A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



college should not be neglected, and in each of 

 them a vicarage was ordained, the presentations 

 to be in the hands of the sacrist. The sacrist 

 at the time of Sewall's ordination was Gilbert 

 de Tiwa, and at the end of the document it was 

 ordered that, 'Since the labourer is worthy of 

 his hire, and Master Gilbert de Tiwa has worked 

 faithfully,' a solemn anniversary shall be cele- 

 brated in his honour each year in the cathedral 

 as well as in the chapel and the various churches 

 belonging to it.' 



The invocation of the college chapel was 

 ' St. Mary and the Holy Angels.' It has some- 

 times, but mistakenly, been called the chapel of 

 the ' Blessed Mary, St. Michael and the Holy 

 Angels,'' and frequently it was referred to, in 

 the later stages of its history, as ' St. Sepulchre's 

 Chapel." When it was first called by that 

 name, and why, is not clear. The explanation 

 is probably connected with the duties of the six 

 officers appointed in 1258, who had, among 

 other things, to celebrate daily in the chapel for 

 the dead. But other explanations have been 

 adduced.^" 



In the two lists of churches belonging to the 

 college there are differences. In Archbishop 

 Sewall's ordination Harewood Church and Scrooby 

 Chapel " are missing, whilst Collingham, Clar- 

 borough and Retford are additional to Arch- 

 bishop Roger's list. Harewood disappeared be- 

 cause of a claim made against the canons that 

 the patronage belonged to the lord of the manor 

 of Harewood. Trials took place in 1 20 1 and 

 1209, and judgement was given against the 

 sacrist.^^ Collingham was conferred upon the 

 college by Richard de Morville.^' The circum- 

 stances connected with the acquisition of Clar- 

 borough and Retford are not known. The 

 church of Hooton Pagnell had been originally 

 given to Holy Trinity Priory ,^^ York, then later 

 it was given by William Paynell to Nostell 

 Priory, the donor threatening with a curse any- 

 one who should interfere with the benefaction." 

 But, notwithstanding the malediction, the same 

 William granted a moiety to Archbishop Roger 

 for his new foundation." The other half of the 

 church belonged to the priory at York, though 

 the chapel of St. Mary seems invariably to have 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 1 182-3. 



* Stapleton, Holy Trinity Priory, 47 n., 1 07. 



« rorks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), 5. 



" See Brit. Assoc. Handbk. (York), 176. 



" But Scrooby Chapel was probably included under 

 Sutton, for it remained at the Suppression (see Yorks. 

 Chant. Surv. [Surt. Soc], 6). 



" Stapleton, Holy Trinity Priory, 47 and note. 



" Lawton, Co//. Rerum Ecd. 59. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Ang/. iv, 682, from Rec. de Term. 

 Trin. 3 Hen. IV. rot. 14, Scacc. penes Remem. 

 Regis. 



'" Stapleton, Ho/y Trinity Priory, 106. 



" Ibid. 107. 



exercised the right of patronage. The matter 

 was probably arranged by a money payment to 

 Holy Trinity, which was received until the 

 Dissolution." 



According to Chancellor Raine, the founder 

 took special care that there should be no collision 

 between the new college and the minster staflF. 

 But, this care notwithstanding, frequent mis- 

 understandings arose. The college was too near 

 the cathedral '* for perfect harmony, and the 

 minster clergy looked with jealous eyes upon the 

 new canoxis. As time wore on, however, they 

 seemed to fuse, especially when the chapel canons 

 relieved the cathedral clergy of some of their 

 duties, and when the prebends of the chapel 

 were tenable in plurality with the cathedral 

 canonries." 



A considerable disturbance took place in con- 

 nexion with the sacristy about 1290. Thomas 

 de Corbridge, the future primate, in that year 

 resigned the minster chancellorship in order to 

 accept the sacristy. Then he discovered that 

 there was much litigation with respect to the 

 revenues of the college, and taking advantage of 

 his conditional acceptance of the office he re- 

 sumed his stall as chancellor. But a new chan- 

 cellor had been appointed meanwhile, and great 

 friction ensued, in the end Corbridge being 

 under excommunication for the greater part of a 

 year.^ In the following year there was a dis- 

 pute concerning the tithes at Collingham and 

 Bardsey between Corbridge and the Abbot of 

 Kirkstall, but the matter was amicably arranged .*' 



The sacristy and prebends became very lucra- 

 tive possessions,^* and were often held by dis- 

 tinguished ecclesiastics.^' But just before the 

 Dissolution things appear to have become some- 

 what slack, and Archbishop Lee, in a visitation 

 made in 1534, complained of a number of 

 irregularities,^ which he ordered to be remedied. 

 The college was, of course, untouched by the 

 Dissolution, but was suppressed with other 

 similar institutions in the reign of Edward VI. 



The 1546 survey gives the balance sheet, 

 showing a ' clere' remainder of j^ 1 65 \\$. iid., 

 and also the stipends and other charges according 

 to the foundation rate as £161 is. 8d.'^ The 



" The Poj>e Nic6o/as Taxation (Rec. Com. 299^) 

 gives the payment as j^io 13/. 4a'. ; in 1538 it was 

 ^9 6s. Sd. (Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iv, 685). 



" It stood between the north aisle of the nave and 

 the archbishop's palace. The built-up wall of the 

 door leading from the chapel to the minster may still 

 be seen. 



" Mag. J. de Waltham, e.g., was a cathedral canon 

 and sacrist of the chapel in 1 387 {Fasti Ebor. 464 n.) 



" Fasti Ebor. 354, 355. 



" Pat. 16 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 6. 



" Fasti Ebor. 354. 



" Sacrist Corbridge, e.g., became primate, and 

 Sacrist Gilbert Segrave became Bishop of London. 



»' Brit. Assoc. Handbk. (York), 176-7. 



» Yorks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc.), 6, 7. 



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