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MR. PARTON, in his Work entitled "Some Account of the Hospital and Parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex," has given so elaborate a history of this Foundation, that we can do little more here than present an outline of its contents, and refer to it.

This Hospital was founded in 1101 by Matilda queen of Henry the First for the maintenance of lepers, the number of whom was to consist of forty, exclusive of a chaplain, clerk, and messenger; to which were added in after times, as the Hospital-revenues increased, several other officers, and also a certain number of matrons or sisters.

Much of the support for this House at its earliest period seems to have been obtained by sending a Proctor about for the obtaining of voluntary contributions: its first endowment not exceeding 31. per annum. The insufficiency, however, was soon obviated: and the brethren became possessed of rents in the parish of Isleworth, of several plots of land in the parish of St. Giles, of rents in the parish of St. Clement Danes, and of the rectory and church of Feltham in Middlesex. Numerous gifts and privileges were also confirmed to them by King Henry the Second, as well as by a bull from Pope Alexander the Fourth. They had likewise lands and woods in Heston: and in the reigns of Edward the First and Second, beside a very considerable portion of the parish of St. Giles, appear to have held rents and estates in most of the parishes of London.

King Edward the Third, in 1354, annexed this House as a Cell to Burton Lazars, in consideration of the Master and brethren of the latter foundation remitting the annuity of forty Marks per annum which had been granted to them from the Exchequer by King Henry the Second.

King Richard the Second and King Henry the Fourth both confirmed the Charters of St. Giles's Hospital: and Parton says that King Richard the Second annexed it for a short time to the Abbey of St. Mary Graces by the Tower of London. Tanner, however, thinks that that grant, made in his fifteenth year, never took effect. The Custody of St. Giles's Hospital was again confirmed to Burton Lazars by King Henry the Fifth, and by King Henry the Sixth in his third year; and so continued to the Dissolution, being granted, as parcel of the possessions of Burton Lazars, in the 36th of Henry the Eighth to John Dudley Lord Lisle, also called John Lord Dudley.

In 1537 the Master of Burton and Warden of St. Giles, with the consent of their brethren, exchanged the greater part of the Hospital lands in St. Giles's and the manors of Feltham and Heston, in Middlesex, with King Henry the Eighth, (being moved thereto at the King's instance,) for the manor of Burton St. Lazar. In 1539 both Burton Lazar and St. Giles's Hospitals were dissolved.

Lord Lisle, on receiving the grant of the two Houses, fitted up the principal part of St. Giles's Hospital as a residence for himself: but two years afterwards alienated it to John Wymonde Carew, Esq. For an account of the later occupants of the House, the reader is referred to Mr. Parton's History.

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The COMMON SEAL of this House bore a representation of the patron saint, and was inscribed SIGILLVM SANCTI. EGIDII. INFIRMORVM. An Impression of it is in the Augmentation Office.

Parton, p. 39 to 42, has given a Chronological Table of Events connected with St. Giles's Hospital.

WARDENS and MASTERS of ST. GILES'S
HOSPITAL.

JOHN the chaplain, 1101.
RALPH, son of Ade, 1186.
WALTER DE OXONIA Occurs

master, 2 Joh.
WILLIAM the chaplain, 1212.
ROGER DE CLARE, 1223.
WALTER the chaplain, 1230.
WILLIAM DE KIRKES, 1253.
THOMAS DE KIRKBY, 1260.
WILLIAM the chaplain, 1270.
WILLIAM DE COKEFIELD,
1271.

ROGER, 1278. WALTER DE

CLERKEN

WELL, 21 Edw. I. WILLIAM SUTTON, 1461. GEORGE SUTTON, 1491. THOMAS HARRINGWOLD, 1493.

Sir THOMAS NORTON, Knt. 1508. THOMAS RATCLIFFE, 1537.i

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There are no Ministers' Accompts of the possessions of this Hospital in the Augmentation Office.

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In the 26th Hen. VIII. the Hospital of Burton Lazars stated to have paid to fourteen paupers in the Hospital of St. Giles, the sum of 42l. 11s. 8d. according to the force and effect of the foundation, being at the rate of two-pence to every pauper per diem.

Although Parton makes this Hospital to have been founded in 1101, it must not be concealed that Stowe and others after him give 1117 as the date; the year before the foundress died. The Cottonian MS. Nero C. V. Barthol. de Cotton Monachi Norwicensis Hist. Anglicana, says, "A.D. 1118. Matildis Regina fundavit Hospitale Sancti Egidii Lond. quo anno viam universæ carnis ingressa est."

Hospitale S. Egidii, extra Londoniam.

NUM. I.

[Lel. Collect, tom. i. p. 600.]

MATILDIS Uxor Henrici Primi, versus occidentalem plagam Londoniarum, unam domum ad leprosorum sustentationem, cum oratorio et officinis ædificavit, et vocatur Hospitale S. Ægidii.

