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 A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE Luke of Nutley, 1 appointed 1310, resigned 1310 Richard de Newton, 2 appointed 1310 William de Elrichton, 3 appointed 1321, resigned 1323 Hugh Tracy, 4 appointed 1323, resigned 1323 William de Edington, 5 appointed 1323, resigned 1323 Robert of Lubenham, 6 appointed 1323, resigned 1338 John Carpenter, 7 appointed 1338, resigned 1340 Ralph of Esthaddon, 8 appointed 1340, re- signed 1355 Richard of Dorset, 9 appointed 1356 Nicholas, 10 resigned 1400 William atte Mille, 11 resigned 1405 John King, 12 appointed 1405, resigned 1405 William Snell, 13 appointed 1405 William Stortewayle, 14 resigned 1408 Richard Ulverton, 16 appointed 1408, re- signed 14 10 John Kirkeby, 18 appointed 1410, died 1411 Thomas Burreth, 17 appointed 1411, died 1413 William Colestone, 18 appointed 141 3 Thomas Chase, 19 resigned 1422 Adam Symond, 20 appointed 1422 22. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN BAPTIST, TODDINGTON The hospital of Toddington was founded by Sir John Broughton in 1433, 21 for the support of a chaplain, who was to be warden, and three poor men ; they were to pray for King Henry VI., for the founder, and for Thomas Peyvre and his wife Margaret. 22 It was still in existence in 1538, 23 though its funds were not applied at that time quite in 1 Inst. Dalderby, 265d. 2 Ibid. 269. 3 Ibid. Inst. Burghersh, 292d. Ibid. 3l4d. Perhaps this is the same as No. 12. 8 Ibid. 'Ibid. 3 i8d. 8 Ibid. 32od ; ibid. Inst. Gynwell, 392d. 8 Ibid. 396. 10 Ibid. Inst. Beaufort, 135. " Ibid. 12 Ibid. Inst. Repingdon, 282. 13 Ibid. 284. 1* Ibid. 294. " Ibid. i" Ibid. 298. " Ibid. 304. ie Ibid. 305. 19 Ibid. Inst. Fleming, 126. *> Ibid. 21 Pat. 21 Hen. vi. pt. I, m. 10. 22 Ibid. « L. and P. Hen. Fill. xiii. (1), 981. the way that the founder had intended ; the Valor Ecclesiasticus gives the names of a warden or master, and three chaplains instead of poor men. 24 The name or Thomas Grenefeld, the warden in 1454, is found in a document relating to some property in the neighbour- hood. 26 The last warden, Sir John Mylward, was the compiler of a book called De potentate Petri, a collation from the Fathers of the Church in defence of the papal supremacy ; it was several times mentioned at the trial or the monks of Wobum in 1538. 26 Mylward himself was examined at the same time as the monks, and acknowledged that he had made the book, and also that he had not set forth the royal supremacy in his sermons, but had only read a printed schedule before the bidding prayer. Being further asked what he would do if the law against the pope were yet unmade, and which he would then think better — that the law should be made, or that the pope's power should remain — he very dis- creetly answered that he doubted what he would then think ; he would like in that case to consult with learned men on the subject. 27 Articles were appended to the depositions taken by the king's commissioners, in which Mylward's name had a prominent place ; 28 but he was probably never brought to trial. 29 The Chantry Certificate of 1546 3o states that the hospital was ' dissolved already with- out the king's majesty's license, by the Lord Warden and Sir George Shefford, gentleman '; and that ' the said hospital and the use thereof ceased immediately after the death of Sir John Mylward, late parson thereof.' It would therefore appear that Sir John held his bene- fice until his death, which was soon after that of the abbot of Woburn. The Chantry Certificate goes on to state that no money had been paid to the poor since the dissolution ; and that one half of the property of the hos- pital was held by the lord warden by title of Anne, elder daughter of Sir John Broughton, and a half by Sir George Shefford by title of Katherine, the younger daughter. 31 The original endowment was only a cer- tain messuage and garden of 2 acres in Tod- dington ; and for divers lands and tenements in Chalgrave, Grove, Broughton and Ment- more (Bucks) the founder assigned a rent of « Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv. 211. « Beds N. and QA. 261. 2 » L. and P. Hen. fill, xiii. (1), 981. 27 Ibid. Deposition of Sir John Mylward. " Ibid. 28 See ' Ecclesiastical History,' 33 0_I - so Chant. Cert. (Beds), 4. 3 » Ibid. 402
 * Ibid. 293d.