RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



1548 report gives details of the stipends of the 

 staff, their ages, their condition, and also, with 

 a view to the arranging of the pensions, their 

 stipends from other sources. The sacrist, 

 Thomas Magnus, was eighty-six years of age, 

 and besides his stipend of ^^43 5^. held other 

 benefices to the value oi £$"]% 8i. <)d., and most 

 of the prebendaries also possessed additional 

 sources of income.^* 



On the 1548 certificate is also a memorandum 

 showing a sum of £^2(i 13^. /[.d. distributed 

 yearly to the poor in the appropriated parishes.^' 



210. ST. 



Sacrists 



1266 



Gilbert de Tiwa, occurs 1236,*' died 

 Peter de Erehun, appointed 1266^" 

 Percival de Lavannia, died 1290^^ 

 Thomas de Corbridge, appointed 



occurs 1296" 

 Francis Gaeteno, occurs 1 300 '* 

 John Bouhs, appointed 1 300 '" 

 Gilbert de Segrave, occurs 1304^' 

 John Bouhs alias Busshe, appointed 



occurs 1333'* 

 John de Waltham,'' occurs 1387,*" 1388 " 

 Roger Weston, appointed 1388,*^ '3 97^' 

 John Gisburne, appointed 1459** 

 Thomas Magnus, occurs 1546," 1548*' 



1290,' 



1304,' 



The 14th-century seal*' of the canons is a 

 vesica, afin. by if in., with a design of our 

 Lady, crowned and seated, holding the child. 

 Above is the sun between two angels issuing 

 from cloud who support the canopy of the chair 

 and the crown of the Virgin. On either side of 

 her chair is a candle, and below is a mitred figure 

 praying, probably representing Archbishop Roger 

 de Pont I'EvSque, the founder. The legend is : 



s' CANONICOJk CAPELLE BE MARIE ET ANGELO^ 

 EBO9. 



'^ Torh. Chant. Sure. (Surt. Soc), 428-30. 



" Ibid. 430. 



'" Archbp. Grafs Reg. (Surt. See), 74. 



"' Cal. Pat. 1258-66, p. 557. 



'» Ibid. 



^' Fasti Ebor. ^K,^ "Ibid. 



'' Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 197. 



^ Fasti Ebor. 356. 



'^ Cal. Pat. 1 292-1 30 1, p. 512. 



^^ Fasti Ebor. 356. 



" Cal. Pat. 1 301-7, p. 227. 



"Ibid. 1330-4, p. 396. 



" Archdeacon of Richmond. 



" Cal. Pat. 1385-9, p. 348. 



" Ibid. 498. 



*^ Ibid. 503. 



" Ibid. 1396-g, p. 83. 



" Hist, of Hemingbrottgh, 75. 



" Torks. Chant. Surv. (Surt. Soc), 5. 



« Ibid. 428. 



" Cat. of Seals, B.M. 4396, xlvii, 725. 



WILLIAM'S 

 YORK 



COLLEGE, 



In connexion with the cathedral church of 

 York, a great number of chantries were founded 

 from time to time. By the middle of the 15 th 

 century, in addition to those served by priests 

 connected with the Bedern and St. Sepulchre's, 

 there were no less than twenty-three whose in- 

 cumbents were unattached to any corporate 

 body. On 11 March 14SS, therefore. King 

 Henry VI, knowing that these priests, for want 

 of a proper habitation, had to lodge in laymen's 

 houses where women were, which was repug- 

 nant to the order of the church and the decency 

 of the clergy, granted licence to Archbishop 

 William Booth, Henry, Earl of Northumber- 

 land, Richard Andrew, dean, John Castell, pre- 

 centor, John Bernyngham, treasurer, Stephen 

 Wilton, Archdeacon of Cleveland, and John 

 Marshall, canon of York, to erect a college for 

 these unattached priests. The place intended 

 was the house appropriated to the prebend which 

 the Prior of Hexham held, namely, Salton 

 House,^ but the licence also added ' or any other 

 convenient place as they may think fit.' * The 

 college was to be dedicated to the honour of 

 St. William, sometime Archbishop of York, and 

 was to be called ' The College of Parsons having 

 Chantries in the Metropolitical Church of York.' 

 The priests were to elect yearly one of them- 

 selves to supervise the rest of his fellow-priests, 

 their college and goods, and for that year he was 

 to be called the 'supervisor ' of the college. 

 They were to be a corporate body, and the dean 

 and chapter were to make statutes for their 

 governance.' The king also gave permission 

 for the college to purchase lands, &c., to the 

 value of 10 marks yearly, in order to recom- 

 pense the dean and chapter and the prior for 

 their house, as well as for the maintenance of 

 the college when built ; such lands when 

 acquired to be given to the dean and chapter 

 and prior. 



This grant was never carried into effect.* 

 King Edward IV, however, on 1 1 May 1461,' 

 ■ made a re-grant of the licence with certain im- 

 portant differences. The licence was given to 

 George Nevill, Bishop of Exeter, who became 

 Archbishop of York three years later, and to his 

 brother Richard, Earl of Warwick, and their 

 heirs conjointly and severally. Instead of an 

 annually elected supervisor there was to be a 

 provost appointed for life, the first to be chosen 

 from among the chantry priests by the said 



' Torre's MS. (Minster) gives ' Salton House ' in 

 the margin. See also Drake's Eboracum. 



'Torre's MS. (Minster), fol. 1400. 



' Ibid. 



* Drake's Ebor. 57. 



'Pat. I Edw. IV. pt. ii, m. 17; Torre's MS. 

 (Minster), fol. 1401. 



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