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Olaf s, lie gave them four acres of the ground now occupied by 
the Museum gardens, on which they soon erected a larger abbey, 
which they dedicated to St. Mary. The Danish influence, it 
may be observed, had at that time passed away: hence the 
change of name. But what did the monks do with St. Olaf s 
Church, which had sheltered them for a while ? It relapsed 
into its original position. Every monastery was obliged to find 
a place of worship for the retainers of the house and the 
inhabitants of the precinct, apart from the monastic sendees. 
Such a place the monks of St. Mary’s found in the Church of 
St. Olaf. It was served by one of the monks; it had no 
endowments, and was entirely dependent upon the neighbour¬ 
ing abbey. 
In the beginning of the fourteenth century we find in exis¬ 
tence close to the west end of St. Olaf’s Church a chapel, 
belonging to St. Mary’s Abbey, and dedicated to St. Mary, for 
which a fair endowment had been made. It would naturally 
seem absurd to maintain two places of worship in such close 
proximity to each other when one would suffice; and as St. 
Mary’s possessed an endovunent, whilst St. Olaf’s had none, 
the monks would wish to get rid of the burden of maintaining 
the fabric and supplying the duty at the latter. We are not 
surprised, therefore, to find that St. Olaf’s Church was allowed 
to fall into decay. In 1395 the nave was greatly dilapidated, 
and Archbishop Arundel ordered that it should be put right. 
Matters, however, went on from bad to worse, until in the 
middle of the following century the inhabitants of Marygate 
and that district took the case up very strongly. In 1458 
Eoger Stanes, of Marygate, left 6s. 8d. in his vill to glaze a 
window behind the door of the church. In 1463 Thomas 
Hornby, rector of Stokesley, bequeathed five marks to the 
fabric of the nave, if the parishioners should begin it within 
the next two years. These gifts, and all other legacies and 
dues would pass into the hands of the abbot and monks of St. 
Mary’s. The discontent, however, increased so much that the 
question as to the claims of the parishioners and the abbey was 
left to the decision of Archbishop Greorge Neville, who made 
his formal award on the 24th of October, 1466. The doc um ent 
