A HISTORY OF SURREY 



the brethren and sisters.' It was then ordered 

 that they should all follow the rule of St. 

 Augustine, and that the master should eat 

 with the brethren.' 



On I December 1326 the Bishop of 

 Winchester granted to the master and 

 brethren of this hospital, for the health of 

 the souls of himself, his parents, Adam le 

 Chaundeler and Joan his wife, and for the 

 support of the sick poor resorting to the 

 hospital, lands in Wimbledon, which he had 

 acquired jointly with John de Windsor, his 

 clerk, of the gift of Joan Chaundeler. This 

 irant received royal confirmation in 1329.^ 



Stephen de Bikleswade's administration as 

 master seems to have been careless, as he was 

 several times suspended and the custody oi 

 the house assigned to others ; but in February 

 1330 he was formally reinstated by the 

 bishop, and continued in office until March 

 1338.* 



This hospital, like almost every English re- 

 ligious house, suffered sadly at the time of 

 the Black Death. In 1349 Walter de Mar- 

 lowe, brother of the hospital, sought and ob- 

 tained dispensation from illegitimacy at the 

 hands of Pope Clement VI. in order that he 

 might be appointed prior or master. The 

 petition stated that the mortality amongst the 

 brethren had left no one so fit to rule as the 

 said Walter." In 1350 a chantry was estab- 

 lished in the lady chapel for the soul of Ralph 

 Nonley of Halsted.' 



In 1357 the hospital presented an interest- 

 ing petition to Pope Innocent VI., and ob- 

 tained that which they sought. It was stated 

 therein that the hospital of St. Thomas the 

 Martyr, founded in Southwark by the saint 

 himself, was resorted to by such numbers of 

 the poor and sick that the master, brethren 

 and sisters of the rule of St. Augustine could 

 not support their charges without alms ; they 

 therefore prayed for an indulgence of two 

 years and eighty days to those who should 

 visit the hospital at Christmas, Easter, the 

 feasts of the Blessed Virgin and Sts. Peter 

 and Paul, and on Good Friday, and who 

 should lend a helping hand to the hospital.'' 



Henry Yakesley was appointed master by 

 Bishop Edendon in 136 1. The election de- 

 volved on the bishop owing to the death of 



' \^'inton. Epis. Reg. Asserio, f. 20b. 



' Stowe MS. 942, f. 330. 



3 Pat. 3 Edw. III. pt. i. m. 32. 



' Winton. Epis. Reg., Stratford, ff. 9, 12, etc. 

 Stowe MS. 942, ff. 280, 307. 



' Cal. of Papal Petitions, i. 165 ; Cal. of Papal 

 Registers, iii.-^'^O. 



« StoweMS. 942, 1!. 31, 32, 324. 



• Cal. of Papal Petitions, i. 304. 



all the brethren save one, but a special re- 

 servation of the future right of the brethren 

 was entered.* 



In January 1372 the bishop deputed three 

 commissioners to visit the hospital." 



Nicholas de Carrew paid the king 20s. in 

 1379 for licence to alienate to the master and 

 brethren six messuages, three shops and one 

 garden in Southwark ; one messuage and 2 

 acres of land in Lambeth ; five cottages and 

 I acre of meadow in Bermondsey Street — in 

 exchange for the manor called ' Freres- 

 manoire,' a watermill, and two gardens in 

 Beddington, Croydon, Mitcham and Carshal- 

 ton." 



On the death of William de Welford in 

 1 38 1 the bishop, as patron of the house, 

 committed the custody to John Okeham and 

 Robert Eton, the only two of the brethren 

 then living." During the vacancy, on 9 De- 

 cember 1 38 1, the bishop sent a letter to the 

 two custodians instructing them to admit 

 Thomas Gouday, chaplain, to the fraternity.'* 

 On the same day brothers Okeham and Eton 

 invited the bishop to appoint to the master- 

 ship, whereupon the bishop delegated John 

 de Bukyngham, canon of York, to admit 

 Gouday as master, who took the oath of 

 canonical obedience on 13 December. 



Licence was granted to Edmund Halstede, 

 on 2 July 1385, to have mass said in the 

 chapel within the graveyard of the hospital 

 until fifteen days after Michaelmas." 



The bishop gave notice of a personal 

 visitation of the hospital on 28 June 1387. 



In 1388 Thomas, the master, and the 

 brethren were charged with having appro- 

 priated to themselves a piece of ground out- 

 side their church, formerly common to the 

 men of Southwark for selling and buying corn 

 and other merchandise, and with stopping 

 up a king's highway called ' Trynet Lane ' ; 

 but it was found on inquisition that the 

 hospital had enjoyed these premises since the 

 time of King John, when the house was 

 built." 



At the time of the death of Thomas 

 Gouday on 17 December 1392, there were 

 then four brethren of the house in addition to 

 the master, namely John Okeham, Thomas 

 Sallow, Henry Grygge and John Aylesbury. 

 The bishop as patron and diocesan granted 

 them on 18 December licence to elect ; but 



» Stowe MS. 942, f. 330. 



9 Winton. Epis. Reg., iii. f. 626. 

 '"Pat. 2 Rich. II.pt. ii.m. 19. 

 " Winton. Epis. Reg., Wykeham, i. f. 119. 

 " Ibid. i. 126. 

 " Ibid. iii. f. 218. 

 '* Stowe MS. 942, f. 18 1. 



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