Falkiner — The Hospital of St, John of Jerusalem. 293 



guest-house stood in Winetavern street, then a very important 

 thoroughfare, the seat of the Guildhall, and the fashionable quarter 

 for visitors. It appears from the record of the agreement in the 

 State papers that the Prior and Brethren at Kilmainham, having 

 acquired the interest of Henry de la Felde and Petronilla, his wife, 

 in " a stone-house, near the Church of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, on 

 the north side," which one Henry, called Marshal, Citizen of 

 Dublin," held at the yearly rent of one penny, did let the house to 

 Henry Marshal and his heirs, with all liberties and free customs 

 thereto belonging, at a rent of two silver shillings and one penny 

 a year." The Prior and Brethren had just previously received by 

 letter, under the seal of Walter Vured, the Mayor, and the Com- 

 monalty of the City of Dublin, a grant that the house aforesaid 

 should be their free hospital, and should be for ever quit from 

 all exactions, tollages, demands, or collections of money." They 

 accordingly granted to Henry Marshal that he should be "their 

 free guest in the stone-house aforesaid," and as such that he should 

 enjoy all liberties granted to their other free guests in Ireland. In 

 requital whereof Marshal undertook that he and his heirs should 

 find for the Prior and Brothers and their successors whenever they 

 shall go to Dublin and shall wish to remain, decent entertainment and 

 stable, white cloth, white salt, white candle, fire, litter, and cooking 

 utensils" ; and he further obliged himself to leave to tlie Hospital at 

 his death " forty shillings of silver in the name of one-third of all 

 his chattels." As this instrument was witnessed by the Masters of 

 several of the country Preceptories, we may fairly conclude that the 

 Winetavern street hostelry was the common place of resort for all 

 Hospitallers coming from the provinces to sojourn temporarily in the 

 capital. This Lihei^ Jlospes was maintained for the Hospitallers 

 down to the dissolution, being mentioned in the Inquisition of 33rd 

 Henry YIII. as " a house called the Frank House, in Winetavern 

 street, Dublin, near the Church of the Holy Trinity."^ 



More appropriate to their spiritual than to their secular character 

 was the exercise by the Hospitallers of parochial jui'isdiction over 

 certain parishes, in possession of which they were placed by the 

 diocesan authorities. A grant preserved among the Christ Church 

 deeds supplies an example of what appears to have been a not 



1 Sweetman's " Calendar of Documents " (1285-1292), p. 361 ; and see Gilbert's 

 ''Calendar of Dublin Records," vol. i., pp. 104, 198; and "Historical and 

 Municipal Documents," p. 501. 



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