RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



for the statement. The hospital was founded 

 by William de Lovetot, whose charter, a small 

 slip of parchment with some remains of the 

 appendent seal, was in 1869 in the charge of 

 the Duke of Norfolk's auditor. Dr. Gatty,'' 

 from the witnesses' names, assigns it to the reign 

 of Henry II. By it, William de Lovetot 

 granted to the sick [infirmis) of Sheffield the land 

 which Roger held by the bridge of Don, and their 

 living {victus\ which was to be taken from his 

 mill of Sheffield. The original endowment was 

 not large, but the hospital probably received 

 other gifts as time went on. Dodsworth, who 

 visited Sheffield in August 1 620, says : 'There 

 hath been a spittle there on this side the bridge.' 

 Nothing whatever has been discovered as to its 

 history except that in 1299 Daniel, the keeper 

 of the hospital, complained of Maud de 

 Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick, Thomas de 

 Furnival, and Richard del Clogh of Hallam, for 

 unjustly disseising him of his free tenement in 

 SLeffield." The hospital stood on a little emi- 

 nence on the east side of the town, still called 

 the Spittal-hill. In an inquisition as to con- 

 cealed lands, 12 February 1583, it is spoken of 

 as a decayed chapel called St. Leonard's Chapel 

 in the parish of Sheffield. In 1522-3 Dom. 

 Edward Hadfeld was chaplain ' apud le Spittell ' 

 at Sheffield, his stipend being £6 per annum.^^ 



161. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY 

 MAGDALENE, SHERBURN - IN - 

 ELMET 



The Monasticon^^ has the following notice of 

 this hospital : ' Tanner says, " upon the arch- 

 bishop's register about the year 1 3 1 1 mention is 

 made of an hospital here, dedicated to St. Mary 

 Magdalene ; the wardenship of which was in 

 the archbishop's gift." ' The reference intended 

 is no doubt to the appointment by Archbishop 

 Greenfield on 2 1 May 1 3 1 1 of Robert de 

 Mysterton ' ad custodiam hospitalis nostri beate 

 Marie juxta Sherburn.' Henry III granted pro- 

 tection for five years to the master and brethren 

 of this hospital in 1261.^^ Archbishop Thoresby 

 on 10 June 1360 appointed Richard Kay as 

 custos of the hospital or hermitage of Sherburn. 

 It seems that a certain ' frater Johannes de 

 Kildesby heremita ' had at that time deserted 



" Hunter, Hallamshire (ed. Gatty, 1869), 40, 312. 

 From Dr. Gatty's edition the information here given, 

 when not otherwise described, has been derived. 



" Baildon, Mm. Notes (Yorks. Arch. Soc), i, 203. 



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



^ Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi (2), 782. The site of 

 this hospital is probably indicated by that of a house 

 called ' Magdalene Hall ' in Jeffrey's Map of York- 

 shire, 1772, on the road between Sherburn and 

 Cawood. 



"^CaLPat. 1258-66, p. 139. 



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the charge of the hospital or hermitage for a 

 lengthened period, and had gone wandering away 

 from it, the archbishop, unwilling that it should 

 continue bereft of its custos, appointed Richard 

 Kay in his place. 



Wardens or Hermits of Sherburn 



Dom. Henry Fraunceys, clerk, 1300" 

 Dom. Robert de Mysterton, 131 1 ^' 

 Dom. John de Carleton, died 1346 

 Dom. John de Midelton, 1346 succ.^'" 

 Frater John de Kildesby, deserted '' 

 Dom. Richard Kay, appointed 1360 

 John Alkokes, hermit, appointed 1369'° 



162. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY 

 MAGDALENE, SKIPTON 



It appears from an inquisition^^ as to the 

 extent of the manor of Skipton in Craven taken 

 in 1310 that this was a free chapel within the 

 castle of Skipton, and that the advowson be- 

 longed to the lord of the castle. The chapel 

 was called the hospital of St. Mary Magdalene, 

 and had been founded by the alms of the said 

 lord and the freemen of Skipton for the sup- 

 port of lepers. In 1327 John, Prior of 

 Bolton, was attached to answer Thomas de 

 Gargrave, the master of this hospital, for seizing 

 goods belonging to it, valued at 20 marks, in 

 1306, the hospital at that time being vacant.'* 

 The goods taken consisted of corn, barley, oats, 

 and brazen cups and plates. The master claimed 

 100 marks damage, and the case was sent to a 

 jury. Whitaker '' says : ' At Skipton was an 

 ancient hospital, of which I find only a single 

 notice in the person of one Robert styling him- 

 self capellanum {sic) Hospitalis de Skepton, 24 

 Edw. III.'(i350-i). 



163. THE HOSPITAL OF ST, ED- 

 MUND, SPROTBROUGH 



A licence in mortmain was granted by Ed- 

 ward III, 28 October 1364,'^ to John Fitz 

 William of ' Emeleye,' kt., that he might grant 

 half an acre of woodland in Sprotbrough, not held 



" Torre's ' Peculiars.' 



"' York Archiepis. Reg. Greenfield, fol. 53. 



"' Ibid. Zouch, fol. 7. In the register he is 

 called John de Midelton ' filius Ricardi le Marechale.' 

 Somehow Torre has erred and inserted Ricard le 

 Marescall as the name of his successor. 



'' Ibid. Thoresby, fol. 106. 



» Ibid. fol. 157. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. II, no. 59. 



" Baildon, op. cit. i, 205. 



^ Whitaker, Hist, and Antiq. of Craven (ed. Morant, 

 1878), 438. 



" Pat. 38 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 28. 