NUM. II.

Aquitaniæ, et comes Andegaviæ, archiepiscopis, &c. salutem. Sciatis me, pro amore Dei, et pro animabus regis H. avi mei, et Matildis reginæ aviæ meæ, et pro salute mea et antecessorum et successorum meorum, concessisse, ac præsenti carta mea confirmasse Deo et hospitali sancti Egidii extra Londoniam, ubi Johannes bonæ memoriæ fuit capellanus; et infirmis leprosis ibidem degentibus, locum ipsum in quo

Carta Regis Henrici Secundi Fundationem ejusdem, pluri- fundatum est idem hospitale, cum lx. solidatis redditus, quos

masque Donationes recitans et confirmans.

E Registro de Burton Lazars MS. Harl.]

HEN. Dei gratia rex Angliæ et dux Normanniæ et

c Ibid. p. 21.

■ Parton. p. 7.
b Ibid. p. 8.
d Ibid.
• Ibid. p. 27.
See the Particular for it in Parton, p. 33, note.
Ibid. pp. 30, 31.
h Abbrev. Plac. p. 27.

At an early period Mr. Parton mentions additional Officers called CUSTODES, who seem to have been a kind of Overseers of the Charity. Under this name, Andrew le Uclose and Andrew Bockerel citizens of London occur in 1223; Thomas de Harvil and William Hardell in 1230; and Nicholas Bat and Adam Basings in 1253.

The lands and rents in this register are arranged in chapters, under the parishes of London in which they were respectively situated: the rents in the out-parishes of Middlesex being placed at the end. Parton, p. 60 to 62, has extracted a detail of its contents.

prædicta regina eidem hospitali assignavit, ad victum infirmorum, quando fundavit idem hospitale. Habendos annuatim de Ripa Reginæ quæ appellatur Athereshethe; et cum

Tanner's other References are, "Cart. 10 Joan. n. 26. pro lx. sol. annuis e Ripa Reginæ London. Libertate, 1 Edw. I. m. 2. et libertat. 2 Edw. I. m. 8. pro lx. sol. e Scacc. Reg. pro cantaria facienda in capella hospitalis. Pat. 8 Edw. I. m. 1 vel 21. Plac. in com. Middlesex, 22 Edw. I, assis. rot. 6. dorso, pro ten. in Edelmeton. Pat. 27 Edw. I. m.. pro magistro de Burton Lazari. Pat. 31 Edw. I. m.. dorso, de exemptione ab archiepiscopo. Pat. 2 Edw. II. p. 2, m. 25. pro via in villa de Feltham. Brev. 7 Edw. II. Trin, rot. 11 Pat. 8 Edw. II. p. 2, m. 5. Plac. apud turrim London, 14 Edw. II. assis. rot. 8. pro ten. in London. Pat. 10 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 40 vel 41. Pat. 44 Edw. III. p. 3, m.. de visitatione hospitalis. Pat. 48 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 26 vel 27. Pat. 1 Ric. II. p. 3, m. 17. et m. 20 vel 21. Rec. in Scacc. 3 Ric. II. Hill. rot. 5. Claus. 15 Ric. II. p. 1, m. de elemosynis in civitate

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Ix. solidis quos ego concessi eidem hospitali. Habendos singulis annis ad festum sancti Michaelis de scaccario meo, ad emenda vestimenta leprosis ejusdem hospitalis; et cum xxx. solid. et v. denariis de redditu meo de Surreia, in perpetuam elemosinam, ad emenda sibi luminaria. Præterea concedo eis et confirmo omnes subscriptas donationes et emptiones, quæ rationibiliter eis factæ sunt et cartis donatorum et sibi vendentium confirmatæ. Scilicet, ex dono Hamisiæ comitisse de ...... ecclesiam de Feltham, et terram quam habent in eadem villa; et omnem elemosinam quam habent in hundredo de Istleworthe, de donatione Bernardi de sancto Valerico; et terram de la Barre, quam tenent de Ricardo juniore, canonico S. Pauli ecclesia Londonensis, sicut carta eorum testantur: et quatuor acras terræ quas ipsi emerunt de Willielmo Pincerna; et duas acras quas emerunt de Gaufrido filio Fredeseudi, et decem solidatos redditus, quæ habent in parochia sancti Clementis ecclesiæ Dacorum de donatione Petri filii Mileme, sicut in scriptis eorum continetur. Et totam terram quam habent in London de dono Roberti filii Radulphi, cum omnibus aliis tenementis suis rationabiliter sibi concessis, quæ in prædicta civitate habent. Quare volumus, &c."

NUM. III.

