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AN 
 
 HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PRIORY CHURCH 
 
 OF 
 
 BRIDLINGTON, 
 
 IN THE EAST RIDING O? THE COUNTY OF YORK. 
 
 BY THE 
 
 REV. MARMADUKE PRICKETT, M.A. 
 
 OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 Prisca Ecclesiae nostra? fabrica et politeia absque Monasteriologia manca 
 est. — Marsham : Pref: in Dugd. 
 
 Reliquiae san£ splendidae, qua3 quicunque intueatur et admiretur et aimul 
 eomroisereatur. — Camden. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE: 
 
 PRINTED FOR T. STEVENSON; 
 AND SOLD BY C. J. G. AND F. RIVINGTON, LONDON ; 
 AND FORTH, AND FURBY, BRIDLINGTON. 
 
 1831, 
 
CAMBRIDGE: 
 PRINTED BY W. METCALFE, ST. MARY'S STREET. 
 
ERRATA. 
 
 Page 3, line 19, for 560, read 597. 
 
 23, 22, read de Veteri Ponte. 
 31, 8, read such as had not an income. 
 
 79, 16, read convention^. 
 
 79, 18, read sicut. 
 
 101, 11, read innocentem et inarmatum seevissime ruenks. 
 104, 8, read Rev. M. Buck. 
 
 106, 12, read from which a donation of 30Z. was granted. 
 
 116, 23, read M.S. Priscilke. 
 
 121, 12, read quarter-pierced. 
 
 w cento Oi <xu IXTC* casing 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 The attention of some of the most distinguished 
 individuals, both in Church and State, has been 
 drawn to the present condition of the Parochial 
 Churches throughout the kingdom, and the libe- 
 ral donations of pious individuals have, in many 
 instances, co-operated with the provision recently 
 made by the Legislature, in order to meet the 
 wants of an increasing population, and to carry 
 on repairs, which long neglect has accumulated 
 upon the present generation. 
 
 The object, therefore, of this and of similar 
 publications which have lately appeared, is not 
 merely to gratify the student of Architecture and 
 Antiquities ; but also to call the attention of 
 those, who are locally or officially connected with 
 each particular church, to the expediency of their 
 general improvement and restoration by every 
 practicable means. It is a vain and idle excuse, 
 
Vi PREFACE. 
 
 too often originating in hostility or indifference 
 to the cause, that since much is to be done, and 
 we cannot do all that is required, therefore we 
 are justified in doing nothing. At the same time 
 it must be allowed, that a task of no ordinary 
 difficulty has, in many cases, been imposed upon 
 us by the negligence of our predecessors in not 
 repairing, duly and regularly, the sacred edifices 
 entrusted to their charge. 
 
 The Church of Bridlington is under peculiar 
 disadvantages in this respect. It was at the same 
 time a parochial and a conventual Church, and, 
 being appropriated to one of the richest monas- 
 teries in Yorkshire., displayed, in the magnitude 
 of its proportions and architectural decorations, 
 a magnificence corresponding to the elevated ra/ik 
 of the ecclesiastical establishment to which it 
 belonged. When, however, the Monastery was 
 dissolved, its ample revenues were scattered with 
 an unsparing hand; and in no similar instance, 
 perhaps, was the wealth, which had been be- 
 queathed for pious uses, torn from the Church 
 with so little regard to secure a suitable provision 
 for the future wants of the parish. 
 
 During the existence of the Monastery the 
 western part, or nave, of the ancient Priory 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Vll 
 
 Church, was assigned to the use of the town, 
 while the monks performed their devotions in 
 the eastern part of the fabric* At the dissolu- 
 tion, the western part of the ancient edifice was 
 accordingly suffered to remain, and the rectorial 
 tithes were sold to a layman, subject to the pay- 
 ment of eight pounds a year to a Perpetual 
 Curate, who should " perform divine service, and 
 have the charge of souls within the parish." This 
 remaining portion of the ancient Conventual 
 Church, in its present condition, is calculated to 
 excite mingled feelings of regret and admiration. 
 Its original features may still be distinctly traced 
 in spite of the neglect and oblivion to which they 
 have been consigned for the space of three cen- 
 turies ; but in order to put this beautiful speci- 
 men of Gothic architecture in complete repair, 
 by a judicious restoration, means would be re- 
 quired which the Church of Bridlington no longer 
 possesses. How far the voluntary contributions 
 of the Parishioners, aided by a grant from the 
 " Society for Building and Repairing Churches," 
 might be capable of effecting this most desirable 
 
 * " The seyd Church ys divided the on part for the Pryory 
 and Covent, and the nether part for the Parysshe Church." 
 
 Survey of Bridlington Priory, taken 32 Hen. VIII. 
 
Vlll PREFACE. 
 
 object, the Author does not pretend to de- 
 termine. 
 
 Of the materials of the following work little 
 can be said likely to be interesting to the gene- 
 rality of readers : and to those who are familiar 
 with the original sources of information common 
 to this and similar publications, the few remarks 
 which can be made offer nothing new. There 
 are only two MS. volumes, — one an original, the 
 other an abstract, if not a copy, — from which 
 those eminent antiquarians Dugdale and Burton 
 derived the chief part of their information re- 
 specting the Priory of Bridlington : — the former 
 of these MSS. is the Register of the Priory now 
 in the possession of Sir William Ingilby, Bart. ; 
 and the latter, the transcript of a Chartulary of the 
 Priory, the same most probably which is enume- 
 rated in Tanner's List of Records relating to 
 this Monastery, and there entitled " Cartularium 
 penes Ric. Malleverer Bar." These two sources 
 of original information appear to have supplied 
 materials for the notices of the Priory of Brid- 
 lington in the Monasticon Anglicanum of Dug- 
 dale, and the Monasticon Eboracense of Burton. 
 To these may be added some additional materials 
 for this history to be found in the shape of original 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 letters, and other documents, deposited in the 
 British Museum : in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : 
 in the University Library, and in the Library of 
 Trinity College, Cambridge ; or in the collections 
 of private individuals. Of course the casual 
 notices of this Monastery, in common with others, 
 interspersed throughout the National Records, re- 
 cently published, must not be omitted ; and, in 
 particular, the Survey of Henry the Eighth's 
 Commissioners, prior to the dissolution, preserved 
 among the Records in the Chapter House, West- 
 minster. There is scarcely any thing to be met 
 with more recent than the works of Dugdale and 
 Burton, as to the history of this Priory, except the 
 scanty hints to be gleaned from the notice taken of 
 the Town in some local topographical works, which 
 repeat the same facts with little or no variation. 
 
 The only work, except the present, which has 
 been expressly devoted to an illustration, not, 
 indeed, as in this case, of the Ecclesiastical only, 
 but also of the Civil History of the Town, is a 
 small volume published on the spot in 1821, and 
 entitled, " Historical Sketches of Bridlington, by 
 John Thompson." The author of this little work 
 has the merit of being the first inhabitant of the 
 place who endeavoured to illustrate and make 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 known the antiquities of his native town, and 
 the present work has been undertaken with a 
 similar intention. It is but just, here to acknow- 
 ledge, that the Author of the present work is in- 
 debted to Mr. Thompson for the first intimation 
 of the existence of the very interesting document 
 published by Mr. Caley's kind permission in the 
 Appendix, and that he is indebted to the book 
 before alluded to for the knowledge of some facts, 
 although in all cases the original authorities have 
 been carefully consulted. 
 
 To John Caley, Esq. F.S.A. the Author is in- 
 debted for his liberality in furnishing Messrs. 
 Storer, the engravers, with drawings of the 
 Priory seals : — to Thomas Rickman, architect, for 
 his liberality and kindness in looking over the 
 architectural part of this work, and for several 
 useful suggestions : — to the Rev. Bulkeley Ban- 
 dinel, D.D. keeper of the Bodleian Library, for 
 his very valuable assistance in decyphering the 
 Dodsworth MSS :— to Walter Calverley Treve- 
 lyan, Esq., of University College, Oxford, for 
 presenting to this work the plate of the ancient 
 sculptured Stone (PI. ix.) originally engraved at 
 his expence for the Transactions of the Anti- 
 quarian Society at Newcastle :— to Sir W. Ingilby, 
 
PREFACE. Xi 
 
 Bart, for permission to inspect the MS. Register 
 of the Priory in his possession: — to Sir W. 
 Strickland, Bart, and Archdeacon Wrangham, 
 for much kind encouragement and assistance : — 
 to Eustachius Strickland, Esq. of York, for a 
 transcript of that part of the Torr MSS. which 
 relates to Bridlington : — to Robert Nairne, Esq. 
 and the Rev. W. Greenwood, of Trinity College, 
 Cambridge, to the former for the researches made 
 in the British Museum, and to the latter for the 
 use of his MSS. collections respecting the mo- 
 nastic orders : — and to David Taylor and George 
 Hodgson, Esqrs., two of the Lords Trustees of 
 the Manor of Bridlington, for some information 
 from original papers in the Town Chest. 
 
 The Author begs leave to return his most grate- 
 ful acknowledgements for the encouragement 
 which he has received in his undertaking from 
 a very numerous list of subscribers, and to apolo- 
 gize for the delay which has unavoidably attended 
 the publication of the work. 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Introduction ------- 1 — 10 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 Historical Description ----- 11 — 37 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 Architectural Description - 39 — 56 
 
 Appendix ------- 59 — 127 
 
LIST OF PLATES. 
 
 PLATE 
 
 T 
 1. 
 
 Priory Gate, Bridlington, with Church, as seen through it. 
 
 II. 
 
 Priory Gate, from side next Church. 
 
 III. 
 
 Priory Church, S. W. View. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Priory Church, N. E. View. 
 
 V. 
 
 Priory Church, Interior, west end. 
 
 VI. 
 
 West Front, S. W. door. 
 
 VII. 
 
 North Porch. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Architectural Details. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Ancient Sculptured Stone. 
 
 X. 
 
 Ground Plan of the Church. 
 
 XI. 
 
 Priory Seals, &c. 
 
 XII. 
 
 Ancient Fonts. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Filey and Flamborough Churches. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Flamhro' Rood loft, and monument of Sir Martin de la See. 
 
 XV. 
 
 Carnaby and Boynton Churches. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 Rudston Church, and Norman door, Kilham Church. 
 
 XVII. 
 
 Map of Bridlington and the Vicinity. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The ancient history of the English Church, as is well 
 known to all who have studied the subject with any degree 
 of attention, is intimately connected with the history of the 
 monasteries. In many cases, however, as in that of which 
 we are now about to treat, the history of the parochial 
 church is actually incorporated with that of the monastery 
 to which it was appropriated. It will therefore be neces- 
 sary, for the information of general readers, to premise 
 some brief remarks on the different monastic orders, and on 
 the constitution of monastic establishments. 
 
 To enter, indeed, into any detail of the rise and progress 
 of monachism, a system of superstition, and self-imposed 
 austerities, which has uniformly been supported and encou- 
 raged by the Papal power, would lead us far beyond the 
 limits of the present work. The reader who wishes for 
 more extensive information on such a subject must be re- 
 ferred to several works which have been expressly devoted 
 to the description of the various monastic orders and rules 
 either generally, or as they existed in this country anterior 
 to the period of the Reformation.* 
 
 * Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. vi. c. 37. Turner's 
 Hist, of England, vol. v. c. 2. Fuller's Hist, of the Eng. Church, vol. vi. Bur- 
 net's Hist, of the Reform. Fosbrooke's British Monachism. Burn's Ecclesi- 
 astical Law, vol. ii. p. 515, and the Prefaces to Dugdale's Monasticon Angli- 
 canum, Burton's Monasticon Eboracense, and Tanner's Notitia Monastica. 
 
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2 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The system of monastic seclusion probably originated im 
 imitation of the retired and severe mode of life adopted im 
 the wilderness by the prophet Elijah under the Jewish, ancd 
 by John the Baptist under the Christian Dispensation ; 
 while, in later times, the primitive Christians were oftern 
 compelled by the terrible persecutions under the Romam 
 emperors to seek in the solitude of the desert a refuge frorm 
 the miseries inflicted on them by heathen cruelty and op »- 
 pression. At first, being few in number, they lived aparrt 
 from each other as solitary hermits ; in time, however, thte 
 practice becoming more general, the solitaries associatecd 
 together in fraternities under the direction of a superiorr, 
 and thus the earliest monasteries were probably formed. 
 
 Incredible was the increase and diffusion of the monkislh 
 spirit about the eighth century of the Christian era. Thte 
 monks soon became a formidable party in the ecclesiasticaal 
 state. They were styled Regulars, since each order had itts 
 rule, to which all the members were obliged to conform i; 
 and were thus distinguished from the secular or parochiaal 
 clergy, who mixed more in the affairs of the world at largee. 
 Their pretensions to superior sanctity of life, and the op>- 
 portunities which they enjoyed for the pursuits of literaturre 
 beyond the secular clergy, soon gave them a decided anid 
 preponderating influence over the minds of the uneducatecd 
 laity. In a warlike and barbarous age, when the higheer 
 classes of society had little leisure or inclination for learnecd 
 studies, and many of them, as well as all the lower orderes, 
 could neither read nor write, the libraries of the severaal 
 convents were almost the sole depositaries of literature;; 
 and while the art of printing was unknown, the monks, somie 
 of whom were constantly employed in transcribing or illui- 
 minating manuscripts, or compiling their registers antd 
 chronicles, were the only writers of the day. We mustt, 
 therefore, revert to the state of learning in Europe at thait 
 period, and contrast it with the progress made in arts an«d 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 3 
 
 science during the last three centuries, in order to form a 
 just estimate of the causes which in a great measure contri- 
 buted to raise the monastic orders to that height of pros- 
 perity and power which they formerly possessed.* Having 
 made these few general remarks, we may now proceed to 
 take a rapid survey of the monastic establishments in this 
 kingdom, with the history of which the present object of 
 these researches is more immediately concerned. 
 
 It may fairly be concluded that Christianity was first 
 introduced among the Britons by their Roman conquerors, f 
 When, however, it was in a languishing state, owing to the 
 departure of the Romans before A. D. 448, and the arrival 
 of the idolatrous Saxons, A. D. 452, it was revived and re- 
 established by missionaries from the Papal court. The in- 
 troduction of monachism into Britain may therefore be 
 dated from the period when those active emissaries, Au- 
 gustine and Paulinus, who were both monks, landed on the 
 British shores, and finally established the metropolitan 
 churches of Canterbury, A. D. 560, and York, A. D. 625. 
 
 The Benedictine rule was at this time almost universally 
 prevalent among the European monks. It had been framed 
 in the sixth century for the use of the western church by 
 St. Benedict, a native of Italy, upon the basis of those by 
 which the monasteries in the East had long been governed. 
 This order of monks, the oldest and most celebrated in 
 Europe, appears to have been the only one which was 
 
 * See Robertson's Introduction to the History of Charles the Fifth. 
 The revival of learning, the invention of printing, and the Reformation of 
 religion were nearly contemporaneous events. 
 
 t " Tertullian and Origen speak of the conversion of the Britons to Chris- 
 tianity in the infancy of the church, and that they were qualified before by 
 their Druids for that purpose ; who always taught them to believe there was 
 but one God. Gildas speaks of the introduction of Christianity into Britain 
 in the earliest times, and Chrysostom and St. Jerome too." — Camden. 
 See Bede Eccl. Hist. lib. i. cap. 30. Parker de Antiq. Eccl. Angl. Usher., 
 Antiq. Brit. cap. 3. p. 20. 
 
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4 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 introduced into this country prior to the Norman con- - 
 quest. 
 
 The monasteries and nunneries belonging to the Bene- - 
 dictine order in the ancient kingdom of Northumbria, , 
 which was nearly the same in extent with the archiepiscopal 1 
 province of York, seem to have been overwhelmed along * 
 with the churches in one common ruin by the Danish and I 
 Norman invasions, and to have remained in this condition, , 
 with few exceptions,* till the reign of Henry the First, , 
 A. D. 1100. At this time the king, the nobility, and the 3 
 nation at large, displayed a general determination to repair r 
 the injuries which the ecclesiastics and the possessions of f 
 the church had suffered during those great national revolu- - 
 tions which had so recently subsided. So great was thee 
 zeal shown by the English people in the cause, that within i 
 150 years, from A.D. 1066, to the reign of Henry thee 
 Third, A. D. 1216, there were founded and refounded noj 
 less than 476 abbies and priories. Several new orders off 
 Religious were brought into England in the time of Henry y 
 the First, — the Cistercians, the monks of Grandmont, thee 
 Augustine canons, the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, andl 
 the Knights Hospitallers. Three new orders followed in thee 
 succeeding reign : the Knights Templars, and the Praemon- - 
 stratensiah and Gilbertine canons. Soon after came thee 
 Carthusians, and the two classes of mendicant friars, thee 
 Dominicans and Franciscans. Such were the principal! 
 monastic orders in England. 
 
 We have already observed that the clergy were divided! 
 into seculars and regulars. The latter were of two kinds,;, 
 monks and canons ; and of these the most celebrated weree 
 the canons regular of the order of St. Augustine, f Al- 
 though they were a less strict sort of religious than thee 
 
 * Selby Abbey was founded by the Conqueror, 
 t Bishop of Hippo, in Africa, A. D. 395. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
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 monks, yet they lived together under one roof, had a 
 common chapel, dormitory, and refectory ; were obliged to 
 obey their superior, and to observe the statutes of their 
 or der. The dress of the Augustine canons consisted of a 
 long black cassock, over which was a white rochet, with a 
 bliack cloak and hood, whence they were sometimes called 
 " Black Canons." They also wore caps on their heads in- 
 stead of the monkish cowl, and suffered their beards to 
 grow, whereas the monks were always shaven. 
 
 In every monastery the superior was styled abbot, or 
 prior ; the latter was the appellation by which the superior 
 of a society of Augustine canons was always distinguished. 
 Many of the abbots were mitred and sat in Parliament, 
 being little inferior in rank to the bishops themselves. In 
 all the greater monasteries they were styled lord abbot and 
 lord prior. They carried the pastoral staff in the right 
 hand, the bishops in the left. 
 
 Next under the prior in every priory was the subprior, 
 who assisted the prior while present, and acted in his stead 
 when absent. 
 
 The other officers belonging to every monastery were the 
 prsecentor, who presided over the performance of the choir 
 service, and kept the register ; the sacrist, who took care of 
 the plate and vestments belonging to the church, and of the 
 burial of the dead ; the almoner, who distributed alms daily 
 to the poor at the gate of the convent ; the hospitaller, who 
 entertained strangers ; the bursar, who managed the revenue 
 of the convent ; the master of the works, who took charge 
 of the repairs of the fabric ; the chamberlain, who had 
 the care of the dormitory ; the cellarer, who looked after 
 the provisions ; the refectioner, who superintended the 
 refectory ; the infirmarer, who attended to the wants of 
 the sick. There were also the cook, gardener, and 
 porter. 
 
 The various buildings of a monastery need not be enu- 
 
6 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 merated here, the reader being referred to the architec- 
 tural part of the following work. For it is to be observed, 
 that although the gate-house and the nave of the priory 
 church are now the principal remains of the Priory of Brid- 
 lington, yet in a paper published a few years ago in the 
 Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries,* the inventory 
 taken by Henry the Eighth's commissioners of the buildings 
 of this priory immediately before the dissolution, was se- 
 lected from among many others as affording the most accu- 
 rate description of the kind now extant. At the same time 
 it must be regretted that few vestiges now remain of what is 
 there described. Perhaps Fountains Abbey, in the West 
 Riding of Yorkshire, is the most complete specimen, as a 
 ruin, in the kingdom. The church of the monastery is 
 nearly entire as to the walls, but the roof is quite g<one. 
 The chapter house, court chamber over the kitchen, the 
 refectory, the cloisters with the dormitory over them, and 
 the abbot's lodge, at a small distance from the main buiild- 
 ing, are still in a wonderfully perfect condition. 
 
 Some striking points of resemblance may still be traced 
 between the old monastic establishments, and the colleges 
 in the two Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. We 
 may add the case of a dean, subdean, and prebendarries, 
 residing within the precincts of our cathedral and collegiate 
 churches. Both these societies, from being originally mo- 
 nastic, were improved and altered at the Reformation, but 
 yet retain many vestiges of their original constitution, and 
 may be" mentioned as popular illustrations in this country of 
 the establishments we have endeavoured to describe. 
 
 The monasteries in Yorkshire, which were the miost 
 wealthy, their revenues being considerably more than 2?00/. 
 per annum, (which was the average income of what were 
 termed the lesser monasteries,) were the following : viz;., of 
 
 * See Archaologia, Vol. xix. Art. 30. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 7 
 
 the Benedictines, St. Mary's, York, 1550/., per annum ; 
 Selby, 720/., and Whitby, 437/. ; of the Cistercians, Foun- 
 tains, 998/., and Kirkstal, 329/. Of the Canons Regular of 
 the order of St. Augustine there were about 175 houses in 
 England and Wales. Of these seven were in Yorkshire : 
 viz., Nostel, Gisburgh, Newburgh, Kirkham, Bridlington, 
 Bolton and Warter, the richest being Gisburgh, 628/. ; 
 Bridlington, 547/. ; Nostel, 492/. ; and Newburgh, 367/. 
 Thus much as to the ancient state of the English mo- 
 nasteries. 
 
 Before we close these introductory remarks, a few ob- 
 servations may be made upon the change which has been 
 produced in the revenues of many of our parochial churches 
 owing to the dissolution of the monastery to which they 
 were formerly appropriated. When a monastery was si- 
 tuated like Fountains Abbey, in conformity with the ori- 
 ginal destination of such establishments, in a sequestered 
 spolt remote from the habitations of men, the church, being 
 resorted to only by the monks themselves, and by the pil- 
 grirms, who came to present their offerings at the shrine of 
 som e favorite saint, ceased to be used for the purposes of 
 public worship, when the fraternity of monks was dispersed, 
 and the efficacy of relics discredited. In such cases it 
 shared the fate of the other buildings of the monastery, 
 and now serves only as a picturesque ruin to afford ma- 
 terials for the investigation of the antiquary or the archi- 
 tect,. But when a monastery was situated within the pre- 
 cincts of a town, as is the case at Bridlington, and when the 
 parochial church was appropriated to it, the prior and the 
 consent became virtually the rector of the parish, and in the 
 spoliation of their revenues no due reservation was made for 
 the adequate maintenance of the future officiating minister 
 of tihe parish church.* Nor was this the only inconvenience 
 
 * See the Bishop of Lincoln's Charge in 1827. p. 7- 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 resulting from such a mode of procedure. It generally 
 happened that in the immediate vicinity of the great con- 
 ventual church of the town, the parochial churches of the 
 villages had been appropriated for the support of the mo- 
 nastery. In these cases the monks enjoyed the rectorial 
 tithes, and the church was served by a stipendiary curate, 
 or by one of the brethren of the monastery. In some of the 
 surrounding hamlets there were only chapels dependent 
 upon the church of the monastery as their mother church ; 
 and these, as we might naturally conclude, could not but 
 suffer most severely from its spoliation. 
 
 When on the confiscation of the monastic estates the rec- 
 torial tithes of all such churches were seized by the crown, 
 they were usually granted or leased out at an easy rate to 
 court favorites among the laity, subject to the payment of 
 an annual stipend to a person generally nominated by the 
 bishop of the diocese, and called a perpetual curate. 
 Owing to the vast increase of the value of land since the 
 period of which we are speaking, while these money-pay- 
 ments remained fixed, it is quite plain how unlikely such a 
 measure was to secure the just rights and privileges of the 
 reformed church, and to provide for the comfort and re- 
 spectability of the clergy, to whose charge such parishes 
 were allotted.* In fact, this measure has ever been a source 
 of regret to some of the best and wisest friends of the esta- 
 blished church. Cranmer, and Parker, and Spelman, and 
 Herbert, and Burnet laboured, each in their day, as far as 
 they could, to remedy its defects, and to provide against 
 the evils which it has introduced. But though much has 
 
 * One thing greatly to be lamented is, that in the hurry of the dissolu- 
 tion better provision was not made for the performance of divine offices in 
 such churches as had been appropriated to the monasteries, which both the 
 ministers and parishioners of those places suffer for to this day, and is 
 justly accounted a scandal to our Reformation.— Burn's Eccl. Law, vol. ii. 
 p. 544. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 
 
 been effected by their pious endeavours, yet a great deal 
 more remains to be done before the church can be rescued 
 from the disabilities under which it lies at present, owing 
 to these causes, as will be most clearly instanced in the fol- 
 lowing history. 
 
 It remains only to say a few words upon the state in 
 which our parochial churches exist at present ; and it is 
 a fact capable of more or less proof in every diocese 
 throughout the kingdom, that the churches need more 
 than ordinary attention to remedy the consequences of long 
 continued negligence on the part of their appointed guar- 
 dians.* These, as is well known, are the archdeacon, the 
 rural dean, the clergyman, and the churchwardens; and 
 if the two former, instead of declining to interfere, would in 
 all cases exercise the superintending and directing power 
 committed to them by the church, we might still hope, 
 from what has already been effected, to see these beautiful 
 monuments of gothic architecture, which have been be- 
 queathed to us by our ancestors, transmitted to posterity in 
 a tolerable state of preservation. When, indeed, as in the 
 case now before us, the parochial church has been formerly 
 an appendage to some rich monastery, the spacious edifice 
 erected and kept in repair by the help of those large funds 
 of which the dissolution deprived it, has often been dis- 
 figured or dilapidated through the inadequate and scanty 
 repairs which could be afforded from the resources of mo- 
 dern church rates. From the same cause the neighbouring 
 churches and chapels, which derived their existence and 
 support from the convent, have been suffered to fall into 
 decay, or have been sometimes altogether disused. The 
 day is, indeed, gone by when liberal grants were made to 
 the church for the good of the soul of the donor ; but the 
 
 * See Introduction to an interesting work, entitled, " Notes on the Cam- 
 bridgeshire Churches." 
 
10 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 influence of more rational motives surely now might be 
 sufficient to induce all lovers of our church to show their 
 regard for the places of public worship by contributing 
 largely to their repairs. The address of the prophet to the 
 Jewish people when their temple was in ruins, may with 
 equal justice be applied to the Christian population of our 
 land, and especially to the wealthier members of our com- 
 munion. " Is it time for you to dwell in your ceiled 
 houses, and the Lord's house not regarded!" The language 
 of the venerable compilers of our Homilies is too strikingly 
 applicable not to be quoted in conclusion, " If ye have 
 any reverence for the service of God, — if ye have any 
 common honesty, — if ye have any conscience in keeping of 
 necessary and godly ordinances, keep your churches in good 
 repair, whereby ye shall not only please God, and deserve 
 his manifold blessings, but also deserve the good report of 
 all godly people." 
 
BRIDLINGTON 
 
 PRIORY CHURCH. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 Bridlington, or Burlington, is situated in the East Riding 
 of Yorkshire, about midway between Beverley and Scarbo- 
 rough, giving name to the bay of which the promontory called 
 Flamborough Head forms the northern extremity. This 
 promontory, which runs out into the sea for a considerable 
 distance, and is one of the most striking features in our east- 
 ern coast, is formed by the termination at this point of the 
 ridge of chalk, of which the hills called the Yorkshire Wolds 
 are composed. Many circumstances combine to prove the ex- 
 istence of a Roman station at or near the place, among which 
 the vestiges of a Roman road, leading from York across the 
 Wolds in the direction of the villages of Sledmere and Rud- 
 stone ; and the ditch and mound of earth which intersect 
 the promontory at its conjunction with the main-land are not 
 the least remarkable. The latter, however, has obtained the 
 name of Danes Dyke, and the name of the Danish Tower 
 has also been given to the remains of a castle at Flamborough. 
 
12 
 
 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 There can be no question that the Danes succeeded to thae 
 settlements of the Romans, for there is abundant evidencce 
 to show that this part of the coast was a favorite landingg 
 place with them. 
 
 In the absence of all written records on the subject it ias 
 useless to carry our inquiries respecting the ecclesiasticaal 
 history of the place higher than the Norman Conquest! 
 From the famous survey of Doomsday Book,* taken soonn 
 after by order of the Conqueror, it appears that a church waas 
 then in existence at Bridlington. In the survey of thee 
 monastic buildings, taken before the dissolution, mention ias 
 made of a building on the south side of the monastery, usedd 
 by the prior and convent as a bakehouse and brewhouse ; ; 
 which, according to tradition, was some time a nunnery.'. 
 The bakehouse, we are informed, was the body of the church,t, 
 the roof being covered with slate and the aisles with lead, andd 
 adjoining to it eastward, where the choir had been, was thee 
 brewhouse covered with lead. This fact warrants us in con- 
 jecturing that a convent had existed in the place prior to thee 
 conquest, which was probably destroyed in the general ruinn 
 brought upon the religious houses north of the Humber by thee 
 incursions and ravages of the Danes. There is no indication a 
 whatever in the annals of the Priory that such an establish- - 
 ment ever existed along with it. The most probable suppo- - 
 sition therefore seems to be this, that the parish church i 
 mentioned to have existed at the time of the Doomsdays 
 survey had been appropriated to the nunnery, which would I 
 be a Saxon foundation ; and that in after times this church 1 
 was used by the canons till their increasing wealth enabled I 
 them to build the present more spacious edifice. 
 
 The manor of Bridlington, with other extensive possessions s 
 in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, was granted by William the 5 
 Conqueror to Gilbert de Gant, or Gaunt, f one of the Flemish i 
 
 * See Appendix B. f See Appendix C. 
 
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 13 
 
 nobility, nearly related to him, by whom he was accompanied 
 in his expedition to England. The property thus acquired 
 descended to his son Walter de Gant, to whose pious muni- 
 ficence the Priory of Bridlington owed its existence. Early in 
 the reign of Henry the First, as appears by the foundation 
 charter, and from the fact that the canons regular of the 
 order of St. Augustine, to which the monastery belonged, 
 were not introduced into England at an earlier period, this 
 nobl«eman resolved upon endowing the church of St. Mary 
 of Bridlington with revenues for the maintenance of a body 
 of canons, whose precise number is not ascertained. The 
 design of the founder will be best illustrated by the terms of 
 the charter, a translation of which is subjoined, the Latin 
 bein g also given in the Appendix,* as copied by Dugdale in 
 the Monasticon Anglicanum, from the register of the Priory, 
 which has long been in the possession of the Ingilby family 
 of Ripley, in Yorkshire. f The charter is as follows: "I, 
 Wal ter de Gant, do hereby declare to all faithful sons of holy 
 church, that I have established canons regular in the church 
 of St. Mary of Bridlington, by the authority and consent of 
 kimg Henry, for the good of his soul, and the souls of his 
 farther and mother, and the souls of my father and mother, 
 antd my own soul, and the souls of my friends. I yield 
 therefore to the same church, and to its ministers, whatever 
 I ann possessed of in the same township, viz : thirteen caru- 
 caites of land, together with the mills, which are adjacent to 
 thie same land ; I yield to the church those lands also, which 
 nry wassals have themselves given, viz : William, my constable, 
 ome carucate of land in Bessingby : Forno, two oxgangs in 
 thie same township : Machernus, two oxgangs in Hilderthorp : 
 R.alph Buck, and Joceline his son, gave two oxgangs in 
 Eist<on : Ralph gave four oxgangs in Grindal : Gozo, with 
 thie permission of his son Alan, gave four oxgangs in 
 
 * See Appendix D. 
 
 f See Appendix A. 
 
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 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 Buckton : Malger, four oxgangs in Righton. And, moreover, 
 I have given to the same church, and to its ministers, the 
 canons, the church of Edenham, and another of Witham, 
 and half the church of South Ferriby, and the church of 
 Filey, with one mill : and the church of Swaldale ; I grant 
 also the church of Willoughby, and another of Ganton; 
 which Adelard the hunter gave, with the permission of his 
 son Henry.- All these lands and churches, together with the 
 lands which are adjacent to them, I grant to them free and 
 quit from all ' geld :' and all customs, except ' king's-geld,' 
 viz: ( dane-geld.'* Witnesses, Thurstan, archbishop of 
 York; Alan de Percy ; Eustace, son of John; Jordan Pagnel ; 
 William, the constable ; Lambert, the constable ; William 
 de Mundaville; Ralph de Neville ; William de Percy; Ralph 
 de Grindal ; and Ralph his son ; Goceline Buck ; Malger 
 de Erghom ; Wimund, the chaplain ; Richard, the butler, and 
 Girard his brother ; Robert de Ropesle ; Walter de Calce." 
 
