Some of the monks of St. Evroult contributed largely to the monastery, and procured from their relations, acquaintances, and friends donations of tithes and churches, and ecclesiastical ornaments for the use of the brethren.
[498] Surtees Society, the “Liber Vitæ of Durham.”
[499] There were, in fact, a few others; e.g. the Domestic Chapel at the Vyne, Hampshire, had been founded as a chantry.
[500] In Yorkshire, less than a dozen are recorded before the fourteenth century, about a quarter of the whole number were founded between 1300 and 1350, the greatest number from 1450 to 1500 (Page’s “Yorkshire Chantries,” Surtees Society).
[501] If groups of united chantries be reckoned as one, or 53 if each be counted separately; served by 52 priests, with an average income of £7 9s. 6d. The chantry priests lived in a mansion founded for them called Priest’s House, or in the chambers of their respective chantries (“St. Paul’s and Old City Life,” p. 100, W. S. Simpson).
[502] For another example of a foundation deed of a chantry, see that of Thomas, Earl of Derby ([p. 469]), in Blackburn parish church, 1514 (Whitaker’s “Whalley,” ii. 322)
[503] Dan John Raventhorpe leaves a wooden side altar with a cupboard beneath the said altar (almariolum subtus idem altare) to keep the books and vestments. So also in the will of Richard Russell, citizen of York, 1435 (“Test. Ebor.,” ii. 53).
[504] Wodderspoon, “Memorials of Ipswich,” p. 352.
[505] Chantry Certificates, Co. York, Roll 70, No. 6.
[506] “York Fabric Rolls,” p. 87.