RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



prior, and John Fletcher and Thomas Edwin- 

 stowe, canons of Hornby."' 



The site was granted in 1544 to Thomas 

 Stanley, second Lord Monteagle, whose father 

 had acquired Hornby Castle and its lands."' 



The priory was dedicated to St. Wilfrid."' 

 In 1292 its temporalities {bona) were taxed for 

 tithe at ^^8 13^. ^d., reduced to £2 after the 

 Scottish raids."" Its gross income in 1535 

 amounted tO;^94 -]$. 8|(/., of which ^^28 8j. ^^d. 

 was derived from its temporalities and 

 £(it 6s. Sd. from spiritualities."^ The fixed 

 charges, ;^i8 ys. ^d. in all, included a fee of 

 £2 to the chief seneschal. Lord Monteagle, 

 one of £1 6s. Sd. to Marmaduke Tunstall, 

 seneschal of its lands in Lancashire, 13^. 4^. to 

 the court steward, Thomas Croft, and ^^4 for 

 alms to thirteen poor people *by the foundation 

 of Roger de Montbegon.'"' 



Priors or Wardens of Hornby 



Richard of Croxton,"' occurs 1227 



N ( ),"^ occurs 1230 



Robert,"' died 1246 



Robert of Gaddesby,"' appointed 1379 



Thomas Kellet "' (Kelyt), occurs 1475 



Thomas Wyther,"' occurs 1482 



Ellis Sherwood,"' occurs 1484 and 1490 



Edmund Green,"" occurs 1497 and 1501 



William Halliday,"i occurs 1535, surrendered 



1536 

 John Consyll,"^ surrendered 1538 



The seal attached to the surrender of 1536 

 has been (doubtfully) supposed to be the 

 common seal of the priory. Unfortunately 

 it is much broken and none of the legend re- 

 mains. 



FRIARIES 



14. THE HOUSE OF DOMINICAN 

 FRIARS, LANCASTER 



The house of the Black Friars at Lancaster 

 was founded about 1260 by Sir Hugh Harring- 

 ton, kt.' In September, 1291, the archbishop 

 of York instructed them to have three brothers 

 preaching the Crusade on Holy Cross Day, one 

 at Lancaster, another in Kendal, and a third in 

 Lonsdale.* Master William of Lancaster in 

 13 1 1 received licence to give a rood of land for 



'" Dep. Keeper's Rep. viii, App. ii, 18; Foedera, 

 xiv, 617. "« Pat. 36 Hen. VIII. pt. 10. 



'" Lanes. Final Cone, i, 5 1. "" Pope Nich. Tax. 309. 



"'^a/. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 150. The Com- 

 missioners of 1527 reported the cell to be worth 

 £z6 13/. \d ; Rentals and Surv. ptfo. 5, No. 15. 

 They refer no doubt to the temporalities. 



'"^j/. Eccl. iv, 151. 



'" Lanes. Final Cone. (Rec. Soc), i, 5 1 ; Cockersand 

 Chartul, 901. 



'" Hist, of Lane. Ch. (Chet. Soc), 154. The date 

 seems clear from comparison with similar documents 

 at pp. 164, 362. 



'" Lanes. Final Cone, i, 95 n. He was killed by 

 his horse violently dashing him against a cross. 



"• B.M. Peck MSS. ii, 36. 



"'Bodl. Lib. AshmoIeMS. 1519, fol. 5 (list of 

 confratres of Croxton). 



'" Ibid. fol. 21. This list is referred to 1482 by 

 Father Gasquet (Coll. Angk.-Prem. No. 3 3 8), but may 

 belong to 1478. 



"' Ibid. fol. 42^ (probably the same as Helias 

 or Ellis Hathersage [Hatersatage], prior of Hornby, 

 mentioned at fol. 1 1 3^) ; Collectanea Anglo-Premonstra- 

 tensia (Camden Soc), Nos. 339, 345. Identified by 

 Father Gasquet with Elias AtterclifFe, elected abbot of 

 Croxton in 1 49 1 (ibid, ii, 158). He acted as assessor 

 to Bishop Redman, visitor of the order. 



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the enlargement of their site, and a few years 

 later they took out a pardon for the acquisition 

 without licence of a further two acres.' 



In 1371 William of Northburgh, one of the 

 brethren, was licensed as penitentiary in the 

 wapentakes of Blackburn and Leyland.* Brother 

 Richard Pekard, recluse of this house, received 

 a licence in 1390 to hear confessions.^ 



The house was probably surrendered in 1539 ^ 

 and the crown on 18 June, 1540, sold it with 

 the friaries of Preston and Warrington to 

 Thomas Holcroft, esquire of the body to the 

 king, for ^126 I Of.' 



""AshmoIeMS. 15 19, fol. 136, 153^. Elected 

 abbot of Halesowen, 4 July, 1505 ; Coll. Angh.-Pre- 

 monstr. No. 447. 



'" Valor Eccl iv, 151;!. and P. Hen. Fill, x, 

 p. 141. See above. 



'" Dep. Keeper's Rep. viii, App. ii, 18. 



' The royal licence to acquire a site is dated 

 27 May, 1260 ; Pat. 44 Hen. Ill, m. 9. A prior 

 of the house is mentioned in 1269 ; Dugdale, Mon. 

 On the division of the English province of the order 

 into four ' visitations,' Canterbury, London, Oxford, 

 and York, it was assigned to the last-named ; Wore. 

 Cath. Lib. MS. 93, fly-leaf 



* Let. from Northern Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 95. 

 ' Cal of Pat. 1307-13, p. 387. 



* Lich. Epis. Reg. Stretton, fol. 26. 

 " Ibid. Scrope, fol. \z6b. 



° In Feb. 1539 one of Cromwell's agents mentions 

 this as one of twenty or more friaries still standing in 

 the north, most of which he hoped to see suppressed 

 before Easter ; L. and P. Hen. Fill, xiv (i), 348, 

 413. A royal commissioner was on his way to 

 Lancaster on 10 March ; ibid. 494. 



' Ibid. XV, 831, g. 43. The site was alienated in 

 2-3 Philip and Mary to Thomas Carus of Halton 

 and his son Thomas ; Dugdale, Mon. vi, i486. 



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