1379-02-15, Westminster

William Wynell of Wenlok to John de Bampton and William Stacy of Morton chaplain. Recognisance for 20 marks, to be levied ete. in Bedfordshire. 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 , 229 Membrane 18d injunction to the said Michael by word of mouth before his death disposal concerning the same ; founding in lieu thereof by licence the late king in honour of the Virgin, St. Michael and St. 'T homas Martyr archbishop of Canterbury a house of thirteen monks of Carthusian order in a messuage without the walls of the said one of them to be prior and to have governance according to rule of the order, the house to be called the House of St. Michael that order ; by assent of the prior of Grande Chartreuse in Savoy, principal house of the order, appointing Sir Walter de Kele prior ; the king's licence giving with warranty to the said prior and monks to their successors the said messuage and appurtenances, containing acres, late parcel of the manor of Myton and called la Maisondieu, to be called as aforesaid, with a chapel therein built ete., between a headland of Dame Katherine de la Pole mother of said Michael towards the west, his hospital called la Maisondieu the east, his said mother's ditch towards the south and land of Roger Swerde towards the north, also the advowson of church, the said messuage for a dwelling and the said and the advowson of the said church to be by appropriated for an endowment, granting them with the reversion of the manor of Sculcotes and of messuages, two carucates of land, 100 acres of pasture and marks of rent in Bisshopesburton and Sutton in Holdernesse, held for life by Thomas Ranyard clerk by demise of John de knight with reversion to the said Michael and his heirs ; and prayers to be made for the king, the said Dame Katherine, his own wife, Sir Edmund his brother, Michael his own and heir, his other children and heirs, Alexander archbishop of Sir John de Neville lord of Raby and Sir Richard Lescrope knight, their souls after death, the souls of the late king, of the founder s father, of Walter and Thomas knights his brethren, of Blanche sister late wife of Sir Richard Lescrope, of Sir Ralph de Neville Alice father and mother of the said John, Maud sometime his and all benefactors of the founder and his father, and of the departed. Witnesses: Sir Richard Lescrope now chancellor, Thomas de Sutton, Sir Gerard de Usflete, Sir Walter Fauconberge Sir Robert de Hilton knights, Richard de Feriby mayor of upon Hull, Robert de Selby and Walter Frost of the same. Kyngeston upon Hull, 18 February 1378, 2 Richard II. Monasticon, Ed. 1846, vi. p. 20.]