Close Rolls, Richard II: February 1379

Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 1, 1377-1381. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1914.

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'Close Rolls, Richard II: February 1379', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 1, 1377-1381, (London, 1914) pp. 228-229. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol1/pp228-229 [accessed 28 March 2024]

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February 1379

Feb. 15.
Westminster.
William Wynell of Wenlok to John de Bampton and William Stacy of Morton chaplain. Recognisance for 20 marks, to be levied etc. in Bedfordshire.
Membrane 18d.
Writing of Michael de la Pole knight lord of Wyngefeld, reciting the purpose of Sir William de la Pole knight his father in his life time, first to found a hospital for chaplains and poor, who afterwards changed the same to a house of nuns minoresses of the order of St. Clare and of poor at Kyngeston upon Hull, which purpose he did not fulfil, and his injunction to the said Michael by word of mouth before his death to make disposal concerning the same; founding in lieu thereof by licence of the late king in honour of the Virgin, St. Michael and St. Thomas the Martyr archbishop of Canterbury a house of thirteen monks of the Carthusian order in a messuage without the walls of the said town, one of them to be prior and to have governance according to the rule of the order, the house to be called the House of St. Michael of that order; by assent of the prior of Grande Chartreuse in Savoy, the principal house of the order, appointing Sir Walter de Kele prior; by the king's licence giving with warranty to the said prior and monks and to their successors the said messuage and appurtenances, containing 7 acres, late parcel of the manor of Myton and called la Maisondieu, henceforward to be called as aforesaid, with a chapel therein built etc., situate between a headland (fn. 1) of Dame Katherine de la Pole mother of the said Michael towards the west, his hospital called la Maisondieu towards the east, his said mother's ditch towards the south and land sometime of Roger Swerde towards the north, also the advowson of Foston church, the said messuage for a dwelling and the said messuage and the advowson of the said church to be by them appropriated for an endowment, granting them with warranty the reversion of the manor of Sculcotes and of ten messuages, two carucates of land, 100 acres of pasture and 10 marks of rent in Bisshopesburton and Sutton in Holdernesse, now held for life by Thomas Ranyard clerk by demise of John de Neville knight with reversion to the said Michael and his heirs; and appointing prayers to be made for the king, the said Dame Katherine, Katherine his own wife, Sir Edmund his brother, Michael his own son and heir, his other children and heirs, Alexander archbishop of York, Sir John de Neville lord of Raby and Sir Richard Lescrope knight, for their souls after death, the souls of the late king, of the founder's said father, of Walter and Thomas knights his brethren, of Blanche his sister late wife of Sir Richard Lescrope, of Sir Ralph de Neville and Alice father and mother of the said John, Maud sometime his wife and all benefactors of the founder and his father, and of the faithful departed. Witnesses: Sir Richard Lescrope now chancellor, Sir Thomas de Sutton, Sir Gerard de Usflete, Sir Walter Fauconberge and Sir Robert de Hilton knights, Richard de Feriby mayor of Kyngeston upon Hull, Robert de Selby and Walter Frost of the same. Dated Kyngeston upon Hull, 18 February 1378, 2 Richard II.
[Monasticon, Ed. 1846, vi. p. 20.]
Memorandum of acknowledgment, 19 February.
Feb. 25.
Westminster.
Thomas Upton yeoman of the king's buttery is sent to the abbot and convent of Derham, to have for life such maintenance there as Master John Mareschal had at the late king's request. By p.s. [650.]

Footnotes

  • 1. Foream, probably an error for foreram.