Concerninge the Founder. T doth appeare to be Robert Morton of Bawtrie, Esqr. who founded the Chappell, the Mansion-Howse for the Maister of that Hospitall, with other Howses, as a Barne of fower Bayes, a Stable, a Dove-coate, and a Gate-howse, but most of them ruinated, defaced, and pulled downe, and carried away, by. Thomas Robinson, Thomas Short, and the rest, who combyned in the Concealement. That there belongeth to the said Hospitall, wherein it standeth, a Close, allso a Close-More in Scatworth carr, called Preist-Close, one other Close, called Laneend-Close, with 15 Roods of Meddow in Scroobie Meddowes, all which were the Gift of the Founder. I It doth, moreover, appeare, that this Roberte Morton gave unto the Prior and Coment of St. Oswauld 250 1. who, to gratifie that Gift, gave unto the Master of St. Marie Magdalen, then founded by Roberte Morton, eight Mark es, as appereth by the Indenture of the I L. Convent. 6 Lord Arch The Coppy Haec Indentura, facta inter venerabilem dominum & patrem, dominum Thomam, Dei gratia Archiepiscopum Eborum, primiať' fides legatum, ex una parte, & religeosos viros, Adam priorem Sancti Oswaldi de Nostell, & ejusdem loci conventum, ex altera parte, $ Teftator, quod, cum iidem prior & conventus, per quoddam scriptum suum Indentatum, dederunt & concesserunt Roberto, Capellaco cujusdam cantare in Capelli Sancti Maria Magdelenæ juxta Bawtrie, vocata le Spittle, & successoribus suis, capelanis ejusdem cantare, quæ quidam cantaria est de patronatu dicti domini archiepiscopi, ut de vire ecclesiæ suæ Sancti Petri Eborum, quendam annalem redditum octo Mercarum, perci piend. secundum modum & formam scripti 12 codem prioris & conventus inde facti, cujus tenor sequitur in hæc verba: . 8 "Universis Sanctæ Matris ecclesiæ, ad quos præsen"tes litteræ pervenerint, Adam prior Sancti Oswaldi "de Nostell, Ordinis Sancti Augustini Eborum Dioce"sis, & ejusdem loci conventus, salutem in Domino sempiternam. Noveritis, nos, unanimi assensu & 13 consensu totius " Capitale nostri, 14 medietis licentia domini Regis, pro ducentis & quadraginta libris, quos "Robertus Morton, in magna necessitate nostro, in re 'Thomas Arundel. L. Indenture. 3F.primitivæ fidei lega tum, nisi malis, primitivæ sedis legatum. +L. religiosis. 5 L. testatur. L. capellano. 7L. cantariæ in Capella Sancta. & L. Capellanis. L. cantariæ, quæ quidem. 10 L. jure. "Sic. "F. ejusdem. 13 L. Capituli. 14 F. mediante. 5 L. quas. Vol. II. M "" leva I 2 levationem domus nostræ prædictæ, nobis dederit & "charitatem contulerit; dedisse, concessisse, & hoc præ"senti scripto nostro Indentato confirmasse Roberto, Capellano ejusdem cantaria in capella Sanctæ Mariæ "Magdalenæ juxta Bawtry, cocata le pittle, & suc❝cessoribus suis, capellanis ejusdem Cantariæ, imperpetuum querendam annualem reditum acto marcarum, percipiend. de domo nostra predicta ad terminos Purificationis beatæ Mariæ, & Nativitatis Sancti Johan"nis Baptistæ, per æquales portiones solvend. dicto Ro"berto Capellano, & successoribus suis, Capelanis can"tariæ prædicta singulis, apud prædictam capellam, tờ"catam le Spittle, in forma prædicta, in augmenta. "tione sustentatione dicti Capellani, & successorum suorum, capellanorum cantariæ prædictæ, divina in ca"pella prædicta, pro salutari statu dicti Roberti Morton, & Johanna consortis suæ, dum vixerint, ac pro ❝s omnibus eorundem Roberti & Johannæ cum ab hac "luce migraverint, nec non pro omnibus patrem, ma"trem, parentum & benefactorum eorundem, imperpe"tuum celebraturorum; & si contingat, dictum' ama"bulem redditum ad aliquem terminum prænotatum de 43aretco esse in parte, vel in toto, quod tunc ibidem liceat prædicto Roberto 9 capelavo, & successoribus 1o capellavis "cantaria predictæ, in placiis & maneriis "nostros de "Tickhill, Willsecks, & Swynton, & Haywall, intrare, & in eisdem 12 distinguere, & distinguere, & 13 districtionis ab“ducere, 1 fagare, reterere, quousqué eidem Roberto Ca 4 2 6 8 13 10 'F. quendam. L. Capellanis. 