A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 
Luke of Nutley, appointed 1310, resigned 
1310 
Richard de Newton,’ appointed 1310 
William de Elrichton,? appointed 1321, 
resigned 1323 
Hugh Tracy,* appointed 1323, resigned 
1323 
William de Edington, appointed 1323, 
resigned 1323 
Robert of Lubenham,® appointed 1323, 
resigned 1338 
John Carpenter,’ appointed 1338, resigned 
1340 
Ralph of Esthaddon,® appointed 1340, re- 
signed 1355 
Richard of Dorset,® appointed 1356 
Nicholas,’° resigned 1400 
William atte Mille, resigned 1405 
John King,"* appointed 1405, resigned 
1405 
William Snell,'* appointed 1405 
William Stortewayle,' resigned 1408 
Richard Ulverton,'® appointed 1408, re- 
signed 1410 
John Kirkeby,’® appointed 1410, died 
I41t 
Thomas Burreth,’" appointed 1411, died 
1413 
William Colestone,’® appointed 1413 
Thomas Chase,’ resigned 1422 
Adam Symond,”° appointed 1422 
22. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN 
BAPTIST, TODDINGTON 
The hospital of Toddington was founded 
by Sir John Broughton in 1433,” for the 
support of a chaplain, who was to be warden, 
and three poor men ; they were to pray for 
King Henry VI., for the founder, and for 
Thomas Peyvre and his wife Margaret. 
It was still in existence in 1538,”? though its 
funds were not applied at that time quite in 
1 Inst. Dalderby, 265d. 
2 Ibid. 269. 
3 Tbid. Inst. Burghersh, 292d. 
4 Ibid. 293d. 
5 Ibid. 314d. Perhaps this is the same as 
No. 12. 
8 Ibid. 7 Ibid. 318d. 
8 Ibid. 320d ; ibid. Inst. Gynwell, 392d. 
® Ibid. 396. 
10 Tbid. Inst. Beaufort, 135. 11 Tbid. 
12 Ibid. Inst. Repingdon, 282. 
13 Ibid. 284. 14 Tbid. 294. 15 Tbid. 
16 Thid. 298. 17 Tbid. 304. 18 Thid. 305. 
19 Ibid. Inst. Fleming, 126. 20 Tbid. 
2 Pat. 21 Hen. vi. pt. 1, m. Io. 
22 Thid. 
23 L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiii. (1), 981. 
the way that the founder had intended; the 
Valor Ecclesiasticus gives the names of a 
warden or master, and three chaplains instead 
of poor men.” 
The name ot Thomas Grenefeld, the 
warden in 1454, is found in a document 
relating to some property in the neighbour- 
hood.” The last warden, Sir John Mylward, 
was the compiler of a book called De potestate 
Petri, a collation from the Fathers of the 
Church in defence of the papal supremacy ; 
it was several times mentioned at the trial of 
the monks of Woburn in 1538.7 Mylward 
himself was examined at the same time as 
the monks, and acknowledged that he had 
made the book, and also that he had not set 
forth the royal supremacy in his sermons, but 
had only read a printed schedule before the 
bidding prayer. Being further asked what 
he would do if the law against the pope were 
yet unmade, and which he would then think 
better—that the law should be made, or that 
the pope’s power should remain—he very dis- 
creetly answered that he doubted what he 
would then think ; he would like in that case 
to consult with learned men on the subject.?” 
Articles were appended to the depositions 
taken by the king’s commissioners, in which 
Mylward’s name had a prominent place ;” 
but he was probably never brought to trial.° 
The Chantry Certificate of 1546 °° states 
that the hospital was ‘dissolved already with- 
out the king’s majesty’s license, by the Lord 
Warden and Sir George Shefford, gentleman’; 
and that ‘the said hospital and the use thereof 
ceased immediately after the death of Sir John 
Mylward, late parson thereof.” It would 
therefore appear that Sir John held his bene- 
fice until his death, which was soon after that 
of the abbot of Woburn. The Chantry 
Certificate goes on to state that no money had 
been paid to the poor since the dissolution ; 
and that one half of the property of the hos- 
pital was held by the lord warden by title of 
Anne, elder daughter of Sir John Broughton, 
and a half by Sir George Shefford by title of 
Katherine, the younger daughter.*! 
The original endowment was only a cer- 
tain messuage and garden of 2 acres in Tod- 
dington ; and for divers lands and tenements 
in Chalgrave, Grove, Broughton and Ment- 
more (Bucks) the founder assigned a rent of 
24 Valor Eccl, (Rec. Com.,), iv. 211. 
25 Beds N. and Q.i. 261. 
26 DL. and P. Hen. VILLI. xiii. (1), 981. 
27 Ibid. Deposition of Sir John Mylward. 
28 [bid. 
20 See ‘ Ecclesiastical History,’ 330-1. 
30 Chant. Cert. (Beds), 4. 31 Ibid. 
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