RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



the same," but there are no deeds or charters 

 extant relating to the foundation and endowment 

 of the Maison Dieu, which is one of the charities 

 of Tickhill. It 



was rebuilt in 1730, and contains eight separate 

 tenements for as many poor persons, and the charity 

 is under the management of three inhabitants of the 

 parish called Maison Dieu masters, who are nomi- 

 nated once in three years by the inhabitants and occu- 

 piers of the almshouse, each of the trustees acting 

 exclusively in the direction for one year. The in- 

 come arises from the rent of 29 a. o r. 18 p. of land, 

 two houses,' and rent-charges of j£ I is. id. Each of 

 the poor persons, usually widows, receives 6/. a 

 mondi, and they have divided among them £z at 

 Tickhill Fair, and ;^i on the rent day, and they re- 

 ceive each of them one load of coals per annum. 

 The residue of the rents is applied in support of the 

 almshouse and the buildings on the charity estate.'^ 



170. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. LAW- 

 RENCE, UPSALL-IN-CLEVELAND 



From some deeds in the Guisborough Chartu- 

 lary*" itappears that William Pinchun, c. 1150— 

 70," gave half an acre of arable land and half 

 an acre of meadow to the hospital of the lepers 

 of Upsall. About iiSo*^ Walter de Upsall 

 confirmed to the house of the sick of Upsall an 

 acre of land which Ralph his father had given 

 for the good of his, and his wife's and children's 

 souls ; in return the hospital should provide for 

 him so long as he lived. In a grant by Walter 

 de Hoton^ to the hospital of St. Leonard of 

 Lowcross certain of the lands are described as 

 being on the east side of the hospital of Upsall, 

 showing that both hospitals were then in exist- 

 ence. Early in the next century, however, 

 (between 12 13 and 1 234) ^ Walter de Percy and 

 ten other persons whose ancestors had endowed 

 the hospital of St. Lawrence of Upsall trans- 

 ferred those grants to the lepers of Lowcross, 

 and this no doubt marks the end of the hospital 

 of Upsall. Rather later, Alan de Bulleford 

 released to St. Leonard of Lowcross and the 

 lepers there whatever claim he had, or might 

 have, in the croft and dwelling ' ubi quondam 

 ftiit Hospitale S. Laurentii de Upsale.' *° 



The memory of the hospital is, possibly, still 

 perpetuated by a farm-house called ' Spite Hall.' 



" Langdale, Topog. Diet. ofYorks. 431. 



" Lawton, CoU. Rerum Eccl. &c. 235. 



™ Op. cit. (Surt. Soc), i, no. 343, 370, 381, 382, 



459- 



" Ibid. 185, while Cuthbert, a witness, was Prior 

 of Guisborough. 



" Ibid. 189, while Ralph, a witness, was prior. 



^ Ibid. 187. 



" Ibid. 191, while Michael, a witness, was prior. 



" Ibid. 176. 



171. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. 

 MICHAEL, WELL 



This hospital was founded in 1342 by Ralph 

 Nevill, kt,, lord of Middleham,'" pro remissione 

 peccatorum meorum, as he states in the foundation 

 charter. It was dedicated to the honour of 

 Almighty God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, blessed 

 Michael Archangel, and All Saints, and was to 

 be called the hospital of St. Michael. It was 

 intended for the increase of divine worship, the 

 maintenance of poor pitiable persons, and other 

 works of piety, in perpetuity. For this purpose 

 the licence of King Edward and also of Robert 

 de Wodehous, Archdeacon of Richmond, had 

 been obtained, and the founder endowed it with 

 the capital messuage of Well, called Houd, and 

 a number of other tenements in Well which are 

 fully described in the charter, as also the ad- 

 vowson of the church of Well. All were 

 conferred on Dom. John de Stayndrop, chaplain, 

 the master, and the priests and the poor brothers 

 and sisters dwelling in the hospital. The master 

 was to have with him, dwelling in the hospital, 

 two fit priests, wearing closed supertunics of 

 black or blue woollen cloth, with a cloak of 

 black cloth, which vesture the master also was 

 to wear. There were to be twenty-four poor 

 and sick or feeble persons dwelling together in 

 the same house, and the master and priests were 

 to say and sing all the canonical hours, as also 

 three masses each day devoutly. 



In 1342 Archbishop Zouch,*' on the ground 

 that the endowments were insufficient, granted 

 the hospital power to appropriate the church of 

 Well to their uses, a due portion being assigned to 

 a vicar, who should reside and have cure of souls. 



By his- will, of 1386, John Nevill of Raby 

 desired his executors to buy the advowson of a 

 church worth 40 It. or 80 marks and appropriate 

 it to the hospital of Well ; from this revenue 

 the master was to receive 10 marks yearly, and 

 each brother or sister 2d. or t,^. daily, and 

 from any surplus as many chaplains were to be 

 maintained as the money would permit.''^ 



In 1535^^ Richard Threpland was master, 

 and the total revenue of the hospital amounted 

 to ;^42 12s. 7,(1. The number of inmates had 

 been reduced to fourteen bedemen, who daily 

 prayed for the souls of the founders. In the 

 certificates of chantries'' George Nevy 11 is re- 

 turned as master. The hospital was of the 

 foundation of Rauffe Nevyle, to the intent that 

 there should be a master, two priests, and 

 twenty-four poor folks called ' eremettes ' to 

 pray for the king and queen, the founders, and 

 all Christian souls. The twenty-four poor 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi (2), 702. 



^ York Archiepis. Reg. Zouch, fol. dtfi 



*'" Wills and Inventories (Surtees Soc), 41. 



^ Gale, Reg. Eon. de Richmond, 283. 



^' Yorks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), i, no. 



333 