Carta Regis Edwardi Tertii de Custodia ejusdem Hospitalis,

Edwardus Dei gratia rex Anglie, dominus Hiberniæ et dux Aquitaniæ, omnibus, ad quos præsentes literæ pervenerint, salutem. Sciatis quod requisitionem dilecti et nobis in Christo magistri, ordinis de Burton sancti Lazari in Anglia, et pro remissione quadraginta marcarum annuarum, quas idem magister et fratres ejusdem ordinis, ex concessione progenitorum nostrorum, quondam regum Angliæ ad scaccarium nostrum percipere consueverunt; necnon et pro remissione arreragiorum eorundem xl. marcarum annuarum, concessimus eisdem fratribus pro nobis et hæredibus nostris custodiam hospitalis sancti Egidii extra London cum pertinentiis. Habendum eisdem fratribus et successoribus suis, fratribus ejusdem ordinis, imperpetuum; salvo jure cujuslibet; ita quod pauperibus necessaria de bonis dicti hospitalis inveniant, et alias elemosinas in eodem hospitali institutas, et hactenus usitatas sustentent in omnibus, ut tenentur. In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium quarto die Aprilis, anno regni nostri vicesimo septimo.

hospital of Parum, in Porkshire.

TANNER says this Hospital, dedicated to St. Nicholas, was founded by some of the family of Brus, before the year 1185. It was afterwards granted to the Canons of Helagh Park. It continued to the time of Henry the VIIIth, when it was valued at 5l. per annum.

Nothing has been met with in the Augmentation Office as to this Hospital, except that a Chantry of St. Nicholas was founded in the Hospital House within the parish of

Yarome, valued yearly by the Commissioners under the Statutes for the Dissolution of Chantries, temp. Hen. VIII. and Edw. VI. at 5l. 6s. 4d.; the necessity of the said Chantry being to perform divine service to the inhabitants thereabouts. It is stated to be distant from the parish church a mile.

The Hospital SEAL has not been seen by the Editors.

Hospitale de Parum, in agro Eboracensi.

NUM. I.

Carta Alani de Wilton de xii. bovatis terræ in Hootonâ. [Ex Registro de Parco Helagh, penès Philippum Baronem Wharton.] OMNIBUS Christi fidelibus ad quos præsens scriptum pervenerit, Alanus de Wilton salutem in Domino. Noveritis me, pro salute animæ meæ et Mariæ uxoris meæ, et Rad. patris mei, et Cecilia matris meæ, et fratrum et sororum meorum, et antecessorum, et successorum, et parentum

meorum; et pro salute animæ domini Walteri de Gray, Dei gratia archiepiscopi Eboracensis ; et pro salute domini Petri de Brus et Johannæ uxoris ejus; et pro salute animæ Willielmi filii Petri, et uxoris ejus; dedisse et concessisse, et hac præsenti carta mea confirmasse Deo et beatæ Mariæ, et beato Nicholao, hospitale de Yarum, et fratribus ibidem Deo servientibus, duodecim bovatas terræ. Habendum in dominico in Hootona, juxta Rudby, cum toftis et croftis, et cum capitali messuagio et dominicis, et toftum et croftum quæ fuerunt Petri filii Thomæ, et cum omnibus libertatibus et aisiamentis eidem terræ pertinentibus, infra villam et extra, in liberam, puram, et perpetuam elemosinam. Reddendo indè annuatim mihi et hæredibus meis duas marcas argenti, pro omni servicio et consuetudine, præter danegeldum, cum evenerit; per totam terram, quantum pertinet ad duodecim bovatas terræ ; scilicet unam marcam ad Pentecosten, et unam marcam ad festum sancti Martini. Concessi etiam eidem unam carucatam terræ in Huplium, cum toftis et croftis, et cum omnibus pertinentiis, libertatibus, et aisiamentis eidem terræ pertinentibus infra villam et extra, prout illam plenariùs tenui, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam. Concessi iterum eisdem sex bovatas terræ in MyLondon. Pat. 15 Ric. II. p.. m. 26. de concess hujus hospitalis abbati et monachis de Gratiis. Pat. 2 Hen. V. p. 2, m. 17. Pat. 3 Hen. VI. p. 1, m. 5. Rec. in Scacc. 28 Hen. VI. Mich. rot. 5. Pat. 35 Hen. VI. p. 2, m. 9. de concessione ejusdem hospitali de Burton. Pat. 1 Edw. IV. p. 4, m. 8. pro hospitali S. Innocentium Lincoln. Rec. in Scacc. 1 Hen. VII. Pasch. rot. 15. pro hospitali S. Innocentium Lincoln." In the former edition Dugdale printed this charter twice over from different sources, Monast. vol. ii. pp. 381, 400. The following was the "Teste" of the first, "T. Ricardo.. G. Eliensi, J. Norwicensi

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dilton juxta Levene; illas scilicet quas de Jordano Amundevili et de Waltero Surdevallo in eadem villa tenui, cum toftis et croftis, et cum omnibus pertinentiis, infra villam et extra, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, ad sustentandum tres capellanos in eodem hospitali missam celebrantes, et tresdecim pauperes in victu, et vestitu, ad inveniendum illis lectum imperpetuum. Ego verò et hæredes mei has prædictas terras prædicto hospitali et fratribus ibidem Deo servientibus, contra omnes homines imperpetuum warrantizabimus. Hiis testibus, Willielmo de Tampton, Roberto de Acclum, Gregorio de Levinthorpe, Ada Buch,

et multis aliis.

