RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Masters 



Robert de Wodehouse, occurs 1327-8'* 

 Mag' Ludovicus, custos, occurs 1399'° 

 Thomas Toueton,'^ occurs 7 June 141 o,'' 



and II Nov. 141 1 ^' 

 William Bothe, appointed 11 May 1435,** 



mentioned 1441 '" 

 Henry Hebylthwaite, occurs 1548 '' and 



1552" 



148-150. OTHER HOSPITALS, 

 PONTEFRACT 



The Hospital of St. Mary Magdalene. 



Boothroyd states that this hospital was 



founded in 1286 by Henry de Lacy as a lazar 

 house, and suggests that the hospital called 

 Frank's Hospital, one of the existing charities of 

 the town, is either this lazar house under a new 

 name, or was built upon the site of it.'^ 



Archbishop Romanus granted an indulgence 

 to those who contributed to the relief of the 

 lepers of the hospital of St. Mary Magdalene 

 'juxta Pontemfractum '; this expression indi- 

 cating that, as was usual, the hospital was situated 

 just outside the town.^ 



The Hospital of St. Mary the Virgin. 

 — Edward III on i December 1334 granted 

 licence to William le Tabourere to found a 

 hospital in a messuage in Pontefract, and an 

 oratory to the honour of God and the glorious 

 Virgin Mary, and to construct other buildings 

 for a chaplain and eight poor persons, the 

 chaplain to perform divine service daily in the 

 oratory. The king also granted licence to 

 Robert de la More, William le Coupere, and 

 Thomas de la Sale to give certain rents in Pon- 

 tefract to the hospital, as well as to Adam de 

 Ernys to give 1 2 acres of land in Darthinghtone 

 (Darrington).^ 



" De Banco R. East. 2 Edw. Ill, m. 97 d. ; Ca/. 

 tf Papal Letters, ii, 273. 



" ' Nuper fisicus carissimi avunculi Regis, Johannis 

 nuper ducis Lancastrie, defuncti ' ; Pat. 22 Ric. II, 

 m. 15. 



"Also in 141 1 Warden of St. James's Hospital, 

 Northallerton {fial. of Papal Letters, vi, 297). 



" Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bb. v (2), 52 d. 



^ Cal. 0/ Papal Letters, vi, 288. 



'* Boothroyd, op. cit. 380. In Mon. Notes (Bail- 

 don), i, 172, the date of his appointment is given as 

 1427, on the authority of the late Mr. Richard 

 Holmes. 



"York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. 23. 



^Torks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), ii, 325. 



"Ibid. 326 n. 



" Boothroyd, op. cit. 382. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Romanus, fol. 7. 



" Pat. 8 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 9, quoted Dugdale, 

 Mon. Angl vi, 703. See also Yorks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. 

 Soc), ii, 326, where 1 3 14 is a misprint for 1334. 



The Hospital of St. Michael, Foulsnape. 

 — Very little is known about this hospital. *' 

 Mr. Richard Holmes,*^ however, established two 

 important facts in regard to it, viz., that it was 

 situated within the territory of the town of 

 Pontefract, and that it was a hospital belonging 

 to the Lazarites, whose head establishment in 

 England was the hospital of Burton Lazars in 

 Leicestershire, which at one time possessed the 

 advowson of the church of Castleford, adjoining 

 Pontefract. These facts are established by 

 a charter of William de Karnesal in 1220, con- 

 veying to the Cluniac monks of St. John Ponte- 

 fract 6^ acres of land in Pontefract, ' propin- 

 quiores terrae Lazarorum de Fulsnap versus suth.' 

 Another document, discovered by Mr. Holmes, 

 is a quitclaim dated 1235, between Stephen, 

 prior, and the convent of Pontefract and the 

 master and brethren of Burton Lazars, that the 

 hospital should not pay tithes to the convent. 

 By means of these and other references Mr. 

 Holmes was able to determine the actual site of 

 the hospital of St. Michael Foulsnape, which is 

 shown on a plan attached to his paper. The 

 hospital was evidently subject to the mother 

 house at Burton Lazars *' as a cell of that order, 

 but no reference can be found to it in the 

 chartulary of Burton Lazars. 



151. RERECROSS HOSPITAL, OR THE 

 SPITAL ON STAINMOOR 



This hospital was evidently intended as a 

 shelter or ' hospice ' for travellers across the wild 

 moorland track leading from Yorkshire to West- 

 morland. It derived the name of Rerecross from 

 a boundary stone, the pre-Norman stump of 

 which still remains, and which, according to the 

 'Scala cronica ' (1280), was fixed by King Ed- 

 ward (died 946) as the boundary between Eng- 

 land and Scottish Cumberland.** It is there 

 called the ' Reir Croiz de Staynmore,' and the 

 hospital, being near, was occasionally called 

 'Rerecross hospital,' but more commonly the 

 ' Spital on Stainmoor.' 



" John Bule describes himself as * of the hos- 

 pytall of St. Mychaell arche angell Pountfrett ' ; Test. 

 Ebor. (Surt. Soc), iv, 93 n. 



" Yorks. Arch. Journ. x, 543-53. The information 

 in this account is wholly derived from Mr. Holmes's 

 paper. To Mr. Holmes's reference of identifica- 

 tion may be added a bequest in the will of John 

 Porter of Pontefract (12 April 1475), who left to the 

 gild of Corpus Christi of Pontefract an acre of land 

 in Pontefract in Spicer Close ' juxta Foulsnape ' ; 

 York Reg. of Wills, iv, fol. 126^ 



*' The quitclaim alluded to indicates this. 



'* Yorks. Arch. Journ. xix, 385. From the same 

 source it appears that the Bishop of Glasgow claimed 

 in 1258 'Rer Cros in Staynmor' as the limit of his 

 diocese. 



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