A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



It was founded for the celebration of masses 

 and other divine services for the souls of the 

 founders and all Christian people, dedicated in 

 honour of the Blessed Virgin, and endowed with 

 the whole manor of Lazenby. 



Whether the original intention was ever fully 

 carried out is not known. It probably was 

 attempted, but in the course of years the endow- 

 ment was found to be inadequate. At all 

 events, on 7 November 1443 it was declared 

 that, whereas John de Lythegranes and Alice his 

 wife built a chapel, and purposed to found a 

 chantry of six chaplains in the manor of Lazenby, 

 and endow the same with the manor and the 

 property, they were unable, through death, to 

 carry out the scheme.' The implication of this 

 statement must be that their intentions were not 

 fully realized, and, as the issues of the manor 

 were insufBcient for the purpose, the king granted 

 licence to Robert Nevill, Bishop of Durham, 

 and Nicholas Hulme, to assign the manor to the 

 abbey of JervauLx, the said monastery to supply 

 two chaplains to perform service in the said 

 chapel. Nicholas Hulme had been appointed to 

 the master^hip on 9 April 1425,'' and was prob- 

 ably still master in 1443, and the effect of this 

 new licence would seem to have been that the 

 chapel lost its collegiate character, and became a 

 simple chantry chapel for two priests supplied 

 from the abbey of Jervaulx. No master, at all 

 events, is heard of after Nicholas Hulme. 



The patronage of the college evidently be- 

 longed to the see of Durham, for we find that 

 Richard de ClyfFord was appointed by the king 

 in 1382, receiving the mastership at his nomina- 

 tion because the temporalities of the see of 

 Durham were in his hands 'through void- 

 ance.' ' 



Pope Urban VI reserved to himself all benefices 

 of papal chaplains,' but when he was succeeded, 

 2 November 1389, by Boniface IX,' it was 

 found that the ' Chapel of S. Mary, Lasynby, in 

 the diocese of York,' which had become vacant 

 through the death of John Moubray, papal chap- 

 lain, had not been filled. Pope Boniface there- 

 fore claimed the right of presentation, and on 

 14 February 1390 Roger Whyte was provided 

 with the said wardenship, value 20 marks, not- 

 w^ithstanding the fact that he already had the 

 vicarage of Middleton of the same value, and that 

 Pope Boniface had already made provision for 

 him of canonries, with the expectation of pre- 

 bends of St. John's, Beverley, and St. Mary's, 

 Southwell.* Whyte's tenure of Lazenby was 

 not, however, a long one, for Thomas Haxey 



^' Pat. 22 Hen. \'I, pt. i, m. 15. 



* Mem. ofRipm (Surt. Soc), ii, 240. 



'Pat. 6Ric. II, pt. i, m. 13. 



' Cal. of Papal Letters, iv, 334. 



' Stapleton, Holy Trinity Priory, i 78 n. 



' Cal. of Papal Letters, iv, 335. 



364 



was appointed to the mastership 25 Octobe 

 1391.' In i425ThomasHaxey, the master, died 

 and in his will he left to the chapel of Lazenb' 

 a sum of ;^io 'for repairs.''" Nicholas Hulme 

 already referred to, was Haxey's successor. H( 

 was collated to the mastership immediateli 

 after Haxey's death, and a brass in Greathan 

 Hospital, CO. Durham, commemorates his life am. 

 work." 



After 1443 there were simply two chantrv 

 priests at Lazenby. In 1535 they had as theii 

 stipends £() 6s. 8d.,^^ the same amount mentioned 

 in the 1546 survey, where the heading appears 

 as ' The Chaunterie of the two Prestes in the 

 chapel of Lasynbye.' " The two priests at that 

 time were John Wylde and Richard Woodehall. 

 The chapel is described as being 2 miles from 

 the parish church, the goods valued at 141., and 

 the plate at j^i 8s.^* In the 1548 certificate 

 Wilde is said to have been sixty years of age 

 and Woodehall fifty,'* of 'good qualities and 

 condicions ' but of 'meane lerenyng,' their joint 

 stipends 'goinge furth of the possessions of the 

 late monastery of Jarvaux ' being £q 6s. 8^,, the 

 outgoings being 1 8s. 8d., and the clear income, 

 therefore, eight guineas. 



Masters 



Geoffrey, occurs 1294'° 



John de Eboraco, occurs 1316 " 



John de Sleghte, or Slight, occurs 1 316," 



1318" 

 Richard de Wellinton, occurs 1 36 1 ^^ 

 Richard de Clyfford, appointed 1382 " 

 Henry Godebarn, occurs 1384 '' 

 John Moubray, died 1389 "' 

 Roger Whyte, appointed 1390 "* 

 Thomas Haxey, appointed 1391," died 



1425"" 



Nicholas Hulme, 

 1443 ^* 



appointed 1425,^' occurs 



' Dugdale, Man. Angl. vi, 1474. 



'° Fabric R. of York Minster (Surt. Soc), 205. 



" LongstafFe, Darlington, 208. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 1474. 



" Torks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), 122. 



"Ibid. 123. 



" Ibid. 486. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, 118. 



" Pat. 9 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 7. 



"Ibid. 10 Edw. ir, pt. i, m. 22. 



'" Ibid. 12 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 24. 



" Cal of Papal Pet. 384. 



II Pat. 6Ric. II, pt. i, m. 13. 



" Ibid. 7 Ric. II, pt. ii, m. 23. 



" Cal. of Papal Letters, iv, x-ii. 



"Ibid. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 1474. 



" Durham Epis. Reg. Langley, fol. 12;. 



" Mem. ofRipon (Surt. Soc), ii, 240. 



"Pat. 22 Hen. VI, pt. i, m. 15. 



