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 RELIGIOUS HOUSES Mynors, to the amending of their bokys and vest.ments, 46/. 8^. ; and I will that iche of the four fryers that shall here my body to the church of the said Fryers Minors have for his labor zod. ; also to the repair of the said church to praye for my sowle and say a solempn mass yearly for four yeres 8 /; ; and that Fryer John Fyssher, of the said convent, be my prest and go to the court of Rome on pilgrimage, and say mass for my sowle at Scala Celi'^ znd to have 10 marks when he goeth forth, and when he Cometh home 40^.'' When arrangements were in active progress in the latter half of the year 1538 for the suppression of the friars, the Duke of Norfolk mterceded with Cromwell to obtain the king's sanction for the securing to him of the Grey Fnars. Writing to Cromwell on 21 September, the duke stated he had intended to ride into Norwich on the previous day to take the sur- render of the Grey Friars, but was ill, and so sent his son Surrey and others to act for him In a later letter the duke describes these friars as « very poor wretches,' and stated that he gave them 40J. apiece to procure secular dress.^ The site, church, house, and all the possessions of the Grey Friars of Norwich were formally granted to the Duke of Norfolk by the crown on 12 March, 1539.' 55. THE CARMELITE FRIARS OF NORWICH ' Wardens of the Franciscan Friars of Norwich^ Thomas de Docking, 1260 Peter Queswell, 1299 Richard le Poringland Roger de Merston, 1303 Walter Catton, 1343 John de Wiclingham, 1362 Simon de Tunsted, 1369 Geoffrey de Ling, 1390 Reginald de Langham, 1410 Robert de Carltton, 1432 Robert de Frisingham, 1460 Dr. Bernard Richard de Colby, 1468 William Rokewode, 1469 John Morote, 1470 John Sparke, 1485 Thomas Thornham, 1494 Thomas Glanvyle, 1496 Dr. Shenkwyn Dr. Call ' Reg. Multone, fol. 49, cited by Kirkpatrick. I fu?'^'^- "'"■ ^^^^' "'" (')' H^, 154. z'fi. Ibid. vol. XIV (i), 651. from Blomefield, coinpared in the latter part with Kirkpatrick. The dates, save the first, are those of •the deaths of the wardens (Blomefield, Hist, of Norf.'iy, 111-14; Kirkpatrick, Relig. Ord. 0/ No!zv. 127). 43 The Carmelite or White Friars settled in this city in 1256 on a site between the river and St. James's Church on the east side of a street called Cowgate. The donor of the site and the founder of the house was Philip son of Warin, a Norwich merchant, who from the place of his residence assumed the name of Cowgate. Additional gifts enabled these friars to erect dwellings and a fine church dedicated to the honour of St. Mary. Philip, the founder, in his old age took upon him the Carmelite habit, and entered the house of his own founda- tion, where he died in 1283.' Among the muniments of the city of Norwich are copies of early grants to the Carmelite Friars.' Thomas Butetorte, rector of Ti^etshall, and Richard de Hedersete, rector of Beighton obtained licence to alienate to the Carmelite Friars of Norwich a certain messuage adjoining their residence.' In 1332 Richard de Hedersete, chaplain, and Adam de Shotesham, chaplain, gave the Carmelites small lots of land for the enlargement of their dwelling.^ Licence was further granted in 1345 for the alienation by Richard Kyng and two others to the Carmelite Friars, for the extension of their house, of two more small lots of land.'" In the same year the bailiffs and commonalty of the city granted to the friars a lane called St. James's Wente, on the west of their priory, 20 perches long and 10 ft. wide. This was done, however, without royal licence, but in the following year Edward III pardoned their defect and allowed the retention of the grant." The royal licence was duly obtained four years later for the enclos- ing of another lane of like dimensions on the east side of their house.'- It was about this time that the friars were occupied in building their new and capacious church. It was ready for use in 1343, and the new churchyard was dedicated by John Paschal, bishop of Llandaff, acting as suffragan for Norwich, in the following year. It was not however, until 1382 that the whole church was finished, when it was dedicated by Thomas, bishop of Sentari, another diocesan suffragan.'^ The dimensions of the church are given by William of Worcester.'* 'Kirkpatrick, Relig. Ord. of Norw. 150-84; Blomefield, Hist, of Norf iv, 414-23; Dugdale,' Mort. vi. I 573-4. ' Weever, Fun. Monti. 805, 807. ' Book of Pleas, fol. 50. ' Ibid. 6 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 23. '" Ibid. 18 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 5. " Ibid. 19 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 29. '' Ibid. 15 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 9. " These dates are cited by Kirkpatrick (156) from MS. of Bale's in the Bodleian Library. " Itin. (Rolls Ser.), 306.
 * The list of wardens of the Grey Friars is taken
 * Pat. 16 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 30.