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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
![Walter de Weston ratified master 10 July, 23d Richard Clifford, 26 Nov. 11 Ric. II.C Edw. III.a William Alnewyk, 1 Henry VI.d Tho. Bygrave, 2 Jun. 51 Edw. III.b Thomas Kemp occurs 21 Hen. VI.e ^DSpttaR & §aco6t, jujrta OTcstnwnastmum. De Terris et Libertatibus eidem per Regem Henricum Tertium concessis. [Plac. de Juratis et Assisis in mom. Mid. 22 Edw. I. rot. 38. in dorso.] Magister hospitalis S. Jacobi juxta Westm. summo- nitus fuit ad respondendum domino regi, de placito quo waranto clamat habere sok et sak, thol, et them, in omnibus terris suis, et etiam unam feriam per septem dies duraturam in eodem hospitali, &c. Et magister per attornatum suum venit, et dicit, quod dominus H. rex pater domini regis nunc, concessit leprosis puellis de S. Jacobo extra Lond. juxta Westmonasterium, omnes terras et tenuras suas, quas habent vel habiturae sunt, ut illas teneant cum sok, et sak, thol, et them, per cartam suam. Dicit etiam, quod dominus rex nunc praedictam con- cessionem concessit et confirmavit, et profert confirmationem domini regis, quae praedictam cartam domini H. regis, et similiter praedictam confirmationem testatur. Ideo prae- dictus magister, quoad hoc sine die, &c. Et quoad praedictam feriam dicit, quod dominus rex nunc concessit eidem hospitali unam feriam singulis annis, viz. in vigilia et in die et in crastino S. Jacobi; et per qua- tuor dies sequentes duraturam, per cartam quam profert, et quae hoc idem testatur. Ideo praedictus magister quoad hoc inde sine die. Salvo, &c. hospital of Sopn SBaptfet anti M. Cljomas, AT STAMFORD, IN LINCOLNSHIRE. TANNER’S Notice of this House must be sufficient for the present work. He says, “ At the south end of the Bridge of Stamford, where since the Lord Burgldey’s Alms¬ houses have been built, stood the ancient Free Chapel or Hospital of St. John Baptist and St. Thomas the Martyr, consisting of a Master and Brethren, founded in the latter end of King Henry the Second, or beginning of the time of King Richard the First, by Richard Humet, Bertram de Verdun Syward, or Brandon de Fossato. It was in the patronage of the Abbats of Peterborough.’^ Pope Alexan¬ der confirmed the foundation. This Chapel was valued, 26 Hen. VIII., at 5/. 19s. 4d. clear, but no other mention appears in the Valor as to the Hospital. ?I)o{jpftalr §ol;annts 33apt. tit Jstanforfc, tn agio Hmcolmenst. NUM. I. Carta Regis Ricardi Primi, Fundationem et Dotationem ejusdem conjirmans. [Cart. 33 Hen. III. m. 2. per Inspex.] Richardus Dei gratia rex Angliae, dux Norm., &c. archiepiscopis, &c. salutem. Sciatis nos concessisse et prae- senti carta nostril confirmasse Deo et hospitali Sancti Jo- hannis Baptistas, et beati Thomae martyris de Stanford, et magistro fratribusque ibidem Deo servientibus, locum in quo ipsum hospitale fundatum est, cum pertinentiis suis, et domum quam Sywardus fundavit cum capella et pertinentiis suis, et omnes terras et possessiones et omnia achata, quae Brand de Fossato vel aliquis alius eidem hospitali dedit; et illam partem prati, quod est juxta pontem versds aquilonem, quam dominus Richardus de Humez constabularius, et Bertrannus de Verduno praedicto hospitali dederunt, ad faciendam in ea ecclesiam et cimiterium. Et ideo volumus, &c. Datum apud Samurum vicesimo die Aprilis annoregni nostri primo. NUM. II. Bulla Alexandri Papa Fundationem dicti Hospitalis con¬ jirmans. [Ex Registro quodam ad Coenob. de Peterborough olim spectante, nunc penes Christoph, dominum Hatton, fob 41.] Alexander episcopus servus servorum Dei dilecto filio Brandoni, salutem, et apostolicam benedictionem. Dignum est et consentaneum rationi, ut eorum justis desideriis an- a MS. Harl. 6959. p. 227. b Ibid. 6960. p. 262. c Ibid. 6961. p. 109. d Ibid. 6963. p. 1. e Ibid. p. 64. / The following are Tanner’s References concerning this House : “ 1 ide Claus. 14 Hen. III. m. 20. pro viginti carectatis mortui boscire nuamus, qui relictis pompis secularibus, caritatis operibus intendunt, et omnipotenti Domino elegerunt jugi devotione servile. Intelleximus autem, ex transmissa nobis insinua- tione tua, quod tu divina inspiratione ductus, venundatis omnibus, quas possidetis, hospitale quoddam et capellam ad honorem Dei et beati Johannis et gloriosi martyris Thomae, quondam Cantuariensis archiepiscopi, in capite ponlis de Stanford, ex australi parte, ad receptionem peregrinorum et pauperum, per locum ilium frequenter transeuntium aedifi- casti, ubi elegisti Creatori tuo perpetuum famulatum exhi- bere. Inde est, quod nos ob reverentiam Dei, et praedic- torum sanctorum, et devotione, quam erga ipsos te habere ostendis, rationali postulationi tuae libentius annuentes, prae- scriptum hospitale, capellam, cum omnibus quae idem hospi¬ tale, impraesentiarum rationabiliter possidet, aut in futurum largitione pontificum, oblatione fidelium, seu aliis justis moHis, praestante Domino, poterit adipisci, sub beati Petri et nostra protectione suscipimus, et praesentis scripti patro- cinio communimus. Statuentes ut praedicta capella pro- prium capellanum, cantariam, cemiterium, et in eodem cemi- terio liberam sepulturam, sine contradictione qualibet opti- nere. Decerniraus ergo ut nulli homini liceat praedictum hospitale temere perturbare, vel quibuslibet indebitis vexa- tionibus fatigare, seu hanc paginam nostrae protectionis et constitutionis infringere, aut ei aliquatenus contraire. Siquis autem hoc attemptare praesumpserit, indignationem omni- potentis Dei, et beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorura ejus se noverit incursurum. Dat. Anagniae, nonas Febr. anno bosco de Dodington. Injunctiones et Acta in Visitatione istius Hospi¬ talis, A.D. 1300. per Godefridum abbatem de Burgo S. Petri, inter Collectanea e Registr. albo Petriburg. penes R. V. Sam. Knight. S.T.P. p. 149.” See also Cal. Rot. Cartarum, p. 67. Cart. Miscell. Offic. Augment, vol. xi.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30455832_0007_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)