119. THE HOSPITAL OF CRAYKE
An indulgence was issued in 1228 on behalf
of the hospital of the Blessed Mary ' in the
meadows of Crak,' (fn. 20) but no other reference to
this institution is known.
120-1. THE HOSPITALS OF DONCASTER
The Hospital of St. James at Doncaster is
alluded to in 1222-3 as a leper-house, or at
least partly so. (fn. 21) At the time of the suppression (fn. 22)
it had become a free chapel only. Its freehold
land was 60s. a year; of copyhold it had none.
Roger Clarkson was the incumbent, and it was
half a mile from the parish church.
Archbishop Rotherham granted forty days'
indulgence in 1490 (fn. 23) to benefactors of Me spitil
extra australem portam ville de Doncaster.'
William, master of the House of Lepers at
Doncaster in 1287-8, impleaded Robert de
Gaste of Guseworth in a plea of novel disseisin. (fn. 24)
The little circular 15th-century seal (fn. 25) has a
figure of the patron saint with his pilgrim's staff
and wallet. Of the legend in the field, no
more than the word SAINCT is visible. The
seal is only 11/16 in. in diameter.
The Hospital of St. Nicholas.—
This hospital was founded by Robert de
Turnham in the reign of Richard I. (fn. 26) The
founder made it to some extent dependent upon
his abbey of Bayham in Sussex, (fn. 27) and bestowed
upon it land in Beverley which he had bought
from the Abbot of Meaux, (fn. 28) and also land in
Braneham. For this latter estate his daughter
Isabel and her husband Peter de Mauley gave
to the brothers and sisters of the hospital of
St. Nicholas 51 acres in Balby in exchange, (fn. 29) and
their son, another Peter de Mauley, recovered
land in ' Briddeshall' against the master of the
hospital of St. Nicholas in 1250. (fn. 30)
The only recorded master seems to be Henry,
who occurs in 1247. (fn. 31)
122. THE HOSPITAL OF HERFORD
The only mention of this hospital that has
been met with is the institution by Archbishop
Arundel of Ralph de Luceby, on 30 July 1389,
to the hospital of Herford in the diocese of York,
on the nomination of Thomas Barry, esq., the
patron. (fn. 32) Its situation is unknown, unless it
was at Hartforth, in the parish of Gilling, or
possibly it may have been the hospital of Flixton,
which is close to the River Hertford, and is
described in 1448 as 'in Hertforthlith.' (fn. 33)
123. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JAMES, HESSLE
In the latter part of the 12th century Henry
de Traneby granted to God and the hospital of
St. James of Hessle 1 acre of land with common
pasturage in the field of Hessle, near the mill,
between the land of Robert of Hessle and that of
Warren de Vescy, stretching towards the shore
of the Humber. (fn. 34)
124. HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE, KILLINGWOLDGRAVES
This hospital, which was situated about two
miles from Beverley, in the parish of Bishop
Burton, may have been founded by one of the
Archbishops of York, who had a manor-house in
the parish and were the patrons of the hospital.
In 1169 Archbishop Roger, considering the
calamity and misery of the poor sisters of ' Kynewaldgrave,' confirmed to them his gift of the
tithes of his assart of 'Bimannesconge.' (fn. 35) From
a charter of Edward III, (fn. 36) 22 June 1327, which
recites this with many other subsequent gifts, it
is evident that the hospital had in the mean
time become well endowed by the liberality of
a number of persons whose donations the king
confirmed. Until 1301 the sisters of the hospital alone are mentioned in the grants, as if the
hospital had been a foundation for women only;
but in a later grant (the date of which is not
recorded) by Roger the son of Hervey of Molescroft the brothers as well as the sisters of the
hospital are named, (fn. 37) and although the sisters are
more frequently mentioned, the foundation comprised brothers up to the time of its dissolution; for
Isabella Swales, one of the sisters, on 21 May 1536
bequeathed a maser as an heirloom to the house,
directing that it was to be in the keeping of the
eldest brother or else of the eldest sister. (fn. 38)
In 1352 Pope Clement VI granted a relaxation
of a hundred days of enjoined penance to penitents visiting the church of the poor hospital of
St. Mary Magdalene, Killingwoldgraves, on the
feast of the patron saint; and at the same time
he issued a mandate to the archbishop to cause
Maud de Beverlaco to be received as a sister, if
she was found to be fit. (fn. 39)
In 1355 Edward III granted licence to the
sisters to hold certain messuages in Beverley and
Walkington with rents given them by William
and Nicholas de Spaigne. In 1399 Alice de
Burton, Alice de Ferriby, and Maud Rydell,
sisters of the hospital of Killingwoldgraves, came
before the twelve governors of Beverley and
sought leave to have one bull, twelve sheep, and
twenty swine in the Westwood of Beverley, a
portion of land comprising 400 acres which was
leased to the commonalty of Beverley by the
archbishop. (fn. 40) In 1530 we find the chapter of
Beverley paying £1 4s. to the sisters of the
hospital, (fn. 41) and two years later a similar annuity
was being paid to the brothers and sisters.