NUM. II.

Carta Alani de Wilton, Canonicis de Parco Helagh facta de Hospitale S. Nicholai juxta Iarum.

[Ibid.]

OMNIBUS Christi fidelibus Alanus de Wilton, salutem. Noveritis me dedisse et concessisse, et hac præsenti carta mea confirmasse Deo et sanctæ Mariæ et sancto Johanni evangelista de Parco de Helagh, et canonicis ibidem Deo servientibus, pro salute animæ meæ et Amiciæ sponsæ meæ, et Mariæ quondam sponsæ meæ, et patris et matris meæ, et fratrum et sororum et antecessorum et successorum meorum; et animæ Petri de Brus, et Johannæ uxoris ejus, et animæ Willielmi filii Petri; et pro salute animæ domini Walteri archiepiscopi Eboracensis; et magistri Matthei, archidiaconi Clevellandiæ, et Thomæ fratris mei; et Petri de Brus et uxoris ejus, et Willielmi de Tamton et uxoris ejus, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, hospitale sancti Nicholai juxta Jarum, cum episcopis: comite Will. de Mandevill, Rann. de Glanvilla, &c. apud Westm." The reference was "Pat. 4 Edw. III. n. 26. per Inspex. Videsis Pat. 1 Ric. II. p. 3, m. 17. et Pat. 2 Hen. V. p. 2, m. 17." b See the charters Numm. II. III.

e Tanner says,

"Vide in Collect. v. cl. Rog. Dodsworth, vol. vii. fol. 72. Cartam Joannis fil. Willielmi Pinzun de Torp. conced. dimidiam carucatam terræ in Pinzun Torp Hospitali et fratribus S. Nicholai de Jarum. Ibid. vol. ix. de fundatione. Ibid. vol. xciv. fol. 125. Cart. 4 Edw. II. n. 51. pro terris in Hoton, Middleton, &c.

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omnibus pertinentiis et libertatibus suis propè et procul.
Et ego et hæredes mei prædictis canonicis prædictam ele-
mosinam contra omnes homines warantizabimus et defende-
mus. Hiis testibus, domino Waltero archiepiscopo Ebora-
censi, Rogero decano, et Capitulo Eboracensi; Willielmo de
Tameton, et pluribus allis.

NUM. III.

Carta Petri de Brus facta Canonicis de Parco Helagh de
Hospitali de Yarum, cum omnibus Terris eidem pertinen-
tibus.
[Ibid.]

roboravi. Hiis testibus, domino Nicholao de Stuteville, domino Rogero de Brus, domino Symone de Brus, domino Rogero de Toscotes, militibus, Willielmo Levington, et aliis.

NUM. IV.

Carta Petri de Brus, facta eidem Hospitali de libera Mul-
tura per omnes Molendinos suos, et de libera Pastura, &c.
[Ex autogr. in turri S. Maria Eboraci.]

