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hrad other possessions in Keinton Mandeville, Babcary, 

 Dinder, and other places. Wliether tliese latter additions 

 formed part of the original endowment I cannot say, but 

 it is clear tliat they were held by the Hospital soon after 

 its Foundation. Several benefactors added to its revenues ; 

 among them Edmund Lyons, knt., and Bishop Ealph de 

 Salopia, are named. The latter charged hls gift with the 

 duty of maintaiuing a chaplain to say mass at the altar of 

 St. Edmund, in the Gathedral, for his own good estate 

 while living, and for his soul after his death ; and also for 

 the soul of John de Somerton, formerly Abbot of Muchel- 

 ney, and the souls of all his successors in that Convent. 

 According to the Commissioners' Survey of Chantries, &c., 

 made 1 Edvv. VI, the charge on the Hospital estates was 

 £4 per annum, and John Dible, clerk, aged 70 years was 

 the last incumbent. 



"According to Dugdale, the income of the Priory at the 

 Dissolution was £40 Os. 2^d., and according to Speed, 

 £41 3s. 6|d., but neither of these sums must be taken 

 literally, as the real extent of the revenues of the estab- 

 lishment. Collinson and Phelps both give the income as 

 £40 Os. 5d. 



" ßichard Clarkson was the last Prior, and by him (with 

 three of his brethren), on the 3rd of February, 1539, the 

 Hospital was resigned to the king, in consideration of a 

 pension of £12. 



"The act of 27 Henry VHI dissolved and vested In the 

 king all monasteries, priories, &c., having a yearly revenue 

 under £200 a-year. But the Hospital of St. John seems 

 either to have escaped notice, or the prior to have found 

 favour with the king, for it was not surrendered until 1539. 



" Soon after the Hospital became vested in the Crown, 

 the site, and possessions belonging to it, were, under a 



