A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



observe the statutes of Michael de la Pole, not 

 being contrary to the newer statutes or the l.iws 

 of the realm. The master was at the same time 

 made to take an oath for the due administration 

 of the hospital. By 1624 the revenues had so 

 increased that the full number of thirteen men 

 and thirteen women was restored, the income 

 being then ;^I30, as against something less than 

 j^50 in Turner's mastership. 



During the siege of Hull in 1642" the build- 

 ings of the hospital and several houses in Myton 

 lanes were entirely destroyed by Sir John 

 Hotham, with a view to prevent the besiegers 

 from taking possession of them. The hospital 

 was rebuilt in 1 644," but was soon afterwards in 

 financial difficulties, a sum of ;^473 15 J. "jd. hav- 

 ing been expended in rebuilding it; and in 165 i, 

 although there were only twelve poor people in it, 

 the house owed more than ;^iOO. A vigorous 

 reform was begun, and the revenues gradually 

 increased, so that in 1752 they amounted to 

 over j^420, and in 1780 the then master was 

 able to rebuild the hospital with accommoda- 

 tion for forty-four brothers and sisters, there 

 being when Tickell wrote (1793) eighteen 

 poor men and twenty-five women living in 

 separate apartments, and each receiving 31. 6d. 

 weekly, besides fuel, &c. The revenues in 1794 

 were estimated to reach ;^850, and in 1840^' 

 amounted to upwards of j^ 1,300, and twenty- 

 eight poor men and twenty-nine poor women 

 were then housed in the hospital, which in 

 modern times has come to be spoken of as ' The 

 Charterhouse.' 



Masters " 



Robert de Killam, 1384 



Simon Burton, 1428 



Robert Pullan, 1448 



Henry Paycock, 1468 



Thomas Wilson, 1508 



John Garton, 1513 



Thomas Sotheby, 15 14 



Robert Walter, 15 1 5 



Christopher Richardson, occurs 1527" 



William Man, 1535 



Simon Hemsey, 1552 



Laurence Allan, 1555 



Thomas Turner, 1558 



Griffith Briskin, 1583 



Thomas Wincop, 1598 



Andrew Marvell, 1624 



William Styles, 1 64 1 



John Shaw, 165 1 



William Ainsworth, 166 1 



Richard Kitson, 1671 



" Tickell, Hist, of Hull, 424. " Ibid. 741 . 



"White, Hist. Gaz. and Dir. of the E. and N. 

 Ridings (1840), 124. 

 " Tickell, op. cit. 745. 

 "Cler. Subs. 64, no. 303. 



John Garnet (pro tem.), 17 15 

 John Clarke, 17 16 

 John Bourne, 1768 



132-6. OTHER HOSPITALS, HULL 



Gregg's Hospital. — This hospital was found- 

 ed in 141 4 by John Gregg," alderman and 

 merchant of Hull. He also founded two chan- 

 tries in Trinity Church, and endowed the 

 whole with houses, lands, and tenements in 

 the town. In 1445 William Saunderson, chap- 

 lain of Gregg's Maison Dieu and chantry, en- 

 feoffed the Mayor and burgesses of Hull and 

 their successors, in trust, of the lands, &c., be- 

 longing to the hospital and chantries. Licence- 

 having been obtained from the king, the 

 mayor and commonalty bound themselves to 

 maintain them, and to pay to the thirteen poor 

 folk in the hospital £;^ Os. Sd., on every Sunday 

 I J. 2d., for their maintenance, which they were 

 to receive at the altar of St. Lawrence in Trinity 

 Church. Tickell states that in the hospital there 

 'lately hung two antient tables, in one of which 

 were placed rules and orders appointed by the 

 founder to be observed in this house by such poor 

 as should be admitted unto the same ; in the 

 other, before the reformation, were drawn the 

 pictures of the founders, and of Christ, to whom 

 this hospital was dedicated, which in the reign 

 of Queen Elizabeth were effaced, together with 

 some orders in the first table which enjoin the 

 poor of this house to pray for the souls of certain 

 persons deceased, and new rules and orders drawn 

 up by the mayor and aldermen were written in 

 their place.' 



Tickell professes to quote verbatim the rules 

 from the founders' table, which begin, 'Thys ys- 

 th' ordynaunce and constitucione of John Gregg, 

 of Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant, and of dame 

 Jone his wife, founders and beginners of a 

 mayson dieu yn ye olde Kirk lane, of the said 

 town, ye which ys callyd ye masen dew of 

 Chryste.' 



Each brother or sister was to be taken by 

 advice of the mayor and aldermen, and those poor 

 people who had been ' of most worship ' in the 

 town, and had fallen into poverty, were to be 

 admitted before others. Every brother or sister 

 might leave at will. The founders willed that 

 every brother and sister should say daily at 6 in 

 the morning, and at 6 at even, fifteen pater- 

 nosters, fifteen Ave Marias, and three Credos, for 

 the founders' and all Christian souls. If any 

 married they were to leave and take their goods. 

 All goods were to be in common, and the garden 

 ' common to alle the brothyrs and systers both in 

 herbs and dysporting both for ye pottes and ye 



'* Tickell, op. cit. 756, whose account has been 

 followed. 



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