one would like to know some particulars), the complaints as to Sunday and Holyday labour, are rather out of the ordinary routine, and help to add a little life and picturesque colouring to the visitation records.

It only remains to say a few words as to the two Deans of York whose Visitations of their Peculiar form the subject of this paper.

Matthew Hutton, who held the deanery from 1567 to 1589, was a man of much independence of character, and exercised no small influence in the ecclesiastical polity of his day. It was greatly owing to him that Archbishop Grindal was translated from London to York in 1570, and the Puritanism of that archbishop strongly commended itself to the dean. When at a later period Grindal had been succeeded by Sandys in the See of York, the dean was speedily in open rebellion, and the archbishop directed a series of thirteen Articles against him, in which he was charged with refusing to assist the archbishop in the government of the province. Archbishop Sandys died in 1588, and in 1589, owing to the influence of Lord Burleigh, Dean Hutton was appointed Bishop of Durham. In 1595 he was translated to York. He died in January, 1605-6, leaving a large landed estate behind him. Concerning this Surtees remarks: "I neither praise nor envy an episcopal fortune. Hutton, however, only succeeded in that which most of his contemporaries tried to effect; his son, Timothy Hutton, served the office of Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1607; and the family of Hutton, of Marske, have ever since ranked with the first gentry of the North Riding."1

John Thornburgh, the other Dean of York whose Visitations are recorded, succeeded to the deanery in 1589, on Hutton's promotion to the episcopate. He was a native of Salisbury, and in January, 1592-3, was also raised to the episcopate, being made Bishop of Limerick. In 1603 he was translated to the bishopric of Bristol, and in 1616-17 was further promoted to the See of Worcester, on which latter occasion he resigned the deanery of York, which he had till then held in commendam with his two former sees. Dr. Thornburgh, who was esteemed a learned man of science in his day, as well as a theological writer of note, died in 1641, at the age of ninety-four, and is buried in the Cathedral Church of Worcester, where fourteen years before he had erected a large and curious monument to himself in the Lady Chapel. Of his gross neglect of his duties while holding the deanery in commendam, mention has been made above.

1 Surtees' History of Durham, i, p. lxxxiv, cited by Canon Ornsby, Diocesan Histories-York, p. 369, from

whom the above particulars regarding Hutton have been mainly derived.

VISITATION OF THE PECULIARS OF THE
DEAN OF YORK.

1568, 10° Elizabethe.-Visitatio Ecclesiarum et Capellarum subsequentium celebrata fuit in Ecclesia parochiali de Pocklington decimo die mensis Julij anno domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo octauo per Reverendum Virum Matheum Hutton sacretheologie professorem, Decanum Ecclesie Cathedralis et Metropolitice beati Petri Ebor. In presentia mei Johannis Brokett notarij publici,1 etc.

POCKLINGTON.

Alexander Smithe, clericus, vicarius ibidem. personaliter: et exhibuit literas ordinum et institucionis, et soluit dicto domino decano pro procuracionibus vijs vjd

Anthonius Ellinson ludimagister. personaliter.

Matheus Burton clericus parochialis ibidem. personaliter.

Willelmus Westebie Ricardus Dobson Thomas Rooper gardiani . personaliter. jurati. Johannes Richardson Willelmus Colson fidedigni. personaliter. jurati. Dicunt omnia bene.2

YAPHAM.

Nicholaus Steavenson Willelmus Steavenson gardiani . personaliter. jurati. Johannes Jackson Robertus Richmon fidedigni. personaliter. jurati. Dicunt omnia bene.

HAITON CUM BEILBIE.

Thomas Webster, clericus, vicarius ibidem. personaliter: et exhibuit literas ordinum et institucionis, ac soluit pro procuracionibus vijs vjd Johannes Preston, clericus, curatus ibidem. personaliter: et admissus est.

Lancelotus Johnson clericus parochialis ibidem. personaliter.

Thomas Craven Willelmus Blaister gardiani ibidem. personaliter. jurati. Adamus Shawe Robertus Richardson Henricus Hessey Thomas Hessey fidedigni. personaliter. jurati. They do saie that all thinges ar well bothe in Haiton and Beilbie to there knowledg. Saving the churche yeardes of Haiton and the chapell of Beilbie are not sufficientlie fensed. Habent ad reparanda premissa citra festum sancti Michaelis archangeli proximum sub pena xxs etc.

1 John Brockett, notary public, admitted freeman of York, 1566; sheriff, 1570.

2 In the original the names of the wardens and sidesmen are written one above the other, and are bracketed, the

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presentments they make following after the bracket. To save space, their names are here printed consecutively, but it must be understood that the clergy, schoolmasters, and parish clerks do not join with them in making presentments.

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THORNETON.

Willelmus Harte, clericus, vicarius ibidem. personaliter: et exhibuit literas ordinum etc., ac soluit pro procuracionibus dicto domino decano vijs vjd.

Robertus Gylyot clericus parochialis ibidem. personaliter.

Robertus Swanne Petrus Bound Willelmus Buttle Ricardus Riche gardiani ibidem. personaliter. jurati. Johannes Hodgeson Johannes Blithe Henricus Tindale fidedigni. personaliter. jurati. Qui dicunt [et] presentant that the chancell of the churche is in decaies in glasse windowes and lykwise the bodie of the same churche. Moniti sunt ad reparanda premissa for the bodie of the churche betwix this and Michlmes next vpon paine of xs.

ALLERTHROPPE CUM WAPPLINGTON

Michael Watson Willelmus Haiton Radulphus Smith Thomas Flint personaliter. jurati. Qui dicunt omnia bene.

