A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



of the year nomine residential ; " but by the later 

 archiepiscopal enactment of 1479 the payment to 

 each canon was to be ^^ 2 1 31. 4.d. a year for the 

 corpus of his prebend. '° 



Of the six vicars two were to be the chantry 

 priests of Cliff*' and Wasse," two foundations 

 then existing in the church. These chaplains 

 were to be present at masses and other hours, and 

 robe like the other vicars, their stipends arising 

 from their chantries to be augmented by a sum 

 of 2 marks per quarter payable by the provost. 

 The remaining four vicars were to have, under 

 the provost, the charge of the parish, and each 

 to receive 10 marks quarterly. They were to 

 be ' hebdomadaries according to the order of their 

 turn.'^^ The vicars were to have, by the 1479 

 ordination, a moiety of the faggots cut yearly 

 in the parish.^ 



Of the clerks, also six in number, four ' clerks 

 of the second form ' were to be chosen by the 

 provost, by whom also they were to be removable 

 at pleasure ; and each was to have £2 a year as 

 stipend. Two other clerks, aquae hajuli, were to 

 be nominated by the parishioners, by whom pre- 

 sumably they were to be paid, but, if so, their 

 stipends were to be increased by a yearly payment 

 from the provost of I mark each ' to make them 

 more diligent in their divine ministrations.'^^ 



At the suppression William Whitehead, the 

 provost, received a pension of j^ 1 3 1 4^. 6^." and 

 smaller sums were assigned to the other members 

 of the college. 



The provost, two of the prebendaries (West- 

 wray and Todd), and the three pensioned vicars 

 were living in 1553 and still enjoying their 

 pensions. 



Provosts of Hemingbrough ^° 



John Rudbur (or Radburn), inst. 1427 

 John Harpour, inst. 1428 

 John Wythers, inst. 1429 

 Thomas Caudell, inst. 1440 

 Thomas Portington, inst. 1457 

 Lionel Wydvile, inst. 147 1 

 James Preston, S.T.P., inst. 1475 

 Thomas Babthorpe, A.M., inst. 1480 

 Robert Marshal, inst. 1 5 1 7 " 

 William Whitehead, inst. 1 531 



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



'» Ibid. L. Booth, fol. 128. 



" A chantry for the soul of Henry Cliff, canon of 

 York, was founded in this church about 1 345. Burton, 

 Mon. Ebor. 446. 



" The chantry ofWasse was founded by Robert de 

 Marisco, rector 1217-58 : Hist, of Hemingbrough, ?,%. 



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



" Ibid. L. Booth, fol. 128. 



" Ibid. Kemp, fol. 30. 



" Burton, Mon. Ebor. 443. 



" Ibid. 



" Occurs 



The 14th-century seaP* is a vesica, i| in. by 

 I in., with a design of a canon seated in a chair 

 holding a rod over a kneeling figure. The 

 legend is : 



►f. s' CAPITVLl d' HEMICBVRC 



The matrix is said to have been given in 

 1826 by Mr. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A., to the 

 Yorks. Philosophical Society, but they have now 

 only a wax impression of it.'° 



197. 



COLLEGE OF ACASTER 



1515 : Hist. ofHemin^rough, 73. 



The college at Acaster was founded during the 

 reign of Edward I V.^ Tanner in the Notitia gives 

 a reference to an Act of Parliament of the reign of 

 Richard III (1483-5) which tells of the size of 

 the college estate : ' 40 acres of land in Nether 

 Acaster in Yorkshire,' on a part of which ' their 

 college was built,' the 40 acres ' to be enjoyed 

 by the provost and fellows." This land, it 

 appears, belonged to John Stillington,' whose son 

 Robert, either with the consent of his father or 

 after he had inherited the property, erected and 

 endowed the college. 



Robert, the founder, in 1466 was elevated to 

 the bishopric of Bath and Wells, and the year 

 after his consecration he was made Lord Chan- 

 cellor. He took part in the rebellion of Lambert 

 Simnel, and when that imposture came to nothing 

 was committed as a prisoner to Windsor Castle, 

 where he died in May 1 49 1.* 



The college of Acaster which Stillington had 

 founded was dedicated to the honour of St. 

 Andrew.* It was founded for a provost and 

 three priests or fellows,' one of whom was to be 

 a schoolmaster.' So says the Chantry Certificate, 

 but as a fact all three fellows were schoolmasters." 



The provost and the three fellows in priests' 

 orders were to pray ' for the souls of King 

 Edward IV, his wife the Queen, his son the 

 Prince, the Founder, and all Christian souls.'" 



The endowments of the college were valued 

 in 1535 at ^^33 \os. ^.d. gross and ^^27 131. \d. 



" Cat. of Seals, B.M. 3265, Ixxiv, 56. 



'" York. Mus. case E iii, K. vi. 



''About 1470' (A. F. Leach, Early Torks. Sch. ii, 

 p. v). Speed gives dedication as St. Mary and St. 

 John Baptist, and foundation by Robert of Leicester. 



' Tanner, op. cit. 690. 



' Pari. R. vi, 256. Mr. Leach says he was 'of York ' 

 and owned the manor of Acaster (op. cit. ii, p. xxi). 



* Angl. Sacra, i, 575. 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. viii, 1473. Probably so 

 dedicated because of the dedication of Wells Cathedral 

 (Leach, op. cit. p. xxvii). 



•Ibid. 



' Yorks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), 240. 



' Leach, Yorks. Sch. ii, 89, 90, quoting from Pari. 

 R. V, 256 ; r.C.H. Yorks. i, 453. 



'Yorks. Chant. Surv. 1546 (Surt. Soc.), 240. 



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