UNIVERSIS has literas visuris vel audituris, Petrus de
Brus, salutem. Noveritis me concessisse et hâc cartâ meâ
confirmâsse Deo et beatæ Mariæ et hospitali sancti Nicho-
lai de Jarum, et fratribus ibidem Deo servientibus, multu-
ram suam liberam per omnes molendinos meos; et pasturam
ad bestias suas proprias in terra mea, sicut carta testatur
quam habent de dono Roberti de Brus. Etiam concessi
eisdem dimidiam carucatam terræ in Wirbeshael, et decem
et octo acras in Stanildalrig, scilicet in Spitelflat, et Bulle-
flatte, quas Ailwinus dedit eis; et tres acras, et tres rodas,
ex dono domini Adæ de Brus patris mei. Et duas acras
terræ in Kirkelevintune, quas Willielmus de Wictona dedit
eis, et unam rodam ex dono Marmaduci de Theuenga in
Jarum; concessi etiam eisdem fratribus octo tofta et dimi-
dium in villa de Jarum; scilicet, tria quæ Petrus clericus,
et unum toftum propinquiorem tofto Simonis Fullonis,
versùs aquilonem; toftum quod Hugo filius Ranulphi de-
dit eis; et duo tofta quæ Rogerus filius Johannis filii
Ailwini dedit eis in ...... vico; et unum toftum quod
Richardus filius Raven dedit eis juxta castellarium; et di-
midium toftum, quod Reginaldus Gupille dedit eis. Etiam
concessi eisdem locum hospitalis, cum omnibus pertinentiis
suis. Ego autem Petrus de Brus omnes has terras, et
libertates prædictas et tofta prædicta concessi, et confirmavi
Deo, et beatæ Mariæ et Sancto Nicholao, et fratribus præ-
dictis tenendum et habendum de me et hæredibus meis, et
de aliis donatoribus prædictis, in liberam, et puram, et per
petuam elemosinam. Præterea concessi eisdem omnes alias
terras, et possessiones, quas de cætero rationabiliter adipisci
poterunt in feodo meo, salvo servitio mei, et hæredum meo-
rum, pro salute animæ meæ, et uxoris meæ Johannæ, et
puerorum meorum; et pro anima patris mei domini Adæ
de Brus, et omnium antecessorum meorum. Et ego Petrus
de Brus, et hæredes mei, has libertates prædictas, et terras,
contra omnes homines imperpetuum warantizabimus, ut
prædictum est. Hiis testibus, domino Willielmo de Tame-
tune, Henrico filio Simonis, Hudone de Aumesc, Willielmo
de Hamertun, Willielmo de Reddeburne tunc seneschallo;
Berardo de Fontibus; domino Alano de Wiletun; Ri-
chardo de Hoton, Gregorio de Levinthorpe, Richardo de Le-
vintone, Roberto de Ketthou, Galfrido filio Hugonis de
Jarum, Thoma filio Johannis, filii Helwini, Waltero de
Mortune, Thoma de Mortune, Waltero Gallicien, Hugone
de Newham, Waltero de Hotone, Rogero de Strantune,
Roberto de Rosse, et multis aliis.

OMNIBUS Christi fidelibus ad quos præsens scriptum
pervenerit Petrus de Brus, salutem æternam in Domino.
Noveritis me divinæ pietatis intuitu, et pro salute animæ
meæ, et animarum patris mei et matris meæ, dedisse, con-
cessisse, et hac præsenti cartâ meâ confirmâsse Deo et beatæ
Mariæ et Sancto Johanni Evangelista de Parco de Helagh,
et canonicis ibidem Deo servientibus, in liberam, puram, et
perpetuam elemosinam, totum servicium quod ad me perti-
net, vel ad hæredes meos se pertinere potest, de una caru-
cata terræ in Yarum, cum pertinentiis suis, et cum homa-
gio et toto servicio Petri de Monceaus et hæredum suorum,
quæ mihi facere consuevit idem Petrus pro prædicta caru-
cata terræ; quam videlicet carucatam terræ Robertus de
Monceaunce dedit in maritagio cum filia sua de Lutton.
Præterea concessi et confirmavi eisdem canonicis, hospitale
de Yarum, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, et omnes terras
et tenementa quæ ipsi habent in feodo meo, tam infra
Clefeland, quàm alibi, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, in
puram et perpetuam elemosinam, scilicet sex bovatas terræ
in villa de Pilton, quas habent de dono Willielmi de Tamp-
ton; et unum toftum et unum croftum in Martona, et tres
bovatas in Toulesby, de dono Roberti Acclum; et decem
acras cum uno crofto et tofto in villa de Scalyng; et duas
bovatas in Barnardbie de dono Walteri de Hoton: et unam
bovatam in Walton de dono Rogeri de Bruce; et sexdecim
bovatas in Bilton de dono Bartholomæi Thuret; et sex bo-
vatas in Touleston, quas habent de Willielmo Catton: et
decem et octo acras terræ et unum toftum, cum pertinentiis,
in Wirkeshall de dono Julianæ Franckelium: Tenendum et
habendum omnia prædicta in liberam, puram, et perpetuam
elemosinam, sibi et successoribus suis, quieta ab omni ser-
vicio et exactione, secta curiæ et demanda, adeo liberè,
quieté, et purè, sicut puriùs, liberiùs, et quietiùs dari potest
elemosina, aut confirmari. Et ego prædictus Petrus de
Brus et hæredes mei prædictam donationem meam et con-
firmationem dictis canonicis factam, contra omnes homines
warantizabimus, acquietabimus, et defendemus imperpetuum.
Si quis verò eisdem canonicis aliquam terram vel redditum,
vel pasturam divinæ pietatis intuitu, infra feodum meum
donare voluerit, concedo eisdem illud recipere et pacificè
possidere, absque impedimento mei et hæredum meorum,
vel alicujus alterius ex parte nostri. Et ut omnia prædicta
rata permaneant, præsens scriptum sigilli mei impressione

Hospital of St. James, at Westminster.