 The following charter of king Henry the First, confirming 
 the grant of the founder, is also published by Dugdale : 
 the Latin original will be found in the Appendix. f 
 
 " In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the 
 Holy Ghost. Amen. Henry, by the grace of God, king of 
 England, to the archbishops, bishops, princes, barons, and to 
 the whole of the faithful clergy and laity in all England, 
 Franks and Angli, as well present, as to come, greeting. 
 Since we have received from the majesty on high the lofty 
 estate of kingly power to this end that we should exercise 
 our sway both justly and mercifully in the church of God, it 
 hath seemed good to us, that it should not only be protected 
 under our safeguard and defence from the malice and calumny 
 of its adversaries, but also should be encouraged in the 
 sustenance of its necessities by the liberality of our gift. 
 But chiefly ought we so to do to those, who, submitting to a 
 
 * See Appendix E. 
 
 f See Appendix D. 
 
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 15 
 
 voluntary poverty, have determined to serve the Lord ; that, 
 according to the Apostle ' their need may be supplied out of 
 our abundance ; ' and we, by their interposition, may be re- 
 ceived into eternal habitations. We do therefore grant, 
 and under the warrant and attestation of this our present 
 charter, do c onfirm to the church of St. Mary of Bridlington, 
 and to the canons regular serving the Lord in the same place, 
 two carucates of land of my own demesne, of which one and 
 a half is in Eston, and a half in Hilderthorp, free and quit 
 of all 'geld* and all customs. Moreover, the rest of the 
 donations, which have been made by Walter de Gaunt, 
 and by Jordan Paganel, and by other barons and vassals of 
 mine to the aforesaid church, and are enumerated in the 
 page of this iour charter, we concede, and by the authority of 
 the same charter do confirm," &c. 
 
 Here follows a recitation of the several grants contained 
 in the foundation charter, to which the reader is therefore 
 referred. 
 
 The bull (of Pope Calixtus the Second, who ruled from 
 A. D. 1119, to A. D. 1124, confirming to Guikeman, the 
 first prior, aind to the canons, all the grants of the estates 
 then given to> them, has not been published by Dugdale, but 
 is referred to> by Burton. It was copied by the author from 
 a copious abstract of a chartulary of the Priory, preserved 
 among the valuable collection of Roger Dodsworth's manu- 
 scripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.* 
 
 " Calixtus;, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to 
 Guikeman tlhe prior, and to the brethren in the church of 
 St. Mary, at Bridlington, professed regulars, as well present 
 as to come, for ever. The Lord by his prophet commanded 
 the inhabitants of the land of the south to go to meet the 
 fugitive with bread, f We, therefore, children beloved in 
 Christ, willi ngly receive you fleeing from the world, and 
 
 * See Appemdix D. + Isaiah xxi. 14. Lowth's Translation. 
 
16 
 
 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 assenting to your requests, (made through our venerable 
 brother Thurstan, archbishop of York,) by the grace of the 
 Holy Spirit, comfort you with the protection of the Apos- 
 tolic See. For by the authority of the present privilege we 
 confirm the state of canonical life, which ye have professed 
 according to the rule of the blessed Augustine, and declare 
 it to be unlawful for any one, after having made such pro- 
 fession, to have any private possession, or to depart from the 
 close without the leave of the prior or chapter. Moreover, 
 we establish you and your successors upon their continuing 
 in the observance of the same religious ceremonies, in the 
 possession of every thing which you seem at present lawfully to 
 possess for the support of your common maintenance. We 
 decree also, that all those things, which in future you may 
 be able to obtain by the concession of pontiffs, by the liberality 
 of princes, by the oblations of the faithful, or by any other just 
 methods, be for ever preserved quiet and entire, to profit the 
 various uses of those by whose support and guidance they have 
 been obtained. Let no man, therefore, on any account, be at 
 liberty wantonly to disturb the same church, or to take away 
 aught of its possessions, or having taken them away to retain 
 them, to diminish them, or to harass it {the church) by 
 violent exactions. But if any one, which God forbid, 
 shall dare to act in opposition to this our decree, let him run 
 the risque of losing his dignity and office, or be punished 
 with the sentence of excommunication, unless he atone for 
 his presumption by a proper compensation. But whosoever 
 shall be careful to patronize the same place, and the servants 
 of the Lord in it, and to honour them with his substance, on 
 him be the blessing and grace of Almighty God, and his 
 Apostles, Amen." 
 
 These three charters, in which the Priory of Bridlington 
 is established, according to the usual custom on such occa- 
 sions, by the united sanction of the Pope, the King, and the 
 Founder, have been translated at length, and are here in- 
 
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 17 
 
 serted, as it is hoped they will not be found deficient in 
 interest by the general reader. 
 
 From the statement given in Doomsday Book, it appears 
 that the Manor of Bridlington contained at this time thirteen 
 carucates of taxable land, and a church, so that by the terms 
 of the charter, both the manor and the rectory were granted 
 by the noble founder to the use of the prior and convent. 
 Owing to this appropriation of the parochial church to the 
 use of the canons, the magnificent structure which the 
 enlarged means of the convent afterwards enabled them to 
 erect was divided, the choir being used by the prior and 
 convent, and the nave by the inhabitants of the town. 
 Hence, at the dissolution, this last-mentioned portion of the 
 original edifice was left standing, and still continues to be 
 used as the parish church. Besides the charter of con- 
 firmation already quoted, Henry the First, by another charter, 
 granted to the prior and convent a full and complete civil 
 jurisdiction within the manor and township of Bridlington. 
 In a large chamber over the ancient gate-house of the priory, 
 now called the Bayle Gate, the prior held his courts, and in 
 the lower part of the same building, besides the porter's lodge, 
 were cells for the confinement of offenders within the liberty 
 of the town, one of which is still used as ' the Kit-cote.' 
 This gate-house, or court-house, as it may be called, seems 
 to have been considered after the dissolution as the property 
 of the lord of the manor, and is accordingly now used as a 
 town hall, the manor formerly belonging to the prior and 
 convent, having passed by the purchase in the time of 
 Charles the First into the hands of certain of the inhabitants 
 of Bridlington. For the same reason the arms of the priory 
 have been assumed as the arms of the town. They are given 
 in Bishop Tanner's laborious and useful compilation, the 
 Notitia Monastica, and are per pale, sable, and argent, three 
 Roman B's counterchanged, two, and one. The simplicity 
 of the colours and device, marks a very high antiquity. 
 
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 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 The letter B perhaps has reference to the name of the town, 
 and to its being originally a Roman station, and the num- 
 ber — three, was frequently chosen in similar instances to 
 denote, it is said, the Trinity. Thus the arms of the Abbey 
 of Fountains are charged with three horse-shoes, those of St. 
 Mary at York with three swans, and those of Whitby Abbey 
 with three coiled snakes, the snake-stones, or ammonites, with 
 which part of the coast abounds, being traditionally reported 
 to have been originally snakes turned into stones by St. Hilda. 
 
 The common seal of this priory exhibits two figures seated 
 under a canopy, the one male, the other female. It is an 
 imperfect impression on green wax attached to an instru- 
 ment deposited among the Harleian Charters in the British 
 Museum.* To the same instrument is also attached a counter 
 seal, which has upon it the blessed Virgin crowned, with 
 the Divine Infant in her arms. 
 
 The immense possessions acquired by this monastery, 
 have been enumerated at great length by Burton, who men- 
 tions the townships in which they were situated, and the 
 names of the respective donors. Whatever may be the use 
 of such collections for reference on particular occasions, they 
 possess in detail so little interest for general readers, that we 
 shall refer those who are desirous of more extensive informa- 
 tion to the work above referred to, and content ourselves 
 with noticing the most important particulars. At the 
 time when the monastery was at the height of its pros- 
 perity and grandeur, its possessions were of amazing 
 extent. There was hardly a town or village in the rural 
 deanery of Dykering, in which it is situated, where it had 
 not obtained lands, or the rectory and manor, sometimes one, 
 sometimes the other, or all united. Indeed, generally 
 throughout the whole extent of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, 
 its property was scattered, and intermixed with that of other 
 religious houses. 
 
 * See Plate XL, and Appendix I). No. 71. 
 
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 19 
 
 A charter of Henry the Second, in the Appendix to this 
 account,* will afford an idea of the extent of the possessions 
 of the monastery towards the close of the first century after 
 its foundation. Among these, the following churches in the 
 deanery of Dykering are stated to have been appropriated to 
 the convent at an early period. The rectory of Filey was 
 the gift of the founder, Walter de Gant ; and William Fitz- 
 Nigel soon after added the rectory of Flamborough. The 
 rectory of Boynton was appropriated by Galfrid, the steward; 
 and the rectory of Carnaby by Robert de Percy. The 
 rectories of Ganton and Willoughby were added by Adelard, 
 the hunter. Considerable possessions, if not the rights of 
 the manors, were granted about the same time by various 
 donors, in the villages of Eston, Hilderthorp and Willes- 
 thorp, Auburn, Bessingby, Speeton, Grindal, Fraisthorp, 
 Sewerby and Marton, Buckton, Righton, Bempton, Beeford 
 and Thwing. In these villages and hamlets, as no mention 
 occurs of church or chapel being in existence at the time 
 when they first came into the hands of the ecclesiastics, we 
 may fairly suppose them to have been the founders of the 
 several chapels subsequently erected for the use of the peo- 
 ple in several of these parishes ; all, however, dependent on 
 the parent church of the monastery. 
 
 The Priory of Bridlington, as we have seen, was founded in 
 the reign of Henry the First, and the next occurrence in order 
 of time, which demands our attention, is an act of his successor 
 Stephen, by whom a charter was granted to the monastery, 
 in which,f after stating "that out of his abundant favor, and 
 with the consent of his Council, and in relief of the Prior, 
 and Canons, and their House, which is situated upon the 
 sea coast," he was willing to grant them various privileges, 
 which are enumerated in the charter, the King concedes 
 
 * See Appendix D. No. 8. 
 
 f Copied from the Exemplification of Charters formerly granted to Brid- 
 lington Priory, made in the time of Charles the First. 
 
20 
 
 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 to them " the Port and Harbour of Bridlington, with aUl 
 kinds of wreck of the sea which shall in future happen ODr 
 issue in all places within the Dykes called Earl Dyke, andd 
 Flaynburgh Dyke." Dugdale has published a mandate 
 from the same king, enjoining the sheriff of Yorkshire too 
 see that the above charter be duly carried into effect, andd 
 commanding him to allow the prior of Bridlington well andd 
 peaceably to have and hold his port of Bridlington, aas 
 Walter de Gant, and Gilbert, his father, formerly held thae 
 same.* 
 
 Gilbert de Gant, the eldest son of the founder, was con-i- 
 temporary with King Stephen, and obtained the title ofaf 
 Earl of Lincoln in right of his wife. He was baptized andd 
 educated in the Priory, and had so great a regard for itsts 
 welfare, that he not only confirmed all the grants of Waltenr 
 de Gant, his father, but was himself also very liberal in hisis 
 donations. A curious charter has been preserved, f in whichh 
 he directs his body to be buried in the Priory Church ; andd 
 declares, that if by the grace of God he should ever bee 
 induced to quit the vanities of the world for the retirementit 
 of the cloister, he would assume the habit of an Augustinee 
 canon, and return to end his days among the associates obf 
 his childhood. 
 
 The catalogue of priors, as collected by Burton and Torrr 
 from the register of the Priory, is printed in the Appendix.+J 
 Of these it will not be necessary here to notice any but thosee 
 who were themselves eminent for piety or learning, or whoo 
 were rendered conspicuous by the transactions in which theyy 
 bore a part. The name of the first prior, whose name occurs-s 
 before A.D. 1124, is Guicheman, or Wikeman, to whomn 
 the Pope's bull above recited is addressed. 
 
 The next in order of succession, who deserves our notice,-,, 
 was Robert, surnamed the Scribe, from having written onr 
 
 * See Appendix D. No. 5. f See Dugdale's Monast. Angl. 
 
 J See Appendix F. 
 
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 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 21 
 
 transcribed a great number of works, some of which have 
 come down to us. He was the fourth prior, and flourished, 
 according to Burton, about A. D. 1 160, in the reign of Henry 
 the Second. Several particulars respecting him and his works 
 have been collected by Bale, Bishop of Ossory, at the time 
 of the Reformation. From his Lives of the English Writers, 
 arranged in centuries down to the year 1577, Fuller derived 
 most of his information about the Worthies of England. 
 Bale wrote in Latin, and the biographical sketch he has 
 given us of Robert the Scribe will be found in the Appendix.* 
 We learn from the indefatigable Leland, who visited the 
 monastery A. D. 1534, a few years before the dissolution, 
 that he saw and inspected his voluminous manuscript col- 
 lections, which were at that time preserved in the library 
 belonging to the convent. They appear to have consisted 
 chiefly of commentaries on various books of Scripture, com- 
 piled from the writings of Hieronymus, Augustine, Bede, 
 Anselm, and others. One of those enumerated in the 
 catalogue given us by Leland, is preserved among the MSS. 
 in the Public Library of the University of Cambridge. It 
 is a Commentary upon the Epistles of St. Paul, beautifully 
 written on vellum, in double columns, and is a very large 
 sized folio. The initial letter of each epistle is splendidly 
 illuminated. This very curious MS. is probably six hundred 
 years old. In the prologue, the author describes the method 
 pursued by him in forming these compilations. " Some- 
 times," he says, " I have transcribed a passage word for 
 word, at other times I have exercised my own judgment in 
 abbreviating or amplifying the several extracts, as the occa- 
 sion seemed to require." Leland visited his tomb, and it 
 would seem that the traveller viewed the spot where the 
 mortal remains of this once celebrated writer were deposited, 
 with those feelings of veneration which usually accompany 
 
 * See Appendix G. 
 
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 our survey of the memorials of departed worth. He has left 
 on record that the prior was interred in the cloister, near 
 the door of the chapter-house, with the following unostenta- 
 tious and laconic inscription on his tomb stone, " Robertus, 
 Scriba, quartus Prior." 
 
 He was succeeded by Gregory,* who, there is reason to 
 think, may be identified with a writer mentioned by Bale, 
 under the name of Gregory of Bridlington, to have flourished 
 about the same time. He is stated by Bale to have been a 
 canon in the monastery, and to have been subsequently 
 advanced to the dignity of precentor. His works are said 
 to have consisted of some commentaries on the Scriptures, 
 and sermons. As, however, his biographer sees occasion 
 to mention with regret that very little is known concerning 
 him, or the precise time at which he lived, it seems not 
 improbable that he may have been that Gregory who was 
 elected successor to the last-mentioned prior, Robert the 
 Scribe, under whose superintendence he had pursued his 
 literary studies, as a canon, with peculiar advantage. 
 
 In the year A. D. 1200, King John, for the benefit of the 
 monastery, granted licence to the prior and convent, that a 
 fair should be held annually at Bridlington, on the festival of 
 the Assumption of the Virgin,! (who was their patron saint,) 
 and also a weekly market. The concourse of people drawn 
 together on these occasions, could not fail to be beneficial to 
 the interest of the canons ; and it is likely, in those lawless 
 and troubled times, those who brought their goods to market 
 were glad to take advantage of the security afforded to their 
 property, when the traffic was carried on within the enclosure 
 of the monastery. The royal charter runs thus :£ " John, by 
 the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke 
 
 * See Appendix G. 
 
 t Assumpt. B. Maria: Virg. August 15. See Calendar in Popish Breviary. 
 X Copied from Exempl. of Charters granted to Brid. Priory, made temp. 
 Car. I. 
 
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
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 of Normandy and Aquitain, and Earl of Anjou, to the 
 Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Earls, Justices, Sheriffs, 
 and all their Bailiffs and faithful servants greeting. Know 
 ye, that we have given, granted, and confirmed, by this our 
 present Charter, to God, and the Church of St. Mary of 
 Bridlington, and the Canons there serving God, a Fair in 
 every year, at Bridlington, to continue two days; to wit, 
 upon the Eve of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary, and 
 on the day of the same Festival ; and one Market to be held 
 there every week ; yet so that this fair and this market be 
 not to the hurt of the neighbouring fairs, and the neighbour- 
 ing markets. Wherefore, we will and firmly command, that 
 they and their successors shall have and hold the aforesaid 
 fair and market for ever, freely, quietly, wholly, honourably, 
 and peaceably, with all liberties and free customs belonging 
 to fairs and markets of this kind, yet so that they be not to 
 the hurt of the neighbouring fairs and markets ; and we 
 prohibit any injury and molestation to be done to persons 
 going to the aforesaid fair and market, or returning from 
 thence, by either the Sheriff of Yorkshire, or any person 
 else. Witness, Robert, Bishop of St. Andrew's, Robert de 
 Thurnham, Hugh de Newiff, Robert de Veteri Ponto. 
 Given by the hands of Simon, Archdeacon of Wells, at 
 Lutegershall, the sixth day of December, in the second year 
 of our reign." 
 
 The fairs are now held twice in the year, and continue two 
 days each time, on the Monday before Whitsunday, and on 
 the twenty-first day of October, in the large open area, called 
 ' the Green,' within the ancient precincts of the close of 
 the monastery, between ' the Bayle Gate' and the church. 
 Here, too, the market was no doubt originally held, though 
 the present market-place is in a different part of the town. 
 
 At this time lived William of Newburgh,* so called from 
 
 * See Appendix G. 
 
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 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 having spent the greater part of his life as an Augustine 
 canon in the priory of Newburgh. He received his early 
 education, however, in the Priory of Bridlington, at which 
 place, or in its immediate neighbourhood, he is said to have 
 been born. His Chronicle of English History was edited 
 by Hearne, the antiquary. It commences with the Norman 
 Conquest, and is carried down as far as the reign of King John. 
 
 In the early part of the fourteenth century flourished the 
 celebrated Peter of Langtoft.* The village which gave him 
 birth, and from which he derived his surname, is situated on 
 the Yorkshire Wolds, about twelve miles from Bridlington, 
 in the monastery of which place he received his education, 
 and afterwards became one of the canons regular. He was 
 the author of several works, the most esteemed of which was 
 a Chronicle of England, in metre. This poem, or metrical 
 romance, is written in French, and is comprised in five books. 
 It is noticed in terms of high commendation by Warton, in 
 his History of English Poetry, who has quoted several 
 extracts from a translation of it into English metre, by 
 Robert Brunne, in the reign of Edward the Third. This 
 translation was published by Hearne. The history begins 
 with the earliest traditional account of the ancient Britons, 
 and ends with the reign of Edward the First. 
 
 About the middle of this century, one of the most illus- 
 trious ornaments of religion and learning which this monas- 
 tery ever produced, was raised to the highest dignity Which 
 it had the power to confer. John de Bridlington was a 
 native of the place, educated in the Priory, and afterwards 
 removed to Oxford to complete his studies, where some of 
 his works are still preserved in manuscript. The biographi- 
 cal account given of him in Alban Butler's Lives of the 
 Saints, is deserving of particular notice. It cannot be 
 doubted, that the devotion to God, and the humility (that 
 
 * See Appendix G. 
 
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
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 sure characteristic of a truly great mind) which rendered 
 him an object of veneration to his contemporaries, would 
 have qualified him to adorn an age less darkened by the 
 shades of ignorance and superstitious credulity. We find, 
 that upon his return from the University, he assumed the 
 religious habit, in the monastery of his native place ; and 
 that he became successively precentor, almoner, sub-prior, 
 and at length prior of his monaster)'. " This last charge," 
 says Butler, " he had averted by his tears and importunities 
 the first time he was chosen ; but, upon a second vacancy, 
 his brethren, who were ashamed of their former want of 
 resolution, obliged him to take up the yoke. It is incredi- 
 ble how plentifully he relieved the necessities of all persons 
 in distress, to whom he looked upon every thing as due 
 that by his frugality and prudent economy could be spared 
 in the management of his temporal revenues. His patience 
 and meekness, and his constant application to the holy 
 exercises of prayer, showed how much his whole conduct 
 was regulated by the spirit of God; and an extraordinary 
 spiritual prudence, peace of mind, and meekness of temper, 
 were the amiable fruits of his virtue." He lived to enjoy 
 his high elevation seventeen years, and died on the 10th of 
 October, A. D. 1379, So great was the opinion of his 
 sanctity, that he was canonized as a saint after death, by 
 order of the Pope, according to the superstitious habits of 
 the age. The Archbishop of York, assisted by the Bishops 
 of Durham and Carlisle, performed the ceremony of the 
 translation of his relics to a magnificent shrine, in the chapel 
 behind the high altar of the Priory Church. Hither there 
 was a numerous resort of pilgrims, and many miracles were 
 reported to be wrought at his tomb. 
 
 Burton mentions a will, made A. D. 1458, in which the 
 testator directed his corpse to be interred in the church of 
 St. Mary and St. John. The manner in which his name is here 
 coupled with that of the patron saint, is very remarkable. A 
 
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 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 strong proof of the widely extended reputation he had acquired 
 will appear from the following circumstance. By a charter 
 of king Edward the Fourth, it appears that the rectory of 
 Scarborough had been appropriated to the Priory of Brid- 
 lington by king Henry the Fourth, and his grant confirmed 
 by his successors, Henry the Fifth and Henry the Sixth. 
 The charter of Edward the Fourth, after reciting this, 
 proceeds thus : " Now we, from our great regard for the 
 praise and honour of God, and of the blessed and glorious 
 Virgin Mary, of Bridlington, and for the special respect 
 which we have and bear toward the glorious confessor, the 
 holy John, formerly prior of the aforesaid place, have 
 granted, and by these presents do grant and confirm to the 
 canons, and convent of the monastery of the blessed Mary, 
 of Bridlington, and their successors, the said church of 
 Scarborough, with all its chapels, rents, &c. and the ad- 
 vowson and patronage of the said church, with every thing 
 appertaining, to have and to hold by the same canons and 
 convent, and their successors, for a pure and perpetual alms 
 for ever." The above charter is addressed to Peter, the then 
 prior, and the canons of Bridlington. Peter Ellard was 
 prior in the reign of Edward the Fourth; he held that office 
 from A. D. 1462 to 1472. Owing to this appropriation, 
 the church of Scarborough, though situated in the North 
 Riding, is in the archdeaconry of the East Riding. 
 
 Some extracts from the writings of John de Bridlington 
 will be found, along with the account given of him by Bale, 
 in the Appendix.* 
 
 In the time of his successor, William de Newbold, the 
 monastery is recorded to have been subjected to incon- 
 venience from being situated so near the sea coast. In con- 
 sequence of the maritime attacks of the pirates, who infested 
 the Northern sea, the property of the prior and convent be- 
 
 * See Appendix G, 
 
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 27 
 
 came so insecure, that king Richard the Second, A. D. 1 388, 
 granted them his royal licence to enclose and fortify the 
 Priory with walls and gates of stone. There seems to have 
 been four of these gates, Kirk Gate, West Gate, Nun Gate, 
 and Bayle Gate. The last is the only one now remaining, 
 and has already been mentioned. Its architecture would 
 lead us to assign this period for its erection. 
 
 A long interval of more than half a century follows, with- 
 out any remarkable occurrence on record, nor should we 
 have been led to notice Robert Brystwyk, who was prior 
 A. D. 1472, but for a modern discovery of considerable 
 interest. The occurrence alluded to, happened A. D. 1821, 
 when, as some workmen were employed in digging up, 
 and clearing away the foundations of ancient monastic 
 buildings, south of the church, in order to prepare the 
 ground to be used as an additional burying-place, they ac- 
 cidentally broke into a vault on the site of the south transept. 
 This vault was found to contain a stone coffin, in which 
 were the remains of the prior. The hair of the beard, and 
 the serge in which the body had been wrapped, were still 
 undecayed, and relics of each have been preserved by several 
 persons who were eye-witnesses on the occasion. The coffin, 
 after being opened, was left in its original position ; but a slab 
 of chalk-stone, which had been laid over it to mark the place 
 of interment on the floor of the church, was taken up, and is 
 now deposited in the vestry. On the margin of this stone, is 
 engraven, in old English characters, deeply cut, and in the 
 most perfect state of preservation, the following inscription : 
 
 ?&tc facet Tjm Uott* tirg$tb»fc. 
 <juo tra prior fnu' loct & otmt 
 
 i o 
 
 ano do m cere nonagmmo m 
 cut' ate tptctet* tie' amett 
 
 Which may be thus translated, — " Here lieth Lord Robert 
 Brystwyk, formerly prior of this place, who died in the 
 
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 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 year of our Lord one thousand four hundred and ninety- 
 three, on whose soul God have mercy. Amen. " * 
 
 A similar tomb-stone discovered in digging eastward of 
 the church, A. D. 1786, is said to have belonged to Robert 
 Danby, who was prior, A. D. 1498; but this, through neg- 
 ligence, has not been preserved to us. 
 
 In the reign of Henry the Seventh, about A.D. 1490, the 
 indefatigable philosopher, and alchemist, Sir George Rip- 
 ley, knight, was a canon, in the Priory of Bridlington. 
 Alchemy was the favourite study of the day, and many 
 clever and scientific men were induced to turn aside from 
 the useful path of natural philosophy, and to employ them- 
 selves in useless endeavours to discover the " philosopher's 
 stone." Ripley was one of these, and soon after he had 
 assumed the religious habit, and had been elected a canon, 
 he quitted England, and spent several years abroad in tra- 
 velling, particularly in Italy. At Rome he obtained a dis- 
 pensation from the Pope, to exempt him from attending the 
 devotional services, and other religious ceremonies obse rved 
 by the rest of his brethren in the monastery, and this leave 
 was granted, in order to enable him to give his whole time 
 and attention to scientific pursuits. On his return, however, 
 he found the canons unwilling to allow one of their number 
 to partake of the emoluments of office, while he was at the 
 same time exempted from the discipline and duties required 
 of each member, by the laws of the society. He therefore 
 resigned his canonry, and retired to Boston, in Lincolnshire, 
 where he ended his days, as an anchoret of the order of the 
 Carmelites. Some curious extracts from his writings, seve- 
 ral copies of which are preserved in various manuscript col- 
 lections, will be found in the Appendix, f 
 
 * See Thompson's Historical Sketches of Bridlington, p. 144, for a very 
 correct representation of a similar tomb-stone found at the same time be- 
 longing to Robert Charder, a canon. 
 
 f See Appendix G. 
 
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 29 
 
 The historical narrative of the monastery has now been 
 brought down from its foundation, to the period of its dis- 
 solution, which we shall shortly have to relate. 
 
 A few brief biographical notices of the principal indivi- 
 duals, who passed their lives within its walls, and who were 
 distinguished, above the rest, either for piety or learning, 
 are nearly all the materials of general interest that can be 
 gathered from the records of any monastic establishment. 
 Indeed, it is not to be supposed, that, a body of men, who 
 by the rule of their order were devoted to retirement, and 
 whose time was divided between the daily exercises of de- 
 votion, and the quiet pursuits of reading and writing,* should 
 act a conspicuous part on the stage of life, or have their 
 private concerns mixed up with the affairs of the great and 
 busy world. 
 
 The Priory of Bridlington had now existed during a period 
 of four centuries, and in that time had acquired a very large 
 share of power and property. Its revenues were, at this 
 time, of the clear value of more than five hundred pounds a 
 year, an immense income, considering the value of money 
 at that day, when it was thought sufficient to assign a 
 stipend of eight pounds a year for the maintenance of a 
 parish priest, who was to represent the prior and canons as 
 the religious instructor of the people. 
 
 During the century of which we have been speaking, the 
 writings of Wycliffe, and others, in England, had prepared 
 the minds of the people for some reformation in the esta- 
 blished religion of the country. But in the reign of Henry 
 the Eighth, the tyranny and usurpation of the Papacy 
 were attacked with vigour and success, by such men 
 as Luther and Calvin on the Continent ; while, in our own 
 country, Cranmer, and Ridley, and Latimer, strove with un- 
 usual wisdom and moderation to free the church from those 
 
 * See Appendix H. 
 
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 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 erroneous doctrines and practices, which had no foundation 
 either in reason or revelation.* 
 
 Among the various important changes, which were intro- 
 duced into our ecclesiastical establishment at this memora- 
 ble period, perhaps one of the greatest was the general dis- 
 solution of the monasteries throughout the kingdom. When 
 the church of England had refused any longer to acknow- 
 ledge the usurped supremacy of the Pope, the King, as 
 supreme head of the church, appointed Cromwell, then 
 secretary of state, his vicar-general. He was directed to 
 employ commissioners to commence a general visitation, in 
 order to ascertain the state of the religious houses. The 
 alteration which had now taken place in the religious feelings 
 of the nation, added to the diffusion of learning, had opened 
 their eyes to the absurdity of the miracles pretended to be 
 performed by the monks, the inefficacy of masses for the 
 souls of the dead, and of adoring saints and relics. All 
 these things, which had so long been the objects of super- 
 stitious awe and veneration, were now denounced by the 
 reformers, as idolatrous, and repugnant to the word of God ; 
 and as having no place in the records of primitive Chris- 
 tianity. 
 
 It is not necessary to suppose that the disorders said to be 
 discovered in the religious houses were universal, but it is 
 certain they prevailed to a great extent. The means, how- 
 ever, by which the monks had acquired their power, ceased 
 any longer to exert their influence over the minds of the 
 people ; and there was so much fraud and hypocrisy in 
 their system, when its foundations were narrowly examined, 
 
 * " Our godly forefathers, to whom under God we owe the purity of our 
 religion, and some of which laid down their lives for the defence of the 
 same, they had no purpose, nor had they any warrant to set up a new reli- 
 gion, but to reform the old, by purging it from those innovations which, in 
 tract of time, (some sooner, some later,) had mingled with it and corrupted 
 it both in doctrine and worship." — Bishop Sanderson, as quoted in Words- 
 ivorth's Ecclesiastical Biography, vol. ii. 
 
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 31 
 
 as to furnish sufficient cause for suppressing the order 
 altogether. 
 
 In the twenty-seventh year of Henry the Eighth, an act 
 of parliament was passed, by which the state, in considera- 
 tion of the abuses which had crept into the lesser monasteries, 
 ordered them to be dissolved, and their revenues to be con- 
 fiscated to the King's use. By the term lesser monasteries, 
 all such as had an income of more than 200/. per annum 
 were stated to be comprised within the meaning of the act. 
 
 The greater monasteries, however, of which Bridlington 
 was one, saw that the execution of this act was but a step to 
 further aggressions, and the greatest fears were entertained 
 of the consequences. 
 
 The following letter from William Wode, the last prior 
 of Bridlington, to Thomas Cromwell, secretary of state, is 
 now for the first time published, and was transcribed by the 
 author from Roger Dodsworth's copy of the original, in the 
 Bodleian Library.* 
 
 " Right worshipfull, my duty in most humble manner 
 remembered, I recommend me to your gude mastershipp. 
 And forsomuch as your said mastershipp, by your last 
 letters to me directed, advised me, and in like manner 
 counselled me, to recognize the King's hyghnes to be our 
 Patron and Founder, forasmuch as no article, word, sentence, 
 or clause, in our original grante to hus made by Gilbert de 
 Gaunte, cosign to our original Founder, appeared to the 
 contrarye whye of equitie his hyghnes owght not so to be, 
 or else to appere before ane other of his gracious counsell 
 the last day of October, as I wold avoyd his Grace's hygh 
 displeasure. In this matter, even so humbly as I canne, I 
 
 * This copy has since been compared with the original preserved in the 
 British Museum among the Harleian MSS. Cleopatra, E. iv. p. 53. The 
 date, 1537, is inserted in R, Dodsworth's copy, but is wanting in the 
 •original. 
 
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 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 shall beseche your good mastershipp to be gude master to 
 me, and your poor and cotidiall orators my brethren. For 
 notwithstanding the King's Grace his noble progenitors titles 
 and clames heretofore made to our sayd partronage and 
 foundershipp, (thoughe all we are, and ever wil be at his 
 most gracious commandment and pleasor) yet we have ever 
 bene dimissed clere without any interruption on this behalf 
 nigh this two hundred yeares, as shall appere before your 
 gudeness under substantiall evidence of record. And so I 
 beseech your mastershipp we may be at this tyme, ffor in 
 your mastershipp our nolle trust in all our gude causes 
 remayneth. And wheras I am deteyned with divers infir- 
 mities in my body, and in lyke manner am feble of nature, 
 so that without great jeopardie of my lyflfe, I cannot, nor am 
 not liable to labor in doing of my deuty to appere before 
 your mastershipp, I right humbly besech your gudenes to 
 have me excused, and in like manner to accept the bearer 
 my brother, as my lawfull deputie in this behaulf, who shall 
 make your mastershipp answer as concerning these premises, 
 to whom I beseeche your mastershipp geve firme credence, of 
 whom also ye shall receve a pore token from me, which I 
 eftsoones besech your gude mastershipp to accept thankfully, 
 with my pore hert and cotidiall prayers, of which ye shall be 
 assured enduryng my lyfFe, as is my duty, God willinge, 
 who ever preserve your gude mastershipp in much worshipp 
 long to endure. fFrom our Monastery of Bridlington, the 
 xxiii day of October, by your humble and cotidiall servant, 
 Willm Prior 
 [1537.] of the same." 
 
