General and Concise History and Description of the Town and Port of Kingston-Upon-Hull

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...mother Church of Hessle, for the dedication of a cemetery to the Chapel of the town of Kingestone (ad Capellum ejusdem ville de Kyngestone infra limites parochie predicte, ut fertur construetum), to show that there was a Chapel then standing, though without any burying ground attached to it.f This burying ground is described in the will of John Schayl, in 1303, as the cemetery of Holy Trinity of Kingston-upon-Hull. William Chambers, Esq., M.D., in his MS. work, Annals of Hull from the earliest times to 1766, compiled from the Records of the Corporation; says that the High Church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, appears to be built about Anno 1280. In 1320, the Churchyard being too small for the town, the inhabitants petitioned King Edward II. to grant them a certain piece of ground, called Le Hailles, lying at the west end thereof, which he accordingly did. In 1522 this Church was put under an interdict; the doors and windows were closed up with thorns and briars, the pavement torn up, and the bells deprived of their tongues. No worship was performed in it; every person who presumed to enter the building was declared to be accursed; and even the dead were not suffered to be buried. There is no reason on record for this severe sentence. In 1537 the building was in a ruinous state, and the Corporation having sold their plate, as we have seen at page 74, applied part of the purchase money to its reparation. About the same time an Act of Parliament was passed for the suppression of The family of Helward, or Helleward (afterwards Heyward) was of considerable importance io Hull, at a very early period. t In Beg. Arch. Corbridge int. Archiv. Arch. Ebor, all the Chantries, Colleges, Free Chapels, and Guilds, in the kingdom;...