A history of the Hospital of St. John in Northampton / by R.M. Serjeantson.

  • Serjeantson, R. M.
Date:
1913
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Credit: A history of the Hospital of St. John in Northampton / by R.M. Serjeantson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tliomas Parmenter, Minister of the Hospitall of Saynt Jonys, to fede preistes and clarkes beyng at my berying.” xxs (18) Sherd was followed in the Mastership by Thomas Parmenter (1498) ; and Wm. Atkinson (1515) In 1520, the Hospital was visited by two officials of the Bishop of Lincoln, and the episcopal records contain a full account of what then took place. The record is one of much interest, as it enables us to catch a glimpse of the lives lived by the Brethren of the Hospital at the beginning of the 16th century. “ Northampton : St. John’s Hospital. (20) Visitation exercised in the same on Wednesday, the 13th June, in the year 1520, in the chapter-house in the same by Master Richard Boston, doctor of decrees, vicar general, etc., in spiritualities, with the assistance of Master John Burges, chaplain of the lord William, Bishop of Lincoln, bachelor in laws. Names of the Brethren. Master William Atkynson, Dan John Chawles. Master of the Hospital. Dan John Nichols. Dan John Calcote. Dan Thomas Stafford. The same have The church of Piddington, worth yearly £10'^ The church of Slypton, worth yearly 10s. / and in lands and tenements and rents about £55. After there had been exhibited in the first place by the said Master of the Hospital the title of his incumbency, under the seal of the lord Bishop of Lincoln who now is {moderni), the same Master of that Hospital exhibited the evidence of foundation {fundacionem) of the same Hospital in {sub) tenor following :— ‘ To all the sons of holy mother Church at present and hereafter, William, archdeacon of Northampton, health in the Lord. Know that I have given and by my present charter have confirmed to God and blessed Mary, and the blessed John the Baptist, and John the Evangelist, and to brother Wymund of the Hospital of blessed Mary (18) Lausd. M.S. 1028, £. 193. dorse. This abstract was copied by Bishop Kermett from a book of wills which has since been lost. The witnesses of the will were Sir Wm. Chaddock (Chantry Priest of St. Giles’) and Sir Richard Morden. Sherd leaves 13/4 to the Bishop of Lincoln for his mortuary due for his benefice of Burton [Latimer] ; and to the sustentation of the Church of Blisworth a messuage with 2 cottages and one yard of arable land. (20) Bishop Atwater’s Visitations, f. 126.
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