RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



in the king's gift by reason of the custody of the 

 lands of Francis Lord Lovell, a minor, on an 

 exchange of benefices with Richard Sharpuls.^'^ 



At the time of taking the Valor of 1534 it 

 appeared that the prior and convent of Thur- 

 garton paid yearly 241. to the master of Stoke 

 Hospital for certain tenements in that town, and 

 also a further annual sum of i 6j. in lieu of fifteen 

 cart-loads of wood.^**" 



The commissioners of 1545-6 reported of the 

 ' Spittle of St. Leonard and St. Anne in Stoke,' 

 that it had been founded by the ancestors of the 

 Lyndecortes ' for the relief of poore people and 

 now the Kinge is patron by reason of the 

 attainder of the late Lord Lovell.' The annual 

 value was declared to be £Z 13^., and the income 

 for the support of three poor people and for the 

 repair of the hospital and property ; but at that 

 time there were only two poor women resi- 

 dent.^oi 



The commissioners, however, of Edward VI 

 two years later returned the income as j^io 19^. 



"'Pat. 1 6 Edw. IV, pt. ii, m. 13. 

 *» Valor Eccl. fRec. Com.), v, 151. 

 *•" Chant, and Coll. Cert. Notts, xiii, 13. 



and stated that the whole of it went to the then 

 master, William Burden, who held ' other great 

 livings.' ^°' 



The hospital was suppressed by Edward VI, 

 but refounded by Philip and Mary.^"^ It was 

 again suppressed under Elizabeth, and the site 

 and lands were granted in 1576 to John Mersh 

 and Francis Greneham.^"* 



Masters of Stoke Hospital """ 



John Chanson, 1332 

 Nicholas Wymbysh, resigned 

 Hugh Hanworth, 1399 

 Edmund Chaterton 

 Robert Sharpuls, resigned 1477 

 Laurence Duckworth, 1477 

 William Burdon, occurs 1535 



1399 



206 



1547 



207 



""' Ibid, xxxvii. 



™ Pat. 5 & 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. v, m. 13. 



'°* Tanner, Notitia, Notts, xx. 



'"' Dugdale, Mon. vi, 735. 



'^ Valor Eccl. v, 189. 



*" Chant, and Coll. Cert. Notts, xxxvii. 



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