"AT a distance from the City," says Tanner, "in
the fields near Westminster, some well-disposed citizens of
London, beyond the memory of man, and (as some think)
long before the Conquest, founded a Hospital for the re-
ception of fourteen leprous women, to whom were after-
wards added eight brethren to minister divine service.
This House was dedicated to St. James, and rebuilt in the
time of King Henry the Third. It was under the govern-
ment of a Master (though the abbat of Westminster claimed
a jurisdiction over it) till King Henry the Sixth granted

Tanner says,
"Vide Munimenta penes Præpositum et Socios Coll.
Eton. pyxid. 59, 63, 64. Rot. Cart. 5 Joan. m. 14. n. 113. de libertat.
et terris in Hamsted, Northesel, &c. Cart. 26 Hen. III. m. 3. de
ten. in Bredstreet, London, &c. pro leprosis puellis S. Jacobi juxta
Westmonast. Cart. 18 Edw. I. n. 52. pro feria ibidem in vigilia, die,
et crastino S. Jacobi, et per quatuor dies sequentes duratura, et de li-
bertatibus. Plac. in com. Middlesex, 22 Edw. I. assis. rot. 3. 5. et 19.
dorso; et 57. dorso. Plac. coram Instit. de banco apud Ebor. 27 Edw.
I. rot. 4. de quinque virgatis terræ in Chelsee. Pat. 35 Edw. I. m.

the perpetual custody of it to Eton College, who surrendered it to King Henry the Eighth, anno regni 23, (when it was valued at 100l. per annum) in exchange for Chattisham, &c. in Suffolk. On or near the place where this Hospital stood, hath been since built the present royal Palace of St. James."

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The following are all the Names of the

MASTERS of ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL. which have occurred to the present Editors.

penult. vel antepenult. Recup. in Scacc. 12 Edw. III. Hill. rot. Pat. 21 Edw. III. p. 1, m. . de advoc. eccl. S. Albani Woodstreet. Pat. 28 Hen. VI. m. 18. de concessione perpetuæ custodia ipsius Hospitalis Collegio de Eton. post mortem Thomæ Kemp custodis." See also the Plac. de Quo Warr. p. 477. In the King's Remembrancer's Office is, "Præsentatio episcopi Hereford Thes. Regis facta Ricardo Clifford clerico de Hospitali S. Jacobi juxta Westmonasterium. Mich. 8 Ric. II. Mich. 12 Ric. II."

WALTER DE WESTON ratified master 10 July, 23d Edw. III.a

THO. BYGRAVE, 2 Jun. 51 Edw. III.

RICHARD CLIFFord, 26 Nov. 11 Ric. II.
WILLIAM ALNEWYK, 1 Henry VI.a
THOMAS KEMP occurs 21 Hen. VI.

Hospitale S. Jacobi, jurta Westmonasterium.

De Terris et Libertatibus eidem per Regem Henricum
Tertium concessis.

[Plac. de Juratis et Assisis in mom. Mid. 22 Edw. I. rot. 38. in dorso.]
MAGISTER hospitalis S. Jacobi juxta Westm. summo-
nitus fuit ad respondendum domino regi, de placito quo
waranto clamat habere sok et sak, thol, et them, in omnibus
terris suis, et etiam unam feriam per septem dies duraturam
in eodem hospitali, &c.

Et magister per attornatum suum venit, et dicit, quod dominus H. rex pater domini regis nunc, concessit leprosis puellis de S. Jacobo extra Lond. juxta Westmonasterium, omnes terras et tenuras suas, quas habent vel habituræ sunt,

ut illas teneant cum sok, et sak, thol, et them, per cartam suam. Dicit etiam, quod dominus rex nunc prædictam concessionem concessit et confirmavit, et profert confirmationem domini regis, quæ prædictam cartam domini H. regis, et similiter prædictam confirmationem testatur. Ideo prædictus magister, quoad hoc sine die, &c.

Et quoad prædictam feriam dicit, quod dominus rex nunc concessit eidem hospitali unam feriam singulis annis, viz. in vigiliâ et in die et in crastino S. Jacobi; et per quatuor dies sequentes duraturam, per cartam quam profert, et quæ hoc idem testatur. Ideo prædictus magister quoad hoc inde sine die. Salvo, &c.

Hospital of St. John Baptist and St. Thomas,

AT STAMFORD, IN LINCOLNSHIRE.

TANNER'S Notice of this House must be sufficient for the present work. He says, "At the south end of the Bridge of Stamford, where since the Lord Burghley's Almshouses have been built, stood the ancient Free Chapel or Hospital of St. John Baptist and St. Thomas the Martyr, consisting of a Master and Brethren, founded in the latter end of King Henry the Second, or beginning of the time of

King Richard the First, by Richard Humet, Bertram de Verdun Syward, or Brandon de Fossato. It was in the patronage of the Abbats of Peterborough." Pope Alexander confirmed the foundation.

