Charter of William Sparrow

2 28 May 1396

Charter of William Sparrow, chaplain, granting to Thomas Pynchebeck,
chaplain, his messuage and its appurtenances in Nether Ousegate,
York, which he had of the gift and feoffment of John Lindlay, citizen
of York, which lies around William de Selby’s land and alongside the
highway called Nether Ousegate as far as the cemetery of the church
of St Michael near the bridge over the river Ouse, and near ‘Cayl-
lomhall’ on either side of the river, to have and hold in perpetuity to
the aforesaid Thomas and his successors as chaplains to celebrate for
the repose of the soul of John de Gisburn, formerly citizen and merchant
of York, and for the good estate of Ellen de Gisburn, his widow,¹ for
the souls of John’s mother and father, his ancestors and for all the
faithful departed at the altar of St Nicholas in the church of St Martin
in Micklegate, York, where Thomas and his successors shall say mass
daily with due formality and without any interruption.

     If it should happen that Ellen has failed to bestow the said premises,
then the heirs of the said John are to have the right of appointing
another suitable priest. Isabel, one of the heirs of John de Gisburn and
her heirs is to have the first presentation to the chantry, and Alice, the
other heir, is to have the second, and so on alternately, in perpetuity.
Witnesses: William Frost, then mayor of York, John More and John de
Hamden, then sheriffs of the city, Thomas Era, John de Braithwaite,
William Salley, William de Cestr’ of York, and many others.

[Latin]

[Copyist’s note.] This deed hath 3 faire seales of red wax att the copying
the 20th of Sept: 1615.

[CB, 300]

     ¹ Sir Robert Plumpton’s maternal grandparents.