 The discontent and fears produced by the suppression of 
 the lesser monasteries, being fomented by the heads of the 
 religious houses, and by several of the nobility and gentry 
 who were strongly attached to the rites and ceremonies of 
 popery, soon led to several acts of rebellion, which only 
 
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 33 
 
 served to hasten the destruction of the monasteries. An 
 insurrection in Lincolnshire was headed by the prior of 
 Barlings in disguise; and another broke out about the 
 same time in Yorkshire, which was called the " Pilgrimage 
 of Grace." Both, however, were soon quelled. The last 
 insurrection which took place, was chiefly in the North and 
 East Ridings of Yorkshire, and in this William Wode, the 
 last prior of Bridlington, appears to have taken a prominent 
 part. This attempt, like the former, proved unsuccessful ; 
 and the leaders of the insurgents, among whom were the 
 Lord D'Arcy, Earl of Holderness ; Sir Robert Constable, of 
 Flamborough ; Sir Thomas Percy ;* the abbots of Fountains, 
 Rievaulx, and Jervaulx ; and the prior of Bridlington, were 
 apprehended and executed for high treason. 
 
 The suppression of the religious establishments over 
 which these unfortunate persons had presided, was now a 
 measure of no great difficulty, and in the thirty-first year 
 of Henry the Eighth, an act similar to the one just men- 
 tioned was passed, for the suppression of the greater monas- 
 teries. 
 
 In pursuance of this act of parliament, an inquisition was 
 held A. D. 1538, at York, before William Fox Esq., the 
 King's escheator, when Sir William Fairfax, and other 
 commissioners, who had been appointed to inquire into ' 
 the value of the manors forfeited to the King, upon the 
 seizing of the persons attainted of high treason in the late 
 rebellion, were examined on oath, and at this time the clear 
 annual value of the manor of Bridlington was declared to 
 be 196/. 5s. 5d. and that of the rectory, which had been 
 appropriated to the prior and convent, 36/. 6s. Sd.f 
 
 * He was second son to Henry Algernon, fifth Earl of Northumberland, 
 who died about A. D. 1527, and by whom the famous Percy Household Book 
 was composed, A. D. 1512, for the use of his castles of Wressil and Lecking- 
 field, near Beverley, where, in the minster, he erected the beautiful Percy 
 monument in memory of the Earl and Countess, his father and mother. 
 
 f See Appendix I. 
 
 D 
 
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 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 The buildings belonging to the monastery were demolish- 
 ed the following year A. D. 1539, including the transepts, 
 central tower, and choir of the conventual church. The 
 letter which follows, has been published in the new edition 
 of Dugdale's Monasticon ; and, although the latter part only 
 relates to the demolition of this Priory, yet the particulars 
 respecting the destruction of Jervaulx Abbey serve equally to 
 show the line of proceedings adopted in similar cases. The 
 original letter is preserved in the British Museum, but the 
 author transcribed it from Roger Dodsworth's copy in the 
 Bodleian Library. It is addressed to Cromwell, the chief 
 secretary of state, by Richard Bellycys, one of the commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 "Pleasythe your good Lordshipp to be advertysed. I 
 have taken downe all the lead of Jervayse, and made itt in 
 pecys of half-foders, which lead amounteth to the numbre of 
 eighteen score and five foders, with thirty and foure foders, 
 and a half, that were there before. And the said lead can- 
 not be conveit, nor caryed unto the next sombre, for the 
 ways in that contre are so foule, and deep, that no carrage, 
 can passe in wyntre. And as concerning the raising, and 
 taken downe the house, if itt be your Lordshipps pleasure 
 I am minded to let itt stand to the Spring of the yere, by 
 reason of the days are now so short it wolde be double 
 charge to do itt now. And as concerning the selling of the 
 bells I cannot sell them above 15s. the hundreth, wherein 
 I would gladly know your Lordshipps pleasor, whether I 
 should sell them after that price, or send them up to London. 
 And if they be sent up surely the carriage wolbe costly frome 
 that place to the water. And as for Byrdlington I have 
 doyn nothing there as yet, but sparethe itt to March next, 
 bycause the days now are so short, and from such tyme as 
 I begyn I trust shortly to d yspatche it after such fashion that 
 when all is fynished, I trust your Lordshipp shall that think 
 
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
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 that I have bene no evyll howsbound in all such things, as 
 your Lordshipp haith appoynted me to doo. And thus the 
 Holy Ghost ever preserve your Lordshipp in honor. At 
 York this fourteenth day of November by your most bounden 
 beadsman. 
 
 [1538.] Richard Bellycys." 
 
 The promise contained in this letter was amply fulfilled 
 in the demolition of the Priory of Bridlington. Never was 
 transition more rapid from the height of prosperity and 
 power, to almost utter annihilation. For nearly four centu- 
 ries this magnificent monastery had flourished in uninter- 
 rupted security. Thirty-one superiors of the convent had 
 succeeded each other in a long and unbroken line of succession, 
 and the last unfortunate person, who filled this illustrious 
 and dignified station, was now doomed to prove, by bitter 
 experience, the instability of human fortune ; himself con- 
 demned to perish on the scaffold, and his princely revenues 
 squandered in reckless profusion, to gratify the rapacity of 
 courtiers, or the extravagance of royal desires. It was not 
 for such purposes that these revenues had been bequeathed 
 by the noble benefactors of the monastery. In their minds, 
 the first feeling was a sincere though mistaken notion of 
 providing for the repose of their souls, and the remission of 
 their sins, by bestowing their worldly possessions to promote 
 the honour of God, and the sumptuousness of his house, and 
 the splendid solemnities of his worship, and the maintenance 
 of the priests of his altar ; the next, a spirit of benevolence 
 towards their fellow men, the relief of the poor, and the care 
 of the infirm. 
 
 We mean not to assert, that these benevolent intentions 
 had, in all cases, been carried into effect by those to whom 
 their execution was entrusted. Suppose them to have been 
 generally abused, and misapplied. What was the proper 
 work of reformation ? Was it not to lead back the streams 
 
 d2 
 
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 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 of charity into their original channel, or one more beneficiaal 
 to the community at large ? * Were there no longer schools 
 and hospitals to be founded ? No clergy to be respectablly 
 maintained ? No poor to be relieved ? — Let the present dee- 
 plorable state of many of our impoverished parishes answesr. 
 
 By the dissolution of the monastery, the manor amd 
 rectory of Bridlington, which had been granted by Williarm 
 the Conqueror to Gilbert de Gaunt, and by him to thie 
 prior and convent, now reverted to his royal successcor 
 Henry the Eighth, by whom, and his successor, Edward thie 
 Sixth, they were granted on lease to various individuals. 
 
 In the time of Queen Elizabeth the manor and rectorry 
 were granted on lease to John Stanhope Esq., on conditioDn 
 of paying a salary of eight pounds a year to a priest, whio 
 should perform divine service, and have the charge of soulls 
 within the parish. The lessee was also allowed to take stonie 
 from the ruins of the monastery for the repairs of the pier. 
 
 The manor and rectory were conferred by James the Firsst 
 upon Sir John Ramsay, a Scotch baronet, to whom the titlle 
 of Earl of Holderness, extinct by the attainder of the Lorcd 
 D'Arcy in the late rebellion, had been given, as a rewarcd 
 for his services. 
 
 In the time of Charles the First the manor was sold biy 
 the Ramsay family to thirteen inhabitants of the town ; biy 
 whom it was purchased on behalf of themselves and thie 
 other tenants within the manor. By letters patent oaf 
 Charles the First, reciting all the former grants made biy 
 his predecessors and others to the dissolved Priory, thie 
 manor was confirmed to the then proprietors and their suc- 
 cessors, one of whom is annually elected chief lord of thie 
 manor, f 
 
 The Rectory was sold to the Boyntons, from whom iit 
 
 * See Sir Henry Spelman's Treatise on Tithes, 
 f See Appendix K. 
 
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 87 
 
 passed successively into the possession of the Fairfaxes, 
 Bowers, and Heblethwaytes, who are the present impropria- 
 tors.* 
 
 The advowson was, however, retained by the Crown, the 
 nomination being vested in the Archbishop of York; by 
 whom, towards the close of the last century, it was trans- 
 ferred, under the act of parliament, to the Rev. Matthew 
 Buck, and his heirs, in consideration of a donation for the 
 augmentation of the living, to enable it to receive Queen 
 Anne's bounty, f 
 
 Some account of the public charities belonging to the 
 parish of Bridlington will be found in the Appendix. X 
 
 * See Appendix L. See also Allen's History of Yorkshire, Lib. IV. 
 c. 12. p. 15. 
 
 f See Appendix M. J See Appendix N. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 The nave of the ancient Priory Church, and an arched 
 gateway leading to it are the sole remains of the once 
 spacious and magnificent monastery of Bridlington. But in 
 order to form a just estimate of these beautiful architectural 
 fragments they must be viewed in connection with those 
 parts of the fabric now destroyed, or we shall never form a 
 just idea of the relative proportions of the whole.* The 
 ancient precinct of the monastery must have been accurately 
 defined by the walls and gates with which it was enclosed in 
 the reign of Richard the Second, but no traces of them exist, 
 if we except the ancient gate-house, or principal entrance to 
 the close of the Priory, now called the ' Bayle Gate.' 
 Through this noble gateway we enter the ancient close of 
 the monastery, which is still an open space, called f the 
 Green,' and used as it formerly was, for holding the fair 
 granted by King John to the canons, t On the north side of 
 
 * It is reported, I know not with what degree of accuracy, that drawings 
 and ground plans of the church and monastery of Bridlington, taken before 
 the dissolution, are preserved along with those of many other English 
 monasteries, in the college at St. Omer's, and in the Vatican at Rome. 
 
 f This was probably also the ancient market-place, as at Whitby the 
 market during the time the monastery was in existence was held near it, 
 round an old cross, but after its dissolution removed into the town, for the 
 better convenience of the inhabitants. — See Charlton's History of Whithj. 
 
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 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 this piece of ground stands the church, and a paved cause- 
 way, the same width as the gate, leads directly across it to 
 the great west door; the south-west angle of the church 
 facing the Bayle Gate. The principal tower appears to 
 have been in the centre of the church between the nave, and 
 the choir now gone ; it is stated in the Visitor's Survey to 
 have been furnished with seven bells, but in a very ruinous 
 state. A buttress of a similar style to those on either side 
 of the great west window seems to have been raised at the 
 north-east corner of the church on the inside for its support. 
 At the west end there appears to have been also two towers, 
 of which the lower stories only now remain. The north- 
 western tower is now unroofed, and the arches connecting it 
 with the north aisle are built up. The name of ' the old 
 steeple ' it may have acquired probably from a bell, or bells, 
 hung in it since the dissolution, the three bells which the 
 church now possesses were purchased by subscription about 
 the middle of the last century,* and the octagon turret, with 
 its leaden cupola, which was erected for their reception on 
 the top of the basement of the south-west tower, is as ano- 
 malous and disfiguring to the venerable structure to which it is 
 attached, as can well be conceived. The ruined state of the 
 central tower may account for the extensive repairs which 
 appear to have been in progress at the west end of the nave, 
 when their completion was stopped by the dissolution of the 
 monastery. The effect of these repairs was to assimilate 
 the western front of the church, to that of the beautiful 
 neighbouring collegiate church of Beverley, which is in 
 the same style. Between the south-western tower, and 
 the south door, the prior's lodge was built against the wall 
 of the church : the hall having an ascent of twenty steps 
 on the south : in the wall of the church the pillars and 
 groined arches of the vaulted apartment below it still 
 
 * A. D. 1763: the tenor bell weighs 1199 lbs. 
 
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 41 
 
 remain. '* Eastward of the prior's lodge, along the south 
 wall of the church, may be seen ranges of stone abutments for 
 supporting the beams of the roof, of one side of the cloisters 
 which were so situated as to connect the prior's lodge with the 
 church, and the other domestic buildings of the monastery. 
 On the east side of the cloister square was the dormitory, 
 occupying, as it would seem, the position of what would other- 
 wise have been the south transept ; and beyond it, as a 
 building detached from the rest of the fabric, the chapter- 
 house. The refectory was on the south side of the cloister. 
 The buildings of the monastery thus occupying the area south 
 of the church, the ancient burying ground was therefore 
 entirely on the north side. And beyond the street which 
 bounds the church-yard on the north, and surrounding 
 a large piece of water, called 'the Green Dyke,' were 
 the barns and stables, granary, maltkiln, and other agricul- 
 tural premises belonging to the convent ; which, if we may 
 judge from their dimensions, as given in the Visitor's Survey, 
 being also built of stone and covered with lead, were on 
 a very large and substantial scale. Such appears to have 
 been the original plan of the monastery, and the relative 
 position of the various buildings of which it was composed ; 
 and, having given this general outline of the whole, we may 
 now proceed to a more particular examination of the several 
 parts. 
 
 The principal entrance to the Priory, now known by the 
 name of the Bayle Gate,f is still entire. Most of the larger 
 monasteries were furnished with such an appendage ; and 
 these gates have, in several instances, escaped the general 
 demolition of the rest of the monastic buildings. Those re- 
 maining at St. Alban's and Ely are similar to the present one. 
 
 * The demolished prior's lodge has not been succeeded by any parsonage- 
 house. 
 
 f Ballium, a fortress or prison. 
 
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 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 On approaching the church by this entrance, a very beautiful 
 view of it is presented to the eye, the noble west front and 
 part of the south side of the nave being visible under the 
 archway, the groined roof of which is of excellent workman- 
 ship , and very handsome. (See Plate I.)* In this view, too, 
 the site of the eastern part of the old conventual church 
 being hidden from the view by the arch of the gate, there 
 is no one from which we may form a better idea of the 
 original grandeur of the edifice, if the eye were not offended 
 by the incongruous modern bell-turret, on the top of the 
 south-western tower. On reference to Plate I. it will be 
 observed that on the outer side next the town there is a 
 greater arch and a postern, in the sides of which the hooks 
 that formerly supported the doors still remain. The upper 
 part of this building, next the town, has been rebuilt with 
 brick so as greatly to disfigure its beauty, — of the other side 
 a view is given in Plate II. This building is thus described 
 in the Commissioners' Survey, f at the time of the dissolu- 
 tion of the Priory, and has been very little altered since 
 that period : — 
 
 " At the coming in of the Priory is a gate-house four 
 square of tower-fashion, builded with ffree stone, and well 
 covered with leade. And on the south syde of the same gate- 
 house, ys a porter's lodge wt. a chymney, a rounde stayre 
 ledyingup to a hye chamber, wherein the three wekscourte+ 
 ys always kept in, wt. a chymney in the same, and betweene 
 the stayre foote, and the same hie chamber where the courte 
 ys kepte, be tow proper chambers, one above the other, 
 wt. chymneys. In the north side of the same gate-house 
 ys there a prison, for offenders wtin the towne, called the 
 Kydcott. And in the same northsyde is a lyke payre of 
 
 * The Numbers refer to the List of the Plates, 
 t See Appendix O. 
 
 X The Court Baron was formerly held every three weeks. — Blackstone, 
 vol. iii. 
 
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 43 
 
 stayres ledyng up to one hye chamber in the same toure 
 with a chymney. Md. that all the wyndowes of the sayd 
 toure be clerely wtoute glasse." 
 
 The larger arch on the outer side of the gate is orna- 
 mented with two broad hollow mouldings, in which, at inter- 
 vals, are placed leaves, flowers, and grotesque heads. There 
 is a similar moulding under the great west window, of which, 
 as well as the highly ornamented door beneath it, a separate 
 Plate has been published as a companion to those in the 
 present work. 
 
 The arch on the inner side is elegantly wrought below its 
 spring with two compartments of trefoil headed pannel- 
 ling, one above the other, surmounted by a narrow band of 
 quatre-foils. On the right side of this arch is a flat-headed 
 door, which seems to have been formerly a window, as there 
 is a corresponding one on the other side now filled up, and 
 recently hidden from the view by the erection of a shed for a 
 fire-engine, whose red brick walls and tiled roof ill accord 
 with the grey walls of the venerable building to which it is 
 annexed. 
 
 The four corbels from which the groined roof of the gate- 
 way springs, are well worth notice. They represent four 
 figures in a sitting posture. Two of them are delineated 
 in Plate VIII. On one side are two ecclesiastics, with the 
 monk's cowl and habit, and one of them has an instrument 
 something like a bagpipe under his arm. On the other 
 side is a king and a warrior, the former is crowned, and in 
 chain armour ; the other bears a shield, on which may still be 
 traced the device of a dagger : but all are much defaced, as 
 well as the bosses upon the intersections of the groining, 
 which are large, and seem to have been well wrought. 
 
 From this fine gateway we proceed to the grand western 
 entrance of the ancient Priory Church. (See Plate III.) 
 It is profusely decorated, and is an exquisite specimen of the 
 architecture of Henry the Seventh's time : excepting, how- 
 
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 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 ever, the north-western tower, which we have before observed, 
 belongs to a much earlier period. On either side of the great 
 west door is a range of six niches with brackets for the statues, 
 ornamented with angel heads. These niches are three feet 
 high, and the elegant crocketed canopies with which they 
 are surmounted rise to the same height. Above the door 
 within the ogee canopy, which rises over it, and is like the 
 niches ornamented with crockets, is another niche. The 
 design of the whole seems to have corresponded with that of 
 the high altar screen, which contained statues of Christ and 
 the twelve Apostles, at the Assumption of the Virgin. Here, 
 however, the niche over the door was most likely occupied by 
 the Virgin and Child. There are also two other niches 
 placed rather singularly, so as to interrupt the perpendicular 
 mouldings of the great door on each side, they might be 
 intended for stoups, or holy water-basins ; but in their pre- 
 sent mutilated condition it is difficult to determine. Niches 
 similar to the six on each side the great door are continued 
 round the immense buttresses, which flank the west window ; 
 but the brackets of these are plain, and the canopied heads 
 of the niches on the face of the buttress are of a pattern 
 diverse from the others. The wall below the window and the 
 entire surface of the buttresses is richly pannelled throughout, 
 and the base-mouldings are extremely bold, and well exe- 
 cuted. The foliage of the ornamental borders within the arch 
 of the great door is uncommonly elegant, although sadly 
 mutilated. There are three patterns, one of oak leaves and 
 acorns ; another of olive leaves and berries ; a third of fig- 
 leaves, — and the capitals of the side shafts are blended into 
 one broad border of vine leaves. 
 
 The west window is fifty-five feet in height, from its base 
 to the crown of the arch, and twenty-seven in breadth. 
 The head is filled with good perpendicular tracery ; the 
 lower compartment below the transom is the only portion at 
 present glazed, and is fifteen feet high. Along this there is 
 
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 4.5 
 
 a gallery connecting the two western towers, and it is remark- 
 able that the upper part of the window is two feet wider than 
 the part below the transom. The door in the south-west 
 tower is precisely of the same character as the larger one 
 just described ; its ornaments are in better preservation, and 
 it has therefore been engraved in Plate VI., as a specimen 
 of both. 
 
 The north-western tower has a low door, now walled up, 
 and a semicircular arch, the only door- way of this form now 
 remaining in the building. The mouldings, however, are 
 devoid of any ornament. The style of this tower is early 
 English, as is also the whole of the north side of the church. 
 (See Plate IV.) 
 
 The windows eastward of the north porch are beau- 
 tiful specimens of this style. Three are in pairs, and 
 two single: the buttresses which separate them are also 
 extremely light and elegant, surmounted by triangular heads 
 crocketed ; in the centre of each is a grotesque figure, 
 serving the purpose of a water-spout. The clerestory 
 windows correspond with those on the south side of the 
 church, which are all early decorated, excepting the three 
 nearest the south-west tower. These, as well as the piers 
 below them, seem to have been altered along with the west 
 front. The tracery is perpendicular, though far inferior to 
 that of the great west window ; and the piers, instead of being 
 clustered, are quadrangular, and covered with pannelling like 
 the interior and exterior wall of the west front. All the 
 decorated windows of the church are of an early kind, and 
 the tracery consists of various combinations of trefoils, and 
 quatre-foils ; there is no instance of the more elegant decorated 
 tracery, of which the west window at York is so fine an 
 example. The parapet of the nave is ornamented with a 
 border of very unusual pattern (see Plate VIII.) : it is con- 
 tinued round the top of the north-west tower. 
 
 The north porch is a truly splendid specimen of architec- 
 
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 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 ture, and perhaps better worth preservation than any other 
 part of the fabric ; but it has been sadly neglected, as the 
 entrance is seldom used, and the earth has been suffered to 
 accumulate so much against the whole of the north side of the 
 church, that there is now a descent of several steps into the 
 porch. In spite, however, of damp and dirt, the freshness 
 of some parts of the sculpture is astonishing. In Plate VII. 
 an elevation of this porch is given, as it would appear if the 
 earth were cleared away which now conceals the lower part of 
 the columns below the two heads, which form brackets in the 
 niches on either side. The variety and beauty of the mould- 
 ings is very great ; among these the toothed ornament is 
 conspicuous, and the open work of the foliage on the capitals 
 of the columns is of the best sort. The groined stone ceiling 
 is destroyed, and the original angular roof of the porch 
 has been displaced to make way for the erection of a room 
 over the porch, which has had a communication with the 
 interior of the church. This upper story is altogether un- 
 worthy of the lower. There is a perpendicular window of 
 five lights in front, and an ogee arch at the side. 
 
 The east wall of the church is merely an unsightly mass of 
 buttresses. Two windows, probably taken from the ruins 
 of the choir, have been inserted, — one is decorated, the other 
 perpendicular. The architecture of the demolished choir* 
 appears to have corresponded with that of the north aisle of 
 the church; nothing is said about the north transept. In 
 the north aisle of the choir were eleven narrow windows, and 
 similar ones in the south aisle, every one of them c of one 
 lyghte,' except two windows on the south with ' five lyghtes 
 apiece.' In the east end of the choir were eleven windows ; 
 
 * The beautiful collegiate church of Howden shared a similar fate : Mr. 
 Pennant says, " Howden is distinguished by the ruin of its fine church, in 
 form of a cross, length 251 feet, transept 100 feet, east part quite a ruin." 
 The chapter-house is an octagon of the richest workmanship, also in ruins. 
 — See Allen's History of Yorkshire. Book IV. c. 15. p. 165. 
 
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 4? 
 
 ' ten of one lyghte, and one of three lyghtes.' The clerestory 
 windows appear also to have been similar to those in the 
 aisles, being described as a double story of the same. There 
 does not seem to have been any painted glass in the choir, 
 for it is particularly mentioned the e windowes were all of 
 whyte glasse.' Some fragments, however, have been found 
 in digging near 'the church, and have been taken out of 
 the upper part of the great west window, which are in the 
 possession of some of the inhabitants. The interior of 
 the choir is said to have been well covered with wainscot ; the 
 stalls substantial, and at the time of the dissolution ' newly 
 made after the right goodly fashion.' The stone screen at 
 the high altar is said to have been of a great height, ex- 
 cellently well wrought, and as well 'gilded,'' according to 
 the taste of the day. It was decorated with a number of 
 large statues, representing Christ at the Assumption of the 
 Virgin, (to whom the church was dedicated) and the twelve 
 Apostles. In the space between the splendid screen and 
 the east end of the church, was the shrine of St. John of 
 Bridlington. This shrine ' was placed in a fair chapel on 
 high, having on either side a stair of stone for to go and 
 come by,' — and underneath were five chapels furnished with 
 their respective altars and images. The vestry was on the 
 south side of the choir. It is to be regretted that no ruins 
 of the eastern part of the conventual church now remain to 
 enable us to verify and illustrate the curious particulars of 
 the above description ; nor have the casual discoveries of the 
 foundation of walls and pillars been recorded with sufficient 
 exactness to throw any material light in addition upon the 
 subject.* 
 
 The nave consists of nine arches, exclusive of the western 
 towers. The eastern wall is not perpendicular to the side 
 walls, as will appear from the ground plan, (see Plate X.) 
 There is an ascent of three steps to the altar, which is 
 
 * See Allen's History of Yorkshire. Book IV. c. 12. p. II. 
 
48 
 
 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 probably on the site of the screen which separated the ni nave 
 from the choir.* On the ground plan are marked the <di divi- 
 sions by which the three eastern arches are appropriatceded to 
 the chancel ; the three middle ones are filled with pews,, e, and 
 here the service is performed ; the three western are mnunoc- 
 cupied. 
 
 The font is quite plain, and raised on two steps ; it is is of 
 marble, common in Derbyshire, which is full of petrifactiioiions ; 
 and I should be inclined to think, not the original one. 1 The 
 monumental stone near it is shown in Plate IX. 1 The 
 sculpture is very ancient, but this stone has evidently b( been 
 brought from some other part of the church, after the dlisiisso- 
 lution, to its present situation, and used as a tomb-sitoitone. 
 There is an inscription much defaced, the letters wretchieaedly 
 executed, with the date 1587 on the under side; the ssttstone 
 having been turned to display the sculpture. Of the pewiwing 
 of this church nothing can be said, but that it is irreg;ul;ular, 
 inconvenient, and altogether unworthy of the fine buildiingng in 
 which it is placed ; and it is to be hoped the efforts w/hvhich 
 have been made from time to time for a general impirorove- 
 ment, will ultimately be successful. One or two ineffeictictual 
 attempts have also been made to procure an organ, whichch is 
 much wanted. 
 
 The clustered pillars (see Plate V.), are extremely firfine; 
 they consist of twelve shafts, arranged upon a quadrangugular 
 base ; the four at the, angles are larger than the rest., a and 
 the eight smaller are placed in pairs between them. T The 
 capitals are plain, and the mouldings of the arches very b( bold 
 and numerous. There are dripstones over many of thehem, 
 terminated by heads. The triforia, on the south side, are 
 similar to the gallery over the great west door ; being fornrmed 
 by pillars parallel to the mullions of the clerestory windodows 
 below the transom. They are fifteen feet high, and ththree 
 
 * The present screen and altar-piece were probably erected in QuQueen 
 Anne's reign, A. D. 1713. 
 
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 49 
 
 in breadth. Under the clerestory windows, on the north 
 side, is a range of arches filled with open work tracery, like 
 the windows above, and apparently intended for triforia; 
 but there is no gallery or passage whatever. Immediately 
 over these arches is a passage, on a level with the bottom 
 of the north clerestory windows, and another on the op- 
 posite side, above the triforia already mentioned. There 
 are winding staircases leading to these triforia in the two 
 western towers; and formerly the only approach to both, 
 was by a door-way in the north-western tower : the com- 
 munication being kept up by means of the gallery over the 
 west door, which has been described. The difference 
 between the angle of the original roof of the church is nine 
 feet and a half ; and owing to this, the upper part of the west 
 window is hidden from view on the inside. ' 
 
 The length of the present church, in the interior, is 185 
 feet; and the distance of the farthest pillar from the east 
 wall of the church, whose foundation has been taken up, 
 152 feet ; so that the ancient church seems to have been 
 nearly of the same length as Beverley minster, about 333 
 feet : its breadth is 68 feet ; and height about 70 feet. 
 
 The south door is very plain ; but in the inside wall near 
 it is a handsome corbel terminated by a grotesque figure, 
 for which, see Plate VIII. In the same plate will also be 
 found a very elegant ornamental arch over the interior of 
 the north door. 
 
 A list of testamentary burials, and monumental inscrip- 
 tions, will be found in the Appendix. * The only ancient 
 ones now remaining are the slab near the font before-men- 
 tioned, and a flat grey stone also near the font, formerly 
 ornamented with the figure of a warrior, and four shields at 
 the corners ; but the brasses are gone. It cannot be doubted 
 from Torr's account of the testamentary burials, that several 
 
 * See Appendix P. 
 
 E ' : '*y" 
 
50 
 
 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 persons of distinction were here interred ; but chiefly in t the 
 choir and transepts, and so the monuments have been c de- 
 molished along with them. * The tomb-stones of a prrior 
 and canon, now preserved in the vestry, have been describbed 
 in the former chapter ; and another tomb-stone, without in- 
 scription, with a cross beautifully sculptured on it, was fouund 
 buried near the north door, and is kept in the church for 1 the 
 inspection of the curious. The shrine of St. John, formeerly 
 at the east end, has also been noticed. In the Harl. M£SS. 
 British Museum, (Vesp. E.,) there are two drawings ruddely 
 executed with a pen, and damaged at the edges by fire, , of 
 the shrines of Prior Gregory and Sir George Ripley ; Gre- 
 gory was prior, A.D. 1181 ; but this shrine belongs to tthe 
 15th century : he is lying under an ogee canopy ornamennted 
 with crockets, and surmounted by a handsome finial. IHis 
 dress differs little from that of a bishop, and he wears I the 
 mitre. On Ripley's tomb there is no recumbent figure, 1 but 
 simply a cross ; and over it, on a shield, a lion rampoant. 
 In Plate XIV. is the monument of Sir Martin de la Seee,f 
 now in the chancel of Barmston church ; this monumennt is 
 stated in a Bodl. MS. to have been * brought out of BiJrel- 
 lington.' 
 
 Filey Church is one of the most beautiful ecclesiastical 
 buildings in this part of the country. The architecturce is 
 Norman and early English, without any mixture of ldater 
 styles — (See Plate XIII.) It is a cross church, witlth a 
 tower in the centre, and consists of a nave, transepts, chhan- 
 cel, and south porch. The length of the church is 131 fifeet, 
 and of the transepts 69 feet. The nave, which is the nmost 
 
 * The only ancient monuments now remaining in the abbey churcbh, at 
 Selby, are two knights and a lady, and a slab for Abbot Selby, A. D. 11504. 
 The ancient wooden stalls remain in the choir. — See Cooke's Topograpmhij of 
 Yorkshire, p. 217. 
 
 f See Appendix R. 
 
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 5] 
 
 ancient part of the building, consists of six arches; the 
 piers are alternately circular and octagonal with plain caps, 
 except the two most western, which are clustered like the 
 four which support the tower, and from their unfinished 
 appearance at top it would seem that a western tower or 
 towers had at some time been projected ; but there is no in- 
 dication of it outside. The west end has only one plain 
 lancet window. The clerestory windows are very small semi- 
 circular headed lights. The arches of the nave pointed ; 
 but the arch of the south door semicircular and without orna- 
 ment. The east window has been filled with some poor per- 
 pendicular tracery ; but the semicircular dripstone remains 
 on the outside : below it are three brackets for statues. The 
 chancel has four beautiful early English lancets on the south 
 side : there has been one on the north side, as well as doors 
 on both sides the chancel which are now walled up. On the 
 south side of the altar is a piscina, and three trefoil headed 
 niches with quatre-foils in the spandrils. The wooden screen 
 between the nave and chancel is almost entirely decayed. 
 There is a large chalk-stone slab in the middle of the 
 chancel floor with an inscription round the margin, now so 
 defaced as to be nearly illegible. The date 1603 upon it, 
 determines it to be subsequent to the Reformation. There is 
 also a tattered escutcheon on the north wall, impaling the 
 arms of Buck and Lulton. In the north transept is a trefoil 
 headed piscina. The clustered columns and high pointed 
 arches which support the tower are very similar to those in 
 Bridlington church, and there is some good work about the 
 belfry windows inside. The tower is furnished with four 
 bells. An ornamental moulding of Norman character is 
 continued round under the exterior parapet of the church. 
 
 Flamborough Church. — The antiquity of this village 
 as a Danish, if not a Roman settlement, and the remains of 
 its ancient castle at no great distance from the church, 
 (see Plate XIII.,) would lead us to expect marks of a much 
 
 e 2 
 
52 
 
 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 higher antiquity than the present building can lay claim to. 
 The general character of its windows is the debased Gothic, 
 being flat-headed and usually of three lights with ogee 
 arches. There has been a west porch, and perhaps a tower 
 at that end. The font is ancient, and much resembles that 
 of Barmston, (see Plate XII.) It wants, however, the or- 
 nament of circular arches at the base. The church consists 
 of a nave and chancel, with aisles to each. There are three 
 arches in the nave, with octagonal piers and clerestory win- 
 dows. The chancel is separated from the nave by a wooden 
 screen, over which are the remains of the ancient rood-loft. 
 (See Plate XI V.) The workmanship of this screen belongs 
 to the 15th century, and is extremely rich. It has for- 
 merly been painted and gilded. It contains fourteen niches 
 with fine canopies, and ten arches below filled with excellent 
 tracery. The only ancient part of the church is a circular 
 arch over the rood-loft, the pillars of which have Norman 
 fluted capitals. On the north side of the altar affixed to 
 some good tabernacle work, remaining on both sides of the 
 chancel, is a brass plate with a curious inscription of some 
 length in old English text in metre,* recording the warlike 
 exploits of Sir Marmaduke Constable, who lived in the time 
 of Edward the Fourth, and Henry the Seventh and Eighth ; 
 over it is a shield, on which the arms of Constable are im- 
 paled with those of Stafford of Graftcfti. This brass plate 
 has been taken from an altar tomb now hidden under the 
 wall of the vestry. Opposite, in the south aisle, is another 
 altar tomb, which has formerly had an inscription on a brass 
 label round the margin. Upon it lies the trunk of an ema- 
 ciated figure rudely executed and much defaced ; but 
 whether it originally belonged to this tomb seems doubtful. 
 Near it, at the east end of the south aisle, is a mural monu- 
 ment, inscribed to the memory of " that learned and pious 
 gentleman, Walter Strickland," who died in November, 
 
 * See Appendix Q. 
 
