RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



A new ordination was made by Archbishop 

 Alexander Nevill on 6 May 1380. The college 

 was to consist of one major or custos, five per- 

 petual chaplains, and two clerks. One of the 

 clerks was to be provided by the custos and at his 

 cost ; the other was to be the aquae bajulus, and 

 have his victuals in addition to the parochial 

 alms, and the offerings of the master and chap- 

 lains. At the death or cession of a custos, the 

 lord of the manor, Sir Thomas de Sutton, while 

 he lived, and after his death Agnes his wife, 

 while she lived, and after both their deaths 

 the chaplains, were within twenty days of the 

 vacancy to nominate one of the chaplains to the 

 custody, if any among them were considered 

 suitable. If not, then some other fit chaplain of 

 the lord of the manor, or his attorney, was to be 

 appointed. The chaplains were to be nominated 

 by the custos and existing chaplains, and presented 

 by the lord of Sutton within twenty days of any 

 vacancy. One of the chaplains was to be deputed by 

 the master to the cure of souls of the parish belong- 

 ing to the chapel, such appointment to be termin- 

 able at the pleasure of the custos. The custos was 

 to have a stipend of not more than 8 marks yearly 

 besides his keep. The chaplain with the cure 

 of souls was to have 4 marks a year, and each of 

 the others 3|- marks. The master and chaplains 

 were to have their commons together and lodge 

 in one house, or else two and two, unless hindered 

 by infirmity. Each of the six was to celebrate 

 his own mass ; on Sundays and festivals they 

 were to say matins, parochial mass, and vespers ; 

 on Fridays and Saturdays our Lady's mass with 

 note ; on the other days masses, matins, and 

 other ' hours.' Special masses and prayers were 

 also ordered for the founder's soul, &c. The 

 reserve payments and mortuaries were to be con- 

 tinued as under Archbishop Zouch's ordination.* 



In 1447 ^ dispute was settled between the 

 college and the parish of Wawne from which 

 originally the chapel had been cut off. It was 

 now arranged that a sum of 20s. was to be paid 

 to the inhabitants of Wawne 'as an acknowledge- 

 ment of subjection." In 36 Henry VI it 

 was found by a jury that Ralph Bygod, kt., 

 John Salvain, kt., William Bulmer, esq., and 

 Lady Isabella Goddard had the presentation to the 

 mastership and to one of the five chantries of 

 the collegiate church, and that Peter de Mauley, 

 lord of the manor, made the last presentation.'" 

 In 1536 the annual value of the college was 

 given as ^^13 i8i. 8<i." 



How the college was dealt with at the Sup- 

 pression there are no records to show, the last 

 facts known of the house being the appointments 

 in 1547 to the second and fourth chantries 



'Torre's MS. (Peculiars), fol. 501, 502, quoting 

 from York Archiepis. Reg. Alex. Nevill, fol. 61. 

 ° Lawton, Coll. Rerum Eccl. 416. 

 '° Poulson, Holderness, 335. 

 " Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, no. 



respectively of John Stother, priest, and Edward 

 Hodgson, priest, the former being presented by 

 the archbishop per lapsum. 



Masters of Sutton '^ 



Thomas Sampson, appointed 1347 

 William de Denford, appointed 1349 

 Thomas de Louthorp, resigned 1370 

 Peter de Elyngton, appointed 1370 

 William de Barnby, died 1402 

 Thomas de Poynton, appointed 1402, died 



1410 

 John Poynton, appointed 1410, exchanged 



1413 

 Robert Marflete, appointed 1413, died 1432 

 Simon Seller, appointed 1432, died 144.3 

 William Semanson, appointed 1443, ^^^^ '45^ 

 Peter Ouste, appointed 1458 

 William Walsh, appointed 1470 

 Robert Thomlynson, appointed 1 47 1 

 William Warde, appointed 1472, died 1487 

 John Curwen, appointed 1487, resigned 1489 

 Robert Ferys, appointed 1489 

 Thomas Alderson, appointed 1499 

 Ralph Bulmer, appointed 15 17 (•'') 

 Christopher Brasse, appointed 15 15, died 1522 

 Thomas Jenyson, appointed 1522, resigned 



1528 

 John Brandesby, appointed 1528 



207. CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF 

 ST. PETER, YORK 



The Dean and Chapter of York in the 

 Middle Ages were the direct successors of a body 

 of secular clergy similar in constitution to the 

 primitive chapters of Beverley, Ripon, and 

 Southwell. There is no evidence of any monas- 

 tic establishment in connexion with the church 

 of the somewhat vague type which existed at 

 Ripon in the days of Wilfrid and may have 

 prevailed at Beverley before the Danish invasions. 

 The clergy of the minster towards the end of 

 the 8th century seem to have followed a definite 

 rule of life ; while a school was attached to the 

 church which under Ethelbert and Alcuin ob- 

 tained great distinction.' In the schoolmasters 

 of the church, men of great learning and reputa- 

 tion, we see the prototypes of the later chancellors, 

 whose duty was the oversight of the minster 

 grammar-school.^ The tradition held at York 



"Torre's MS. (Peculiars), fol. 504 ; corrected from 

 Archiepiscopal Registers. 



' See ' Eccl. Hist.' above, p. 5. 



' 'Cancellarius, qui antiquitus Magister scolarum 

 dicebatur' (York Statutes in Bradshaw and Wordsworth, 

 Lincoln Cath. Statutes, ii, 95). There is an ordination of 

 Archbishops Roger and Geoffrey concerning payments 

 to the chancellor from the archdeacons on behalf of 

 the school in Hist. Ch. of York (Rolls Ser.), iii, 75. 

 See also ibid. 220-1. 



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