RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



William Crowton, M.A., appointed 1441,'* 

 resigned 1445 '° 



Thomas Kemp, S.T.B., Archdeacon of Rich- 

 mond, succeeded 1445 " 



Ranulph Bird, resigned 1462'' 



John Baddesworth, succeeded 1462," resigned 

 1465" 



Thomas Tanfeld, S.T.B., succeeded 1465 *» 



Robert Witham, resigned 1479*^ 



William Poteman, LL.D., Archdeacon of 

 Cleveland, succeeded 1479,^ resigned 1484^' 



Henry Carnebull, succeeded 1484,** resigned 



1485 « 



Philip Lepyate, succeeded 1485,*° deceased 

 1488 « 



Walter Feld, S.T.P., succeeded 1488*8 



Anthony Sentlenger, resigned 1506*' 



Marmaduke Huby, Abbot of Fountains, suc- 

 ceeded 1506,*" occurs 1512 " 



Marmaduke Bradley, Abbot of Fountains, oc- 

 curs 1522-3,'^ 1535 " 1545 "died 1553" 



Thomas Webster, occurs 1567 "" 



Moses Fowler, occurs 1586" 



John Favour, LL.D., appointed 1608,°* died 

 1623" 



John Favour (junior), appointed 1624™ [died 

 1668"] 



Richard Hooke, D.D., occurs 1674,*^ died 

 i688-9«' 



Christopher Wyvill, D.D., Dean of Ripon 

 Collegiate Church, succeeded 1689,°* died 

 1710*° 



154. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN 

 THE BAPTIST, RIPON 



This hospital appears to have been founded by 

 Archbishop Thomas II of York (1109-1114). 

 By his charter the archbishop, for the love 

 of God and St. Wilfrid, gave to the hospital 

 of the poor folk of Ripon land in South Aller- 

 wick and Havercroft, with free multure at his 

 mills.*' These gifts were confirmed by his 

 immediate successor. Archbishop Thurstan, and 



"York. Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. 47. (Also 

 master of St. John's.) " Ibid. fol. 55. 



"Ibid. »' Ibid. W. Booth, fol. 140^. 



"Ibid. '» Ibid. G. NeviU, fol. 2. 



" Ibid. ■" Ibid. L. Booth, fol. S 7.b. 



"Ibid. " Ibid. Rotherham, i, fol. 98^. 



"Ibid. « Ibid. fol. 3^. "Ibid. 



"Ibid, i, fol. 103. "Ibid. 



"Ibid. Savage, fol. 34. ^Mbid. 



"Ibid. Bainbridge. 

 " Subs. R. bdle. 64, no. 300. 

 '^Vahr Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 252. 

 ^Ytrks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), ii, 366. 

 "'Mem. of Ripon (Surt. Soc), ii, 224. 

 "Ibid, iii, 345. " Ibid, ii, 259. "Ibid. 277. 

 "Ibid. 278. «> Ibid. 307. "Ibid. 



" Ibid. 308. (Also master of St. John's.) 

 ^Ibid. "Ibid. 271. ''Ibid. 



^Mem. of Ripon (Surt. Soc), i, 322-8. 



at an inquisition held on 11 July 1341 the 

 jurors knew of no other founders.*'' 



On II December 1222 Pope Honorius III 

 exempted ' the rector and brothers ' of the hos- 

 pital of St. John Baptist of Ripon from payment 

 of tithes.*' The most important event in the 

 history of the hospital was the appointment 

 in 1340" by the king of David de Wollore 

 to the mastership. This appointment, made 

 sede vacante after the death of Melton, while 

 Robert de Otteleye, a layman, appointed by 

 Melton, still held office,^" led to inquisitions and 

 visitations, which tell most of what is known 

 about the hospital. 



The Rural Dean of Ripon held the inquiry on 

 II July 1 341" by jury, when return was 

 made as to the foundation by Archbishop 

 Thomas, and its confirmation by his successor. 

 The jurors stated that the hospital possessed 50 a. 

 in Studley and Bishopton ; 4 a. at Stanley ; and 

 24 a. in the field of Ripon, besides which there 

 were 5 a. given by different people, on which the 

 custos paid tithe. The hospital might be ruled 

 by a layman, so long as he was unmarried, and it 

 had been so ruled time out of mind. The custos 

 received the third sheaf of seven Flatts at Whit- 

 clifFe, not in the way of tithe, but as alms, and 

 there were no spiritualities or oblations that they 

 knew of belonging to the hospital. 



On 5 September'^ in the same year another 

 inquisition was held, when the jurors found that 

 the hospital was endowed, in part, with spirituali- 

 ties, which a layman ought not to receive, and 

 therefore, that Robert de Otteleye ought to be 

 removed from office and David de Wollore 

 admitted to it. 



The jurors, on this occasion, reported that the 

 hospital was originally endowed, when the land 

 about Ripon was in a wild state, to provide hos- 

 pitality for poor travellers, but that afterwards, 

 when the country was cleared and built upon, 

 the hospital was to support poor clerks, keeping 

 their schools in Ripon, four or five of whom were 

 to have soup daily, and beds at night, besides 

 twice a week a loaf, six of which were to be 

 made from a bushel of corn. The hospital 

 ought also to provide all poor persons seeking 

 alms with soup twice a week, one time pease, 

 the other time herb. 



There was no brother or sister in the hospital. 

 On the feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist 

 yearly the custos ought to give alms to every poor 

 person who came, either bread or flour ; he 

 ought also to find a chaplain to celebrate in the 

 chapel, which was dedicated and in which the 

 late master had been buried. 



«'Ibid. ii, 123. «Mbid. 83. 



"Ibid. 186. David de Wollore was for many 

 years Master of the Rolls. He held the prebend of 

 Studley Magna in Ripon Collegiate Church. 



"Ibid, i, 212. "Ibid. 11,123. 



"Ibid, i, 217. 



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