By the Rev. Canon Moberly. 



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" The church and chancel (or middle chapel) was dedicated to the honour of 

 Almighty God, in which mass was said or sung every Sunday and great holy 

 day, such as Ascension Day, Good Friday, and many more, as also the canonical 

 hours, that is in the middle chapel or chancel, for the body of the church (or 

 cloister) was never used for any divine service. The chapel on the north side 

 was dedicated to the honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and was constantly used 

 for masses and canonical hours, &c. (mostly by the master or keeper himself) on 

 every festival of the said Blessed Virgin, as well by night as by day. The 

 chapel on the south side (which yet remainetb.) was dedicated to the Blessed 

 Nicholas confessor, and was used on all other holy days and at several other 

 times according as the master thought fit : in every of which chapels there was 

 a lamp constantly kept burning, as also in each of the cross aisles in the night 

 time, or at least in the evenings. 



"But I cannot tell on what account it was, but towards the latter end of the 

 fourteenth century the body of the church (or cloister), with all the poor people's 

 rooms and buildings on the north side thereof was taken down, as was also the 

 chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the sanctum sanctorum at the east end 

 of the chancel, and the chancel itself made into a common hall for the poor 

 people (I mean the east end of it) with a buttery for the nurse adjoining to the 

 west part of the said hall, and a room for a poor sister adjoining to the west part 

 of the buttery, and a woodhouse adjoining to the west part of the said room, all 

 which took up the whole length of the chancel and of the north cross aisle, which 

 was also pulled down with the additional buildings at the north end of it, to the 

 aforesaid door of entrance into the churchyard or litton, within which ranging 

 straight from the east end of the tenement or farm-house aforesaid was built two 

 rooms, as have been said, and a chamber over for the chaplain, and the door of 

 entrance into the litton is now the door of entrance into one of the aforesaid new 

 built rooms. Then was also the north porch and hall pulled down, as also the 

 porch belonging to the body of the church (or cloister), and tenements built in 

 their place. And an orchard was planted where the body of the church (or 

 cloister) stood, which is now and has for more than TOO years been converted 

 into a garden of herbs for the poor people's pottage. And after all these ruinous 

 transactions I find that the chapel now in use (which was the only one then left 

 in the hospital) was again consecrated in 1501 to the honour of Almighty God, 

 the glorious Virgin Mary, and St. Nicholas confessor. And about 100 years ago 

 the aforesaid hall was made into a common kitchen, and four chambers built over 

 it and the buttery and aforesaid lower room for four poor brothers, viz., two over 

 the kitchen, one over the buttery and room aforesaid on the north side, and 

 another over the same on the south side." 



APPENDIX D. 



List of Masters of St. Nicholas 5 Hospital. 



1. Nicholas Laking, custos, A.D. 1254 (Hatcher, p. 732). 



2. Adam, brother : mentioned as prior, 1267 (Reg., p. 8). 



3. John Burnes, mentioned as custos, 1281 (i&.,p. 42) ; vicar of Damerham. 



4. John Hinton, mentioned as master, 1288 (Do.). 