There was a chaplain, whose stipend was
reckoned in 1527 at 5 marks, besides the master,
whose stipend was 26s. 7d. (fn. 42) The mastership
was usually held by clergymen of distinction in
the diocese, and in several instances by the
suffragan bishop.
Masters
Willelmus ' Pharen' episcopus,' (fn. 43) admitted
1399
William de Scardeburgh, (fn. 44) occurs 1411
Richard Bowett, (fn. 45) occurs 1414
Thomas Bryan, (fn. 46) occurs 1423
Thomas Tanfield, (fn. 47) admitted 1449
John Cromwell, died 1486 (fn. 48)
William, Bishop of Dromore, (fn. 49) admitted 1486
John Riplingham, died 1507 (fn. 50)
John Hatton, Bishop of Negropont, (fn. 51) admitted 1507
Christopher Wilson, occurs 1527 (fn. 52)
William, ' Dariens episcopus,' resigned 1543 (fn. 53)
Robert Warde, S.T.B., (fn. 54) 1543
125. HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY AND ST. ANDREW, FLIXTON
(Otherwise Carman-Spitle)
According to the Letters Patent of Henry VI
in 1448, (fn. 56) confirming the original foundation, the
deeds concerning which had, it is stated, been
burnt, the hospital was founded in the reign of
King Athelstan by a certain knight named Acehorne, formerly lord of Flixton, and was to
consist of an alderman and fourteen brothers and
sisters, and the object of the foundation was the
preservation of travellers from the wolves and
wild beasts then infesting those parts. For this
end Acehorne endowed the hospital with a toft
and croft, and two selions of moor and pasture
land in Flixton, and also gave the alderman,
brothers, and sisters common of pasturage for
twenty cows and a bull in Flixton. From time
out of mind the alderman, brothers, and sisters of
the hospital had possessed 30 other acres of arable
land in Flixton, the gifts of various persons.
Some doubt is, perhaps, cast on the date assigned
to the foundation of the hospital by the entries
made under the head of Flixton in the Lay
Subsidy Roll, 25 Edward I (1297), printed by
Mr. William Brown, (fn. 57) where the entry ' De
Acone Horn' xijd' has a curious resemblance to
the name of the reputed founder of the days of
King Athelstan. It may be added that of the
sum of 14s. collected in Flixton, the hospital of
St. Andrew paid 2s. 6d., the largest sum of any
in Flixton.
The Letters Patent record that the vicar
of the parish church of Folkton, in which parish
Flixton is situated, was accustomed, time out
of mind, to come to a certain chapel within
the hospital dedicated to God, the undefiled
virgin Mary, mother of Christ, and St. Andrew, and there to celebrate solemnly the
mass cum benedictione calicis, and after mass to
bless bread and water, and to divide the bread
and sprinkle the water among those who had
heard the mass. Many of the popes, it is added,
had granted great indulgences and remission of
sins to each person who heard the mass and
received the aforesaid sanctified bread and water.
The evidences of the hospital concerning all
these matters having been lost, and danger arising to the king's lieges who in the winter or at
night sought hospitality there, the king confirmed
all the rights of the hospital, and incorporated it
under the name of the alderman, brothers, and
sisters of Carman-Spitle. It is not mentioned in
the Valor Ecclesiasticus, and probably was not a
religious foundation in the stricter meaning of
the term, as there is nothing to indicate that the
alderman was a clergyman, nor is there any mention of a chaplain, nor in such lists as exist of
the clergy of the East Riding before the Reformation is there any record of the name of a
priest connected with the hospital. There is no
mention of it in any of the wills connected with
Folkton or Flixton extant at York, unless
there is an indirect reference to the hospital in a
bequest by John Fishburn, rector of Folkton, in
1437, of 20s. to each of the two fraternities
existing in his parish. (fn. 58) There is, moreover, no
reason assigned for the name of Carman-Spitle, (fn. 59)
under which the hospital was incorporated by
Henry VI. The site is now occupied by a farmhouse. Only one name of an alderman is known,
that of Richard Perron, whose name occurs in
the Letters Patent of 1448 as then in office.
