RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



ALIEN HOUSES 



211. THE PRIORY OF ALLERTON 

 MAULEVERER 



The priory of Allerton Mauleverer was a cell 

 to the abbey of Marmoutier. It was founded in 

 the reign of Henry I by Richard Mauleverer,^ 

 whose gifts Henry II confirmed, also making the 

 monks free from all exactions of wapentakes, 

 tridings, and danegeld, and from all manner of 

 secular exactions and foreign service.^ 



An inquisition was held at Wetherby in 

 August 1378,' when the jurors found that there 

 was at Allerton Mauleverer a certain priory be- 

 longing to the abbey of Marmoutier, that there 

 was a dilapidated hall with chambers annexed, 

 and other offices of the house, worth nothing 

 beyond the reprises. The prior and monks at 

 Allerton Mauleverer held the church there to 

 their own proper uses. In all, the jurors esti- 

 mated the possessions of the priory as yielding, on 

 an average, £0.0 13^. 4^. a year. The reprises 

 included for repairs of the chancel of the 

 church and other buildings of the priory 30J. 

 a year, for the maintenance of the prior and 

 two monks * who celebrated divine offices 

 there, with other necessaries, ^^20. The 

 obligations amounted to ;^24, so that the ex- 

 penses exceeded the revenue by 66s. Sd. a year. 



According to Burton,* the Abbot of Mar- 

 moutier was patron, and he appointed the prior, 

 who was admitted by the Archdeacon of Rich- 

 mond. 



The priory of Allerton Mauleverer was 

 granted by Henry VI to King's College, Cam- 

 bridge.' Of its internal history nothing is on 

 record. 



Priors of Allerton Mauleverer 



Waleran, c. 1235 ' 



Gilbert, c. 1245 ' 



GeoiFrey, occurs 1300' 



John Dugas, occurs 1344*° 



Dionis Kabarus, occurs 1362 ^^ 



William de Virgulto, occurs 1364^^ 



John Pratt a/ias Newport, occurs 1 364 ^^ 



' Ca/. Doc. France, 445. 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, ioz8, v?here the charter 

 of Henry II is printed. 



^ B.M. Add. MS. 6164, fol. 387. 



* This indicates the number of monks then in the 

 priory. 



' Burton, Mon. Ebor. 258. 



* Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 1028. 



' Cott. MS. Claud. D. xi, fol. 60. 



' Ibid. ' Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, i . 



"• Baildon, MS. Notes. 



" Burton, Mon. Ebor. 258. 



" Ibid. " Ibid. 



John Passu, occurs 1366," occurs as Johr 



1369" 

 Guy de Bure ^' alias Ruppe ^' 



212. THE PRIORY OF BIRSTALL 



In 1 1 1 5 '* Stephen Earl of Albemarle granted 

 to the Benedictine abbey of St. Martin d'Auchy" 

 in the diocese of Rouen a large amount of pro- 

 perty in Holderness and the north-east of Lin- 

 colnshire. Indeed, the property formed the 

 chief endowment of the abbey. The grant in- 

 cluded the churches of Birstall, PauU, Skeffling, 

 Withernsea, Owthorne, and Alborough in Hol- 

 derness, besides several chapels and considerable 

 secular property.^" 



To superintend this English property, the 

 abbot sent some monks (how many is uncertain) 

 with a prior or procurator at their head. These 

 monks formed a small monastic cell at Birstall, 

 and in June 1219^^ Archbishop Gray directed 

 that the chapel of St. Helen at Birstall, where 

 the monks were, should receive the great and 

 small tithes of Skeffling, with all obventions and 

 profits, for the use of the monks. Their chapel 

 of Birstall was to be in no way subject to the 

 church of Easington, but the prior was to nomi- 

 nate a parochial chaplain to the rural dean, re- 

 movable at the prior's pleasure. The chaplain 

 was to report to the dean as to the ' excesses ' or 

 the parishioners, and was to keep chapter. From 

 the latter provision it would seem that one of the 

 monks was to be chaplain. In 1229,^^ with 

 consent of the abbot, the archbishop varied the 

 earlier ordinance, at the same time making more 

 definite the relation of the abbot to some of the 

 churches. 



The inconvenience to the abbey of its main 

 endowment being in England must have been 

 very great, for in time of war between the two 

 countries its chief revenues would be withheld. 



In 1381-2^' Richard II, having Birstall 

 Priory in his possession, made a grant of it to 



" Pipe R. 40 Edw. III. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, I. " Burton, loc. cit. 



" Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, i . 



'* Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 1019. 



'' 'De Alceio,' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 1020, no. 

 I ; ' d'Alcis,' or more commonly ' d'Auchy,' Fisquet, 

 La France Pontificak, Metropole de Rouen, 452, 'Saint 

 Martin d'Auchy ou d'Aumale.' 



'"Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 1019, no. i ; Poulson, 

 Holderness, ii, 513 ; Burton, Mon. Ebor. 298. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 1020, no. iii. 



^ Archbp. Grafs Reg. (Surt. Soc), 22. The earlier 

 appointment of the archbishop was printed {Mon. Angl. 

 vi, 1020, no. iii) from a document in St. Mary's 

 tower, York. 



'^ Col. Fat. 1377-81, p. 606. 



387 