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 53 
 
 1671, and left 2,000/. towards purchasing the lordship of 
 Flambro' for his family, in whose possession it still remains. 
 In the same aisle are several monuments belonging to the 
 Ogle family: " John Ogle, who died in 1605, came from 
 Northumberland, and settled at Flambro' about the middle 
 of the 16th century, where some of his descendants still 
 continue to reside." There is also a mural' monument in 
 memory of John Yates, who died in 1764. Over the altar 
 table is a monument in memory of " Robert Wilsford, some- 
 time Impropriator of this Parish, who died 10th May, 
 1784:" and another in memory of " the Rev. Montague 
 Hebblethwayte, B.D., formerly Fellow of St. John's Col- 
 lege, Cambridge ; Vicar of Sunninghill, Berks ; and Mini- 
 ster of Flambro'; who died February 4th, 1817." 
 
 Bempton Church consists of a nave and chancel, with 
 south porch, and a tower at the west end. The south door 
 arch is semicircular, with ornamented capitals. The nave 
 consists of four very low piers, irregularly octagonal or cir- 
 cular; the arches are semicircular. There are the remains 
 of a decorated window at the east end ; but the chancel has 
 been so repaired and modernized with brick, that but little 
 of the original wall remains. There have been some old 
 seats in the chancel, which is open to the rafter roof, and 
 some of the beams have been ornamented with rudely 
 painted flowers. In the centre of the floor of the nave there 
 is an ancient flat monumental stone with a cross upon it. 
 The font is in shape like that of Bridlington. 
 
 Speeton Chapel is only an oblong room. The east end 
 is used as a school, and there is a fire-place in it. On the 
 north side are two trefoil-headed recesses. There is a very 
 broad semi-circular arch about the middle of the chapel. 
 In the chancel, if it may be so called, are two pews. On 
 the south side, near the pulpit, is a window ; the seats are 
 open benches, the floor very ill paved. The font a plain 
 stone basin. 
 
54 
 
 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 Grindal Chapel is much like Speeton ; the nave annd 
 chancel are lighted each by one small window on the southh ; 
 the chancel is paved with brick. The floor of the nave i is 
 covered with sea-gravel, except that a line of flag stonaes 
 runs through it between the two rows of benches. The fount 
 is a olain stone basin. 
 
 Fiaisthorpe Chapel is much the same as the two juast 
 described, than which it is hardly possible to conceive mor>re 
 wretched buildings appropriated as places of public woDr- 
 ship 
 
 Auburn Chapil no longer exists, having been pulleed 
 dowi by license fnm the Archbishop of York, when it w#as 
 likely, owing to tie encroachments of the sea, to share tbhe 
 fate 3f the rest of the village. 
 
 Bsssingby Chapel is a modern brick edifice, very neatWy 
 fitted up. There is a mural tablet on the north side of tbhe 
 chared, in memory of John Hudson, Esq., who died iin 
 1772; and on tie opposite wall an elegant monument bby 
 Wyatt, in memcry of the late Lady Anne Hudson, who dieed 
 in 1818 : there is also another tablet in memory of her huas- 
 band, Harrington Hudson, Esq., who died in 1826. 
 
 Carnaby Ceuich consists of a nave, chancel, and soutth 
 aisle. The norh aisle appears to have been taken dowrn, 
 and the north wall, as well as the chancel, rebuilt with bricbk. 
 The font is ancient and curiously ornamented, (see Platite 
 XII) A flat store in the chancel is rather oddly inscribeed 
 to "Mr. Francis Tickerman, Esq., a lover of learning and I a 
 pattern of piety. A. D. 1616." Another tablet belonging tto 
 some of his family, with the letters 'erman' on it, has beeen 
 broken and placed with another fragment of a tomb-stone, i in 
 meirory of Mistiess Annas, wife of — BoyntonEsq., who dieed 
 A. D. 1623. Thenave is divided from the south aisle by fivve 
 octagonal piers, the caps are ornamented with a very minutite 
 borcer of the tcotied moulding, and in the south aisle arre 
 two pair of small lancet windows. The door arch of thhe 
 
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 55 
 
 south porch is semi-circular, and quite plain. The tower 
 att the west end is perpendicular, and very like that of the 
 neighbouring church of Boynton. (See views of both these 
 chiurches, Plate XV.) 
 
 Boynton Church. — The tower of this church is a good 
 specimen of perpendicular. The nave and chancel have 
 bteen rebuilt, and are neatly fitted up. There is, however, 
 some appearance of that confusion between the Grecian and 
 Gxothic styles, from which the beautiful interior of Beverley 
 Minster has only recently been freed, and which was so 
 prevalent during the last century. In the space behind the 
 alltar are several monuments of the Strickland family. In 
 thie east window is some painted glass, and the date of the 
 rebuilding of the church, 1768. There is an old monument 
 im memory of Sir William Strickland, Knt, the first Baronet 
 w/ho died Sept. 12, 1673 ; and his second wife, the Lady 
 Frances Finch, daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Winchilsea, 
 wrho died December 17, 1663. Another to the wife of Sir 
 TThomas Strickland, (son to the former), Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Sir Francis Pyle, Bart., of Compton Beauchamp, in 
 Berkshire, who died June 13, 1674. Among the Dods- 
 worth MSS. in the Bodleian, the following notices occur 
 of some ancient monuments in the old church, before the 
 Elebellion : 
 
 " Bointon Church, 14th Nov. 1620. A handsome lombe 
 im the north wall in brasse, the portraiture of a man in armor 
 kneeling : under, 
 
 3|u $acet HLooertus Newport Grange*, qtn obtit XXI 1 1, ah JWau 'anno 
 IBom: M°. CCC°. LXXXIII . cufus anfata requiescat in pate. ^mm. 
 
 ©rate pro antma ©ne JWargareie uxoris etus que o6ut XVIII. Die mess 
 Septemfirts £nno ©mi M°. CCC°. LXXXIII. Cujus aie propUUtu: ©eus. 
 
56 
 
 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 
 
 ON A STONE. 
 
 3§h jacet ^Jjomas ^Tetoport et lEItsab't uxor eius filta tt fieres 3So1>f;& 
 IBognton filU et fiereflts Uou ^ofiti. ISognton mtlilis q 1 . ©f>os. o6Ut XV°. tafc 
 "Nobcmfcr. %°. W°. M°. CCCC. XXIII quorum antmafcus propitietur 3Beuus. 
 
 ANOTHER STONE. 
 
 1|tc jactt Skills ^«topo« armiger qui obttt Becfmo Bte mtnsis TSTobembnrts 
 ■anno Wo. M°. CCCO. LXXX°. tutus arte propitietur Beus." 
 
 The following subjects, although not properly containeed 
 within the prescribed limits of the present work, have beeen 
 introduced into the Plates : Rudston church, (see Plate XVII.) 
 and the stone in the church-yard, very like those called Me 
 devil's arrows at Boroughbridge, whose origin has ofteen 
 exercised the ingenuity of the antiquary ; the fonts in Rudd- 
 ston. and Reighton churches ; and the ornamented Normaan 
 door at Kilham church.* 
 
 * See Appendix R. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM BISHOP TANNER S NOTITIA MONASTICA. 
 
 [Burlington or Bridlington, olim Brellinton or Berlintona, in the Deanry 
 of Dykering and Archdeaconry of East Riding.] 
 
 Vide in Mon. Angl. torn. 2. p. 161. Cartam fundationis. p. 162. 
 Cartas duas Gilberti de Gaunt Com. Lincoln. Cartam. R. Hen. I, 
 donatorum concessiones recitantem et confirmantem. P. 163. 
 Cartas R. Stephani, de portu de Bridlington ; R. Hen. 2. con- 
 firm, donationes. P. 164. Cartas Joannis fil. Joannis de Harp- 
 ham, de medietat. eccl. de Twenge ; R. fil. Hemisii, pro eccl. de 
 Gausla ; Walteri de Ver, pro eccl. de Sprottle ; Matildis filiae 
 Steph. Com. Britanniae, pro eccl. de Swaldale, cum Gronton ; 
 Roberti de Gaunt pro pastur. et herbagio in Svraldale ; Radulphi 
 de Nevil, conced. petram in petraria de Fivele ad fabricam mo- 
 nasterii ; Bullam P. lnnocentii 3. contra Archidiac. Richmondiae 
 visitantem ecclesiam quandam ad hunc Prioratum spectantem, 
 cum 97 equis, 21 canibus &c. P. 166. Procuratorium Joannis 
 de Nevile in appellatione contra Priorem et Coriv. in causa deci- 
 marum de Edenham. 
 
 Registrum honoris de Richmond, p. 44. de carucata terraj in 
 Grynton ; p. 57. de sex bovatis terrae in Mikel Couton cum 
 Smethon ; et in Append, p. 32. de quatuor bovatis terrae et una 
 salina in Holbech. 
 
GO 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Rybii Plac. Parliam. p. 131. 172. 627. 
 Ye;r Books 22. 19. 19 Hen. 6. Hill. 16. 
 
 Dufdale's Warwickshire, edit. 1730. p. 585. of the chunch obf 
 Whiclford, for a short time belonging to this Priory. 
 
 Ryneri Conventionum, Feeder. &c. torn. 8. p. 161. 
 
 Pryine's Records, vol. 3. p. 864. claus. 28. Ed. 1. m.. 17. . 
 p. 11>2. pat. 35 Ed. 1. m. 6. pro appropriatione eccll. dee 
 Goush [Lincoln, dicec] 
 
 In Append, ad Stevensii vol. 2. p. 337. Cartam Walteri dee 
 Ver, cbnantis eccl. de Gousle, ex Hearnii notis in Guil. Nesubr. - . 
 p. 714 Cartam R. Stephani donantis carucatam et dimid. t(erra?e 
 ex doninio ejus in Estona, et dimid. carucat. ex dominio in Hil- - 
 dertone, et confirm, donationes aliorum. P. 338. abbreviaitur. . 
 plurirrar. donationum : Sententiam Officialis Archidiaconi Riich- - 
 mondie, de ecclesiis de Couton et Grenton conventui de BJrid- - 
 lingtor appropriatis, A. D. 1319. 
 
 Regstrum hujus Prioratus olim penes Will. Ingleby mil. miodo > 
 penes torn. Joannem Ingleby equ. aur. 1697.* 
 
 Cartilarium penes Ric. Malleverer Bar. 
 
 Regstrum penes Walterum Clavell arm. 
 
 Corrputos, rentalia, &c. in baga intit. Bridlington in superriori i 
 area qiintae arcae in officio Curiae Augmentationis. 
 
 Inte- MSS. collect. V. cl. Rog. Dodsworth. in Bibl. B.odl. . 
 
 * Brdlington Register Book. — The following information has Ibeen < 
 received through the medium of Sir William Ingilby, Bart., of Ripleyy, in i 
 whose pissession this valuable and curious record at present remains. It t 
 is not kiown when, or by what means, the MS. came into the hands of the 
 Ingilby amily. It is called the Bridlington Coucher, or Register Biook, 
 and is ; very thick, small-sized folio, plainly written on parchment in ab- 
 breviatel monkish Latin, containing upwards of 1,000 pages, and is iin a i 
 state of excellent preservation. It consists chiefly of various deeds of gift 
 of parces of lands, ice. to the Priory Church of Bridlington from diffeirent 
 persons n Yorkshire, more particularly confined to the East Riding .and 
 Holdernss ; together vith a great number of ' quit-claims,' (quieta-claima- 
 tiones,) wth regard to various kinds of rights, privileges, and property. 
 
 From this ancient document the elaborate and minute account of the 
 possession of the Prior/ of Bridlington, given by Burton, in his Monastiicon 
 Eboraceise, is almost entirely derived. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 61 
 
 0)xon. Cartarum quamplurimarum ad hunc Prioratum spectan- 
 timm ineditarum apographa. vol. 7. f. 11. 128. 168. 213. 230. 
 2446. 247. 260. 264. 274. 275. 294. 308. 309. 310. 311. 317. 
 3130. 331. vol. 8. f. 119. 213. vol. 9. a f. 139 ad 155. vol. 76. 
 f. 147. vol. 118. f. 68. Mr. Gascoign's notes from the Coucher 
 oif Bridlington, vol. 159. f. 130. ex Cartulario Monasterii de 
 Biridlington in custodia Jacobi Bellingham de Levens in com. 
 Westm. mil. 1627. Ibid. f. 174. ex cartis in cista de Bridling- 
 toon in turre B. Maria? Ebor. 
 
 Cottonian Library, Aug. 11. 53. 
 
 In Registro Joannis Romani Archiepisc. Ebor. f. 68. ordina- 
 tirionem vicaria? in eccl. de M. Cowton huic Prioratui appropriata : 
 ini Registro Gul. Grenefeld. Archiepisc. p. 11. f. pronunciatio- 
 n&em super appropriatione ecclesiarum de Bridlington, Flayn- 
 buurgh, Kerneleby, Oteringham, Fyfle, Attynwyke, Bovington, 
 Gjalmeton, Willarby, et Scaleby, priori et conv. de Bridlington, 
 AV. D. 1310. Ibid. f. 119. inhibitionem adorationis cujusdam 
 inmaginis B. Maria? in monasterio de Bridlington : in registro 
 AUex. Nevile. Archiepisc. f. 99. vel 100. commissionem ad cog- 
 naoscendum de miraculis ad tumbam Joannis -de Tweng prioris de 
 B3ridlington, examinand. testes, &c. 26 Jun. A. D. 1386. 
 
 Fin. Ebor. 1 Joan. n. 3. de advoc. medietat. eccl. de Bidford, 
 ni . . pro 10 bovatis terra? in Rednes : Cart. 2 Joan. m. 18. n. 61. 
 pnro mercat. et feria apud Bridlington : oblat. 2 Joan. m. I 9. pro 
 ei'isdem : Fin. Ebor. 4 Joan, de terris in Beverle. 
 
 Fin. Ebor. 10 Hen. 3. n. 133. de terris in Brunthon : Fin. 
 ESbor. 14 Hen. 3. n. 77. 84. de bovata terra? in Caton : Plac. 
 appud Ebor. 15 Hen. 3. rot. 3. d. de eadem : Fin. Ebor. 20 Hen. 3. 
 nn. 199. 235. de eadem: Fin. Ebor. 24 Hen. 3. n. 11. de com- 
 mnun. turbariae in marisco de Wilarby : Fin. Ebor. 33 Hen. 3. 
 mn. de advoc. eccl. de Beford : Ibid. n. 85. de bovata terra? in 
 FFlotmanby : Plac. assis. apud Ebor. 52 Hen. 3. rot. 11. d. 27. 
 5.51. 65. pro tertia parte duarum partium maner. de Bridlington : 
 FFin. Ebor. 52 Hen. 3. n. 53. pro medietat. feodi. mil. in Brid- 
 liiington. 
 
 Fin. Ebor. 5 Ed. 1. n. 48. pro mess, et terris in Killum : 
 PPlac. assis. apud. Ebor. 8. Ed. 1. rot. 31 d. pro 22 toftis in 
 
62 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Bridlington : Pat. 13 Ed. 1. m. Plac. assis. apud Ebor. 14 lEd. 11. 
 rot. 5. d. rot. 7 et 58 de serviciis tenentium in Frakistthorp* : 
 Cart. 18 Ed. 1. n. 32. pro lib. war. in maner. et pro meraat- tet 
 feria apud Bridlington : Pat. 18 Ed. 1. m. 11. de terris in Wesst 
 Askham: Plac. de quo war. 21 Ed. 1. rot. 29. allocat. libtertatt. 
 in Bessingby etc. Plac. 27 Ed. 1. rot. 65. Pat. 29 Ed. 1. pa. 4 
 vel 5. Pat. 32 Ed. 1. m. Fin. Ebor. 32 Ed. 1. n. 60. de pratto 
 in West Askham: Pat. 33 Ed. 1. p. 1. m. 1 vel 2. p. ',2. rm- 
 Pat. 34. Ed. 1. m. Pat. 35. Ed. 1. m. 6. 
 
 Pat. 2. Ed. 2. p. 2. m. I et 14. Pat. 4. Ed. 2. p. 1. im. 55. 
 Cart. 5. Ed. 2. n. 19. Pat. 5. Ed. 2. p. 2. m. 14etl6. Patt. 122. 
 Ed. 2. p. 2. m. 6. Claus. 16. Ed. 2. n. 18. 
 
 Pat. 5. Ed. 3. p. 2. m. Pat. 12 Ed. 3. p. 3. m. 4 vrel 55. 
 Pat. 16 Ed. 3. p. 2. m. 29 vel 30. Claus. 20 Ed. 3. p. 1. im. 93. 
 Pat. 20 Ed. 3. p. 1. m. 36. de libertat. in soca de Scalbjy rai- 
 tione terr. in Cloughton. Pat. 26 Ed. 3. p. 1. m. 3. pro tern, iin 
 Sywardby, Burton etc. Ibid p. 2. m. 24. 
 
 Pat. 1. Ric. 2. p. I. m. 26. pro ten. in Eston, Louthorp,, etc-. 
 Pat. 11. Ric. 2. p. 2. m. pro Kernelatione prioratus : Pat*. 
 12 Ric. 2. p. 2. m. 26 pro ten. in Bessingby, Fraythorp, New- 
 ton, etc. Brev. orig. 15 Ric. 2. rot. 34. Cart. 15 Ric. 2. m. 263. 
 Rec. ia scacc. 19 Ric. 2. Mich. rot. 14. 
 
 Pat. 2 Hen. 4. p. 1. m. 21. confirm, wreccum maris et aliass 
 libertates: Ibid. p. 4. m. 15. pro ten. in Welthorp et Buc:ton : 
 Fin. Ebor. 4 Hen. 4. n. . de 22Z. 2s. 9c?. ann. reddit. in BmU* 
 lington: Pat. 8 Hen. 4. p. 1. m. 8. pro eccl. de Scardeburgh . 
 
 Rec in scacc. 1. Hen. 5. Mich. rot. 12. Pat. I. Hen. 5. jp. 41. 
 m. 9 vel 14. Pat. 9 Hen. 5. p. 1. m. 24. 
 
 Pat. 20 Hen. 6. p. 1. m. 4 vel 5. Cart. 21 Hen. 6. in. 5j. 
 Pat. 23 Hen. 6. p. 2. m. 21 vel 22. Cart. 24 Hen. 6. m. 6j. 
 Cart. 25 vel 26 Hen. 6. n. 15. Cart. 27 Hen. 6. n. 26. (Cart*. 
 30 Hen. 6. n. 26. Rec. in scacc. 33 Hen. 6. Mich. rot. 5. 
 
 Pat. 1. Ed. 4. p. 3. m. 15. Pat. 5 Ed. 4. p. 3. m. 19. Rec.;. 
 in scacc. 8 Ed. 4. Mich. rot. 6. 
 
APPENDIX. 63 
 
 B. 
 
 1EXTRACT FROM DOOMSDAY BOOK. ART. EVRVISCIRE. 
 
 In Brretlinton cu. n. berew. Hilgertorp if Wiflestorp sunt ad 
 
 cira n 
 
 gld. xiii. carucatae. qs poss. arare vn carucae. H tenuit 
 
 _ or 
 
 Morrcar f>. i. manerio. Nc. e in manu regis, et suA. ibi mi. 
 
 u a 
 
 burg^enses censu reddentes. Pti ac. tin. ^Eccla. i. Tot 
 
 k *> — . k k 
 
 manter. n. lev. lg. i, dimid lev. lat. T. R. E. ual. xxxn. 
 
 o 
 
 lib. im. vin. sol. 
 
 4 H vi. c' viii. c' 
 
 Ad h maner. ptinet soca haru traru. Mar tone. Basinghebi. 
 
 v II dim. c 4 nn 
 
 Estome. Bouintone. i, alia Bouint. Grendele. Spretone. Bo- 
 
 v HIT I It I vii 
 
 chetcone. Fleustone. Stactone. Foxele. Elestolf. Galmeton. 
 
 v k — — 7 dim u _ 
 
 Widllafeston. Int oms sunt ad gld. Evnr carucatae qs. possu 
 
 o _ .... 4 
 arane. xxx carucae. M. suA ibi in. uilli. j^i Socbem. cu. i. 
 
 k k 
 
 car. ^ dim. Caetera Wasta. [Vol. i. p. 2996. in Mus. Brit.'] 
 
 EXPLANATIONS FROM ELLIs's INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Carucca, plougb and team ; carucaia, team's tillage ;* lev<<, 
 leugrce, leagues ; soca, liberty or jurisdiction ; uilli, villani, 
 villeeins ; sochem't, sochemannus, socman, a privileged villein, 
 who, though his tenure was absolutely copyhold, yet had an 
 inteirest equal to freehold. The above extract may, therefore, 
 be tthus translated : — 
 
 " Yonkshire. In Bretlington, with its two hamlets, Hilgertorp 
 and; Wiflestorp, there are 18 carucates liable to taxation, 
 whicch 7 teams are able to plough. Morcar held this as one 
 mamor. It is now in the hands of the king : and there are 
 therre 4 burgesses paying tax : 8 acres of meadow land, and 
 
 * Ain oxgang is a variable quantity of land, seldom less than ten, cr more 
 than tTwenty acres, but generally containing about twelve acres. Eight or 
 ten oxgjangs make a carucate of land, and ten carucates &re deemed to be a 
 k:night','s fee. — See Preface to Charlton's History of Whitby. 
 
64 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 om church. The whole manor is two leagues long, and half ' a 
 leegue broad. In the time of King Edward the Confessor, , it 
 was valued at xxxn pounds : at present only vm shillings. 
 "To this manor belongs the liberty of these lands, Martone, B^a- 
 singhebi, Estone, Bouintone, and another Bouintone, Grendelle, 
 Spretone, Bochetone, Fleustone, Stactone, Foxele, Elestollf, 
 G<irnetone, Widlafestone. In all there are 58 carucates liable 
 to taxation, which SO teams are able to plough. At preseint 
 there are there 3 villeins, and one socman with one carucatte 
 and a half. The rest is waste." 
 
 C. 
 
 PEDIGREE OF GANT. 
 
 Gilbert de Gant, son of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, and nephe'.w 
 to William the Conqueror, the pious restorer of Bardne^y 
 Abbey, Com. Line, utterly destroyed by the Danes, died iin 
 the time of William Rufus. He possessed fifty-four Lordshipis 
 in several counties, at the time of the Norman Survey, one cof 
 which was Folkingham, in Lincolnshire, from which he took 
 the title of Baron Folkingham. 
 
 Walter de Gant * succeeded in the barony, and died 4th Stephen). 
 He was a person of great humanity and piety, who, when am 
 aged man and near his death, commanded a body of Flemings 
 and Normans in that famous battle against the Scots, neaar 
 Northallerton, in Yorkshire, called * Bellum Standardi wheree, 
 by his eloquent speech and prudent conduct, the enemy received 
 a total overthrow. 
 
 Gilbert de Gant, taken prisoner with King Stephen at the fataal 
 battle of Lincoln, and compelled by Ranulph, Earl of Chesteir, 
 to marry his niece Avis, daughter of William de Romare, Eairl 
 
 * In Leland's Collectanea, vol. iii. p. 35, the foundation of the Priory cof 
 Bridlington is thus noticed : ' Gualterus de Gaunt filius Gisbrichti de Gaumt 
 erexit ccenobium Canonicorum Bridlingodunensium.' 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 05 
 
 of Lincoln, which title he gained in right of his wife : he died 
 wi thout male issue. 
 Gilbert, his great nephew, succeeded to the title; and dying 
 without issue in the time of Edward I., constituted the King 
 hiss heir. 
 
 Old English Peerage, ed. 171 J. vol. ii. part 2. 
 D. 
 
 C ARTJE AD PRIOKATUM DE BRIDLINGTON IN AGRO EBORACENSI 
 SPECTANTES. 
 
 1 . Carta Fundationis Monasterii de Bridlington temp. Hen. I. 
 R. Dodsworth's Bodl. MSS. vol. ix. fol. 139. et vol. x. 
 fol. 150. Carta Fundationis Abbathiae de Bridlington 
 Ebor. ibid, vol. cvm. fol. 161. Carta Fundationis ejus- 
 dem. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Reg. de Brid. 
 " Ego Walterus de Gant notifico omnibus sanctae ecclesiae 
 fidelibus, quod in ecclesia sanctae Mariae de Bredlintona Canoni- 
 cos Kegulares stabilivi, ex praecepto et consensu regis Henrici ? 
 pro anima ejus, et pro animabus patris et matris ejus, et pro 
 animabus patris et matris meaa, et anima mea, et amicorum meo- 
 rum ; concedo igitur eidem ecclesiae, et servitoribus ejus, quic- 
 quid habui in eadem villa, videlicet tresdecem carucatas terrae, 
 cum molendinis, quae eidem terrae adjacent ; terras quoque illas, 
 quas homines mei dederunt ipsi ecclesiae concedo ; videlicet "Willi- 
 elmus constabularius unam carucatam terrae in Besyngebi ; 
 Forno in eadem villa duas bovatas ; Machernus in Hildertrop 
 duas bovatas ; Radulphus Buch, et Gocelinus filius ejus, in Estona 
 duas bovatas dederunt; Radulphus in Grendala dedit quatuor 
 bovatas ; Gozo in Bucetona, concessione Alani filii sui, dedit 
 quatuor bovatas ; Malgerus in Richetona quatuor bovatas- Et 
 insuper dedi eidem ecclesiae et servitoribus suis Canonicis, eccle- 
 siam de Edenham, et aliam de Witham, et dimidiam ecclesiae de 
 Sut-ferebi, et Ecclesiam de Fivilai, cum molendino uno ; et <eccle- 
 siam de Swaldala, ecclesiam quoque de Willerdebi, et aliam de 
 Galmetona, quas Adelarus venator dedit, concessu Henrid filii 
 
 F 
 
61 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 sui, concede Has omnes terras, et ecclesias, cum terris, quase iis 
 adjacent, concedo iis solutas et quietas ab omni geldo et ommibus 
 consuetudinibus prseter geldum Regis, videlicet Danegeldum. Hiis 
 testibus Turstino, Archiepiscopo ; Alano de Perci ; Eustachio > filio 
 Johannis; Jordano Pagnel; Willielmo constabulario : Lambberto 
 constabulario ; Willielmo de Mundavilla, Radulpbo de Novawilla, 
 Willielmo de Perci, Radulpho de Grendala, et Radulpho filio 
 ejus, Gocelino Buch, Malgero de Erghom, Wimundo capelllano, 
 Richardo pincerna, et Girardo fratre ejus, Roberto de Ropiesle, 
 Waltero de Calce ; et superaddo etiam eis ecclesiam de Ellthes- 
 dona cum eadem libertate, quam in supra dictis ecclesiis habeint."* 
 
 • In a note to Tanner's Notitia it is remarked that this charter doees not 
 seem bo much the charter of an original foundation as a grant to a monaastery 
 already existing. We have already noticed the probability of a Nuninery, 
 or some other religious establishment existing at Bridlington, prior tto the 
 Conquest, and this conjecture derives additional force from the folkowing 
 remarks extracted from a very ancient pedigree, in Latin, probabliy the 
 work of some monk, relating to the families of the Eures and Vescyss, and 
 now in the possession of Sir William Strickland of Boynton, Bart, Tkis 
 ancient record contains the line of English kings, from William the Con- 
 queror downwards ; Henry VI. being the last whose name occurs. He 
 succeeded to the crown, A.D. 1422, and the birth of his son Edward, 
 A.D. 1453, is the latest date mentioned. At the top of the pedigrese the 
 five following personages are placed as contemporaries, with a rudely paunted 
 likeness of each in a circular border, and their respective armorial beairings. 
 
 1. William the Conqueror. 
 
 2. Malcolm, King of Scotland. 
 
 3. Gisbright Tison. (a) 
 
 4. — de Gant(i) (the former word is destroyed in the M.S.) 
 
 5. William de Percy, (c) 
 
 (a) The author of the pedigree has the following remarks : " Iste- Gis- 
 brightus Tison fuit dominus de Bridlington, Watton, Malton, et Alne-wike. 
 Et ut a quibusdam scriptis invenitur fuit fundator Abbathiarum de Bridlimgton, 
 de Watton, de Malton, et de Alnewike. Sed verius mihi videtur et arbiitror, 
 qu^d successores ejus fundaverunt praedicta monasteria pro anima ejus, 
 dictus est eorum fundator, non ejus facto sed successorum devotiome, ut 
 inferius manifestabitur. Iste autem Gisbrightus genuit W m . Tison eft Ri- 
 cardum Tison. W ms . Tison, corruit in bello contra Haraldum Angliae 
 invasorem." Richard Tyson was the founder of Gisborough Priory. > 
 
 (b) As son to 4 stands Gilbert de Gant, founder of Bridlington Priory „ with 
 a very rough sketch of Bridlington church. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 07 
 
 2. Carrta Regis Henrici I. plurimas Donatorum concessiones 
 recitans et confirmans. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Reg. <le 
 Bridl. fol. 159. 
 
 " Im nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. 
 
 Hemricus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, 
 Princiypibus, Baronibus, et universis fidelibus totius Angliae Cle- 
 ricis eit Laicis* Francis et Anglis, tarn presentibus quam futuris 
 saluterm. Quoniam ad hoc a superna potestate regalis celsitudi- 
 nem p»otestatis accepimus, ut in Ecclesia Dei potentiam nostram 
 juste pariter et misericorditer exerceamus, visum est nobis, ut 
 non scolum sub nostra tuitione et munimine ab infestantium ma- 
 licia attque calumnia tueatur, verum etiam ad suarum sustenta- 
 tionerm necessitudinum nostri muneris liberalitate foveatur. Prae- 
 cipue verd illis haec facere debemus, qui voluntariam subeuntes 
 paupetftatem sub regulari disciplina Domino militare decreverunt, 
 ut, secundum Apostolum, ex nostra opulentia eorum suppleatur 
 indigemtia, et nos eorum interventu in aeterna recipiamur taber- 
 naculai. Damus itaque et sub praesentis hujus Cartae nostrse 
 priveliigio atque attestatione confirmanus Ecclesiae S. Marias de 
 Brellimtona et Canonicis Regularibus Domino ibidem servienti- 
 bus, dluas carucatas terrae ex meo dominio* quarum una et di- 
 midia est in Estona, dimidia verd in Hildertorp, solutas et quietas 
 ab ommi geldo, et omnibus consuetudinibus. Caetera vero quae 
 a Walltero de Gant et a Jordano Paganel vel ab aliis Baronibus 
 et Va vasoribus f meis data sunt praedictae Ecclesiae, et in hujus 
 
 (c) From a MS. in the Harleian. Collection, it appears that the families 
 of Gaumt and Percy were early connected. This MS. professes to be taken 
 from tlhe Register of Whitby Abbey, of which William Lord Percy was the 
 founder, whose son Alayne Percy married Emme Gawnt, and had a son 
 Williami. 
 
 " The wife of the Founder of Whitby Abbey was Emme Lady of Semer and 
 Skarburgh afore the Conquest, and of other lands, William Conqueror gave 
 to Syr William Percy for his good Service, and he wedded her that was very 
 heir to them in discharging of his conscience." 
 
 The arms of the family of Gaunt appear in Hunmanby Church among 
 those of the ancient Lords of that Manor, where they had formerly a 
 Castle. 
 
 * Demesne, lordship. f Vassals. 
 
 V-V'/;' r 2 
 
68 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Cartas nostrae paging continentur concediraus, atque ejusdem 
 Cartae auctoritate confirmamus,"* &c. 
 
