Notes on the hospital of St. Bartholomew, Rochester.

Date:
[1896?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Notes on the hospital of St. Bartholomew, Rochester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A. D Old •> A, J A D IO NOTES ON HOSPITAL OF S. BARTHOLOMEW. This patronage was, together with the manors and lands of the Piiory of St. Andrew, surrendered to the King by the then Prior of St. Andrew, Walter Philipps. The Hospital of St. Bartholomew was neither surrendered nor dissolved, although from the loss of all its corodies and allowances from the Priory of Rochester it fell rapidly into decay. lo41‘ Henry VIII., by Letters Patent, erected and created the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, of Rochester, and appointed a Dean and Chapter. The first Dean was Walter Philipps, who had been the last Prior at the time of the dissolution of the Priory (18th June, 33 Henry VIII.). By other Letters Patent (20th June, 33 Henry VIII.) the patr< nage of St. Bartholomew’s was again granted to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral and their successors for ever. The Hospital of St. Bartholomew continued an unbroken indepen¬ dent existence. In 1544, John Dove, Prior or Master of St. Bartholo¬ mew’s, granted a lease “ with the assent of his brethren.” And in 1545, George Bewme, Master of St. Bartholomew’s, granted a lease “ with the assent of all his brethren.” No mention is made in these recitals of any assent of the Dean, or of the Dean and Chapter. Register 07 Henry VIII. In a survey made in this year, mention made of 154 > the house or mansion of the hospital, with 3 rods of lands adjoining thereto, yielding per annum 13s. 4. Also of a parcell of land, contain- ) ing 9 acres, adjoining to the house of the aforesaid hospital, worth 9s.’ . 1.559. 2 PHizabeth. Only 19 years had passed since the hospital had lost the support of the Priory of St. Andrew, but the Chapel had already fallen into decay. This appears from the terms of a lease granted “ of the Chappell of St. Bartholomewes, together with the ground thereto belonging, in the middest whereof the Chappell stands, and of a tenement or shopp built on the east side of the gate¬ house leading unto the said hospital, unto George Hope, smith, for foure score and nynteene yeates, in consideration that he should make the said Chappell (being old and ruynous, and like to come to utter decay) to serve for an honest and seemely dwelling-house.” This