RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Andrew Hokere, occurs 1396* 

 Henry Kaye," admitted 1417 

 William Sponne,' admitted 1419 

 John KnoUes,^ admitted 1447 

 William Hoper/ died 1454 

 John Selot,^ admitted 1454 

 Thomas Schenckwyn, admitted 1489 

 Robert Honeywood, admitted 1497 

 William Soper 

 Roger Rawlyns 

 Thomas Gayton, 1527 

 William Read, last master 



68. THE HOSPITAL OF 

 BOYCODESWADE, COXFORD' 



The hospital of Boycodeswade, in the parish 

 of East Rudham, was founded by Harvey Beleth 

 about the year 1 181, for the support of twelve 

 poor persons, with a secular canon or chaplain to 

 act as master or warden, and to serve therein for 

 his own soul and those of his ancestors. This 

 hospital, dedicated to the house of St. Andrew, 

 was placed under the control of the prior and 

 convent of Coxford, and was endowed with 

 lands in East Rudham, Marham, &c. It 

 subsequently became a general charge on Coxford 

 Priory, its endowments being merged in those of 

 the convent. 



In 1 49 1, Robert Sharington, chaplain, left 

 money to every indigent person in the hospital. 



The Valor of 1535 enters particulars of this 

 house under the priory of Coxford. Its annual 

 value was then ;^20 ; of which sum j^5 6s. Sd. 

 was paid to the chaplain for celebrating ' in domo 

 elimosinar apud Boytildeswade pro anima Hervei 

 Beleth fundat ejusd' dom,' and ;^I2 31. ^.d. for 

 the support of twelve poor persons. 



The hospital disappeared when the monastery 

 was dissolved. 



69. THE HOSPITAL OF HARDWICK 



There was a leper hospital by the dam or 

 bank at Hardwick-by-Lynn, a hamlet of the 

 parish of North Runcton. It was dedicated to 

 St. Lawrence, and the advowson of it in 1339 

 was in the hands of Matthew Herlewin.* 



There is a further reference to this hospital in 

 the year 1327, when a bequest was made to the 

 Hospitale de Hardwicke.' 



70. THE HOSPITAL OF HAUTBOIS'" 

 The hospital of Hautbois or Great Hobbesse, 



commonly called God's House, was founded at the 



' Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 3, No. 88. 



' Norw. Epis. Reg. viii, 19. ' Ibid. 53. 



* Ibid, xi, 8. ' Ibid. 74. 

 « Ibid. 



' Blomefield, Hist, of Nor/, v'li, 153-4; Dugdale, 

 Mon. vi, 767 ; Taylor, IrtJex Monasticus, 52. 



* Fin. R. Norf. 12 Edw. Ill, m. 210, cited by 

 Tanner. ' Tanner, Notitia, Norf. xxvii. 



'" Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. vi, 299-301 ; Tanner, 

 Notitia, Norf. xxxii. 



head of the causey in this parish by Sir Peter de 

 Altorco, knt., early in the thirteenth century. It 

 was founded to receive both wayfarers and poor 

 of the locality. The house was dedicated to the 

 honour of St. Mary, and the founder assigned its 

 chief governance to the almoner of the abbey of 

 St. Benet, Holm, enjoining him to commit the 

 custody of it to the master of St. James's Hos- 

 pital on the abbey causeway at Horning. The 

 master of Horning Hospital was in his turn to 

 appoint a deputy master or warden for the 

 immediate rule of God's House, Hautbois. Sir 

 Peter endowed this house with various lands in 

 Great and Little Hautbois, Worstead, Swanning- 

 ton and Banningham, which were released to 

 Peter Olive, the first chaplain and master of 

 St. Mary's, Hautbois. 



Pope Alexander IV, in 1257, licensed the 

 house to have a chapel, bell and chaplain for the 

 use of the poor inmates, the revenues being 

 sufficient. Roger, the then master or warden, 

 certified this licence to the bishop of Norwich." 



The survey of 1535 enters this house as the 

 chantry of the Blessed Mary de Alto Bosco, in 

 Great Hautbois, of which John Potter was chap- 

 lain. The old hospital had apparently by that 

 date been reduced to a mere chapel, and the once 

 considerable revenue had dropped to 25;. ii^d. 

 per year.'^ 



71. THE HOSPITAL OF HERRINGBY 



This hospital was founded in 1447, pursuant 

 to the will of Hugh atte Fenne, for a master, 

 three priests, eight poor men and two servants. 

 It was endowed with eight manors, and with 

 the church of St. Ethelbert, Herringby. Hence 

 this parish church became collegiate, and the 

 hospital is sometimes described as a college. It 

 was also known as the God's House of Herringby.^' 



The Valor of 1553 n^iries Simon Petyte as 

 the master ' collegii de Heringby voc Goddes- 

 house' and gives the annual value as £(i() 1 2s. 7 ^d. 

 The eight poor men in the hospital were receiv- 

 ing annually 461. ?id. each for food and clothing, 

 and the women who looked after them 50^. ^d. 

 according to the founder's ordinance. The sum 

 of 20d'. was distributed to other poor persons on the 

 founder's anniversary, and £6 131. 2^d. in alms 

 to the poor on other occasions. A sum of 

 66i. "J^d. was also allotted to the bailifis of Great 

 Yarmouth towards the repair of the gates of the 

 town, which was to be used to relieve the poor 

 from paying their share of a rate for that pur- 

 pose. The master drew £b iT,s. ^d. as stipend, 

 and each of the two fellows ^^5 65. ?:d.^* 



This house, which seems to have been exactly 

 fulfilling the intention of its founder up to the 



" Cott. MS. Galba E, ii. 

 " Valor Eccl. (Rec. Cora.), iii, 356. 

 '^ Blomefield, Hist, of Norf ix, 222 ; Dugdale, Mon. 

 vi, 768. 

 " Valor Eccl. (Rec. Cora.), iii, 296-7. 



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