RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Martin de Sandryngham,' appointed 1341 

 John de Bromholm,^ appointed 1342 

 Roger de Nafferton,^ appointed 1345 

 Thomas de Cloxton,^ appointed 1350 

 John Multon,' appointed 1367 

 Richard, son of Thomas atte Townende of 



Eton/ appointed 1393 

 Geoffrey de Tanyard of Higham/ appointed 



1407 

 Thomas Bontemps,^ appointed 141 6 

 John Thornegg,' appointed 1436 

 Simon Thornham,^** appointed 1444 

 WiUiam Stillington," 1503 

 Thomas Brerewood '" 

 William Leveson,'' 1528 

 John Sampon,^^ 1530 



85-89. THE LAZAR-HOUSES AT THE 

 NORWICH GATES 



In addition to the most important lazar or 

 leper-house of Norwich, namely, that of St. 

 Mary Magdalen, at the same distance from the 

 city, there were five other small houses, origin- 

 ally designed for leprous sufferers, making one 

 for each of the chief gates. In pre-Reformation 

 wills, small bequests to the leper-houses at the 

 five gates were frequent. 



I. The leper-hospital of St. Mary and St. 

 Clement, usually called St. Clement's, without 

 St. Austin's gate. It was of early foundation 

 and supposed to be founded by one of the first 

 bishops of Norwich. It had no endowment, 

 and the burial place was in St. Clement's church- 

 yard. There was a master, and leprous brethren 

 under him.'" 



II. Outside Westwick and St. Benet's gate 

 was a leper house, long continued as a poor-house 

 after the dissolution. It must have had property, 

 for it had a common seal. The dedication is 

 said to have been the same as the adjacent parish 

 church, namely, to St. Benedict.'^ 



III. On the outside of Needham or St. 

 Stephen's Gate, was the leper-house of St. Stephen. 

 The master or guardian, who officiated daily in 

 the chapel, was nominated by the prior of 

 St. Faith's, Horsham, as the house was built on 

 the priory fee, and admitted by the bishop and 

 mayor. It continued a hospital after the dis- 

 solution.'' 



•Ibid. 55. 

 * Ibid. 129. 



vi, 184. 



•Ibid 



' Ibid, ix, 85 



' Norw. Epis. Reg. iii, 49. 



' Ibid, iv, 51. 



' Ibid.v, 76. 



' Ibid, vii, 4. 



' Ibid, viii, 9. 

 '" Ibid. X, 58. 



" Blomefield, Hist. 0/ Norf. iv, 441. 

 '■' Ibid. " Ibid. " Ibid. 



" Ibid. 460-1; Tiylor, InJex Moiiastkus, 57. 

 '^Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. iv, 350; Taylor, 

 Index Monasticu!, 58. 



"Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. iv, 1 66-7 ; Taylor, 

 InJex Monasti us, 58. 



IV. Immediately outside Fybridge or Magdalen 

 gate, there was a lazar-house of some size, on 

 the east side of the way, with a chapel attached. 

 In 1448 the chapel was rebuilt with a grave- 

 yard attached, for hitherto the inmates had been 

 buried in the neighbouring churchyard of All 

 Saints.^' 



The dedication of this hospital and chapel 

 is not given by any Norwich historian, and it 

 seems probable that this was the hospital of 

 St. Leonard (the commonest dedication of a 

 lazar-house) referred to in the Close Rolls of 

 Edward III, who in 1335, instructed the chief 

 forester of Sherwood to permit Robert de 

 Stanford, keeper of the hospital of St. Leonard- 

 without-Norwich, to fell four oaks in any wood 

 of the abbot of Rufford within the forest, and 

 to carry them away where he wishes as the 

 abbot had given these four oaks in aid of the 

 repair of the houses of the hospital. '' It is 

 possible, however, that this may have been the 

 hospital next mentioned. 



V. The fifth of these gate lazar-hospitals 

 was on the outside of Newport or St. Giles's 

 Gate. According to Blomefield, it was founded 

 in 1343 by Balderic de Taverham, an astonish- 

 ingly late date for a leper foundation. But a 

 reference given by Tanner shows that this was a 

 blunder ; Walter Knot, in 1 308, granted to 

 Richard de Ely ' his seven cottages in which 

 leprous people dwell, lying together without 

 St. Giles's Gate, on the north side of the king's 

 highway.' "" 



90. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. SAVIOUR, 

 NORWICH 



Licence was obtained in 1305 by the master 

 and brethren of the hospital of St. Saviour, 

 Norwich, to hold a messuage, ten shops, and 25. 

 rent in Norwich, the gift of Richard de Breccles, 

 chaplain.-' 



Blomefield states that this hospital was founded 

 earlier in the reign of Edward I, and that in 

 1297 Richard de Coselany, fishmonger, con- 

 veyed to the founder (Richard de Breccles) a 

 stall in the bread-market."" 



Nothing further is known as to this hospital, 

 or when it was dissolved, 



91-94. OTHER SMALL HOSPITALS 

 AT NORWICH 



Blomefield makes mention of several other 

 small hospitals or almshouses of pre-Reformation 

 date within the city. 



" Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. iv. 438 ; Taylor, Index 

 Monastic us, 58. 



'° Close, 9 Edw. Ill, m. 9. 



^° Blomefield, Hist, of Norf iv, 245 ; Taylor, Index 

 Monasticus, 58 ; Tanner, N otitic, Norf. I, 8. 



^' Cal. of Pat. 33 Edw. I, pt. i, m. I. 



'''' Hist, of Norf. iv, 500. 



449 



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