RELIGIOUS HOUSES the bishop's soul : one at the cathedral church, another at the collegiate church of St. Mary in the Fields, and a third at the hospital church. The hospital assigned salaries of lo marks a year to each of these three priests, and applied the remainder to the poor in the hospital.^ On II June, 1526, Bishop Nicke visited the hospital and examined severally the staff, which then consisted of a master, three fellows, three stipendiary chaplains, and two chaplains who served for their board and lodging. John Hekker, the master, presented the in- ventory of goods and the annual account, and said that the number of fellows was deficient, for according to the foundation there should be six, and there were only three. The house was in debt to a small extent. One of the chaplains complained that divine service was sometimes badly observed in quire, on account of the loud wrangling of two of the fellows.^ At the visitation of 1532 there were four fellows present. One of them, William Hekker, said that he knew nothing, as he was so often absent. The three other fellows, Robert Church, John Fisher, and Edward Osborne, all bore witness to the ruinous condition of the bakehouse, and of a guest chamber over the parlour. Osborne also stated that two of the servants of the house, the butler and baker, were married, which was not seemly, and they ought to be removed. He also complained that the master (John Hekker) had received 26s. 8^^. for the obit of Master John Sayle at the feast of Purification, and it was not paid in at the feast of Barnabas.' The master, Thomas Cappe, and six chaplains or brethren, Robert Church, Edward Osborne, John Blomeville, Robert Dowe, John Browne, and Edmund Frewyll, signed their acceptance of the royal supremacy on 30 August, 1534.* The last two signatures were probably those of two chaplains appointed under some of the chantry bequests, and not under the original foundation. The Valor of 1535 gives full details of the financial standing of the hospital. The rectories of Costessy, Calthorpe, Hardley, Seething, Mund- ham St. Peter, Mundham St. Ethelbert, Cringle- ford, and Repps with Bastwick, yielded an annual income of ;r54 185. loa'., and the altarage of the altar of St. Helen within the hospital, j^i 6j. Sd. The gross income from several manors and other temporalities was ;^ii6 1 31. id. From the outgoings we find that four brethren €ach received 36s. 8d. for their food, and the sisters 52J. each for their food and labour in attending on the poor who came to the hos- pital. The dinner for the seven grammar- ' Blomefield, Hist. 0/ Nor/, iii, 541 ; iv, 178. ' Jessopp, Noriv. Fisit. (Camden Soc), 206. ' Ibid. 271. ' Def. Keeper's Rep. vii, App. 2, 94. school boys, at So', each per week, came to
- ^I2 2s. 8d. The thirteen poor persons having
a daily meal and the six poor persons who had board and lodging at the hospital cost ^^19 15^. 3a'. The 180 poor persons who received a loaf, three eggs, and a piece of cheese on the Annun- ciation, and the 100 who were similarly fed on St. Dunstan's day, cost 20s. The twenty- four persons who prayed daily for Bishop Gold- well at id. a day cost ^^4 6s. 8d. The master, Thomas Cappe, for his board and stipend, and for the board of a servant, re- ceived j^i2 IS. 4.d. Robert Church, Edward Osborne, John Blomeville, and Robert Dowe, received amongst them ^^20 8;. There re- mained of clear annual value, after the payment of all dues, pensions, alms, and salaries, the sum of^58 3^oK When the exchange of the bishopric lands and revenues took place in 1535 the advowson of the hospital passed to the king, who, in 1537, granted the mastership to Robert Codde. In 1546 Nicholas Shaxton, D.D., ex-bishop of Salisbury, was appointed master, but ap- parently only for the purpose of securing its surrender, for on 6 March, 1547, the bishop of Norwich, as patron of the hospital, Nicholas Shaxton as warden, and John Fisher and Robert Dowe, two of the chaplains or fellows, in the chapter house of the hospital, surrendered the buildings into the young king's hands, in accord- ance with the intention of his father, Henry VIII.^ The crown transferred the dissolved hospital of St. Giles and its possessions to the mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty of Norwich, for the relief of poor people, to be called 'God's House,' or the ' House of the Poor in Holm Street,' and the office of master now came to an end. The further history of this foundation, the Great Hospital, is to be found in the Charity Com- missioners' reports. Masters of St. Giles' Hospital, Norwich Hamon de Calthorpe,' f. 1276 Robert,' occurs 1 2 79 Robert Godwin,* 1288 Martin de Brunsted,^ 1289 Thomas de Hemmersby,'" occurs 1296, 13 11" Peter Herringflet,'" occurs 1313 Roger de Metyngham,'^ elected 1360 John de Derbyngton,^* elected 1372 Roger de Erpingham," elected 1375 John son of Robert de Thornham, master of Sparham,** elected 1394 ' Ibid, vii, App. 2, 35 ; Liber Albus (City Rec), 20, 21. ' Found. Chart. (City Rec), 69. ' Add. Ch. 14784. ' Blomefield, Hist. o/Nor/. iv, 400. ' Ibid. '» Add. Ch. 14785. " Blomefield, loc. cit. " City Rec. 69. " Norw. Epis. Reg. v, 43. " Ibid, vi, i6. '^ Ibid, vi, 42. '" Ibid, vi, 197. 445