126. FANGFOSS HOSPITAL
When Ralph Lutton, esquire, of Knapton, was
giving in his genealogy, (fn. 60) he showed two Latin
deeds wherein Sir Thomas Lutton of West
Lutton had bequeathed in 1300 to Robert of
Fangfoss, son of ' James de Hospitali juxta Fangfoss,' 4 tofts and crofts with 8 bovates and 8½ a.
of land in West Lutton. (fn. 61) The hospital was
clearly in existence in 1267, when Philip le
Waleys, 'of the hospital of Wangefosse,' was
accused of assaulting Alan son of Agnes in
Pocklington, (fn. 62) and is again mentioned in 1352,
when Nicholas Marchaunt, ' staying in Fangfosse
spitell,' murdered Thomas de Mikelfield. (fn. 63)
127. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE, NEWTON GARTH, HEDON
This hospital was founded by William le
Gros, Earl of Albemarle, prior to 1179, in which
year he died. The foundation charter is not
extant, but in the grant to the hospital by Henry
II of a yearly fair on the feast of St. Mary Magdalene and seven following days, the inmates of
the hospital are said to have been placed there by
William, Earl of Albemarle, and in a deed by
which the confratres leprosi of the hospital
granted their chapel of St. Mary Magdalene at
Hedon to William de Ederwic, they refer to
William, Earl of Albemarle, as their founder. (fn. 64)
Newton Garth, where the hospital stood, is a
little distance from Hedon itself, but was anciently
within the territory of the borough, and the inmates were called the infirmi de Hedona and
leprosi de Hedona. (fn. 65)
On 5 April 1301 Edward I granted the
master and brethren of the hospital of St. Mary
Magdalene of Newton juxta Overpaghele (now
High Paull, adjoining Hedon), in Holderness, free
warren in their demesne lands of Newton.
In 1334-5 (fn. 66) Richard Choldel and Alice his
wife recovered seisin in the king's court held at
Hedon against Richard de Potesgrave, master of
the hospital of Newton, near Hedon, and Adam
de Brunne, chaplain, of a corrody which consisted of a chamber in the hospital close; also
soup and two loaves of good bread daily, 28 lagenae
of the better ale of the hospital each fortnight,
and other food and pittances, as a superior
brother of the hospital, besides 3,000 turves
yearly, with thatch and straw for the chamber, a
stone of fat at Martinmas, 5s. 6d. yearly, and
pasturage for six ewes and their lambs.
The mastership was evidently a piece of preferment of consideration, and sought after. On
29 April 1427 (fn. 67) Pope Martin V granted a dispensation to Thomas Bourchier, master of the
hospital of St. Mary Magdalene, Newton Garth,
who was in his sixteenth year only and of a race
of great nobles and held the mastership, which
was without cure (of souls) and wont to be
assigned to secular clerks as a perpetual benefice,
not exceeding £20 a year, that after he had
attained his twentieth year he might hold any
two benefices for life with or without a cure.
This young master was the Thomas Bourchier
who from the see of Ely was translated to Canterbury in 1454, became Lord High Chancellor
in 1455, and a cardinal in 1464. He died in
1486.
In 1485 (fn. 68) the mastership was claimed by
Edmund Lichfeld and Edmund Percy. Archbishop Rotherham confirmed Mr. Edmund Percy
in the mastership, and assigned Mr. Edmund
Lichfeld an annual pension of 100s. The archbishop's adjudication was confirmed by Robert,
the Dean, and the Chapter of York, and accepted
by Edmund, custos sive magister of the hospital,
with the confratres and sisters of the same, in the
hospital on 14 January 1485-6.
In 1526 (fn. 69) the mastership was valued at
£21 2s. 8d., and the chaplaincy or office of
cantarist in the chapel at 100s, a year. At the
time of the Valor Ecclesiasticus the annual value
of lands and rents of the hospital was estimated
at £40. Alms to the amount of 3s. 4d. were
given at the obit of the founder, and five
eleemorinarii each received 34s. 8d. They were
John Holme and his wife, Christopher Armerour,
William Mase, and John Newby, all appointed
by Royal Letters Patent. (fn. 70)
In 1552-3 (fn. 71) it was reported under ' Newton
Garth in Holdernes' as follows: ' Johan Nanby
one of the systers of the lait hospital of Newton
Garthe in holdernes of thage of liiijti yeres havyng
to her pen con xxxiiijs. by yere and none arrereges
of her seid pencon at michelmas last and haith
not alyned ne sold the same. Alice Thornton
obijt in October anno quinto Regis nunc, with
lyke pencon and not paid for oone half yere
endyd at martymes anno predicto and the seid
pencon not sold.'
