RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



The Hospital of St. Nicholas, Norton. 

 The third of the hospitals under the govern- 

 ance of Malton Priory was situated on an island 

 in the Derwent on the Norton side of the river.*' 



William de Flamville°° gave the place at 

 Norton to the canons of the order of Sempring- 

 ham, to minister there to Christ's poor who 

 sought for their daily food, so that as far as the 

 place allowed they might have daily iiospitality 

 and refreshment. Roger de Flamville " gave to 

 the Blessed Mary the Virgin, and St. Nicholas, 

 the church of St. Mary of Marton with its 

 appurtenances, for the hospital of the poor at the 

 head of the bridge of Norton. He also gave to 

 the hospital pasturage for 200 sheep in Marton, 

 with other gifts in Hutton, &c. 



141. THE HOSPITAL OF JESUS, 

 MIDDLEHAM 



Nothing is known about this hospital beyond 

 the statement of Leland that there was at the 

 east end of Middleham a little hospital with a 

 chapel of Jesus.'* 



142. THE HOSPITAL OF MITTON 



There appears to have been a hospital in 

 Mitton or Myton, outside Hull, at the time that 

 Michael de la Pole founded his priory of Carthusian 

 monks in 1379, as he granted to the monks, inter 

 alia, a messuage once part of the manor of Mitton, 

 and formerly known as * le Masendew.' '^ The 

 later history of this hospital will be found in the 

 account of the Charterhouse Hospital, Hull. 



143. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JAMES 

 NEAR NORTHALLERTON 



The foundation of this hospital has been 

 usually assigned to Hugh Pudsey, Bishop of 

 Durham (1154-95)," but it seems certain from 

 an ordinance made in respect to it in 1244 ^^^at 

 the original founder was Philip de Poitou, 

 Bishop of Durham 1 197-1208, for whose soul 

 the chaplains were bound to pray.** 



Three documents relating to the hospital have 

 been printed by Canon Raine.'' One only, the 

 ordinance of 1244, is dated, but an approximate 



" Graham, op. cit. 37. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 972, no. ix. 



" Ibid. no. X. 



"Dugdale, Mm. Angl. vi, 781, quoting Leland, 

 liin. v, 117. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 21. 



"Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 780 ; Ingledew, Hist, 

 of Northallerton, 251. 



'' Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 85. 



'^Archbp. Graf s Reg. (Surt. Soc), 177-81. 



date of c. 1230 " can be assigned to another, and 

 the third seems to be intermediate between them. 



The first is a revocation by Robert, vicar of 

 AUerton, of certain concessions he had made to 

 the hospital. His statement is that when very 

 ill, and mentally incompetent, he was cajoled by 

 the Bishop of Durham and certain of his officials 

 to make concessions to the hospital. He had 

 renounced all ecclesiastical rights of the vicar, 

 and allowed the hospital to have a free chapel, 

 with chaplains appointed without his or his suc- 

 cessors' consent, to minister in the chapel, from 

 whom the hospital inmates could receive the 

 sacraments. The hospital was to have its own 

 cemetery, wherein not merely the inmates might 

 be buried, but any liheri homines who in their 

 lifetime had chosen it as their burial place, with- 

 out dues being paid to the parish church, saving 

 only the rights of the mother churches of which 

 they were parishioners. He had also agreed that 

 the offerings made on the feast of St. Nicholas in 

 the chapel should belong to the hospital, and 

 had only reserved to himself and his successors 

 the right to demand the offerings made in the 

 chapel on other occasions. Further, he had 

 given up certain tithes, and all without the con- 

 sent of his superiors, the Prior and chapter of 

 Durham. Being, however, by the grace of God, 

 restored to health, and recognizing the injury he 

 had done to the churches of Durham and North- 

 allerton and to his successors, and realizing that 

 it was beyond his power to have made such 

 grants, as far as in him lay he repudiated them. 



The second document is an award by the 

 chapter of York, and records that Robert (who, 

 probably by a clerical error, is spoken of as 

 ' rector ' of Allerton) had complained of Reynold, 

 warden of the hospital, withholding tithes and 

 offerings due to the parish church of Allerton, 

 and particularly that the warden had cast a corpse 

 down at the cemetery gates, without paying the 

 dues which the church ought to receive for those 

 who died in the hospital. On account of this 

 the parish priest had excommunicated the warden, 

 and Robert the rector claimed 20 marks of 

 silver for the loss he had sustained. The warden 

 let the case go by default, and the chapter upheld 

 the excommunication, ordered the warden to pay 

 the 20 marks due and loos. in addition as costs. 

 It looks as if the dispute had arisen on the 

 revocation of the grants that had been made. 

 Soon afterwards Reynold the warden must have 

 vacated his ofKce, for in 1237 Archbishop Gray 

 granted to Andrew the chaplain custody and 

 administration of all the goods belonging to the 

 house of the hospital of Allerton, as well in 

 spiritualities as in temporalities. 



" Master William de Haya, a witness, was also a 

 witness to ' le Convenit ' between Bishop Poore and 

 the Prior and convent of Durham in 1229 ; Feodarium 

 Prioratus Dunelmensis, vi, fol. 217. 



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