 and presumably the monks and the poor brethren' 

 occupied the same set of buildings. But appar- 

 ently in 1383 the two foundations were 

 separated, and Michael de la Pole gave two 

 messuages to the east of the monastery to the 

 master and brethren of the Maison Dieu, with 

 lands in Cottingham and Willerby.' 



By his charter, dated at Hull on i March 

 1394, Michael de la Pole founded, adjoining 

 the Charterhouse on the east, a hospital, with 



the Gild of the Holy 

 was granted by Richard II, 

 5 July 1392, to John de Burton and Henry 

 Maupas, to convey a toft in Hedon to the masters 

 and brothers of the hospital of the gild of the Holy 

 Cross of Hedon to find a candle to burn every 

 feast day in the church of St. Augustine of 

 Hedon before the high cross.^ 



The gild of the Holy Cross at Hedon main- 

 tained a chaplain who said morning mass at one 

 of the altars in St. Augustine's Church for the 

 souls of departed members of the fraternity.' It 



^ Boyle, op. cit. 26. 



^ York Reg. of Wills, iv, fol. 130. 



"" Test. Ebor. (Surt. Soc), iii, 242 n 



^' Poulson, Holderness, ii, 196. 



'' Ibid. » Baildon, op. cit. i, 88. 



'* Poulson, Holderness, ii, 196. 



'= York Reg. of Wills, iv, fol. 130. 



** S.P. Dom. 1526 (Return by Brian Higdon). 



" Fahr Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 11 3. 



'* Poulson, Holderness, ii, 196. ^ Ibid. 



'™ Boyle, op. cit. 208 n., 209 n., 211 n., pp. xlviii, 

 xlix, Ixi, clxvii. 



' Ibid, quoting Hedon Corp. Rec. ii, 484. 



'Yorks. Chant Surv. (Surt. See), ii, 558, citing 

 Pat. 16 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 29. 

 'Boyle, op. cit. 174. 



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i^ acres of land there, for thirteen poor men and 

 thirteen poor women, feeble and old, which hos- 

 pital was to be known for ever as « God's House 

 of Hull.' Richard Killam, priest, was appointed 

 the first master, and every master was to be a 

 priest and thirty years of age and bound to 

 personal residence. The poor folk were to 

 render obedience to him, and he was to have a 

 residence near the hospital and j^io yearly. He 

 was to say mass daily in the hospital chapel, and 

 the poor folk were to resort daily ♦ before dinner ' 

 to hear Divine service, and say their own 

 prayers, and then in the afternoon to betake 

 themselves to some honest occupation. They 

 were to pray for King Richard and the founder 

 and other persons named, and the master was to 

 give them each 40^. a year for their necessaries, 

 viz. 8^. a week to each, and the residue of the 

 40^. at the four terms of St. Michael, Christmas, 

 Easter, and the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. 

 Vacancies of the mastership, or among the poor 

 folk, were, during the founder's life, to be filled 

 by the founder, and after his death by his heirs, 

 lords of the manor of Myton, if of full age. 



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