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Indulgence. At no very distant period from the original foun- 

 dation an indulgence was published by Simon Sudbury, Archbishop 

 of Canterbury, in conjunction with William, Bishop of London, 

 William of Winchester (Wykeham), Thomas of Durham, Thomas 

 of Ely, John of Lincoln, Kalph of Sarum, Thomas of Exeter, John 

 of Bath and Wells, Thomas of Bochester, John of Hereford, and 

 William of St. Asaph, each granting forty days of indulgence to 

 such of the parishioners of their respective dioceses, as being truly 

 penitent, and having confessed, should contribute, bequeath, or 

 assign, any charitable aid, toward the maintenance of the poor, 

 feeble, and distressed inmates of this hospital. (Dated at West- 

 minster, May, 1379.) 



Chapel. A new chapel appears to have been erected about 

 this period by the contributions of the faithful, for we find a bull 

 of Bope Boniface the Ninth, who occupied the chair from 1398 to 

 1405, dated St. Beter's, on the 13th kalends of April, in the first 

 year of his pontificate, and addressed to the Bector of the Boor in 

 the hospital of the Holy Trinity. It states that in consequence of 

 the devotion which he had manifested towards the Holy See, the 

 Bope had given him liberty to cause the chapel, long before erected 

 in the hospital, to be consecrated, and the mass and other divine 

 offices to be celebrated in it at convenient times. He further 

 granted to the hospital the permission to use a bell, saving, however, 

 the rights of the parish Church, and all other rights whatsoever. 



It was probably in consequence of the last clause in this bull 

 that Bichard Metford, who was Bishop from 1395 to 1407, together 

 with the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral, as Bectors of St. 

 Martin, in which parish the hospital is situated, yielded to the 

 hospital all the offerings made in the chapel of the establishment. 



More abundant benefactions were now bestowed on the hospital. 

 In 1400 Henry the Fourth granted licence to John Chandeler, the 

 elder, of New Sarum, to assign two messuages, fifteen cottages and 

 four shillings annual rent, amounting to the yearly value of sixty- 

 seven shillings and four pence, to Adam Teffont, mayor, as master 

 of the said hospital, and to his successors in the same office. This 

 licence recites a prior grant from Henry to Adam Teffont, 



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