1. A. Lonsdale, ‘The last
monks of Kirkstall Abbey’ , Publications of the Thoresby Soc.
Miscellany 15 (Leeds, 1972), p. 203
2. See Lonsdale, ‘The last
monks of Kirkstall Abbey’ , p. 213, for Allerton Grange as
a continuing centre of Catholic recusancy until the eighteenth
century.
3. Lonsdale, ‘The last monks
of Kirkstall Abbey’ , p. 201.
4. C. Cross, Monks, Friars
and Nuns in Sixteenth-Century Yorkshire, Yorkshire Arch.
Soc. Record Ser. 150 (Huddersfield, 1995), pp. 145,
148.
5. Lonsdale, ‘The last monks
of Kirkstall Abbey’ , p. 203. Richard Bateson was curate of
Spofforth and rector of Birkin; Robert Hemsworth was a clerk
of Preston, in
the parish of Kippax; William Lupton was a curate of Huddersfield;
William Northives served as a clerk of Adel in the 1540s; Richard
Broke may have been a priest of Our Lady’s chantry, Huddersfield
and Henry Clayton was perhaps clerk of Roxby from 1543; Henry
Clough
may have been a stipendiary priest in the parish of Kirkburton,
John Harrison was perhaps a curate of Leeds and buried in Leeds
Parish Church in 1545; Paul Mason, one of the monks accused of
sodomy in 1535-6, may have been vicar of Barnsley 1551-3, curate
of Kirkdale
(1558), vicar of Bishopsthorpe (1562-3), and vicar of St Mary’s,
Castlegate (1571); John Matthew may have been a chantry priest
in
Leeds parish church,; Thomas Wilson may have held the chantry at
York Minster or have been vicar of Mirfield, see Lonsdale, ‘The
last monks of Kirkstall’ , and Cross, Monks, Friars and
Nuns,
pp. 143-52.
6. G. O. Woodward, The Dissolution
of the Monasteries (London, 1966), p. 150.
7. G. D. Barnes, Kirkstall
Abbey 1147-1539: an Historical Study, Thoresby Socity LVIII
(Leeds, 1984), p. 89.
8. Lonsdale, ‘The last monks
of Kirkstall Abbey’ , p. 211. Cross, Monks, Friars and
Nuns,
p. 149, suggests that Thomas moved to Nottinghamshire and was a
chantry priest at Thorpe, Newark.
9. Barnes, Kirkstall Abbey,
p. 89; Cross, Monks, Friars and Nuns, p. 151.
11. C. Cross, ‘Community
and solidarity among Yorkshire religious after the Dissolution’ ,
in Monastic Studies: the Continuity of Tradition, ed.
J. Loades (Bangor, 1990), pp. 245-54, at p. 247.
12. Woodward, Dissolution
of the Monasteries, p. 158-9; for a full transcription of
Pepper’s
will, see Woodward, Dissolution of the Monasteries, pp.
157-61.
13. This may be the earliest
reference to Leeds Grammar, see Lonsdale, ‘The last monks of
Kirkstall Abbey’ , p. 206 fn. 34.
14. Lonsdale, ‘The last
monks of Kirkstall Abbey’ , p. 206, Cross, ‘Community and
solidarity’ ,
p. 247.
17. W.
Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. J. Carley, H. Ellis,
and B. Bandinel (6 vols in 8; London, 1846), V,
no. LIII (pp. 530-1); translation based on F. Ross, Ruined
Abbeys of Britain, II, pp. 163-5.
