RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



This house and gild were dissolved at the end 

 of Henry VIII's reign. The surrender, signed 

 by Ralph Stanmow, master, and ten others, is 

 dated 17 July, 1545. Annexed to it is the 

 king's commission empowering John Ayre to 

 receive the gild on the part of the crown. ^ 



Masters of Walsoken Hospital^ 



Thomas Jackson, died 1475 



Hewet, 1475 



Eberard, 148 1 



Ralph Stanmow, the last master 



There is a cast at the British Museum of a 

 small circular fifteenth-century seal of this 

 hospital, having an embattled tower of two stories, 

 ■with an indistinct figure on the right, between the 

 letters T and L.' 



105. THE HOSPITAL OF WYMOND- 



HAM 



Half a mile to the east of Wymondham 

 stood Westwade chapel, originally built on a 

 bridge. Here was a cell of Burton Lazars in 

 Leicestershire, to which great lazar-house William 

 de Albini, some time before 11 46, gave six- 

 score acres of land in Wymondham parish. 

 Thereupon the hospital of Burton Lazars built 

 a small hospital or leper house on this site, in 

 which was a master and two or three brethren. 

 They sought alms of travellers who used this 

 bridge.* 



106. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY, 



YARMOUTH 



The hospital of St. Mary, Yarmouth, was 

 founded by Thomas Fastolf early in the reign 

 of Edward I. William Gerbrigge, senior, by 

 will of 1728, bequeathed to it a rent of nine 

 marks for the maintenance of two priests. The 

 establishment, independently of these two chantry 

 priests or chaplains, consisted of a master or 

 warden, eight brethren, and eight sisters.' 



Walter de Bintre, donzel of the Duke of 

 Lancaster, petitioned Innocent VI, in 1 354, on 

 behalf of the hospital of St. Mary the Virgin at 

 Yarmouth, wherein lived a multitude of poor 



brethren and sisters, for whose sustenance a daily 

 quest has to be made, that he would authorize 

 the acceptance by the hospital of oblations, and 

 grant relaxation of a year and forty days of en- 

 joined penance to those who visit the hospital 

 and the sacred relics therein, and who give a 

 helping hand to the poor inhabitants thereof.' 

 Richard Fastolf bequeathed in 1356 consider- 

 able rents to the hospital, provided the master, 

 brethren, and sisters remembered his soul and 

 that of Petronilla his wife in their masses and 

 prayers, and William de Statham in 1379 de- 

 vised to the bailiffs and commonalty of the 

 town two fish-houses towards the support of 

 St. Mary's Hospital.* 



In 1398 this hospital came into the hands of 

 the corporation of Yarmouth, when fresh regu- 

 lations for its government were drawn up, and 

 the appointment of the warden henceforth 

 vested in the town.' 



John Alcock, bishop of Ely, on 19 April, 

 141 9, granted an indulgence of forty days to all 

 who assisted in the sustenance or repair of this 

 hospital.'" 



The house did not flourish under town 

 management. In 1535, it was only worth 

 £^ 13J. /\.d. a year, wherewith four poor women 

 were supported.'' 



107, 108. THE LAZAR-HOUSES OF 

 YARMOUTH 



Outside the walls of Yarmouth, on the north, 

 were two houses for lepers, both probably of 

 early foundation. There seems to have been a 

 chapel common to the two lazar-houses ; proba- 

 bly they were separate buildings for the two 

 sexes. Many small bequests were made by the 

 townsfolk for their support in the fourteenth 

 century. Thus, in 1365, William Oxney left 

 i)S. 8d. to each house of lepers. 



At the time of the dissolution of the religious 

 houses the corporation took possession of the 

 two leper houses at the North Gate, and after- 

 wards appointed a warden. They are frequently 

 mentioned for some time in the corporation 

 records as ' Sickman's Houses.' '^ 



COLLEGES 



109. THE COLLEGE OF ATTLE- 



BOROUGH« 

 Sir Robert de Mortimer, who died in 1 387, 

 "directed by his will of that year that 2,000 



' Fa/or Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 395. 



' Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. ix, 130. 



' B.M. Ixix, 56. 



* Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. ii, 504-5 ; Tanner, 

 Notitia, Norf. Ixxvi, 2. 



' Tanner, Notitia, Norf. Ixxvii, 3. 



"Blomefield,/////. of Norf. i, 538-41 ; Dugdale, 

 Mon. vi, 1 400-1 ; Index Monasticus, 47. 



marks should be appropriated to found and 

 endow a chapel in honour of the Holy Cross, 

 in the church of Attleborough, the chaplains 

 whereof were to celebrate for the souls of 

 Sir Robert and Margery, his wife, and for all 



' Cal. Papal Pet. iii, 263. 



' Palmer, Hist. ofTarmouth, i, 431. 



' Manship, Hist. ofTarmouth (1619), 40-1. 

 '" Ely Epis. Reg. Alcocic, fol. 1 7. 

 " Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 296. 

 " Manship, Hist, of Tarmouth (16 1 9), 45 ; Palmer, 

 Hist, of Tarmouth, i, 432-4. 



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