RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



of any kind whatever was to be paid to any 

 foreign abbey. 1 



The independent position secured for this 

 priory had but a brief existence ; twenty years 

 later the priory was dissolved in favour of a 

 college. 2 



PRIORS OF STOKE BY CLARE 



Nicholas, 3 occurs 1174 



John de Havelen, 4 temp. Hen. II 



Hugh, 5 occurs 1198, 1202 



Richard, 8 occurs 1222 



John, 7 occurs 1247, & c - 



Henry de Oxna, 8 appointed 1325 



Peter de Valle, 9 appointed 1367 



John de Huditot, 10 died 1391 



Richard de Cotesford, 11 appointed 1391 



William de Sancto Vedasto, 13 appointed 1395 



William George, 13 appointed 1396 



William Esterpenny, 14 appointed 1396 



75. THE HOSPITAL OF GREAT 

 THURLOW 



The origin or date of foundation of the small 

 hospital of St. James, which was subordinate to 



the foreign hospital of Hautpays or De Alto 

 Passu, is not known. Being an alien house, it 

 came into the hands of the crown in the four- 

 teenth century. The church of Thurlow 

 Magna, which was appropriated to the hospital 

 as early as the taxation of 1291, was returned as 

 of the annual value of 10 13*. 4^. 16 



In 1312, grant for life under privy seal was 

 made to John Menhyr, king's clerk, of the 

 custody of the hospital of St. James, Thurlow ; 

 later, however, in the same year the life 

 custody of this hospital was transferred to 

 Thomas Miltecombe ; and yet again to John 

 Beauchamp, alias John de Holt. 17 



In May, 1385, Robert Dovorr, king's clerk, 

 obtained life wardenship of this hospital. 18 In 

 the following month, a royal mandate was issued 

 for the arrest of persons collecting alms in divers 

 churches and other places, on behalf of Thurlow 

 Hospital, without warrant of Robert Dovorr, the 

 warden, and appropriating the same to their 

 own use. 19 



Edward IV, in 1463, included the hospital or 

 free chapel of St. James, Great Thurlow, in the 

 numerous endowments of Goddishous' College, 

 Cambridge. 20 



ADDENDUM 



76. THE HOSPITAL OF SUDBURY 



In the time of King John, Amicia, countess 

 of Clare, founded a hospital at Sudbury to the 

 honour of Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin 

 His mother. 16 Tanner supposes it to be identical 

 with the house or chapel of St. Sepulchre, which 

 the same countess gave to the monks of Stoke 

 Clare, and which was granted by Edward VI to 



'Pat. 19 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 8. 



'See the account of the college of Stoke by Clare. 



3 Newcourt, Repertorium, ii, 501. 



Cott. MS. Aug. xxi, 365. 'Ibid. 16, 17, 18. 



6 Ibid. 14. 'Ibid. H-I2, 13, 42. 



8 Norw. Epis. Reg. ii, 6. 



9 Ibid, v, 80. 



10 Pat. 15 Ric. II, pt. i, m. I. 



11 Norw. Epis. Reg. vi, 161. 



"Ibid, vi, 212. "Ibid, vi, 223. 



" Ibid, vi, 228. 



" Dugdale, Man. vi, 776. 



John Speke ; but of this there is some doubt. 21 

 Mention is made in 1277 of the breaking open 

 by thieves of certain chests that had been 

 deposited in the hospital of Sudbury, county 

 Suffolk, without mentioning dedication, as 

 though there was only one of any importance. 22 



Richard II in 1383 granted the custody of 

 the free chapel of St. Sepulchre, Sudbury, to 

 Peter Harmodesworth ; it was in the king's 

 gift by reason of his custody of the land and 

 heir of Edmund, late earl of March, tenant in 

 chief. 23 



16 Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 122. 



17 Pat. 6 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 36, 21, 19. 

 19 Pat. 8 Ric. II, pt. ii, m. 14. 

 "Ibid. m. id. 



'' Pat. 2 Edw. IV, pt. ii, m. 16. 



81 Tanner, Notitia, 524 ; Taylor, Index Man., 1 16. 



" Pat. 5 Edw. I, m. 2. 



13 Pat 7 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 31. 



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