This Chapel was valued, 26 Hen. VIII., at 57. 19s. 4d. clear, but no other mention appears in the Valor as to the Hospital.

Hospitale S. Johannis Bapt. de Stanford, in agro

NUM. I.

Lincolniensi.

nuamus, qui relictis pompis secularibus, caritatis operibus Carta Regis Ricardi Primi, Fundationem et Dotationem intendunt, et omnipotenti Domino elegerunt jugi devotione

ejusdem confirmans.

[Cart. 33 Hen. III. m. 2. per Inspex.] RICHARDUS Dei gratiâ rex Angliæ, dux Norm., &c. archiepiscopis, &c. salutem. Sciatis nos concessisse et præsenti cartâ nostrâ confirmâsse Deo et hospitali Sancti Johannis Baptistæ, et beati Thomæ martyris de Stanford, et magistro fratribusque ibidem Deo servientibus, locum in quo ipsum hospitale fundatum est, cum pertinentiis suis, et domum quam Sywardus fundavit cum capellâ et pertinentiis suis, et omnes terras et possessiones et omnia achata, quæ Brand de Fossato vel aliquis alius eidem hospitali dedit; et illam partem prati, quod est juxta pontem versùs aquilonem, quam dominus Richardus de Humez constabularius, et Bertrannus de Verduno prædicto hospitali dederunt, ad faciendam in eâ ecclesiam et cimiterium. Et ideo volumus, &c. Datum apud Samurum vicesimo die Aprilis anno regni nostri primo.

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servire. Intelleximus autem, ex transmissâ nobis insinua-
tione tua, quod tu divina inspiratione ductus, venundatis
omnibus, quæ possidetis, hospitale quoddam et capellam ad
honorem Dei et beati Johannis et gloriosi martyris Thomæ,
quondam Cantuariensis archiepiscopi, in capite pontis de
Stanford, ex australi parte, ad receptionem peregrinorum et
pauperum, per locum illum frequenter transeuntium ædifi-
casti, ubi elegisti Creatori tuo perpetuum famulatum exhi-
bere. Indè est, quod nos ob reverentiam Dei, et prædic-
torum sanctorum, et devotione, quam erga ipsos te habere
ostendis, rationali postulationi tuæ libentiùs annuentes, præ-
scriptum hospitale, capellam, cum omnibus quæ idem hospi-
tale, impræsentiarum rationabiliter possidet, aut in futurum
largitione pontificum, oblatione fidelium, seu aliis justis,
modis, præstante Domino, poterit adipisci, sub beati Petri
et nostrâ protectione suscipimus, et præsentis scripti patro-
cinio communimus. Statuentes ut prædicta capella pro-
prium capellanum, cantariam, cemiterium, et in eodem cemi-
terio liberam sepulturam, sine contradictione qualibet opti-
Decernimus ergo ut nulli homini liceat prædictum
hospitale temerè perturbare, vel quibuslibet indebitis vexa-
tionibus fatigare, seu hanc paginam nostræ protectionis et
constitutionis infringere, aut ei aliquatenùs contraire. Siquis
autem hoc attemptare præsumpserit, indignationem omni-
potentis Dei, et beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum ejus
se noverit incursurum. Dat. Anagniæ, nonas Febr. anno

nere.

bosco de Dodington. Injunctiones et Acta in Visitatione istius Hospi-
talis, A.D. 1300. per Godefridum abbatem de Burgo S. Petri, inter
Collectanea e Registr. albo Petriburg. penes R. V. Sam. Knight. S.T.P.
p. 149." See also Cal. Rot. Cartarum, p. 67. Cart. Miscell. Offic.
Augment. vol. xi.

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Hospital of Santingfeld, near Whitsand.

THE Instrument here given by Dugdale, has, in fact,
no right to appear among the English Augustine Hospi-
tals; for SANTINGFELD was a HOSPITAL in PI-
CARDY. The lands however which were granted in this
Deed were afterwards colonized, and had subordinate Hos-
pitals with a Master, or Masters, and Brethren settled in
them. So far, they claim a notice in the present Work.

Upon the "terra de Ferleya" was erected the Hos-
PITAL of FARLE in Bedfordshire, which, as part of the pos-
sessions of an Alien House, was given 26 Hen. VI. to the
Provost and Fellows of King's College in Cambridge.

Upon the three hides at Luttegersahala, another Hospital was erected; this was at LUDGARSHALL or LITHERSALL in Buckinghamshire; which was also given 25 Hen. VI. to King's College, Cambridge.

"This

Tanner speaking of the Master of Farle says, Master is often mentioned, as in Tax. Lincoln. MS. 20 Edw. I. Magister de Farle habet in Farle in decanat. Dunstaple, &c. In Prynne, vol. iii. p. 591. Frater Joannes Rokele magister Hospitalis de Farley et Lotegarshall. Et Pat. 1 Ric. II. p. 5, m.. Rex ratificat Will. de Wenlock custodem Hospitalis de Farle, in com. Bedf."

