FOOTNOTES:

[122] In the mediaeval records the street is almost invariably called Annesgate, and indeed was probably named after the hospital. The form 'Agnesgate' is, however, not modern, for it occurs in 1462. It may have arisen from a trisyllabic pronunciation of 'Annesgate.'

[123] Thus far I am largely indebted to a paper on this hospital by the Rev. W. C. Lukis, F.S.A. in the twelfth edition of Walbran's Ripon.

[124] Possibly those of Boynton or Plumpton (Parker).

[125] The house is not shown.

[126] This latter peculiarity is found also in a house at Bishopton, a mile off.

[127] Some archaeologists, however, hold that the purpose of low side windows was to display a light to scare away demons.

[128] It is probable that in the interior of many of our old churches the surface of the stone was never meant to be seen, and was covered with plaster at the time of building. The plaster was doubtless often adorned with designs in colour.

[129] This view is held by Mr. Micklethwaite. The white tesserae in the medallion resemble some which were dug up in 1837 on the site assigned by Leland to the 'Old Abbay of Ripon' and which have been adduced to support the view that Wilfrid's Abbey Church stood on that site and not on the site of the present Cathedral (see p. 77 and n. 4 there).

[130] The others were Bondgate Bridge (over the Skell), Bishopton Bridge (over the Laver), Hewick Bridge (over the Ure below the town), the Archer-bridge, and the 'Esgel-bridge.' The position of the two last is uncertain, and the rest have long been rebuilt. Bishopton Bridge had a chapel upon it with which was connected a hermit. In the middle ages the bridges were under the charge of the Archbishop. They were often the recipients of bequests, but were themselves made to contribute to the Common Fund of the Collegiate Church, by means of money-boxes which were placed upon them.



APPENDIX.

ABBOTS OF THE SAXON MONASTERY.

ST. EATA c. 657-661. ST. WILFRID 661-709. TATBERHT 709. BOTWINE died 786. ALBERHT 786-787. SIGRED 787. UILDEN OR WILDENG ?

CANONS OF STANWICK IN THE MEDIAEVAL COLLEGIATE CHURCH.[131]

Geoffrey de Bockland circa 1226. Laurence de Topcliffe circa 1230. Eadmund de Maundevill resigned 1279. Anthony Beck[132] 1279. Roger Swayne c. 1285-c. 1311. Richard de Henney 1311-c. 1315. William de Seton 1316-c. 1320. Thomas de Cave 1320-c. 1322. Robert de Rypon 1322-c. 1333. Peter de Wetwang 1333. John de Crakhall c. 1344-c. 1378. John de Seggefield 1378-1384. John de Middleton 1384-1397. John de Dene[133] 1397-c. 1435. Simon Alcock 1435-c. 1436. Richard Morton 1436-? 1447. John Clere ? 1447-1478. Robert Symson 1479-1481. Thomas Bakehouse 1481-c. 1521. Richard Dean c. 1535-c. 1545. Christopher Seale c. 1545-? 1547.

DEANS OF KING JAMES I.'S FOUNDATION.

Moses Fowler, B.D. 1604-1608. Anthony Higgin, B.D. 1608-1624. John Wilson, D.D. 1624-1634. Thomas Dod, D.D.[134] 1635-c. 1645. John Wilkins, D.D., F.R.S.[135] 1660-1668. John Neile, D.D.[136] 1674-1675. Thomas Tullie, D.D. 1675. Thomas Cartwright, D.D.[137] 1675-1686. Christopher Wyvill, D.D.[138] 1686-1710. Heneage Dering, LL.D.[139] 1710-1750. Francis Wanley, D.D.[140] 1750-1791. Robert Darley Waddilove, LL.D., F.S.A.[141] 1792-1828. James Webber, D.D. 1828-

DEANS OF THE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION.

James Webber, D.D.[142] -1847. The Hon. Henry David Erskine, D.D.[143] 1847-1859. Thomas Garnier, B.C.L. 1859-1860. William Goode, D.D., F.S.A. 1860-1868. Hugh M'Neile, D.D. 1868-1876. Sydney Turner, B.A. 1876. William Robert Fremantle, D.D. 1876-1895. The Hon. William Henry Fremantle, D.D. 1895.

BISHOPS OF RIPON.

EADHEAD 681-686. CHARLES THOMAS LONGLEY, D.D., F.S.A.[144] 1836-1856. ROBERT BICKERSTETH, D.D., F.R.S.[145] 1857-1884. WILLIAM BOYD-CARPENTER, D.D. 1884.

FOOTNOTES:

[131] The mediaeval College of Canons had no official head, but the Prebendary of Stanwick, as Ruler of the Choir, was generally in residence, and was in some sense the most important of the Canons. He did not, however, preside, at least not if any other Canon was in residence. Thus Christopher Dragley (Prebendary of Monkton) was often Praesidens Capituli from 1533 to 1539, and Marmaduke Bradley (Prebendary of Thorp) from 1544 to 1546.

[132] Afterwards the celebrated Bishop of Durham, one of the most prominent personages at the court of Edward I.

[133] A brass to him is preserved in the Cathedral. The inscription was probably cut in his lifetime, for the space for the date of his death is left blank. He helped to found the chantry of St. Wilfrid, and is buried in the Choir.

[134] Deprived by the Parliament when they suppressed the Chapter.

[135] One of the founders of the Royal Society: married Oliver Cromwell's sister: became Bishop of Chester.

[136] Buried near the vestry door.

[137] Became Bishop of Chester, and was a strong supporter of James II.

[138] Buried within the Altar-rails (brass).

