Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham : being grassmen's accounts and other parish records, together with documents relating to the hospitals of Kepier and St. Mary Magdalene.

  • St. Giles (Parish : Durham, England)
Date:
1896
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Credit: Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham : being grassmen's accounts and other parish records, together with documents relating to the hospitals of Kepier and St. Mary Magdalene. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    in the ^^ttk pulment ^~io wit, on each day two gallons and a half; and every year to each brother and sister for themselves three ells of russet and three others of canvas and 'n\]d. for shoes. And of such sustenances and livere this hospital was seized by years and days until the time of a monk, dan John of Bulford, Almoner of Durham, who begged by fraud of one Thomas de Heworth (one of the brethren who acted as guardian) that he would lend him the loaves of one week for workmen that he had at Witton ; and he {i.e., Thomas de Heworth) granted them to him, and also others for other three weeks next ensuing, for that the house was at that time in good case ; and then went this Thomas and asked for the loaves, which were ready, and given up to him at his request. And in order to get sight of the muniments which were in the keeping of the said Thomas, the said dan John gave the said Thomas a surcoat furee de Ray ^ which had belonged to one William, his sergeant, who was dead ; and the said Thomas received this surcoat, and brought him all their muniments to keep ; and the said dan John took them, and they were by him detained, and are so still,^ together with their loaves, and their clothes [draps], and their money, and th^xv pulment. Wherefore, Sir, all Christian souls pray you for remedy and amendment. Endorsed on the part of the Prior and Convent after they had received the document:— Complaint concerning alms for the Magdalen Hospital. But be it known that this complaint does not contain truth for the most part. VI. A.D. 1391. Bishop Skirlaw's Indulgence in BEHALF OF S. MaRY MaGDALEN HOSPITAL. {Durham Treasury, 2264—6' Elemos., No. /j]. Universis Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae filiis ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Walterus permissione divina Dunolmensis Episcopus Salutem in Domino sempiternam. ' PULMENTUM,—Vox veteribus cognita, sed sequiori aetati maxime in regiilis monasticis usurpata, iibi pro quovis obsonio accipitur.—D'Arnis. ' Furec for fourrde, i.e., furred. Ray may be the English word that occurs in Ray-cloth, meaning cloth that was never coloured or dyed. (Bailey). ' Uncorsunt in the original seems to be meant for encore sont.