 3. Bulla Calixti II. Papae eadem confirmans. ex R. de B. 
 
 fol. 324. Bodl. MSS. Rog. Dodsworth. Vol. ix. fol. 148. 
 
 et Vol. clix. fol. 172. ex chartularis de B. 
 " Calixtus Episcopus, Servus servorum Dei, Guikemanno Priori 
 et Fratribus in Ecclesia Sanctae Mariae, quae Bridlingtonia sita 
 est, Regularem vitam professis, tarn praesentibus quam futuris, 
 imperpetuurn; Austri terram inhabitantibus, per propbetam, 
 Dominus precepit, cum panibus occurrere fugienti. Idcirco vos, 
 filii in Xristo Karissimi, de seculo fugientes, gratanter excipimus 
 et vestris (per venerabilem fratrem nostrum Turstinum Eborum 
 Archiepiscopum) petitionibus annuentes, per Sancti Spiritus 
 gratiam, Sedis Apostolicae munimine confovemus. Vitae namque 
 Canonicae Ordinem, quern, secundum beati Augustini Regulam, 
 professi estis, praesentis privilegii auctoritate firmamus, et ne cui, 
 post professionem exhibitam, proprium quid habere, neve, sine 
 Prioris vel Congregationis licentia, de Claustro descedere liceat, 
 interdicimus. Praeterea vobis vestrisque successoribus, in eadem 
 religione mansuris, ea omnia perpetud possidenda sancimus, quae 
 in praesentia pro communis victus sustentatione legitime pos- 
 sidere videmini. Universa etiam, quae, in futura, concessione 
 Pontificum, liberalitate principum, oblatione fidelium vel aliis 
 justis modis poteritis adipisci, quieta semper et integra conser- 
 ventur, eorum per quorum sustentationem ac gubernacionem 
 adquisita sunt usibus omnimodis profutura. Nulli igitur om- 
 nino hominum facultas sit eandem ecclesiam temere perturbare, 
 aut ejus possessionibus auferre vel ablatas retinere, minuere, vel 
 temerariis vexationibus fatigare. Si quis autem, quod absit, huic 
 nostro Decreto contraire temptaverit, honoris et officii sui pericu- 
 lum patiatur, aut excommunicationis ultione plectatur, nisi prae- 
 sumptionem suam digna satisfactione correxerit. Quicunque 
 vero ipsum locum et in eo Domini servientes fovere, suisque 
 
 * Here follows a recitation of the several grants of the Founder, for 
 which the reader is referred to the Foundation Charter. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 69 
 
 rebus honorare curaverit, omnipotentis Dei et Apostolorum ejus 
 benedictionem et gratiam consequantur. Amen." 
 
 4. Carta Regis Stephani de confirmatione Fundationis Priora- 
 
 tAs de Birlington. Bodl. MSS. Rog. Dodsworth. Vol. 
 xxxii. fol. 20. 
 
 5. Carta Regis Stephani, de Portu de Bridlingtona. Dugd. Mon. 
 
 Ang : ibid. R. Dodsworth's Bodl. MSS. Vol. ix. fol. 140. 
 " Stephanus Rex Angliae Comiti* Eboracensi etministris suis 
 salutem. Mando vobis, quod permittatis Priorem de Bridlintona 
 ben& et in pace tenere et habere portum suum de Bridlintona, 
 sicut Walterus de Gant, et Gilbertus pater suus, ilium melius 
 tenuerunt aliquo tempore, ne super hoc fiat ei injuria vel con- 
 tumelia. Et faciatis omnes ibidem applicantes f just& habere 
 pacem meam, ne aliquis eos injuste disturbet neque infestet." 
 
 6. Carta Gilberti Comitis (Lincolnise) de Terris de dono Wal- 
 
 teri de Gaunt Fundatoris, et donum ejusdem de Burton 
 (Fleming), Besynby, Hilderthorp, Willesthorp, Barton, et 
 Fordon. Dugd. Mon. Ang : et Bodl. MSS. Rog. Dods- 
 worth. Vol. ix. fol. 143. et Vol. cviii. fol. 161. 
 
 7. Carta ejusdem. de pastura ad 50 oves in campo de Hunde- 
 
 manbi. Dugd. Mon. Ang : et R. Dodsworth's Bodl. 
 MSS. Vol. ix. fol. 145. 
 
 8. Carta Regis Henrici II. de confirm, fundationis. Dugd. 
 
 Mon. Ang. ex Reg. de B. et R. Dodsworth's Bodl. MSS. 
 Vol. ix. fol. 150. et Vol. clix. fol. 171. ex Chartulario 
 de B. fol. 1. b. 
 
 The following Abstract of Henry the Second's Charter, may serve 
 to show the extent of the earlier possessions of the Monastery 
 
 'Henricus Secundus confirmat ecclesias de Bridlington dona- 
 tionem Henrici Regis Angliae, Avi sui, 1 de duabus carucatis 
 terra? de dominio suo, quarum una et dimidia est in Estona, di- 
 midia verd in Hilderthorp ;' praeterea concedit eis omnes dona- 
 tiones, quae eis rationabiliter factae sunt. 
 
 " Ex dono Walteri de Gaunt tredecem carucatas terrae in 
 * Sheriff. f Applicare navem. 
 
70 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Berlintona, et Ecclesiam de Fyneley, et Ecclesiam de Edynham, 
 et ecclesiam de Wytham, et dimidiam ecclesiae de Sutferriby et 
 ecclesiam de Elkestona et eccl. de Swaldala. 
 
 " Ex dono Comitis Gilberti de Gaunt totam villam de Bes- 
 syngby, cum omnibus eidem villse pertinentibus in Hilderthorp 
 et Forduna, et cum servitio Lamberti filii Willi, de una carucata 
 tre in Bartona, et ties carucatas tre in Spetona, quas Willus 
 filius Lamberti de eo tenuit, et in eadem villa servitium Tetionis 
 de tribus carucatis tre, et quicquid idem Gilbertus habuit in 
 dominio suo in prato de Ravenclyf, et Burtonam cum omnibus 
 pertinentibus suis, tam in dominio Comitis Gilberti, quam in 
 servitiis erorum, qui in eadem villa, tenebant, et eccl. de Baem- 
 burg, et in eadem villa unam carucatam, et servitia Ministrorum 
 Comitis Gilbti, qui terras de ipso tenebant. 
 
 • Ex dono Rogeri de Molbraio unam carucatam tre in Frais- 
 tingthorp, et dimidiam carucatam tre in Martona, 
 
 " Ex dono Robti de Withvilla unam carucatam tre in Scire- 
 burna. 
 
 " Ex dono Willi de Percy unum carucatam tre in Newtona. 
 " Ex dono Willi filii Nigelli eccl. de Fflainburg. 
 Eustachius filius JohTs in dedicatione istius eccl. concessit unam 
 bovatam terrae. 
 
 " Ex dono Eustachii filii JohTs eccl. de Scallebi, et eccl. de 
 Cutona. 
 
 " Ex dono Everardi de Ros eccl. de Attingwike. 
 
 • Ex dono Galfri Dispensatoris eccl. de Bovingtona. In Carta 
 Henr. I. Steph. co. Albermarle dedit. 
 
 " Ex dono Adelardi Venatoris eccl. de Willardebi, et eccl. de 
 Galmeton. 
 
 " Ex dono Radi. de Gousla eccl. de Sproteley. 
 
 " Ex dono Robti de Percy eccl. de Kernetbi. 
 
 " Ex dono Jordani Paganelli unam carcutam tre. in Brellintona, 
 
 " Ex dono Radi. Buch 2. bovat. tre. in Estona. 
 
 " Ex dono Radi de Grendala 4. bov. tre in Grendala. 
 
 " Ex dono Golfonis 4 bov. tre in Buctona. 
 
 • Ex dono Malgeri 4 bov. tre in Richtona. 
 
 M Ex dono Morcari 2 bov. tre in Bemptona. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 71 
 
 " Ex dono Willi, de Moion eccl. de Wichforda. 
 ' Ex dono Willi de Ottringham eccl. de Ottringham. 
 1 Ex dono Alani de Moncels* duas bov. tre in Winchetona. 
 ' Ex dono Radi de Gosla 4 bov. tre in Gosla. 
 ' Ex dono alterius Radi. de Gosla 4 bov. tre in Beforda. 
 ' Ex dono Angrimi de Frisco mariscof unam carucat, trS in 
 Lebretson. 
 
 ' Ex dono Anfridi de Flainburg 4 bov. tre in Kilvardebi. 
 
 ' Ex dono Walteri de Rutha 2 bov. trS in Rutha. 
 Teste R. Ep6\ Ebor. Archepo. Hillario epo, Cicestr. 
 Thoma Cancellario, Johanne Thesaurario. Ebor. 
 Dat apud Waltham.' J 
 
 9. Carta Johannis filii Johannis de Harpham, de medietate 
 eccl. de Twenge. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Reg. de B. 
 
 10. Carta R. filii Hernisii de eccl. de Gausla. Dugd. Mon. 
 
 Ang. ex R. de B. 
 
 11. Carta Walteri de Ver. filii Adae de Gousle de eccl. de 
 
 Sprotelle. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Reg. de B. 
 
 12. Carta Matildis filiae Stephani Consulis Britannia;, uxoris 
 
 Walteri de Gaunt. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Cartulario de 
 B. fol. 188. Bodl. MSS. Rog. Dodsworth, Vol. ix. fol. 142, 
 et Vol. x. fol. 150. 
 
 13. Carta Roberti de Gaunt, donationes Patris et Fratris sui 
 
 confirmans. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Reg. de B. fol. 156. 
 Bodl. MSS. Rog. Dodsworth. Vol. x. fol. 150. et Vol. 
 cvin. f. 161. 
 
 14. Qudd Gilbertus de Gaunt nutritus in Prioratu de Bridling- 
 
 ton locum sepulturae ibidem elegit. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex 
 Reg. de B. 
 
 15. Bulla Innocentii III. Papas, contra Archid m . Richmund. Visi- 
 
 tantem cum 97 equis, 21 canibus, &c. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex 
 Reg. ed B. et R. Dodsworth's Bodl. MSS., Vol. ix.fol. 149. 
 
 * Monceaux. f Fresh-marsh. 
 
 X Note that all the donations in the preceding confirmation, marked 
 thfl$ ("), were confirmed likewise by King Henry the First, grandfather to 
 Henry the Second. 
 
72 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 16. De Petraria de Fivele. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Cart, de 
 
 Brid. fol. 59. b. 
 
 " Omnibus Christi fidelibus, ad quos praesens scriptum per- 
 venerit Radulphus de Nevill, filius Radulphi de Nevill, salutem. 
 Noveritis me dedisse, et hac praesenti Carta mea confirmasse 
 Deo, et Ecclesiae, et Canonicis de Bridlintona, petram in petraria 
 de Fivele ad fabricam Monasterii sui, et officinarum suarum 
 omnium, ubique illis habendam, et ad sumptus suos fodiendam, 
 et capiendam, ubi, quantum, et quando voluerint. Et praeterea 
 concessi, quod habeant largam, liberam, et rationabilem viam, 
 super falesiam* petrariae per totam longitudinem dictae falesiae, et 
 ubique, scilicet, tam in loco, qui appellatur ' Le Hok' quam alibi, 
 ubi possunt petram invenire, cum libero ingressu, et egressu, ad 
 carrectasf suas ad predictam petram cariandam. J Et ego et hae- 
 redes mei, praedictam petrariam cum rationabili via et aliia perti- 
 nentiis, praedictis Canonicis contra omnes homines warantizabirnus 
 in perpetuum, et defendemus. In cujus rei testimonium huic 
 scripto sigillummeum apposui Hiis testibus, &c." 
 
 17. Carta Procurationis nobilis viri Johannis de Nevile, de 
 
 Grymsthorp. Dugd. Mon. Ang. Ex ipso autogr. in Turri § 
 B. Marias Ebor. 
 
 18. Carta Walteri de Ver, de donatione eccl. de Gousle. Dugd. 
 
 Mon. Ang. ex T. Hearnii notis in Guil. Neubr. p. 714. 
 
 1 9. Sententia Officialis Archidiaconi Richmondiae de eccl. de 
 
 Couton, et de Grenton Conventui de Bridlington appro- 
 priatis. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Script. Ebor. MS. penes 
 Ralph Thoresby Arm. 73. 
 
 20. Carta Henrici ArchepT. Ebor. confirm, eccl. de Kernadebi. 
 
 R. Dodsworth's Bodl. MSS. Vol. vn. fol. 11. 
 " Henricus dl gratia di Eborac. Archiep.|| R. Decano, et Capto 
 St. Petr. Eborac 8 . et omnibus parochianis suis salutem at dl 
 
 * Bank, or down by the sea-side. f Carts. J To carry. 
 
 § St. Mary's Tower at York, full of ancient records blown up in the civil 
 war, A. D. 1644. 
 
 || Henry Murdac succeeded Archbishop Thurstan, when Robert de Gaht 
 was Dean of York, about A. D, 1140. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 73 
 
 benedictionem. Ad Episcopalem spectat soficitudinem, curas et 
 possessiones Ecclesiasticas, et praecipue religiosis domibus collatas, 
 pastorali cura defendere, et auctoritatis suae pagina ad perpetuam 
 stabilitatem roborare. Hac ergo consideratione ecclesiam de Ke- 
 randbi Canonicis Regularibus Sea? Mariae de Berlintona, salvo 
 jureEborac. ecclle,et consuetudinibus Episcopalibus, in perpetuam 
 elemosinam cum omnibus pertinentibus et capellis suis, confir- 
 mamus. In ft testes ; Sauar. Abbas Ebor : Ailred^ Abbas de 
 Rievall: Robtus Arcbidiacon s : Cuthbr^ Prior Giseburniae. Gaufrid 3 
 Prior de Kirkeham. Ric s . Abbas de Witebi. Rad Can. Beverl," 
 
 21. Carta Willi filii Henrici de Caiton confirm, eccl. de Ril- 
 
 lington. R. Dods. Bodl. MSS. Vol.vn. fol. 128. " 
 
 22. Carta Willi fil. Robti. Chambard confirm, unam bovatam 
 
 terrae in Cuton. R. Dods. Bodl. MSS. Vol. vn. fol. 168. 
 
 23. Receipt of Robert Ugthred to the Prior and Convent for 
 
 15/. IBs. Ad. A. D. 1301. 29 Ed. I. R. Dods. Bodl. MSS. 
 Vol. vii. fol. 213. 
 
 24. Carta Stephl. fil. Alani de Coton conced. undecem bovatas 
 
 terrae in Flotemanbi cum capitali messuagio. Anno 1251. 
 35 Hen. III. ibid. fol. 230. 
 
 r 
 
 25. Carta Ingami de Mounceaus Dom. de Berneston, de Molen- 
 
 dino unoaquatico, &c. in Hertburn. A. D. 1297. 15 Er>. I. 
 ibid. fol. 246. (drawing of seal annexed to the MS. copy). 
 
 26. Carta Willi fil. Alani de Scuris conced. duas bovatas terrae 
 
 apud Acclum. ibid. fol. 247. 
 
 27. Indentura inter Priorem et Conventum de Bridlington, et 
 
 Willm fil. Moye, et Aliciam ux. de 5 quart, frumenti. 
 A. D. 1315. 8 Ed. II. fol. 266. 
 
 28. Plac. 30 Ed. I. de advocatione medietatis Eccl. de Tweng. 
 
 ibid. fol. 264. 
 
 29. Carta Willi de Friboys de Heslertona de undecem solidis 
 
 exeunt, de duis bovatis terrae in Flemyngbortona. ibid, 
 fol. 274. 
 
 30. Carta Thomae. fil. Robti. de Sywardeby conced. unam rodam 
 
 et 4 perticatas terras in territorio de Sywardeby et de 
 Marton. ibid. fol. 275. 
 
74 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 31. Carta Hugonis Prioris de Bredlingtona de Eccl. de Wicham. 
 
 ibid. fol. 294. 
 
 32. CartaWilli fil. Symonis de Rocheford confirm, carucatam terras 
 
 in Newtona* ibid. fol. 308. 
 
 33. Carta Alexandri de Monteforti confirm, unam carucatam terrae 
 
 in Acclum. ibid. fol. 309. 
 
 34. Carta Ricardi de Berneville confirm, terram et tenementum 
 
 cum capella &c. de Flotmanby. ibid. fol. 309. 
 
 35. CartaWilli fil. Adelardi de Bessingbi quiet-clam.* de Brictiva 
 
 ux. Willi fil. Arlmari de Bessingbi. ibid. fol. 310. 
 
 36. Carta Aviciae ux. Gaufridi de Thorni confirm, unam carucatam 
 
 terrae in Ruddestain. ibid. fol. 311. 
 
 37. Carta Petri fil. StephI Pigot de 4 acris terrae in campis de 
 
 Otringham. ibid. fol. 311. 
 
 38. Carta Willi fil. Malgeri de Ergham confirm, unam bovatam 
 
 terrae cum tofto in territoriode Richton. ibid. fol. 317. 
 
 39. Carta Regis StephI conf. Eccl. de Hornecastr. ibid. fol. 329. 
 
 40. Carta Robtl fil. Willi Constabularii de Flameburg. de una 
 
 bovata terrae et uno tofto in Nafferton. ibid. fol. 330. 
 
 41. Carta Elizabethae, viduae Ad& de Bekwith, filiae et heredis 
 
 Thomae de Malbys conced. totum jus &c. de feodo suo 
 in Flixton et Fordon A. D. 1409. 11 Hen. IV. ibid, 
 fol. 330. 
 
 42. Carta Gaufridi fil. Petri de Fribois conf. omnes terras, quas 
 
 habent de feodo suo in Burtona-Flandrensi. 
 
 43. Finis inter Priorem de Bridlington, et Brianum de Insula et 
 
 Robtum de Perci de communi pastura in Tymbell et 
 Blubberhus. 21 Hen. III. R. Dods. Bodl. MSS. Vol. vm. 
 fol. 119. 
 
 44. Carta Radi Malileporarii de Alverton confirm: eccl. S. 
 
 Maria? de Bredlington et Canonicis ibidem Deo servien- 
 tabus' in liberam et perpetuam elcemosinam totam terram 
 suam de Sumerscales, &c. ibid. fol. 213. 
 
 45. Carta Henrici I. conced. Tol. et Team, &c. ibid. fol. 140. 
 "H. Rex Angliae Archiepo Eborum et Justiciariis et Vicecom- 
 
 * Quit-claim, discharge. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 75 
 
 tibus, et Baronibus, omnibus ministeriis et fidelibus suis de 
 Eborascivia et totius Angliae salutem. Praecipio et concedo, quod 
 Ecclesia de Brelintona et Canonici Regulares ibidem Deo ser- 
 vientes habeant. Tol, et Team, et Socam, et Sacam, et Infangthefe, 
 et quietaclamationem Teolononiorum et omnium consuetudinum, 
 de dominicis rebus suis per totam terram meam, et alias libertates 
 omnes et consuetudines, quas aliae Ecclesiae Religiose in Ebo- 
 rasciva, melius habent. Teste, Turstino Episcopo Eborum apud 
 Eborum, &c." 
 
 46. Carta Walteri de Gaunt Fundatoris confirm : unam carucatam 
 
 terrae datam in dedicatione Capellae de Bessingbi per Willm 
 constabularium suum. ibid. fol. 140. 
 "Turstino venerabili Ebor. Archepo. et omnibus fidelibus 
 Eboraceucsivae. W. de Gaunt salm. Sciatis quod concedo et 
 confirmo per hoc breve meum unam carucat. tre in Besyngby, 
 illam quam Saxo tenuit, quam Willm constabularius meus dedit 
 eccl. Scae Mar. de Brid. in dedicatione Capellae de Besyngby 
 liberam, solutam ab omnibus consuetudinibus et Geldis et servitiis 
 praeter ' Tenmantale' Hiis testibus Herbto Canonico Sci Petri. 
 Ulpho p'stro. Rogo p'stro, Jordano Parnel. Hugo fie ejus. W. 
 de Mundevill, nepote eius : Odon fil. Johanis, Willi fil Guther, 
 Rad° de Grendal. Rado de Novavilla, Malgero de Erghom : 
 et Gilbto. fre. eius. Waltero et Rado fil. Radi de Grendal. Reyn- 
 frido et Azor. Malgo Thorp." 
 
 47. Carta ejusdem confirm : eccl : de Willardeby ex dono Adelardi 
 
 de Willardeby hominis sui. ibid. fol. 141. 
 
 48. Confirmatio primi Advocati* nostri de quibusdam tenuris, 
 
 ita incipiens, " Ego Walterus de Gaunt," &c. ibid. fol. 
 141. 
 
 49. Carta Jordani Paynel de una carucata terrae de feodo de 
 
 Maynil. ibid. fol. 142. 
 
 50. Carta Gilberti de Gaunt confirm, tres carucatas terra? in 
 
 Spetona. ibid. fol. 142. 
 
 * Patron and founder. 
 
70 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 51. Carta Robti. de Gaunt conced. Herbagium in Swaledale. ibid. 
 
 fol. 144. 
 
 52. Carta Aliciae Comitissae, filiae Gilberti de Gaunt, Comitis 
 
 Lincolniae confirm, totam pasturam et herbagium de Swal- 
 dale. ibid. fol. 145. 
 
 53. Testificatio Robti de Gaunt, qudd frater ejus Gilbertus de 
 
 Gant concessit Barton et tres carucatas in Spetona. ibid, 
 fol. 146. 
 
 54. Carta Gilbti fil. Robti de Gant confirm : donationem patris 
 
 sui de 25. acris terrae in Swaldale. ibid. fol. 147. 
 
 55. Carta Gilbti fil. et here s Gibti de Gant confirm : donationem 
 
 patris sui de terris in Burtona-Flandrensi. ibid. fol. 147. 
 Bodl. MSS. Rog. Dodsworth. Vol. cvm. fol. 161. 
 
 56. Carta Prioris et Conventus de Bridlington de foresta de 
 
 Swaldale. ibid. fol. 148. et Vol. clix. fol. 137. Ex Char- 
 tulario fol. 191. 
 
 " Omnibus &c. ffrat. Galfridus Prior de Bridlingtona et ejus- 
 dem loci Conventus, in Domino salutem sempiternam. Cum 
 nobilis vir Dominus Gilbertus de Gaunt, die Sancti Botulphi 
 Abbatis, Anno Domini M° cc° septuagessimo octavo apud Hun- 
 demanby concessit ac confirmavit, ad salutem animae suae, pro se 
 et haeredibus suis, nobis et successoribus nostris, omnes posses- 
 sions, tenuras, et bona sine aliquo excepto, quod de feodo suo 
 tenemus in comitatu Eborum, Richmund: et Lincolniae ; volumus 
 tamen, ut debemus, ejus exhereditationem in fforesta et Bosco 
 suo de Swaldale cavere totaliter in hoc fadto. Ita qudd praedictus 
 nobilis Dominus G. de Gaunt, et heredes sui habeant et teneant 
 Boscum suum in Swaldale, et liberum Parcum suum, una cum 
 Attach de viridi, et venatione et cum omnibus Waynis et excapiis 
 forinsecorum, et emendatione capiendo adeo libere et integre in 
 perpetuum, sicut idem Dominus G. et successores sui ea ante, 
 praedictum diem Sancti Botulphi Abbatis habere solebant et 
 tenere. In cujus rei testimonio Sigellum Capituli nostri praesenti 
 Scripto fecimus apponi. Hiis testibus, &c." 
 
 57. Carta Edvardi fil. Petri de Rossa de Eccl. de Attingwyke. 
 
 ibid. fol. 150. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 77 
 
 58. Conventio inter Galfridum Priorem de Bridlington, et Arnal- 
 
 dum fil. et haered. Dom. Walteri de Burton-Flandr. de 
 Cantaria. A.D. 1291. 19 Ed. I. ibid. fol. 151 * 
 
 59. Carta Gilbti de Gant confirm: donat. Arnaldi de Burton. 
 
 ibid. fol. 152. 
 
 60. De Cantaria in Capella de Briniston. A. D. 1231. 19 Hen. 
 
 III. ibid. fol. 152. 
 
 61. Conventio inter Priorem et Conventum de Bridlington, et 
 
 inhabitatores villse de Briniston de Cantaria in Capella de 
 Briniston. A.D. 1243. 28 Hen. III. ibid., fol. 152. 
 
 62. Carta Willi de Stuttevillae conced. villam de Bluberhus et 
 
 Tymbell in foresta de Knaresburgh: ita incipiens " Williel- 
 mus de Stuttevilla omnibus, &c. Sciatis me dedisse, &c. 
 Roberto forestario et hseredibus suis Blubberhousum, &c." 
 ibid. fol. 153. 
 
 63. Carta Willi de Percy fil. Emmse de Gaunt confirm : dona- 
 
 tionem matris suae de una car. terrae in Newton, ibid, 
 fol. 154. 
 
 64. Carta Willi fil. Simonis de Rocheford idem confirm, ibid. 
 
 fol. 154. 
 
 65. Conventio inter Robertum Priorem de Bridlington et inhabi- 
 
 tatores villas de Bempton de Capella de Bempton in 
 Parochia de Bridlington. A.D. 1441. 19 Hen. VI. 
 
 " Haec est conventio facta in domo Capitularii de Bridlinton 
 decimo octavo die Julii 1441 Inter Robertum Priorem de Brid- 
 lington ordinis Sancti Augustini Eborum Diocess. ex una parte, 
 et Inhabitatores villas sive hamlettae de Bempton intra parochiam 
 de Bridlington ex altera parte. Quod dicti Inhabitatores de 
 Bempton, de Licentia dicti Prioris, quandam Capellam in dicta 
 villa antiquitus constructam et fabricatam in honore Sancti Mi- 
 chaelis Archangeli, et Cimeterium ad eandam Capellam pertinens 
 
 * Arnald de Burton confirms his father's donation of 8| carucates of land 
 at Burton Fleming, the Prior and Convent being to maintain out of it a 
 Chaplain to pray for their souls at the altar of St. John the Apostle in the 
 Chapel of St. Lawrence, at Burton. 
 
7S 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 et contiguum, suis sumptibus et expensis valeant consecrari, et 
 post ipsorum Capellae et Cimeterii dedicationem liceat praedictis 
 Inhabitatoribus per unum Capellanum per ipsos conducendum, et 
 in villa prsedicta ad ipsorum expensas cubantem, et coenantem, 
 cum sic fuerit dedicata, sacramenta recepere, et communem sepul- 
 turam habere Cimeterio Capellae praedictae, et Capellanus in dicta 
 Capella ministrans ex dono Prioris recipiet in Purificatione mu- 
 lierum unum denarium, et in Sepultura mortuorum in singulis 
 Missis suis unum denarium, vulgantur vocatum, ' Heved Masse 
 Peny: " 
 
 66. Conventio inter Priorem de Bridlington, et Ricardum, et 
 
 Hugonem Phitum, milites, in Capellae S. Jacobi in Paro- 
 chi^ de Magna Cou ton. A. D. 1240. 25 Hen. III. ibid, 
 fol. 155. 
 
 67. Carta Rogeri de Mowbrai de manerio de West Askam. 
 
 Vol. clix. fol. 143. 
 
 68. Abstract of ' Carta Ric. II. de Kernellatione Priorattis.' 
 
 " R. 2. an , regni sui n ., ob reverentiam Johannis de Thweng, 
 nuper Prioris de Bridlintona in Comitatu Eboracensi, nuper 
 defuncti, licentiam dedit nunc Priori et Conventui loci praedicti, 
 quod ipsi Prioratum ilium muribus et domibus, de petra et calce* 
 firmandis, includere, ac muros et domos praedictos batellare et 
 kernellare,-|- et eos sic batellatos et kernellatos tenere possint." 
 
 R. Dodsrvorth, Bodl. MSS. Fol. 159. fol. 170. 
 
 69. Abstract of Carta Johan: de Feria,.' 
 
 "Johannes Rex a° regni sui 2 do . concessit eccl. scae Mariae de 
 Bridlington unam feriam apud Bridlinton per duos dies dura- 
 turam, sclt. in vigilia Assumptionis bae. Mariae et in die ipus 
 festi, et mercatum ibm singulis ebdomadis in die Sabbati.J 
 Teste R. Epo Scae Andreae, Robto de Tweng, Robto de 
 Veteri ponte." 
 
 R. Dodsrvorth, Bodl. MSS. Fol. 159. fol. 170. 
 
 * Free-stone, and chalk-stone. 
 
 \ To embattle, and to fortify, as a castle. 
 
 X Saturday, the day of the Jewish Sabbath. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 79 
 
 70. Turstini Archi: sup: convenclo: inter Canon: Brellin, et 
 Canon : de BeulT : 
 
 ( Copied from the original, in the Bodleian Library.) 
 
 "Omnibus successoribus suis in Eboracensi Eccl: Canonice 
 substraciendis, et omnibus Parochianis suis, tarn Clericis, quam 
 Laicis. T. ejusdem Eccl: Dl: gra: administrator, licet indignus, 
 salutem, et orationum suffragia. Multimoda Scripturarum inter- 
 pretatione informamur, quod, quicquid honoris et gratiae sanctissimi 
 Dei a nobis vel pro nobis fuerit exhibitum, totum sit ei odor suavi- 
 tatis et sacrificium. Si autem id de Sanctis ejus astruit: s , multo 
 magis de piissima ejus genetrice sentiendum est, quae, singularis 
 privilegio puritatis et innocentis vitae, ipsum, quern ccelum, terra, et 
 mare non capiunt, intra angustias virginalis uteri meruit inclu- 
 dere. Ilia est ilia humani generis meditatrix, quae pro nostris 
 cotidianis excessibus cotidianis precibus filium suum fideliter in- 
 terpellat. Unde nos ejus servi beneficii illius conventione, quae in- 
 ter Beverlacensis Eccl:, et Scae, Mariae Brellintoniencis, Canonicos 
 facta est, sicuit in Carta utrinque concessa, et Sigillo ScT Johls 
 signata continetur, concedimus et concedendo firmamus. Quas 
 recapitulatas presentibus intexere commodum duximus. Canonici 
 Scae Mariae Brellintoniensis Canonicos Beverlacenses familiaris ex 
 bono caritatis, quae deiis est, in consortium beneficiorum suorum, 
 orationum, et elemosinarum suscipiunt, ita ut, quandd Beverla- 
 censis obierit, Brellintonienses ei, sicut uni suorum, obsequii debi- 
 tum exhibeant. Beverlacenses ergo, ne tacite pietatis et humani- 
 tatis inveniantur immunes, aliquid beneficium in perpetuum eis 
 tenendum concesserunt. Ita elemosinam illam, videlicet n travas,* 
 aut \ duos denarios de singulis carrucis in Parochia de Brellintona, 
 et de Hundemanebi pro remedio animarum suarum, Eccle:de 
 Brellintona semper habendam donaverunt, ita qudd Canonici de 
 Brellintona Beverlacensibus i marc: argenti reddent per an- 
 num ad Nativitatem Sci Johls Baptistae." 
 
 * Thrave of corn, 12 sheaves. 
 
 f The manuscript is here not sufficiently legible to decide between ' aut ' 
 and ' et' ; but Burton, Mon: Ebor: has it thus," two traves, or two pennies." 
 
80 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 71. Cart. Harl. Mus. Brit. 44. B. 22. A.D. 1327. 
 
 ( Copied from the original Charter, to which the Seals are annexed.) 
 
 " Omnibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit Monasterium 
 de Bridelington et ejusdem loci Conventus salutem in Domino 
 sempiternam. Noveritis, nos, unanimo assensu Capitularii nostri, 
 concessisse et reddidisse Priori et Conventui de Bolington* unum 
 molendinium aquaticum cum omnibus pertinentiis suis in Hem- 
 m 3' n gby> quod habuimus ex concessione et dimissione praedictorum 
 Prioris et Conventus, habendum et tenendum eisdem Priori et 
 Conventui et eorum successoribus, bene, quiete, et in pace in per- 
 petuum, cum omnibus dicto molendino, pertinentibus aded integre 
 sicut nobis ilia dimiserunt. Ita quod nec nos dicti Prior et Con- 
 ventus de Bridelington, nec successores .... nec aliquis nomine 
 nostro in prsedicto molendino cum suis pertinentibus quibuscun- 
 que aliquid juris seu clameif poterimus aut exigere seu aliquo 
 modo vend .... inperpetuum. In cujus rei testimonium presenti 
 Scripto Sigillum nostrum Commune apposuimus. Hiis testibus 
 domino Petro Brecon milite, Henrico de Baumburgh, Gilberto le 
 Stoeroures de eadem, Johe de Speeton, Normanno de Kernecteby, 
 et aliis. Datum apud Bridelington die Martis in festo Sancti 
 Dunstani, anno Domini millesimo tricentesimo vicessimo sep- 
 timo." 
 
 72. Letter from Sir Thomas Boynton to Lord Burleigh about the 
 repairs of Bridlington Harbour. 
 [Mus. Brit. Lansdoun MSS. No. 31. 67.] 
 