3 F. augmentationem sustentationis. 4 L. Johannæ. $F. animabus. 6 F. animabus patrum & matrum, &c. 1L. annualem. & F. à retro, id est, arre ragio vel arrieragio. 9L. capellano, L. capellanis. "L.nostris. F. distringere. 13 F. districtiones. 14 F. fugare & tenere, vel fugare & retinere. 12 " pelluno, I "pellano, vel successoribus suis capellavis cantariæ præ"dictæ, de prædictorum reddituumarereagiis ejusdem "plenarie fuerint 'sutosfat. In cujus rei testimonium huic "præsenti scripto meo sigillum commune capituli nostri “exposuimus. Dat. in domo capitulari Sancti Oswal di, primo die Octobris, anno Domini 1390. & anno "regni Regis Richardi secundi post conquæstum Angliæ xiiii. Et quod si contingat, dictum annalem redditum, post aliquem terminum, in prædicto teneri conventum, per duos mensis à retro esse in parte vel in toto, tunc prædicti prior & conventus, & successores sui, tenente & obligente dicto domino Archiepiscopo, & successoribus suis, quotiens in quadraginta solidos 10 starlingos, quotiens prædictum annualem redditum post " aliquam terminum per duos menses in forma prædicta à 12 certo esse 9 contingerit, solvend. eidem Domino Archiepiscopo & successoribus apud Scroobie; in cujus rei testimonium uni parti hujus Indenturæ, penes præfatum Dominum Archiepiscopum remanenti, altri" prior & conventus sigillum commune capituli sui apposuerunt, alteri vero 15 parte, penes dictas priorem & conventum remanenti, idem dominus Archiepiscopus sigillum suum apposuit. Dat. apud Sanctum " Oswaldi 1 prædicto quarto die Octobris, anno Domini 1390. & anno regni regis Richardi secundi post conquæstum Angliæ xiiii. 19 16 The Abbey of St. Oswald beinge 19 supressed, and the Revenues comeinge to the Kinge, this Pension of v li. vi s. viii d. is continually paid by the Auditor and Receiver of Yorkshiere. L. capellanis. Sic. F. tenore. Sic. 3 F. satisfacturi. 4 F. apposuimus. 9 F. totiens. 10 F. sterlingos. 16 L. dictos. M 2 parti. 19 Sic. And And there is xxvi s. viii d. to be paid unto the Hospitall by the Lord Archbishop for the tyme beinge, as appearethe by an Abstract of the Letters Pattents, which Robert late Archbishop of Yorke purchassed from King Edward the sixt, concerning the Mannor of Scrooby, with thappurtenances, by meanes of which Purchase the Lord Archbishop of Yorke holdeth the same Manor; In which Purchase the Lord Archbishop doth take upon him, and for this, who shall hold the same Mannor after him, to discharge the saide Kinge of these Purchasses, which, att the day of the Purchase, they were charged with, and payed the same. The Letters Pattents beare date the 27th of May, anno septimo Edwardi sexti, as appeareth upon Record in the Rolls, as there enrolled. I 4 "Præterquam de 1 sumo, nobis, heredibus, successori"bus, superius per præsens reservato, ac pro termini"bus de demissionibus & concessionibus de præmissis pro "termino vitæ vel anorum facta, super quibus antiquus redditus vel plus reservatur, ac præterquam_de viginti sex solidis & octo denariis, annatim solutis 5 magistro hospitalis beatæ Mariæ juxta Bawtrie, pro "redditus resolutione, exeuntis de certis terris in clau"sura infra palacium in campo, sive wareno, vocato 66 Plumtree field. Which seemes to be Clay-pitt Close, now in the occupation of John Clarke. If it might please your Grace, I could rather wish the Ground then the Pension, which would be very commodious to the Hospitall. 2 'F. summa. F. reservatâ. 3 Sic, L. annorum. Sic. Se |