RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



The richest was that of St. Andrew's altar ; 

 then followed the altars of St. James, St. Peter, 

 St. Stephen, St. Martin, St. Mary, and St. 

 Michael. St. Katherine's, the eighth prebend, 

 was taxed on a revenue of ^lO i8s, ^.d. The 

 previous taxation of 1291' had found St. Martin's 

 the richest prebend, with ^^45. The next was 

 St. Andrew's, with £27, to which followed 

 St. James's (;^26), St. Peter's and St. Stephen's 

 (each £25), St. Michael's (^^17), St. Mary's 

 (j^i6), and St. Katherine's (£6 ly. 4d.). The 

 corrody of the eighth prebend in 1 29 1 was 

 equal to the several corrodies of the chancellor, 

 precentor, and goldsmith ; the sacrist received 

 j^i2 yearly. In 153S the chancellor had 

 £1^ lbs., and the precentor ^^13 9;. 4^. ; the 

 sacrist is not mentioned. Each berefellarius in 

 1534-5 had £(i 13J. \d., each vicar choral j^8. 

 When the Chantry Certificates were taken in 

 1548, two prebends, St. Andrew's and St. 

 Michael's, had fallen into lay hands. St. Peter's 

 was now the richest stall, with ^^42 bs. "jd. ; St. 

 Stephen's, St. James's, St. Mary's, and St. Mar- 

 tin's followed. The archbishop's stall (St. 

 Leonard's) produced an income of £1 1 6j. 8«?., 

 and St. Katherine's of ;^io I2i. 10^. The 

 sacrist's office was worth ^^24 9^. 8<s?., only about 

 j/^4 less than St. Martin's prebend. The chan- 

 cery was reckoned at ;^I3 2s. ^.^d., and the 

 chantership at ^^12 8j. 8J^. The total incomes 

 of the berefellarii and vicars give a higher dividend 

 than that supplied by the Valor.^ 



After the suppression of the college one of 

 the vicars choral was appointed vicar of the 

 parish, with three assistant curates chosen from 

 among the inferior clergy of the church.^ The 

 grammar-school was continued under a head 

 master, the stipend of the ^econd master being 

 supplied from the funds of St. William's Chantry.* 

 The lands of the church came into the hands of 

 various grantees of the Crown. Edward VI in 

 1552, and Queen Elizabeth in 1578, made 

 large grants out of the former possessions to the 

 Corporation of Beverley, who were constituted 

 patrons of the church and trustees of the fabric, 

 and continued to present to the vicarage until 

 the passing of the Municipal Reform Act.' The 

 patronage was then vested in the archbishop 

 until the purchase of the advowson of the vicar- 

 age by the trustees of the Rev. Charles Simeon. 



The 1 3th-century seal ^^ for citations is a 

 vesica, 3;^ in. by 2 in., having St. John seated 

 and holding a book, and blessing. The fragment 

 of the legend that remains reads 



The 15th-century seal" of the vicars choral 

 is a vesica, 2^ in. by if in., showing an altar 

 with chalice and candles upon it, and a sanc- 

 tuary lamp above. All that remains of the 

 broken legend is 



EVERL AD CITATIONES 



' Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 302, 



' Yorks. Chant. Surv- (Surt. See), 526 et seq, 



' Chapter Act Bk. (Surt. See), ii, pp. ci, cii. 



' Ibid. pp. ciii, civ. 



° Ibid. pp. cvi, cvii ; Lawton, Coll. Rerutn Eccl. 



319. 323. 



'" Cat. of Seals, B.M. 2636, Ixxiv, 20. 



. GILL COM VICARIOR 



. CL IE 



BEV . 



196. COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF 

 HEMINGBROUGH 



The church of St. Mary of Hemingbrough was 

 given by the Conqueror to the Prior and convent 

 of Durham. It was a richly endowed rectory,^^ 

 and in 1426, on 26 October, a licence was ob- 

 tained from Henry VI for the conversion of the 

 church into a college," and in the following 

 month Archbishop Kemp made an ordination to 

 that effect. The college staff was to consist of 

 a provost or custos, three prebendaries, six vicars, 

 and six clerks.-'* The Dean and Chapter of York 

 gave their consent to this ordination on 19 May 

 1427, but on condition that the provost and 

 collegiate body observed the terms of Archbishop 

 Thoresby's charter of 1356, which, among other 

 things, provided that out of the revenue of the 

 church the annual sum of j^i 1 35. 4^. was to be 

 paid to the York Chapter, and also a sum of 

 ;^3 6s. Sd. to the Archbishop of York and his 

 successors.^' 



The provost, according to the ordination, was 

 to be in priest's orders and already a canon of 

 Hemingbrough before his election to the head- 

 ship. He was to exercise the cure of souls in the 

 parish, and he was primarily responsible for the 

 college finance. The church's income was to be 

 paid to him, and he was to pay the stipends of the 

 canons, vicars, clerks, and others connected with 

 the church, his own personal stipend being 

 3^26 13^. 4^. a year. For the greater part of the 

 year he was to be in residence,^* but by an or- 

 dination made 20 March 1479 by Archbishop 

 Lawrence Booth he was compelled to reside only 

 thirteen weeks in the year. The rectory-house 

 with its land and the vicars' house were confirmed 

 to him under this ordination, and also the sole 

 administration of the spiritual and temporal mat- 

 ters of the college.^' 



The canons were to be residentiaries, either 

 ' continually or by turns,' their period of residence 

 being thirteen weeks each. As his stipend each 

 was to have lo marks a year, payable quarterly 

 nomine prehendae, and 10 marks payable at the end 



" Ibid, 2637, Ixxiv, 23, 



" In the Pope Nicholas Taxation it was valued at 

 j^lio a year. Lawton, Coll. Rerum Eccl. 442. 

 " Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iii, 98. 

 " York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. 30. 

 " Ibid. Thoresby, fol. 280. 

 '° Ibid. Kemp, fol. 30. 

 "Ibid. L. Booth, fol. 128. 



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