Musterdevillers & St. James's Church

So. I ran across this (source:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-mus1.htm):

Musterdevillers

Pronounced /ÌmŒstYÈd[v(Y)lY(r)z/

Among the arrangements made by the council of the city of York to welcome
Richard III on 4 August 1483 were detailed instructions on what to wear. In
modern spelling, they ended, All others of whatever occupation, dressed in
blue, violet and musterdevillers, shall meet our sovereign lord on foot at
St James' church.

*Musterdevillers* was a type of mixed grey woollen cloth, a fabric that was
common in that century and the next. Though by Richard III's visit the
cloth was being woven in many towns in England, it is said to have
originated in the place in Normandy now called Montivilliers; its usual
English name (in wildly varying spellings at this period) is a version of
the way that town's name was spelled in medieval times.

The cloth was prized and it often appeared in wills of the period, as in
that of John Estcourt in 1427: To Juliana Bolle my gown of musterdevillers
and to Sir Thomas Drury my fellow canon the fur of the same gown. (Did the
two legatees solemnly get together with scissors to separate the two?)

...which is well and good. But now I'm trying to find the St. James' Church
as referenced above, and also the site of Breckle's Mills where the mayor
and alderman and other officials met Richard and Anne before they processed
into York.

Where the heck was Breckle's Mills outside of York? And was St. James'
Church inside or outside of Micklegate Bar? It's not listed in the medieval
churches of York that I can find. I can find a St. John Micklegate but not
a St. James.

St James was a 'suburban' chapel of Holy Trinity York, for those who could not get to the main church. So presumably outside the walls, which would make sense in context.



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So. I ran across this (source:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-mus1.htm):

Musterdevillers

Pronounced /ÌmŒstYÈd[v(Y)lY(r)z/

Among the arrangements made by the council of the city of York to welcome
Richard III on 4 August 1483 were detailed instructions on what to wear. In
modern spelling, they ended, All others of whatever occupation, dressed in
blue, violet and musterdevillers, shall meet our sovereign lord on foot at
St James' church.

*Musterdevillers* was a type of mixed grey woollen cloth, a fabric that was
common in that century and the next. Though by Richard III's visit the
cloth was being woven in many towns in England, it is said to have
originated in the place in Normandy now called Montivilliers; its usual
English name (in wildly varying spellings at this period) is a version of
the way that town's name was spelled in medieval times.

The cloth was prized and it often appeared in wills of the period, as in
that of John Estcourt in 1427: To Juliana Bolle my gown of musterdevillers
and to Sir Thomas Drury my fellow canon the fur of the same gown. (Did the
two legatees solemnly get together with scissors to separate the two?)

...which is well and good. But now I'm trying to find the St. James' Church
as referenced above, and also the site of Breckle's Mills where the mayor
and alderman and other officials met Richard and Anne before they processed
into York.

Where the heck was Breckle's Mills outside of York? And was St. James'
Church inside or outside of Micklegate Bar? It's not listed in the medieval
churches of York that I can find. I can find a St. John Micklegate but not
a St. James.