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 A HISTORY OF LONDON land ' in co. Essex ; the rectories of All Saints and St. Martin in the city of Hereford, in the possession of the house since 1392"; a tene- ment in Winchester, another in Portsmouth, tenements in London, among them being three tenements near the school, and the capital messuage, called ' Lady Tate's House,' then in the tenure of Sir Henry Sydney and the rectory of St. Benet Fink. Masters of St. Anthony's Hospital Reymund de Basterneys (?),'* occurs 1287 John, occurs 131 1 " Geoffrey de Lymonia, occurs 1380'* John Savage, occurs 1382°' Richard Brighous, occurs 1385*" and 1389" John Macclesfield, appointed 1389,^' occurs 1417" Adam de Olton, appointed 1423," occurs 1424^* John Snell, appointed 1431,^^ occurs 1432*^ John Carpenter, S.T.P., occurs 1434,** 1440,^' resigned 1444™ Walter Lyhert, appointed 1444"^ William Say, S.T.B., occurs 1446 " I449/^ and 1463 '■' Peter Courtenay, appointed 1470'' Richard Surlond, occurs 1499'* and 1501-2" Roger Lupton, occurs 1509-10'* John Chambre, occurs 152 1-2'' Anthony Baker, occurs 1545 *" " See note 16. '" Sharpe, Cal. of Letter Bk. ^, 105, ». i. Dr. Sharpe says he may have been the master of St. Anthony's priory in Cornwall. " Doc. of D. and C. of St. Paul's, Liber A, fol. 94^. ^ Cal. of Pap. Letters, iv, 240.  Harl. Chart. 50 D. 59. He is called procurator. ™ Cal. of Pat. I 381-5, p. 553.  Memoranda K.R. Hil. 12 Ric. IL «- Cal. of Pat. 13S8-92, p. 124. " John, commander, master, and governor, makes a grant at that date, see Inspeximus, 1423, Cal. of Pat. 1422-9, p. 156. ^ Ibid. p. 108. " CaL of Pap. Letters, vii, 373. ^ Harl. MS. 6963, fol. 24. ^' Sharpe, Cal. of Wills, ii, 475. ^ Doc. of D. and C. of St. George's, Windsor, Denton Reg. fol. 306. '' Lond. Epis. Reg. Gilbert, fol. 183. '» Harl. MS. 6963, fol. 68. " Ibid. •' Doc. of D. and C. of St. George's, Windsor, Denton Reg. fol. 317. " Sharpe, Cal. of IVills, ii, 524. He was confirmed in his office in 1 46 1 by Edward IV. Cal. of Pat. 1461-7, p. II. " Pari. R. (Rec. Com.), v, 520^. " Pat. 49 Hen. VI in Harl MS. 6963, fol. 116. " Doc. of D. and C. of St. George's, Windsor, St. Anthony's Hospital Accts. xv, bdle. 37, No. 23. '' Ibid. No. 35. " Ibid. No. 27. "Ibid. No. 33. « Harl. MS. 544, fol. 72. 44. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY ROUNCIVALL This hospital was founded near Charing Cross by William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, in the reign of Henry III, and therefore before 123 1, when William the second earl marshal died, and was endowed by him with 100/. rent at South- ampton, land worth ^^13 in ' Netherwynter,' and a carucate of land in Ashingdon.^ It was the chief cell in England of the Priory of St. Mary at Rouncivall in Navarre.^ The brothers are men- tioned between 1244 and 1260 as the patrons of a church in London called St. Mary ' Ayl- ward,' ^^ and by the middle of the next century the house had acquired a little more property, but its income must have been derived princi- pally from alms which persons were sent from the hospital to collect.' Richard II, on a vacancy of the house about 1382, granted the custody to his clerk Nicholas Slake. On this occasion the prior of Rouncivall protested, and his claim to the ownership of the hospital seems to have been successful;* in 1 393, however, the king again appointed a warden of the hospital,' which probably passed entirely out of the control of the priory at Rouncivall before it came into the possession of the crown under the Act of 1 414.* About 1 42 1 the vicar of St. Martin's in the Fields complained to the pope that the master and brothers under pretext of letters of Boniface IX detained tithes and other parochial rights due to him. The genuineness of these and other letters produced by them had appeared so doubtful to the archbishop of Canterbury that he had de- tained them, and in 1422 he was ordered by the pope to send them to the papal chancery to be examined.' The archbishop's suspicions were found to be justified, the letters of Boniface IX, Urban VI, Clement VI, and Urban V were declared forgeries, and the pope commanded that they should be publicly denounced as such and burned, and that those who had forged them and those who knowing them to be false had made use of them were to be punished.* The tithes, of course, were restored to the vicar. Poverty probably was the cause of this reprehensible attempt to replenish the convent's funds, for just before this sentence the pope had granted a special indulgence to persons visiting and giving alms for ' the sustentation and repair of the chapel of the poor hospital of St. Mary ' Plac. Cor. Reg. apud Westm. de term Mich. 7 Rich. II, Rot. 2 1 Midd. printed in Dugd.ile, Mon. Angl. vi, 677. ' Dugdale, loc. cit. D. and C. of St. Paul's, W.D. 9, fol. 51. ^ Cal. of Pat. 1345-8, p. 196.; ibid. 1381-5, p. 117. ' Cal. of Pap. Letters, vii, 238. ' Ibid. 282-3. 584
 * ^ Reg. of Fulk Bassett, bishop of Lond. Doc. of
 * Supra, n. I. ' Cal. of Pat. 1391-6, p. 311.
 * Stow, Sarr. of Lond. (ed. Strype), i, 124.