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 RELIGIOUS HOUSES for many years from Vienne, the custom of the order could not be easily observed.^* The popes evidently acquiesced in the change in the position of the hospital, for Pope Eugenius IV, at the request of Henry VI, gave leave in 1446 to the bishops of Worcester and Norwich, the provost of Eton and William Say, the warden, to make statutes for St. Anthony's, London,'^ and Pope Nicholas V in 1447 exempted the hospital from all spiritual and temporal jurisdiction, especially from that of the monastery of St. Anthony, Vienne.'^ The independent existence of the hospital was not of long duration, as it was annexed and appropriated to the college of St. George, Wind- sor, in 1475." It must have been quite pros- perous at that time, since the sum total of its receipts in 1478-9, viz. ;^539 19^-, exceeded its expenses by £6 s. lod.^^ From the accounts it may be gathered that the surplus was not obtained by stinting the inmates of food.^' The church was rebuilt in 1499 on the old site, to which other ground had been added,^" and rededicated in July, 1502.^^ To this work the principal contributor was Sir John Tate, a London alderman, who gave both land and money.*^ It is interesting to compare the list of wages paid in 1522*' with that in 1545: the first shows that there were then in the house besides the master, four priests, a steward, the curate of St. Anthony's, a schoolmaster, a master of the song-school and seven other clerks, an usher of the school, and a butler ; in 1545, those receiving stipends were two priests, the steward, the school- master, a clerk for the mass of Our Lady, the " Cal. of Pap. Letters, vii, 373. Adam de Olton, then master, was styled, however, canon of the monastery of St. Anthony, Vienne. Cal. of Pat. 1422-9, p. 108. " Reg. Denton, fol. 317. '« Ibid. fol. 318. ^^ Cal. of Pat. 1467-77, p. 115. After this the post of master was given to one of the canons of Windsor. " Doc. of D. and C. of St. George's, Windsor, St. Anthony's Hospital Accts. xv, bdle. 37, No. 15. " The accounts for 7 Oct. 1494, were as follows : — In herbs, ^d. ; in veal to stew at dinner, od. ; in ribs of beef to roast at dinner, 21a'. ; in 3 qrs. of mutton for all the house at supper, 20a'. On Easter Day, 1495, the sum of 17/. Si/, was expended in four lambs for all, seven capons for the hall, 100 eggs, two green geese for the master at dinner, eighteen chickens, six rabbits for the master at supper, half a ' veal ' for the poor men and children at dinner and supper, and 3 gallons of red wine and claret. Ibid, xv, bdle 37, No. 21. 29 Sept. 1501, the meat for broth cost 4</.; twenty- four geese for the hall at dinner, 1 3</. ; lamb for the poor and children, jd. ; ' fyschmen ' in the hall for all the day, jd. ; four rabbits for the hall at supper, %d. ; mutton for the poor, 6d. Ibid, xv, bdle. 37, No. 25. *" Stow, op. cit. ii, 120. " Doc. of D. and C. of St. George's, Windsor, St. Anthony's Hospital Accts. xv, bdle. 37, No. 25. " Stow, op. cit. ii, 220. " Doc. of D. and C. of St. George's, Windsor, Accts. of St. Anthony's Hospital, xv, bdle. 37, No. 33. curate of St. Benet Fink, and the sexton.** Provision was still made at the latter date for the twelve poor men, but evidently it was no longer a place where the sick were cared for : probably this work was given up when the best part of the hospital's income was cut off,** for although an agent of St. Anthony's was raising money as late as 1537 by collecting offerings and selling hal- lowed bells for cattle,** such efforts must soon have been abandoned. St. Anthony's pigs still existed in 1525,*' but by this time they too may have disappeared. The income was then only ;^55 bs. T,d., and fell short of the expenditure by ;^40 lu. iia'.*' The hospital was despoiled, not by the crown, but by a prebendary of Windsor named Johnson, who gave the almsmen a weekly pension of is. each, and turned them out of their houses : *^ as the accounts of 1565 make no mention of com- mons, it is evident that this event had already taken place.^" The church was let in Elizabeth's reign to French Protestants.^^ The property of the hospital in 1565^^ com- prised the manors of ' Esehall,' " ' Walens,' and ' Fryslyng,' which figure in the hospital accounts at a much earlier date as ' Esthall,' ' Valance,' and ' Thyrstelyng,' '* and land called ' Jurdens- " Harl. MS. 544, fol. 72. ceased before, for in the hospital accounts from 1494 onward there appears to be no mention of sick persons, while the entries about the poor men are frequent. Wynfelde to Cromwell, saying that the vicar of Kim- bolton had managed almost to suppress the old opinions in his parish, when Harry Cleipulle brought letters under the king's broad seal to collect for St. Anthony's, and the people thinking it was according to the king's wish, offered to the cross and bought the bells Cleipulle had for sale. For the dean of St. George's letter of attorney to Cleipulle, see Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A. 12452. " Rec. of Corp. of Lond. Repert. vi, fol. loi^. The steward of St. Anthony's was to be warned to appear before the next Court of Common Council and show the agreement made between the City and the house concerning St. Anthony's pigs. " Harl. MS. 544, fol. 72. " Stow, op. cit. ii, 1 20. '» Doc. of D. and C. of St. Paul's, A. Box 77, No. 2057. " Stow, op. cit. ii, 120. The rent was £1^ a year in 1 584. Doc. of D. and C. of St. George's, Windsor, Accts. of St. Anthony's Hospital, xv,bdle. 37, No. 76. '■ Doc. of D. and C. of St. Paul's A. Box 77, No. 2057.  There is a manor of Easthall in the parish of Bradwell. Morant, Hist, of Essex,, 377. " Doc. of D. and C. of St. George's, Windsor, St. Anthony's Hospital Accts. xv, bdle. 37, No. 4. The document is not dated, but some of the proctors occur in the accounts of 1478-9. Ibid, xv, bdle. 37, No. I 5. Valance in this is said to be in the parish of D.igenham. There is a place called Frestling in the parish of Butsbury, see Morant, op. cit. ii, 49. 583
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