A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



Ralph de Multon gave the hospital in or 

 before 1 171 to the nuns of Marrick,'"and agree- 

 ably to the foundation of Conan, Earl of Rich- 

 mond, the nuns of Marrick paid the chaplain of 

 the hospital the annual stipend of £/\. 13^. 4^/' 

 Ralph and the prioress subsequently acknow- 

 ledged that the hospital was within the parish of 

 Bowes and agreed to pay over the tithes and the 

 offerings in the chapel of the hospital to the 

 hospital of St. Peter at York.^'* The charters 

 the nuns of Marrick possessed relating to the 

 hospital are unfortunately missing from the gene- 

 ral series,*' so that the history of the hospital, as 

 such, is a complete blank. 



In the valuation of Marrick Priory (1539-40), 

 certain lands and tenements called the Hospital, 

 or ' Spyttal de Staynemore,' with fields, pastures, 

 commons, and meadows belonging to it, are 

 valued at £2 1 31. ^d. yearly, while in the Valor 

 Eccksiasticus the hospital was valued together 

 with the site of the priory and its demesne lands.*' 

 In the reprises was a fee-farm rent of 26s. 8d. 

 paid to the crown for the ' Spytell super 

 Staynmore.' " 



The hospital was on the confines of the three 

 counties of York, Durham, and Westmorland, 

 and it is described as within each of these in dif- 

 ferent records, but the site is clearly within the 

 county of York. In a record dated 18 December 

 7 Edward VI, '" a hospital or tenement called 

 le Spittell super Staynemoore, leased to John 

 Vdall, is thus noted : ' the premyses doo lye 

 w'*' in vij or viij myles of the lordeshipp of 

 Barnecastell, and as I am enformed within the 

 kinges majestes forrest of Tesdale, and hathe 

 good Indosure and great Common thereto be- 

 longing. Also the premyses were always in the 

 occupacione of the prioresse and covent of the 

 sayde late noonerye [Marrick] and never leased 

 before the dissolucion thereof,' &c." 



In a survey of woods (8 December 1553), 

 within the county of Durham, under 'Parcella 

 nuper monasterii dc Marike,' is the following 

 memorandum : ' There is a messuage called 

 the spittle of Staynmore in the tenure of John 

 Vdall, esquier, parccll of the kit monasterye of 

 Marrike wherupon growrythe no kynde of 

 woodes.' " Marrick was granted in 1545-6 to 

 John Uvedale, and in the grant is included ' the 

 spyttelhouse de Stanemore in Stanemore in 

 comitatu nostro Westmorland.' '' 



" Burton, Man. Ebor. 271 ; Dugdale, Mm. Angl. 

 IV, 244. 



" Dugdale, Mm. Angl. iv, 244. 



'^ Cott. MS. Nero D. iii, fol. 22. 



" Coll. Topog. et Gen. (1838), v, 117. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iv, 24.7. 



" Ibid. 



" A clerical error for 6 Edw. VI (1552). 



" P.R.O. Particulars for Grants, Edvir. VI, no. ia<« 



"Ibid. ' ^"• 



"" Pat 37 Hen. VIII, pt. xi, m. 30. 



152. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. NICHO- 

 LAS, RICHMOND 



This hospital was in existence as early as 

 1 172, for in the Pipe Roll of 18 Henry 11 is an 

 account of 5 seams of bread-corn given to the 

 sick persons in the hospital of Richmond by 

 Ralph de Glanville, Chief Justice of England. 

 The chantry priest also received, by the dona- 

 nation of Nicholas Kirkby, ^3 a year to celebrate 

 in the chapel of St. Edmund in Richmond.** 



In 1309 Pope Clement V granted a relaxation 

 of forty days of enjoined penance to penitents 

 who gave help to the master and brethren of the 

 hospital of St. Nicholas, Richmond, to hold good 

 for twenty years." 



It was of the king's foundation and patronage 

 as belonging to the honour of Richmond, and as 

 such the advowson was granted by Henry VI, 

 on the death of the Earl of Westmorland, to 

 John Duke of Bedford in 1425-6." 



Nothing whatever is known of its history " 

 until 1448, when Henry VI granted the ad- 

 vowson to William Ayscogh, one of the judges 

 of the King's Bench, who had restored the 

 buildings from almost complete ruin, and had 

 founded a chantry for a second chaplain." 



In the Valor Ecclesiastkus^^ the site of the 

 hospital with garden, &c., was valued at ;^8, and 

 other small properties in the neighbourhood 

 brought the value up to ^^ 1 3 1 2s. 



According to the chantry certificate in 1546*' 

 the master had no foundation to show, ' but the 

 inhabitantes sey that there is a pryste that doth 

 say masse iij dayes in the wek, and other iij 

 dayes at the chappell of Seynt Edmonde in the 

 sayd towne, and doth fynd a pore body in the 

 same.' The hospital was distant half a mile 

 from the parish church. The ' goodes ' were 

 valued at 2od., and the plate nil. The total 

 value was ;^ i o 13^. 



Masters 



Adam, occurs 1292" 



William Stuteville, occurs 1338,"* 1352" 



Thomas de CoUowc, occurs 1369'' 



" Whitaker, Hist. ofRichmondshire, ii, 100. 



" Cal. of Papal Letters, ii, 57. 



" Gale, Reg. Hon. de Richmond, App. 208. 



" Archbishop Kemp, in Sept. 1428, expressed 

 his intention to visit the hospital, but there is no 

 record of what took place ; York Archiepis. Reg. 

 Kemp, fol. 210. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 720. According to the 

 Monasticon he was the same William Ascough who 

 resigned the mastership in 1437. 



"Op. cit.v, 238. 



^ Torki. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc.), i, 140-2. 



" forks. Arch. Joum. xlix, 45. 



"^ Egerton MS. 2827, fol. 339. 



"Assize R. 11 29, m. 17. 



" Baildon, Men. Notes, i, 175. 



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