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.
![“ABOUT half a mile eastward of Oxford/’ says Tanner, “ is yet in being the little Hospital of St. Bartho¬ lomew, as ancient as the reign of King Henry the Frst, and probably founded by that Prince, when he built his Palace at Beaumont.a It consisted formerly of a Master, who was a priest, two healthful Brethren, six infirm or leprous Brethren, and a Clerk. It being of royal founda¬ tion,b King Edward the Third gave it, A.D. 1328 to Oriel College, who were to maintain therein a Chaplain and Poor Brethren.”0 The following names of the MASTERS of this Hospital occur, with one exception, among the More’s Col¬ lections, in Mr. Gough’s Library, at Oxford. Tho. de Stanton, circa A.D. 1230. John de Wotton occ. 1266. William de Brakele, about 1290. William de Westbury, 7 Edw. II. Adam de Brome, 5th March, 19th Edw. ll.d William Lewton. Robert Milcombe, the last Prior or Master. hospitale 0. Baitfiolomaet, cjrtra muros Ctbitatts (Dpotut. NUM. I. Ordinationes pro meliori Gubernatione ejnsdem. [Pat. 35 Edw. III. p. 2, in. 25.] Rex, &c. Inspeximus quandam ordinationem de ho- spitali S. Bartholommi extra Oxon. factam, et in rotulis cancellariae domini Edwardi nuper regis Angliae, patris nostri, irrotulatam in hac verba. Memorandum, quod cum ex querentibus querimoniis fratrum hospitalis S. Bartho- lomaei, extra Oxonium, de advocatione Margaretae reginae Angliae ad vitam suam, ex concessione Celebris memoriae domini E. regis, patris regis nunc existentis, coram domino rege et ejus consilio monstratum fuisset, quod status hospi¬ talis praedicti per defectum et incuriam magistrorum ejusdem hospitalis, qui pro tempore fuerunt, multipliciter depressus est, et bona ad sustentationem infirmorum fratrum ejusdem hospitalis, per progenitores dicti domini regis abolim assig- nata, in usus alios miserabiliter fuerunt conversa, idem do- minus rex per inquisitionem coram magistro- Henrico de Harcla, cancellario universitatis Oxonii, et magistro hospi¬ talis S. Johannis extra portam orientalem Oxonii, per breve ipsius regis captam et coram ipso retornatam; ac etiam per cartas et munimenta eorundem fratrum coram ipso ostensa, de ipsorum primaria fundatione, per progenitores suos plenius certioratus, ad honorem Dei et pro relevatione et honestate status hospitalis praedicti, de consilio suo in parlia- mento apud Lincolniam anno regni sui nono, ten to; ac de assensu praefatae reginae, in modo qui sequitur, ordinavit. Imprimis, cum hospitale praedictum per progenitores suos, quondam reges Angliae, ad sustentationem infirmorum antiquitus fundatum fuerat; et jam de fratribus sanis et validis, contra ipsam fundationem occupatum existat, ordi¬ navit, quod fratres sani in eodem hospitali nunc existentes, morentur suis temporibus, et percipiant sicut percipere con- sueverunl; et quod aliquo fratrum praedictorum decedente, seu ex aliqua causa rationabili amoto, loco suo ibidem unus frater infirmus admittatur, et sic fiat subsequenter quousque numerus sex fratrum infirmorum impleatur. Et post modum idem numerus fratrum infirmorum ibidem imperpetuum habeatur, quorum quilibet percipiat per septimanam, de bonis hospitalis praedicti, novem denarios; numero ver5 eorundem infirmorum completo et habito, penultimoque sanorum fratrum praedictorum mortuo, vel ex causa ratio¬ nabili amoto, loco ipsius unus frater sanus et potens ad labo- randum, ac sciens de waynagio admittatur, qui waynagium terras hospitalis praedicti, et ea quae ad haec pertinent custo- diat et sequatur. Cumque ultimus sanorum fratrum eorundem decesserit, » ,‘Ita Collect. Ant. Wood ex libris Briani Twyne (in Archivis Univ. Oxon.) quos consulat lector pro confirmat. RR. Stepliani et Henrici III. Tann. b “ Queen Margaret, wife to King Edward I. was patroness, but could not be original foundress, as Mr. Hearne would liave it, this Hospital appearing upon tbe rolls thirty years at least before sbe was married, and we are there referred to a much older date. ‘ Novi Gollegii alumni (stata et recepta a majoribus solemnitate) quotannis locum istum (scil. Hospitale S. Bartholomsei) in festo S. Philippi et Jacobi multo mane