![]() This tax was collected in respect of every plough used in the archbishopric of York, an area covering the modern counties of Cumbria, Lancashire, and North, South and West Yorkshire. Leonard a thrave probably consisted of twenty-four sheaves of corn. Henry III directed that the hospital should be allowed ‘to take what they need in the forest of Yorkshire for building and burning, and also of herbage and pasture for flocks and anything needful for their ease.’ The hospital also collected a tax known as the thraves of St. There appears to have been a woman in charge corresponding to the modern matron, for an old document relating to the hospital refers to Matilda la hus-wyf, and in 1416 a sum of money was bequeathed to the staff and inmates with instructions that it should be distributed by Alice materfamilias. The staff included bakers, brewers, carters, cooks, smiths, boatmen, a ferry-woman, and sixteen male and female servants. It accommodated over two hundred sick and poor, and in addition there were twenty-three boys, for it also served as a children’s home. It was built during the reign of Stephen to replace a Saxon establishment which had been destroyed by fire. One of the largest hospitals in the country was St. That completed his formal admission to the hospital, but every day that he remained there he had to say two hundred Paternosters and Aves during daylight hours, and every night the dormitory bell awakened him in order that he could sit erect in bed and say another two hundred. There he knelt to receive the warden’s blessing. Martin, and for the burgesses of Dover on sea and land, and especially for all our benefactors, living and dead.’Īfter making this vow the leper was sprinkled with holy water and then escorted to the altar. I will pray for the peace of the church and realm of England, and for the king and queen, and for the prior and convent of St. I will be sober and chaste of body and a moiety of the goods I shall die possessed of shall belong to the house. ![]() Bartholomew and all saints, that to the best of my power I will be faithful and useful to the hospital, obedient to my superior and have love to my brethren and sisters. On being admitted the leper was required to take the following oath: The new patient also had to give one hundred shillings to the funds of the hospital in those days that was a considerable sum, so that only a fairly wealthy leper could gain admission. ![]() No leper could be admitted unless the other patients gave their consent it was probably thought that this measure would help to maintain peace among the long-term inmates. At Buckland there were strict rules regarding the type of leper admitted, and the actual admission was accompanied by a religious ceremony. In the following century another Kentish hospital, also used mainly by lepers, was erected by monks at Buckland by Dover.īecause lepers were seldom cured they usually became permanent inmates, and becoming a patient in a leper hospital was almost like entering a monastery. Some time before 1089 Archbishop Lanfranc built a leper hospital at Harbledown, near Canterbury it had room for one hundred inmates. ![]() Many of the early hospitals were erected for sufferers from leprosy, the common scourge of the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, a considerable number of them provided accommodation where the sick could receive care and even some primitive form of treatment for their ailments. Some of the hospitals were, therefore, erected for the use of pilgrims and other travellers others were really almshouses, intended chiefly for the poor and the aged. ![]() Their name indicated their primary function it was derived from the Latin word hospitalis, meaning being concerned with hospites, or guests, and guests were any persons who needed shelter. Of course, many of them were not really hospitals as we know them today. This number is surprisingly large, for at no time did the population of the country exceed four million. Over seven hundred hospitals were founded in England between the Norman conquest and the middle of the sixteenth century. ![]()
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