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 A HISTORY OF LONDON Walter de Marlowe, 1316 ^^ Stephen de Bykleswade, occurs 1321, 1338" William de Stanton, occurs 1338, 1342 Walter de Marlowe, appointed 1350, 135 i " John de Bradewyn (Bradeway), appointed 1356'' Henry Yakesley, appointed 1361,^' died 1377 William de Welford, appointed 1377,^ died 1381 Thomas Gouday, appointed 1 38 1, died 1392 Henry Grygge, appointed 1393," occurs 1 40 1 John Reed, appointed 1414,^^ died 1427 Nicholas Bokeland, appointed 1427," re- signed 1447 William Crosse, appointed 1447," resigned 1478 William Beele, appointed 1478,** resigned 1487 John Burnham, appointed 1487,^^ died 1501 Richard Richardson, appointed 1501,^' re- signed 1528 ^* Richard Mabbot, appointed 1528, died 1539 Thomas Thurleby, appointed 1539,^' sur- rendered 1540 The pointed oval seal™ of this house repre- sents a priest celebrating mass before an altar with a chalice on it. Legend : -|- s' . Hosp' : SCI : thome : mart' : de : sowthwerk' : ad : causas. 25. THE LEPER HOSPITAL OF SOUTHWARK On the outskirts of the Borough was a hos- pital for lepers under the joint dedication of St. Mary and St. Leonard. Stow speaks of it as the Loke or Lazar-house for leprous persons, which stood in Kent Street, without St. George's Bar, but he had failed to learn anything of its early foundation.^ " C.mterbury Archiepis. Reg. Reynolds, fol. 1 83. '* Ibid. Stratford, fol. 9, 1 2, &c. ; Stowe MS. 942, fol. 280, 307. " The appointment of Walter de Marlowe seems to have been upset by his illegitimacy. " Stowe MS. 942, fol. 330. '' Ibid. ^ Winton Epis. Reg. Wykeham, i, fol. 83. " Ibid, i, fol. 224-5. "Ibid. Beaufort, iii, fol. 51, 52; Stowe MS. 942, fol. 330. «' Stowe MS. 942, fol. 330. " Ibid. resigned from .ige and infirmities. « Ibid. " Ibid. Fox, i, fol. I2l>. ^Ibid. V, fol. 1563. '^ L. and P. Hen. Fill, xiv (2), 780 (37). " B.M. Seals, Ixv, 78. ' Stow, Surv. (ed. Thomas), 156. It was probably of twelfth-century origin, like so many similar establishments outside Eng- lish towns. The first notice that we have found of it occurs in the time of Edward II, when it had evidently been for some time en- dowed. The favours it obtained from Edward II and Edward III confirm the tradition that it was originally of royal foundation. Protection was granted for one year on 4 June, 131 5, for the master and brethren of the hos- pital, and their men and lands." The like was repeated in June, 13 16, for another year.' And again letters of protection were obtained from the same king on 10 April, 1320, to last for two years.^ On 27 July of the same year these letters of protection were renewed for two years, and at the same time the brethren were autho- rized, in consequence of the insufficiency of their income, to collect alms.* Protection was again granted for two years, in September, 1328, wherein it was stated that the brethren had no sufficient livelihood unless they were succoured by the faithful.' This was one of the four leper hospitals built for the reception of these sufferers outside Lon- don, for the injunctions against lepers entering the City were numerous and stringent. The other three named by Stow were those at Strat- ford le Bow, at Knightsbridge, and between Shoreditch and Stoke Newington.' John Pope, by his will of 1487, gave to this hospital 6s. 8d. towards its repair and mainten- ance. It was for a long time under the care of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.' 26. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JAMES, WESTMINSTER The hospital of St. James for leprous women, situated west of Charing, in the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster, is said by Stow to have owed its origin to some London citizens who founded it at a period previous to the Con- quest.* There is, however, no record of its existence until Henry II by a charter guaranteed the sisters in their possessions and encouraged people to give to them.^ King John, in 1205, confirmed to them a hide of land in Hampstead, 40 acres of land in ' Northesel,' and a tenement in Cheap at the end of Bread Street, London, the gifts of Alexander Barentin, William son of the Lady and Stephen Blund, and granted that ' Pat. 8 Edvv. II, pt. 2, m. 9. ' Ibid. 9 Edw. II, pt. 2, m. 14. ' Ibid. 13 Edw. II, m. II. ' Ibid. 14 Edw. II, pt. I, m. 12. ' Stow, Sure. (ed. Thomas), 1 84. ' Stow, Surv. of Lond. (ed Strype), vi, 4. ' John refers to this charter in his grant. Rot. Chart. Johan. (Rec. Com.), 1 1 -jb. 542
 * ^ Winton Epis. Reg. Waynflete, ii, fol. 57. He
 * Ibid. 2 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, m. 21.
 * Manning and Bray, Hht. of Surr. iii, 634.