RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



As to hospitals, which occasionally, like the hospital of Sandon 

 united to St. Thomas' Southwark, are difficult to distinguish from 

 small priories of Austin canons, the Surrey examples are varied and 

 fairly numerous. The most important, with a chequered history, is that 

 of St. Thomas the Martyr, Southwark ; there was also at Southwark a 

 hospital for lepers of early foundation. There was a medical hospital 

 at Newington of which but little can be learnt. 



The county affords four instances of foundations of the collegiate 

 type. The one at Lambeth, sought to be founded in the twelfth century 

 by Archbishop Baldwin, and subsequently by his successor, Archbishop 

 Hubert Walter, can scarcely be said to have been established, for it 

 was almost immediately extinguished by the jealousy of the Canterbury 

 monks. The twelfth century foundation at Maldon, by Walter de 

 Merton, was speedily transferred to Merton College, Oxford. The 

 instance at Kingston was more of the nature of a small collegiate chapel 

 associated with a hospital. Lingfield, however, is an instance of a 

 genuine collegiate establishment, which, like others throughout England, 

 was not only intended to supply worship of special dignity and to serve 

 as a chantry on a large scale, but also included an eleemosynary 

 foundation, supporting thirteen poor men who resided in the college 

 with the chaplains and clerks. 



The accounts of the remains of these religious houses are reserved 

 for the topographical portion of the history ; where they will be de- 

 scribed under their respective parishes. 



HOUSE OF BENEDICTINE MONKS 



I. THE ABBEY OF CHERTSEY dwellings and 5 dwellings in a place called 



T-u r. J- .• Auu f Q<. P„^o. „f Thorpe to Erkenwald the abbot.^ This 



The Benedictine Abbey of bt. I'eter oi ^ /"^ f . , . « „ ^ k,, «■;„,» 



nu . e J A -^ /k» ,,»o, » t, AAAi charter was witnessed and conhrmed by King 



Chertsey was founded in the yearA.D. DOD -r ^u u a „•=,. i.f th^ 



uT, ijf JT3-U cT^„A^r,2 Ulfar and specifies the boundaries of the 



by Erkenwald, afterwards Bishop of London," , . . f , ^ r • -i „^o ^.-or,to^ 



V , •' J- I.U . .u ( A donation.* A charter of privileges granted 



who became Its first abbot, the new founda- """^"un. v ,° J? 



.io„ being »dowedwUhi„ds by.he^.nifi- ir°f,,rifb'/7h/£.'.rf S 



cence of Fnthwald, Subregulus of Surrey, S"""^"/ """' ^'^ / 



under Ulfar, King of the Mercians, who in to the metropolitan see „„,,,,„•„„, 



, ' * . • .. J vu T? !,»„ Subsequent kings confirmed the possessions 



subsequent accounts isassociated with Erken- ^ ^^^^..J', Qffa, King of the Mer- 



wald as co-founder. In the first charter of " "ic muii^» 7 ' ,„f «f rvnpHn>ha 



the foundation Frithwald recites that, for the cians, m 78?, at the request of Cynedntha 



r ^. » , £ ' ^ u„;u his queen, and Ceolnod the abbot ; il-tnei- 



augmentation of the monastery first built J » , ^^^^^^^^^ .^ b 



under King Egbert, he had granted 200 ^"p^,^ J ;,,, 350, and onwards through 



' This is the year given in the account of the 



abbey in the Chertsey chartulary preserved among a Cott. MS. Vital. A. xiii. f . 20. 



the Cott. MS. Vitel. A. xiii. f. 20. The Annals * Grave doubts have been cast upon the authen- 



of Dunstable (Ann. Mon. [Rolls Ser.] iii. 8) give ticity of the early charters and particularly as to 



the year 678, and Reyner, from Capgrave's Life of the charter above referred to. The style ot tne 



St. Erkenwald, makes it as early as 630. king, witnesses and bounds all contain errors pro- 



a Bede records that after building Chertsey the bably of a thirteenth century scribe, 



saintly Erkenwald raised the abbey of Barking, ^ Cott. MS. Vitel. A. xiu. f. 25. 



where he established his sister as abbess. This « Ibid. f. 32. 



famous house was therefore a sister foundation to ' Ibid. f. 32d. 



Chertsey {Hist. Eccles. lib. iv. cap. 6). « Birch, Cart. Sax. 11. 697. 



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