 " My dewtye most hewmblye remembred, I psive that yo r L. 
 tbyncketh my request for Byrlynton to be more then ys fytt for 
 hyr Maty to parte w th . Y* may therefore pleas you to have consy- 
 theratyon of the Graunte w ch hyr Hyghness mayd to the Leacees 
 of that Manor, w ch was betteryd with the gyfte of C. lb in money, C 
 Okes,and cartan tunnes of Iron, and to wegh how unable the said 
 Leacees hathe bene, not w th standyng the sayme, to repare and up- 
 holld that rewenyd Harbar. The Grant for the tyme was as good 
 
 * " Prioratus de Bolington Lincoln : in quo Sanctimoniales Ordinis 
 de Sempringham," — R. DodswortKs MSS. 
 f Claim. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 81 
 
 as anye Fee Farme, the money, Okes, and Iron spent, and the Pere 
 now in worse cayse then whan they resavyd y*. Wherbye I trust 
 y*. may appere unto yo r . L. that the thyng wch thay resavyd was 
 not able to pforme the chardge, wch thay bounde themsellves 
 unto. And becayse thys ys the most appte and chefyst tyme of 
 the yere to labor of the see workes, y 1 may therefore pleas yo r 
 L. and M r . Ayllderney to bestow one owar to have in consythe- 
 reatyon of the same, and to give me leve then to attende yo r 
 plezures, and what as your honors shall thyngke my request to 
 muche, I shall hewmble myselfe to yelld unto, not dowghtyng 
 but you wyll have consytheratyon of the chardge, and to whom 
 in right yt belongethe, and yet shall I be content to beare somm 
 pte of the burthen, in respect that I may therebye plezure my 
 contremen, and reteyne my place of abytatyon, where I have 
 bestowyed sume cost to plante mysellfe, w ch otherwyse I shalbe 
 foresyd to refewse, and so hewmblye comyttyng the cause to 
 y or L. good consytheratyon take my leave. Westmynstar the 
 xiiii Apriell 1581 
 
 Y OT L. hewmblye at comandement 
 
 Tho. Boynton 
 
 To the Ryght Honorable his yerye 
 good Lord the L. Burghley. L. Hygh 
 
 Tresurer of England and one of hyr 
 
 — 
 
 Hygh Honorable pvye C." 
 
 73. Placita de quo warranto. Com : Ebor : Edw. L 
 
 "Prior de Bridlington' sum' fuit ad respondendum domino 
 Regi de placito quo warranto habere liberam warrennam in 
 omnibus dominicis terris suis in Bridlington', Bessingby, Speton', 
 Freysthorp', Parva Lek, Skirlington, Burton' Fleming, West- 
 hassam, Flotmanby, Wyllarby, Halytreholm, Croom, et Aclum, et 
 habere mercatum, et feriam,sok et sak, tol et them et infangenth* in 
 Bridlington', et esse quietus de theolonio de dominicis rebus suis 
 
 * Sok, sak, tol, them, and infangenth, were privileges of civil jurisdiction, 
 granted by the King to the Lord of the Manor over the Vassals within the 
 soke, or liberty of the same. — See Wishart's Law Dictionary. Ed. 1829. 
 
S2 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 per totum regnum Angliae, et de pannagio porcorum suorum in 
 foresta domini Regis de Salleya, quae ad coronam et dignitatem 
 domini Regis pertinent, sine lie' et voluntate domini Regis, et 
 progenitorum suorum Regum Angliae &c. Et Prior per Attorn' 
 suum venit. Et dicit, quod ipse clamat liberam warennam in villis 
 praedictis per cartam domini Regis Henrici, datam anno regni sui 
 decimo octavo, quam perfert, et quae testatur, quod idem Dominus 
 Rex concessit Priori et Conventui de Bridlington', quodjpsi et 
 successores sui imperpetuum habeant liberam warennam in omnibus 
 dominicis terris suis apud maneria sua de Bridlington', Bessingby, 
 Speton', Fraysthorp', Parva Lek, Skirlington, Burton' Fleming, 
 West Askham, Flotemanby, Willardeby, Halytreholm, Croom, et 
 Aclum, &c. Clamat eciam feriam singulis annis in Bridlington' 
 per duos dies dur', videlicet, in vigilia, et in die Assumpcionis 
 Beatae Marias, &c. Et unum mercatum ibidem Singulis Sept a is i 
 per diem Sabbati per Cartam domini Regis Johannis, avi domini i 
 Regis Henrici, datam anno regni sui secundo, quam perfert, et quae • 
 testatur, qu6d idem dominus Rex concessit Deo, et Ecclesiae suae 1 
 Sanctae Mariae de Bridlington', et Canonicis ibidem Deo servien- • 
 tibus singulis Annis unam feriam apud Bridlington' per duos dies ; 
 dur', scilicet, in vigilia Assumpcionis Beatae Mariae, et in die ipsius s 
 festi, et unum mercatum Singulis sept a is ibidem una die scilicet ; 
 die Sabbati ita qudd ifta feria et illud mercatum non sint ad nocu- • 
 mentum vicinorum mercatorum et vicinarum feriarum &c. Clamat; 
 eciam sok et sak tol et tern et infangenth et esse quietus de; 
 theolonio &c. per Cartam domini Henrici Regis, filii Conquestoris,, 
 quam perfert, et quae testatur, qudd idem Dominus Henricus Rex: 
 praecepit, et concessit qudd Ecclesia de Bridlington' et Canonicii 
 regulares ibidem Deo servientes habeant tol et them sokam ett 
 sakam etinfang' et quietaclamacionem theolon'et omnium consue-- 
 tudinum de dominicis rebus suis per totam terram Angliae &c." 
 
 " Clamat eciam pannagium porcorum &c. ab antiquo. Et dicitt 
 quod ipse, et omnes praedecessores sui a tempore quo non extatt 
 memoria semper usi sunt hujusmodi libertate &c. Et de hoc: 
 pon' se super priam &c. Et Rogerus de Hegh a m pet' p dn. R.. 
 quod inquiratur qualiter &c. Idcirco inquirV — Hot. 2 1 . 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 S3 
 
 74. Prynne's Records. Vol. hi. p. 864. claus. 28. Edw. I. 
 
 m. 17. intus. pro Ingelramo de Colonia Canonico domfls 
 de Jeddeworth. 
 
 " Rex, dilectis sibi in Christo, Priori et Conventui de Brid- 
 lington, salutem. Mittimus ad vos fratrem Ingelramum de Colonia, 
 Canonicum Domus de Jeddeworth in Scotia, ordinis vestri 
 praesentium portitorem, in qua quidem Domo idem Ingelramus 
 ad famulandum ibidem altissimo, ut deceret, his diebus, facere 
 moram nequit, turn propter incursus hostium, turn quia Domus 
 ilia per frequentes guerras Scotia habitas adeo lapsa est facul- 
 tatibus etdestructa, qu6d,ad sustentationem Canonicorumejusdem, 
 ipsius non suppetunt facultates, devotionem vestram rogantes 
 attend, quatenus dilectum Ingelramum in Domum vestram, ad 
 deserviendum ibidem Deo sub habitu vestro inter vos, juxta pro- 
 fessions suse votum, Dei intuitu nostrisque precibus admittatis, et 
 fraterna charitate in Domino pertractetis, saltern quousque, dicta 
 Domus de Jeddeworth relevetur, et in melius reformetur. Teste 
 Rege apud Ebor. 1 6 die Novembris."* 
 
 75. Ibid. p. 1192. Pat. 35. Edw. I. m. 6. intus. Pro Priorede 
 
 Bridlington. Writ for appropriating the Church of Gousle 
 to the Prior and Convent of Bridlington. Teste Rege 
 apud Karliolum 1 6 die Junii. 
 
 76. Rylei Plac. Parliam. p. 131. 21 Edw. I. f 
 
 77. Ibid. p. 627 in Appendix. J 
 
 * The Monastery of Jeddeworth, in Scotland, being so wasted and impo- 
 verished by the Scottish wars, and incursion of enemies, that it was unable 
 to maintain the Canons thereof, nor they able to reside there in safety to 
 serve God ; the King, thereupon, out of his piety, and ecclesiastical pre- 
 rogative, sent some of them to other religious houses of the same order in 
 England, to be there received and maintained till that house was repaired 
 and restored to a better condition, as this writ for Ingelram de Colonia to 
 the Prior and Convent of Bridlington assures us. 
 
 f The Prior of Bridlington is sued by the Crown, for the payment of a 
 debt of300Z.lenttohispredecessor bya Jew, whose effects had been seized bythe 
 King under an Act banishing the Jews from England for treasonable practices. 
 
 X Copy of an instrument in Norman French, in which the Governor of 
 Knaresborough Castle lays claim to a certain sum payable to him out of the 
 estate held by the Prior of Bridlington as Lord of the Manor of Bloberhouse. 
 
 G 2 
 
84 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 E. 
 
 DANK-GELD. 
 
 " About the time of King Egbert, in the year A.D. 800, the 
 Danes first disturbed the English coasts, afterwards making havoc 
 of every thing, and plundering over England, they destroyed cities, 
 burnt churches, wasted the lands, and, with a most barbarous 
 cruelty, drove all before them, ransacking and overturning every 
 thing. They murdered the kings of the Mercians and East 
 Angles, and then took possession of their kingdoms, with a great 
 part of that of Northumberland. To put a stop to these outrages a 
 heavy tax was imposed upon the miserable inhabitants, called 
 ' Dangelt,' the nature whereof this passage, taken out of our old 
 laws, doth fully discover. ' The pirates gave first occasion to the 
 paying ' Danigeld.' For they made such havoc of this nation, 
 that they seemed to aim at nothing but its utter ruin. And to 
 suppress their insolence it was enacted that Danigeld should 
 yearly be paid, (which was twelve pence for every hide of land in 
 the whole nation,) to maintain so many forces as might withstand 
 the incursions of the Pirates.' All churches were exempt from 
 this Danigeld, nor did any land in the immediate possession of 
 the church contribute any thing, because they put more confidence 
 in the prayers of the church than in the defence of arms." — 
 Camden. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 85 
 
 F. 
 
 Catalogue of Priors of Bridlington. Burton, Mon. Ebor. and 
 Torr MSS., Archdeaconry of East Riding. 
 
 
 A. D. 
 
 Wikeman occurs - 
 
 1124 
 
 Adebold 
 
 1141 
 
 Bernard 
 
 1145 
 
 Robert ' the Scribe' 
 
 1160 
 
 Gregory 
 
 1181 
 
 Hugh 
 
 1189 
 
 Helyas 
 
 1200 
 
 Hubert 
 
 1218 
 
 Thomas 
 
 1231 
 
 John - 
 
 1252 
 
 •Galfrid de Nafferton 
 
 1262 
 
 fGerard de Burton - 1297 
 [per cess.~\ 
 Peter deWyrethorpe 1315 
 [per cm.] 
 Rob'.de Scardeburgh 1321 
 [per mort.] 
 
 \5th Feb. Peter de Appleby 1342 
 [per em.] 
 
 29/7» Jan. Peter de Cotes - 1356 
 [per mort.~\ 
 
 3d Jan. John de Twenge - 1361 
 [per mort.] 
 
 [A.D. 1386. q. de miraculis.] 
 
 A. D. 
 
 William de Driffield 1363 
 
 |j>er mort^] 
 
 13th July. John de Bridlington 1366 
 20th Nov. William de Newbold 1379 
 John de Gisburne - 1420 
 [per mort.] 
 
 22d April. Robert Warde - - 1429 
 [per resig.] 
 
 31st March. Robert Willy - 1444 
 [per privat.~\ 
 
 2d March. Peter Ellarde - - 1462 
 
 [per cess.~\ 
 
 1st Sept. Robert de Bristwyk - 1472 
 [per resig.~\ 
 
 13th Nov. John Curzon - - 1488 
 [per resig.~\ 
 
 4>th April. Robert Danby - - 1498 
 [per mort.] 
 
 9th Nov. John English - - 1506 
 [per mort.~\ 
 
 5th July. John Hompton - 1510 
 [per mort.~\ 
 
 15th June. William Brownesflete 1521 
 [per resig.~\ 
 
 11th June. William Wode - 1531 
 
 List of Perpetual Curates since the Dissolution of the Monastery, 
 A.D. 1538, as far as they can be made out from the Parish 
 Register. 
 
 A. D. 
 
 Robert King occurs - - 1564 
 
 Peter Thompson - 
 
 George Winteringham - 
 
 John Lucks ejected - - 1662 
 
 Henry Walker - 
 
 A. D. 
 
 Thomas Walker - - - 1704 
 John Elleray - - - 1714 
 Cornelius Rickaby - - 1748 
 Francis Lundy ... 1786 
 George Smith - - - 1809 
 
 • A. D. 1295. Bridelington Prior de, summoned to Parliament at West- 
 minster Abbey, 23 Edw. I. 
 
 fA. D. 1299. Bridelington Prior de, summoned to Parliament at London 
 or Westminster, on the first Sunday in Lent, 8th March, 27 Edw. I. 
 
 A. D. 1300. Bridelington Prior de, returned from the County of York as 
 holding in lands, either in Capite or otherwise, to the amount of 40/. yearly 
 value and upwards, and as such summoned under the general writ to per- 
 form military service against the Scots : Muster at Carlisle on the Nativity 
 of St. John the Baptist. 24th June, 28th Edw. I. — See the Summonses at length 
 in Palgrave's Parliamentary Writs, pp. 28, 79, 333. 
 
86 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 G. 
 
 EXTRACTS FROM BISHOP BALE S LIVES OF ENGLISH WRITERS DOWN -f 
 TO A.D. 1577, WITH SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES AND 
 ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 1. Robertus, cognomento Scriba, Canonicorum Regularium i 
 Bridlintonensis Csenobii quartus Praeses, a nonnullis Scriptoribus s 
 ob insignem eruditionem et in scribendo diligentiam laudatur. . 
 Hie ita juventutem suam, inquit Lelandus, sacrarum literarum l 
 lectione exercuit, ut universum fere orbem Latinorum Theologo- - 
 rum viderit, evolverit intellexerit. Talis namque fuit iste Ro- - 
 bertus, ut a scribendo ac digerendis libris, nisi fallar, sortitus est t 
 hoc nomen. Tantum certe doctrina valuit, ut cum solidae scrip- - 
 turae ac veterum patrum argumento, turn etiam suae vitae qu§.- - 
 dam admiratione multos ad se observandum attraxerit, ut non sit t 
 tanta virtus sine sua gloria. Sed jam ad librorum elenchum a 
 oculos et ora vertamus. Reliquit ingenii sui monumenta insignia a 
 ex variis doctoribus Augustino, Hieronymo, Fulgentio, Isodoro, , 
 Beda, Haymone, Juone, Anselmo, Monogaldo, Serlone, etalii&s 
 magno labore collecta, scilicet, 
 
 In Genesin commentaries In Cantica Bibliorum 
 
 In Exodum In Orationem Dominicam 
 
 In Leviticum Super Matthseum 
 
 In Numeros Super Joannem 
 
 In Deuteronomium Super Epistolas Pauli* 
 
 Super Psalterium De operibus 6 Dierum 
 
 Breviarium in Psalmos Decalogos Plures 
 
 In Cantica Canticorum De corpore et sanguine Christi 
 
 In 12 Prophetas De ecclesia Catholica 
 
 Super Apocalypsin Sermones quoque. 
 
 In symbolum Atbanasii 
 
 * Among the MSS. in the University Library at Cambridge, marked d 
 446 in the Catalogue, there is a copy of this work beautifully written, and d 
 the initial letter of each Epistle, finely illuminated. There are two short t 
 treatises, written in a different hand ; the first a work by the same author, r, 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 87 
 
 Claruit Robertus ab initio redempti orbis 1180, sub Henrico 
 secundo Anglorum Rege, sepultusque tandem fuit in Claustro 
 sui Monasterii ante fores Capituli cum hac inscriptione, ' Robertus 
 cognomento Scriba,' &c. 
 
 2. Gregorius de Bridlintona, ejus caenobii in Eboracensi pro- 
 vincial Canonicus Regularis, suis a me coloribus hie depingendus 
 esset, si sui ordinis historiae justam ministrassent materiem. Sed 
 in hac parte hactenus obstitit vel notariorum defectus, vel chro- 
 nographorum apud eos incuria, qui descriptis ineptiis anilibus, 
 seria ingrate praeterierunt. Omissis ergo ad praesens, qua? ipse 
 tota vita gesserit, sive in bonarum literarum exercitiis, sive in 
 aliis vocationis suae functionibus, scripta ejus ex multis pauca, 
 quae apud alios authores invenimus, ut operis nostri argumentum 
 exposcit, libenter apponemus. Composuit ille, ut inter alios 
 harum rerum consarcinatores Bostonus Buriensis, in magno suo 
 scriptorum catalogo, numerat 
 
 Super Cantica Canticorum. 
 De Arte Musicis. 
 Sermones quoque. 
 
 Commentarios etiam in Scripturas Bibliorum plures edidisse pu- 
 tatur, post lecturas suas publicas, quas tamen nondum vidi. 
 Collegii sui Praecentorem, olim fuisse ilium, ex scriptis apparet. 
 Sed quo tempore claruerit certe non invenio.* 
 
 called, ' De Operibus 6 Dierum ;' the other, ' De PaenitentiV which seem 
 to have been bound up with the main work at a subsequent period. 
 
 The following memorandum, dated Feb. 14, 1635, is written in the book: 
 " This booke, entituled, ' Compilationes Roberti Prioris de Berlintona in 
 Epistolas Pauli Apostoli,' being bequeathed to the Publike Library of this 
 University of Cambridge by the last will and testament of Mr. Thomas 
 Pierson, Rector of Brampton Brian in the County and Diocess. of Hereford, 
 sometime Master of Arts in Emmanuel Colledge, was brought and delivered 
 by Mr. Christopher Hardy, one of the Executors of the said Mr. Pierson. 
 This Mr. Pierson was, in his younger days, a frequent coadjutor to that great 
 Theologue Mr. Perkins." 
 
 * N.B. His Life is placed by Bale among the writers who flourished in the 
 century between A, D. 1200, and A. D. 1300. 
 
83 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 3. William of Newburgh. — Guillelmus Petyte vel Parvus, 
 Bridlingtonae in terra Eboracensi natus, Novoburgensis Monasterii 
 prope sylvam cuculinam Canonicus Regularis ac Doctor Theo- 
 logus fuit. Is humanis juxta ac divinis studiis tantopere adhae- 
 rebat, ut nullam fere horam recte collocatam putaret, nisi in doc- 
 torum librorum lectione. Is quidem a Lelando reprehensus fuit, 
 qudd Britannicarum ignarus antiquitatum cum Galfrido Monu- 
 metensi tam acerbe decertavit in procemio suorum Chronicorum. 
 Erat tamen Guillelmus, inquit Lelandus, vir, sua aetate, rerum 
 temporibus recentioribus gestarum non ignarus, sed multd in scrip- 
 turarum interpretatione, ut ex ejus facile apparet libris, felicior. 
 Scripsit enim ab A.D. mlxvi ad A.D. mcxcvii, stilo satis nitido, 
 historiam de gestis Anglorum libros quinque, de Anglorum 
 Regibus, in Cantica Canticorum commentarios, alios Sermones 
 eruditos. Rogero Abbati Bellelandensi dicavit opus suum in 
 Cantica Canticorum. Claruit Anno mcc rursusque ad finem 
 Centuriae decimse tertise. In introductione pro formanda Historia. 
 " Guillelmus Novoburgensis, alias Petitus, Canonicus Regularis, 
 scripsit Historiam de gestis Anglorum in quinque libris a Guil- 
 lelmo Notho usque ad A.D. mcxcviii." Hue usque vita Guil- 
 lelmiadan: aetatis ejus lxh perducta, num longius producta, quia 
 nusquam apparuit, diligentiori disquirendum relinquo. 
 
 Historia Anglicana per Gulielmum Neubrigensem ed. John 
 Picard, a French Canon, 1632. Paris, 8vo. 
 
 William of Newburgh's Chronicle was also edited by Hearne 
 the Antiquary. Oxford. 
 
 4. Peter of Langtoft is enumerated under the title of ' Pers 
 of Bridlington,' among several of the old Chroniclers or Monkish 
 Historians, in the following extract from an ancient metrical 
 romance, entitled ' Havelok the Dane.' The author alludes to 
 the tale of the fisherman, said to be the founder of Grimsby, in 
 Lincolnshire. 
 
 " But I haf grete ferly that I fynd no man 
 That has written in story how Havelok this land wan, 
 Noither Gildas, no Bede, no Henry of Huntynton, 
 No William of Malmesbiri, ne Pers of Brydlynton, 
 Writes not in their Bokes of no King Athelwold," &c. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 89 
 
 The English translation of Peter of Langtoft's Chronicle, by 
 Robert Brunne, was edited by Hearne, in 2 vols. 8vo. Oxford, 
 1725. 
 
 5. Joannes Bridlyngton, in Eboracensi patria natus, et Canoni- 
 corum Regularium in ipso Bridlyngtonensi Ccenobio Praeses, 
 exercitationem literarum in primis familiarem, juxta ac charam 
 habuit. Caelesti Theologies cultor assiduus adhaesit, ita ut ni- 
 hilominus tamen et studia minus severa opportune aggrederetur. 
 Inter quae condendorum versuum artem, illi saeculo plausibilem 
 et receptam habens, diversi generis carmina ac rythmos, recreandi 
 animi sui gratia, fabricare solebat. Nam inter quotidianos hujus 
 vitae labores, incommoda saepenumero et multa et magna pertu- 
 lisse narratur. Ferunt etiam de eo, qu6d ex frequenti et assidua 
 divinarum rerum contemplatione mirabiles habuerit visiones. Sed 
 haec in medium ad praesens relinquo, cum suspecta semper ha- 
 beam talia Monachorum spectra. Scripsit verd, ut doctrines 
 aliquid posteris suis daret, pcemate barbaro : 
 
 Carmina vaticinalia. 
 Vaticinales versus. 
 Homelias quoque plures. 
 
 An alia extent ejus scripta plane ignore Prophetiae materia 
 regum mores tangit, populique petulantias, temeritates, luxurias, 
 cupiditates, inconstantias, monetam,pestilentiam, famem, ac bella. 
 Obiit anno Christi 1379, sexto ldus Octobris, aetatis suae 60, 
 Sanctorum Catalogo tandem ascriptus. 
 
 Among the collection of Latin MSS. by Kenelm Digby, de- 
 posited in the Bodleian Library, No. 186, is entitled as follows : 
 " Vaticinum cujusdam vir Catholici, Canonici de Brydlynton, 
 predicens futura sibi diviniter ostensa, ita incipiens." 
 
 " Febribus infestus, requies fuerat mihi lectus, 
 Vexatus mente dormivi nocte repente, 
 Noscere futura facta fuerat mihi cura, 
 Me masticare jussit, l^brumque vorare, 
 Scribere cum pennis docuit me scriba perennis, 
 Jucus erat plene scriptus redolensque amaene, 
 Jussit de bellis me versificare novellis, 
 Qui sedet in stellis, dat cui vult carmina mellis. 
 
92 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 multiplicatione, projectione, et similibus agit. Compassionis Ma- 
 riae Officium Christi Passioni addidit, tanquam esset cum illo pro 
 nobis similiter passa. Claruit anno post Servatorem natum 1490 
 sub rege Henrico Septimo, fuitque demum Necromanticus Magus 
 post mortem adjudicatus. 
 
 The following curious lines are prefixed to a MS. copy of 
 ' the Castellum 12 portarum,' one of Ripley's works, which 
 seems to be the same elsewhere called ' the Compende of 
 Alchemy.' 
 
 " THE VISION OF SIR GEORGE RIPLEY CHANON." 
 
 " When busit at my booke I was uppon a certayne night, 
 This vision, heare exprest, appeared unto my sight. 
 A toade full rudde I saw did drink the joyce of grapes so faste, 
 Fell over-charged with the brothe his bowells all to braste, 
 And after that, from poysoned bulke he caste his venyme fell, 
 For grief and paine whereof, his members all beganne to swell 
 With droppes of poysoned sweate, approching thus his secrete denne, 
 His cave with blastes offumous were the all bewhited then, 
 And from the within space a golden humore did ensewe 
 Whose fFaulinge dropes from highe did staine y e soyle with ruddy hewe, 
 And when his corpes y e force of vitall breath beganne to lacke 
 This dieinge toade became forthwith, like cole for collor blacke. 
 Thus drowned in his proper vaynes of poysoned flude, 
 For tearme of eightye daies and fouer, he rottinge stoode. 
 By tryall then this venome to expell I did desier, 
 For which I did committe his carces to a gentell fier. 
 Which donne a wonder to the sighte, but more to be rehearste, 
 The toade with collor rare throughe every syde was perste, 
 And white apered, when all the sundry hewes were past, 
 Which, after beinge tinted rudde, for evermore did laste. 
 Then of this venome handled thus a medecyne I did make, 
 Which, venome killes, and saveth such, as venime chaunce to take. 
 Glory be to Hime, the granter of such secrette waies, 
 Dominion, and honore both, with worshipe, and with praise." 
 
 Then follow these lines both in the Oxford and Cam- 
 bridge copies ; the author of which appears, from the latter, to 
 have been the transcriber : Thomas Knyvet, A. D. 1585. A , 
 setatis 18. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 9$ 
 
 " Here begynnythe the Compende of Alchymye, 
 Made by a Chanon of Brydlyngton, 
 After his learnynge in Italye, 
 At Exnynge ffor a tyme, when he dyd wonne. 
 In weyche he declared openlye, 
 The secrets bothe of Moone and Sonne, 
 How they, ther kynd to multiplye, 
 In one bodye together must wonne. 
 Weyche Chanon, Syr George Riplay Knyght, 
 Exempte from Claustrill observaunce, 
 For whom I pray both day and night, 
 Sithe lie labored us to advaunce, 
 He turned darkness into lyght, 
 Intendyng to lede us to happye chaunce 
 Givyng counsell to lyve aryght 
 Doynge unto God no dysplesaunce." 
 
 Then follows the ' Compende of Alchemy,' the prologue, pre- 
 face, and the work divided into twelve gates, with a recapitula- 
 tion of the whole ; the three last lines stand thus : — 
 
 " Pray for me unto God that I may be of his election, 
 And that he will, for one of his, on Domesday me kenne, 
 And graunt me in his kingdom to raigne for ever with him. 
 
 Amen and Amen." 
 
 H. 
 
 Among the MSS. of Thomas Gale in the library of Trinity College, 
 Cambridge, are the following : 
 
 Trivet's Annals in French, being a History of King Richard 
 the First's expedition to Jerusalem. 
 
 Continuatio Nicholai Trivetti per Monachumde Bridlington. 
 The Compound of Alchemy, by a Cannon of Brydlington. 
 De Lapide Philosophico. 
 
 Tractatus Georgii Ripley de opere solari et lunari. 
 Capitula duo excerpta ex Georgii Ripley opere, in quibus 
 habentur, quae in opere quaerenda sunt et quae fugienda. 
 loannes Bridlynton de Lapide Philosophico. 
 Excerpta ex Petro de Langtoft. 
 
94 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 In the Torr MSS. East Riding, preserved in the Library of 
 the Dean and Chapter at York, is contained a list of several 
 Donations to the Priory of Bridlington, (of which so complete a 
 catalogue has been given by Burton from the Priory Register) 
 among many others the following occur : 
 
 "In the Town of Bridlington are 16 carucates of land, of 
 which the Prior of Bridlington held 12 carucates in Frank 
 Almoigne of the fee of Gaunte, and he of the King in capite for 
 one Knight's Fee. 
 
 " And 4 carucates were held of the Prior of Bridlington, who 
 held them of the fee of Meynell, and he of the Abp. of Canterbury, 
 and he of the King. 
 
 "Walter de Gant, by the consent of King Henry 1st, placed 
 Canons Regular in the Church of St, Mary of Bridlington, and 
 gave to them all the land he had in the same town, being 13 caru- 
 cates of land. 
 
 "26th June, A.D. 1346, a commission issued out to inquire 
 about the certainty of those miracles said to be done by Fr. John 
 de Thweng, late Prior of Bridlington, at his tomb. 
 
 " The Priory of Bridlington was thus valued at the time of the 
 dissolution, viz. 547?. 6s. lid." 
 
 Here follows ' a close catalogue ' of the Priors of Bridlington 
 and a list of Testamentary Burials, which, as well as those given 
 by Burton, will be found at the head of the List of Monumental In- 
 scriptions now in the Church of Bridlington. 
 
 Among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum, vol. i. 
 p. 213. cod. 367, is a Tract, in Old English, consisting of many 
 closely written folio pages, 4 written by John Stowe in his owne 
 hand writing.' It is a Poem consisting of stanzas of nine lines. 
 In the 5th stanza are the following words : 
 
 " according to my confession 
 
 in ordar Chanon regular of Brydlynton, 
 beseechynge y e . good Lord y l . thou wylt me spare 
 this secret to fynd to thy servantes to declare." 
 
 It is probably one of Ripley's works about the Philosopher's 
 Stone. 
 
 Vol. nr. p. 95. cod. 3908. Monkish Verses in Latin, forming 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 95 
 
 a Poem of 33 pages, at the end these words : 'Versus deBryde- 
 lyngton, fact: anno dom. 1321. 
 
 Vespasian E. vn. 134. b. In the Catalogue it is called, ' Epi- 
 taph : Roberti Prions': in the Elenchus Contentorum, 'Epitaphium 
 Roberti Prophetas de Bridlyngton' : 
 
 "Expliciunt versus, quos scripsit Scriba Robertus, 
 Quique Prior quartus fuit, et sub humo missus, 
 Infra claustra jacens de Bridlington, ubi vixit, 
 Ro et ipse tacens quamvis cum patribus exit. 
 Doctor clarus erat ; Scriptis in dulserat iste 
 Quas planas fecerat : nunc esto salus sua." 
 
 Domitian ix. 17. A MS. dedicated to Humphrey de Bohun, 
 Earl of Hereford, &c; at the 4th page begin the verses 'Fe- 
 bribus infestus requies fuerat mihi lectus,' &c. It is a copy of 
 John de Bridlington's verses with a Latin Commentary by 
 Joahannes Erghom, which has been already noticed among the 
 Bodleian MS. 
 
 Vitellius E. A collection of MSS. almost all of which are 
 damaged at the edges by fire. Among them are two sketches 
 outlined with a pen of the Shrines of Prior Gregory, and Sir 
 George Ripley, Canon. 
 
 Cleopatra E. iv. p. 53. Original Letter from William Wode, 
 last prior of Bridlington, to Sir Thomas Cromwell. 
 
 Lansdorvne MS. vol. 39. p. 72. Mention that an Exemplification 
 of Charters formerly granted to Bridlington Priory took place 
 6 Chas. I. 6th. Nov : on requisition of Wm. Corbett and Robert 
 Purdon, and ors- 
 
 Ibid. p. 190. Charter of Walter de Ver, son of Adse de Gousle, 
 to the Priory of Bridlington recited. 
 
 No. 122. 6. A Poem de gestis futuris, of 12 pages long, by a 
 Canon of Bridlington. 
 
 No. 122. 7. A Prophecy of strange nations, of 3| pages small 
 quarto, no date : at the end these words, " Explicit partus Roberti 
 Scriba? Brydlyngton." 
 
 No. 31. 67. Original Letter from Sir Thomas Boynton to 
 Lord Burleigh, bearing date A.D. 1581. 
 
9(i 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 I. 
 
 Valor Ecclesiasticus, 26 Hen. VIII. 
 
 MONASTERIUM DE BRIDLINGTON. 
 
 Willielmus Wood Incumbens. 
 
 Valet . . . £ 682 13 9 (this is the value according to Speed). 
 Reprisae . . 135 6 9| 
 
 Et valet clare . . 547 6 11 1 
 
 Comput' Ministrorum Domini Regis temp. Hen. VIII. 
 C Abstract of Roll, 30 Hen. VIII., Augmentation Office.) 
 
 BRIDLINGTON NUPER MONASTERIUM. 
 
 Com.' Ebor.' 
 
 Bridlington. 
 