FANGFOSSE CUM BARMEBIE

Ricardus Steavenson, clericus, vicarius ibidem. personaliter: et exhibuit literas ordinum et institucionis, et soluit dicto domino decano pro procuracionibus vijs vjd.

Thomas Silbarne Willelmus Texton Thomas Overend Willelmus Blansherd gardiani . personaliter . jurati. Nicholaus Vessey Ricardus Vessey fidedigni. personaliter. jurati. Qui dicunt omnia bene.

GEVENDALE.

Rollandus Backhouse, clericus, vicarius ibidem, personaliter: et exhibuit literas ordinum et institucionis ac soluit pro procuracionibus dicto decano vijs vjd

Robertus Richardson Willelmus Ricall gardiani. personaliter. jurati. Johannes Wall Johannes Lamme fidedigni. personaliter. jurati. They saie they haue often tymes no service vpon Weddinsdaies and Fridaies. Item that there churche is in decaie. But it is in repairing by work men. All the rest is well.

MILLINGTON.

Thomas Newlove, clericus, curatus ibidem, personaliter: et exhibuit literas ordinum.

Willelmus Rose Petrus Newlove gardiani. personaliter. jurati. Robertus Hudson Johannes Webster fidedigni. personaliter. jurati . They saie all is well saving that John Pennye and his wif lyveth not to geither.

KYLDWIKE PERECIE.

Willelmus Herbert, clericus, vicarius ibidem, personaliter: et exhibuit literas ordinum et institucionis, ac soluit vijs vjd pro procuracionibus dicto domino decano.

Ricardus Frankland, clericus parochialis ibidem, personaliter.

Willelmus Bulmer Ricardus Hanley gardiani. personaliter. jurati. Johannes Lendill Willelmus Weddall fidedigni. Qui dicunt omnia bene.

Visitatio Ecclesiarum et Capellarum subsequentium celebrata fuit in Ecclesia parochiali de Pickering per Reverendum Virum Matheum Hutton sacretheologie professorem, Decanum Ecclesie Cathedralis et Metropolitice beati Petri Ebor. quarto die mensis Augusti anno domini millesimo cccccmo sexagesimo octauo. In presentia mei Johannis Brokett notarij publici, etc.

PICKERING

Willelmus Colman, clericus, vicarius ibidem, personaliter: et exhibuit literas ordinum et institucionis, ac soluit dicto domino decano pro procuracionibus vijs vjd.

Ricardus Cowper clericus parochialis ibidem, personaliter.

Ricardus Parke Ricardus Thomson Thomas Shorpshier Johannes Marshall Ambrotius Prowde Ricardus Walker gardiani. personaliter. jurati. Thomas Marshall Henricus Harding Henricus Lighton fidedigni. personaliter. jurati. They present Dorothie Barker for having a child in fornication or adulterie, but they cannot tell by whome. Item likewise Dorothie Todd to haue had a child in fornication or adulterie, but they cannot tell by whome. Que quidem mulieres fuerunt vocate et confesse sunt sua crimina et penitentes fuerunt, eis injunctum in Ecclesia parochiali de Pickering duabus diebus Dominicis proxime sequentibus habitu penitenciali. etc.

GOTELAND CAPELLA.

Edwardus Cockerell Ricardus Sleyghton gardiani . personaliter. jurati. Ricardus Wilkynson Radulphus Skynner fidedigni . personaliter. jurati. Dicunt omnia bene.

ELLERBURNE CUM WILTON.

Johannes Waddington, clericus, vicarius ibidem, personaliter: et exhibuit literas ordinum et institucionis, ac soluit pro procuracionibus dicto domino decano vijs vjd

Robertus Todd clericus parochialis ibidem, personaliter.

Willelmus Preston Georgius Boyes gardiani. personaliter. jurati. Qui dicunt omnia bene Saving there churche is in some decaie in leades and glasse windowes. Moniti sunt ad reparanda premissa citra festum Sancti Martini Episcopi in yeme proximum.

WILTON CAPELLA.

Stephanus Skelton Johannes Harthropp gardiani . personaliter. jurati. They saie they haue seldome service vpon Weddinsdales and Fridaies.

EBBERSTON ECCLESIA.

Thomas Willan, clericus, vicarius ibidem, personaliter: et exhibuit literas ordinum et institucionis, ac soluit domino decano pro procuracionibus vijs vjd

Robertus Whitwell clericus parochialis ibidem, personaliter.

Willelmus Sowden Robertus Noble gardiani . personaliter. jurati . Qui dicunt et presentant omnia bene, saving the chancell is in decaie, and that Mr Deane should repaire the same as they think.

ALLERSTON CAPELLA

Johannes Cave, clericus, curatus ibidem, personaliter: et exhibuit. literas ordinum.

Lancelotus Preston Henricus Dowson gardiani. personaliter. jurati. Qui dicunt omnia bene.

Visitatio celebrata fuit in Ecclesia parochiali de Killome xvjto die mensis Augusti anno domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo octauo per Reuerendum Virum Matheum Hutton sacretheologie professorem, Decanum Ecclesie Cathedralis et Metropolitice beati Petri Ebor. In presentia mei Johannis Brokett notarij publici etc.

KILLOME.

Georgius Chester, clericus, vicarius ibidem. personaliter: et exhibuit literas ordinum et institucionis, ac soluit dicto domino decano pro procuracionibus vijs vjd.

Christoforus Smithe Thomas Kerey Willelmus Burdall Simo Grindall gardiani . personaliter. jurati. Qui dicunt omnia bene. Saving the glasse windowes in the bodie of the churche is in decaie. Habent ad reparanda premissa citra festum Sancti Martini Episcopi proximum sub pena xiijs iiijd