RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



On 15 July 1350 " Archbishop Zouch wrote 

 to the guardian of the spirituality of Allerton, 

 concerning the complaint of Brother William 

 Newark, who is described as a conversus of the 

 hospital, that Robert de Dyghton the warden 

 had ejected him (who had been long there) from 

 the hospital without cause. 



In 1397 ^^ Boniface IX confirmed to John 

 Hyldyard for life the office of warden of the 

 hospital of Allerton, to which he had been 

 appointed on 17 June 1396 by Bishop Skirlaw. 

 The appointment for life was in recognition of 

 the heavy expense with which he had raised the 

 hospital from its ruin and desolation. The 

 hospital, however, was not, on account of this life 

 appointment, to be reckoned an ecclesiastical 

 benefice, and on its voidance was to revert to 

 its original status. In 1402 John Hyldyard 

 was still warden,"' and in a mandate to confer 

 upon him the prebend of Twyford, in Lon- 

 don, it is stated that he was only in minor 

 orders, and a dispensation was then given him, 

 not to have to receive holy orders for five 

 years. 



In 14.11"^ John XXIII granted to Thomas 

 Toueton, that having been appointed warden by 

 Bishop Langley, in succession to John Newton, 

 he should not, during his life, be removed from 

 office without reasonable cause, although the 

 custom was that the warden, who was a secular 

 clerk, might be removed at the sole pleasure of 

 the Bishop of Durham. There seems some 

 reason to think that when the small nunnery of 

 Foukeholm died from lack of means, some of its 

 property passed to the hospital.^* 



In the Falor Ecclesiasticus ^ the gross annual 

 revenue was ;^58 ioj. 10^., and the establish- 

 ment maintained at that time the warden, two 

 chaplains, four lay brothers, two sisters, and six 

 infirm. On 19 May 1540 the hospital was 

 surrendered by Richard Morysine, the master or 

 warden, and his confraters in their chapter-house. 

 The site was granted, 32 Henry VIII, to the 

 late warden, and afterwards became part of the 

 endowment of Christ Church, Oxford.*' It is 

 now represented by a farm-house called Spital 

 about a mile south of Northallerton. 



Masters 



Richard, occurs 1246-51 "' 

 Reynold, occurs c. 1 240 ** . 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Zouch, fol. 279. 



^'Cal. of Papal Letters, v, 67. 



'' Ibid. 469. 



** Ibid, vi, 297. 



*' See account of Foukeholm, supra. 



''Op. cit. (Rec. Com.), v, 85. 



''Ingledew, Hist, of Northallerton, 258. 



''Baildon, op. cit. i, 150. 



^ Archbp. Gray's Reg. (Surt. Soc), 179. 



Robert de Brumpton, occurs before 1311,'° 



occurs 1335 '^ 

 John de Ashby, occurs 1339, 1343''' 

 Adam de Pikeryng, occurs 1345,'^ '347 '* 

 Robert de Dyghton, occurs 1350 '° 

 Nicholas del Hill, occurs 1355 '" 

 Robert de Dyghton, occurs 1360" 

 John de Stokys, before 1379'^ 

 John de Appelby, occurs c. 1378, 1379'° 

 John Hyldyard, occurs 1396, 1402'" 

 John Newton, resigned c. 141 1 *^ 

 Thomas Toueton, occurs 141 1 '^ 

 Richard Corston, occurs 1432^' 

 Robert Symson, occurs 1489,*'^ 1492*^ 

 John Conyers, occurs 1526*^ 

 Richard Morysine, occurs 1540*' 



The 15th-century seal*' is a vesica, 2|- in. 

 by if in., with a representation of St. James and 

 the legend : — 



S'COMUNE HOSPITALIS SCI lACOBI DE ALUERTONE 



144. THE MAISON DIEU, NORTH- 

 ALLERTON 



The Maison Dieu was founded in the 15th 

 century by Richard Moore, draper, of North- 

 allerton, who gave certain lands and tenements 

 in Northallerton and elsewhere to endow a chantry 

 in the church and maintain a Maison Dieu in 

 that town, in which thirteen poor persons of 

 either sex were to reside. They were to have 

 20s. a year to buy coal with, and were to find 

 two beds in the Maison Dieu for poor travellers, 



'" Cal. Pat. 1313-17, p. 337. He was appointed 

 for life by Bishop Anthony [Bek] who died in 131 1. 

 The king intruded Walter de Assherugge in 1315, 

 but Brumpton proved his own claim to the office. 



" Baildon, op. cit. i, 150. 



" Ibid. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Zouch, fol. 279. 



" Baildon, op. cit. i, 150. 



"York Archiepis. Reg. Zouch, fol. 279. 



''Assize R. 1 130, m. 8. 



"Ibid. 1131, m. II. Possibly Nicholas del Hill 

 was an intruder, as we here find Dyghton bringing an 

 action of novel disseisin against Nicholas del Hill, 

 clerk, and others. 



'* York Archiepis. Reg. Alex. Nevill, fol. 93. 



" Ibid. 



'"Crt/. of Papal Letters, v, 67, 469. 



°' Ibid. VI, 297. 



*■' Ibid. 



'^ Baildon, op. cit. i, 150. 



»ia t^illi and Inventories (Surt. Soc), 100. 



^ Turner and Coxe, Cal. Bodl. Chart. 1601. 



'* Subs. R. bdle. 63, no. 303 ; Valor Eccl. (Rec. 

 Com.), V, 295. 



*' Surrendered the house ; L. and P. Hen. Fill, 

 XV, 691. 



" Cat. of Seats, B.M. 3735, Ixxiv, 89. 



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