Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries, as were in manner connected with religious houses in England / Originally pub. in Latin by Sir William Dugdale...[Now ed., enriched with a large accession of materials taken from leiger books, chartularies, rolls, and other documents preserved in the national archives, public libraries, and other repositories; the history of each religious foundation in English being prefixed to its respective series of Latin charters. By John Caley...Henry Ellis...and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel.
- William Dugdale
- Date:
- 1846
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Credit: Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries, as were in manner connected with religious houses in England / Originally pub. in Latin by Sir William Dugdale...[Now ed., enriched with a large accession of materials taken from leiger books, chartularies, rolls, and other documents preserved in the national archives, public libraries, and other repositories; the history of each religious foundation in English being prefixed to its respective series of Latin charters. By John Caley...Henry Ellis...and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![hospital of &t. Sultan, at Slbants, tn 3f?crtforttsl) ire. JEFFREY the sixteenth abbat of St. Albans, in the time of Henry the First, founded near the Town of St. Albans, upon the London road, at a place then called Heved or Eywode, a Hospital for leprous men dedicated to St. Julian. It consisted of a Master and four other chap¬ lains, and six poor lepers, and was in the parish of St. Stephen at St. Albans. The particulars of the first endowment of this House are given in the Additamenta of Matthew Paris’s History, copied by Dugdale in the Appendix to the present Account, together with King Henry the Second’s charter of confirma¬ tion, and the Statutes for the government of this Hospital established for it in 1344 by Michael the twenty-ninth abbat of St. Albans. Tanner refers to a Rental of this Hospital of the 22d Hen. Vllth preserved in the Cottonian MS. Claudius D. 1., another copy of which will be found in the i( Registr. Whetamstede et Ramrydge” in the Library of the Royal Society, MS. Num. 34. fo. 33 b.a John Walter was made Master of St. Julian’s Hos¬ pital Jan. 10th, 1463.b The Site of this House was granted in the 36th Hen. YIII. to Richard Lee. Clutterbuck gives no lower account of its descent than is in Chauncy. Hospital* SHtltanf, jttjrta SUmmim, tn agro Hcrtforti trust. NUM. I. De Fundatione domus Sancti Juliani, juxta Eywode. [Ex Additamentis Historic de S. Albanoper Math. Paris, in bibliotheca Cotton iana (sub effigie Neronis, D. ].) fol. 200 a.] Gaufridus abbas sancti Albani consilio et communi voluntate conventus ejusdem loci, fundata, constructa, et in honorem Dei et sancti Juliani dedicata ecclesia secus viam Atte-heved, congregavit illic pauperes Christi, videlicet Lazares, providens necessitatibus eorum, haec quae subscripta sunt. Decimam redditus villae S. Albani, id est lx. solido- rum. Item xxx. solidorum, quos Petrus de le Saret reddit de Redinges del Saret. Item totam decimam bladi dominii de Hamested, et totam dominii de Ryngesberia; et duas partes decimarum tantummodo bladi parochianorum sancti Michaelis, et sancti Stephani; exceptis illis quas capellanus eorum scilicet Lazarorum, habet, sicut carta ejus testatur. Item duas partes decimae bladi dominii de Aston. Item duas partes bladi dominii sancti Albani de Bradeweya, et similiter duas partes decimae bladi dominii Rogeri de Li- mesia in Bradewia. Item duas partes decimse bladi dominii Ricardi del Hoo. Item duas partes decimae dominii Wil- lielmi de Codicote. Item dimidium decimae bladi dominii de Stratle. Item dimidium decimse Stephani de la Leger, de suo dominio de Henelawe. Item duas partes decimae Rogeri de Candos de suo dominio de Smelesho. Item duas partes decimae Simonis Belcamp de suo dominio de Stan¬ ford. Item duas partes decimae bladi Radulphi Perot de suo dominio de Lindesele et de Hakewell. Item duas partes decimae bladi de una hida, quam Robertus filius de Wene- ling habuit in Estwyk. Haec praedictus abbas, una cum consilio et voluntate capituli S. Albani, sic donavit et con- firmavit, ut supradictorum infirmorum sint perpetuo jure condempnas anathematis sententia, si quis deinceps aliquid horum auferret eis