A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



was exempted from taxation, on the ground of 

 poverty, the church then being so ruinous as to 

 be unsafe for services.'^ In 1478 a petition was 

 made to the city council by the prior and con- 

 vent asking for their good offices with the Duke 

 of Gloucester (afterwards Richard III) on their 

 behalf. Their supplication was evidently listened 

 to, and their condition was much improved. The 

 temporalities of the priory were valued in 1292 at 

 j^6o I OS. <jd. a year "^ together with pensions from 

 various churches amounting to £2,'^ 2s. 8d. ; " 

 in 1379 the total revenues were ;^i89 i6s.,^* in 

 1536 the gross annual value was £l<)6 ijs. 2d., 

 the net being ^^169 gx. lodJ^ 



At the visitation of the monasteries the condi- 

 tion of the house was severely reported upon, 

 charges of sodomy, incontinence and superstition 

 being brought against the prior and his brethren. '° 

 The prior evidently took some part in the Pil- 

 grimage of Grace in 1536,'' but with his ten 

 brother priests surrendered the house 1 1 Decem- 

 ber 1 538,^' receiving an annual pension of {jl2?^ 

 He lived till 1545, on 9 September of which 

 year he made his will and desired burial in the 

 ' quere of Trinitie Churche Behynde the lectron.' 

 To two of his old fellow-monks, William Gryme 

 and Richard Stubbs, he left 6j. %d. each, and the 

 same amount to ' eury one of my Brethren if 

 they be lyvinge and come into the countrie.' ** 



Priors of Holy Trinity" 



Hermar, or Hicmar, c. 11 12 

 Martin, before 1 1 22 

 Robert, occurs 1 1 30 

 Helias Paynell, resigned 1 1 43 

 Philip, c. 1160-C. 1 180 

 Robert, occurs 1 200- 10 

 William, occurs 12 16, 1218 

 Stephen, appointed 1231, occurs 1237 

 Isembert, occurs 1242 

 Renulfe, appointed 1242 

 William, appointed 1248 

 Geoffrey, appointed 1249, occurs 1254 

 Roger Pepyn, occurs 1258-63 

 William Wenge, occurs 1263 

 Hamo, occurs 1265-73 

 Bartholomew, occurs 1268 

 Theobald, 1273 (?) 



Geoffrey de Beaumont, occurs 1276, died 

 1281 



" Cal. Pat. 1446-52, p. 69. 



" Allen, Hist, of York Co. 159, quoting from Pope 

 Nicholas Taxation. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iv, 683. 



" Add. MS. (B.M.) 6164, fol. 388. 



" Lawton, Relig. Ho. 49. " Drake, Ebor. 264. 



" L. and P. Hen. VIII, xii (i), p. 536. 



" Thoresby, Vic aria Leodiensis, 36. 



"i. and P. Hen. VIII, xiii (i), p. 575. 



"York Reg. of Wills. 



" From Solloway, J Ren Benedictines of York. 



Simon de Red.i, 1282 (?) 



John de Insula, appointed 1283, occurs 1304 



Oliver de Bages, occurs 1307—8 



Geoffrey, occurs 1318-23 



Hugh Aubyn, occurs 1327-31 



John, occurs 1335, deposed 1340 



Odo Friquet, appointed 1340, deposed 1 34 1 



Richard de Chichole, occurs 1345 



John de Chosiaco, occurs 1356-63 



Peter, occurs 1369 



John de Castell, appointed 1383 



[Walter Skirlaw, ' custos,' 1388-90] 



John de Coue, appointed 1390 



Johnde Castell, «//« Eschall, appointed 1399, 

 occurs 1434 



John Grene, elected without licence 1440," 

 removed 1 441 " 



Richard Bell, appointed 1441 ** 



John Burn, occurs 1449-54 



William Pykton, occurs 1455 



John Parke, appointed 1455 



Thomas Darnton, occurs 1464-5 



John Parke, occurs 1465-7 



Thomas Darnton, occurs 1472-5 



Robert Huby, intruded 1472*' 



Robert Hallowes, occurs 1478- 1 503 



Richard Speight, alias Hudson, occurs 1531, 

 surrendered 1538 



The 14th-century seal ad causas^" is a vesica, 

 i§ in. by lyg in. with our Lady crowned and 

 standing, holding the Child, between two figures 

 of saints, perhaps St. Peter and St. Paul. Above 

 the figures is the head of our Lord, and below 

 them the prior praying. The legend is : — 



|J( SIGILLVM DOMVS SCE TINITATIS EBOR AD 

 CAVSAS DEPUTATUM 



The 15th-century seal'' is a vesica, 2 in. 

 by i^ in., with a representation of the Holy 

 Trinity between two suns. Below is a shield 

 charged with a cinqfoil for Ralph Paynell, the 

 founder. The broken legend runs 



SIGILLUM . . . RATUS sCE TRINITATIS EBORACI 



Another seal'* (? 15th century) is a. vesica 

 with the Holy Trinity between the sun and 

 moon. Below is a dog (?) passant. Legend : — 



^ sigillum prioratus sancte trinitatis in 

 ebor' 



215. HEDLEY 



The priory of Hedley was founded, according 

 to Dr. Burton, during the reign of Henry I," 



^ Cal. Pat. 1436-41, p. 503. 



^ Ibid. 538. "Ibid. 524. 



«* Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 47, no. 255 ; Cal. Pat. 



1467-77. P- 355- 



** Cat. of Seals, B.M. 4398, Ixxv, 41. 



^ Ibid. 4399, Ixxv, 42. 



** Reproduced in SoUoway, jilien BntdicHtiet *f 

 York, 112. 



" Mon. Ebor. 56. 



390 