Hospitale de Santingefelde, juxta Wytsande.

Carta Regis Henrici Secundi, de diversis terris Fratribus Wulwardi; et usque ad terram Gaufridi mercatoris. Et

ejusdem concessis.

P. 1,

[Rot. Franc. 1 Hen. IV. m. 12. per Inspex. Et Pat. 1 Hen. V.
m. 11. Vide Pat. 13 Edw. IV. p. 1.]
HENRICUS rex Angliæ, et dux Norm. et Aquit. et
comes Andegaviæ, episcopo Linc. et justiciariis, et vice-
comitibus, et baronibus et ministris, et omnibus fidelibus suis
de Bedefordscire et Buckinghamscyre, salutem. Sciatis me
dedisse et concessisse in perpetuam elemosinam hospitali de
Santingefelda juxta Wytsand, et fratribus ibidem Deo ser-
vientibus, terram de Ferleya, juxta Lectonam, usque ad
terram ecclesiæ de Lectona; et usque ad terram Ric. filii

totam terram de Wyperleya usque ad viam de Presteleya, et sicut via dividit usque ad Harpendenam. Et in manerio de Luttegersahala tres hidas terræ, et decem acras forestæ, ad ædificia sua facienda. Et volo et firmiter præcipio, quod hæc omnia prædicta habeant et teneant in pace et liberè et quietè, in bosco et in plano, in pratis et pascuis, et in omnibus locis, cum omnibus libertatibus et consuetudinibus suis. T. Thoma cancellario, et Willielmo fratre regis, et Ricardo de Humet constabulario, et Warino filio Geroldi, camerario; et Manassero Byset dapifero, apud S. Audo

marum.

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The Hospitals of St. Thomas and St. Nicholas,

AT SCARDEBURGH, IN YORKSHIRE.

"HUGH DE BULEMERE," says Tanner, " temp. Hen. II. gave lands toward the founding of an Hospital in this Town, to the honour of St. Thomas the Martyr, which was finished and endowed by the burgesses of the place, who are also said to have been the founders and maintainers of another Hospital in this town dedicated to St. Nicholas. In both which Hospitals were Brothers and Sisters, poor men

and women, temp. Edw. I. and II., and more of either of these Houses I have not met with." Tanner's References to Records are, "Cart. 26 Edw. I. m. 8. d. Pat. 9 Edw. II. p. 2, m. 10. Pat. 14 Edw. II. p. 2, m. 5."

The present Editors have found nothing of these Hospitals but what is in Tanner.

Hospitalia S. Thomae et S. Nicholai de Scardeburgh, in agro Eboracensi.

De Fundatione ejusdem.

[Esc. 26 Edw. I. n. 65.]

JURATORES dicunt per sacramentum suum, quod tam
hospitale S. Nicholai, quàm hospitale S. Thomæ martyris,
fundati sunt de antiquo per burgenses de Scardeburgh; et
quod bona et catalla hospitalis S. Nicholai cedunt in usus
fratrum et sororum ejusdem hospitalis: et quod nullus villæ
de Scardeburgh dictum hospitale consumpsit, dilapidavit,
vel destruxit; et quod nullas terras et tenementa sibi, sine
waranto, appropriaverunt ; et quod bona et catalla, terræ et
tenementa nunc existunt in manibus fratrum et sororum
ejusdem hospitalis. Dicunt tamen, quod ballivi de Scarde-
burgh, qui pro tempore fuerint, cum quatuor hominibus
ejusdem villæ, audiunt compotum dictæ domus singulis
annis. Dicunt etiam, quod habent octo boves precii qua-
tuor marcarum, septem vaccas pretii cujuslibet v3.
sex ju-

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vencas pretii cujuslibet duorum solidorum; viii. oves pretii cujuslibet xiid. viii. vellerios pretii cujuslibet. quatuor afros pretii cujuslibet v. Habent etiam quinque bovatas terræ, quarum quælibet valet per annum decem.... Dicunt etiam, quod hospitale S. Thomæ martyris fundatum per burgenses de Scardeburgh fuit, et quod iidem burgenses habuerunt custodiam ejusdem domus, et pro voluntate suâ magistrum ibidem posuerunt et . . . . à tempore Hugonis de Bulemere, qui primò dedit terram suam ad fundationem dicti hospitalis, usque ad tempus Willielmi le Champeneys, qui fuit magister dictæ domus, quem Rogerus Wastyse ejecit cum fratribus et sororibus ejusdem, eo quod dedit falsum intelligi domino regi, quod H. avus suus dedit unam carucatam terræ et dimidium dicto hospitali in puram et liberam elemosinam; per quam quidem falsam suggestionem dominus

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