A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



The hospital still exists, and in 1838*' 

 sheltered eight poor women. It is said that it 

 was founded by a member of the Nevill family.*' 

 Since the Reformation it has received various 

 benefactions, but in 1838 its yearly income was 

 only about ;^50, which was divided among the 

 almspeople. 



156-8. THE HOSPITALS OF 

 SCARBOROUGH 



The Hospital of St. Nicholas. — At an 

 inquisition held in 1297—8 it was found that both 

 the hospitals of St. Nicholas and St. Thomas 

 the Martyr at Scarborough were anciently 

 founded by the burgesses of that town. As 

 regarded St. Nicholas's Hospital the jurors made 

 return that the goods of the hospital were 

 used for the service of the brothers and sisters, 

 that no one had injured or dilapidated the 

 hospital, and that no lands had been appropriated 

 without warrant, that its property was in the 

 hands of the brothers and sisters, and that the 

 bailiflFs of the town with four other men of the 

 borough audited the accounts.*' 



In 1332 Edward III granted to John the 

 Prior and the convent of the Holy Trinity, York, 

 the hospital of St. Nicholas 'juxta Scardeburgh * 

 with the custody of the same, and the hospital 

 from thenceforward became dependent on the 

 priory. This grant was confirmed by Henry VIII 

 on 27 October 15 18.** In the Ministers' 

 Accounts*' of the property of the late priory of 

 Trinity at York, lOOi. is accounted for as the 

 rent of all the messuages, lands, tenements, &c., in 

 ' Skerburgh ' and ' Fallegrave ' belonging to the 

 hospital of St. Nicholas of 'Skerburgh' which 

 had been let to Hugh Hungate for thirty-three 

 years from Michaelmas 1532, who was to pay 

 for the same 9 score salt fishes, a barrel of white 

 herrings, and a ' cade ' of red herrings, besides 

 I is. 8^., all of which had been commuted for the 

 1 00 J. a year. 



Masters 



William de Cliff, appointed 1316*' 

 William de Thweng, occurs 1406 *' 



" White, Hijl. Gaz. and Dir. W. R. rorks. (1838) 

 ii, 798- " Ibid. 



" Dugdale, Mm. Angl. vi (2), 639. On 14 May 

 13 18 Archbishop Melton informed the vicar of 

 Scarborough that on the Monday following he 

 intended to visit the tvfo hospitals of St. Nicholas 

 and St. Thomas, and inquire by four clerb and six 

 Maicos fidedignos' as to their state. York Archiepis 

 Reg. Melton, fol. 268^. 



" Pat. 10 Hen. VIII, pt. i, m. 4, which quotes in 

 extenso the grant of 6 Edw. III. 



" Mins. Accts. 28-9 Hen. VIII, no. 4461. 



«Pat. 9 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. II. 



'" Torre's MS. pt. ii. 



William Calthorpe, appointed 144 1, died 

 Thomas Eyre, appointed 1457 



The Hospital of St. Thomas the Mar- 

 tyr. — At the inquisition held in 1297—8** it 

 appeared that the hospital of St. Thomas had 

 been founded by tHe burgesses, on land originally 

 given by Hugh de Bulmer for that purpose, and 

 that the master was appointed by the burgesses. 

 There appears to have been considerable dis- 

 turbance at one time, when a Roger Wastyse 

 ejected William le Champneys, the master, and 

 the brothers and sisters of the hospital, because he 

 had given false information to the king as to a 

 donation of land being made by Roger's grand- 

 father in pure and free alms to the hospital. 



Besides the hospitals of St. Nicholas and St. 

 Thomas the Martyr, there were at least four 

 others in Scarborough, which are mentioned in 

 the will of John Stokdale, burgess, dated 

 8 October 1468,*° viz., the hospital of St. 

 Stephen, to the poor of which he left 3;. i^d. ; 

 that of St. James (6j. 8i.) ; that of the Blessed 

 Virgin Mary (35. ^d>) ; and the hospital of St. 

 Mary Magdalene (3^. 41^.), which appears to 

 have been near the castle.'" He also left 3J. 4^. 

 to the poor of St. Nicholas, and bs. 8d. to those 

 of St Thomas. 



159. THE HOSPITAL OF SEAMER 



This hospital was presumably founded by one 

 of the Percy family, as in November 1490 

 Henry VII presented John Sutton to the warden- 

 ship of the hospital of St. Laurence near Seamer, 

 Robert Wentlegh, clerk, having resigned, and the 

 patronage being in the hands of the Crown by 

 reason of the minority of Henry, Earl of 

 Northumberland." 



160. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. 

 LEONARD, SHEFFIELD 



According to Mr. Richard Holmes, in his 

 account of the Lazarite Hospital of Foulsnape at 

 Pontefract, this was also a hospital of that order," 

 but unfortunately he does not give any authority 



"" Cal. Pat. 1 44 1 -6, p. 7. 



•""Ibid. 1452-6, p. 389. 



*' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 639. 



*' York Reg. of fFills (Yorks Arch. Soc), iv,fol. 143. 



^ The bequest to the latter is ' pauperibus existenti- 

 bu9 circa fossum castri cum pauperibus in hospicio 

 Sancte Marie Magdalene iij/. iu]d.' The word 

 hospictum and not hospitaU is used in each instance, 

 including the hospitals of St. Nicholas and St. 

 Thomas. 



" Materials for Hist, of Hen. Vll (R01.8 Ser.),ii, 530. 



" Yorks. Arch. Journ. x, 545. 



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