injuste. Elemosina ilia taliter est data, et stabilita pro animabus Offae regis, Henrici regis, Pauli abbatis, Ricardi abbatis ; et auctoris hujus donationis Gau- fridi abbatis, atque suorum prsedecessorum ejusdem ecclesiae fidelium abbatum: necnon pro statu, et tutela ipsius ec¬ clesiae, atque servientium ibi monachorum, et maxime pro levamine debitorum quae ipsi debent suis benefactoribus, et quibus promiserunt. NUM. II. Carta Regis Henrici Secundi confirmatoria. [Ibid.] Henricus rex Angliae et dux Normanniae et Aqui- tanniae, comes Andegaviae, archiepiscopis, episcopis, &c. sa- lutem. Sciatis me concessisse et praesenti carta confirmasse leprosis sancti Juliani de Heved quicquid Gaufridus abbas sancti Albani consilio et communi assensu totius conventus 3 Tanner’s other references couceming this House, are “ Vide Epistolam Michaelis abbatis S. Albani de statutis, constitutionibus, et regimine hujus Hospitalis, MS. Cotton. Tiberius, E. XI. 4. cartam Gal- fridi abbatis de fundatione cum chartis confirmatoriis et privilegiis ejusdem, ibid. n. 5. Constitutioncs Michaelis abbatis, MS. ibid. Claud. E. IV. 18. MS. Cole, vol. ii. p, 85. of a house in Cambridge. Rot. claus. 1 Edw. I. m. 7- pro xxxs. ann. solvendis leprosis S. Juliani, de exitibus comitatus Hertford. Pat. 27 Edw. III. p. 2. m. 17 vel 18. Pat. 20 Ric. II. p. 1, m. 19. pro capella S. Juliani approprianda Abbatise.” See also the Taxat. P. Nich. IV. pp. 37 b, 42 b. sui, et alii eis rationabiliter concesserunt et dederunt. Quare volo, &c. Test. Ricardo de Humet constabulario, Ricardo de Lucy, Henrico filio Geraldi camerario, et Ri¬ cardo de Camvilla, apud Wyndesores. NUM. III. Isti sunt Articuli observandi inter Fratres professos Domus Sancti Juliani juxta Sanctum Albanum. [Ex Registro Ccenobii S. Albani in bibl. Cottoniana (sub effigie Ne¬ ronis, D. 1.) fol. 189 b.] Cum inter omnes infirmitates, morbus leprae contempti- bilior habeatur; hii, qui tali morbo sunt percussi, singulis locis et temporibus, tarn gestu quam habitu cunctis homini- bus contemptibiliores et magis humiles se debent repraesen- tare, dicente Domino in Levitico; “ Quicunque maculatus fuerit lepra, habebit vestimenta dissuta, caput nudum, os veste contectum, contaminatum ac sordidum se clamabit, et omni tempore quo leprosus est et immundus solus habitabit extra castra.” Nec propter hoc desperare debent, ac contra Deum murmurare; sed potius eum laudare et glorificare, qui cum ductus fuerit ad mortem, voluit leprosis comparari, teste Ysaiapropheta (qui ait) “ Et nos putavimus eum lepro- sum percussum a Deo et humiliatum,” revocantes ad memo- riam beati Job, qui cum percussus esset lepria, itfi quod a planta pedis usque ad verticem capitis, non fuit in eo sanitas, vel stultum contra Deum locutus est. De situ Hospitalis Sancti Juliani. Cum igitur hospitale sancti Juliani, juxta boscum de Eywod, ab abbate et conventu sancti Albani propter le- prosos specialiter sit fundatum; et ex pia collatione elemo- sinarum eorundem est sustentatum, cujus dispositio, tam in spiritualibus quam in temporalibus ad eundem abbatem, loci ejusdem patronum, et ordinarium, pertinere dignosci- tur; nos paterna solicitudine honestatem dicti hospitalis, necnon et utilitatem, secundum Deum, considerantes, volu- mus quod fratres ibidem commorantes habeant habitum qualemcunque eorum infirmitati convenientem. De habitu Fratrum. Fratres videlicet habeant tunicam et super-tunicam de russeto, cum capucio de eadem secta, ita quod manubria tunicas clausa usque ad manum, non nodulis vel filo ad mo- dum secularium laqueata. Super-tunicam vero habeant clausam usque ad talos, et capam clausam de nigro panno, similis longitudinis cum capucio, sicut ab antiquo habere consueverunt. De calciamentis Fratrum. Calciamenta pedum sint caligae, et aestivalia sint so- tulares erectae cum tribus vel quatuor nodulis circa tibias. In the Lord Treasurer’s Rememb. Office, “ De manibus Regime amovendis de capitali messuagio sive Hos- pitali S. Juliani prope villam S. Albani et Humfrido Conyngsby arm. liberando.”—Trin. Rec. 21 Eliz. Rot. 1G. The particulars of the Valor 26 Hen. VIII. being deficient in the Office of First Fruits, there is no return of this Hospital there, nor has any Seal of the Hospital been met with. » MS. Harl. G02. fol. 73 b.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30455832_0007_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)