About the middle of the 19th century a
vesica-shaped seal was dug up at Hedon 1½in.
by 1 in. in measurement. In the upper part
are two demi-figures with nimbed heads, apparently SS. Peter and Paul. Below is the
kneeling figure of an ecclesiastic. The whole
is very rudely executed. Mr. Boyle deciphered the legend ' S. mag'ri Simon is domus b'te
marie.' (fn. 72)
The assumption made both by Poulson and
Mr. Boyle that the seal is that of a former master
of Newton Garth Hospital needs proof.
Masters
Simon ? (fn. 73)
William de Sancto Oswaldo, occurs 1310 (fn. 74)
John de Rolleston, occurs 1315 (fn. 75)
Walter de Assherugge, appointed 1316 (fn. 76)
Richard de Potesgrave, occurs 1334-5, (fn. 77)
1342 (fn. 78)
Richard de Retford, occurs 1354 (fn. 79)
Alan Boole, before 1371 (fn. 80)
Robert de Muskham, occurs 1378 (fn. 81)
John Frankyssh, occurs 1388 (fn. 82)
Thomas Bourchier, occurs 1427 (fn. 83)
Edmund Percy, 1485 (fn. 84)
Mr. Robert Gilbert, 1526 (fn. 85)
—Woodhall, 1535 (fn. 86)
128-30. OTHER HOSPITALS OF HEDON
The Hospital of St. Sepulchre.—This
hospital, which stood on the north of the town,
west of the road to Preston, was founded by Alan
Fitz Hubert, who granted to the lepers of St. Sepulchre of Hedon 7 acres, being the site on which
the buildings were erected, and adjacent lands.
Another gift, by Peter Hog, burgess of Hedon, was
to the master, brothers, and sisters of the hospital.
Elsewhere the master and brothers are generally
spoken of, or the latter only. In a fine, the
prior of the sick people of Hedon is mentioned,
and this is believed to refer to the head of
St. Sepulchre's Church.
' The founder and his descendants retained
the right of presenting a man or woman, whole
or infirm, to be provided for in the hospital. If
the person chosen was a priest, or below that
order, he was, nevertheless, to dine at the common
table, and sleep in the dormitory of the lay
brethren, and to wear the same apparel . . .
In addition to this, the hospital was held bound
to receive any afflicted person, allied to the
founder or his heirs within the fourth degree of
blood, and sufficiently to provide for him.' (fn. 87)
In an inquisition of 1276 the commissioners
reported that the brethren of the hospital of
St. Sepulchre had inclosed a place which used to
be common. (fn. 88)
On 27 February 1468 Joan de Twyer directed
in her will that she was to be buried in the
chapel of the hospital of St. Sepulchre juxta
Hedon, and bequeathed to the master of the
hospital a ewer and basin, and a brazen mortar. (fn. 89)
On 15 August 1490 Robert Twyer directed in
his will that he was to be buried in the church
of St. Sepulchre beside Hedon, near the tomb of
Sir William Twyer, kt., his ancestor. (fn. 90) In the
Valor Ecclesiasticus the yearly revenue of the
hospital is set down as £11 18s.4d. In 1526
the mastership was reckoned at £4 a year.
Masters
Ralph, occurs 1210-11 (fn. 91)
Peter, occurs 1256 (fn. 92)
Robert, occurs 1282 (fn. 93)
Alan Grass, occurs 1388 (fn. 94)
Richard Sprotlay, occurs 1468 (fn. 95)
Mr. William Wight, occurs 1526 (fn. 96)
Silvanus Clifton, occurs 1535, (fn. 97) 1538 (fn. 98)
Edmund St. Quintin (last master) (fn. 99)
The Hospital of St. Leonard.—Among
the town records of Hedon there are several
allusions to this hospital, (fn. 100) and in a defective
Sheriff Tourn roll of the time of Henry IV
there is a statement that ' Lenardgote ' was
defective, and that it ought to be repaired ' per
magistrum hospitalis Sancti Leonardi' and a
certain William Alnewick. (fn. 1) The hospital stood
on the west of a road called Wood market Gate.
The Hospital of the Gild of the Holy
Cross.—Licence was granted by Richard II,
5 July 1392, to John de Burton and Henry
Maupas, to convey a toft in Hedon to the masters
and brothers of the hospital of the gild of the Holy
Cross of Hedon to find a candle to burn every
feast day in the church of St. Augustine of
Hedon before the high cross. (fn. 2)
The gild of the Holy Cross at Hedon maintained a chaplain who said morning mass at one
of the altars in St. Augustine's Church for the
souls of departed members of the fraternity. (fn. 3) It
possessed considerable property in the town, and
some of its work seems to have been that of a
benevolent society. In an inquisition held in York
Castle in 1613 two messuages called God's Love
Houses, on the south side of the church of St.
Augustine, are named as having belonged to the
gild. Possibly these represented the old hospital. (fn. 4)