page_title: Firby (surname)
section_title: Christ's Hospital
hierarchical_section_title: Firby (surname) / Worship / Christ's Hospital
caption_attribution_description: English: Christ's Hospital, Firby. This is a block of former almshouses built in 1608. It had a chapel in the central gabled wing. 'Hospital' is an old word for almshouses (cf Hospice). Taken in 1988.
context_page_description: Firby or Fritheby is an English toponymic surname, referring to the village of Firby south of Bedale, North Yorkshire, historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire. It is not to be confused with Firby near Malton, also now in North Yorkshire but historically in the East Riding of Yorkshire, which has different origins and etymology, or with Fearby or Ferriby, also in Yorkshire but with different origins.
context_section_description: While it was hoped that the son and heir of Mary, Queen of Scots would be tolerant of Romanism, the Gunpowder Plot dashed these hopes and by that time, at least in the case of Firby and according to the census, surname-bearing inhabitants had already begun relocating to Catterick, Richmond, and the Bishopric, before any relief could be found. For a replacement to Firby Grange, it was only as late as the reign of King James I that a new (Protestant) chapel of ease and its six almshouses were founded. The new chapel was fully functioning by the reign of Charles I of England, when compulsory attendance at Christ's Hospital was enforced, despite continued Papal adherence by locals—this was to be broken entirely by Parliament's alliance with the Scottish Solemn League and Covenant that invaded the village.
  In the parish of Bedale, in the deanery of Wensley, and under the Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven (part of the Diocese of Leeds, in the Province of York) Christ's Hospital was a Church of England school for boys ancillary to the Bedale Poor Law originally taught by six elderly men. It was founded in 1608 by John Clapham of London, a Chancery clerk for Queen Elizabeth's William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley - whose son and heir Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter held possession of neighbouring Snape, part of the larger Middleham estate which they inherited from Lord Latymer, before the Milbanks moved in from Halnaby. The first master was Richard Lambert . It was financed by lands in Edmonton, Middlesex until the Barry Railway Co. took over and Mr. Marmaduke Braithwaite was also patron. Not only does it have the Jacobean royal arms, but pictures of St. Mark, of the Adoration of the Magi, of the founder and of his wife.
caption: Christ's Hospital, Firby
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