RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



charter of incorporation from Henry VI.*^ The 

 hospital was really under the invocation of the 

 Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Martin, but from 

 its connexion with the gild of St. Anthony, 

 was known as St. Anthony's Hospital. Besides 

 the master and keepers, there were brethren and 

 sisters non-resident, together with a resident chap- 

 lain and seven poor men.*' 



On 13 August 1450 ** Robert Dobbes, vicar- 

 general of Archbishop Kemp, granted licence to 

 the master or custos of the gild or confraternity 

 of the house or hospital of the Blessed Mary and 

 St. Martin of the city of York, newly constructed, 

 and the brothers and sisters of the same, to have 

 divine service celebrated for one year in their 

 chapel, saving the rights of the parochial church 

 of that place. After the Dissolution the charity 

 continued under the government of the corpora- 

 tion of York. 



The hospital of St. Anthony, Gilly- 

 GATE. — The great hospital of St. Anthony of 

 Vienne seems to have had a chapel in Gillygate, 

 which was vacant about the end of the 14th 

 century. In 1 40 1 a hermit settled there and, 

 pretending to have the authority of the hospital, 

 collected alms for the repair of the highways. 

 He was evicted in 1403,** and it is probable that 

 a small hospital was established, as in 1429 indul- 

 gence was granted to those who gave alms for the 

 support of the hospital of St. Anthony outside the 

 walls of York.'* The hospital stood at the end 

 of Gillygate next the Horsefair.*' 



St. Andrewgate Maison Dieu. — Nothing 

 is known of this house except that it was founded 

 before 1390, in which year William Durem left 

 3^. ^d. 'pauperibus in le masidew in via Sancte 

 Andree.' '* It occurs again in 1397, when 

 Richard Platter seems to have been recognized as 

 founder.'' Possibly it may be identical with 

 Thomas de Duffeld's Maison Dieu in Little St. 

 Andrewgate which occurs in 1385 and again 

 in 1485, when John Bedford was apparently 

 patron.*'* 



The hospital of St. Mary Magdalen, 

 Bootham, York. — Drake '" says that ' an uni- 

 form street once extended from Bootham-bar to a 

 place called Burton-stone, where a stone cross 

 formerly stood, the extent of the city's liberties 

 on this side. Close by this stood formerly a 

 chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen with a 

 spital called Magdalen's Spital, but no remains of 

 either do now appear.' It was founded by John 

 Gysburne, precentor of York, who died in 



«' Torks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), 560. ^ Ibid. 

 ^* York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. 430. 

 " Ca/. Papal Letters, v, 549. '* Ibid, viii, 85. 

 " Drake, Eior. 215. 

 «« York Reg. of Wills, i, fol. 20. 

 '' Brit. Assoc. Handbk. (York, 1906), 202. 

 ^^ Ibid. 201. In 1398 it is called the hospital of 

 Richard Duffeld ; Test. Ebor. (Surt. Soc), i, 220. 

 " Drake, Ebor. 258. 



1 48 1,'' for two chaplains, and was more of a 

 chantry than a hospital. 



Hertergate or Castle Hill Maison 

 Dieu. — This was founded by Thomas Howm, 

 brother of Robert Howm the founder of Monk 

 Bridge Maison Dieu. In his will (1406) he 

 bequeathed 30;. ' pauperibus in domo mea super 

 le Castelhill."' The position of the Maison 

 Dieu being both in Hertergate and Castle Hill it 

 was known by both names. In the will of 

 William Skynner it is also spoken of as Me 

 masondieu super montem castri.' ^' In 1390 

 Roger de Moreton left 2s. ' pauperibus hominibus 

 et mulieribus in le Mesondieu Thome Howme in 

 Hertergate."* It is referred to in the will 

 of ' Margaret de Knaresburgh Semester ' as 

 ' Thomae Holme infra parochiam Sanctae 

 Mariae ad portam castri.' '^ 



The hospital of St. Helen, or Fisher- 

 gate Hospital. — This was one of the leper 

 houses of York. It stood near the extinct church 

 of St. Helen in Fishergate, and possibly was 

 attached to it. In 1444'* Archbishop Kemp 

 granted an indulgence for three years to all who 

 contributed towards the reparation of the house 

 or dwelling of the lepers of ' St. Elene,' com- 

 monly called ' in Fishergate.' 



The hospital or St. Katherine" outside 

 Micklegate Bar. — This was one of the four 

 leper houses of York, and stood outside Micklegate 

 Bar, near the church or chapel of St. James. In 

 1333 protection for two years was granted by 

 Edward III for the leprous men of the hospital 

 collecting alms.'* It housed lepers of both 

 sexes,'' and as one of the charities of the city 

 escaped suppression. In 1603,'" in an account 

 of the progress of James I through York, it is 

 recorded that the king ' took horse and passed 

 through the cittie forth at Micklegate towards 

 Grimstone, the house of Sir Edward Stanhope, 

 the earle of Cumberlande and the lord-major 

 beareing the sword and the mace before the king 

 untill they came unto the house of St. Kathren.' 

 In 1652 the hospital was rebuilt on the old site. 

 This building was removed in 1835.*^ It is still 

 one of the York city charities. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 782. 



" R. Beilby Cooke, &ome Early Civic Wills of Tork 

 (reprinted from Proc. Yorks. Archit. Soc), 41. 



" York Reg. of Wills, iv, fol. 214^. 



" Ibid. fol. 14^. " Test. Ebor. (Surt. Soc), i, 220 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp. fol. 89^. 



" The hospital of St. Katharine by St. Nicholas 

 (Drake, JE^or. 236) may have been only another name 

 for this house. No other hospital of St. Katherine is 

 known. " Cal. Pat. 1330-4, p. 452. 



" Robert Sporrett, citizen of York (10 Jan. 1475), 

 left 'pauperibus leprosis utriusque sexus in domo 

 Sancte Katerine extra Mikellith I zd.' 



'» Drake, Ebor. 132. 



" Hargrove, The Nezv Guide bSc. to York (1838), 

 52, 53, where a small woodcut of the 1652 building 

 may be seen. 



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