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The Collegiate Churches of County Durham at the time of the Dissolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
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When the Commissioners came to investigate those foundations dissolved under the provisions of the Act of 1547, there were in County Durham six institutions which could be described as collegiate churches. Of these, four were constituted in the ordinary way with a dean and prebendaries; Darlington, Chester-le-Street, Lanchester, and St. Andrews, Auckland; one was a chantry college attached to Staindrop Hospital; and one (Norton, near Stockton) preserved the antique constitution of eight portionaries amongst whom the endowment was equally divided.
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Page 69 of note 3 E. g. Hamsterley. Valor, V, 315.
Page 70 of note 1 He was bound to provide ministers for the chapels of Tanfield and Lamesley, which he was not, apparently, doing. Robert Surtees, History of Durham, II, 143.
Page 70 of note 2 This is the value given in 1535 (Valor, V, 312). It is practically certain that the entry of its value in the certificate of 1548—£ 27 2 8—was the result of an error. The ecclesiastical proceedings of Bishop Barnes, Surtees Society, XXII, lxiv.
Page 70 of note 3 Surtees Society, XXII, lxxv.
Page 71 of note 1 Wilson, 619-20.
Page 71 of note 2 Surtees Society, CLXI, 80. Five of the eight portions were leased in 1548.
Page 71 of note 3 P.R.O., Exchequer; Augmentations, continuance warrants, no. 9 (E 315/9).
Page 72 of note 1 This sum does not include the pensions paid to the inmates of Staindrop hospital, which amounted to £ 51 11 4. In 1548 there were five ‘poore gents’, who each received £ 6 1 4; six ‘poore yemen’ who received £ 3 0 8; and two ‘poore gromes’ who received £ 1 10 4. Surtees Society, XXII, lxxv.
Page 72 of note 2 B.M., Harleian MSS, 605, ff. 31a, 77-8. Wilson, 283.
Page 73 of note 1 There may have been such schools at Auckland (Valor, V, 315) and Staindrop (Surtees Society, XXII, 3), while chantry priests and other clergy frequently gave elementary instruction to children without the formal establishment of a school.
Page 74 of note 1 P.R.O., Exchequer; Augmentations, Miscellaneous Book 247, (E 315/ 247) nos. 10, 11.
Page 74 of note 2 Continuance warrant no. 9.