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Fountains Abbey: History
Fountains Abbey: Buildings
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What became of the monks of Fountains? (6/6)
Abbot Marmaduke Bradley and the thirty monks of the community, who were all priests, each received a pension upon their suppression of the abbey. Bradley, in fact, did extremely well and received a considerable sum of £100. In addition he received £22 annually from the prebend of Thorpe, in Ripon Minster, where he resided, and £19 each year from the hospital of St Mary in Ripon, of which he was master. Accordingly, Bradley could afford to live well and continue to enjoy the good living he had come to expect as abbot of Fountains. Such was his financial situation that in 1546 he was able to lend the Crown £80.(137) Most of the former monks of Fountains probably went on to officiate as chantry priests or curates. John Young, for example, was curate of Skidby, Anthony Kendall of Kilnwick and Edmund Lowde may have officiated as curate of Bubwith. Christopher Jeynkinson was a priest of Magdalene’s chantry, in Ripon, and William Hobson may have been a chantry priest at Knaresborough. Thomas Dixon was perhaps vicar of Hampsthwaite, Matthew Morland may have been rector of Temsford, in Bedfordshire, and Gavin Stock held the livings of Wiggenhall, Norfolk, and Rickinghall Superior, Suffolk.(138) Surviving wills suggest that some former members of
the Fountains community maintained links with their fellow brethren or,
at least, did not forget them in their final testimony. Christopher Jeynkyson’s
will named four former monks of Fountains, each of whom was left either
ten shillings or six shillings and eightpence to pray for his soul and
that of his master; one of these beneficiaries, Marmaduke Jenkynson,
may have been a relative. Christopher also left a silver calyx to Studley
Royal.(139) Thomas Greenwood witnessed the
will of his former brother, Marmaduke Jenkynson, and Christopher Jenkynson
was made an executor of Marmaduke Bradley’s will in 1553.(140)
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