[139] Buried in the north choir-aisle (tablet).

[140] Buried in the Cathedral (formerly there was a tablet in the south aisle of the nave).

[141] Tablet in the Chapter-house.

[142] Buried within the Altar-rails.

[143] Buried in the graveyard near the north-east corner of the choir (tomb by Sir Gilbert Scott).

[144] Afterwards Bishop of Durham, then Archbishop of York, and finally Archbishop of Canterbury. The modern diocese of Ripon does not correspond in area with that over which Eadhead presided (see Chap. I.)

[145] Buried in the graveyard near the south-east corner of the choir.



INDEX.

ABBOTS, list of, 142.

Ailcy Hill, 9.

Aisles of the nave, 78; south aisle, 79; north aisle, 81; of the choir, (north) 113; (south) 115.

Archbishops of York, 13 et seq.

Athelstan, King, 9.

BAS-RELIEF of lion, 80.

Bedern, the, 24, 26, 34.

Bells, the, 43.

Bishops of Ripon, 143.

Bridge, the North, 141.

CANONS, irregularities of the, 23.

Canons of Stanwick, list of, 142.

Chantries, 28.

Chapter, the, 29, 30; re-established, 31, 33, 34, 37.

Chapter-house, the, 53, 122-125.

Charles I., 34.

Choir, the, 49, 58; interior, 96-117.

College of Canons, the, 12, 17, 22, 30.

Courts, ecclesiastical and secular, 19, 31, 37.

Crypt, the Saxon, 71-78; the Norman, 117-120.

Cuthbert, St., 4, 11, 12.

DEANERY, the, 133.

Deans, list of, 143.

Dedication by Wilfrid, 6.

Diocese of Ripon, 36.

EADHEAD, Bishop of Ripon, 7.

East End, the, 60.

Eata, first Abbot, 4, 12.

Edward I., 25.

FONTS, the, 79.

Grammar-School, Ripon, 14, 30-36.

Gray, Archbishop Walter de, 11, 16, 21.

HENRY IV., 26.

Henry V., 11.

JAMES I., 31, 33.

LADY-KIRK, the, 22, 27.

Lady-loft, the, 54, 129.

Liberty of Ripon, 19-37.

Library, the, 130.

MALLORY Chapel, 93.

Markenfield Chapel and tombs, 90.

Monastery of Ripon, the (Scottish), 4; (Saxon), 5; end of, 12.

NAVE, rebuilding of, 27, 69; north side, exterior, 44; south side, 50; interior, 65.

ODA, Archbishop of Canterbury, 11.

Organ, the, 111.

Oswald, Archbishop, 11.

PALACE, Archiepiscopal, 24, 35.

Peculiar, the parish a, 19, 31, 37.

Prebends, 12, 14, 17, 18, 23, 26.

Presbytery, arrangement of the, 104.

Pulpit (Old) in north transept, 88.

Ripon Minster, foundation of the Scottish monastery, 4; original site of, 5; dedication of new church, 6; end of monastery, 12; as a collegiate church, 12, 22; as a parochial church, 18, 22; present church built, 15; central tower reconstructed, 27; nave rebuilt, 27.

Rising in the North, the, 30.

Roger de Pont l'Eveque, Archbishop, 15; his plan, 16, 67.

Rood Screen, the, 94.

ST. AGNES' Lodge, 136.

St. Anne's Hospital, 133.

St. John's Hospital, 36.

St. Mary Magdalene's Hospital, 35, 137.

Sanctuary, right of, 9, 23, 30.

Saxon monastery, the, 5.

Scots, incursion of, 25.

Scottish monastery, the, 4.

Sedilia, the, 104.

Site, original, 5.

Spires, fall and removal of the, 34.

Stalls, the choir, 106.

Stammergate, 5, 22, 35.

Stanwick, Prebend, 17, 18, 29, 142.

THEODORE, Archbishop of Canterbury, 6.

Thomas of Bayeux, Archbishop, 13.

Thorp, prebendal house, 36, 136.

Throne, the Bishop's, 111; the Archbishop's, 36.

Thurstan, Archbishop, 73, 14.

Tower, the central, 45, 56; interior, 82.

Towers, western, 41.

Transept, north, 46; south, 51, 56; interior, 85; north, 86; south, 91.

VAULT-BOSSES in choir, 103.

Vaulting, north transept, 91.

Vestry, the, 125.

WAKEMAN, the, 33.

West front, the, 16, 40, 43; interior, 68.

West Gate, the, demolished, 35.

Wilfrid, St., 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 75; relics of, 11, 16; translation of, 14; shrine of, 14, 29, 81; crypt of, 31, 71.

William, St., of York (Archbishop Fitzherbert), 15.

Window, east, 34, 62, 102.

Wolsey, Archbishop, 33.

Wulfstan, Archbishop, 10.



DIMENSIONS (internal).

Total Length, 270 feet Length of Nave, 133 " Width of Nave, 87 " Width of Transept, 52 " Height of Vault (Nave), 88 " Height of Towers, 110 " Area, 25,280 square feet.

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Transcriber's Note

The following obvious typographical errors were corrected:

Page Error 2 the Tower. changed to the Tower.) 10, fn. 10 St Wilfrid's changed to St. Wilfrid's 111 ascendency changed to ascendancy 115, fn. 103 Surtee's changed to Surtees 118 anyrate changed to any rate 136 acolyte's Orders changed to acolyte's Orders.

The following words were inconsistently spelled:

afterthought / after-thought Agnesgate / Agnes-gate aisleless / aisle-less stonework / stone-work

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