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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    of the Inner Temple. The award, based ‘ upon view of an inquisi¬ tion taken in the 22nd year of Henry VI., and other ancient books and writings,” was to the effect that since the lands of the hospital had always been held and enjoyed to and with the Priory, and afterwards to and with the Cathedral, and the rents received by the poor men whom the Dean should place therein, and in order to bar all'future title and claim from the King, Lady Bingley should cause Gilborne and Lucas to convey, at the cost of the Dean, to such persons as the Dean should nominate. The Dean was further to renew to Lady Bingley her existing leases, and to release her from all arrears of rent, and to pay her A50 lawful money of England. The estates were then conveyed to Lee, Somer, Rowle, and Somer on behalf of the brethren. The costs of these suits were found to be seven score pounds, which sum was raised by tenants taking new leases and paying fines. This deed was executed 14th June, 1627. Subsequently, in the year 1632, Somer and Rowle and Somer, the surviving trustees, executed another deed, resigning their trusteeship, and confirming the estates in full to the brethren for ever. A..D. 1627. Pleadings in ancient suit, p. 4. On the surrender of a lease of the Chapel granted 2nd Elizabeth 1559» ^ was renewed to one Robert Perryn, a blacksmyth, into whose possession, indeed, it had already come, for in his answer to the claim of King James in 1619 he stated “that he had bestowed great costs thereupon, and had made it convenient and fit for habitation. ryn’s^ lea^eT' the renewal of the lease it is stated that “ the Brethren, with Old Register the consent of the Dean, do demise, grant, and to farm lett unto the Booke, fol. 21 . ’ . said Robert Perryn all that their Chappell of St. Bartholomewes being now made meete and seemely dwelling-houses, and the soyle and ground whereupon they stand and are buylded, together with a peece of ground in the middest of which they are buylded.” The lease contained also a clause providing that it “ may and shall be lawfull to and for the said Robert Perryn, his executors, and assigns to take and pluck down at his and their wills and pleasures the tymber, tyle, and stone of the said Chappell, soe that the same be bestowed and