THE TREASURER’S HOUSE, YORK. • 
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Edward the VI. granted all the possessions to the Protector 
Somerset who sold them to Archbishop Holgate for 200 
marks, and with them the Treasurer’s House. This Arch¬ 
bishop was appointed by King Henry VIII., to whom he at 
once made over the greater part of the Minster property. 
He is referred to as being one of the wealthiest men of this 
time. On the accession of Queen Mary he was deprived of 
the See, in 1553. 
By his will dated 1555, he devised to be sold the Treasurer’s 
House, and with part of the proceeds he founded the Hospital 
at Hemsworth (his birth-place) for twenty poor men and 
women. This bequest was the source of much litigation, suits 
for the recovery of the property from the various owners 
occurring constantly up to the end of the reign of Charles II. 
Nicholas Heath, appointed Archbishop by Queen Mary, 
purchased the house from Archbishop Holgate, and sold it 
again, on deprivation in 1558, to Thomas Young, who was 
made Archbishop of York by Queen Elizabeth, and to whom 
reference has already been made. He was formerly Bishop of 
St. David’s, and died in the year 1568. He devised the house 
’to his wife Jane for life, and to his son George in tail male. 
George Young was married to the daughter of Jasper 
Cholmley, of Highgate, and was knighted by James I. in 1603 
at Whitehall on July 23. He appears to have won the favour 
of the King, as his Majesty and Lord Sheffield (the President 
of the Council of the North, and Commander of the “Bear ” at 
the repulse of the Spanish Armada) dined with Sir George 
Young at Treasurer’s House, and made eight Yorkshire 
Knights there, viz. : Sir William Ellis, Sir William Ingram, 
Sir William Howgate, Sir Peter Middleton, Sir John Hotham, 
Sir Richard Darley, and Sir Walter Bethell ; the King lying 
at this time at St. Mary’s Manor, now the Blind School. 
Thomas Young (son of the above) sold the house to Sir 
Wm. Belt, the Recorder of York. 
In Cromwell’s time it passed to Lord Fairfax of Denton, 
and subsequently, in the time of Charles II., to Mr. Ayslaby 
of Ripon, an ancestor of the Robinson (now the Marquis of 
Ripon) family. Mr. Ayslaby died a tragic death, being killed, 
in a duel with rapiers, by Sir Jonathan Jennings, for having 
