A HISTORY OF DORSET 



It was granted by Edward VI with lands be- 

 longing to it in Shaftesbury, Motcombe, and 

 GiUingham, to Kendal, Burgh, and others for 

 the sum of ^^136 lis. ^d.^^ The last incum- 

 bent, John Hame, received a pension of 



Wardens or Priors of Shaftesbury 

 Hospital 



William de Eggeclyve, appointed 1305'' 



William de Godeford, died 1348" 



John de Meleborn, appointed 1348'° 



John Lord, appointed 1361,'^ died 1 38 1 



John Ridgway, appointed 138 i '' 



John Bridport, appointed 138 1 '* 



William Russel, appointed 1381,^' died 1423 



James Grevey, appointed 1423'"*' 



John Wynnyngham, died 1470'°^ 



John Tyrell, appointed 1470'"^ 



William Ketilton, resigned 1492^°' 



George Twynho, appointed 1492,^°^ resigned 



1496 

 David Knollys or Knolle, appointed 1496 '"' 

 William Wylton, died 1525 i'^« 

 William Parkows, appointed 1525 ^"^ 

 William Percuste, died 1541 ^'* 

 Robert Fowlce, appointed I 541 ^"^ 

 John Hame, last incumbent.*"'* 



27. HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN THE 

 BAPTIST AND ST. JOHN THE 

 EVANGELIST, SHERBORNE 



A hospital here of comparatively late founda- 

 tion ' was begun,' according to Leland, ' by de- 

 votion of the good people of Sherborne in the 

 fourth year of Henry VI, and the king is taken 

 for founder of it.'*'" On 11 July, 1437, 

 eleven years after the date given of its inception, 

 Henry VI granted a licence to Robert Neville, 

 bishop of Salisbury, Humphrey Stafford, knt., 



" Hutchins, Hist, of Done-/, iii, 39. 



'^ B. Willis, Hist. ofMiired Abbeys, ii, 72. 



'^ Sarum Epis. Reg. Simon of Ghent, pt. 2, fol. 45. 



" Ibid. Wyville, ii (Inst.), fol. 193. 



" Ibid. '"= Ibid. (Inst.), fol. 278. 



" The registers take no note of this and the fol- 

 lowing appointment by the crown (Pat. 5 Ric. II, pt. 

 I, m. 19), and Stat J that William Russel was appointed 

 on the death of John Lord. Sarum Epis. Reg. 

 Erghum, i, fol. 44 <^. 



»« Pat. 5 Ric. II, pt. I, m. 12. 



'' Sarum Epis. Reg. Erghum, i, fol. 44 d. 



"* Ibid. Chandler, fol. 61. 



'«' Ibid. Bciuchamp, fol. I 50. "" Ibid. 



'" Ibid. Langton, fol. 40 d. "» Ibid. 



'" Ibid. Blyth, f.il. zdd 



'»" Ibid. Campegio, fol. 3 d. "" Ibid. 



™ Ibid, .-alcot or Capon, fol. 7 d. '™ Ibid. 



"^ B. Willis, op. cit. ii, 72. 



"° Itin. ii, 49. 'It yet standeth,' adds Leland, but 

 most of its property had been dispersed ; ibid, iii, 1 10. 



Margaret Gogh, John Fauntleroy, and John 

 Baret, to incorporate and establish a certain 

 house of perpetual charity in Sherborne to the 

 honour of God and St. John the Baptist and St. 

 John the Evangelist for the reception of twenty 

 brethren, twelve ' poor sick and impotent ' men 

 and four women, with a chaplain who should 

 pray for the good estate of the king and of the 

 brethren of the house and their benefactors while 

 they lived, and for their souls and those of all 

 the faithful departed ' when they shall have 

 withdrawn from this li^ht.' The brethren were 

 yearly, or whenever it should be convenient, to 

 elect a master froiti among themselves, and were 

 empowered to fill up any vacancy that should 

 occur in their number, and to remove or expel 

 the master from his office or any of the poor 

 men or women from the house ; all the inmates 

 should live under the rule and government 

 ordained by the said bishop. Sir Humphrey 

 Stafford, Margaret Gogh, John Fauntleroy, John 

 Baret, or any four, three, or two of them. The 

 master and brethren were declared capable of 

 holding lands in the name of the society, and of 

 pleading and being impleaded in the law courts 

 of the land, they should use one common sea!,, 

 and might hold lands and rents in socage 

 or in burgage to the annual value of 40 marks 

 for the benefit of the poor men and women 

 in the hospital, while the perpetual chaplain 

 and his successors might acquire and hold the 

 same to the value of 10 marks, notwithstand- 

 ing mortmain and all previous statutes to the 

 contrary.*" 



Henry VI in October, 1448, made a further 

 grant to the brethren of the house that for a 

 fine of ;^io they might acquire lands and tene- 

 ments to the annual value of £33 6j. 8d.,^^^ 

 and by a later deed reciting his former grant 

 he licensed William Combe, John Downton of 

 Folke, and William Couland to give and assign 

 to William Smyth, then master of the hospital, 

 thirty-nine messuages, two tofts, one dovecot, 

 39^- acres of land, 19 acres and one rood of 

 meadow and I acre of grove situated in Sher- 

 borne, Beer Hackett, and Caundle, of the yearly 

 value of j^5 3;. 4.d.y to be held in part satisfaction 

 of the ^33 6s. 8./.*" Bishop Richard Beau- 

 champ of Salisbury is mentioned as a great 

 benefactor to the house,*** which, indeed, was 

 situated within his ' vill ' of Sherborne, but he 

 can hardly have been the founder as one report 

 states ; **' his predecessor Aiscough, according 

 to an entry in his ofScial register, dedicated an 

 altar in the chapel of the hospital in 1442, five 

 years after its incorporation by royal charter.*'* 



"' Pat. IS Hen. VI, m. 5. 



"» Ibid. 27 Hen. VI, pt. 1, m. 30. 



'"Ibid. 32 Hen. VI, m. 15. 



"* Hutchins, op. cit. iv, 294. 

 ns 



Magna Brit. Jntiq. et Nov. i, 567. 

 "* Sarum Epis. Reg. Aiscough, fol. (^J d. 



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