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 RELIGIOUS HOUSES Martin de Sandryngham,' appointed 1341 John de Bromholm,^ appointed 1342 Roger de Nafferton,^ appointed 1345 Thomas de Cloxton,^ appointed 1350 John Multon,' appointed 1367 Richard, son of Thomas atte Townende of Eton/ appointed 1393 Geoffrey de Tanyard of Higham/ appointed 1407 Thomas Bontemps,^ appointed 141 6 John Thornegg,' appointed 1436 Simon Thornham,^** appointed 1444 WiUiam Stillington," 1503 Thomas Brerewood '" William Leveson,'' 1528 John Sampon,^^ 1530 85-89. THE LAZAR-HOUSES AT THE NORWICH GATES In addition to the most important lazar or leper-house of Norwich, namely, that of St. Mary Magdalen, at the same distance from the city, there were five other small houses, origin- ally designed for leprous sufferers, making one for each of the chief gates. In pre-Reformation wills, small bequests to the leper-houses at the five gates were frequent. I. The leper-hospital of St. Mary and St. Clement, usually called St. Clement's, without St. Austin's gate. It was of early foundation and supposed to be founded by one of the first bishops of Norwich. It had no endowment, and the burial place was in St. Clement's church- yard. There was a master, and leprous brethren under him.'" II. Outside Westwick and St. Benet's gate was a leper house, long continued as a poor-house after the dissolution. It must have had property, for it had a common seal. The dedication is said to have been the same as the adjacent parish church, namely, to St. Benedict.'^ III. On the outside of Needham or St. Stephen's Gate, was the leper-house of St. Stephen. The master or guardian, who officiated daily in the chapel, was nominated by the prior of St. Faith's, Horsham, as the house was built on the priory fee, and admitted by the bishop and mayor. It continued a hospital after the dis- solution.'' •Ibid. 55. vi, 184. •Ibid ' Ibid, ix, 85 ' Norw. Epis. Reg. iii, 49. ' Ibid, iv, 51. ' Ibid.v, 76. ' Ibid, vii, 4. ' Ibid, viii, 9. '" Ibid. X, 58. " Blomefield, Hist. 0/ Norf. iv, 441. '■' Ibid. " Ibid. " Ibid. " Ibid. 460-1; Tiylor, InJex Moiiastkus, 57. '^Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. iv, 350; Taylor, Index Monasticu!, 58. "Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. iv, 1 66-7 ; Taylor, InJex Monasti us, 58. IV. Immediately outside Fybridge or Magdalen gate, there was a lazar-house of some size, on the east side of the way, with a chapel attached. In 1448 the chapel was rebuilt with a grave- yard attached, for hitherto the inmates had been buried in the neighbouring churchyard of All Saints.^' The dedication of this hospital and chapel is not given by any Norwich historian, and it seems probable that this was the hospital of St. Leonard (the commonest dedication of a lazar-house) referred to in the Close Rolls of Edward III, who in 1335, instructed the chief forester of Sherwood to permit Robert de Stanford, keeper of the hospital of St. Leonard- without-Norwich, to fell four oaks in any wood of the abbot of Rufford within the forest, and to carry them away where he wishes as the abbot had given these four oaks in aid of the repair of the houses of the hospital. '' It is possible, however, that this may have been the hospital next mentioned. V. The fifth of these gate lazar-hospitals was on the outside of Newport or St. Giles's Gate. According to Blomefield, it was founded in 1343 by Balderic de Taverham, an astonish- ingly late date for a leper foundation. But a reference given by Tanner shows that this was a blunder ; Walter Knot, in 1 308, granted to Richard de Ely ' his seven cottages in which leprous people dwell, lying together without St. Giles's Gate, on the north side of the king's highway.' "" 90. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. SAVIOUR, NORWICH Licence was obtained in 1305 by the master and brethren of the hospital of St. Saviour, Norwich, to hold a messuage, ten shops, and 25. rent in Norwich, the gift of Richard de Breccles, chaplain.-' Blomefield states that this hospital was founded earlier in the reign of Edward I, and that in 1297 Richard de Coselany, fishmonger, con- veyed to the founder (Richard de Breccles) a stall in the bread-market."" Nothing further is known as to this hospital, or when it was dissolved, 91-94. OTHER SMALL HOSPITALS AT NORWICH Blomefield makes mention of several other small hospitals or almshouses of pre-Reformation date within the city. " Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. iv. 438 ; Taylor, Index Monastic us, 58. '° Close, 9 Edw. Ill, m. 9. ^° Blomefield, Hist, of Norf iv, 245 ; Taylor, Index Monasticus, 58 ; Tanner, N otitic, Norf. I, 8. ^' Cal. of Pat. 33 Edw. I, pt. i, m. I.  Hist, of Norf. iv, 500. 449 57
 * Ibid. 129.