RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



like was repeated in June 1316 for another 

 year.* And again letters of protection were 

 obtained from the same king on 10 April 

 1320 to last for two years.* On 27 July of 

 the same year these letters of protection were 

 renewed for two years, and at the same time 

 the brethren were authorized, in consequence 

 of the insufficiency of their income, to collect 

 alms.' 



Protection was again granted for two years, 

 in September 1328, wherein it was stated 

 that the brethren had no sufficient livelihood 

 unless they were succoured by the faithful.* 



This was one of the four leper hospitals 

 built for the reception of these sufferers out- 

 side London, for the injunctions against 

 lepers entering the city were numerous and 

 stringent. The other three named by Stowe 

 were those at Stratford le Bow, at Knights- 

 bridge, and between Shoreditch and Stoke 

 Newington.^ 



John Pope, by his will of 1487, gave to 

 this hospital 6;. Sd. towards its repair and 

 maintenance. It was for a long time under 

 the care of St. Bartholomew's hospital.® 



COLLEGES 



16. THE COLLEGIATE CHAPEL 

 OF ST. MARY MAGDALEN, 

 KINGSTON 



Edward Lovekin, citizen of London, but a 

 native of Kingston, built a chapel dedicated 

 to St. Mary Magdalen at Kingston in the 

 year 1304.^ In conjunction with his brother 

 Robert, he endowed it with ten acres of land, 

 one acre of meadow, and fifteen marks of rent 

 in Kingston, for the support of a chaplain to 

 say daily mass for Edward and Robert and all 

 their relatives and successors and all the faith- 

 ful departed. License for the alienation of 

 this property was obtained from the Crown in 

 1309,* and at the same time leave was ob- 

 tained from the bishop for the appointment 

 and induction of a chaplain.'' 



^ Ibid. 9 Edw. II. pt. ii. m. 14. 



= Pat. 13 Edw. II. m. ii. 



» Ibid. 14 Edvir. II. pt. ii. m. 23. 



* Ibid. 2 Edw. III. pt. ii. m. 2. 



= Bishop Tanner, in his Notitia, terms this 

 foundation a hospital, and says it was for the 

 support of certain poor men as well as a warden 

 and chaplain ; but there is no reference to the poor 

 men nor to the term hospital in the elaborate 

 ordinances of John Lovekin, the refounder, and in 

 the Valor Ecclesiasticus (ii. 47) this house is called 

 the chapel of the Blessed Mary Magdalen in King- 

 ston. There was apparently at an early date a 

 hospital for lepers at Kingston, said to be of royal 

 foundation. Manning and Bray (Hist, of Surr., i. 

 343), quoting what they call ' Escheators RoUs,' 

 state that in 1 3 16 the lepers quitted the house, 

 pulled down the buildings and carried off the 

 materials ; the escheator thereupon seized the 

 site for the king and accounted for loj-. for a year's 

 rent. It is possible that the college of St. Mary 

 Magdalene may have been built upon the site of 

 this leper hospital. 



8 Pat. 2 Edw. II. pt. ii. m. 4. 



' Winton. Epis. Reg., Woodlock, f. 1 12b. 



John Lovekin, son and heir of Edward 

 Lovekin, soon after this last date, rebuilt the 

 chapel and the priest's house, and in October 

 1352 obtained license from the Crown for a 

 further endowment up to ;^I2 per annum 

 for the support of an additional chaplain.'" For 

 this patent he paid 20 marks into the hanaper. 

 He obtained the sanction for his new scheme 

 of the bishop and chapter of the diocese, of 

 the prior and convent of Merton as rectors of 

 Kingston, and of the vicar of Kingston, and 

 granted to the chapel and its chaplains 9 

 messuages, 10 shops, a mill, 125 acres of 

 land, I o acres of meadow, 1 20 acres of pas- 

 ture, and 35^. of annual rent in Kingston, 

 and two messuages of the yearly value of ^^4, 

 in the parish of St. Michael, Crooked Lane, 

 London. 



The charter, dated 3 May 1355, provided 

 that there should be two chaplains, one of 

 them being warden, presented to the diocesan 

 by John Lovekin or his heirs ; that if two 

 months elapsed on a vacancy without presen- 

 tation, the appointment should lapse to the 

 chapter of Winchester ; that the chaplains, 

 immediately after their institution, should 

 swear to reside continuously and per- 

 sonally minister at the chapel, and not to 

 engage in any other service or office whatso- 

 ever ; that they should reside together in the 

 appointed houses or manse, and that the war- 

 den should pay the chaplain (or chaplains if 

 the number was increased) 405. yearly in 

 addition to necessary food, and a robe like 

 that worn by the warden every Christmas ; 

 that the residue of the income, after deduct- 

 ing the necessary expenses of himself and the 



8 Stowe's Survey (ed. Thomas), 184. 

 » Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surrey, iii. 634. 

 10 Pat. 26 Edw. III. pt. iii. m. 13. 



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