The fittings of such chapels have seldom survived, but original altar-stones remain in two hospitals at Ripon, as well as at Stamford and Greatham; the ancient slab found in the floor at Trinity Hospital, Salisbury, has this year been restored to its place. The altar (Fig. 25) in the women’s almshouse at Glastonbury (Fig. 23) has a recess in the masonry under the south end of the altar-slab. At [p166] Chichester and Stamford sedilia and stalls with misericords may be seen. Wall-paintings remain at Wimborne, and fragments of ancient glass at St. Cross; St. Mark’s, Bristol; St. Mary Magdalene’s, Bath; Trinity, Salisbury; Sherborne; and Stamford. FOOTNOTES: [88] Close 9 Edw. II, m. 18 _d_. [89] Cited Vict. Co. Hist. _Lancs._ ii. 165. [90] Chron. and Mem., 85, pp. 75–6. [91] Pat. 12 Edw. I, m. 16. [92] Cap. 2, 3, _vide Conciliorum Omnium_, ed. 1567, III, 700. [93] Assize Roll No. 361, 39 Hen. III, m. 28. [94] Hist. MSS., 6th R. 550. [95] Bishop Giffard’s Register, ii. 391. [96] Pat. 6 Edw. II, pt. i. m. 15. Pat. 17 Edw. II, pt. i. m. 10. Compare inscription upon Watts’ Almshouse, Rochester (1579); poor people to be sheltered “provided they be not rogues nor proctors.” The law authorizing proctors was repealed in 1597. Cf. _Fraternity of Vagabonds_. [97] Chron. and Mem., 71, _Historians of York_, iii. 202–3. [98] _Arch. Journ._ 1850. [99] Besant, _London, Med. Ecc._, p. 256. [100] W. Hunt, _Diocesan Hist._, pp. 158–9. [101] Charter Roll 16 Hen. III, m. 19. [102] MS. in Municipal Charities Office. [p167] CHAPTER XII THE CARE OF THE BODY “_Let there be in the infirmary thirteen sick persons in their beds, and let them be kindly and duly supplied with food and all else that shall tend to their convalescence or comfort._” (Statutes of Northallerton.[103]) In considering the provision for material comfort in hospitals, one must distinguish between residents and sojourners. Board and clothing had to be found for the leper or the almsman, and the sick needed food and shelter for a time. Travellers either called for doles in passing, or required supper, bed and breakfast. Upon every pilgrim, sick or well, spending the night at St. Thomas’, Canterbury, four-pence was expended from the goods of the hospital. Bodily necessaries of life may be classified under the headings food, fuel, baths, bedding and clothes. 1. FOOD