RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



hospital of St. James. It was originally a house 

 for lepers ; 113 a bequest made in 1404 by John 

 Tregoz ' for the maintenance of the poor in the 

 hospital of St. Mary Magdalen, on the way to 

 (versus) Chichester' 113 must refer to this house, 

 and there is a definite reference to ' the poor of 

 Loddesdowne ' as late as 141 8. lu Beyond this 

 nothing seems to be known of this small 

 hospital. 



38. THE HOSPITAL OF RUMBOLDS- 

 WYKE, CHICHESTER 



There seems to have been a small lazar-house 

 outside the south gate of Chichester in the suburb 

 of Rumboldswyke,as William deKainesham, early 

 in the thirteenth century, gave money to ' the 

 lepers of Wikes ' amongst other Chichester chari- 

 ties. 115 It was possibly the same as the ' hospital 

 of Newykestrete ' mentioned in 1374 in the 

 will of John de Bishopstone, chancellor of 

 Chichester. 116 



39. THE HOSPITAL OF STOCK- 

 BRIDGE, CHICHESTER 



' The lepers of Stocbrigg ' occur in William 

 de Kainesham's deed, mentioned in the last 

 entry, but are otherwise unknown. 



40. THE HOSPITAL OF HARTING 



Henry Hoese, or Hussey, founded a hospital 

 for lepers, under the patronage of St. John the 

 Baptist at Harting, early in the reign of Henry II. 

 Agnes, wife of Hugh de Gundevile, gave 4 acres 

 in Upton in East Harting to these lepers, 117 and 

 Henry II, some time before 1 162, granted them 

 a fair on St. John's Day, and its eve and mor- 

 row. 118 Nothing more appears to be known of this 

 lazar-house until about 1248, when it was bought 

 from the master of the order of St. Lazarus by 

 the abbot of Dureford, and absorbed into the 

 estate of that abbey. 119 



41. THE HOSPITAL OF HASTINGS 



The date and circumstances in which this 

 hospital was founded are unknown, and the first 

 mention of it appears to be in 1294 when Pet- 

 ronilla de Cham, widow, gave to the brethren 

 and sisters of the hospital of St. Mary Magdalen 



111 Mun. D. & C. Chich. ' Liber Y.' fol. 125^. 

 "* Cant. Archiepis. Reg. Arundel, fol. 214. 



114 Ibid. Chicheley, fol. 316. 



115 Mun. of D. & C. Chich. 'Liber Y.' fol. 125^. For 

 a copy of this deed I am indebted to Canon Deedes. 



116 P.C.C. Rous, fol. t>b. 



117 Suis. Arch. Coll. viii, 58. 

 119 Dugdale, Mm. vi, 938. 

 119 Suit. Arch. Coll. vii, 59. 



in Hastings 5 acres of land in the parish of 

 St. Margaret. 130 Protection was granted to the 

 master and brethren in I320, m and in 1381 

 the proctors of the hospital obtained letters of 

 commendation to the clergy of the diocese of 

 Canterbury. 153 



The nature of the hospital is best described in 

 the words of the Hastings custumal : m 



The bailiffshall have the visitation of the hospital of 

 St. Mary Magdalen of Hastings once a year ; and 

 there shall be in the said hospital brethren and sisters, 

 sometimes more and sometimes less ; but no brother 

 or sister shall be received into the aforesaid hospital 

 except by the assent of the bailiff and the commonalty. 

 And the rules of the aforesaid hospital shall be read 

 before the bailiff at the time of the visitation, at 

 which he shall demand and enquire whether they 

 be well kept or not ; and . . . the bailiff shall 

 enquire into the life of all the brethren and sisters 

 examined, and if any of them be attainted the bailiff 

 may remove him if he will. And the bailiff by the 

 assent of his fellows if he shall find a man in the 

 said commonalty infirm, and who has conducted 

 himself in accordance with the usages of the ports 

 for all time, and who shall be impoverished . . . 

 may put such into the said hospital to partake of 

 the sustenance of the brethren and sisters without 

 paying anything to the said hospital. 



Apparently the hospital survived the Reform- 

 ation, and was still in existence at the beginning 

 of Elizabeth's reign, but came to an end before 

 the close of the sixteenth century, its possessions 

 being diverted to other charitable objects. 



42. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JAMES, 

 LEWES 



The hospital of St. James, outside the gates of 

 the priory of Lewes, appears to have been founded 

 by one of the Warennes as a kind of almshouse 

 supplementary to the priory. In it thirteen poor 

 persons, of either sex, were supported by the 

 priory at a yearly cost of 16 lOi., in return for 

 which support they were bound to pray for the 

 souls of the founder and his heirs. 124 Occasional 

 mention of this house occurs in mediaeval wills, 

 Agnes Thetcher in I 5 12 leaving a pair of linen 

 sheets to ' the most needy person in the hospital 

 of St. James. 125 With the fall of the priory the 

 hospital lost its revenues, and Peter Tomson and 

 other poor bedesmen of the hospital of St. James 

 were driven to petition Cromwell for assistance. 126 

 Thus, though not actually suppressed, the hos- 

 pital must have fallen into disuse soon after the 

 dissolution of Lewes priory. 



110 Hiit. MSS. Com. Rep. xiii, App. pt. iv, 354. 



111 Pat. 13 Edw. Ill, m. n. 



181 Hut. MSS. Com. Rep. viii, 340. 



113 Suit. Arch. Coll. xiv. 70.. 



" 4 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), u, 331. 



'"P.C.C. Fetiplace, 17. 



1M L. and P. Hen. Fill, xiii (i), 383. 



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