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292 YORK.
When Henry appointed Holgate to the archbishopric
he was probably well assured of his complaisance,
for within a month after he took possession
of the see of York he alienated to the king thirteen
manors in Northumberland, forty in Yorkshire, six in
Nottinghamshire, and eight in Gloucestershire, receiving
in exchange a grant of thirty-three impropriations
and advowsons which had come into the hands
of the Crown at the dissolution of the monasteries.^
The see was impoverished by Holgate's acts, but a
very considerable increase of his own private property
was the result. A large portion of his wealth was
subsequently applied, nevertheless, to the endowment
of educational and eleemosynary foundations in the
diocese over which he presided.
In 1545 an act was passed for the suppression of
collegiate foundations, hospitals, chantries, and gilds.
But its provisions were not carried out to any great
extent until the following reign. In the year in which
it was passed we find IMarmaduke Bradley (Abbot of
Fountains at the time of its dissolution) giving up the
whole of the dividend (except ten marks) which he
received as canon residentiary of Ripon, for two
years, in order to help forward the restoration or rebuilding
of the great centre tower of the minster of
that town. He is described as sole residentiary and
president of the chapter. Presentations continued
to be made to chantries and prebendal stalls. We
find a chaplain instituted to one of the Ripon chant-
Professor Stubbs gives a reference to De Marca, lib. vi. c. 7,
as to the origin and use of the pall.
' Cf. Drake's ;" Hist, of York," p. 452.