RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



John Prentys, resigned 1412* 

 John Arundel, 1412* 

 John White, 1457,* resigned '4^3 * 

 William Attingham, 1463 * 

 Thomas Mark, resigned 1480* 

 John Langrissh, 1480' 

 James Butler, 1488 8 

 Humphrey Saville, 1511 ' 

 George Croft, circa 1524-31 10 



33. THE HOSPITAL OF 

 ST. LAWRENCE, BRISTOL 



The leper hospital of St. Lawrence, Bristol, 

 was founded by King John when earl of Mor- 

 tain, and in 1208 he gave a charter confirming 

 the foundation. 11 The right of appointing the 

 master was vested in the crown 1J until Henry V 

 granted it to Humphrey, duke of Gloucester. 1 * 

 It is probable that the hospital was always very 

 poor. In 1390 Richard II issued a commis- 

 sion to six persons to visit the hospital and 

 correct abuses therein. 14 In the middle of the 

 fifteenth century it had fallen into decay, and in 

 1465 Edward IV granted the custody to the 

 dean and chapter of Westbury to increase their 

 endowment. 14 In 1535 the clear yearly value of 

 the possessions of the hospital was 12 8j. 2ti. lt 

 The dean and chapter paid a salary of 2 to a 

 priest to celebrate mass in the chapel, and gave 

 161. to four poor almsfolk. 17 The hospital was 

 surrendered as part of the possessions of Westbury 

 in 1544." 



MASTERS OR WARDENS OF THE HOSPITAL OF 

 ST. LAWRENCE u 



Robert de Halwell, occurs 1321 * 



Simon, occurs 1337 81 



William Coterell, appointed 4 Feb. 1390** 



Wore. Epis. Reg. Pevercll, fol. 41 d. 



Ibid. 



Ibid. Carpenter, fol . 1 44 d. 



Ibid. fol. 1 80. Ibid. 



Ibid. Alcock, fol. 77 d. ' Ibid. 



Ibid. Moreton, fol. 27, collated by bishop AM 

 vice. 



' Ibid. Silvester dc Giglis, fol. 71, on death of 

 James Butler. 



Ibid. deGhinucci, fol. 23. 



" Dugdale, Man. vii, 670. 



" Tanner, Not. Mon. (ed. 1744), 481. 



" Ibid. 



14 Cal. of Pat. 14 Ric. II, pt. i, m. i6d. 



15 Ibid. 5 Edw. IV, pt. i, m. 6. 



14 Valor Ecclei. (Rec. Com.), ii, 434. 



17 Ibid. 



" L. and P. Hen. fill, xix, pt. i, No. 1 20. 



" The names of the masters do not occur in the 

 registers of Worcester. Only a few have been found 

 in the public records. 



10 Cal. of Pat. 14 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 3. 



11 Ibid, ii Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 34. 

 " Ibid. 13 Ric. II, pt. ii, m. 7. 



John Bell, appointed 16 Sept. 1390 M 

 Robert Bailly, appointed 28 Nov. 1390** 

 Richard des Armes, 1393" 

 William Ruddock, 1400** 

 Walter Chivington, occurs 1438 *' 



34. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY 

 MAGDALEN, BRISTOL 



The leper hospital of St. Mary Magdalen, 

 Brightbow, is described by William of Worcester 

 (141590) as an ancient foundation.* 8 



A seal ** of the fifteenth century represents St. 

 Mary Magdalen standing in a canopied niche ; 

 in her right hand an ointment box to which she 

 is pointing with the left hand. The background 

 is a diapered lozengy with a reticulated pattern, 

 having a small spot in each space ; the edge 

 engrailed ; in base an arcade. The legend is : 



s' HOSPETAL . MARIE . MAGDALENE . BRISTOLL 

 fx . BRITBOW 



35. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. BAR- 

 THOLOMEW, GLOUCESTER 



According to a statement made by a jury of 

 Gloucester in 1 3 5 7,* a chaplain,' by name N icholas 

 Walred, began, in the reign of Henry II, to build 

 the west bridge over the Severn, and employed 

 many workmen. William Myparty, a burgess 

 of Gloucester, associated himself with the work 

 and built a dwelling on a piece of ground which 

 he held of the king in chief. Sick men and 

 women found shelter there, besides the priest, the 

 burgess, and the workmen. The community 

 which there grew up had a continuous existence, 

 and under the rule of a priest who wore the dress 

 of a hermit, served the double purpose of main- 

 taining the bridge and caring for the sick. 11 From 

 the beginning of the thirteenth century there are 

 records of grants of lands and rents by the bur- 

 gesses of Gloucester. 8 * The right of having a 

 chantry chapel in the hospital was not secured 

 until 1232, when William of Blois, bishop of 

 Worcester, persuaded the abbot and convent of 

 Gloucester, in whose parish the hospital lay, to 

 give their consent, provided that the rights of the 

 mother church were maintained. 83 



" Ibid. 14 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 23. 



14 Ibid. pt. i, m. 7. 



** Ibid. 1 6 Ric. II, pt. iii, m. 9. 



" Ibid. I Hen. IV, pt. vi, m. 32. 



17 Cftfton Antiq. Club Proc. iii, 27. 



19 Nasmith, Itin. Symonii Simeonis et Willelm'i de 

 Worctitrt, 205, 206 ; cf. Popt Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 



*35- . 



* Birch, Catalogue of Seats in British Museum, i, 

 461. 



" Dugdale, Mon. vii, 689. " Ibid. 



" Stevenson, Calendar of Records of Corporation of 

 Gloucester, passim. 



" Hist, et Cart. Glouc. (Rolls Scr.), i, 245. 



