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 RELIGIOUS HOUSES This house and gild were dissolved at the end of Henry VIII's reign. The surrender, signed by Ralph Stanmow, master, and ten others, is dated 17 July, 1545. Annexed to it is the king's commission empowering John Ayre to receive the gild on the part of the crown. ^ Masters of Walsoken Hospital^ Thomas Jackson, died 1475 Hewet, 1475 Eberard, 148 1 Ralph Stanmow, the last master There is a cast at the British Museum of a small circular fifteenth-century seal of this hospital, having an embattled tower of two stories, ■with an indistinct figure on the right, between the letters T and L.' 105. THE HOSPITAL OF WYMOND- HAM Half a mile to the east of Wymondham stood Westwade chapel, originally built on a bridge. Here was a cell of Burton Lazars in Leicestershire, to which great lazar-house William de Albini, some time before 11 46, gave six- score acres of land in Wymondham parish. Thereupon the hospital of Burton Lazars built a small hospital or leper house on this site, in which was a master and two or three brethren. They sought alms of travellers who used this bridge.* 106. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY, YARMOUTH The hospital of St. Mary, Yarmouth, was founded by Thomas Fastolf early in the reign of Edward I. William Gerbrigge, senior, by will of 1728, bequeathed to it a rent of nine marks for the maintenance of two priests. The establishment, independently of these two chantry priests or chaplains, consisted of a master or warden, eight brethren, and eight sisters.' Walter de Bintre, donzel of the Duke of Lancaster, petitioned Innocent VI, in 1 354, on behalf of the hospital of St. Mary the Virgin at Yarmouth, wherein lived a multitude of poor brethren and sisters, for whose sustenance a daily quest has to be made, that he would authorize the acceptance by the hospital of oblations, and grant relaxation of a year and forty days of en- joined penance to those who visit the hospital and the sacred relics therein, and who give a helping hand to the poor inhabitants thereof.' Richard Fastolf bequeathed in 1356 consider- able rents to the hospital, provided the master, brethren, and sisters remembered his soul and that of Petronilla his wife in their masses and prayers, and William de Statham in 1379 de- vised to the bailiffs and commonalty of the town two fish-houses towards the support of St. Mary's Hospital.* In 1398 this hospital came into the hands of the corporation of Yarmouth, when fresh regu- lations for its government were drawn up, and the appointment of the warden henceforth vested in the town.' John Alcock, bishop of Ely, on 19 April, 141 9, granted an indulgence of forty days to all who assisted in the sustenance or repair of this hospital.'" The house did not flourish under town management. In 1535, it was only worth £^ 13J. /.d. a year, wherewith four poor women were supported.'' 107, 108. THE LAZAR-HOUSES OF YARMOUTH Outside the walls of Yarmouth, on the north, were two houses for lepers, both probably of early foundation. There seems to have been a chapel common to the two lazar-houses ; proba- bly they were separate buildings for the two sexes. Many small bequests were made by the townsfolk for their support in the fourteenth century. Thus, in 1365, William Oxney left i)S. 8d. to each house of lepers. At the time of the dissolution of the religious houses the corporation took possession of the two leper houses at the North Gate, and after- wards appointed a warden. They are frequently mentioned for some time in the corporation records as ' Sickman's Houses.' '^ COLLEGES 109. THE COLLEGE OF ATTLE- BOROUGH« Sir Robert de Mortimer, who died in 1 387, "directed by his will of that year that 2,000 ' Fa/or Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 395. ' Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. ix, 130. ' B.M. Ixix, 56. Notitia, Norf. Ixxvi, 2. ' Tanner, Notitia, Norf. Ixxvii, 3. "Blomefield,/////. of Norf. i, 538-41 ; Dugdale, Mon. vi, 1 400-1 ; Index Monasticus, 47. marks should be appropriated to found and endow a chapel in honour of the Holy Cross, in the church of Attleborough, the chaplains whereof were to celebrate for the souls of Sir Robert and Margery, his wife, and for all ' Cal. Papal Pet. iii, 263. ' Palmer, Hist. ofTarmouth, i, 431. ' Manship, Hist. ofTarmouth (1619), 40-1. '" Ely Epis. Reg. Alcocic, fol. 1 7. " Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 296. " Manship, Hist, of Tarmouth (16 1 9), 45 ; Palmer, Hist, of Tarmouth, i, 432-4. 453
 * Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. ii, 504-5 ; Tanner,