28. THE HOSPITAL OF STOCKERSTON
In 1466 licence was granted to Sir John Boyville to found by the church at Stockerston a
perpetual almshouse, for one chaplain and three
poor persons, and to grant it funds in mortmain
to the value of £10 yearly. (fn. 1) Boyville died before
the hospital could be founded, and in 1468 his
executors obtained a licence to found an almshouse for three poor persons, with a chantry
chaplain. The almshouse was to be dedicated to
the Virgin Mary, and the chaplain was licensed
to obtain for himself and the three poor lands with
a yearly value of up to £12. (fn. 2) In 1535 the hospital
was still in existence, and it was then noted that
the three poor persons were paid £3. 11s. yearly,
while the gross yearly income of the hospital was
£12. 3s. (fn. 3) The subsequent fate of the hospital is
unknown, but it may have been the institution
at Stockerston dissolved by Thomas Waldron
shortly after 1535. (fn. 4)
Chaplain Of Stockerston Hospital
William Warton, occurs 1536. (fn. 5)
No seal is known.
Footnotes
| 1 |
Cal. Pat., 1461-7, 486. |
| 2 |
Ibid., 1467-77, 113. |
| 3 |
Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 162. |
| 4 |
It was stated in 1547 that a chantry at Stockerston
had been dissolved by Waldron 12 or 13 years earlier.
This may have been the hosp., but it is to be noted
that in 1535 there was another chantry at Stockerston,
besides the hosp.: Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 162;
A. Hamilton Thompson, 'The Chant. Cert, for Leics.',
Assoc. Arch. Soc. Rep. and Papers, xxx, 528. |
| 5 |
Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 162. |