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 A HISTORY OF LONDON William, occurs 1 278-9" Godard, occurs 1286 Walter de Sutton, appointed in 13 1 2*' Nicholas de Oxonia, appointed in 1314 William de Wolhampton, elected 1 3 14,** occurs 1317°" John de Attueston, occurs in 1320 " Robert de Dunham, appointed in 1324'' Godfrey de Rudham, appointed in 1325 *' Robert de Holden, appointed in 1326 " Philip de la Wyle, appointed in 1326*' John de Sydenham, occurs in 1331,^^ I334> and 1336" John de Hoton, occurs 1337 ^ Henry de Purle, occurs 1339,** resigned in 1344 70 John de Hoton, occurs 1345 " and 1347 '' William de Weston, appointed 1349,'' de- posed in 1351 '* Thomas Orgrave or Bygrave, appointed in 1375,'* occurs 1379'^ and 1386" Richard Clifford, occurs 1387'* and 1399'' Lewis Recouchez, occurs 1 401 *" William Kynwoldmersh, occurs 141 5 '^ William Alnewyk, appointed 1422 *^ Thomas Kemp, occurs in 1449*' Roger Malmesbury, occurs 1467** Roger Lupton, occurs 1527'' " Hardy and Page, op. cit. 55. " Cal. of Pat. 1307-13, p. 414. " Ibid. 1 31 3-1 7, p. 156. He W.1S to hold during the king's pleasure. " 7'ear Book, supra, 362. and it seems possible that he is the same as William de Wolhampton. Doc. of D. and C. of Westm., Westm. pare. 2, box i. " Visitation of 1320, ibid. " During the king's pleasure. Cal. of Pat. 1324-7, p. 21. "Ibid. 118. "Ibid. 314. "Ibid. p. 337. ^ His accounts from 1331 to 1336 are among the Doc. of D. and C. of Westm., Westm. pare. 2, box I. ^ Cal. of Close, 1337-9, P- '°7- '^ Tear Book of Edv.'. Ill, supra, 359. "> Cal. of Close, 1343-6, p. 453. " Ibid. 655. " Cal. of Pat. 13 + 5-8, p. 313. " L.T.R. Mem. Roll, 25 Edw. Ill, m. 26, in Gasquet, The Great Pestilence, 97 ; Dugdale calls him Walter de Weston, Mon. Angl. vi, 638. " Gasquet, op. cit. 97. " Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A. 2334 ; Dugdale, op. cit. vi, 638, gives the name as Bygrave. '^ Cal. of Pat. 1377-81, p. 325. " Ibid. 1385-9, p. 215. " Ibid. 376. He was then ratified in his estates as master. " Ibid. 1 399-1401, p. 3. " Cal of Pap. Letters, vi, 360. ^ Cal. of Pat. 1422-9, pp. 14, 17. ° Pat. 28 Hen. VI, pt. i, m. 18, quoted in Tan- ner, ISotit. Mon. " Cal. of Pat. 1467-77, p. 63. " Doc. of D. and C. of Westm., Westm. pare. 2, box I. The hospital seal ^ of the twelfth century is a pointed oval, and represents St. James, full- length, lifting his right hand in benediction, and holding a long cross in his left. Legend : — sigill' santi iacobi infirmarvm 27. THE HOSPITAL OF THE SAVOY The hospital of the Savoy, dedicated to the honour of the Blessed Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and St. John the Baptist, was founded by King Henry VII in 1505 on the south side of the Strand,^ on the spot once occupied by the palace of Peter of Savoy, uncle of Eleanor of Provence.^ The king seems to have died before the work was really begun, and the fulfilment of the scheme was left to his executors, who in 1 51 2 obtained letters patent from Henry VIII em- powering them to erect a perpetual hospital to consist of a master and four other chaplains who were to be a corporate body, with a common seal, and received licence to acquire in mortmain land to the annual value of 500 marks.' The buildings, for which Henry VII had bequeathed 10,000 marks,* and which were intended to accommodate 100 poor men * every night, must have taken some time to complete, and this is probably the reason why the first master, William Holgill, and the chaplains were not appointed before 1517.^ The statutes drawn up by the executors in 1523 give an interesting picture of the institu- tion and its working.' The master was supposed to superintend the house generally, and had certain duties with regard to the management of its property * ; the four chaplains exercised the functions of seneschal, sacristan, confessor, and hospitaller ' ; there were besides two priests, four altarists to assist in the services in the chapel, a clerk of the kitchen, a butler, a cook, an under cook, a door-keeper and an under door- keeper, a gardener, a matron, and twelve other women.'" The master received a stipend of some doubt whether this seal is that of St. James's, Westminster, but a seal appended to a charter of a master of this hospital which is now among the documents of the D. and C. of Westm. (Westm. pare. 2, box l) seems to be identical with that here described. ' In the parish of St. Clement Danes. Lond. Epis. Reg. Fitz James, fol. 1 1 8. ' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 726. ' Ibid. » Cott. MS. Cleop. C. V, fol. 34^. « Ibid. fol. 55^, 56^. ' Ibid. fol. 4^54^. « Ibid. fol. 3-4 38. ° Ibid. fol. 563. Their duties are given fol. 7-ioi and fol. 23. '"Ibid. fol. 153-16. 546
 * Cal. of Close, 1279-88, p. 422.
 * " W. occurs in the visitation of the abbot in 1 31 7,
 * ' Visitation of 1334, ibid.
 * ' Ibid. 1401-5, p. 9.
 * ^30 a year, each of the chaplains £ and the
 * B. M. Seals, Ixviii, 51. There appears to be
 * Stow, Surv. of Lond. (ed. Strj-pc), i, 210.