RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



At the visitation of 1439 the quire was said 

 to be constituted of thirty-two members/" 

 Thirty-one only were accounted for, viz. the 

 seven canons, who were also the seven perwnae^'' 

 the six vicars,^^ six deacons, six thuribulers, and 

 six choristers. In 1546-7 there were three 

 deacons and six sub-deacons, and the six thuri- 

 bulers were divided into an upper and lower 

 class.'' The prebendary of Stanwick, as ruler 

 of the quire, was ex officio precentor ; ^ the office 

 of treasurer was annexed, as has been said, to 

 the prebend of Monkton.^^ Of a chancellor 

 there is no record : ^^ the grammar-school had 

 its own master,"' but was under the supervision 

 of the precentor."^ The value of the prebends 

 varied at different times. In the Ecclesiastical 

 Taxation the richest was that held by Giles of 

 the Wardrobe, identified with Monkton,"" its 

 annual value being ^^46 135. ^d. ; while Stan- 

 wick, Givendale, Studley, and the prebend of 

 Master John of Evreux came next with ^40 

 each. Nunwick was worth ;^30, and Thorpe 

 j^26 13^. \d^^ In 1535 the income of Stan- 

 wick was assessed at ;^39 7$. 6^., and was 

 followed by Studley, ^%b I u. 4^., Monkton 

 £p.1 i2i. 8^.," Nunwick {jli, Thorpe ;^20, 



^ Mem. ofRipon (Surt Soc), ii, 148. 



" This seems to be the meaning of ' vij canonici, 

 septem personae' (ibid.), but the qualification is un- 

 usually expressed. 



" Possibly the error by which thirty-two is named 

 as the sum total of the thirty-one officiating persons 

 was due to counting the vicars as seven instead of the 

 six rightly given in the text. 



'' Torks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), 348 et seq. 

 The certificate is also printed in Mem. of Rifon (Surt. 

 Soc), iii, 8 et seq. 



™ Torks. Chant. Surv. loc cit. The prebendary of 

 Stanwick is sometimes referred to by modern writers 

 as though he were president of the chapter. This 

 was not the case : the chapter acts show that one of 

 the other residentiaries, probably the senior, acted 

 as president. 



" Dr. J. T. Fowler {Mem. ofRipon [Surt. Soc], iii, 

 p. xv) notes that the office of treasurer often was 

 exercised in the 15 th century by one of the chap- 

 lains as sub-treasurer or warden of the treasure. 



*' Ibid. Dr. Fowler suggests that the duties of the 

 chancellor ' devolved to some extent on the Chancellor 

 of York.' «» Ibid. 



" A sub-chanter is mentioned in the certificate of 

 1 546-7, but the sub-treasurer is evidently meant. 



*° See note 23 above. 



^ This is according to the imperfect identifications 

 in Pope Nkh. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 308. William 

 Greenfield, however, who is said to have held Studley 

 in 1291, held Givendale in 1301, and Philip of 

 Willoughby, who is said to have been prebendary of 

 Thorpe in 1291, was prebendary of Sharow in 1301. 

 Master John of Evreux appears to have been preben- 

 dary of Studley {Mem. ofRipon [Surt. Soc], ii, 184). 



*' The perquisites of the treasurer must have in- 

 creased this sum, and Dragley, who was prebendary 

 at this time, engrossed the common fiind as sole 

 residentiary. 



Givendale ;^ 1 4 10s. 4.d. and Sharow ^14 5^ 2d.^^ 

 In 1546-7 the values of each prebend are reck- 

 oned somewhat differently, but the same order 

 is kept, with the difference that Monkton and 

 Studley change places."' At both dates the 

 stipend of the six vicars is assessed at £6 each.'" 

 Nine chantries within the church are named 

 in the Valor Ecclesiasticus and eight in the 

 Chantry Certificate.'^ 



The two residentiaries in 1546-7 were 

 Richard Deane, prebendary of Stanwick, and 

 Marmaduke Bradley, prebendary of Thorpe,'^ 

 whose dealings with the commissioners of 

 Henry VIII as last Abbot of Fountains are little 

 to his credit.'' In May 1 547 Edward VI granted 

 the chapter the right of jurisdiction in cases of 

 probate, institution and visitation within the 

 peculiar ; '* but under the second Chantry Act 

 the college was dissolved, and its revenues, with 

 those of its chantries, united to the possessions 

 of the duchy of Lancaster.'* Ripon, although 

 surrounded by a portion of the new diocese of 

 Chester, still continued to be part of the diocese of 

 York, in which it remained until 1836.'" For 

 many years, however, the minster was reduced 

 to the condition of a mere parish church, with 

 a small and ill-paid staff." The project of 

 Archbishop Sandys and other strong churchmen 

 of the Elizabethan period to establish a theolo- 

 gical college at Ripon was never more than an 

 idea," and it was not until 1 604 that James I, 

 at the request of Anne of Denmark, reconsti- 

 tuted the collegiate body under the presidency of 

 a dean. Six stalls were endowed, and in 1607, 

 under a second charter, a sub-deanery was 

 created, to which Dr. John Favour, the celebrated 

 vicar of Halifax, was appointed." Subsequently 

 the sub-dean was always one of the prebendaries.'" 

 The first dean was Moses Fowler, who previously 

 was one of the vicars who served the church, 

 and had seconded Sandys in his abortive scheme.*^ 

 After its suppression during the Commonwealth 



^ f^akr Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 250. 



*' Torks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), 348-52. 



^^ Falor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 251 ; Torks. Chant. 

 Surv. (Surt. Soc), 353. 



" Falor Eccl. loc cit. ; Torks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. 

 Soc), 354 seq. 



" Torks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), 349. 



" L. and P. Hen. VIII, x, 137. 



" Mem. ofRipon (Surt. Soc), i, 108 etseq. Henry VIII 

 made a similar grant in 1535 (ibid. 106-8). 



" Mem. ofRipon (Surt. Soc), ii, 257. The arch- 

 bishop's manor had been annexed to the duchy 

 previously (Lawton, Coll. Rer. Eccl 540). 



" It formed a peculiar of the Archbishop of York : 

 the population of the large parish in 183 1 was 

 14,602, out of thirty-one townships (Lawton, op. cit. 

 538)- 



" Mem. ofRipon (Surt. Soc), ii, 257. 



" Ibid. 



" Ibid 257-8, 277. 



™ Ibid. 258. «> Ibid. 259, 257. 



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