A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



The King's Bench gave judgement in favour 

 of David de Wollore, who was admitted/' His 

 appointment was greatly to the advantage of the 

 hospital, which hy the neglect of its masters had 

 become much impoverished. In 1301^* William 

 de Somerset, on his resignation of the mastership, 

 had left certain cattle, &c., for the use of the 

 poor and sick of the hospital, and Archbishop 

 Corbridge, in accepting his resignation, con- 

 firmed the gifts, and ordered that successive 

 masters should make them good as they failed. 

 David de Wollore found the property and stock 

 so diminished '^ that the hospital could scarcely 

 maintain its inmates, or perform its obligations. 

 He generously re-endowed it, in order that it 

 might be able to maintain its good works in the 

 celebration of masses by the master or a fit 

 chaplain, as also in the exhibitions of poor boys 

 attending the grammar schools of Ripon. What 

 he gave is shown in an indenture of 6 September 

 1370, between his attorney and John de Brigg, 

 who succeeded him as custos. The list is too 

 long to be given here, but he provided a large 

 stock of horses, cattle, and sheep, various house- 

 hold goods, two chests with the muniments, and 

 service books for the chapel, a high table for 

 the hall, and ploughs and other agricultural 

 implements at Havercroft. These goods, or 

 their value, were to be handed down from 

 master to master. 



On 5 July 1419" Pope Martin V granted 

 (on the ground that the mastership was not worth 

 more than 10 marks annually, out of which the 

 master was unable to support the burdens in- 

 cumbent on him) that the master might hold 

 with it four other benefices compatible with it, 

 even if one were a parish church, or perpetual 

 vicarage, and might exchange them for others. 



On 10 August 1454" Archbishop William 

 Booth granted forty days' indulgence to all who 

 visited the chapel of the hospital on certain feasts, 

 or who gave of their goods to the chapel in 

 offerings, or for ornaments, lights, or other pious 

 help. The suffragan 'Johannes Philopolen 

 episcopus ' '' also granted like indulgence. 



At the time of the Fa/or Ecclesiasttcus (1535)'' 

 Edward Brigham was master of the hospital ' or 

 house ' of St. John the Baptist. The house with 

 a close annexed was valued at los., and there 

 were rents in Ripon and Studley making a total 

 oi £10 i^s. ^. In 1 5 45-6 8* John Rogers was 



"Mem. of Ripon (Sort. Soc.), i, 223. 



"Ibid, ii, 29. "Ibid. 130. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Bowett, fol. 683. 



"Ibid. W. Booth, fol. 160^. ij 



" He was master of the hospital at the time, having 

 been appointed on 14 Sept. 1453 ; ibid. fol. 30^. 



™ Op. cit. V, 251. 



* Torks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), ii, 368. There 

 was 'one tenement called Saynt John House, with ii 

 closes m Bongate in the tenure ofChristofer Watson ' 

 (iSs. 'id.). 



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incumbent ' shewynge no Foundacion but of a 

 contynuall use to pray for all Cristien sowlez and 

 to celebrate Masse and other dyvync service in 

 the Chapell of the same Hospitall at his plesure.' 

 The goods were valued at 5^. 2d. and the plate 

 at 2"]!. The total rental was ;^I2 os. 4^. 



In 1570-1*' Thomas Blakburn, master, was 

 ordered on 5 February to bring in the foundation 

 of his hospital at Ripon before the High Com- 

 mission at York, and on 13 March following he 

 was proceeded against ' for hearing masse in 

 Rebellion tyme, and other Papisticall servyce,' 

 for which he was fined £6 13^. 4^/., and was 

 ordered to do penance. Other charges had 

 already been brought against him as one of the 

 curates of the then late collegiate church. 



In 1544-5 °^ ^ commission was granted by 

 King Henry VIII empowering the Archbishops 

 of York, for the time being, to dispose of the 

 government of the hospitals of St. John the 

 Baptist and St. Mary Magdalene, in and near 

 Ripon, and to have the appointment of the 

 masters. In this way both these hospitals have 

 survived as almshouses. Among the post- 

 Reformation masters of St. John's, before the 

 mastership was annexed to the deanery, are two 

 notable names, viz. those of Dr. John Wilkins 

 (1660),*' Bishop of Chester (1668-72), one of 

 the founders of the Royal Society, and Dr. John 

 Bramhall (1625)^* afterwards the well-known 

 Primate of Ireland. Since January 1688-9" 

 the Deans of Ripon have been and still are ex 

 officio masters of the two hospitals of St. John 

 and St. Mary Magdalene, 



In 1838 the income of the hospital was j^340, 

 received by the master, who paid 20s. to the 

 chaplain, and ^i p. dd. to each of the two 

 almswomen called sisters. The buildir 

 used as a boys' school. '° 



Masters 



Walter le Botiller, resigned 1295 ^ 

 William de Somerset, confirmed 1295,*" 



resigned 1301 '' 

 William de Thorp, confirmed 1313 "' 

 John Paynel, appointed sede vacante 1317'^ 

 Robert de Otteley, removed 1341 "" 

 David de Wollore, appointed 1341 " 

 John de Brigg, succeeded, occurs 1370" 



" Mem. of Ripon (Surt. Soc.), iii, 346. 

 " Ibid, i, 245. a Ibid, ii, 265. 



** Ibid. 280. "Ibid. 271. 



™ White, Hist. Gax.and Dir. fT. R. rorks. (1838), 

 ii, 790. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Romanus, fol. 98^. 



" Ibid. 



^ Mem. of Ripon (Surt. Soc.), ii, 29. 



^ York Archiepis. Reg. Greenfield, ii, fol. 4.1. 



" Pat. 10 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 29. 



" Mem. of Ripon (Surt. Soc), i, 2 1 7, 322. 



"Ibid. "Ibid. ii. 120. 



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