

RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



in the king's gift by reason of the custody of the 

 lands of Francis Lord Lovell, a minor, on an 

 exchange of benefices with Richard Sharpuls. 199 



At the time of taking the Valor of 1534 it 

 appeared that the prior and convent of Thur- 

 garton paid yearly 24.5. to the master of Stoke 

 Hospital for certain tenements in that town, and 

 also a further annual sum of 165. in lieu of fifteen 

 cart-loads of wood. 200 



The commissioners of 1545-6 reported of the 

 ' Spittle of St. Leonard and St. Anne in Stoke,' 

 that it had been founded by the ancestors of the 

 Lyndecortes ' for the relief of poore people and 

 now the Kinge is patron by reason of the 

 attainder of the late Lord Lovell.' The annual 

 value was declared to be 8 13$., and the income 

 for the support of three poor people and for the 

 repair of the hospital and property ; but at that 

 time there were only two poor women resi- 

 dent. 201 



The commissioners, however, of Edward VI 

 two years later returned the income as jiO 19*. 



199 Pat. 1 6 Edw. IV, pt. ii, m. 13. 

 100 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 151. 



201 



Chant, and Coll. Cert. Notts, xiii, 13. 



and stated that the whole of it went to the then 

 master, William Burden, who held ' other great 

 livings.' * 



The hospital was suppressed by Edward VI, 

 but refounded by Philip and Mary. 203 It was 

 again suppressed under Elizabeth, and the site 

 and lands were granted in 1576 to John Mersh 

 and Francis Greneham. 204 



MASTERS OF STOKE HOSPITAL 206 



John Chanson, 1332 



Nicholas Wymbysh, resigned 1399 



Hugh Hanworth, 1399 



Edmund Chaterton 



Robert Sharpuls, resigned 1477 



Laurence Duckworth, 1477 



William Burdon, occurs I535, 206 I547 207 



Kt Ibid, xxxvii. 



** Pat. 5 & 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. v, m. 13. 



804 Tanner, Notitia, Notts, xx. 



105 Dugdale, Man. vi, 735. 



106 Vahr Eccl. v, 1 89. 



7 Chant, and Coll. Cert. Notts, xxxvii. 



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