So great did the scandal of this misuse of the privileges afforded by sanctuaries eventually become, that in 1623 Parliament passed a law that:
No sanctuarie or priviledge of sanctuary shal be hereafter admitted or allowed in any case.
The law was again passed in 1697, but it was not until the reign of George I. that the last sanctuary in our country was demolished.
[40]. The total cost of the building operations, from the surveying of the ground to the ‘roseynyng’ of the doors, was £96 17s. 4½d.—about £2000 in our money.
[41]. The first Monday after ‘Twelfth Night,’ i.e. the Monday following January 6th.
[42]. The old ‘bull ring’ to which bulls were tethered at a bull-baiting in the market-place of Kilham is now built into the bank of the churchyard wall.
[43]. The French name for slippers.
[44]. Horse loaves were coarse bean bread, something like the modern dog-biscuit, and used as a winter food for horses.
[45]. This third demand resulted in the formation of the ‘Council of the North,’ which met at York during the next hundred years.
[46]. Sanctuary.