A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



William de Donyngton,*' succeeded 5 August 



1369/' resigned 

 Walter Coupland, succeeded 27 September 



1 41 a/' resigned 

 Thomas Petlyng, succeeded 1 1 November 



14 1 3,*' exchanged 141 6* 

 William Crosse, canon of Lincoln, i April 



1416,*^ resigned 

 Robert Frend, sub-deacon, succeeded 1 5 May 



1421,'^ resigned 

 Marmaduke Lumley, LL.B., prebendary 



of Osmotherley, succeeded 12 December 



1424,'' became Bishop of Carlisle 1430 

 Robert Gamyll, priest, succeeded 8 August 



1430" 

 John Ashfordby, died 1452 " 

 Marmaduke Constable, succeeded 27 July 



1452," died 

 William Eure, succeeded 1453" 

 William Cerffe, monk of Meaux, succeeded 



18 September 1483,*' resigned 

 Robert Bothe, LL.D., succeeded 22 February 



1486-7," died 

 William Sheffield, Dec. D., succeeded 



6 August 1488 *> 

 Simon Senous, succeeded 2 January 1496-7," 



resigned 

 Martin Colyns, Dec. D., succeeded 



2 October 1500,''' died 

 John Withers, A.M., succeeded 5 May 1509," 



died 

 Thomas Marcer, succeeded 20 August 1536** 

 John Golding, occurs 1556°' 



178. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. NICHO- 

 LAS, YORK 



This, one of the more important of the York 

 hospitals, stood outside Walmgate Bar, the 

 hospital church being also parochial. Richard 

 de Derfeld, one of its chaplains, at an inquisi- 

 tion in 1 29 1," stated that he had been told that 

 it was built on land given by Stephen the [first] 



" Licence for absence to William de Donyngton, 

 II Nov. I 37 1, master of the hospital of St. Mary de 

 Boutham (York Archiepis. Reg. Thoresby, fol. 161^). 

 On 14 Oct. 141 2, after having served the hospital 

 feeble and on the bed of death, he was assigned a 

 pension of ^^8 i 3/. ^. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Thoresby, fol. i r , 



'Mbid. Bowett, fol. 24^. 



'I Ibid. fol. zSi. » Ibid. fol. 4;. 



^Jbid. " Ibid. fol. t 8^. 



" Ibid. sed. vac. fol. 370. 



** Ibid. Kemp, fol. 178. 



** Ibid. fol. 462^. 46 Ibid 



" Ibid. W. Booth, fol. 375. 



" Ibid. Rotherham, i, fol. 39^. 



^Mbid. fol. 122. "Ibid. fol. 123. 



Ibid. fol. 95/. « Ibid. sed. vac. fol. 501^ 



^ Ibid. Bainbridge, fol. 76. « Ibid. Lee, fol 67 



" Invent. Ch. Goods, Yorks. (Surt. Soc), 113 



^ Chan. Misc. bdle. 20. no. i, file 13.' 



Abbot of St. Mary's. If so, and there seems no 

 reason to reject the statement, the foundation 

 must have taken place at some period between 

 1088 and iii2.«« 



At an inquiry held on Wednesday before 

 Michaelmas 1291 the jurors reported on their 

 oath that thirty years before the inquiry, in the 

 time of King Henry III^ there was a certain 

 master, Thomas de Langetoft, and other chap- 

 lains serving God and the church of the said 

 house, who had as their habit black capes with 

 surplices, both in church and quire, and that in 

 the time of the said master there were three 

 lepers, and thirty-eight brethren and sisters. 

 The brethren wore tunics and scapulars of 

 russet with hoods of the same cloth. Both 

 they and the sisters were shaven,"' and the latter 

 wore tunics and mantles of russet, and each had 

 his or her own camera. The master corrected 

 all excesses of the hospital in chapter, with the 

 counsel of the brethren and sisters, according to 

 their rule, and as long as he lived he administered 

 the goods of the house well and feithfully. Nor 

 did he admit anyone into the hospital contrary 

 to the statutes. He had been elected in the 

 king's name by the mayor and commonalty of 

 York, and presented to, and admitted by, the 

 Lord Archbishop. He held two prebends of the 

 hospital, one for himself, and the other pro 

 extraneh supervenientibus. He was master for 

 three years. After the death of Thomas de 

 Langetoft, a certain Simon de Wyllardby was 

 elected, presented, and admitted in the same 

 manner. He allowed the brothers and sisters 

 to alter their habit and tonsure as they liked, 

 contrary to rule. He admitted thirty-six sisters, 

 four of them pro Deo as lepers, the rest for 

 money, each paying 20 marks, which he spent 

 on the requirements of the hospital, but the 

 money was not sufficient. He did not correct 

 excesses according to rule. He was master 

 for ten years, and bought 2 bovates of 

 land at Grimston, which the hospital still 

 possessed, but he left it owing ^^20 in money, 

 besides 5 sacks of wool and 10 quarters of 

 barley. Because of these debts he was deprived. 

 Robert de Sancto Laurencio '" succeeded, and 



^ The period of Stephen's abbacy. 



^ ' Et tonsati, et sorores tonsate.' This can 

 hardly mean more as regards the sisters than that 

 they had their hair cut short. 



"From an earlier inquisition of 1285 it is clear 

 that he was also called Robert Lyttil. At this in- 

 quisition the jurors reported that Robert le Graunt 

 (appointed 1281) had, before he was master, coun- 

 selled Robert Lyttil to sell the 3 bovates of land, and 

 that the goods of the hospital, about which complaint 

 was made that they had been wasted, had been 

 wasted by him (Robert le Graunt) and that he had 

 excommunicated those brothers and sisters who would 

 not consent to the common seal being set to the 

 writings, rorks. Inq. (Rec. Ser.l, ii, 30. 

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