RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Nicholas Halhead, occ. 14 August, 1764"° 

 John William Egerton, occ. 1785 ;" 1788'^ 

 The earl of Bridgewater, occ. 1819 " 

 The hon. Augustus Barrington, d. i860 

 Rev. J. B. Tristram, M.A., app. i860 ; res. 



1874 

 Rev. — James, M.A., app. 1874 ; d. 1885 

 Rev. R. Wolters, app. 1885 ; d. 1893 

 Rev. J. F. Hodgson, app. 1894 ; d. 1897 

 Rev. S. Barradell Smith, app. 1897, pres. 



master 



The seal still in use at Greatham Hospital is 

 the seal of Stephen Payn, almoner to Henry V.'^ 

 It is a pointed oval, with a figure of Payn be- 

 neath a canopy, bearing in his hands a ship. At 

 the top are the arms of Edward the Confessor ; 

 on the left those of England and France; and on 

 the right what are supposed to be the paternal 

 arms of Payn himself. Legend — 



' SIGILLUM . OFFICII . ELEMOSINARII . REGIS . 

 HENRICI . QUINTI . ANGLIE.' 



Below the figure — 



'sTEPh's . PAYN.''^ 



26. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. LEONARD, 

 DURHAM 



St. Leonard's Hospital, which was commonly 

 called the Spital-house, was in existence as early 

 as 1292, when a mention of it occurs in the 

 Patent Rolls,'^ but the date of its erection and the 

 name of its founder are alike unknown." It 

 stood 'a little out of Durham on the north,' in 

 what was originally St. Oswald's, but is now 

 St. Margaret's parish.'^* The only trace of it 

 now remaining is to be found in the name of a 

 field called ' Spital-flat,' or ' Spital-close,' which 

 lies to the north of Chapel-close." It occurs, 

 under the name of St. Leonard's chapel, in 



'" Dugdale, ul supra. 



" Gent. Mag. 1788, p. 1046. 



" Ibid. 



" This and the following n,imes are given from 

 information kindly supplied by the present master. 



" It has been conjectured that possibly the hospital 

 was in the king's hands between 141 3 (the date of 

 his accession) and 1419, when Payn died ; but this 

 seems hardly likel)', as Bishop Langley collated a 

 master in 1415. (See above.) 



''Hutchinson, Hiu. Dur. iii, 103; Gent. Mag. 

 i860 (2), 144. 



" Pat. 20 Edw. I, m. 5. Possibly this is the ' hos- 

 pital in Durham ' where St. Godric's sister died ; 

 Life o/St. Godric (Surt. Soc), 143 n, 378. 

 "" Randall's MSS. No. 12, fol. i. ' 



'* Surt. Hist. Dur. iv (2), 137. The hospital is 

 described in 1404 as standing in Framwelgate, and as 

 consisting of ' a messuage, and a close called Spital- 

 place.' Randall's MSS. ut supra. 



" Surt. ut supra. 



1324;*° and Mickleton says that persons executed 

 for their crimes were usually buried there.*^ 



Spital-house was originally a hospital for 

 lepers ; but in 1404 there was apparently only 

 one leper there.*^ On 20 September, 1526, 

 Cardinal Wolsey, then bishop of Durham, 

 granted to Robert Haroy, in reward for his 

 services, the hospital or messuage called the 

 Spital-house, near Durham, with a garden and a 

 close ; the said Robert to maintain the hospital 

 in repair, and pay or cause to be paid to the 

 lepers and sick persons therein one cartload of 

 coal per annum.*' 



The final demolition of the hospital appears 

 from an entry in the grass-men's books of 

 St. Margaret's parish, 1652-3; 'Paid to 

 labourers for pulling down the walls of Spital- 

 house, and carrying them forth for loading,, 

 I IS. 4^. '8* 



27. THE HOSPITAL OF FRIARSIDE 



The date of the foundation of the hospital of 

 Friarside is unknown, but it was in existence in 

 1 312, when the bishop collated John Eryum to 

 'the house, chapel, or chantry of Friarside (Frere- 

 johanside) near Derwent.' ' In Hatfield's Survey 

 it is stated that the warden of the chantry of 

 Friarside held a messuage and 22 acres of land 

 in Wolsingham at a rent of 2J. per annum. " 

 Nothing is known of its history, save the names 

 of some of its masters, and the fact that in 1439 

 Bishop Neville appropriated it with all its revenues 

 to the chantry of Farnacres.' The shell of its 

 small chapel still stands in a field near Derwent.* 

 In the Episcopal Registers it is usually spoken of 

 as a hospital, but sometimes merely as a chapel 

 or chantry. 



Masters of Friarside Hospital 



John Eryum, coll. 22 October, 1312 * 

 Richard de EgglesclifFe, res. 1376 (?)^ 

 William Thorp, coll. 11 June, 1376^ 

 Oswald, bishop of Whithern, d. 141 8 (?) * 

 Robert Frend, coll. 18 June, 141 8 ' 

 William Cross, res. 17 May, 1422 '° 

 John Gare, coll. 12 June, 1423 [sic) 



Reg. II, Eccles. Dun. fol. 83. 

 Surt. Hist. Dur. iv (2), 83^. 

 Randall's MSS. No. 12, fol. I. 

 Ibid. p. 2. 



Surt. Hist. Dur. iv (2), 137. 

 Reg. Palat. Dun. (Rolls Ser.), i, 248. 

 Half. Surv. (Surt. Soc), 61. 

 Rot. Neville, No. 5, m. 23^/. 

 Surt. Hist. Dur. ii, 235. 

 Reg. Pa.'at. Dun. (Rolls Sen), i, 248. 

 Dur. Epis. Reg. Hatfield, fol. 190. 

 Ibid. 



Ibid. Langley, fol. 99 J. 

 "Ibid. fol. II 4-/. 



» Ibid. 

 " Ibid. 



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