RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



permission ; the regulation about women was 

 again laid down with more emphasis ^^ ; brothers 

 who perpetually quarrelled and sowed discord 

 were to have their allowances withdrawn ; they 

 might have private property, 2* but when they 

 died or left the hospital it should belong to the 

 house ; no brother might make a will without 

 the master's leave ; seculars and probationers 

 were to be excluded from chapters, and private 

 chapters * whicli might rather be called con- 

 spiracies ' were forbidden. The points touched 

 on were the same as before, but penalties for 

 disobedience were more clearly defined, and the 

 inference is that the rules had not been kept 

 and greater severity was necessary. 



The advowson of the chapel of St. Jub'an was 

 given in 1353 to the master and brethren of the 

 hospital, who had permission to appropriate 

 the church*' ; but in 1396 the rectory was made 

 over to the chamber of die Prior of St. Albans ^^ 

 on the resignation of Wilham Burcote, the rector, 

 who was assigned a pension for hfe.** This may 

 mean that the character of the place was 

 changing, and the disturbances of the 15 th 

 century merely hastened the end of an institu- 

 tion already in decay. It was still called the 

 Hospital of Priests and Lepers of St. Julian in 

 1470, when it was excused payment of the tenth 

 on the score of poverty,'" but the community 

 probably survived only in the title. 



Abbot William Albon by appointing Ralph 

 Ferrers master for life in 1475 *i caused con- 

 siderable trouble to one of his successors. 

 Ramryge, who became abbot in 1492, wanted to 

 deprive him for dilapidating the property, and 

 hoped to attain his object through a doctor of 

 canon law named Robinson, who was to have 

 the office if Ferrers could be removed.'^ At 

 some stage of the proceedings the abbot 

 managed to get possession of Ferrers's letters of 

 collation and sequestrated the revenues of the 

 hospital.^ But it was all useless. Although 



^^ The washerwoman was to be of mature age 

 and good conduct and was to enter the brothers' 

 houses only at certain hours. Women of bad 

 repute were not to be allowed in the hospital. 

 The brother who broke the rule as to female 

 visitors, viz., with regard to the time of their de- 

 parture, &c., was to be punished as if convicted of 

 incontinency. 



^ The portion allotted to them in the hospital was 

 recognized as insufficient for all their necessities. 



2' Cal. Pat. 1350-4, p. 481. 



28 Ibid. 1396-9, p. 24. 



2' Gesta Abbat. iii, 440-1. 



30 Reg. of St. Albans, ii, 86-8. 



31 Ibid. 120. 



32 Star Chamb. Proc. Hen. VIII, bdle. 34, no. 26. 

 '3 He asked to see the letters and then would 



not return them. See Ferrers's petition to the chan- 

 cellor, c. 1493-1500 (Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 201, 

 no. 30). 



Robinson was appointed,'* he could not turn 

 his rival out, and at last resigned his claim to 

 the abbot.'^ When Ferrers died Ramryge 

 granted the nomination to the king, but mean- 

 while Dr. Robinson gave the hospital for 

 maintenance to Sir Robert Sheffield, knight, who 

 put in his brother and five others to occupy it 

 for him. The abbot at the king's request took 

 measures to get rid of the interlopers and was 

 thereupon accused of riot by the disappointed 

 Dr. Robinson. It was probably the result of 

 this affair that he obtained the king's licence 

 on 7 May 1505 to annex the hospital or free 

 chapel of St. Julian to St. Albans.'" 



The property appears to have been worth 

 then about ^£16 a year." 



Masters of the Hospital of St. Julian by 

 St. Albans 



Ilbert, occurs 1145 " 



WilKam 3» 



Nicholas, appointed in 1235 *" 



William Peytevin, occurs 1278 *i 



Reginald de St. Albans, occurs December 



1305 « 

 John de Lancaster, appointed 2 June 1349 *^ 

 John Trylle, occurs 3 December 1449 ** 

 John Walter, appointed 10 January 1463-4 *^ 

 John Hankyn *° 

 Ralph Ferrers, LL.D., appointed 20 December 



1475,*' occurs 1500 or 1501 *8 

 William Robinson, appointed in succession to 



Ferrers *' 



3^ Robinson as master of St. Julian's in 1 5 00 or 

 1 50 1 was trying to recover the muniments from 

 Ralph, whom he called the late incumbent, and 

 Edward Ferrers (ibid. bdle. 245, no. 20). 



35 Star Chamb. Proc. Hen. VIII, bdle. 34, no. 26. 



3^ Pat. 20 Hen. VII, pt. iii, m. 18. 



^'X'S 1'- ll'^-j hut this did not include the 

 tithes in the parishes of St. Stephen and St. Michael, 

 which were let with the hospital and cemetery in 

 1506. Rental of St. Julian's (Cott. MS. Claud. 

 Di, fol. 169). 



38 Cott. Chart, xi, 6, 8. 



3' He was the son of a citizen of Rochelle hanged 

 in 1224 for his fidelity to Henry III (Matthew 

 Paris, Chron. Maj. [Rolls Ser.], iii, 84). 



*" By the king during a vacancy of the abbey 

 (ibid. 386). "Assize R. 323, m. 24. 



*2 Cal. of Papal Letters, ii, 1 . 



*3 Cal Pat. 1348-50, p. 330. 



** Herts. Gen. and Antiq. iii, 278. 



« Harl. MS. 602, fol. 73 d. 



^ Cott. MS. Nero, D vii, fol. 137. He is called 

 master of St. Julian's when he was admitted to the 

 fraternity of St. Albans, 6 June 1478, but this must 

 be a mistake. *' Reg. of St. Albans, ii, 1 20. 



*^ Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 245, no. 20. He is 

 then called ' the late master,' but apparently was 

 never actually removed. 



^' Ibid. He professed to be master in 1500 or 

 1 501 (see above). 



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