A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



respective archbishops to this benefice occur in 

 the York registers. 



The earliest of these is of the year 13 13, 

 when Henry de Hykeling, master of the South- 

 well Grammar School,*'^ acolyte, was appointed 

 warden of the hospital of St. Mary Magdalen 

 extra Southwell.^" 



An exchange was effected in 1 36 1 between 

 Richard de Otteringham, prebendary of Parva 

 Pipe, Lichfield, and Henry de Barton, warden of 

 the Southwell Hospital.**^ 



On 30 October 1399 an exchange was 

 effected between Alexander Herll, warden of 

 St. Giles Hospital, Little Maldon, and Robert 

 Manfield, warden of St. Mary Magdalen's 

 Hospital, Southwell."' 



Roger de Newbold was collated to this 

 wardenship in 1456.'*' 



From the relevant entry in the Valor of 1534 

 it would appear that this small mediaeval hos- 

 pital, like the majority of its fellows throughout 

 England, had by that time ceased to do any 

 service for the poor or infirm, and simply found 

 a salary for a master or chaplain. The clear 

 annual value was but 44J. 1 1 ^., and the chaplain, 

 one John BuUe, was also one of the vicars choral 

 of the collegiate church of Southwell in receipt 

 of a stipend of £•] 4;. 8|^.'^^ 



The 1545-6 commissioners of Henry VIII 

 made the following enigmatical entry with 

 regard to this hospital, of which apparently only 

 the chapel survived : — 



'The Chapelle called Marie Magdaleyn 

 Chappell in Estthorppefeldes in the parisshe of 

 Southewell by whome or to what intente and 

 purpose ytt was founded no man answerithe.' ''" 



The commissioners of 1547 also left the 

 question of the founder of 'the frechapell called 

 Mawdeleyn capell ' unsolved, but stated its 

 intent to be the support of a chaplain to sing 

 divine service. The name of the incumbent 

 was unknown, and the clear value was returned 

 as 45J. b^d}^ 



36. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. LEONARD, 

 STOKE 



Much confusion has been made by Thoroton, 

 Tanner, and others between the hospital of 

 St. Leonard, Newark, and the hospital of the 

 like dedication at Stoke juxta Newark. It is, 

 however, certain that there were two separate 

 establishments, and it may safely be assximed that 



both were primarily intended for lepers. Tanner's 

 statement '" that the Stoke Hospital is men- 

 tioned in Ralph d'Aincourt's foundation charter 

 of Thurgarton Priory, though often repeated, 

 goes beyond the warrant of the text ; all that is 

 therein stated as to this place has reference to a 

 charge of I Of. infirmis de Stokes?^'' 



Several of the references given in Tanner and 

 repeated in Dugdale to rolls and records pertain 

 to the Newark Hospital, but the following relate 

 to Stoke. 



In 13 1 5 licence was granted for the alienation 

 in mortmain to the master of the hospital of St. 

 Leonard, Stoke by Newark, by Henry de St. Lis 

 of loj acres of land in Elston and Stoke, and by 

 William le Venur of 3 acres of land in the same 

 towns, and by Henry de Sibthorpe of I a. 3^ r., 

 also in the same towns.^^' 



In 1332 William de Melton, Archbishop of 

 York, sanctioned a reordination of this hospital 

 (founded originally to further the worship of God 

 and to sustain the poor), as requested by John 

 Chanson, the master, Robert de Bilbrough and Ro- 

 bert de Donham, chaplains, and Simon deBotels- 

 ford, clerk, the brethren of the hospital. These 

 officials of the hospital had at that time, through 

 exertion among their friends, increased the en- 

 dowments by 40 acres of land and 30X. in rents, 

 for the celebrating of sixty masses annually by 

 the chaplains or brother associates ; thirty of these 

 masses on the principal feasts, and the other 

 thirty during Lent. In recompense for this 

 trouble the master, or whoever celebrated these 

 masses, was to receive 51. out of the rent of a 

 certain tenement in the town of Stoke.^'* 



In August 1332 licence was obtained for the 

 alienation of various small plots of land to the 

 hospital of the yearly value of I Of."' There 

 was a further alienation of other small plots of 

 the annual value of 13J. 4^. in 1339,"° and 

 again in 1347 of others worth 1 31. bd. a year."^ 



Richard II in 1392 licensed the alienation by 

 Thomas Angle, clerk, and Alice Porter of a 

 messuage and half an acre of land in Stoke, and 

 by John Coney and Alice his wife of another 

 messuage in the same place, to the master and 

 brethren of St. Leonard's Hospital, Stoke by 

 Newark, in full satisfaction of a licence granted 

 them by the late king to acquire lands, tenements, 

 or rents to the yearly value of 6 marks."* 



A grant was made in 1477 by Edward IV to 

 Laurence Duckworth, rector of Iden (Sussex), of 

 the mastership of the Stoke Hospital, which was 



It may be noted that this is the earliest extant '" Notitia, Notts, xx. 



leference to the Southwell Grammar SchooL 

 "" Harl. MS. 6970, fol. 240. 

 '»Ibid. 6969, fol. SI. 

 '^ Pat. I Hen. IV, pt. ii, m. 36. 

 '*^ Harl. MS. 6969, fol. 46. 

 '«^ Valor EccL (Rec. Com.), 195-8. 

 '" Cert. Coll. and Chant. Notts, xiii, 40. 

 '"* Ibid, xixvii, 4. 



•" Dugdale, Mon. vi, 191. 



'" Pat. 8 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 8. 



'"YorkEpis. Reg. Melton, fol. 378. Cited in 

 fiill in Mm. vi, 733. 



176 



•"Pat. 7 Edw. Ill, pt. Ii, m. 23. 

 '«Pat. 13 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 16. 

 •"Pat. 21 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 23. 

 '"Pat. i6Ric. II, pt. i, m. 2. 



