A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



of y e s d House ' to collect money.' 3 Besides the 

 master and prior a chaplain was engaged at 

 ji 6s. 8d. per annum and 20s. were paid to 

 Richard Woods for ' acting as a singing-man.' ** 

 In 1618 William Lawes, the master, petitioned 

 the justices for payment of a yearly sum of 10 

 formerly given to the hospital, and this was 

 agreed to by the justices on condition that they 

 should have the nomination of inmates, whose 

 number was to be reduced to eight. 38 It is pro- 

 bable that not long after this date the hospital 

 ceased to exist and the mastership became a 

 sinecure, the issues being applied in augmenta- 

 tion of the stipend of one of the cathedral 



90 



vicars. 86 



MASTERS OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JAMES, 

 CHICHESTER 



Thomas, died 1244" 



William Burdun, appointed I244 38 



Leger de Hampton, appointed I249, 39 occurs 



I2 75 40 



Peter de Lewes, appointed I282, 41 died 1284 

 William de Deveral, appointed I284, 42 died 



1309 



Richard Letice, appointed 1309," died 1311 

 John Gilbert, appointed 131 1, 44 died 1317 

 Adam de Anne, appointed 13 17, 48 died 1317 

 William son of Gilbert le Bakere, appointed 



13 17, 46 died I32O 47 

 Stephen de Carleton, appointed I32O, 48 died 



Stephen de Ivelchestre, appointed 1336" 

 John Nichole of Tangmere, appointed I348, 60 



occurs 1378" 



Henry Botiller, appointed 1383 52 

 William Fissch, appointed 1383 63 

 John Sheparde, exchanged I398 84 

 Henry Hikke, appointed 1398 55 

 Hugh Veautrey or Voytrer, appointed I399 66 



85 Ibid. fol. 122. 

 88 Ibid. 



33 Add. MS. 5706, fol. 120. 

 "Ibid. fol. 121. 



36 Rep. of Charity Com. 249. 



37 Pat. 28 Hen. Ill, m. 6. 



39 Suss. Arch. Coll. xxi, 51. 



40 Pipe R. 3 Edw. I. 



41 Pat. 10 Edw. I, m. ii. 

 " Pat. 12 Edw. I, m. 2. 



43 Pat. 3 Edw. II, m. 35. 



44 Pat. 4 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 26. 



45 Pat. 10 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 22. 

 48 Pat. 1 1 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 34. 



47 Pat. i4Edw.II, pt.i,m. 23; William 'Gybeson.' 



48 Ibid. 



49 Pat. 10 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 31. 

 60 Pat. 22 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 32. 

 " Pat. i Ric. II, pt. iii, m. 37. 



5> Pat. 6 Ric. II, pt. ii, m. 6. 



" Ibid. m. 5. 



64 Chich. Epis. Reg. Reade, fol. 70. 



M Ibid. * Sun. Arck. Coll. xxi, 50. 



Richard Hugh, appointed 1402, exchanged 



1406 " 

 Nicholas Cotille, appointed 1406, exchanged 



Thomas Waryn, appointed 1408" 

 Thomas Gardener, occurs 1437 68 

 Gilbert Boxforde, occurs 1442 M 

 William Forden, occurs 1471 m 

 Hugh Gryndon, occurs 1481," 1490 6S 

 Richard Odeby, occurs 1525" 

 Francis Everede, gent., occurs 1540" 

 Charles Lascelles, occurs I594, 66 i6c6 66 

 William Lawes, clerk, occurs i6i8, 87 1621 



36. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY 

 CHICHESTER 



This hospital is said to have been founded in 

 the reign of Henry II by William, dean of 

 Chichester, and was certainly firmly established 

 by 1229, in which year the king licensed the 

 demolition of the poor and dilapidated church of 

 St. Peter in the market and the annexation of its 

 only two parishioners to the hospital of St. Mary. 70 

 From this, and from incidental references in 

 contemporary deeds, it seems that the original 

 buildings were connected with the church of 

 St. Mary-in-the-Market near the present market 

 cross. Whoever may have actually founded the 

 hospital there can be no doubt that it was prac- 

 tically refounded by Thomas of Lichfield, dean 

 of Chichester from 1232 to c. 1248, during 

 which period also most of its property in Chiches- 

 ter and the neighbourhood was acquired. 



There were at this time thirteen inmates, 

 male and female, under a master, or prior as he 

 is called in Dean Thomas's statutes, 71 part of the 

 inmates being sick and infirm and the others 

 sound. The right of admission rested with the 

 prior who, after satisfying himself of the suit- 

 ability of any candidate, caused him to take the 

 vows of chastity, obedience, and poverty ; after 

 which the newly admitted person if a male kissed 

 the brethren, or if a female the sisters, and had 

 his, or her, hair cut short. Excellent rules were 

 laid down for the punishment of offences, the 



67 Ibid. 49. M Chich. Epis. Reg. Praty, fol. 70. 

 Ibid. 



80 Pat. 49 Hen. VI, m. 12. 



81 Chich. Epis. Reg. Story, fol. 73. 



61 Exch. Enrolment of Pleas, 5 Hen. VII, 23 d. 



83 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 305. 

 64 Add. MS. 24828, fol. 148. 



84 Ibid. 5706, fol. 121. 



68 Ibid.; called Charles Lasie and said to have had 

 certain rents for last 25 years. 



87 Ibid. fol. 122. " Ibid. 24828, fol. 158. 



89 Suss. Arch. Coll. xxiv, 41-62 ; Wright, The Story 

 of the Domtu Dei of Chichester. 

 n Pat. 1 3 Hen. Ill, m. 7. 

 71 Suss. Arch. Coll. xxiv, 44-7. 



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