Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham : being grassmen's accounts and other parish records, together with documents relating to the hospitals of Kepier and St. Mary Magdalene.

  • St. Giles (Parish : Durham, England)
Date:
1896
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Credit: Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham : being grassmen's accounts and other parish records, together with documents relating to the hospitals of Kepier and St. Mary Magdalene. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    all future claims on them for the tithes of Clifton (see III), formerly payable to the church of St. Oswald in Durham, on condition of their offering yearly on St. Oswald's Day at the altar of that church one bezant and two shillings, and also releasing to the church of St. Oswald the two sheaves from the demesne lands of Newton which had been included in their original endowment by Bishop Flambard. [The two following benefactions, though not by Bishop Pudsey himself, appear to have been in his time, and supplementary to his.] 6. (XIII) Gilbert the Chamberlain {Gilbertus camera- rius)^ who appears to have had land in his possession near the new site of the Hospital, granted the Master and brethren leave to make their mill-dam and mill-pool thereon. The language of his deed of gift shows him to have been contemporary with Pudsey, having been probably his own chamberlain. For he makes his grant pro salute domini mei Hugonis Dunelm. episcopi, et pro salute animae Theobaldi fratris, et pro salute animae meae et uxoris meae Julianae Papedy, et haeredum meorum (Referred to in Hutchinson's History of Durham, ii, 301 n.). The same Gilbert, in a return made by the bishop to Henry II, in 1166, of the military service within his jurisdiction, with view to an aid for the marriage of the King's daughter, Maud, appears as follows:— Gilebertus Camerarius [tenet] quintam partem I mil. & ex alia parte x partem unius {Lib. Niger Scaccarii, p. 306). 7. (V) Gilbert Hansard, one of Bishop Pudsey's feudatories, gave his whole vill of Aymundeston {Amer- ston, in the parish of Elwick) and fifty oxgangs in Hurthe- worth {Hurworth) for the support of a chaplain to celebrate for ever in the chapel of the Hospital for the souls of himself, his father and mother, and all his kin. [This donation is what probably led eventually to the foundation of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen, with regard to which, and the negociations relating thereto, see below under ''Magdalen Hospital, and documents in Appendix B.]