A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



55. THE HOSPITAL OF WINDHAM 



The Bollandist life of St. Richard mentions 

 that he founded a hospital for sick and infirm 

 clergy. This institution was the hospital of 

 St. Edmund at Windham, 'and was probably 

 founded not long before his death, as in his will 224 

 St. Richard leaves ' to the house of Wyndeham 

 30 marks, exclusive of the debt in which I am 

 bound to them,' which suggests that the endow- 

 ment was still incomplete. This is borne out 

 by the series of grants made during the episco- 

 pate of his successor, Bishop John, who was 

 considered co-founder of the hospital. 82 ' Simon de 

 Bosco of Albourne sold to the bishop, 'for the 

 support of the infirm chaplains and clerks dwell- 

 ing in the hospital of Wyndham,' lands in 

 Albourne parish, and other lands there were 

 purchased for the same purpose from Philip 

 Cordwaner with the consent of Nigel de Brok, 

 lord of the fee. Sir Roger de la Hyde remitted 

 to ' the chapel of the Blessed Edmund the 

 Confessor and to the priests and ministers there ' 

 all his claim to the estate of Windham, and 

 Bishop John himself in 1262 assigned an annual 



rent of 2os. from the church of Ford to the 

 support of the chaplains. 



Protection for the term of ten years was 

 granted to the hospital of St. Mary and St. Ed- 

 mund of Windham in I258, 226 and in 1289 one 

 Ralph atte Hese of Portslade, 'a brother of 

 the house of priests at Windham,' fell off the 

 bridge of ' Blaxinton ' and was drowned ; 22r but 

 beyond these two incidents the house seems to 

 have fulfilled its useful purpose in uneventful 

 quiet, gradually falling into decay, until Bishop 

 Sherborn suppressed it about 1520, taking the 

 revenues and lands to endow a new prebend in 

 the cathedral. 228 



WARDENS OF THE HOSPITAL OF WINDHAM 



Walter, occurs 1306 229 

 John de Teddington, occurs 1342 S3 

 John Lucas, appointed 1387 231 

 John Candelsby, resigned I4I4 232 

 William Gyllyng, appointed 1414 233 

 William Gloucestre, resigned 1504 234 

 Edmund Wilkynson, appointed I5O4 235 

 Hugh Rolf, last master !3S 



COLLEGIATE CHURCHES 



56. THE COLLEGE OF ARUNDEL 



Richard earl of Arundel, having divorced his 

 first wife, obtained papal dispensation to marry 

 Eleanor, daughter of the earl of Lancaster, 

 although related within the forbidden degrees 

 of consanguinity, on condition of founding three 

 chaplaincies, worth 10 marks, in the parish church 

 of his chief place of residence. Permission was 

 given shortly afterwards for the chaplaincies to 

 be established in the castle of Arundel instead of 

 in the parish church. 1 In 1354 the earl obtained 

 a further papal licence to increase this chantry 

 and convert it into a college, but for some reason 

 he did nothing more until 1375, when, feeling 

 the approach of death, he made his will, and left 

 1,000 marks for the foundation of a chantry 

 within the castle, to consist of six chaplains and 

 three boys able to read and sing, all of whom 

 were to reside in 'the Northbaillie in the new 

 tower called Beaumont's tour,' the further pro- 

 vision being made that if any chaplain were 

 disabled by illness he should have his sustenance 

 in the priory of Tortington, to which house the 

 earl left 2OO marks for this purpose. 2 



Upon consideration the earl's executors decided 

 that a castle exposed to the chances of war 



m Sun. Arch. Coll. i, 169. 



111 ' Liber E.' in the Muniments of the Dean and 

 Chapter at Chichester, fols. 233-5. For abstracts of 

 these charters I am indebted to the kindness of Canon 

 Deedes. 



offered poor security for the permanency of a 

 religious foundation, and the community of alien 

 monks in the priory at the parish church of 

 Arundel having withdrawn to their mother 

 house of Seez and left their cell desolate, the 

 new earl obtained leave in 1379 to send repre- 

 sentatives to treat with the abbot of Sez for the 

 conversion of the priory of Arundel into a col- 

 legiate church. 3 The following year the royal 

 licence was obtained for the foundation of the 

 college, subject to an annual payment to the 

 king of 20 marks so long as the war with France 

 should last, 4 a payment which was annulled in 

 1383, when the earl gave the manor of Seven- 

 hampton in Somerset to the king.* 



The property which had belonged to the 

 priory included the advowsons of the churches 

 of Arundel, Yapton, Rustington, Billingshurst, 

 Kirdford, Cocking, and half Littlehampton, the 



" Pat. 43 Hen. Ill, m. 2. 



m Assize R. 924, m. 64. 



m Suss. Arch. Coll. xliv, 10. 



"* Ibid. 9. >3 Assize R. 631, m. 70. 



151 Pat. 10 Ric. II, pt. ii, m. 10. 



"'Chich. Epis. Reg. Reade, fol. 158. 



m Ibid. Story, pt. ii, fol. 38. 



* Seat, of Chick. Cath. (1904), 65. 



108 



m Ibid. 

 "Ibid. 



1 Cat. Papal Pet. i, 99. 



'Cant. Archiepis. Reg. Sudbury, fol. 



Pat. 3 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 12. 



4 Ibid. pt. iii, m. 12. 



' Pat. 6 Ric. II, pt. ii, m. 3. 



