RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



cuppes, and in dewe tyme yay to manour " and 

 garto set and sow the same garden by yair 

 best avyle for ye welefare of yem alle.' The 

 founders also willed that the ' prayer bell be 

 rongen at 6 atte clok atte morning lasting the 

 tyme of yair prayers,' and at even the same, by a 

 brother or sister. 



In 1564 the mayor and aldermen altered 

 various of the rules for the poor ' within Corpus 

 Christi {sic) maison dieu.' The brothers and 

 sisters were to learn the belief, commandments, 

 and Lord's prayer in English, and not to be given 

 to idolatry, or worship or keep images, or practise 

 witchcraft. There was to be no evil living. 

 Those who were in health were to tend the 

 sick. And yearly two among the brethren and 

 sisters were to be chosen who should see to the 

 observance of the rules. 



This hospital is still one of the town charities. 

 In Tickell's time the poor were not so com- 

 fortably lodged as in the Charterhouse Hospital, 

 the building, as he remarks, being very ancient, 

 and the apartments small. The poor were not 

 then fed in common according to the intent of 

 the founder, but lived separately, and provided in 

 the best manner their allowance and industry 

 would admit for their needs. 



The hospital was situated in Postern Gate, and 

 in 1 840 ^* housed twenty widows who received 

 ' 2s. each weekly.' ^' 



Riplingham's Hospital. — According to 

 Tickell,^" John Riplingham, D.D., whom 

 he terms ' president of Beverley College,' soon 

 after 15 17 founded a hospital for twenty poor 

 people in Vicar Lane, and also a chantry 

 in Trinity Church, wherein two priests (the 

 last of whom were Laurence Allan and 

 William Parkins) ^^ were daily to pray for his 

 soul, his parents' souls, and the souls of all 

 Christians. He endowed this chantry and the 

 hospital with the rents of eighteen tenements 

 and four gardens within the town, and lands, &c., 

 elsewhere. Tickell says that the hospital was 

 standing in the beginning of the reign of 

 Charles I, but was destroyed during the Civil 

 war. John Riplingham, a son of William 

 Riplingham, merchant of Hull, died in 1518, 

 as rector of St. Martin's Vintry, London.^^ 



" i.e. ' manure.' " White, Hist. Gaz. &c. 1 24. 



"Dame Joan Thurescrosse of Hull bequeathed, 

 17 September 1523, 'To Gregge's Massendew xxs.' ; 

 Test.Ebor. (Surt. Sec), v, 172. 



'° Tickell, op. cit. 1 46. 



" William Parkyn was incumbent of the ' Stipendiarie 

 or Salarie ' at St. Mary's altar in St. Mary's Church, 

 but that was of the foundation of one 'Jeffrey 

 Thuriscrosse ' and in another church. Neither the 

 chantry alluded to by Tickell nor the hospital is 

 mentioned in the Chantry Certificates. Torks. Chant. 

 Surv. (Surt. Sec), 346. 



" See a note, Test. Ebor. (Surt. Soc), iii, 225, which 

 refers to Athenae Cantab, i, 20, for an account of him. 



Trinity Maison Dieu. — There was a 

 Maison Dieu at Beverley Gate which is re- 

 ferred to in the will of Dame Joan Thures- 

 crosse of Hull, 17 September 1523, where 

 she bequeathed ' To the Trinitie Massendew at 

 Beverley gattes a matres, a coverlett, a paire of 

 blankettes, a paire of hardyn sheittes.' ^' It 

 may have been that which James de Kyngeston, 

 king's clerk, built for thirteen poor infirm 

 persons, and which he obtained the king's 

 licence in mortmain in 1344 to assign to John 

 le Couper, the master he had appointed of God's 

 House, to provide a habitation for thirteen poor 

 men and women, broken by age, misfortune, 

 or toil, who could not gain their own liveli- 

 hood.2* 



Trinity House Hospital. — The gild of 

 the Holy Trinity of Kingston-upon-HuU was 

 formed in 1369,^^ and in 1441-2 Henry VI 

 granted Letters Patent constituting the gild 

 a body corporate. In the king's grant pro- 

 vision was made towards the building of an 

 almshouse, founded for thirteen persons, who by 

 misfortune of the sea shall happen to fall into 

 poverty, and a chapel annexed thereto. 



On All Saints' Day (i November) 1457 certain 

 of the masters and owners of ships by advice of 

 the merchants and others established as part of 

 the gild of the Holy Trinity, in honour of the 

 Holy Trinity and our Lady, ' an house of alms 

 within the said Kingston-upon-Hull for mariners 

 that be impotent and of no power of goods, in 

 the said house to be sustained and charitably 

 relieved and continued of and with lowage and 

 stowage, that is to say, all profits in money that 

 shall hereafter grow or be taken of every ship of 

 the said port,' &c. 



The hospital thus founded in connexion with 

 the corporation of Trinity House, Hull, has been 

 so intimately connected with and managed by 

 that corporation that its history is part of the 

 history of Trinity House. 



Selby's Hospital. — This hospital seems to 

 have been founded by Richard de Ravenser, 

 Archdeacon of Lincoln, and Robert de Selby, 

 his brother, for twelve poor men, each of 

 whom was to receive one halfpenny a day.^° 

 In 1392" lands in Lund were conveyed to 

 the Prior and convent of Guisborough for 

 its support and the maintenance of a chantry 

 for a canon regular in Trinity Church, Hull, at 

 that time a chapel in the parish of Hessle, the 

 church of which belonged to Guisborough. 

 Leland says that Selby's Hospital stood on the 

 north side of the church.''* 



" Test. Ebor. (Surt. Soc), v, 172. 



" Cal. Pat. 1343-5. P- 239- 



^' Tickell, op. cit. 704. 



^* Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 275, no. xxxiv. 



"Ibid. "Mbid. 781. 



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