The history and antiquities of the three archiepiscopal hospitals at and near Canterbury; viz., St. Nicholas at Harbledown; St. John's, Northgate; and St. Thomas, of Eastbridge. With some account of the Priory of St. Gregory, the Nunnery of St. Sepulchre, the Hospitals of St. James and St. Lawrence, and Maynard's Spittle ... / [John Duncombe].

  • Duncombe, John, 1729-1786.
Date:
1785
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Credit: The history and antiquities of the three archiepiscopal hospitals at and near Canterbury; viz., St. Nicholas at Harbledown; St. John's, Northgate; and St. Thomas, of Eastbridge. With some account of the Priory of St. Gregory, the Nunnery of St. Sepulchre, the Hospitals of St. James and St. Lawrence, and Maynard's Spittle ... / [John Duncombe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    priorefs, with fome particular perquifites to each. The hofpital hands (as defcribed by Erafmus) on the South fide of the London road, in the village, and adjoining to the parilh, of St. Michael, Herbaldown, and is pleafantly fituated on the fide of a hill, with a fpring of fine water, called from ancient times “ The Black Prince’s Well.” A Weif view of the hofpital, chapel. Sec. is annexed (fee plate I.) Its pofieflions were valued, 26 Hen. VIII. at 112/. 15s. yd. in the whole, or at 109/. ys. id. per annum clear, including the archbilhop’s ftipend of 80/. Among the benefactions previous to^hofeof this century, Mr. Somner devifed by will an eftate in Romney Marfh to this hof- pital, after the death of his fon, in cafe he had noifiue ; but the foil pafied a fine, barred the entail, and defeated the benefaction. October 24, 1674, the following account of this hofpital was given to archbifhopSheldon: “ The hofpital of St. Nicholas, Her- baldown, confilfs of 15 in-brothers, and as many in-fiflers, who have 4/. apiece yearly, befides two loads of wood. Out-brothers and out-filfers in like number have yearly 1 /. 14s. a piece. The whole revenue is 160/. i;. 8 d.” In the fame year (1674) the lodgings of the brothers and fillers of this hofpital being ruinous, archbifhop Sheldon gave 200 l. and Mr. John Somner 50/. and in 1685 archbifhop San- croft gave 67/. and Dr. Thorp, prebendary of Canterbury, milter of the hofpital, .20 /. by which benefactions chiefly thofe lodgings, together with the common-hall of the houfe, and the Brotherhood farm-houfe, were rebuilt, and the barns, ftables, apd out-houfes .repaired. This is commemorated in a tablet hung in the hall, where the brethren and fillers have an annual feaft (for which, in moll of their leafes,fome payments, now inadequate, arereferved) on the name-day of their patron-faint (St. Nicholas) Dec. 6. In the hall alio the members are admitted and fworh to the obfervance of