A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



domus Sancti Johannis in Lathgate,' '° and on 

 17 June 1475 John Midelton left 2od. * domui 

 elemosinarie beati Johannis in Lathgate.' ^ 



In a grant by Queen Elizabeth to the mayor, 

 governors and burgesses of the town is included 

 ' all that our tenement in Laregate in Beverley 

 aforesaid, one orchard and one close . . . con- 

 taining by estimation one acre and a half of land 

 now or late in the occupation of certain paupers 

 called the Massendeu of St. John the Evangelist 

 in Beverley aforesaid abutting on the east part of 

 the aforesaid street called Laregate.' '^ 



The Leper House outside the North 

 Bar. — This was probably the chief leper house 

 connected with Beverley. In 1402 John Kelk 

 appeared before the twelve governors of the town 

 in the Guildhall, and sought permission to erect 

 a certain porch {quandam porcheam) against the 

 said house outside the North Bar of Beverley for 

 the habitation of lepers, men and women. 

 Leave was granted to build the porch on a piece 

 of waste ground measuring 8 ft. by estimation.*^ 

 Several bequests were made to the lepers outside 

 the North Bar of small sums of money by Richard 

 Beford in 1434,'' William Tasker in 1466-7,*^ 

 John Ashton in 1468,^' Henry Holm in 1471,** 

 John Midelton in 1475,*' but for some un- 

 explained reason in none of these instances is any 

 house mentioned, the lepers ' dwelling' or ' being' 

 outside the North Bar is all that is said. Thomas 

 Burton, of Bainton, on 30 June 1473, left I2d. 

 to each lazar house in Beverley, and also ' in 

 auxilium et relevamen domus lazari dicti Beverlaci 

 unum lectum scilicet unam culcitram, unum 

 bolstor, par lodicum, par linthaminum cum 

 coopertorio.'** It seems not unlikely that it was 

 to this house that the bequest was made. 



Other Houses. — In the grant of lands by 

 Queen Elizabeth to the town of Beverley is 

 included 'all that tenement and one little garth 

 there [in Fishmarket] containing by estimation 

 one rood of land, commonly called St. John 

 Baptise Massendeu, now or late in the occupation 

 of certain paupers, abutting on the west part of 

 a street called Fishmarket.'*' Beyond this 

 reference nothing is known about this hospital. 



In 1394 a certain Margaret Taillor, a leper, 

 came before the twelve governors of Beverley in 

 the Guildhall, and asked for charity's sake to have 

 a bed within the house of the lepers outside 

 Keldgate Bar, which petition was granted.'® 



•'York Reg. of Wills, iv, fol. 81. 



™ Ibid. fol. 96^. 



''Poulson, Beverlac, App. 37. 



*" Poulson, Beverlac, 771. 



'^ York Reg. of Wills, iii, fol. 392. 



"Ibid, iv, fol. 46. ''Ibid. fol. 148. ^ Ibid. fol. 81. 



«' Ibid. fol. 963. ''Ibid. fol. 195. 



*■' Poulson, Beverlac, App. 36. 



"> Poulson, Beverlac, 773. 



There was a Maison Dieu built by the gild 

 of St. Mary connected with St. Mary's Church 

 in Beverley," and another connected with tht 

 minster ; but whether they were the same as 

 some already mentioned is not quite clear. 



John Midilton, on 17 June 1475, bequeathed 

 \7.d. pauperibus in IVodlane, and the same amount 

 pauperibus domus in Dedelane, Beverley," but other 

 mention of these houses has not been met with. 



Poulson,'' describing the Corporation Alms- 

 houses says : ' These almshouses consist [in 

 1828] of four tenements in Lairgate called Bedc- 

 houses, and of thirteen rooms near the south end 

 of Lairgate and nine similar rooms on the east 

 side of Butcher Row called the Maison-Dieus 

 formerly Ake's Hospital founded in 1396. They 

 stand on the freehold property of the corpora- 

 tion, and are kept in repair by them ; but there 

 are no estates or funds specifically appropriated 

 to their support.' It seems likely that St. John's 

 Hospital in Lairgate rather than Ake's Hospital 

 on the Cross Bridge are, or were, perpetuated by 

 these almshouses. In 1889 these corporation 

 almshouses in Lairgate are described as being 

 four in number and called ' Maisons de Dieu.' 



115. THE HOSPITAL OF BOROUGH- 

 BRIDGE 



A hospital existed at one time in Borough- 

 bridge, but had already fallen into decay by 

 1297.'^ Nothing is known of its history. 



1 16. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. HELEN, 

 BRACEFORD 



Res ap Griffith and Joan his wife in 1340 

 bought the advowson of this hospital from Philip 

 de Somerville, and next year regranted it to 

 Philip to hold for life.«^ 



An entry in Archbishop Kemp's Register" 

 records the institution, on 28 January 1433-4, 

 of John Nailston, priest, to the perpetual chantry 

 at the altar of the Blessed Virgin in the parish 

 church of Burton Agnes, and to the hospital of 

 Braceford annexed to the said chantry, vacant by 

 the death of William Foston, chaplain, and be- 

 longing to the gift of John Griffitz, kt., patron 

 of the said chantry and hospital. It was almost 

 certainly the hospital mentioned in the Taxatio 

 of 1 29 1, where it is said that the hospital of 

 ' Brayteford ' held at ' Brayteford ' property of 

 the value of £^ 7^.'° The mastership, might, 



" Ibid. 727. 



" York Reg. of Wills, iv, fol. 96^. 



" Poulson, Beverlac, 799. 



'* Mins. Accts. bdle. 1084, no. 19. 



"= Yorks. Rec. Soc. xlii, 139, 151. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. 373. 



" Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com), 305. 



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