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1 86 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
of the manor of Hotham, county of York. His descendant, of evil memory,
Peter de Trehous, having married Isabella de Turnham in reward for his
nefarious transaction with King John, divided his property between his two
sons Peter, I suppose the eldest, obtaining his mother's estate of Mulgrave,
and John receiving his paternal estate of Hotham. From henceforth the
name of Trehous was abandoned, and as Peter and his descendants are
known under the name of Maulay, John and his descendants are known by
the name of Hotham ;
but both sons assumed the arms of their maternal
grandfather, Nigel de Fossard. The younger differenced the bend sable
with three mullets argent.*
John de Hotham married a daughter of Baldwin de Wake, about
which family I shall have much to say by-and-by, and had three sons.
The youngest, Edmund, married a Grindall, and had a son, Sir Galfrid or
Geoffry de Hotham, who in 1331 founded the monastery of St. Austin,
called the Black Friars, in Hull. Hadley, in his History of Hull, from
which I have derived much of the following information, says that " The
" building was so large that it took up half the street, and was decorated
" with fine gardens, fountains, and courts." About three years after its
foundation, Sir Richard Hotham, his son and heir, agreed to take the
charge of the fee-farm rent of thirteen shillings and fourpence upon
himself and his heirs, provided that the prior and friars would always
pray for the souls of himself, his wife Avicia, and all their posterity. Five
years after, the mayor and corporation made a similar composition in
favour of themselves and their successors. About the same time John de
Wetwang bestowed many messuages and tenements upon the monastery.
It flourished in great plenty and magnificence
until the dissolution of the
religious houses, when, in the name of religion, the abuse of these good
gifts devoted to God was corrected by their absolute confiscation to
gratify mere worldly greed and rapacity.
The second son, William, was prior-provincial of the Friars Preachers
in England, and a person of great piety and learning.
Educated at Merton
College, Oxford, in 1298, he was intimately associated with Edward I. in
his intended expedition to Palestine, and with Queen Eleanor in the
management of her affairs. The same year he had letters of credence to
the Pope, and the following year he was preferred to the Archbishopric
of Dublin, having been consecrated abroad. He died, however, the same
year, August 28th, at Dijon, and his body was buried in the church of
the Dominicans in London. f The eldest, John or Alan, married Maud,
daughter of Robert Lord Strafford, and had two sons.
John, the younger, was ordained priest at York 1274, and in 1311 is
mentioned as one of the King's clerks, probably through the influence of
* See coloured illustration. f Canon Raine MS.