A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



in capite, to the master and chaplains of the hospital 

 of St. Edmund of Sprotbrough. By the time of 

 the survey of the chantries, although still 

 retaining the name of hospital, it was also called 

 St. Edmund's Chapel, and had become an 

 ordinary chantry chapel. Anthony Burdit was 

 returned as the ' incumbent,' and it was said to 

 be of the foundation of Fitz Williams,*' to 

 ' th'entente the sayd incumbent shulde pray for 

 the soul of the sayd founder, and all Christen 

 soules, and celebrate masse, and other dyvyne 

 service in the chappell of the sayd hospital,' 

 which was distant from the parish church a mile 

 and a half. The goods were valued at igj. "jd., 

 and the plate at 24J. The hospital possessed 

 lands and tenements, ' beying in dyvers places,' 

 valued in all at ^T 9 14J. lid. Among them 

 was 'j messuage with th'appurtenances called 

 Ancres House with an orcharde and a close 

 in tholdyng of Elizabeth Whyte wydowe.' 

 There was also a parcel of meadow ground 

 called * the Ancresse Ings."° It is noteworthy 

 that the chantry of St. Katherine in the parish 

 church of Sprotbrough ' was fyrstc founded by 

 John Fitz Williams in the sayd hospitall of 

 Seynte Edmonde, and afterwards removed to 

 th'aulther of Seynt Edmonde [Qy. St. 

 Katherine] aforsayd to pray for hys soule and all 

 Christen soules.'" 



164. THE HOSPITAL OF SNAITH 



In a roll of Pleas of the Crown of the time of 

 Edward I the jurors of the soke of Snaith re- 

 ported that unknown malefactors had killed 

 Roger Blakedog 'in a certain hospital outside the 

 town of Snaith which is called Dor'.°' 



165. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY, 

 STAXTON 



The position of this hospital is still indicated 

 by a farm called ' Spital House,' in a hamlet of 

 the parish of Willerby in the East Riding. In 

 1297 the hospital paid 4J. id. as its ninth,*' and 

 in Kiriby's Inquest '" it is recorded that there were 

 7 carucates of land in Staxton, of which the 

 hospital of St. Mary held I carucate in alms, of 

 the gift of Gilbert de Gaunt. The hospital 

 belonged to the priory of Bridlington.'* 



" The foundation may have been that of John 

 Fitz William in 1364, and possibly a larger establish- 

 ment with a master and chaplains was contemplated, 

 but never carried into eiFect. 



« rcris. Chant. Sure. (Surt. Soc), i, 155. 



"Ibid. 156. 



^ Assize R. 1 1 09, m. 7. 



^ nrh. Lay Subs. (Yorks. Arch. Soc), 137. 



'» Op. cit. (Surt. Soc), 52. 



" Langdale, Tofog. Diet, of Yorks. 195. 



166. THE HOSPITAL OF TADCASTER 



A hospital must have been founded at an early 

 date in Tadcaster, as about 1186 Maud dc 

 Percy, Countess of Warwick, finding that the 

 revenues of the hospital were greatly reduced, 

 made it over to the abbey of Sawley."* The 

 infirm inmates agreed to the grant on condition 

 that the monks provided for them as domtstici 

 fratres and did not remove them.'**" Richard de 

 Percy afterwards confirmed to the abbey a 

 carucate of land which used to belong to the 

 hospital of Tadcaster." The hospital possibly 

 continued in use as a leper - house, as John 

 Gysburne, citizen and merchant of York, in 

 1385'* left 5^. * domui Uprosorum de Tadcaster' 



167-9. THE HOSPITALS OF 

 TICKHILL 



There is an undated letter of Archbishop 

 Walter Gray," apparently of the year 1225, 

 addressed to the clergy and laity of the deaneries 

 of Doncaster and Retford, exhorting them to 

 contribute towards the brothers of St. Leonard 

 of Tickhill, whose sad condition he recommends 

 to their charity.'* That it was a leper-house is 

 evident from a protection granted by Henry III 

 on 8 September 1236, for the lepers of the hospital 

 of St. Leonard, ' Thikehill,' for three years from 

 the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary 

 (8 September)." It was possibly identical with 



The Hospital in the Marsh. — Arch- 

 bishop Melton on 19 June 1325 commis- 

 sioned John de Sutton, rector of Hemsworth, 

 to visit on his behalf the hospital or chapel in 

 the marsh near Tickhill, by whatever name it 

 was called, and the brothers, priests, servants, 

 and ministers living in the same hospital or 

 chapel, and to inquire into its defects, and 

 matters pertaining to it, and the excesses of the 

 forenamed persons, and to correct the same." 



According to the Monasticon this hospital or 

 chapel was afterwards annexed to the small 

 Benedictine abbey of Humberston in Lincoln- 

 shire, and, as part of the possessions of that house, 

 was granted in the first year of Queen Mary to 

 Thomas Reve and George Cotton." 



The Maison Dieu. — It is quite possible that 

 this represents the ancient hospital of St. Leonard, 

 and Langdale seems to take it for granted that it is 



"^Harl. MS. 112, fol. ijjd. 



"Mbid. "Ibid. fol. Ill d. 



"^ B. H. Cooke, Eartf Civic mils of York, 5. 



" Archbp. Gray's Reg. (Surt. Soc), i. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. (quoting Tanner), vi, 782. 



" Cal. Pat. 1232-47, p. 158. 



'° York Archiepis. Reg. Melton, fol. 166. 



^ Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iv, 430. 



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