 £. s. d 
 
 Redd.' ten.' ad vol' in 
 
 West-gate - - - - 73 7 5 a 
 Redd' ten' ad vol' in 
 
 Kirk-gate strete - - 13 3 
 Redd' ten' in Nun-gate 
 
 strete ----- 7 17 8 
 Redd' ten' in S' Joh' 
 
 Gate ----- 28 13 2| 
 Redd' ten' infra cimi- 
 
 terium - -- -- 48 8 
 
 Redd' ten' ad littus maris 11 18 
 
 Firma terr' dnical' - - 30 8 
 Firma terr', et ten' infra 
 
 precinct.' - - - - 212 4 
 
 Firma molend* - - - 12 
 
 Firma piscar' - - - 1 3 4 
 
 Firma domus tannar' - 4 
 
 Exit' theolonig' &c. - - 1 19 11 
 
 Perquis' cur' - - - - 916 7 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Fraysthorp, Rector' - - 2 8 8 
 Kilderthorpe, Capella -500 
 Willesthorpe, Capella -300 
 
 Carneby, Rector' - - 12 
 
 Awborne, Capella - - 2 8 
 
 Eston, Decimae - - - 8 
 Sewardby et Marton 
 
 Decimal ----- 25 
 Brydlington, Firma Rec- 
 tor'* 40 
 
 Besynby, Capella - - - 10 14 4 
 Bempton, Newsom, et 
 
 Speton, Capellae - - 19 13 4 
 
 Buckton, Capella - - 14 
 
 Grendale, Capella - - 16 
 
 Boynton, Rector' - - - 6 
 
 Fynely, Rector' - - - 20 
 
 Flamborough Rector' - - 32 
 
 Besides rents and tythes in the following parishes : Ryghton, Wold- 
 Newton, Fordon, Burton - Flemyng, Rudston, Kelke-Parva, Leberston, 
 Graystroppe, Kyllome, Nasterton, Wannesforth, Haystropp, Kelke-Magna, 
 Thyrnam, Folketon, Flyxton, Flotmanby, Hunmanby, Befforth, Burneston, 
 Willerdby, Staxton, Benyngton, Sherborne, Potterbrounton, Gamelton, 
 Skypsy, Beverlay, Ulrome, Foxhooles. 
 
 * The Tithe Farm. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 97 
 
 Extract from Act of 27th Hen. VIII. for dissolving the lesser 
 religious houses- — See Bum's Eccl. Law, vol. n. p. 533. 8th 
 Edit. Art. Monasteries. 
 
 "Forasmuch as manifest sin, vicious, carnal and abominable 
 living is daily used and committed commonly in such little and 
 small abbeys, priories, and other religious houses of monks, 
 canons, and nuns, where the congregation of such religious 
 persons is under the number of twelve persons ; whereby the 
 governors of such religious houses, and their convent, spoil, 
 consume, and utterly waste as well their churches, monasteries, 
 priories, principal houses, farms, granges, lands, tenements, and 
 hereditaments, as the ornaments of their churches, and their 
 goods and chattels, to the high displeasure of Almighty God, 
 slander of good religion, and to the great infamy of the King's 
 highness and the realm, if redress should not be had thereof: 
 and albeit that many continual visitations have been heretofore 
 had by the space of two hundred years and more for anhonestand 
 charitable reformation of such unthrifty, carnal, and abominable 
 living ; yet, nevertheless, little or no amendment is hitherto had, but 
 their vicious living shamelessly increaseth, and by a cursed custom 
 is so rooted and infected, that a great multitude of the religious 
 persons in such small houses do rather choose to rove abroad in 
 apostacy, than to conform themselves to the observation of good 
 religion : so that without such small houses be utterly suppressed, 
 and the religious persons therein committed to great and honour- 
 able monasteries of religion in this realm, where they may be 
 compelled to live religiously for reformation of their lives, the 
 same else be no redress nor reformation in that behalf. In con- 
 sideration whereof, the King's most royal Majesty being supreme 
 head on earth, under God, of the church of England, daily 
 studying and devising the increase, advancement and exaltation 
 of true doctrine and virtue in the said church, and the extirpating 
 and destruction of vice and sin, having knowledge that the 
 premises be true, as well by the accounts of his late visitations, 
 as by sundry credible informations : considering also that divers 
 and great solemn monasteries of this realm, wherein (thanks to 
 
 H 
 
98 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 God) religion is right well kept and preserved, be destitute of 
 such full number of religious persons, as they ought and may 
 keep, hath thought good that a plain declaration should be made 
 of the premises as well to the lords spiritual and temporal as to 
 other his loving subjects the commons in this present Parliament 
 assembled. Whereupon the said lords and commons by a great 
 deliberation, finally resolved, that it is and shall be much more to 
 the pleasure of Almighty God and for the honour of this his realm, 
 that the possessions of such small religious houses now being 
 spent, spoiled, and wasted for increase and maintenance of sin, 
 should be committed to better uses, and the unthrifty religious 
 persons so spending the same be compelled to reform their lives. 
 Thereupon it is enacted, that his majesty shall have and enjoy 
 to him and his heirs for ever, all such monasteries, priories and 
 other religious houses of monks, canons, and nuns of what kinds 
 of habits, rules, or order whatsoever they be, which have not in 
 lands, tenements, rents, tithes, portions, and other hereditaments, 
 above the clear yearly value of 2001: and also all such as within 
 one year next before have been surrendered to the king or other- 
 wise dissolved." 
 
 K. 
 
 BRIDLINGTON TOWN CHARTER. 
 
 This Charter was granted by Charles the First to certain 
 of the inhabitants, November 1st. 1630. A translated copy of 
 the original is in the possession of George Hodgson, Esq., 
 who caused it to be made as Chief Lord of the Manor, in 1817. 
 From this have been copied King John's Charter respecting 
 the fair — King Stephen's Charter respecting wreck of the 
 Sea, &c. — Edward IV's grant of Scarborough church to the 
 Prior and Convent of Bridlington. 
 
 In the Lansdowne MSS. Brit. Mus., vol. 39. p. 72., there is a 
 copy of the Charter, ending with the following remark : " These 
 letters patent, made at the request of William Corbett and 
 Robert Prudam." 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 99 
 
 PEDIGREE OF BOYLE, EARL OF BURLINGTON. 
 
 1. Richard Boyle, bom A.D. 1566, the Founder of this Family, 
 created Lord Boyle by King James the First, A.D. 1616, and 
 subsequently Viscount Dungarvon and Earl of Cork. 
 
 2. Richard Boyle, created Lord Clifford, of Londesborough, Com. 
 Ebor., for his loyalty to Charles I. and by reason of his marriage 
 with the heiress of Henry, Earl of Cumberland, of Skipton Castle, 
 in Craven ; and subsequently by letters patent, dated March 20. 
 16th Charles II. created Earl of Burlington, or Bridlington, Com. 
 Ebor. The celebrated Robert Boyle was his youngest brother. 
 
 3. Charles died before his father. 
 
 4. Charles succeeded his grandfather, A.D. 1697. 
 
 5. Richard succeeded A.D. 1703, and dying without male 
 issue, the English title became extinct, and the Yorkshire estates 
 passed by marriage into the family of Cavendish, Duke of 
 Devonshire, the present possessor. 
 
 L. 
 
 IMPROPRIATORS OF THE GREAT TITHES OF BRIDLINGTON. 
 
 The Rectory of Bridlington was seized by the crown A.D. 
 1537, on the dissolution of the monastery, and granted on lease, 
 by deed, dated 1538, for 2 1 years, to John Avery, 
 
 at a rental of £ per an. 
 
 By deed, dated 12th March, 5th Edw. VI., for 21 years, to 
 John Calverley, at a rental of £40. per an. 
 
 By letters patent, dated 8th July, 8th Elizabeth, for 40 years, to 
 Thomas Waiferer & ors, at a rental of £32. per an. 
 
 By deed, dated 9th April, 1 591, for 40 years, to John Stanhope, 
 at a rental of £ per an. 
 
 By deed, dated for years, to Wm. Wood & ors, 
 
 at a rental of £ per an. 
 
 By deed, dated 24th April, 42nd Elizabeth, for 40 years, to 
 Francis Boynton, at a rental of £70. per an. 
 
 H 2 
 
100 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 By letters patent, dated 28th July, 9th James I., the King 
 granted to Francis Morice and Francis Phelips, their heirs, &c, 
 " all the rectory and church of Bridlington, and all the tithes, 
 &c, subject to an annual stipend of £8, for the maintenance of 
 the perpetual curate of the parish." 
 
 By Indre, dated 10th James I., 1613, Morice and Phelips 
 conveyed the Rectory to Frs. Boynton, of Barnston, Knt., except- 
 ing the advowson, which had been reserved by the crown. 
 
 From Sir Matthew Boynton, Knt. and Bart., (son to the above) 
 it passed in the 13th Charles I, to Henry Fairfax, of the parish of 
 St. James, Clerkenwell, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. (son 
 to a Fairfax, of Gilling.) 
 
 By an heiress daur of the above, A.D. 1 669, it came into the 
 possession of the Earl of Buchan. 
 
 By Indre, dated 10 July 1729, 3. George II., it was conveyed 
 by the Right Hon. David, Earl of Buchan, to Leonard Bower, 
 of Bridlington Quay, Esq. 
 
 By Indre, dated 8th Feb. 1759, it was conveyed by Leonard 
 Bower, to James Heblethwayte, of Bridlington, Esq., in whose 
 family it still remains. 
 
 Patent of 33d year of Queen Elizabeth, dated 9th April, A.D. 1591 , 
 granting on lease for 40 years to John Stanhope, Esq., the 
 manor and rectory of Bridlington, including the site and precinct 
 of the late dissolved Monastery. 
 
 By the tenor of this deed John Stanhope is empowered " to 
 have and to hold all and singular the aforesaid grants to the said 
 formerly monastery of Bridlington, the manor and rectory, &c. 
 excepting eight pounds out of the aforesaid parish church of 
 Bridlington, arising and for the salary of a curate, or priest, who 
 shall perform divine service, and have the charge of souls there." 
 The lessee is also permitted to take all the old stones on the site of 
 the said late monastery remaining, and not yet sold or laid out 
 for the purpose of repairing the pier and harbour, then in great 
 ruin and decay. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 101 
 
 Grant from King James the First, A.D. 1624, to Ramsay, Earl 
 of Holderness, of Scarborough Castle, and of the Priory and 
 Tithes of Bridlington. 
 
 ** Rex omnibus ad quos, &c. Salutem. Cum predilectus et 
 perquam fidelis consanguineus noster Johannes Ramsey, Dominus 
 Ramsey de Barnis, Vicecomes Hadington, et Comes de Holder- 
 ness quam plurima vera bona et fidelissima servitia nobis ante hac 
 praestitit et praesertim fidelissimum servitium suum in personam 
 nostram regiam defendendo et liberando ab infidiosa et duorum 
 fratrum Gaurianorum nefaria conjuratione quos ad caput nostrum 
 innotentes et in armatum saerissime recentes fortunata manu ex- 
 
 animavit, in cujus opportunum subsidium, &c Sciatis quod 
 
 nos .... damuset concedimus pvaefato Johanni Comiti de Holder- 
 ness . . . totum ilium scitum castri nostri de Scarborough in 
 comitatu nostro Eboracensi . . . necnon totum ilium scitum circui- 
 tum ambitum et praecinctum nuper Monasterii de Bridlington in 
 nostro comitatu Eboracensi ac omnia et singula domos aedificia 
 structuras, stabula, columbaria, hortos, pomaria, terram, funda- 
 mentum, et solum, &c." 
 
 Extract from the Bishop of Lincoln's Primary Charge in 1827. 
 
 " By these appropriations the revenues, originally given by 
 pious individuals for the maintenance of the parochial minister, 
 were transferred to religious bodies, and in some cases even to 
 laymen, on the condition that they should provide for the 
 service of the church, — a condition which they for the most part 
 endeavoured to fulfil at the least possible cost to themselves. 
 While they contrived to reserve the larger portion of the produce 
 of the benefice to their own use, they assigned a small stipend to 
 the vicar or chaplain, who actually discharged the duties, and 
 watched over the spiritual interests of the parishioners. When the 
 religious houses were dissolved, an opportunity offered itself of 
 remedying these evils, and restoring to the parochial minister 
 
102 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 the revenues which had, to the great injury of the cause of 
 religion, been diverted to other purposes. Not only, however, 
 was the opportunity lost, but the evil itself rendered perpetual 
 by the measures then adopted. It may be alleged that, at that 
 period, the possessions of the church bore too large a proportion 
 to the whole property of the country, and that a formidable obstacle 
 was thereby thrown in the way of its growing prosperity. Yet, 
 if it was desirable to withdraw a part, the alienation of the landed 
 estates of the religious houses might surely have been sufficient ; 
 the tithes might have reverted to their original destination, — the 
 maintenance of the parochial clergy. It was, however, found more 
 convenient to act upon the principle to which I have already 
 alluded, and which has never wanted its advocates — the principle, 
 that the ecclesiastical revenues are at the absolute disposal of 
 the state. Of the property then vested in the crown, only a 
 small portion was applied, either directly or indirectly, to the 
 religious instruction of the people, the greater part was distributed 
 among the favourites of the reigning monarch. The power which 
 the bishops had always claimed, and frequently exercised, of 
 increasing from time to time the payments made to the officiating 
 clergy, was taken away ; their stipends, which the alteration in 
 the value of money had, in conjunction with other causes, reduced 
 to miserable pittances, became perpetual, and the income of a large 
 proportion of the benefices throughout the kingdom was rendered 
 totally inadequate to the support of the minister." 
 
 "If this truth [the necessity of clerical residence] had been 
 kept in view in the times which preceded the reformation of our 
 church, we should not now have to deplore our inability to 
 realize it in our practice. The appropriation of tithes to religious 
 houses, and the subsequent substitution of poor vicars and curates 
 for a well endowed clergy, were one principal cause of the decay 
 and ruin of glebe houses, accompanied as it was complained at 
 the time by a ' desertion of the parishioners, a subduction of 
 hospitality, and a neglect of the cure of souls.'" — The Bishop of 
 London's Primary Charge in 1830. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 !0S 
 
 " His Majesty King Charles the First would, upon occasional 
 discourses, express some dislike in King Henry's proceedings in 
 misemploying the vast revenues, the suppressed abbies, monas- 
 teries, and other religious houses were endowed with, and by 
 demolishing those many beautiful and stately structures, which 
 both expressed the greatness of their founders, and preserved the 
 splendour of the kingdom, which might, at the reformation, have 
 been in some measure kept up and converted to sundry pious 
 uses." — Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs. 
 
 The reader is also referred to some excellent remarks on the 
 subject of Lay Impropriations, in p. 159, of a work entitled u the 
 Case between the Church and the Dissenters impartially and prac- 
 tically considered," by the Rev. Francis Merewether, M. A., Rector 
 of Cole Orton, and Vicar of Whitwick, Leicestershire. 
 
 M. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM BACOn's LIBER REGIS. - 
 
 Diocese of York. — Archdeaconry of East Riding. — Rural 
 Deanry of Dyckering. 
 
 Parish. ' Proprietor. Patron. Value in K. B. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Boynton 
 
 V. 
 
 Prior of Bridlington 
 
 Sir W.Strickland Bart. 
 
 26 
 
 8 6 
 
 Garnaby 
 
 V. 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Ditto 
 
 43 
 
 4 
 
 Awburn 
 
 c. 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Ditto 
 
 2 
 
 13 4 
 
 Bempton 
 
 c. 
 
 Ditto 
 
 John Broadley Esq. 
 
 13 
 
 6 8 
 
 Bessingby 
 
 c. 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Harrington Hudson Esq. 
 
 5 
 
 6 8 
 
 Bridlington 
 
 c. 
 
 Ditto 
 
 The Archbishop of York 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 Filey 
 
 c. 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Humphrey Osbaldeston Esq. 16 
 
 
 
 Flambrough C. 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Walter Strickland Esq. 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 Fraisthorp 
 
 c. 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Sir W. Strickland Bart. 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 Grindal 
 
 c. 
 
 Ditto 
 
 John Greame Esq. 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 Speeton 
 
 c. 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Robt. Denison Esq. 
 
 3 
 
 5 6 
 
 The Perpetual Curacy of Bridlington is valued at £83. 10s. in the 
 Parliamentary Returns. 
 
104 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 A true and perfect Terrier of the Curacy of Bridlington, 
 a.d. 1825. 
 
 " The sum of 8/. per ann. paid by half yearly payments out of 
 the Great Tithes by the Impropriator. The sum of 25/. being 
 the annual rent of lands, purchased by Queen Anne's bounty at 
 Kildholme. The sum of 19/. being the annual rent of lands 
 purchased, at Bonwick in Holderness, with 200/. left by the late 
 Rev. M. Brick, and 200/. Queen Anne's bounty. The sum of 
 13/. per ann., for Wednesday's Lecture, left by Mr. Cowton. 
 The sum of 40/. being the annual rent of lands at Beeford in 
 Holderness, purchased with Parliamentary Grants, and 24/. per 
 ann. being the interest of 600/. Parliamentary Grants now in the 
 hands of the governors of Queen Anne's bounty." 
 
 The Register of the Parish of Bridlington commences A.D. 1564, 
 and has been well preserved and kept. 
 
 The following is selected as a specimen of several recorded 
 solemnizations of matrimony, before the justices of the peace, 
 by whom they are signed, as was the custom during the Com- 
 monwealth, when marriage was declared a civil contract, and not 
 a religious ceremony : 
 
 *' John Ruston, the son of Christopher Ruston, husbandman, 
 and Dorithie Smith, the daughter of Christopher Smith, spinster, 
 both of the town and parish of Bridlington, published three 
 several Lord's days, that is to say, November 13th, 20th, and 
 27th, and married before Sir William Strickland, at Boynton the 
 13th of December, 1653. Wm. Strickland." 
 
 Church Furniture, — " three bells, a clock, communion plate, 
 consisting of two flagons, a chalice with a cover, and two 
 plates to collect alms, being plated, (the old communion plate of 
 silver was stolen) one communion table, with a covering for the 
 same of crimson velvet and gold fringe, and two cushions with 
 the like covering. A library of books is kept in the church 
 (from Dr. Bray's libraries) for the clergy." 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 10f> 
 
 The chancel of the church is repaired by the impropriator. 
 
 The following works are placed in two wooden desks in the 
 south aisle of the chancel : — 
 
 Jewell's Controversial Works, Ed. 1611. 
 
 Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politie, Ed. 1682. 
 
 Comber's Companion to the Temple, Ed. 1684. 
 
 Heylin's Ecclesia Vindicata, or Church of England justified, 
 Ed. 1681. 
 
 N. 
 
 BRIDLINGTON FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 
 
 In the time of Charles the First, A.D. 1636, about a century 
 after the dissolution of the monastery, William Hustler, an in- 
 habitant of the place, granted in his life-time the sum of forty 
 pounds yearly out of his estates for the maintenance of a school- 
 master and usher in a school-house, by him to be founded and 
 erected. The former was to receive forty marks, and the latter 
 twenty marks yearly ; the payments to be made quarterly, the first 
 on the feast of the purification of the blessed Virgin Mary, in the 
 north porch of Bridlington Church. The children were to be 
 taught and instructed in the art of grammar, and otherwise. 
 It was doubtless the intention of the benevolent founder, that 
 the master of this school should be a clergyman of the established 
 church, and for some time it was held accordingly by the 
 minister of the parish, or his curate, and the parish clerk was 
 the under-master. In the year 1819, however, the Lord Chancellor 
 abolished the office of usher, and directed the whole stipend to 
 be paid to a resident master ; the inhabitants of the town having 
 represented that this office had been made a sinecure through 
 non-residence for some time. The present master is also the 
 parish clerk, by whom twenty boys, the children of poor pa- 
 rishioners, are instructed in grammar, reading, writing, and 
 arithmetic, on this foundation. 
 
106 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 THE KNITTING SCHOOL. 
 
 A school, for the education of twelve poor children, in carding, 
 spinning, and knitting wool, was founded by William Bower in 
 the year 1781. 
 
 THE NATIONAL SCHOOL. 
 
 This institution was first contemplated in the year 1817, 
 when a meeting having been held to concert proper measures 
 for carrying the charitable design into effect, the rules in- 
 tended for the regulation of the school, together with a list 
 of subscribers and benefactors, were first printed and circulated. 
 A correspondence with the central Diocesan Society at York 
 was entered into, from a donation of 30l., which was granted 
 for the fitting up of a school -room. The room over the Bayle 
 Gate was then used for this purpose. A supply of school books 
 was also furnished gratis for the use of the school by the Society 
 at York, who also recommended a master, by whom the school 
 was opened early in the year 1818. During the first year, "159 boys 
 were admitted as scholars. In the year 1822, the Parent Society 
 in London granted 3001, towards building two school-rooms, each 
 to contain 200 children, boys and girls. This liberal grant having 
 been seconded by an active co-operation on the part of the 
 inhabitants, the two school-rooms were completed and opened 
 in the year 1 826, being built on a piece of ground purchased 
 and conveyed to trustees, for the benefit of the charity, at an 
 expence of more than 900Z. About 300 children, on an average, 
 are now educated here. 
 
 BRIDLINGTON PUBLIC CHARITIES. 
 
 Among several smaller bequests of the same kind, we may 
 notice the following : — 
 
 In the year 1696, the rent of certain lands was bequeathed, by 
 will, by Henry Cowton, to be thus applied : viz. to the clergyman, 
 five shillings weekly for a sermon every Wednesday ; to the poor, 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 107 
 
 six and eight-pence weekly in bread ; and to the parish clerk, one 
 shilling weekly for distributing the same. 
 
 In the year 1734, Timothy Woolfe bequeathed, by will, the 
 sum of 5001. to purchase land, the rent of which is to be dis- 
 tributed among the poor for ever. 
 
 In the year 1 795, Isaac Wall bequeathed, by will, the interest 
 of 1000Z. 3 per cent, consols, to be distributed amongst the 
 poor, half of it in bread every Sunday, and the other half in coals 
 upon Christmas Eve, for ever. 
 
 No District Committee has yet been established in the town 
 and neighbourhood, in behalf of the Society for Promoting Chris- 
 tian Knowledge : or the Society for the Propagation of the 
 Gospel in Foreign Parts, in connection with the Committee 
 established at Beverley, for the Archdeaconry of the East Riding, 
 or the Diocesan Committee at York. 
 
 Extract from Burns Eccl. Law, vol. n. p. 545. 8tk edit. 
 
 " The monasteries were schools of learning and education, for 
 every convent had one person or more appointed for this pur- 
 pose ; and all the neighbours that desired it, might have their 
 children taught grammar and church music there, without any 
 expence to them. In the nunneries also young women were 
 taught to work and read, and not only the lower rank of people, 
 but most of the noblemen's and gentlemen's daughters were 
 taught in these places. All the monasteries were, in effect, great 
 hospitals, and were most of them obliged to relieve many poor 
 people every day. They were likewise houses of entertainment 
 for almost all travellers." 
 
108 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 O. 
 
 The Discripc'on of the Monastery or Pryory of Byrdlington withes 
 the Churche there, beyng in dystance halfe a myle from the See. 
 
 The Gate-House: — Ffurste the Priory of Bridlyngtoni 
 stondyth on the Est parte of the Towne of Brydlyngton, and at t 
 the cummyng yn of the same Priory is a Gatehouse foure s 
 square of Toure facyon, buylded with Ffrestone, and well covered I 
 with leade. And one the South Syde of the same Gatehouse ys ; 
 a Porter's lodge wt a Chymney, a rounde Stayre ledyng up to a 
 hye Chamber wherein the three Weks Courte ys alwayes kept in 
 w* a Chymney in the same, and betweene the Stayre foote and the 
 same hie Chamber where the Courte ys kepte be tow proper 
 Chambers one above the other w* Chymney s. In the Northe 
 syde of the same Gatehouse ys there a Prison for offenders, 
 w^n the Towne called the Kydcott. And in the same Northsyde 
 ys a lyke payre of Stayres ledyng up to one hye Chamber in the 
 same Towre with a Chymney. 
 
 M d . that all the Wyndowes of the sayd Towre be clerely w^ute 
 glasse. 
 
 Lodgyngs and Stables for Straungers : — Itm one the 
 Northsyde of the same Gatehouse, to the Priory warde, be 
 dyvers Lodgyns and Stable for Straungers wiche be greatly in 
 decaye for lacke of reparacyon and covered with slatt. 
 
 The Churche. — Ffurst the seid Churche ys well buylded w* 
 stone and tymber and cov D ed w* lead, whiche Churche conteynyth 
 in lenthe from the ende of the parysshe Churche Estward lviij 
 pac's and in bredyth xxvj pac's. 
 
 The Steple beyng Towre fFashyon ys highe & daungerously 
 in decaye. 
 
 There be in the same Steple seven Bells mete to be rongen 
 all at one time yff yt so happen. 
 
 The seyd Churche ys devided the on part for the Pryory and 
 Covent and the nether parte for the parysshe Churche. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 109 
 
 The on part of the seyd Churche ys well coveryd w l Waynscott. 
 
 The Stalls of the Quear be substancyall and newly made aft r 
 the right goodly fashyon. 
 
 The Reredose at the highe Alter representyng Criste at the 
 Assumpcyon of our Lady and the xij Appostells, w* dyvers othe 
 great Imagys, beyng of a great heyght, ys excellently well 
 wrought and as well gylted, and betwene the same and the Est 
 Wyndow ys Saynt John of Brydlyngton Shryne, in a fayre 
 Chappel on hyhe, having on ayther syde a stayre of Stone for 
 to goo and cume by. 
 
 It'm undernethe the sayde Shryne be fyve Chappells w l fyve 
 alters and small Tables of Alleblaster and Imag's. 
 
 It'm towe lytle Closetts of waynscott on eyther syde the quear 
 one w l Alters. 
 
 Item a lytle Chapell w* yron gratys of eyther syde conteyneth 
 in lenght v pac's and a halfe. 
 
 It'm the South yle of the quear contayneth lvj pac's in length 
 &: iiij pac's in breddyth, w l narrowe Glasse Wyndowes, ev'ry one 
 of theym of one hyghte, and toowe Wyndows w* fyve lyghts a 
 p«ece. And a double Storye all white Glasse. 
 
 Item the North yle of the quear conteynyth lvj pace in lenght 
 aind foure in bredyth, w* a xj narrowe Glasse Wyndowes of one 
 hyght whyte Glasse. 
 
 It'm in the Est ende of the Churche ys a xj Wyndows, 
 w hereof x be of one lyghte and one of three lyghts. 
 
 It'm on the South Syde of the same Churche ys the Vestrye 
 well covered with lead. 
 
 The Pryors Lodgyng: — There standith on the South syde of 
 tine seid Churche the Priors Lodgyng, wherein ys a hawle, to 
 thie whiche hall ledyth a Stayre of iiij foote brode and of xx 
 Stteppys highe, whiche Stayres be on the South Syde of the same 
 haall ; the seyd hall conteyneth in length from the Skyven to the 
 hiighe Deske xviij pac's, and in breddith x pac's, and well covered 
 wiith lede. 
 
 It' on the North Syde of the same Hall ys there a great 
 Clhamber where the Priour alwayes dyned, conteynyng in lenght 
 x>x pac's, and in breddyth ix pac's, well coveryd withe lede. 
 
110 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 It' at the west ende of the same great Chamber ys there a pro pear 
 lytle Chamber whiche was the Priors slepyng Chamber, cove:re<d 
 w 4 lede ; and ov' the same Chamber ys a Garrett. 
 
 It* at the Est syde of the same great Chamber ys a lythe 
 Chappell, with a Closett adioynyng to the same. 
 
 It' at the South ende of the Hawle ys the Buttrie and Pantriie 
 under one Office, and one the same ende a Chamber called thie 
 Audytors Chamber. 
 
 It' at the same ende of the Hawle, & on the west syde ys a fayrre 
 plo'r, or a Chamber called the lowe Som' parlo'r, ov' the whichie 
 Som' Parlor or Chamber ys another ffayre Chamber covered w* 
 lede, and adioynyng to the same highe Chamber on the Est Sydie 
 be thre lytle Chambers for Servaunts. 
 
 It' at the South ende of the same Hawle ys the Pryors Kechyni, 
 whiche ys an olde Kechyn w*. three lovers covered w l lede, and 
 adjoynyng to the same Kechyn ys there a Chamber called thie 
 South Sellerers Chamber. 
 
 The Cloyster. — It'm on the Est syde of the Pryors Hawle 
 stondythe the Cloyster, whiche conteynyth in length xxxviij pac's 
 and in breddyth foure pac's and so foure square w* lyke length 
 and breddyth, and well cov°ed w l lede. 
 
 The Fratrie. — It' on the South Syde of the same Cloyster y s 
 the Ffratre whiche conteynyth in length xxiij pac's & in bred- 
 dyth, x pac's buylded wt fFree stone and well covered with lede. 
 
 The Chapter House. — It' on the Est syde of the same 
 Cloyster ys a very fayre Chapter House w 1 ix fayre lyghts 
 aboute the same, wt whyte glasse and sume Imagerie, coveryd 
 w l lede spere facyon. 
 
 The Dortor. — It' on the same syde of the Cloyster ys the 
 Dorto r goyng up a payre of stayres of stone xx steppes highe, 
 lying North & South, & conteynyth in length lxviij pac's and 
 in breddyth ix pac's, also well covered wyth lede, and at the 
 South ende and West syde of the same Dortor ys a long house of 
 OfFyce covered with slatt. 
 
 The Tresaurie House. — It' at the ende & syde ys the 
 Tresaurie House covered w« lede and tower fashion, whiche ys 
 a Strong House. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Ill 
 
 The Old Ffratrie w the Ffarmorye. — It'ra on the Est 
 Syde of the same Dortor ys the olde ffratrie and farmory, co- 
 vered w l lede and under one Rooff, and on the Est Syde of the 
 same ffratrie ys a Chamber covered w* lede, called the Highe 
 Cellerers Chamber. 
 
 Saynt Cudberdds Chappell. — It' on the Est Syde of the 
 same ffarmory ys a Chappell called the farmory Chappell' other- 
 wyse called Saynt Cudbardds Chappell' whiche ys well covered 
 with lede. 
 
 The New Chamber. — It' on the North syde of the same 
 Chappell ys a propre new buyldyng called the New Chamber, in 
 whiche S r Robt Constable muche laye in ; covered wt slatt. 
 
 The Bakehouse and Brewe House. — It' on the South Syde 
 of the same Monast'y ys a Bakehouse and a Brewehouse whiche 
 by reporte of olde men was sumtyme a Nunrie. By syght the 
 Bakehouse was the Body of the Churche, the Rooff whereof is 
 covered w 4 slatt and the lies w l lede. The Brewe House ys 
 where the quere semed to be ; and ys coveryd w l lede adjoynyng 
 unto the Est part of the Bakehouse. 
 
 The Mylne. — It' on the Northsyde of the same Bakehouse 
 and Brewehouse standyth a ffayre Horse Mylne newly buyldyd 
 & covered w» Slatt 
 
 The Barne Yarde. — It' there ys a great Barne Yarde on the 
 Northsyde of the seyd Pryorye cont' by estymacyon foure Acres. 
 
 The Barne. — It'm there ys on the Northsyde of the same 
 Barne Yarde a very fayre Barne conteynyng in length Est and 
 West, Cxvij pac's, and in breddith xxvij pac's well covered with 
 lede to the value of fy ve hundred m'ks, and so yt ys offered for. 
 
 The Garnerd. — It' on the South syde of the same Barne 
 standyth a Garnerd to lay Corne in, conteynyng in length North 
 & South, xxvj yards, and in breddyth x yards covered with lede. 
 
 The Malthouse. — It' on the Est syde of the same Garnerd 
 standyth the Malthouse cont' in length North and South xliiij 
 yerds, and in breddith xvij yards, well covered w* lede ; and on 
 the North syde of the same Malthouse standyth a prety House 
 with a Chamber where the Hervest men dyd alwayes dyne, 
 covered with slatt. 
 
112 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 The Kylne House. — It'm on the Est syde of the same Malt- 
 house standith a Kylne House covered with slatt. 
 
 Or.DE Stables and Oxestalles. — It'm on the Est & West 
 syde of the Barne Yerde standyth olde Stables, Oxestall's, 
 other olde houses buylded w* stone, covered w' slatt, greatly in 
 decaye. 
 
 Rychard Pollard. 
 
 Mr. Caley observes, " The Survey is without date ; but, from its having 
 the signature of Richard Pollard, who was one of the King's general surveyors, 
 the time of its being written may be fixed at about the 32nd year of 
 Henry VIII., immediately after the Dissolution." 
 
 Dimensions of that part of the ancient Priory Church at present 
 remaining. 
 
 Feet. 
 
 Height of the walls .... 67 
 Length of the interior . . . 1 85 
 Breadth of the interior ... 68 
 Difference between the angle 
 
 of the ancient & modern roof 9J 
 Height of the piers .... 20 
 Height of the great west window 55 
 
 Feet. 
 
 Breadth of the great west win- 
 dow below the transom . . 29 
 
 Breadth above the transom . 31 
 
 Height of the gallery over the 
 
 great west door .... 15 
 
 Breadth of the gallery ... 3* 
 
 * The gallery, on the south side of the church, is of similar dimensions ; 
 but being carried along above the crown of the arches, it is fifteen feet 
 higher than the gallery over the west door, the top of which is on a level 
 with the tops of the piers. — (See Plate V.) 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 113 
 
 P. 
 
 burton's monast. ebor. and torr's mss., archdeaconry of 
 
 EAST RIDING, p. 949. 
 
