RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



On the confiscation of colleges and chantries 

 under Edward VI the house entered as ' the 

 hospital or house of leprosy of St. John the 

 Evangelist in Sherborne' was found worth 

 j^35 8s. 6d., out of which £^ 35. 6d. was 

 deducted in rents resolute, leaving a clear income 

 of £2^ 5^- which the officiating priest received 

 half-yearly, £^ 6s. 8d., the residue, being applied 

 'to the finding of eleven poor and impotent 

 men and four poor women according to the 

 foundation thereof.'"' The name of the last 

 incumbent is not given, nor is he entered among 

 those who received pensions."^ 



Masters of the Hospital of St. John the 

 Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, 

 Sherborne 



John Deen, occurs 1448 "' 

 William Smyth, occurs 1454'-" 

 Henry Borman, occurs 1468 '^' 



28. HOSPITAL OF ST. THOMAS, 

 SHERBORNE 



Very little is known of this hospital or chapel 

 dedicated to St. Thomas Becket, but commonly 

 known as St. Thomas atte Grene or on the 

 Grene, yet from a reference in a charter '^^ 

 granted by Bishop Richard le Poor of Salisbury 

 in 1228 to his tenants at Sherborne 'between 

 St. Thomas's chapel and the castle,' it appears 

 to have been in existence in the early part of the 

 thirteenth century, and was probably founded 

 during that period when dedication to the honour 

 of that most famous and popular of English 

 saints was high in fashion. 



Presentation to the hospital was in the gift of 

 the crown and the custody was usually held by 

 king's clerks together with other benefices ; on 

 20 June, 1395, Richard II ratified the estate of 

 his clerk, John de Wendelyngburgh, as parson 

 or warden of the chapel of St. Thomas on the 

 Grene,'^' Sherborne, and on 22 September of 

 the same year following the death of John 

 committed the wardenship of the hospital to 

 Nicholas Slake, king's clerk ; ^^* both these 



"' Chant. Cert. 1 6, No. 91. 



"' B. Willis, Hist, of Mitred Abbeys, ii, /i-z. 



"" Pat. 27 Hen. V'l, pt. 1, m. 30. 



■>° Ibid. 32 Hen. VI, m. 15. 



'" On 25 Nov., 1468, Edward IV licensed Henry 

 Borman, the master and the brethren of the almshouse 

 of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist to 

 acquire lands and other possessions held in socage or 

 burgage to the yearly value of j^l3 ; ibid. 8 Edw. IV, 

 pt. 2, m. 4. 



'" By inspeximus of Richard II. Pat. 5 Ric. II, 

 pt. I, m. II. 



"'Ibid. 18 Ric. II, pt. 2, m. 9. 



"* Ibid. 19 Ric. II, pt. I, m. 18. 



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wardens held the office in plurality with other 

 benefices. In 1405 John Brunyng is given as 

 rector of the Chapel de Grene according to the 

 register of Dean Chandler.'^' 



In the reign of Henry VIII Leland describes 

 'Thomas Bekettes chapelle by the New Yn' 

 as still standing, but ' incelebrated.' '-^ The college 

 and chantry commissioners of Edward VI re- 

 ported that it was worth 621., had no plate or 

 ornaments, but two bells valued at 265. 8<^.'" 

 Roger Hord or Horsey, late incumbent, received 

 the whole of the emoluments'^* to his own use 

 without performing any manner of service in 

 the chapel ; ' there is no power (poor) people nor 

 headmen found nor relieved of the premises.' '-' 

 The chapel was granted by Edward VI to John 

 Doddington and William Ward.'"^ 



Wardens of St. Thomas's Hospital, 

 Sherborne 



John de Wendelyngburgh, occurs 1395,"' 



died in the same year 

 Nicholas Slake, appointed 1395 "^ 

 John Brunyng, occurs 1405 ''^ 

 John Hord or Horsey, last incumbent "* 



29. HOSPITAL OF ST. LEONARD, 

 TARRANT RUSHTON 



At what date and by whom this house or 

 hospital was founded it is impossible now to say. 

 The first mention of it occurs in the reign of 

 Edward I, when the advowson and lordship 

 {dominium^ of it were in the hands of the 

 Deverel family, and they may have been the 

 founders; at any rate in 1314 they made over 

 the entire rights to the prior and convent of 

 Christchurch, Twyneham."* According to an 

 inquisition post mortem, held as to his possessions 



'" Hutchins, Hist, of Dorset, iv, 257. The warden 

 is mentioned again as 'rector of the Grene' in a 

 grant of Menry VI in 1454 to the master and brethren 

 of the hospital of St. John the Baptist and St. John the 

 Evangelist of Sherborne, enabling them to acquire 

 thirty-nine messuages in the town, and describing 

 one of these same messuages as situated between the 

 tenement of the rector 'de la Grene,' called the 

 George Inne,' on the north and the king's highway 

 leading from the Grene to the Castle on the south ; 

 Pat. 32 Hen. VI, m. 15. 



'^•^ Leland, I tin. ii, 49 ; iii, I 10. 



'-' Chant. Cert. 16, No. 8. 



"'* Entered again as worth 66/. 



■'' Chant Cert. 16, No. 92. 



"' Hutchins, Hist, of Dorset, iv, 257. 



"' Pat. 18 Ric. II, pt. 2, m. 9. 



'" Ibid. 19 Ric. II, pt. l,m. 18. 



'" Hutchins, Hist, of Dorset, iv, 237. 



'" Chant. Cert. Dorset, 16, No. 92. 



'" Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. Ill (2nd Nos.), 97. 



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