RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



28. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. 

 ANTHONY, LENTON 



There are two references in the Lenton char- 

 tulary to a hospital of St. Anthony within the 

 precincts of the priory. 



The earliest of these references records the 

 grant to the hospital by Anker son of William 

 of 3 roods of meadow in Bunny ; and the other 

 of 7 bovates of land in Bradmore by Gervase 

 de Somerville, to which gift Ralph de Frecheville 

 added an eighth bovate with common of pasture 

 and turbary rights.^* 



29. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. LEONARD, 



NEWARK 



A leper hospital dedicated to the honour of St. 

 Leonard was founded outside the walls of Newark 

 by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln (1123-48). A 

 copy of the charter of foundation is preserved in 

 the Lincoln registry in an ancient book entitled 

 Libellm de chartis PensionumP 



A licence for alienation in mortmain was ob- 

 tained in 13 1 1 by William Durant of Newark, 

 to grant to the master of the hospital of St. Leo- 

 nard in that town two messuages and 20 acres 

 of land in Newark, Balderton, and Hawton, to 

 find a chaplain to celebrate daily in the church 

 of the hospital in honour of the Blessed Virgin 

 and for the souls of the grantor and Isabel his 

 wife, Ivo his father, and all his ancestors.'^ 



Protection was granted by Edward II in 1322 

 from I September until the following Easter for 

 the master of the hospital of St. Leonard without 

 Newark.'' 



The patronage of the hospital was in the 

 hands of the Bishops of Lincoln ; but in 1323 

 Edward II granted the mastership to William de 

 Northwell, as the temporalities of that see were 

 then in the king's hands. A writ de intendendo 

 was directed to the brethren and sisters of the 

 hospital.'^ 



In 1347 John le Chaumbre, king's clerk, ob- 

 tained a life grant of this wardenship from Ed- 

 ward III by reason of the voidance of the see of 

 Lincoln.'^ 



William de Askebi, warden of the hospital, was 

 licensed by Pope Clement VI in 1349 to hold 

 in conjunction with it the rectory of Elton and 

 a prebend of Lincoln, An extension of this dis- 

 pensation in 135 1 enabled William to hold yet 

 another benefice.*" 



On 30 January 1350 the notification of the 



" Lenton Chart, fol. 55^, 185 ; cited byThoroton, 

 Notts, i, 90, 92. 



^* Brown, Newark, i, 9. 



'« Pat. 5 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 7. 



" Pat. 16 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 23. 



'« Ibid. m. 2. 



" Pat. 21 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 21. 



*° Cal. of Papal Letters, iii, 357, 387. 



estate of William son of Hugh de Scoter, as 

 warden of the hospital of St. Leonard, Newark, 

 by the collation of the Bishop of Lincoln, was 

 entered on the Patent Rolls.*^ 



On 14 June of the same year a licence was 

 granted by John Gynwell, Bishop of Lincoln, to 

 Thomas de Sibthorpe, rector of Beckingham, to 

 give a messuage in Middlegate, Newark, held of 

 the said bishop as of the hospital of St. Leonard 

 extra Northgate, unto Robert de Arington, 

 Robert Leef, and Robert de Stokam, perpetual 

 chantry priests in the church of Newark, to pray 

 for the souls of William Saucemer and Matilda 

 his wife, of William de Glenham, of the said 

 Thomas de Sibthorpe, and of Isabel Durant. 

 This messuage was to serve as a residence for 

 these chantry priests, saving to the hospital the 

 accustomed rent and services.^^ 



This foundation was further confirmed in 

 1 41 7 by Philip Repingdon, Bishop of Lincoln, 

 who decreed that there should be a master having 

 rule of the hospital, and two poor men kept in 

 the hospital with a chaplain to perform divine 

 service, and that the chaplain and the two poor 

 men were to be received into the hospital and 

 maintained with the rents and profits of the 

 same, the residue being devoted to the master's 

 use, to the repair of the building and of the 

 places belonging to it, and to the supporting of 

 other charges.^' 



When the Valor Ecclesiasticus was drawn up 

 in 1534 Christopher Massingbred was master, 

 and the clear annual value was declared as 

 j^i7 IS. g^d. The chapel and manse of St. 

 Leonard, with the close and certain parcels of 

 meadow in the fields of Newark, were worth 

 £6 igs. I id. a year, a cowgate 1 6s. 6d., mills 4.0s., 

 tenements and a grange in Newark £6 6s. 8d., 

 rents in Newark £$ 31. 4.d., and the remaining 

 income from parcels of lands or rents in South 

 Clifton, Girton, North Collingham, Cropwell, 

 Gotham, Balderton, and Hawton. Out of this 

 the chaplain and three poor men received 

 £6 l8s. a year.** 



The annual value of this hospital was declared 

 by the commissioners of Edward VI to be 

 jtij los. gd., founded (i.e. refounded) by Philip, 

 Bishop of Lincoln, for a priest to say divine ser- 

 vice there and to find three poor bedesmen to 

 serve God, and also to maintain hospitality. 

 They found a chaplain in receipt of j^5 a year, 

 and £2 I 8j. distributed annually among the poor ; 

 the remaining income went to the master. They 

 further declared that the hospital was a parish 

 church of itself, having all sacraments and 

 sacramentals therein ministered and observed.*' 



This was one of the hospitals that escaped 



*' Pat. 24 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 35. 



^^ Shilton, Hist, of Newark (1820), 263-4. 



^ Brown, Newark, 9. 



«* Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 190. 



^ Chant, and Coil. Cert. Notts, xxxvii. 



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