 Persons recorded to have been buried in Bridlington Priory Church : 
 
 Gilbert, son of Walter de Gant, the founder of the Monastery ; 
 and Gilbert, son of Gilbert de Gant, who died, A. D. 1214. 
 2nd Edw. I.—Dugd. Bar. vol. i. p. 400. 
 
 Thomas de Alost, Thomas de Melsa, Thorald, son of Ralph 
 de Gousle ; William, son of John de Hundemanby ; Agnes, 
 daughter of Ernold de Marton; William Constable of Flayn- 
 burgh ; John, son of William de Rudestan ; Alan de Rudestan, 
 and Philip, the chaplain of Willardby. — Register of the Priory. 
 
 Persons who by will ordered their bodies to be interred here : 
 
 John de Speton, by will, proved 14th Nov. 1346, ordered his 
 corpse to be interred against Joan, his late wife, in the church of 
 St. Mary of Bridlington. 
 
 Sir William de Erghum, knt., by will proved 2nd April, 1347, 
 directed his corpse to be buried here. 
 
 Maud de Buckton, in A. D. 1407, ordered her body to be 
 buried here. 
 
 Peter de Mauley, eighth lord of Mulgrave, by will proved 
 14th Sept., 1415, ordered his body to be buried in the church of 
 St. John of Bridlington. 
 
 Robert Tavernor, of Bridlington, by his testament proved 
 27th May, 1430, ordered his body to be buried here. 
 
 Richard Bernard, of Speton, by his will proved 5th May, 1451, 
 was interred here. 
 
 William Sywardby, of Sywardby, Esq., by his will proved 
 22nd Dec, 1452, directed his body to be buried within the 
 
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114 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 conventual church of Bridlington, where his progenitors rest in 
 the Lord. 
 
 John Marflete, of Bridlington, by will proved 26th March, 
 1458, was interred here. 
 
 Thomas Arden, of Marton, near Bridlington, Esq., by will 
 proved 16th Jan., 1455, ordered his body to be buried in the 
 kyrk of Bridlington. 
 
 Margaret Arden, his wife, by her will proved 8th July, 1458, 
 ordered her body to be laid near her husband. 
 
 William Keling, of Bridlington, by will proved 18th Jan., 1458, 
 ordered his body to be interred in the Monastery of St. Mary 
 and St. John, of Bridlington. 
 
 John Rotheram, of Bridlington, by will proved in A. D. 1458, 
 was buried here. 
 
 Richard Rotheram, of Bridlington, chapman, by his will 
 proved 24th Feb., 1463, was buried here. 
 
 John Somerby, of Bridlington, by his will proved 28th May, 
 1497, ordered his body to be buried in the church of our blessed 
 lady St. Mary of Bridlington. 
 
 Sir John Somerby, CI., vicar of Muston, ordered by his 
 testament proved 3rd Nov., 1519, that his corpse should be 
 buried in the Monastery of Bridlington. 
 
 John Dynely, of Bridlington Kye, gent., by his will proved 
 3rd Dec, 1573, ordered his corpse to be interred in the church 
 of Bridlington, within the old queare. 
 
 Thomas Etherington, of Bridlington, by his testament proved 
 11th Feb., 1596, directed his body to be laid on the north side 
 of this church. 
 
 Samuel Scrivenor, of Bridlington, gent., by will dated 14th 
 June, A. D. 1626, ordered his body to be interred in the parish 
 church of Bridlington. 
 
 The epitaph of Robert the Scribe has been preserved by Le- 
 land, 1 Robertus Scriba, quartus Prior.' 
 
 The tomb of Prior John de Twenge is mentioned when Alex- 
 ander de Neville, Archbishop of York, issued a commission to 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 115 
 
 inquire into the truth of the miracles said to be performed 
 at it. 
 
 The shrine of St. John de Bridlington, behind the high altar of 
 the Priory Church, is described by Henry the Eighth's commis- 
 sioners previous to the demolition of the choir. 
 
 The tombstone of Prior Robert Danby was discovered on the 
 site of the old choir, but not preserved. 
 
 Representations of the shrines of Prior Gregory de Bridling- 
 ton, and of Sir George Ripley, canon of Bridlington, are pre- 
 served among the MSS. in the British Museum. 
 
 MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN BRIDLINGTON PRIORY CHURCH. 
 
 In the Vestry. 
 
 Hie jacet Robertus Brystvyk quondam Prior hujus loci qui 
 obiit anno domini milesimo quadragesimo nonagesimo tertio cujus 
 animse propicietur Deus. Amen. 
 
 Hie jacet Robertus Charder Canonichus qui obiit [Anno Do- 
 mini milesimo quingen] tesimo tricesimo quinto. 
 
 Hie reponuntur cineres Joannes Elleray qui sacerdotale munus 
 hujus ecclesiae xxix Annorum sustinuit obiit xxx die Septembris 
 Anno Domini mdccxlviii aetatis suae lx. 
 
 The Rev. Joseph Wade, many years Curate of this Parish, 
 died 11th February, 1820. 
 
 In the Chancel, on the Pillars of the S. Aisle. 
 
 The Rev. Cornelius Rickaby, Minister of this Parish, died the 
 24th March, 1786, aged 76 years. 
 
 Statutum est omnibus semel mori. 
 
 To the memory of Anna Mathurina de Beriot, born of an 
 ancient family, 2nd Jan., 1727, at Javinque, in the Austrian 
 Netherlands, married at Brussels 29th Sept., 1749, to Nathaniel 
 Pigott, of York, Esq. She died at Bridlington Quay, 13th 
 August, 1792. 
 
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116 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 " Near this place lie the bodies of Thomas Wilson, merchant, 
 and Lucy his wife, who had issue six sons and two daughters. 
 He died 24th Feb., 1718, aetat. 74; and she, 7th Aug., 1723, 
 aetat. 59." 
 
 On the Floor of the Chancel. 
 
 " Simon, son of John Dodsworth, late of Scarbro', died A.D. 
 1685." v 
 
 Round the margin of a blue slab : — " Here lieth William Bower 
 of Bridlington Key. Merchant, departed, this. life. the. 23. of 
 March 1671. in. the. 74 yeare. of. his. age. and Thomisin. the 
 wife of the said Will departed the 14 of Sept. 57 aged 59." 
 
 In the centre, three coats of arms, and motto to one, " Deus 
 dabit vela:" — " He did in his life time erect at his owne charge in 
 Bridlington a Schoole House : and gave to it 20 ^an~ for 
 ever for maintaining and educating of the poore children of Brid- 
 lington and Key in the art of carding knitting and spining of 
 wooll." 
 
 A long grey slab, with a grove for a brass label in the middle : 
 the label gone. 
 
 A long slab, more than twelve feet in length, with three Mal- 
 tese cropes, placed in a triangle upon it, but no inscription. 
 
 On a brass tablet, between two cherubs' heads and wings, 
 of brass, " MS. — Priscillae nuper uxoris Rogeri Woodburn, quae 
 diem clausit supremam x°. die Augusti Anno salutis humanae 
 1715 aetatisque suae 26, cujus exuvias in lsetam et felicem resur- 
 rectionis diem maestissimus viduus curavit hie reponi. 
 
 Omnia debentur fato patuinque morali. 
 
 Serius aut citius sedem properamus ad unam." 
 
 On a Pillar in North Aisle of Chancel. 
 
 Tablet in memory of Wm. Bower, of Key, merchant, who died 
 9th May, 1707. 
 
 Within the Altar Rails, on the right side. 
 "Sacred to the memory of James Heblethwaite, Esq., whose 
 ancestors resided many years at Norton, in this county. Died 
 
APPENDIX. 117 
 
 Nov. ii. MDecLxxiii, aged xi/vi, and was buried near this marble. 
 He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Johnson ; had issue six- 
 teen children ; seven of whom deceased infants : Mary married 
 Sir Griffith Boynton, Bart. Mary Heblethwaite, his wife, died 
 July 12, 1815, aged 83. William Heblethwaite, Esq., their 
 eldest son, died 23d Sept., 1808, aged 59. Harriot Hebleth- 
 waite, their daughter, died 7th April, 1827, aged 64." 
 
 On a slab on the floor : — " Mrs. Jane Skinner, wife of Ald m . 
 W m . Skinner, of Hull, who died the 19th July, 1727." 
 
 In memory of Thomas Pitts, Esq., who died 1787; and three 
 brothers of the name of Pitts, who fell in the service of their 
 country, A.D. 1806 and 1814. 
 
 In the North Aisle of the Chancel. 
 
 " Near this place lie the remains of Ralph Creyke, of Marton, 
 Esq., who departed this life 24th May, 1826, aged 80 years. 
 He married Jane, fifth daughter of Richard Langley, of Wykeham 
 Abbey, Esq., (by Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-heiress of 
 Boynton Boynton, of Rawcliffe, Esq. ;) had issue nine children, 
 two sons and seven daughters, of whom Gregory, Catharine and 
 Agnes died before him. By a numerous circle of friends and 
 acquaintances he was loved, and honored, for his amiable temper, 
 kind disposition, and distinguished excellence, in the discharge of 
 all his duties, public and private. To his own family his loss has 
 caused the deepest sorrow. This monument is inscribed, by his 
 surviving children, to the memory of the best and most regretted 
 of parents." 
 
 " At the foot of this pillar are deposited the remains of Jane, 
 daughter of Richard Langley, of Wykeham Abbey, Esq., and 
 wife of Ralph Creyke, of Marton, Esq. She died 31st Dec, 
 1794, aged 52; leaving issue two sons and seven daughters. 
 She endured a long illness with that patient resignation which a 
 firm trust in the goodness of the Almighty alone can give ; and 
 viewed the daily approaches of death with cheerful serenity and 
 peace of mind, arising from a modest consciousness of not having 
 neglected to improve the talent committed to her care. In the 
 duties of a wife, a mother, and a friend, she was affectionate, 
 
118 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 tender, and faithful. Her husband has dedicated this marble to 
 the memory of her virtues, more highly honoured by being more 
 familiarly known." 
 
 In the north aisle are several fragments of grey slabs, which 
 have had brasses. Many of these were brought from the floor 
 of the chancel when it was lately repaired. Elizabeth, wife of 
 H. Cowton, died 1694. 
 
 In North Aisle of the Nave on a Pillar. 
 
 " Near this place, in the same grave with his mother, lieth 
 the body of Timothy Woolfe, citizen and merchant of London, 
 son of Richard Woolfe, of Bridlington Key, by Hannah, his 
 wife, daur. of John Rickaby, of Bridlington Key afore- 
 said ; he departed this life March xx. A.D. 1735. aetat. 30. 
 He left the produce of £500 to be distributed annually amongst 
 the poor in and about this place, not exceeding the distance of 
 five miles, at the discretion of the trustees and their executors for 
 ever." 
 
 John Hodgson, gent., Nov. 11, 1766. 
 
 Thos. Myers de Allerthorpe, gent., obiit 21. Dec. 1718. — 
 Arms much defaced. 
 
 On a tabular stone near the font, the oldest date now re- 
 maining, A.D. 1587, about 50 years after the Dissolution of 
 the Monastery : See Plate IX. for the ancient sculpture of this 
 stone. 
 
 In South Aisle, on a Pillar. 
 
 "Here lies, in hopes of a glorious resurrection, the body of 
 John Greame, of Sewerby, Esq., who died Dec. 17, 1746, 
 aged 83. He married Grace, daughter of Thos. Kitchingman 
 of Leeds, Esq., by whom he had issue, who died in their infancy. 
 He afterwards married Mary, daughter of Thomas Taylor, of 
 Towthorp, Esq,, who died May 3, 1767, aged 85. They left 
 issue four sons and seven daughters. His eldest son, John, pays 
 this tribute of gratitude to the memory of his much esteemed 
 and lamented parents." 
 
APPENDIX. 119 
 
 " Near to this column are deposited the remains of John Greame, 
 of Sewerby, Esq., who, after a long and tedious illness, which 
 through a stedfast hope in the merits of his Redeemer he was 
 enabled to bear with the most Christian fortitude, at length re- 
 signed his soul into the hands of his Maker, 1798, Nov. 22. 
 aetat. 89 years. In 1756 he married Alicia Maria, youngest 
 daughter of the late Wm. Spencer, of Cannon Hall, Esq., by 
 whom he left no issue. He was a truly benevolent man, steady 
 and sincere in his friendships, and his heart was ever open to 
 alleviate the distresses of others. Alicia Maria Greame, relict of 
 the above John Greame, Esq., died January 19, 1812, aged 
 89 years, and lies interred under the same stone near the base of 
 this column." 
 
 Adolphus Moffat Bayard, Esq., died 1827. 
 
 Ancient stone slab, with raised cross beautifully sculptured on 
 it, but no inscription : it was found near the north porch, below 
 the present floor of the church. 
 
 "Sacred to the memory of Marmaduke Prickett, Esq., late of 
 Bridlington, who departed this life October 21, 1809, aged 
 76 years.* And of Frances, his wife, who departed this life 
 February the 21st, 1805, aged 66 years: and was the only 
 daughter of the Rev. W. Buck, Vicar of Church Fenton, in 
 the West Riding of the county of York. They had issue three 
 sons and five daughters. Marmaduke, their eldest son, has 
 caused this marble to be engraven as a tribute of filial regard, 
 and to perpetuate the memory of his much respected parents, 
 whose remains are deposited below this monument." 
 
 * The monuments of the father and grandfather of the above, are in 
 the nave of the church of Kilham, near Burlington, with the following in- 
 scriptions : " Sacred to the memory of Marm : Prickett, gent : late an at- 
 torney in this town, and of Ann, his widow. He departed this life on the 
 8th day of May, 1765, aged 65 years ; and she, on the 28th day of January, 
 1789, aged 78 years, leaving three sons, and two daughters, who in memory 
 of those much beloved parents, caused these monuments to be erected." 
 
 " Infra jacent ossa Thomae Prickett et Lucise uxoris : Hsec obiit 17 mo . 
 Martii 1739, Annos nata 70 ta . Ille autem 18 vo . Martii 1741 aetatis 75 ta . 
 Postquam hujus Ecclesia: Annos 51 floruisset vicarius." He was a younger 
 son of Josias Prickett, of Allerthorpe, Coin : Ebor: 
 
120 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 John Rickaby, Esq., died Oct. 16, 1785. 
 John Rickaby, Esq., died Nov. 14, 1813. 
 G. Bowes, Esq., Oct. 5, 1775. 
 John Taylor, gent., Sept. SO, 1788. 
 
 On a slab of grey marble, near the font, has been the effigy of " 
 a knight in armour, and four shields at the corners, but the : 
 brasses are gone. 
 
 Armorial Bearings, chiefly taken from Monuments in Bridlington >. 
 Priory Church, and the neighbouring village Churches. 
 
 Bower. — Sable, a man's leg pierced with a broken arrow or, , 
 on a canton argent a tower gules. 
 
 Boyle. — Party per bend crenelly, argent and gules. 
 
 Boynton. — Argent, between three crescents, a fess gules. 
 
 Buck. — Lozengy bendy of eight, or and azure, a canton i 
 ermine. 
 
 Constable. — Quarterly gules and vaire, argent and azure, , 
 over all a bend or. 
 
 Creyke. — (1) Party per fess argent and sable, a pale and 1 
 three ravens proper counterchanged : quartering Essington, gules s 
 on a cross flory argent five eaglets displayed, vert : and Arden, , 
 paly or and gules, on a chief argent three lozenges of the second : : 
 and impaling Langley, paly argent and vert. 
 
 Creyke. — (2) impaling Denison, argent a bend between auni- - 
 corn's head in chief, a cross crosslet fetchy in base, gules : quar- - 
 tering Sunderland, party per pale argent and azure, three lions s 
 passant counterchanged. 
 
 Gaunt. — Barry of six or and azure, over all a bend gules. 
 
 Greame. — (1) Or, on a chief sable, three escallop shells of thee 
 first : quartering Kitchingman argent, a chevron gules between n 
 three storks proper, two and one, and Taylor, of Towthorpp 
 argent, on a pale sable, three lions passant guardant argent, a a 
 canton gules. 
 
 Greame. — (2) impaling Spencer azure, a fess ermine between n 
 six greyhounds heads erased proper. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 121 
 
 Greame. — (3) quartering Yarburgh ; party per pale argent and 
 azure, a chevron counterchangecl between three chaplets ; and 
 Broadley, argent a bend sable between two lions rampant. 
 
 Harrington. — Sable, a fret argent, impaling Wilson, sable, 
 a wolf langued rampant gardant, and in chief three mullets or. 
 
 Heblethwayte. — Argent, two pales azure, on a canton or, a 
 mullet pierced sable. 
 
 Hudson. — Party per chevron crenelly or and azure, three 
 martlets counterchanged. 
 
 Hustler. — Argent on a fesse azure, between two martlets 
 sable, three fleur de lis or. 
 
 Prickett. — Or, on a cross quarter-pieced azure, four mascles 
 of the first. 
 
 Ramsay. — Argent, an eagle displayed sable, within a bordure 
 gules. 
 
 Rickaby. — Quarterly, first and third argent between three 
 martlets sable, on a chevron engrailed azure three crescents of 
 the first, second, and fourth or, two chevronels gules, and impal- 
 ing Naylor, argent, on a bend cottised sable three covered 
 cups or. 
 
 Strickland. — Gules, a chevron or, between three crosses 
 patee argent, on a canton ermine a stag's head erased, proper. 
 Tyson. — Vert, three lions rampant argent. 
 
122 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Q. 
 
 THE EPITAPH OF SIR MARMADUKE CONSTABLE, KNT., ON THE 
 MONUMENT IN FLAMBOROUGH CHURCH. 
 
 tym Xtetf) JWarmaUufee ©unstable of Jlapnborgbt IKnngbt a 
 22Ri)0 maTJe atJuento into prance for tf>e rtgrjt of tf)e same 
 ^assett ouer tottl; ISnng BJtoartte tfje Jourtftt noble Hmgbt b 
 &ntt also aritb noble lung fjerre the seutntft of tfjat name c 
 1§e teas also at 33artotfe at tfje totnnpng of trje same J 
 %rCO fan ltgg lEBtoartj cfjosp~CDapteB"tf)ere first of anp one 
 ^nU retollttj Sc gouerntti ther bts tpme tottfjout blame 
 IBut for all tftat as we se he Ueth bnfcer tftis stone 
 
 ftt branfeistb felt) tofter the ISrjng of Scottrjs teas slarme e 
 Tfyt tben benng of the age of tbre score antt tene 
 WLitl) tfte goBe Bufee uf nortfiefoliie e* tornen he bap tarjn 
 ftnH toragelp atjanctfl hpself emog otfter tfjere Sc tben 
 ©he IStg bepng i Jf ranee totti) gret nombre of eglesb me~ 
 3^e notfjmig hettrmg b** age tljcr but jeopKe bp" as on 
 aSRttb b& sonnes brotbe saruantt anti fejmmsmen 
 13ut nofco as pe sc Ipetb untter this stone 
 
 a He was born during the reign of Henry VI. A. D. 1443. 
 
 b Attended Henry IV. into France, ajtat. 32, A. D. 1475. 
 
 c Attended Henry Vh. into France, aetat. 49, A. D. 1492. 
 
 d Appointed Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed on its capture by Ed- l- 
 ward IV., A. D. 1482. 
 
 e During the absence of Henry VIII., in France, Sir Marmaduke e 
 Constable, aetat 70, accompanied Sir Edmund Howard, afterwards Duke of >f 
 Norfolk, and jointly with that Nobleman commanded the third division of >f 
 the English forces at the battle of Flodden Hill, in Brankiston Moor, where e 
 King James IV., of Scotland, was defeated and slain, with the flower of >f 
 the Scotch nobility, A. D. 1513. 
 
APPENDIX. 123 
 
 But noto all tftes trpumphes ar passed Sc set on sytic 
 
 JFor all toortilp joyes then until not long entdtrc 
 
 ®ftep. are soune passcti antt atoa» tiothe glnlie 
 
 %riO toho tl;at puttith his trust F the~& call f>tT most usurc 
 
 JFor tohen tieth strtfcttft he spartth no creature ' 
 
 "Kor geuttft no toamrjg cut tafetth the" l>» one $c one 
 
 noto he abnBrjth gotfts mercrj & hath no other secure 
 .for as ne se ftpm here he lieth tmUer tf»is stone 
 
 I prat) goto mrj &gnsme~Iouers ant( frentits all 
 
 ©o prag to oure Xortt 3lhesu to haue marcrj af mu sotoll 
 
 Copy of the Original Letter from Henry the Eighth to Sir M. Con- 
 stable, now in the possession of the Rev. Charles Constable, of 
 Wassand, in Holderness. 
 
 "Henry 
 
 By the King. 
 
 Trustye and well beloved we grete you well, and understand 
 as well by the report of our right trustye Cousyn and Counsailer 
 the Duke of Norfolk as otherwayes what acceptable service yee 
 amongs other lately did unto us by your valiant towardness in 
 the assisting of our said cousyn against our great enemy the late 
 King of Scots. And how couragiously yee as a veray herty lov- 
 ing knight acquited yourself for y e overthrow of the said King 
 and distrustinge of his malice and power to our great honor and 
 
 f The exact period of his death is uncertain ; but, as we know the time 
 when he was 70 years old, it may be supposed to have happened not later 
 than A. D. 1530., when, if he lived so long, he would be 87 years old, and 
 Henry VIII. at that time on the throne. He would then have lived within 
 the reigns of six Kings, — Henry VI., Edward IV., Edward V., Richard III., 
 Henry VII., and Henry VIII. 
 
124 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 the advancement of your no little fame and praise, for the which i 
 we have good cause to favour and thank you. And so we full I 
 hertily do. And assured yee may he that we shall in such 1 
 effectual wise remember your said service in any your reasonable e 
 pursuits as ye shall have cause to thinke the same right wellil 
 employed to your comfort and weal hereafter and specially be- - 
 cause yee (notwithstanding our license to you granted by reason n 
 of your great age and impotency to take your ease and liberty) ) 
 did thus kindly and diligently to your payne serve us at this time, :, 
 which requires longe thanks and remembrance accordingly. f. 
 Given under our signet at our Castill of Wyndeshore the xxvii 
 day of November 1514." 
 
 Indorsed, 
 
 " To our trustye and wellbeloved Knight for our body Mar- - 
 maduke Constable the elder (called the little.)" 
 
 Bodl. MS. "Note that John Puckering, Lord Keeper of thete 
 Great Seale, was borne of obscure parentage* in the Towne obf 
 Flambrough, in Yorkshire, and is intombed att Westminster withh 
 this Epitaphe : — Jurisprudential, pietate, consilio, multisque aliisis 
 virtutibus insignis Johannes Puckering miles, a serenissima Elisa-a- 
 betha Angliae Regina. in secretius consilium ac summum magmii 
 Sigilli Angliae custodis munus ascitus, cum quatuor annis sin-fl- 
 gulari fide, et aequitate jus dixisset, placide in Domino obdor-r- 
 miens, hlc situs est. Vixit annos 52 obiit 30 Aprilis 1596. 
 
 Causarum imperii et curarum munere fesso 
 Vivere paena fuit, mors mihi somnus erat : 
 
 Divitiae, Fasces, Legiones, Stemmata, Honores, 
 Temporis haec spolium, praedaque mortis atrae." 
 
 * " Filius Robti. Puckering tenen s ex concessione Prioris de Bridlingtoion 
 Capellam de Bempton." 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 125 
 
 R. 
 
 Monument of Sir Martin de la See, in the chancel of Barmston 
 Church. 
 
 In 1430, [temp. Hen. VI.] the lordship, with the rectory of 
 Barmston descended by an heiress to the family of de la See. 
 Sir Martin de la See, knt., the issue of this marriage, left two 
 daughters, coheiresses, of whom Margaret, the eldest, married 
 Sir Henry Boynton, knt., and on the death of her father, which 
 happened in the year 1497, she transferred the manor and rectory 
 to the family of Boynton, in which they still continue. — Dade's 
 History of Holderness. 
 
 This monument is thus noticed in a Bodl. MS. dated 16th 
 Nov., 1620. — " An ancient tombe of Alablaster, a man in armor 
 thereon, no inscription, it came out of Brelington." 
 
 Bodl. MS. — "barmston church — 16. Nov. 1620. 
 On a table. 
 
 In obitum dignissimi et colendissimi viri Francisci Boynton 
 equitis defuncti. Qui obiit nono die Aprilis A . D°. 1617. 
 
 BEFORD CHURCH. — 7. Oct. 1622. 
 
 Hie jacet nobilis vir magister Thomas Tongo Rector hujus 
 ecclesiae, de sinistra parte matris suae, qui obiit xxni die mensis 
 Septembris litera Dominicalis D. An . Dm 1 . m°cccc°lxxii. 
 
 Qui fuit in vita Legum Bacalaureus almus 
 Prudens, disertus, humilis, virtute repletus 
 Clericos fovebat, illos gratanter habebat, 
 Pauperes pascebat, honestos et diligebat. 
 
126 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 HARPHAM CHURCH. 
 
 The pictures in brasse : 
 
 Hie jacet Thomas de Sancto Quintino armiger nuper Dominus 
 de Harpham, qui obiit decimo octavo die mensis Julii An . Dni 
 m°. cccc . quadragesimo quinto, cujus aie propitietur Deus. 
 Amen. 
 
 On a tomb under an arch : — Orate pro aia Do . Willi de 
 Sancto Quintino, qui obiit Ano Dni m°. ccc°. xlix. et pro aia 
 Dne Johanne uxoris eius quae obiit Ano Dni m°. ccc° lxxxiv. 
 pro quibus cotidie celebratur Missa Mariae. 
 
 LOWTHORP CHURCH. 
 
 On a marble, the portraiture in brasse, of a man and woman : — 
 Hie jacet Georgius Salram Arm : qui obiit xvi°. die mensis 
 Januarii An . D°. m .cccc°xvii. et Elisabet ux. eius que obiit 
 quarto die mensis Oct s . An . Dni. m.°cccc°. xvi. quorum anima- 
 bus propitietur Deus. Amen." 
 
 In the ruinated chancel of Lowthorp church is a very singular 
 monument without inscription, containing the effigies of a man 
 and woman carved in stone, with a tree between them, whose 
 branches terminate in hearts. There is also a stone cross of ele- 
 gant form which formerly stood in the church-yard. 
 
 Harpham church is the burial place of the St. Quintin family, 
 and is in excellent repair : the windows are filled with modern 
 stained glass, beautifully executed, with the armorial bearings of 
 the St. Quintins and their connexions. 
 
 Burton Agnes church contains a chapel filled with the ancient 
 monuments of the Boynton family and their relations by marriage 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 127 
 
 — the Somervilles and Griffiths. Burton Agnes Hall is said to 
 have been erected from a design by Inigo Jones : the gate-house 
 is very handsome ; and the mansion is a fine specimen of the 
 architecture of Elizabeth and James the First's time. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Abbots, p. 5 
 
 Alban's, St. Abbey Gate of, 41 
 Arms of the Priory now used by the 
 
 town of Bridlington, 17 
 Armorial Bearings from monuments 
 
 in the church, &c. 119. 120 
 Auburn church, 54 
 Augustine Canons, 4 
 called Black Canons, 5 
 
 Bacon's Liber Regis, extract from, 
 104 
 
 Barmston church, 125 
 Bayle-gate, or gate-house of Brid- 
 lington Priory, 17. 39. 41—43 
 Beford church, 125 
 Bempton church, 53 
 Benedictines, order of, 3. 4 
 Bessingby chapel, 54 
 Blomfield's (Bp.) Charge, extract 
 
 from, 102 
 Boyle, Earl of Burlington, pedigree 
 
 of, 99 
 Boynton church, 55 
 Bridlington, situation of, 11 
 Roman station at, 1 1 
 ancient convent at, 12 
 manor of, 12. 13. 33. 36 
 port and harbour of, granted to 
 
 the Priory, 20 
 monastic buildings of, destroyed, 
 
 34. 35 
 rectory, 36. 37 
 town charter, 98 
 Bull of Pope Calixtus II., 15. 16 
 
 Canons and monks, distinction of, 4 
 
 Carnaby church, 54 
 
 Carthusians, 4 
 
 Charities, Bridlington, 106 
 
 Charter of foundation of Bridlington 
 
 Priory, 13. 14 
 Charters of Henry I., 14 — 17. 
 
 of Henry II., 19 
 
 of Stephen, 19 
 
 of John, 22. 23 
 
 Charters of Edward IV., 26 
 
 Charters, various, 65. 83 
 
 Churches appropriated to monaste- 
 ries, 7. 8. 
 their present depressed condition, 
 S— 10 
 
 Churches appropriated to Bridling- 
 ton Priory, 19 
 Church of Bridlington Priorv, 39 — 
 50, and 108—112 
 towers of, 40 
 
 conventual buildings south of the 
 
 church, 41 
 west front of, 44 
 windows, 45 
 north porch, 45. 46 
 east end, 46 
 ruined choir, 46. 47 
 nave, 47 — 49 
 font, 48 
 pillars, 48 
 
 monuments, 49. 113 — 120 
 shrines, 50 
 furniture of, 104 
 Cistercians, 4 
 
 Constable, Sir Marmaduke, 52. 122 
 —124 
 
 Curacy of Bridlington, terrier of, 
 104 
 
 Dane-geld, 84 
 
 Danish tower at Flamborough, 11 
 Dissolution of monasteries, 30. 31. 
 97 
 
 Dominicans, 4 
 
 Doomsday-book, extract from, 63 
 
 Ely convent gate, 41 
 
 Fairs of Bridlington, 22. 23 
 Filey church, 50. 51 
 Flamborough church, 51 — 53 
 Fountains abbey, 6. 7. 18 
 Fraisthorpe chapel, 54 
 Franciscans, 4 
 
130 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Gant, Walter de, founder of Brid- 
 lington Priory, 12 
 Gilbert, his father, 12 
 Gilbert, eldest son of the founder, 
 20 
 
 pedigree of, 64 
 Gates of the Priory of Bridlington, 
 27 
 
 Gilbertine Canons, 4 
 Grammar-school, Bridlington, 105 
 Grandmont, Monks of, 4 
 Grant to John Stanhope, Esq., 109 
 Gregory, Prior of Bridlington, 22. 
 87 
 
 Grindall chapel, 54 
 
 Harpham church, 126' 
 Hebblethwaite, Rev. Montagu, 53 
 Hilda, St., 18 
 
 Holy Sepulchre, Canons of, 4 
 Howden church, 46 
 Hudson, family of, 54 
 
 Impropriators of the great tithes 
 
 of Bridlington, 99 
 Inventory of the buildings of the 
 
 Priory of Bridlington, 6 
 John de Bridlington, 24. 25 
 
 Kaye's (Bp.) Charge, extract from, 
 101. 102 
 
 Kilham church, 56 
 
 Kit-cote cell, Bridlington Priory, 17 
 
 Knights Hospitallers and Tem- 
 plars, 4 
 
 Knitting- school, Bridlington, 106 
 
 Langtoft, Peter of, 24 
 Lowthorp church, 126 
 
 Manuscripts, Gale's, 93 
 
 Torr's, 94 
 
 Harleian, 94 
 
 Lansdowne, 95 
 Marriage, form of, during the Great 
 
 Rebellion, 40 
 Monastic institutions, origin of, 2 
 
 Monastic offices, 5 
 buildings, 6 
 
 National School, Bridlington, 106 
 Nave of Bridlington Priory Church 
 
 always used for worship by the 
 
 parishioners, 17 
 Notitia Monastica, extract from, 59 
 
 —62 
 
 Ogle, family of, 53 
 
 Perpetual curates of Bridlington, 
 85 
 
 Peter of Langtoft, 24. 88 
 Pilgrimage of grace, 33 
 Possessions of Bridlington Priory, 
 
 18. 19. 29. 33. 96 
 Praecentor, office of, 5 
 Praemonstratensian Canons, 4 
 Prior, office of, 5 
 
 Priors of Bridlington, the most re- 
 markable, 20—28. 85 
 
 Ramsay, Earl of Holderness, grant 
 to, 101 
 
 Regulars and Seculars, distinction 
 of, 2 
 
 Reighton church, 56 
 Ripley, Sir George, 28. 90—93 
 Robert the Scribe, 20—22. 86 
 Robert Brystwyk, 27? p_: nr „ 
 Robert Danby, 28 * r "° ' 
 Rudston church, 56 
 
 See de la, Sir Martin, 125 
 Selby abbey, 50 
 Speeton chapel, 53 
 Strickland, family of. 55 
 
 Whitby abbey, 7- 18 
 Wikeman, Prior, 20 
 William de Newbold, 26 
 William of Newburgh, 23. 24. 88 
 William de Wode, 31—33. 
 
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