A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



folk were, besides their lodging, to have a loaf of 

 bread daily, half a gallon of ale, and 41. each 

 yearly. For a long time there had been but 

 fourteen poor folk, and 26j. Sd. apiece for their 

 •dueties and dyettes.' The lack often of the 

 poor folk was alleged by the master to be due 

 to the loss of the profits of the parsonage of 

 Well, by decay of tillage in the parish. The 

 goods were valued at ^^19 ioj. 2d., and the 

 plate at £4. 6s. The total revenues were 

 £6s 5f. jd., less outgoings of ;£i6 15X. 2^d., 

 leaving a clear total of ^48 lOi. 2^- 



John Lord Latimer in 1542 attached a 

 grammar-school to the foundation for a term of 

 forty years. The site is now occupied by a post- 

 Reformation hospital with a chapel. 



Masters of Well Hospital 



John de Stayndrop (first master), 1342°° 

 Thomas de Aykeskarth, occurs 1390 '' 

 John Bosville, occurs 1413 " 

 John Middleton, occurs 1460," 1474*^ 

 Richard Threpland, occurs 1526 " 

 George Nevyll, D.D., occurs 1546 "' 



172. WENTBRIDGE LEPER HOUSE 



The only known allusion to the former exist- 

 ence of this house is contained in the will of 

 John de Gysburne, citizen and merchant of 

 York (1385)." He bequeathed Sj. domui 

 leprosorum apud IVentbrig. 



173-4. THE HOSPITALS OF WHITBY 



The Hospital of St. Michael. — The 

 origin and early history of this hospital are 

 contained in two documents in the Whitby 

 Chartulary." In 1 109, during the abbacy of 

 William de Percy, the first abbot, a leper named 

 Orm sought from the abbot and convent a place 

 where he might make his habitation. A place 

 afterwards called ' Spitylbrydg ' or ' Ad Pontem 

 Hospitalis,' was granted him, as well asacorrody 

 of seven loaves and seven /a^^a; of ale weekly, and 

 a daily service of meat or fish, such as the convent 

 had. Afterwards others, lepers or not, were 

 permitted to live at the hospital, and it was 

 agreed by Abbot William, as well as by his 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 702. 



" Anct. D. (P.R.O.), B 276. 



" Baildon, op. cit. i, 221. " Ibid. 



"*" Rig. of Corpus ChrisH Gild, 93. 



" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 244. 



^ Yorh. Chant. Surv. no. See his will, Richmond 

 Willi (Surt. Soc), 204. He was the thirteenth child 

 and seventh son of Richard, Lord Latimer. 



" B. H. Cooke, Early Civic ffillt of York, 5. 



"' Charters, no. 382, 572. 



successors, Abbots Nicholas and Benedict, and 

 their convent, that when an inmate of the 

 hospital, leprous or not, died, the body was to be 

 brought to the monastery to be buried there by 

 the monks. One of the monks was appointed 

 master of the hospital, but neither he, nor the 

 brothers or sisters of the hospital, were to admit 

 anyone to it except through the abbot, because, 

 it was said, the original alms came from the 

 mensa of the abbot and convent. The hospital 

 had its own chaplain with cure of souls there. 

 The alms originally granted by Abbot William 

 to Orm were granted in perpetuity to the 

 hospital, as well as land near the hospital, called 

 the Hospital Croft. A monk named Geoffrey 

 Mansell, who was suspected of leprosy by Abbot 

 Benedict and certain of the monks, was sent 

 there and lived at the hospital many years and 

 died there. He cleared the land at ' Helredale,' 

 now called Spittal Vale, and cultivated it. 



Robert de Alneto, who is heard of elsewhere 

 as the hermit of Hode who received Abbot 

 Gerald and the convent after they left Calder, 

 was master of the hospital ; he appealed to Gun- 

 dreda the wife of Nigel de Albini and mother 

 of Roger de Mowbray, and she gave to the 

 hospital of St. Michael 2 bovates of land at 

 Honeton with a toft, which the monks of 

 Rievaulx held of the hospital, paying 6j. yearly 

 rent for it, and Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, with 

 his convent, undertook to help the inmates by 

 giving them yearly, on the feast of St. Martin, 

 their old vestimenta. During the troublous times 

 of the reign of Stephen, William, Earl of Albe- 

 marle, destroyed the vaccary of the monks of 

 Whitby at Kesbec and their mansiones at 

 Thornaby ; and Abbot Benedict, fearing other 

 mischief and knowing the kindliness of the earl 

 towards the poor and lepers, let the lepers and 

 brothers of the hospital have their money at 

 Bilroche (Billery). Earl William spared the 

 place on account of the lepers. Abbot Richard I 

 granted to St. Michael's Hospital and the 

 brethren a traveller's corrody, founded in the 

 monastery. He also, by Peter Danum, monk 

 and master of the hospital, granted a place called 

 * Le Rigge ' at Helredale, which the brothers 

 cleared and cultivated ; and Walter de Rosels 

 gave to God and St. Michael and the brothers 

 of the place a toft and i acre of land at 

 Easington. 



St. Michael's Hospital, being wholly depen- 

 dent on and managed by the monastery, scarcely 

 had a separate existence. Its site is still iden- 

 tified by the name of Spittal Bridge. 



The Hospital of St. John the Baptist. — 

 On 8 January 1320 the king granted to 

 Robert de Hemyngburgh, king's clerk, the 

 custody of the hospital of St. John the Baptist, 

 Whitby, with writ of aid for the said Robert 

 directed to the brethren and sisters of the said 



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