adeuntes invisunt, sacris de more intersunt, luune- ribus et oblationibus pauperes recreant, suavissimis liymnis, quorum symphoniaca modulatione totum nemus personat, tempus protrahunt.' Bryan. Twyne, o X o p. 12.” Tann. c Tanner says, “ Vide MS. Wood in Museo Ashmol. vol. xxix. vel ex causa rationabili amotus fuerit, loco ejusdem alius frater sanus, et ad laborandum potens, sciensque facere curtilagium et cooperire domos recipiatur, qui ea et alia fa- cere quae cedere poterint in proficuum hospitalis praedicti; quorum quidem duorum fratrum sanorum, quilibet per sep¬ timanam similiter percipiat novem denarios, et postmodum quandocunque aliquis infirmorum praedictorum decesserit, alius infirmus ei succedat: et etiam quando aliquis duorum fratrum sanorum praedictorum decesserit, alius sanus ejus¬ dem conditionis eidem similiter succedat. Ordinavit in- super, quod sit ibidem magister sacerdos cornpatiens, et bonae vitae, ac conversationis honestae, qui personaliter resideat et missam singulis diebus, nisi ex causa legitima fuerit praepe- ditus, in capella ejusdem hospitalis celebret humiliter et de¬ vote, et fratres infirmos bis ad minus in septimana visitet, et quantum sibi a Domino concessum fuerit, humiliter conso- letur, et eis conferat ecclesiastica.sacramenta, sicut decet; et percipiat per annum sex marcas. Si verb ex causa legitima, qualibet fictione cessante, impeditus fuerit, quo minus prae- missa poterit ad tempus aliquod perimplere, ea per alium sacerdotem idoneum facere perimplere, ne eadem capella et fratres ejusdem hospitalis debitis obsequiis defraudentur. Item ordinant, quod sit ibi unus clericus, qui capella; praedictoe deserviet, et procurator hospitalis praedicti, una cum altero fratrum sanorum praedictorum ad hoc magis idoneo, pro elemosynis et redditibus suis colligendis existat, qui similiter percipiat per septimanam novem denarios. Idem ordinant, quod semper in fine anni, inter praedictos magistrum et fratres ac clericum, computetur quantum et quid residuum fuerit de bonis hospitalis praedicti, de eodem anno, ultra portiones praedictas, et illud in emendationem status ejusdem hospitalis magis necessariam de avisamento ipsorum omnia ponantur. Ordinatum est etiam, quod si quae eidem hospitali le- gata vel oblata, seu quovis alio modo ab aliquibus caritative collata fuerint, ea per ipsos distribuantur, vel in augmenta- tionem status ejusdem hospitalis, et numerum capellanorum seu fratrum ibidem, juxta dispositionem eorundem futuris temporibus apponantur: reservata verb potestate dictae dominae reginae visitandi et conferendi hospitale praedictum, tempore suo cum viderit faciendum: et post tempus suum domino regi vel ejus cancellario pro tempore existenti. Iu cujus rei testimonium sigilla praedicti regis et praefatae reginae huic ordinationi sunt appensa: et ipsa ordinatio in rotulis ipsius regis de cancellaria sua est irrotulata, viz. apud Lin¬ colniam x. die mensis Februarii, anno supradicto. Nos autem irrotulamentum ordinationis praedictae, ad requisi- tionem dilectorum nobis in Christo praepositi et scolarium fob 280. Cartas, &c. inThesaur. Coll. Oriel. Oxon. Escaet. Oxon. 51 Hen. III. n. 1. dc ii. carectis feeni percipiendis in prato regis juxta Osney, ex dono R. Hen. II. Pat. 51 Hen. III. m. 6. pro ii. acris ex dono Radulphi filii Thomse Astill. Ibid. m. 29. pro xix1. xvs. vd. ex firma civitatis Oxon. quae leprosi S. Bartholomsei extra Oxon. percipere de¬ bent, ex 'Concessione progenitorum domini Regis, uti constitit per in- spectionem rotulorum in Scacc. Regis. Pat. 52 Hen. III. in. 3G. n. 73. de carectis feeni e prato de Osney. Cart. 2 Edw. I. n. 13. Cart. 21 Edw. I. n. 13. pro xix1. et iij1. pro pannis. Claus. 9 Edw. II. m. 15. dorso. Cart. 17 Edw. II. pro una bigata feeni in prato juxta Stanford. Pat. 2 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 25 et 28. de annexat. Hospitalis Collegio Oriel. Pat. 41 Edw. III. p. 2, m. 15.” Articuli sive statuta observand. in Hosp. S. Bartol. Oxon. “ Claus. 14 Itic. II. m. 32.” d MS. Harl. G958. p. 289.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30455832_0007_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)