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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    Bothe Hospitii praedicti 1494 Vide Rot. Vide Indenturam pro Hosp. de Keepyere. In Rotulis clausis Tho^^ [Rowthall] episcopi. Thomas Colsto7i, 1497.^ {Hunter MSS.) Roger Lay born.^ Thomas Wytton.^ {Hunter MSS.) Johji BoeriusA {Hunter MSS.) WiLLELMUS Frankleyn CleHcus L.L Baccalaureus, Magister. Vide de eo Rotulos clausos. Tho^^^ Nq. 56. Iste Willelmus Magister Hospitalis de Keepyere, Et ejusdem loci confratres per Indenturam dat. 7 April A^ 10 H. 8 dimiserunt Willelmo Hill et Elianorae Tempest Viduae Manerium Bishops. Tho. [Rowthall]. King's A°. I'. H. 8. ' Appointed by Bishop Fox in 1497. See Appendix A, XX. Omitted in Mickleton MSS., but inserted in Hunter MSS. Surtees says of him, per m. Booth. Nephew to Bishop Fox ; Archdeacon of Durham. - Omitted in both Mickleton and Hunter MSS. Surtees includes him in his list as follows :— 1501. Roger Layborn, Rector of Stanhope and afterwards of Sedgefield. Archdeacon of Durham. Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. Consecrated Bishop of Carlisle, 1503. Ob. 1509. 3 Thomas Wytton is mentioned as Master in a book of copied wills and instruments which I found J. Raine, jun., making extracts from in the D. and C. Library, Aug-. 27, 1850 {Notices of Masters of Kepyer lejt by the late Rev. Francis Thovtpsoti). •» He was a Genoese clerk, Archdeacon of Durham from 1504 to 1515. In the list of Archdeacons given in Sanderson's Antiquities of the Abbey of Durham he occurs thus:—Jo. Boerius Clericus Genuensis, who resigned in 1515. In a MS. list, written by Randall, in the Thorp Collection, vol. 49, p. 85, he is thus described :—-John Boerius, a Genoese clerk, intruded by the Pope . . . 1504. He res. . . . 1515, reserving to himself a pension of £,^0 p. a. during life. One John Baptista Boerius, a Genoese, was eminent as a plij'sician to Henry VII and Henry VIII for many years. There is frequent mention of him in Domestic Letters and Papers of Henry VIII ' {Rolls Series). Erasmus, as there appears, was well acquainted with him and corresponded with liim during his stay in England (1510 to 1514), and at one time had a young son of his under his care as a pupil. There is a letter (No. 635) dated Rome, 28th June, 1515, from Julius Cardinal de Medicis to Wolsey, in which he promises to promote the cause of John Baptista, the physician, and another (No. 634) of the same date from the same Julius to Henry VIII, adverting to one received from the King commending Bernard Boerius, son of John Baptista. It thus appears that solicitation had been made at Rome from high quarters in favour of the family of Boerius, so as to account sufficiently for the intrusion, as allCf^-ed, of some member of it into the Archdeaconry of Dui-iiam by (he Pope ; and it mav have been under like influence that the same John Boerius got also the Mastership of Kepver.