A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



who were to lodge there one night and no 

 longer. The thirteen inmates were dail)', 

 morning and evening, at 6 o'clock {ad horam 

 iextam) to say fifteen Paternosters and as many 

 Ave Marias, with three creeds, in honour of the 

 passion of our Lord. They were also to pray 

 for the souls of the founders and others.** 



On I October 1476 his feoffees conveyed the 

 lands and tenements to Sir James Strangways, kt., 

 and his son Richard that they might nominate 

 the chaplain and appoint the poor people to the 

 Maison Dieu.«^ In 1529 Sir James Strangways, 

 kt., the great-great-grandson of this Sir James, 

 conveyed to Robert Conyers and others the 

 Maison Dieu and lands, reserving the appoint- 

 ment of the bedesmen and chaplain.^ 



In the chantry certificates" the chantry is 

 described as being at the altar of the Trinity 

 in Northallerton Church, 



of the foundacion of Richard More of Northalver- 

 ton, draper, and James Strangwaies, knight ; and also 

 one beidhouse of xiij poore people called the Masen- 

 dewe, in the same towne, for the sustentacion wherof 

 Sir James Strangewaies, knight, decessed, in his lyfFe 

 tyme did enfeoffe certen persons of and in certen 

 landes and ten., to th'entente the incumbent shuld 

 have yerly for his stipende c/., and the said poore 

 people xxvj/. viijV. of the issuez and profectes of the 

 said landes. To the which chargez the landes and 

 hereditamentes of the said Sir James was, befor that 

 tyme, charged as by one dede, indented, tripartited, 

 and one dede of feoffment therunto annexed, dated 

 ultimo die Marcii anno [1529] more at larg and 

 planlye apperyth. And nowe William, lord Dacre, 

 and Sir Charles Brandon, knight, haith entred in to 

 all the said landes about ij yeres past, and convertyth 

 the same to ther own usez withoute fyndyng the said 

 priste or paing any thinge to the saide poore people. 



The Maison Dieu survived the spoliation of 

 Lord Dacre and Sir Charles Brandon, and in a 

 much diminished state still exists. When 

 Ingledew wrote it was a hospital for poor 

 widows,'' whose numbers had then (1858) been 

 reduced to four, and its property then consisted 

 of three closes in Northallerton and Romanby 

 containing 12 a. and another close in North- 

 allerton of rather more than 3 a. in area. The 

 hospital was then situated on the east side of the 

 High Street near the church, the almswomen 

 being appointed by the select vestry as vacan- 

 cies occurred from poor widows belonging to 

 Northallerton. Each widow then received £?, 

 a year by quarterly payments and a ton of 

 coal. In 1889 the four widows were paid 3^. 

 weekly. 



** Ingledew, Hiit. and Antiq. of Northallerton, 268-9. 



'' Ibid. 



"Ibid. 267. 



" Yorks. Ckant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), i, 123. 



"In 1545 J. Cape of Welbury left 'to xiij widows 

 of the Masyndewe of Alverton xiija'.' ; York Reg. of 

 Wills, xiii, fol. 6o3. 



145. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. NICHO- 

 LAS, PICKERING 



In 1325" Edward II informed the brethren 

 and sisters of the hospital of St. Nicholas of 

 Pickering that he had conferred the custody of 

 the hospital then vacant on Roger de Barneby, 

 the same pertaining to the king's patronage. His 

 predecessor may have been Robert, chaplain of 

 the hospital of St. Nicholas, Pickering, who 

 occurs 1322.'*" 



The hospital, like that of Skipton, was prob- 

 ably connected with the chapel in the castle, 

 which at Pickering is under the invocation of 

 St. Nicholas. 



146. KNOLLES ALMSHOUSE, 

 PONTEFRACT 



The ordination of the house by Archbishop 

 Alexander Nevill, dated 4 October 1385,"^ re- 

 cords that Robert Knolles, kt. and citizen of 

 London, and Constance his wife had constituted 

 the domus collegiata on land acquired of Thomas 

 Shirwynd in Pontefract, in honour of the Holy 

 Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary, which 

 college or chantry was to be commonly called 

 ' Knolles Almeshous.' There were to be in it 

 certain chaplains, one of whom was to be 

 master or custos, two clerks, thirteen pauperis 

 debiles, the latter being especially such as misfortune 

 had overtaken, and also two servants to attend 

 to the poor. The master was to receive 20 marks 

 a year, each chaplain 10 marks, and each clerk 

 5 marks, with all necessaries. Besides ^-^^ 41. 3 J//. 

 &c., for the maintenance of the poor, each was 

 to receive on the feasts of the Holy Trinity, 

 Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, All Saints, and the 

 five days of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 2d. extra. 

 John Stedeman [alias Neuthorp] was appointed 

 first master, and the supervision of the establish- 

 ment was committed, after the founders' deaths, 

 to the Prior of Nostell. 



The masters were, on each festival and feast 

 of nine lections, to say matins, mass, vespers, and 

 compline by note, and every Saturday solemn 

 mass of St. Mary was to be said by note, at the 

 altar of the Blessed Mary. On other ferias, 

 immediately after mass, the master and chap- 

 lains were among them to say one private 

 mass of St. Mary and another of requiem for the 

 departed. Every day after compline they were 

 to say solemnly before the image of the glorious 

 Virgin in the foresaid chapel, the Salve Regina, 

 or another anthem of the same, according to the 

 season and as the order of the church required, 

 with the psalm De Profundls, recommending, in 

 especial, the founders among the departed, or, 

 while they lived, saying for them the collect 



'^Pat. 19 Edw. II, m. 26. 

 °'° Assize R. 1 1 1 7, m. 10. 

 °* York Archiepis. Reg. A. Nevill, fol. 97 



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