St. Thomas's Hospital, from its foundation to 1553 : chiefly from a manuscript book in the library of the Earl of Ashburnham, now in the British Museum / by W. Rendle.
- William Rendle
- Date:
- [1882?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: St. Thomas's Hospital, from its foundation to 1553 : chiefly from a manuscript book in the library of the Earl of Ashburnham, now in the British Museum / by W. Rendle. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![father and mother and ancestors, confirms to the hospital, in frankalmoigne, all her lands in Chalvedon without any drawback. The Master and Brethren agreeing to find for Alicia, within the court of the hospital, a suitable bed, with everything necessary to a bed, for her so long as she lives ; she is to have good service, and money for clothing and fuel, but ^s to make no further claim of any kind. In another ;jase a widow marries again, and, as is said, “ takes y.o baron”—in other words, for husband—Hubert Wygington ; another speaks of her late baron, that fS, her husband. Later on, after the foundation of the newer i.ospital by Edward VI, the same custom, with a iifierence, prevails. The governors and treasurer, ot now Master and Brethren, agree to take Eliza- th Sharp, of St. Michaefis in the Querne in iTestchepe, into the hospital, she givingall her goods id implements for the use of the poor, so that after r death no claim shall be made for them. At this ^tter period servants, dependents, or poor that well- -do people would like to be good to, were commonly ceived into the hospital, upon a payment, weekly otherwise, fixed by the governors ; such income, .d the value of work done by those poor who could irk, forming an appreciative sum in aid of hospital nds. yI Gilbert de Clare, 1272, grants mills to Mathew the iller ; if Mathew took salmon at the mills, the Earl ]iis heirs would claim the salmon at price of 12d., “ the Countess my wife or my chief seneschal at ? same,” and if none of these was there, Mathew ght liimself keep the salmon.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22369533_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
